Farm Biz

Smart Farm Owners Will Write Articles

November 2, 2013

The gains from low production costs will be wasted if selling costs are not kept in check. The more it costs you to sell your product or service, the lower your profits will be (and vice versa). This is basically common sense. But not every business owner “gets" or "remembers" it, when it matters most. […]

Career Development

What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed

October 23, 2013

I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]

Entrepreneurship

My Pineapple Peel-Based Drinks Production Project UPDATE: Pilot Scale Shelf-Life, and Variable Cost-Reduction “Trials”

October 22, 2013

This is an update on progress with my Pineapple Peels based drinks production project. I’ll also be posting an update on my Quick and Dirty Guide to English/French soon. [NB: That next post will include details of how I’ve now partnered with a 2-man Beninois team of language experts to produce chapters 2 to 10 […]

Career Development

NEVER Let Anyone Tell You What YOU Cannot Do! (Transcript Slideshow Version of ESPN’s July 21 “SportsCenter” Profile video about Richie Parker)

October 19, 2013

I created this PowerPoint slideshow (and published it on slideshare.net), to give people with poor (or zero!) connectivity, an alternative means of “learning” about Richie Parker. NB: To get the Power Point file version, CLICK HERE NOW to download it in a zipped folder (3MB approximately). === Read the article I wrote about Richie: It's titled […]

Career Development

Announce Your Goals, and You'll Be Forced to Achieve Them

October 18, 2013

Just today, I replied to an enquiry by a facebook friend, about progress I’d made with my Pineapple Peel based drinks production project. He’s not the only one who has been asking me this question. Clients, friends and relatives have intermittently requested to know how far I’ve gone. Thankfully, I’ve always had significant progress to […]

Career Development

All You Really Need Is Ingenuity...aka Creative Thinking (True Story: Man Born Without Arms Designs Championship Winning Race Cars)

October 17, 2013

How much effort do you put into doing your JOB each day? And how many times have you told your employer (or boss) you could do MUCH more...IF ONLY s/he would send you on some training, or buy some latest gadget for you to use? Well, I’m here to tell you (using the amazing achievements […]

Farm Biz

An Introduction To Fertilizers & Fertilizer Management + Calculation (FREE PDF Download)

October 15, 2013

NB: This FREE report first became available in PDF format in my Self-Development Digest Newsletter, issue No. 72 of Mon 5th Mar 2012. I offer a sneak preview below. Click the link provided at the bottom, to request your copy. PREVIEW: FERTILISERS AND FERTILISER MANAGEMENT Inorganic (or chemical) fertilizers are now an economic necessity on many […]

Farm Biz

No. 111: Farm Business Owners Can Speak to Influence Research

October 14, 2013

I recently got another email from my "Professor of Agriculture" friend. This one contained details of a “Call for submission of brief papers, case studies and synthesis papers”. A quick online search led me to the website where the call originated. It was made by an organisation covering "smallholder agriculture" across Africa, Carribean, and Pacific […]

Career Development

He Called Me "Voleur" (Thief)!

October 12, 2013

In this article, I discuss one big mistake some non-Nigerian Africans seem to be making in thinking about Nigeria. To do this, I share a true story about a Francophone African undergraduate in his 20’s, who called me a thief - and meant it. Why? Because he daily saw me typing away on an Internet […]

Career Development

Farm Business Can Give You a Safer Entry into Retirement (Part 2 of 2)

October 11, 2013

This is the second and concluding part of this article. The first part appeared here, yesterday (9th October 2013). Here's Why I Suggest You Start Your Farm Business SMALL, While You're Still In Paid Employment: I believe in the smart use of money. People who have suffered severe, potentially traumatizing lack of access to money, […]

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