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Join My Inner Circle & EARN 50% AS MY AFFILIATE PARTNER

May 30, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This morning I had an interesting phone conversation with a Poultry Farm CEO based in an East African country. He’d emailed me yesterday about my Feed Formulation Handbook, Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager apps.

After requesting price details, before ending the call, he expressed interest in promoting my products to other buyers in his country. That appealed instantly to me because teaming up with others to boost my marketing reach/impact is one of the main objectives I have!

Indeed, like I told him, I’ve always had a 50% commission affiliate partnership STANDING offer.

However, his request has now made me open it up to ALL members of my Inner Circle i.e. anyone who joins my Inner Circle WILL instantly become MY 50% affiliate partner.

In other words if a member of my Inner Circle refers ANY person to buy my product(s), I WILL send him/her 50% of that product(s) sale amount.

We just need to agree modalities for working together. It’s simple.

So if YOU, reading this now are interested, get in touch, to find out how to earn 50% as my affiliate partner.

Here’s the best part: As a member of my Inner Circle you get: ONE product of your choice FREE (e.g Custom Software, Biz Plans, Best Practice Books) PLUS 65% off ALL my other products & services (e.g. Web Marketing, Freelance Writing, Mentoring etc) – for LIFE

With regard to the 65% discount on my Web Marketing System (WMS) Development service…if you want it, I will build a branded Joomla website, a branded WordPress blog, a branded Facebook page and a branded Twitter page for your business at 65% discount off my normal N100k (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fee.

You pay N35K plus a special N10k domain/hosting fee, making N45k instead of over N132k!

NB: Examples of what you get can be seen at www.tayosolagbade.com and www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets and www.tayosolagbade.com/fbk and www.tayosolagbade.com/twit)

But that’s not all: When your WMS is up and running, I will go further to create a page on your website/blog and mine, announcing that my products can be obtained in your country through you.

That way, all who wish to buy from me will HAVE to go through you, making MORE people come to you, and ensuring that you get payments due to you from me for any sales I get.

Incidentally, what I said above is the basis on which I represent Burt Dubin as Sole Agent for his Speaker Mentoring products/services across Africa.

See my name etc at www.speakingsuccess.com & www.tayosolagbade.com/uploads/burt_new_flyer.pdf

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And there’s more: Membership of my Inner Circle also gets you my Home Study Excel –VB Workbook Tutorial Videos. PLUS you get access to My Excel-VB Club & Competition.

You will learn to automate MS Excel using Visual Basic programming – and that would make you look good in paid employment, and you can earn income by selling your Excel-VB apps like I do!

For instance, the above interactive map of Nigeria, that I use to auto-generate reports for ANY state I click on the map in my latest app – can be customized for use in ANY business to generate instant reports/charts of production, sales, expense data.

Watch videos of the above shown app in use, and view screenshots/explanations at www.taysolagbade.com/erc

As a member of the Excel-VB club, you’ll learn advanced spreadsheet programming skills and get to take part in the competition.

Watch THIS Video: Spreadsheet Automation Can Boost Your Success [What MANY African Professionals Are Missing]

Full details about the MS Excel-VB club and competition available at www.excelheaven.biz

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As you can see, joining my Inner Circle comes with many multiple benefits. I’m keen to establish and nurture long term relationships with persons fitting my target audience profile, like you.

That way, when you need help with anything you buy from me, I will be able to provide solutions that quickly address those needs with minimal delays, because I would KNOW YOU, and what you do well enough.

For full details of what you get as a member of my Inner Circle…click here to read the PDF offer document.

If you’d like to start EARNING 50% AS MY AFFILIATE PARTNER, by joining my Inner Circle, click here to send me a message.

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[Video 4 of 9] MS Excel Heaven VB Competition: But Why a Competition on MS Excel-VB Automation?

May 26, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Read this text transcript & watch the full video below] MS Excel is taught as part of basic computer appreciation in many schools today (even primary level). And most persons in paid/self-employment use it for various aspects of their work.

Based on the above, adding Excel VBA programming education to what is being taught is only a logical progression.

My achievements prove ExcelVB training confers ready-to-use income earning application development skills useful in ANY socioeconomic environment.

Excel-VB programming works so well because MS Excel, the development platform, is familiar to most computer users across the world.

The best part is that just like any other programming language using in coding, Excel-VB proficiency can be developed by anyone with interest – who can read and write/type!

Now, there’s ONE unique advantage of developing apps with VBA compared to other programming languages

You can even start with the Macro Recorder – using it to record the steps you follow in carrying out your spreadsheet tasks, and then studying the code it generates to Learn How to Write VBA Code!

Click the links below to watch other videos in the series:

Videos 1 & 2: Spreadsheet Automation Can Boost Your Success [What MANY African Professionals Are Missing]

[Video 3 of 9] MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Competition: To compete, you must be a member of SDAc’s Excel-VB club

You can download the FULL 9 page slideshow from http://tayosolagbade.com/excelcluboffer

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No. 194: How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

May 25, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

To succeed as an expert-who-speaks, you need a website. Actually, a Web Marketing System (WMS) will serve you better. I share the true story of how a new client paid for my website’s hosting renewal via a barter exchange – after a standby payment arrangement that had been in place for 4 years, failed to go through!

This dramatic series of events that lasted nearly three weeks too place between April and May 2009, regarding my former 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com.

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Date: Monday 18th May 2015

No:193

Title: (a) How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story] (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

This dramatic series of events that lasted nearly three weeks too place between April and May 2009, regarding my former 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com.

I had a premonition towards the end of April, that it would be smart to make alternative arrangements to get payment

for my site’s renewal in May 2019, so I started the process of opening a domicillary account with a bank here in Lagos.

It took some running around to meet all the bank’s requirements, but I eventually did.

Unfortunately, some days to the renewal date, I got an email from the bank saying my accound had been blocked for some reason I did not care to even call them about.

On the due date (2nd May), the credit card attached to my account

– belonging to a friend in the USA (and which had been used for 4 previous renewals since 2005), failed when it was charged for that year (the 5th). I got an auto-email from (web host name removed)

to that effect.

So, what did I do? Well, I have always been a business to business barter exchange enthusiast, and have often offered clients the opportunity to save cash by paying for my services in kind.

(For instance, I once had a client who paid about 50% of my fees by printing one of my t-shirt designs on to t-shirts for kids. Visit www.cafepress.com/ezeartsonline to see the Eyo Masquerade designs used on the T-Shirts.

What I did was to offer a prospective client I was discussing with in the last week of April, a discount, and some other incentives, to use his domicillary account to transfer the required amount (approx $130 excl. charges which amounted to almost $50 at the end) to

(web host name removed).

And he agreed. In fact, two days later (after crediting the required dollar amount to the account), he did the transfer. I subsequently followed up with

(web host name removed).

But alas, all did not turn out well.

After a series of enquiries (back and forth email messages and chat discussions), over a number of days, we finally discovered that a certain off-shore charge had not been provided for by my client in the total amount he sent, which led to the money that got to

(web host name removed) being lower than my renewal fees.

By this time, my site had gone offline as a result of the non-renewal.

But things have a way of working themselves out.

In what was a wonderful coincidence (and reversal of fortunes), my new client pointed out that he would be leaving for the USA to attend a course, and could easily send over any balance if I let him know the outcome of my discussions with.

THAT was exactly what happened.

I had one final chat session with another

agent of the hosting company, and I verified the remaining amount to be sent over to complete my payment. I emailed my client the details in Atlanta, and he sent another wire transfer from his US bank to (web host name removed)’s bank in Kansas.

48 Hours later, my site was back online, and I sent him the following email:

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Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Saturday, May 16, 2009 5:44 PM

From:

To:

Elvis,

Just a quick note to say thanks for your efforts to make this come to pass – as it has.

have re-instated the site and updated my account. Hurry up and come back, so I can start showing what I am also made of, by keeping my own end of the bargain!……

Have a great time out there and don’t forget to bring some “puff puff” O!

Cheers,tayo

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And he replies me with this email:

Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Monday, May 18, 2009 5:00 PM

From:

To:

Tayo,

No wahala!

How u dey? I travelled to Virginia Beach…just came to Atlanta. Will be back by the weekend.

Cheers.Name deleted

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Now, do the above sound like exchanges between two people doing business or between two friends? I’m sure you will choose the latter.

Consider also the fact that this chap had already made payments to me in Naira for some part of the work I was doing for him at the time, even though the bulk of it would only begin when he returned.

That should convince you that what I have said in many of my past articles about the principles described in the “Science of Getting Rich” e-book really works.

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it has MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

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2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable sociopolitical climate.
And for as long as that stable sociopolitical climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings, and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

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Learn about Burt Dubin’s speaker mentoring products (books, audios etc) below…

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Have a great week :-))

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THEY WROTE…

“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000).

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to start his own business).

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 192: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!
[Tuesday]:	Join My Spreadsheet Solutions Development Club and Boost Your Productivity
[Wednesday]:	Microsoft Excel-VB Programming Coaching for Business Users (On Demand 4-Day Practical Workshop)
[Thursday]:	To Succeed, Treat People Right!
[Friday]:	How Not To Get To The Top – Advice From The World’s Greatest Salesperson
[Saturday]:	What You Need is NOT Size, But “Fight” to Outsmart Bigger Competition!
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix (TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring

for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

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[Video 3 of 9] MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Competition: To compete, you must be a member of SDAc’s Excel-VB club

May 23, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[MS Excel Heaven™ Club & Competition Offer: Part 3 of 9] : To compete, you must be a member of SDAc’s Excel-VB club.

This is part 3 of 9 of the video narrated version of the 9 page Slideshow about the Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club & Competition.

I explain why intending competitors must join the club – and what benefits…

Click the links below to watch other videos in the series:

Videos 1 & 2: Spreadsheet Automation Can Boost Your Success [What MANY African Professionals Are Missing]

[Video 4 of 9] MS Excel Heaven VB Competition: But Why a Competition on MS Excel-VB Automation?

You can download the FULL 9 page slideshow from http://tayosolagbade.com/excelcluboffer

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Video: Spreadsheet Automation Can Boost Your Success [What MANY African Professionals Are Missing]

May 22, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

The Justification for Adopting Custom ExcelVB Spreadsheet Automation – Many Africans still don’t get it. Sometimes Off-The-Shelf Applications will NOT meet your needs well enough! There is an industry that is MISSING on the continent, that can help reduce unemployment: It’s the Excel-VB Solutions Development Industry!

Watch the videos below, to hear me explain in detail…

Click here to download the 9 page slideshow about the MS Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic Club.

It explains how you can participate in the competition…or how you can become a sponsor.

Learn more about my home study Excel-VB workbook (here) and video tutorials, my 4 day practical workshop as well as my custom Excel-VB software development service.

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A Pastor Says…Don’t Let Others Spell Your “Meekness” As “Weakness”

May 20, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Those who have read my writings and/or heard me speak know that I am not someone you would call “religious” by any standards. Yet those who are objective acknowledge that I LOVE quoting religious leaders who impress me: like Pastor Tunde Bakare and others.

Why do I love listening to – and quoting – this gentleman, and others like him, so much (despite my attendance in church being close to zero)? Well, it’s because I have found that he is passionately driven to speak truth objectively in doing his work.

He recognizes no sacred cows (and will therefore say what he is “led” by the spirit to say WITHOUT FEAR.

He also does not tolerate mediocrity, will refuse to be intimidated by any person and basically seeks to – in my opinion – be CONTINUALLY sincere in his service to God and humanity.

The above qualities are rare in these parts these days. And it gives people like me great inspiration to know that some Men of God can still REFUSE to be “corrupted” especially in their “character”.

Another reason I so love to hear this man speak is that he challenges his audience to strive to EXCEL as individuals in a manner that glorifies the God they claim they serve. This makes them avoid the more common path followed by many, to become “parasites” who latch on to pathetic excuses to attach themselves to the church in order to “qualify” to get freebies without having to sweat.

For instance, below is an excerpt from a past issue of my newsletter in which I described how he rebuked some of those who called themselves “Prayer Warriors”:

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I recall hearing Pastor Tunde Bakare preaching a sermon on TV once in which he talked about laziness in the church. He mentioned that some groups such as those called “Prayer Warriors” would claim their prayers were responsible for the achievements being recorded by other members they prayed for. Yet the lives of the individual members of the prayer warrior groups often times showed little to suggest they themselves recorded any worthwhile achievements of their own.

Pastor Bakare asked why they could not do for themselves what they claimed to be doing for others?! I have the answer to that question: They do NOT know how, because they do not have life survival skills, having only acquired learning for school (i.e. academic education), which they do not KNOW how to apply usefully in the real world!

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I Discover Another Preacher With A Message Worth Passing On

So, that’s Tunde Bakare – as I see him.

And I know there are not many as tough as he is. But apparently there are some who also recognise other “weaknesses” in the church body that need to be “talked about” and corrected.

The foregoing is why this (article) got its curious title. You see, I know a lot of people in my part of the world are highly religious, and will often be more willing to consider a line of action favourably if the person who proposes it mentions something relating to “pleasing God” or “making heaven”.

My purpose (as a Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist) is to help all people – religious or otherwise – learn how to achieve their valued goals by being able to continually function at their optimal best.

I therefore consider it important to HIGHLIGHT and bring to the attention of my target audience ANY and EVERY bit of new or information that can help them.

And that is why I am ALWAYS open-minded enough to read publications and watch programmes on various subjects – including those that are religious. As an Extension Service professional I am very aware of the need to fully understand the “psychology” of the people I aim to influence (i.e. their peculiar culture, beliefs, biases etc, and how it influences their actions).

All that I have so far said will (I hope) explain why I chose to feature the message by this other pastor (below):

How It Happened – And What He Said

In February 2009, I was given a publication (The Joseph Company Quarterly Magazine) by someone, in which I scanned an interesting paragraph of a re-published message that made me decide to take out a few minutes to read more.

The message was “preached” by one Pastor Dapo Adeniyi at the Lagos Hilton Hotel, Ikeja on October 14th 2007. And it was titled “Positioning Yourself For Increase”.

Below I have re-produced excerpts for your THOUGHFUL CONTEMPLATION.

(I am hopeful that the obvious meaning in that message will challenge any person who reads it – especially those determined to act very “religious” outwardly – to understand that doing so NEED NOT require them to become weaklings to be pushed around in society):

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“Unfortunately, we in the church have allowed people on the outside to spell our “meekness” as “weakness”. I consider meekness as we know it to be a great asset in the church. Someone who appears morose and sheepish can get by in church without much problems, but not in the world outside….

…We completely make ourselves difficult to buy if we put forth this kind of appearance. The world is simply impatient with weakness and incompetence, and let me tell you any slightest hint of that. A meek person will therefore need to show forth him/herself as intelligent without being brash.

We must learn to be confident, strong and highly personable or friendly. We need to present ourselves as capable and confident, not arrogant. That is strength. That is beauty. And that is what the world around us will buy”.

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Need I say more…?

Well, maybe that you can click the link below to read my article titled “To Perpetually Achieve Noteworthy Success, You May Need To Be Moderate In Your Humility“.Click

NB: This article was first published online in 2009.

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SDAc’s Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic Club & COMPETITION [For Business Users & School Kids] – Download 9 Page Offer Slideshow

May 19, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

(a). The Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic club offers serious minded business users a platform to learn useful spreadsheet automation skills using MS Excel-Visual Basic.

(b). The competition provides such business users with a REAL WORLD relevant challenge that they can use to test their new skills, thereby building the confidence to deliver greater value to their employers or clients – leading to increased productivity and income.

(c). The Kiddie’s arm of the club aims to promote zero cost spreadsheet programming skills development in kids, to solve everyday problems.

Who is this club/competition for?

a. Paid club membership is open to all business users in all fields e.g accountants/financial/tax consultants, sales/marketing professionals, corporate executives, Quantity Surveyors/engineers etc.

b. FREE membership open to persons preparing for professional examinations at accredited tuition centres. No payment is required from the students. However, the tuition centre is required to pay the $65 USD MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club annual membership fee . That single payment covers ALL student in that centre.

NB: Professionals (who have passed exams and already practicing) can also compete – but must join the club independently, by paying the annual fee of $65 USD per annum.

Sponsor the competition or the MS Excel-VB Club for Kids…

There are various ways you can come on board as a partner or sponsor (financial and non-financial) for the club and the competition. A special dimension is the MS Excel Heaven™ VB Club for Kids. Aimed at build income earning coding skills in school kids. Contact me for details of the foregoing and more.

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That makes the school (or family) instant members – with FULL benefits.

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No. 193: (a) Beautiful Genius Is Often Created from Crude Beginnings (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

May 18, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his public speaking prowess. But how many of us know that as a child, lacking access to formal schooling, Lincoln walked miles to borrow books he read, from the library? That disciplined self-studying habit was the key to his eventual success!

It’s the same way few people know that JAY JAY Okocha, Nigeria’s football legend, as a child, practised the dribbling skills that earned him worldwide fame, using mere “sucked oranges”!!

Think about that for a moment…

The little JAY JAY, lacking a proper soccer ball to indulge in his passion, improvised with sucked oranges (left behind by buyers of oranges he hawked!) to practice his football tricks!!!

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It’s the same way few people know that JAY JAY Okocha, Nigeria’s football legend, as a child, practised the dribbling skills that earned him worldwide fame, using mere “sucked oranges”!!

Think about that for a moment…

The little JAY JAY, lacking a proper soccer ball to indulge in his passion, improvised with sucked oranges (left behind by buyers of oranges he hawked!) to practice his football tricks!!!

That crude beginning was what equipped him to etch his name in the history books as one of the greatest professional footballers ever to come out of Africa.

Now, some may doubt the accuracy of the news reports . I don’t, because I also heard JAY JAY say it himself…on radio, that he hawked oranges as a child…

Back then, he was still playing Pro in the English Premier League.

The duty presenter on Larry Izamoje’s Sports Radio 88.9 Brilar FM asked JAY JAY how he felt being so popular with fans in and out of Nigeria, some of who considered him an idol of sorts.

JAY JAY replied (in part) as follows: “Well, JAY JAY Okocha or no JAY JAY Okocha…all I know is JAY JAY Okocha sold oranges on the streets of Lagos“.

This was a superstar who had remained GROUNDED. He knew what had gotten him where he was and he used that SUSTAINED awareness of his humble beginning to STAY FOCUSED and avoid getting carried away with his success, to the point of messing up as a player or in life.

But how many of JAY JAY’s fans know this fact about his pre-stardom years?

How many would have been willing to put in the effort he did to FIGHT his way out of poverty if they had been in a similar situation to his?

Especially if it meant engaging in the HUMBLING vocation of hawking oranges – till they found success in their chosen vocations?

Everyone loves a winner as they say.

But we forget that winners were NOT born winning. If truth be told, there was a time when all they were doing was failing and falling, then getting up to start all over again. Indeed, even now, they still fall and fail, every now and then. The difference is that the occurrences are fewer and their established success makes it easy to get back up and continue.

Most people like the fame and fortune they see a successful person “enjoying”, and want same – but they do NOT want to suffer the same pain or hardships s/he underwent to get it.

Unfortunately, for them, nature abhors imbalance: For every positive, there will be a negative. The Chinese talk about the Ying and the Yang.

It is the way the Creator made the world. Therefore, if you want to win in it, you must be ready to work according to the unbreakable laws he has set to guide success achievement!

Without the experience of failure, or what Napoleon Hill called Bitter Defeat, it is unlikely that a person can achieve what can be called EXCEPTIONAL SUCCESS.

That kind of success is the one that puts you heads and shoulders above most others who do what you do, in a way that makes you get singled out for admiration.

Otherwise, you would simply belong to the “middle class” of successful people!

I liken them to people called “superior inferiors” in Sociology. They are neither failures nor significant successes at what they do. They just generally do enough to get by.

Final Words: Understand that you may have to DELAY GRATIFICATION (i.e. comforts, conveniences and pleasures you would love to have) in favour of your goal driven priorities.

So, stop focussing on the good stuff you see successful people with. Learn to do what they did.

For instance, instead of buying a new laptop with latest “everything”, you may be better off investing in a device (e.g mobile hard drive) to make your ageing, but fully functional laptop more productive. That way you could save funds for other more pressing needs.

The result may be that your peers brandish better looking “laptops” when you meet, and you may find yourself being teased about your “old” laptop, by them.

That should not bug you, however, because if you DELIVER results they need, your clients would NOT care how old or ugly your laptop looks.

Since they are the ones who matter most to your success, you have nothing to worry about. As they reward you, you WILL become better off!

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Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 192: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!
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[Wednesday]:	Microsoft Excel-VB Programming Coaching for Business Users (On Demand 4-Day Practical Workshop)
[Thursday]:	To Succeed, Treat People Right!
[Friday]:	How Not To Get To The Top – Advice From The World’s Greatest Salesperson
[Saturday]:	What You Need is NOT Size, But “Fight” to Outsmart Bigger Competition!
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In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

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Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

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How Not To Get To The Top – Advice From The World’s Greatest Salesperson

May 15, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Preview: I once read a piece Joe Girard wrote about the importance of following the right route to achieve success. In my language (Yoruba), we have a saying that “Ona kan o gba oja”. Literal translation: “There are different routes that can be taken to get to the market”. For people going to the market, the route they choose to follow is unlikely to really matter. BUT…and this is a BIG BUT, for someone trying to achieve authentic, lasting success, there are routes should NEVER be taken.

Read full article below…

One of the things I love about reading is that it helps learn so many things from highly successful people, that I would otherwise NEVER have access to.

But what gives me the greatest satisfaction, is that when I apply the ideas I get from reading stuff written by such people, I frequently earn the rewards they assured would come. And that makes it all worthwhile.

Sometimes it takes a while. Often times it takes a “loooong” while…as well as plenty of faith, perseverance and re-invention of myself. But as many who have passed the same road before will tell you, as long as one does not quit, success eventually shows up.

I’ll also say this: Every single time I have successfully done the above, I have found – without fail – that my self-confidence and competence have always increased tremendously. In other words, when you diligently pursue your goals in this manner(with honesty and integrity), you always come away better than when you started out.

Joe Girard (listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Greatest Salesperson) is one of those whose ideas have helped me greatly.

Another is Burt Dubin (whose mentoring service I now promote as Sole Agent, to Africa based experts, who want to get paid to speak internationally). Others include Philip Emeagwali, Robert Kiyosaki, Michael Angier, Philip Humbert, Mary Kay Ash, Robert Schuller, Zig Ziglar, Ben Murray Bruce, Sunny Obazu Ojeagbase, Abiodun Toki, Jeffery Meyer, Dan Kennedy, James R. Cook, Michael Masterson, David Riklan, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, and so on. I owe these guys a debt of gratitude.

I believe strongly, that it is important to follow the right route to achieve success. And this belief always guides me in my daily interactions and endeavours. Up till this moment, I have never had cause to regret living this way.

In my language (Yoruba), we have a saying that “Ona kan o gba oja”.

Literal translation: “There are different routes that can be taken to get to the market”. For people going to the market, the route they choose to follow is unlikely to really matter. BUT…and this is a BIG BUT, for someone trying to achieve authentic, lasting success, there are routes should NEVER be taken.

In sports, regulatory bodies communicate this message by imposing sanctions (fines, bans etc) on sports persons found wanting e.g. for using performance enhancing drugs. Same applies in schools, where students who cheat in exams are punished etc.

Unfortunately, some people believe the end ALWAYS justifies the means. And they act in line with that belief. So, when they want to get to the top, they find it easy to compromise. In essence, they settle for any way out – regardless of whether or not there are anti-ethical or other negative implications.

Joe Girard cited striking certain examples in one of his books, in a section titled “How Not To Get To The Top”.

Basically, he pointed out that some people scheme their way to the top, by cleverly positioning themselves to get rewards that they do not qualify for, or have not earned.

In this regard, Joe referred to the person who gets to the top “because he’s the boss’ nephew or she’s the boss’ daughter.” Then there are those who get pushed to the top, by their lodge or fraternity “brethren”, even though they are not competent to be there.

At a point, he offered what he called “the Girard” advice, which is that “God and networking do a better job of helping those who help themselves…” and that “…Nothing beats the success achieved on your own.”

And that’s so true. Nothing is better than success achieved on merit. But some people keep looking for short cuts to the top. They refuse to accept that taking short cuts rarely yields lasting positive benefits. And it NEVER makes the person guilty of it capable of demonstrating competence once s/he gets there!

The inevitable outcome of taking short cuts to the top, is often failure due to ineptitude…

Except, if by some miracle, s/he can be so well “propped up” by “aides and assistants” that his/her goof ups are not exposed. Apart from being difficult to achieve, that would be a very expensive arrangement to sustain. Sooner than later, it will fail. So, better not start it in the first place!

As we say in Yoruba land…

“Abo oro ni a ma nso fun omoluwabi. Ti o ba de inu re, a di odindi”. Literal translation: “A word is enough for the wise”.

PS: This article was first published online on Submitted On August 24, 2011

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To Succeed, Treat People Right!

May 14, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people” – Thomas J. Peters

I have major difficulty doing the OGA or BIG MAN thing. In paid employment it was so. As an entrepreneur, this “affliction” of mine has gotten worse. Owning things (which some use to SHOW they are OGA), also bores me. I guess I’m some kind of incurable minimalist!

But I LIKE being the way I am – because I find it helps me to stay grounded. To keep my head from getting swollen, so I can stay focussed on what really matters.

That’s why I WALK so often, and LOVE travelling by road….LOL!

And no where will you see me refer to myself as MD or CEO of anything. Plus, I plan to NEVER EVER have employees (cause I don’t want the hassle), but I WILL continue to encourage and empower people to start their own businesses (In fact, I’m working with my own kids towards launching a home based farm based business in Benin Republic).

It’s also why I dress simply and informally, often African style outfits sometimes mixed with Western elements.

No suits, blazers, ties etc for me. I did “them” a lot, back in those days in Guinness Nigeria: but not anymore. If you’re planning to invite me to give a talk, please keep this in mind

As Ben Bruce said, “I want to be free.”

So I adhere to no one’s rules, and I do not try to force others to fit any particular mould.

And I absolutely refuse to go on EGO trips of any sort: No airs of superiority for me in relating with others.

Make no mistake however, that’s not to say that I suffer from an inferiority complex either. Indeed, I do NOT suffer fools gladly!

But I love to be myself, and to relate in a manner that does NOT depend on weighing people’s importance according to their status or wealth.

Example 1: Even while functioning as a Senior Manager during my time in Guinness Nigeria, Benin Brewery, Nigeria, and I NEVER owned a car and often took a N10 bus or walked to work, from my Ikpoba Hill home to the brewery.

It was only after I got attacked and robbed at 11p.m one night I was returning home on foot while acting as Production Manager that I agreed to let the driver take me home.

That night I got about 6 stitches (at Edi Ale hospital) on my wrist, where I’d been stabbed with a broken Malta Guinness bottle by 3 young men who wanted the laptop bag I was carrying.

I tried to explain that there was no laptop in it, and only company papers, but they would not listen and got impatient, when I kept trying to convince them. One then cut me with the bottle and I dropped the bag, which they then ran off with.

It might interest you to know I still did not buy a car despite that nasty experience in 2001!

I recall one colleague pestered me so much saying I was miserly, since I could afford it. For him, the car was a status statement of what one was: a GUINESS manager. For me, it was an encumbrance. If I had it, I had to worry about where to park it, and what would happen to it etc.

It was only few months to my leaving the company, just before I put in my resignation (in line with an exit plan I’d been working for 2 years), that I applied for a car loan – the bulk of which was then deducted from the money I was paid by the company when I left.

Back then I was simply too driven, too focused to readily allow anything to get in the way of the attention I wanted to give the work I was doing in the brewery.

As I have said in past articles, I often spent as much as 14 to 18 hours in the brewery most days.

Indeed, while still a shift brewer, I would stay back after closing morning or afternoon shifts to work on a PC in the laboratory department, building custom apps to solve data handling and reporting problems I identified.

Yes, I did it all in my free time!

No one asked me to do it, and I never got paid for it. But eventually, with the adoption of several solutions I developed, the recognition and rewards later came.

Example 2: Another thing I did a lot was to spend quality time getting to know my subordinates…

You see, I was a VERY high flyer in Guinness Nigeria (click here to read my resume). At a point, due to my exploits developing custom spreadsheet software adopted for formal reporting by the company, I heard through the grapevine that I was being called “Super Brewer”.

Apart from developing apps in my spare time, I also came up with creative solutions for improving operations e.g. an Operator Training Assessment module I developed as a Best Practice Facilitator, which got adopted by the Training Department for use in Operator Competency Assessment towards formal Certification.

My reputation got me noticed and I eventually got rapid career advancement opportunities – secondments, followed by promotion and then more secondments.

But despite rubbing shoulders, attending meetings with the brewery top brass, and even HQ big boys and girls, I never failed to find time to stop over at the process areas to chat and crack jokes with the junior staff/operatives.

Some were twice my age and had introduced me to their own kids who were as old as I was!

Yet these men had humbly trained me, when I was a newly recruited management trainee, sharing with me the wisdom from their MANY years of hard won experience, doing the toughest most physically demanding jobs in the brewery.

They did this knowing that I would eventually move on to assume my position as Brewer, when they would report to me as their boss.

For me, that was something that triggered a deep sense of reflection that I refused to ignore. I realized that the advantage I had of a higher education was what had given me the edge over most of them. Otherwise, their years on the job would NEVER have put them where they were.

So I resolved to ALWAYS treat them with the utmost respect and consideration and to find ways to make the feel good about working with me, my colleagues and for the company.

That led me to begin spending a lot of my time with process hands across the company.

Wherever I met them on site or off the premises, I made a point of relating with them as equals. Never did I talk down to them, and rarely did I find need to scold them.

Not because they did not make mistakes or were not sometimes rude, but because I discovered most readily acknowledged when they were wrong and they valued their relationship with me.

When I was wrong, I never hesitated to apologize and that endeared me to them even more.

As a result, when – during my shift – problems or breakdowns occurred, these men would come to reassure me that they would do everything possible to get the plant up and running. I mean both the production and engineering hands. They were my pals, but they also never failed to acknowledge my authority.

In the end my shift duty performance frequently reflected the fact that I had a good rapport with the men.

No matter which group of staff I worked with while on duty, I often got the best out of them without having to shout or exchange harsh words with them.

My expatriate boss, during one of my acting assignments, noted as much in a form he filled for me, when I was considering pursuing a Masters Degree in USA’s Pepperdine University (I later changed my mind and never submitted the forms).

But my habit of being “friendly” with the junior staff did not go down well with a few of my colleagues.

Some accused me of “reducing myself to the level of junior staff”. Others went further to say I was embarrassing other managers by being so close and chummy with shop floor operatives.

I never let what they said bother me however…

Since leaving paid employment, I have continued with the same attitude.

And it has earned me ready acceptance in the various communities I have lived in Nigeria’s Lagos, as well as in Benin Republic’s Cotonou and Calavi (so far).

In Ben Murray Bruce’s wonderful speech about change needed in Nigeria, which seems to be trending at the moment, he said we MUST pay attention to the needs of those not as fortunate as we are.

That we must look out for their interests.

I believe the first step towards doing that is to befriend them. That will help us get familiar enough with them to know what their true situation is.

We cannot stand aloof or adopt snobbish superior postures towards them. If we do, we will ignite their resentment not just against ourselves, but also against those who are ours (our families) and all that which is ours (our businesses, properties etc).

One day, when the opportunity presents itself, those of them who are most bitter about the way we treat them will act it out either by attacking what belongs to us, or REFUSING to help us protect what is ours, when others attack us.

Think about it. People you snub or mistreat can simply choose to stand by, instead of helping to call the police if they see you getting robbed after you had a flat tyre in the middle of the night, at the Estate gate!!!

That’s why I recommend that you slow down, and learn to treat others right, from today, so they can also treat you right, now or anytime in the future.

“Treat people as what they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they’re capable of being” – Johann Von Goethe

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

I had a premonition towards the end of April, that it would be smart to make alternative arrangements to get payment

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After a series of enquiries (back and forth email messages and chat discussions), over a number of days, we finally discovered that a certain off-shore charge had not been provided for by my client in the total amount he sent, which led to the money that got to

48 Hours later, my site was back online, and I sent him the following email:

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He recognizes no sacred cows (and will therefore say what he is “led” by the spirit to say WITHOUT FEAR.

For instance, below is an excerpt from a past issue of my newsletter in which I described how he rebuked some of those who called themselves “Prayer Warriors”:

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Beautiful Genius Is Often Created from Crude Beginnings

Now, some may doubt the accuracy of the news reports . I don’t, because I also heard JAY JAY say it himself…on radio, that he hawked oranges as a child…

But how many of JAY JAY’s fans know this fact about his pre-stardom years?

Unfortunately, for them, nature abhors imbalance: For every positive, there will be a negative. The Chinese talk about the Ying and the Yang.

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Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

One of the things I love about reading is that it helps learn so many things from highly successful people, that I would otherwise NEVER have access to.

Joe Girard (listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Greatest Salesperson) is one of those whose ideas have helped me greatly.

In my language (Yoruba), we have a saying that “Ona kan o gba oja”.

Joe Girard cited striking certain examples in one of his books, in a section titled “How Not To Get To The Top”.

The inevitable outcome of taking short cuts to the top, is often failure due to ineptitude…

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