General - SD Nuggets™

PII 056: Resisting Use of Barter Exchange Can Cost You Business Success [Based on True Stories]

March 6, 2017

The message in this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is based on transcripts excerpts from an audio podcast I recorded, to explain how business persons can explore alternative ways to get paid for what they do or what they sell. Whether you're a service provider, or manufacturer or producer of anything […]

Career Development

[True Story] Defying Adversity As a Nobody, to Create a Lucrative Niche Market for my Custom Automated Spreadsheet Software in Nigeria

March 2, 2017

It all still feels like yesterday - when in 2002 I quit a high paying job as a manager in a corporate multinational, in which I was an established high-flyer, to start offering my custom Excel-VB software development (and Freelance Writing) solutions to paying clients. Not a few friends, relatives and co-workers thought I’d lost […]

Entrepreneurship

What You Need to Create a Splashscreen for Your Custom Spreadsheet Application [Part 1 of 2]

February 19, 2017

This week's tutorial features an anatomy of the Excel-VB code and Graphic User Interface Active-X controls you can use to create professional looking Splash Screens for your custom Excel-VB apps. As you develop increased proficiency in building custom apps for various uses, especially if you dream of launching your own range of commercial quality spreadsheet […]

Entrepreneurship

Protected: The FARM CEO (Issue 74) : SMART SKILLS FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMERS, ORGANIC AFRICAN FARM, Buhle Farmers' Academy

February 19, 2017

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Entrepreneurship

To Achieve Quality Success, Building Your Business Needs to be a Labour of Love [Hint: Special Valentine Celebration Offer of Two Cost-Saving Audio Podcasts for Farm CEOs]

February 15, 2017

History has shown that men and women in love, will often go to great - sometimes unimaginable - lengths for one another. Yesterday being Valentine's Day, we've had lots of talk about love – especially the romantic kind. However, the truth is that the "love" for which Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated is more all […]

Entrepreneurship

PII 053: If Achievement of Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Web Marketing Success Was Easy, Everyone Would Be Doing It! [Hint: What You Need to KNOW - and DO]

February 13, 2017

Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all. I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult - phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What's more, experience […]

Entrepreneurship

Custom Spreadsheet Applications Are NOT Only for Accounting or Financial Reporting [Hint: Case Study of Tayo Solagbade's Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager - an Entreprise Information System]

February 10, 2017

The video screenshot below (click here to watch it) is of an Excel-VB spreadsheet software (called Poultry Farm Manager™) that I built - in 2014 - for a large poultry layer farm in Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria, owned by a Nigerian diplomat, who was then based in a Francophone West African nation. In 2009, I […]

Entrepreneurship

PII 052: Real Life Farm Business Case Study - Excel-VB Ration Formulator Spreadsheet Software Anatomy

February 6, 2017

In this week's issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I discuss - using annotated screenshot images - design considerations employed in developing my popular Excel-VB Ration Formulator spreadsheet software. Prospective buyers, as well as users/owners of this app curious to better understand how it works, and how to make more productive use of […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[Recommended] Why Nigerians Hate Igbo - by Chinua Achebe

February 4, 2017

When I saw the thought provoking Facebook post/query (shown below) by Joe Ibekwe, I instantly recalled the words of Chinua Achebe in the last book he gifted us before passing on. However, a quick check in my travel bag soon revealed, to my dismay, that I'd left my well read Copy of Achebe's "There Was a […]

Entrepreneurship

Protected: The FARM CEO (Issue 71) : 11 Business Opportunities in Africa That Will Make More Millionaires in 2016, Investing in Africa's agriculture is the next best thing, AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT IN AFRICA: TOP COUNTRIES TO FOCUS ON, African farming is the new frontier for brave investors

January 29, 2017

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