General - SD Nuggets™

[VIDEO] Anatomy of a Real Life Speaker One Sheet, and Why You Need One

March 8, 2017

Many business owners have problems attracting the right kinds of people to buy from them. Marketing is not just about getting people to buy from you. Instead you need to focus on how to find the right kind of people. But who are the right kinds of people? How can – or should - you […]

Entrepreneurship

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 […]