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FACEBOOK AUTOMATION: How to Auto-Schedule New Posts to Appear On Your Facebook Wall At a Future Date or Time (For BUSY People Who Need to Save Time!) – FREE PDF Download

October 9, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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SNEAK PREVIEW: How We Cheaply Make Cup Cakes without an Oven or Cooker (PDF) – By Tayo, Fela, Emeka,and Chika SOLAGBADE

October 8, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This is a precursor to our forthcoming Quick Start Guide Book titled “How to Cheaply Make Cup Cakes without an Oven or Cooker & Sell Them for Profit” – based on what we do, as a family.

Details of the book’s contents are supplied at the end of this PDF, which – for now – offers some background about why we do what we do, the way we do it.

PLUS, a little peek into an impromptu real life production session we had yesterday – Tuesday 8th October 2014!

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Start Something You Never Need to Retire From (Hint: Why We All Need to Emulate Muhammad Ali – the BOXER, and the MAN!)

October 7, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn’t just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.” – MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly

I recently watched a video – click here to watch now – of Muhammad Ali (at age 35) speaking to a large audience (comprising adults and kids). A young boy asked him “What will you do when you retire?” Ali’s answer proved his boxing genius was matched by an acute sense of “life purpose”.

Basically, Ali told the young mane and the listening audience how he’d emerged from deep reflection to realize that after he retired from boxing, the best way to spend his time would be helping others.

Now, he did not just state it simply in a few words. Ali – always a man who practiced what he preached – took the audience on what I would call an intellectual journey of self-discovery. Especially as it relates to finding one’s purpose in line with the creator’s will.

In order to prepare their minds, Ali started by asking if there were people in the audience who believed in God. Then he asked to see the hands of any who did NOT believe there was a God. In both cases there were hands raised.

To one of those closest to him amongst the latter group, Ali then used the analogy of how the different parts of the world came into existence.

But before that he took asked if man made objects we use daily – like cups etc – could have made themselves. The answer was no.

Following upon that, he then asked if those who claimed not to believe in God could explain how such well planned collection of parts that make up the earth came into being.

Ali went on to conclude that the amazing complexity of the earth itself provided ample proof that a superior and supreme form on intelligence, well above ours, was at work.

So, for him, he said that was why he was convinced of God’s existence.

And as a result, he knew there had to be a purpose for which God had made him. Ali added that if Hell – where those who fail to do God’s will are said to be sent – existed, he would rather work to NOT go there after he dies.

In order to achieve that goal of making heaven, Ali said he had thought of the active years in his life outside those spent sleeping etc – and decided he would use his fame and success to help others e.g. by partnering with NGOs and other support groups.

AND THAT, he said was what he would do after he retired from boxing.

What Amazing Foresight from a Man of Real Vision!

Today, everybody knows that Ali has kept his word with regard to what he said on that day. Several decades ago as a young man.

And his fame has not waned up till now. Neither has the respect and admiration AND love he enjoys from people across the world diminished. This is one man with the rare ability to make people forget their differences. The Muhammad Ali Centre continues to carry on the Ali legacy of helping those who need it.

And Ali remains a central figure – even now in his old age, and despite the health challenge he has had to deal with.

His words spoken over the past decades that get shared on the wall of his Facebook page continue to inspire millions across the world. I, for one continue to draw MASSIVE inspiration from this man’s words that I read as a fan on his page.

Each of Us Needs to Emulate Ali – By Choosing to Start Something We Won’t Need to Retire From

Ali did that. He looked beyond his vocation, to carve out a vision – and a mission from the vision.

He had a message for the world, and he was determined to share that message. But he knew the world would not easily pay attention to a person who was not NOTEWORTHY. So, he let that need to make them LISTEN to him drive his boxing efforts.

That led him to explore all sorts of creative ways to draw attention to himself while boxing.

For example, Ali’s habit of using rhyming poems to communicate – especially to opponents – was unique. Till date, no other boxer has succeeded in doing what he did so well.

As a result, even when he was not boxing, he remained in demand.

People wanted not just to SEE him. They also wanted to hear him speak. To know what he thought about issues affecting them. Even to know what his stand was.

Evidence that Ali’s thinking was as described above can be found in material he shares from his archives even today.

For instance, not long ago, he shared a photo of himself, with a quote that helped me better understand why he chose to adopt such a boldly vocal approach to his own brand of boxing.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn’t just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say. – MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly [Click here for source]

Each of us can do what Ali did i.e Use your VISION for the future, to drive yourself to EXCEL at what you do NOW!

No matter what it is. Think of how you can link what you succeed at today, to what you can do well into your later years that can make the lives of others better.

That desire to achieve your long term vision will help you do what it takes to excel in your more immediate pursuits.

Then later on, you will find that the platform of success you arrive on in future, will make it easy to carry on with your bigger vision/mission right into your old age.

That’s why Ali’s impact continues to be felt even today – LONG after he retired from boxing. Each one of us can make our impact felt the same way too – if we emulate the great Muhammad Ali!

“I try not to speak about all the charities I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.” – Muhammad Ali

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No. 162: You Need Childish Enthusiasm to Achieve Uncommon Success

October 6, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

I am VERY childishly excitable and I SHOW IT. Not all my clients understand IT, but most like IT, because (IF I take on their project) IT makes me DELIVER what I promise them.

Unlike Most “Mature & Enlightened” Adults (Whatever That Means), I Don’t Act “Cool, Calm and Collected” When I’m EXCITED!

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Date: Monday 6th October 2014

No:162

Title: You Need Childish Enthusiasm to Achieve Uncommon Success

Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ]

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No. 162: You Need Childish Enthusiasm to Achieve Uncommon Success

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

I am VERY childishly excitable and I SHOW IT. Not all my clients understand IT, but most like IT, because (IF I take on their project) IT makes me DELIVER what I promise them.

Unlike Most “Mature & Enlightened” Adults (Whatever That Means), I Don’t Act “Cool, Calm and Collected” When I’m EXCITED!

Many “schooled” adults often argue that one must act reserved to command respect.

Well, that’s never worked for me. Instead my willingness to “let myself go” has helped repeatedly record superlative performances in EVERY area of endeavour I have ventured in life.

And believe me, they are many.

Luckily for me, this has always come naturally.

Unfortunately for many I come across however, if they ever had such instincts in them (which I argue they were actually born with as children), society made them GROW out of it, to “qualify” to be called “mature adults” (again; whatever THAT means!)

I’m not asking you to go goofing around in your suit and tie – although I would argue that one should do a bit of that every now and then :-))

Highly successful people like Richard Branson, who alternately does VERY cool, and sometime goofy stuff, have shown that it helps to connect to your target audience in ways that build trust and credibility much faster.

To this end, I am actually planning a series of my own special publicity stunts to be implemented and shared via social media over the next few months.

Let me share with you a massive truth I discovered over 2 decades ago from applying my above mentioned instincts to relentlessly succeed at school, at work, and in life.

“If you refuse to acknowledge and express the “childish” enthusiasm you periodically feel (and you know you feel it!), you’re unlikely to excel at what you do. Period.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

I AM Living Proof That Indulging In “Childlike Imagination and Wonder” Yields Superior Performance

What’s more my extensive studies done DEEP into the successes of many well known figures that caught my interest have repeatedly confirmed that many of them also share my sentiments.

A few quotes I’ve inserted in this article offer examples, but many more abound.

As an expert in your field, nurturing and preserving this mindset of childish enthusiasm and awe towards life, and its LIVING, can prove CRUCIAL to “dusting” any competition you have.

Like I already mentioned above, it is what has helped me excel very many times in various – often unrelated – vocations.

Many of the stories I’ve told on this blog – including my current string of Location Independent Multipreneuring based successes (since I relocated from Nigeria to Benin Republic), – offer verifiable proof.

In case you are a client or have been one in the past, what I say here should (hopefully) help you understand why I always seemed as excited – sometimes MORE! – than even you were about the project YOU hired ME to do for you!

Because I choose to “remain childish” in the way I embrace new discoveries, and new opportunities and new learning, I excel!

That basically sums it up really.

Each time I connect with a client (old or new), I always check to see if a proposed project is one that EXCITES me.

If I do not get a feeling of anticipation, or surge of adrenaline just contemplating it, the hindsight of past experiences often warn me that I may not do well in it.

On the occasions that I have “forced” myself to take on such jobs, I struggled to finish them to MY satisfaction.

Ironically, the clients expressed satisfaction with the finished work – yet I felt I had not done “enough”!

And that feeling came from knowing that I’d not been on “fire” in doing it i.e that I could have a WHOLE lot more (You see, I have a principle I adhere to, of “under-promising” to “over-deliver” – to each client).

Today, I try hard to avoid taking on such jobs when clients request my services.

Generally, I avoid telling such a client “I’m too busy”. It’s not polite, and can offend.

Instead, if it’s an old client that I hesitate to simply walk away from, I would subtly show my reservation by “delaying” in giving a response to the question of “how much will it cost?”

Usually I simply say…”Hmm, let me think about it and get back to you”. Then I generally “forget”. Sometimes s/he may ask again.

If it happens I have another project in hand from the same client, I could tactfully try to redirect his/her attention to an aspect, as an excuse.

If s/he persists, I give him/her a “fee” on the HIGH end that I know is likely to make him/her balk. This last tactic often works – and s/he may eventually choose to find someone else…and I of course NEVER ask about it afterwards!!

The above strategy has often worked for me. If you struggle with a similar dilemma, I recommend you try it.

Final Words: Let Your Enthusiasm Guide Your Decision Making

“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.” – Michael Johnson, NBA Basketball Hall of Fame Legend, and Millionaire Entrepreneur

By freeing yourself from doing work that does NOT excite you, it will only be a matter of time before clients offering projects YOU consider exciting – with GREAT pay on top of it – begin to seek you out.

And when that happens, don’t lock up your “childlike imagination”!

They key to “wowing” those clients will be unleashing it.

Plunge into the project with a determination to re-discover even those things you (think you) already know.

EXAMPLE: Practicing What I Preach Above Recently Helped Me Discovered a 100% FREE – Way to Re-Launch My 10 Week Scheduled Flagship Auto Responder Email Course From My Website i.e. www.tayosolagbade.com

It’s titled “10 Ways You Can Use Self-Development to Create The Future You Want”

Last time I ran that auto responder course, it was hosted on a 3rd party service website – which today charges over $25 USD per month.

Since my course was FREE, continuing with that service made no financial sense. So, I took it down. That was in 2004 or so.

But recently, in the process of applying my childish enthusiasm towards implementing the web marketing project for a client here in Cotonou, I spent MANY DAYS researching the web for all sorts of resources.

Last week I stumbled on an amazingly powerful – yet FREE – tool that I have NOW installed on my website.

Not only will it NOW enable me launch an even more powerful lead generation platform on my website (i.e. the e-course), I am already preparing to offer use of this same tool for my clients on THEIR own websites!

In other words, if all goes well, I’m about to generate 2 additional potential income streams.

All this due to my shameless willingness to CHILDISHLY believe enough, to actually INVEST hundreds of hours to find uncommon zero cost ways to make my client’s website EXCEL!

As you can see, there’s a LOT of value to be had in being childish in THIS manner – especially when you do it with a mindset to ADD VALUE to others!

Let’s bring it back home to YOU, as an expert-who-speaks (or aspires to) for instance…

In choosing a niche subject to speak about in your industry, I recommend you let follow your – childlike – intuition/instincts.

How you feel about each topic or subject, should inform your choice.

Final Words: Wherever You Find Yourself Feeling “Awe & Wonder” At Possibilities to be Had in Any Area, Be “Childish” Enough to EXPLORE Them Till You’re S-a-t-i-a-t-e-d!

It could take time before you find a speaking “topic” worth developing for your target niche as an expert-who-speaks.

Sometimes you may need to look closer, dig deeper, and/or even polish or refine what you find.

But eventually, the subject or theme you make your flagship offering should be the one you find most exciting.

Your chosen subject should be the one you feel most UN-inhibited thinking, reading and speaking about.

In other words, the one for which you feel the greatest – shameless – ENTHUSIASM. i.e. that which you are most comfortable responding to questions about – and which comes most naturally to you.

Quite often, going about using the above described approach will lead you to establish yourself as an authority in less time than others who do what you do.

And you would do it with much less effort too!

Now, since meeting planners and audiences always want someone with proven competence, that authority status will make YOUR speaking service offer MORE compelling than whatever most others offer.

The above is why this approach helps those who adopt it to EXCEL:

If you put it to diligent use, it will help YOU EXCEL too!

Now, if only someone had told most of us THIS right when we were kids, we would probably have found our ways to success much earlier. But it’s never too late. You can make the needed changes now – and don’t forget to tell your kids to do the same!

“If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value” – Thomas Edison

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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.

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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

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

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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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Parenting [Friday]:	Deciding How Much Your Startup Poultry Farm Needs (Hint: Should Not Depend on How Rich Your Prospective Investor Is!)
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Every Time You Achieve Success, Find Out Why, So That You Can Reproduce It.

October 4, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I often groan when I hear a celebrity answer the question about the secret of his/her success by saying something like “Na God O!” (i.e. “It’s God’s handiwork!”). You see, I also succeed with God’s help. BUT, I KNOW there’s more to success achievement than saying “Na God O!” suggests!

And this is where successful people in developed societies often differ from us.

Read an interview with them, and you’ll come away with practical ideas – sometimes step by step instructions – of how to proceed in trying to replicate the success they are celebrated for.

That is why they are able to write books that offer actionable advice on how to succeed the way they have. It is why they are able to demystify their own success achievement for those following them to learn from, and improve upon.

In our societies across Africa too many successful people rarely offer tangible insights into what made them succeed. But to be fair, sometimes they actually do not know – or have not given it enough thought to articulate it into any useful form.

The truth is NOT all those who say they worship God are able to produce performances that will make them become successful/celebrated personalities!

And that is because there are so many specific actions/steps that successful persons take that those NOT as successful do not take as frequently and/or as diligently.

When The Right Questions Are Asked, More Useful Answers Emerge

I believe that many of the interviewed authentic celebrities I refer to would have loved to give more insight into HOW and WHAT made them succeed, if the right kinds of “probing” questions had been asked of them.

Unfortunately, often times their interviewers are not alert to the need to do this for the enhanced benefit of their viewing/listening audiences.

Anyone who has read transcripts of the popular “Conversations With Millionaires” series will understand what I mean.

I refer to the ability of certain interviewers to ask “probing” questions that get answers OUT OF successful persons, IN A WAY that gives listeners more accurate insight into HOW and WHY the celebrities succeeded.

“Clearer Answers” which would then guide those aspiring to follow the same, proven path, even if with modifications or adjustments.

As they say, “Success leaves a trail…”

Our celebrities need to be “helped” to “remember” what they did (& how), in the manner I propose above.

This is because many of them never really sat down (after having succeeded) to THINK about what they actually did to get the results they wanted – and for which they subsequently became celebrated.

In Africa, We Do Not Currently Investigate & Document Achieved Success ENOUGH

This is a fact.

In our society, if we want success to happen for MORE people, MORE frequently, we need to establish and rigorously maintain systems to INVESTIGATE and DOCUMENT what makes celebrated members of society succeed.

This is so that others who aspire can use the information recorded to achieve similar or greater successes – FASTER and with LESS EFFORT.

One over riding benefit is that society will as a result develop faster, contributing to a better world.

The problem is that in our society, we are too much of “DOERS” – and LESS of thinkers!

Each person is so self focused that s/he hardly ever gives a thought to how s/he can make the journey shorter, and less difficult for those who follow.

Tell him/her to GO for a particular goal, and s/he will.

But most often it will be done in a haphazard manner, and with little or no effort to ANALYSE experiences and document lessons learned for future reference/guidance.

The Result of Doing So Much Without Thinking Enough is: Poor Repeatability & Reproducibility Of Achieved Successes

Following from the above, when things fall in place, s/he takes it in his/her stride without sparing a thought for HOW to make those same things fall in place like THAT again in future – repeatedly.

A direct consequence of that inadvertent oversight, is that when things eventually go WRONG, s/he once again has to adopt the trial and error approach used in the past, until, if s/he is lucky, ANOTHER break through occurs.

For many who use this haphazard approach, it possibly works often. However, compared to the alternative proposed in this article, it can be quite costly in terms of time, effort, and even money.

Summary: Below I list three (3) compelling reasons to AVOID using such a haphazard approach:

1. The stress/strain that will arise from recovering from the problems occasioned by the use of a trial and error approach will wear you down – making the “journey to success” more PAINFUL than it should be.

2. You will be inefficient – because it takes you LONGER and costs you MORE time, effort, resources etc, to get the same results.

3. You won’t improve significantly – meaning you may never become good enough to beat your own “Personal Best”. Look at it this way: Only a sprinter who measures and knows her best 100 metres time is 9.99 seconds can AIM to run faster and therefore cross the line at LESS than that time. To achieve that goal, she will then have to CHECK what she can do better or differently to INCREASE her running speed, then TRY it out, UNTIL she succeeds.

The above potentially negative outcome of failing to investigate and understand why you succeed, is that you will LACK the means to EXPAND or GROW.

This could end up giving critics and/or cynics an opportunity to “question” your success.

Evidence to confirm that what I have said in this article is true, can be readily found when one looks at the number of World Champion Long Distance runners that have come out of an African country like Kenya.

Almost yearly, that country produces World Class athletes who gain quick prominence in international circles.

This happens because Kenya has a SYSTEM in place that enables it to REPEAT and REPRODUCE its athletic successes. I have listened to interviews conducted with athletes from that country, and the answers they gave to questions asked confirm this.

Final Words: Check Yourself – Do You Know How to Reproduce Your Success?

If you were to look at yourself, your organisation, your society or your country from a similar perspective, is it possible that there are areas where the success(es) achieved in the past now appear to have been just a “flash(es) in the pan”?

IF YES, maybe it’s time you (and/or others concerned), sat down to INVESTIGATE and DOCUMENT why you succeeded back then, so that you can REPRODUCE it NOW and into the future.

NB: This article was first published Online via spontaneousdevelopment.com on16th June 2008.

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Deciding How Much Your Startup Poultry Farm Needs (Hint: Should Not Depend on How Rich Your Prospective Investor Is!)

October 3, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

What should influence your decision about how much funds to ask for in your start-up poultry layer farm business plan? Does the size of your prospective investors pockets need to be a factor in deciding what scale you start your enterprise at?

This article features excerpts from suggestions I emailed to a recent client on this theme.

It’s not just the money that concerns me, but also the experience and competence you will need “in-house” to handle the flock size to PROFITS (which is what really matters in the end!).

For instance, consider a business plan in which the poultry house will take up to 2,500 birds at P.O.L (i.e. Point Of Lay).

The question is would you be able to cope with that large a flock size in your 1st year and given your experience level (i.e. if you’ve not done it before)?

Poultry farming can be a delicate enterprise when one is still in a learning phase.

If you’re still holding down a 9 to 5 job – like more people venturing into it these days – it means you’ll have to do it part time.

You may not find it easy to to cope with day to day running for the first 15 month cycle, given that you’re still not fully free, plus you’ll be depending on a 3rd party.

My point is: the projections in a business plan are to serve as a guide. What happens on the farm may not be as straight forward.

This is why we have people who launch their poultry farms with no business plans, and they do well, while some others don’t.

The difference is often in the daily hands on management.

Handling 2,000 laying birds to make profits takes a lot more than handling 1,000.

The way I see it, you would be better off trying out for say 500 birds in one scenario and 1,000 birds in the other.

With each, you can tell prospective investors that you plan to scale up by 50% in the 2nd year.

This would be more realistic, given your experience.

Starting conservatively will often be a wise thing to do – even if you have the funds to start with twice as much

Incidentally, several of the clients I have now requesting my software told me they started with 500 to 1,000, and are now “expanding” after the 1st or 2nd year with those numbers.

Hence their need to formulate their own feed (using my ration formulator) and/or also track and trend the birds performance (using my poultry farm manager)

As your flock size increases in year 2 or 3, cost of feeding will need finer control to boost profit margins, hence you would aim to buy less commercial feed and make more of your own formulated feed at feed mills.

Doing the above will require closer hands on management that I anticipate you may need time to master from your 1st year, given that it’s your first outing.

Hopefully you see what I mean.

The concern I have is to get you to understand why your decision of scope or scale to startup should NOT be informed by how big the pockets of your prospective investor are.

Instead you should dwell on how good your chances of making a success of the venture are!

Incidentally, a smart thinking investor with integrity (e.g. one who worked hard, smart and honestly to make his money) is likely to appreciate the need to start conservatively, as being proposed here, for the first year, so you gain valuable know how and experience to scale up more profitably in the 2nd year.

This is livestock rearing my brother – profitable, but potentially risky as well!

Here’s a true story to help you put this in perspective:

A single oversight which led to an outbreak of Salmonella infection in a past client’s farm somewhere in South West Nigeria, last year left him struggling to get 25% egg laying from 4,000 birds that had been laying 70 to 80% each day for months before then!

At a point he was spending more than he was getting from them, on feeding, medication etc. And they were still dying!

Eventually, to cut the losses, they slaughtered most of them, and focused on a new batch of P.O.L they had luckily been rearing from day old.

Now imagine if he had been using investors funds and not his own money?

That unplanned setback would have delayed paying any returns to the investor.

And it happened because of
poor management e.g. birds found a way to drop from their (old) cages into the droppings on the floor and began pecking and walking around in the droppings etc!

Instead of isolating them, some farm hands put those same birds back in the cages with others. This kept happening with no one thinking anything of it.

It was a disaster waiting to happen. And it eventually did, with a sudden marked drop in eggs output for about 2 weeks, followed by a rash of deaths.

My client was still in paid employment then, in a distant location – many hours away in another country. By the time I got to the farm (he asked his driver to take me down), the deep freezer was filled with hurriedly slaughtered layers!

The farm manager told me they were almost begging people to buy the frozen ones to free up space to keep more. And she was a trained graduate of agric, who had been managing the place for about 2 years (plus pigs and fish farms)!

So no one is immune to making mistakes. It’s hands on diligence that counts most, and ultimately determines success or failure with livestock – especially poultry.

And that explains why some people who did not even study agric, and who also had no business plans at startup have often succeeded in livestock farming.

They do it hands on, diligently, and take no chances – because their life savings are often invested!

My purpose here is to get you to understand that we’re dealing with living things here, which if not well handled can under perform or even die.

This is a very different scenario from investing in contract supply of imported rice, mobile phone, laptops or diesel – as you can imagine!

My role as a consultant is to offer my insights based on experience and know-how, to guide my clients in making what will hopefully be wise and profitable choices in the long run.

Once I’ve done that, my conscience stays clear.

So to round up, I’m asking you to think more CAREFULLY about what you can realistically handle to deliver profitable returns on – based on the plan I’ve given you, and what I’ve told you here.

When you succeed 1st time around, there will be an established basis on which to ask your investor to shell out more – if needed. And he’s likely to do so gladly, if the results you have to show are encouraging!

That’s how I see it: Prove yourself with a little first e.g. 500 and 1,000 as the 2 start-up scenarios.

Then you’ll be able to scale up, building on valuable experience you’ve gained – and even your investor will see good reason to go along with you.

Having said all the above…it will ultimately be YOURS to decide. If you wish to start big, go ahead.

Just be sure to proceed as carefully as possible.

Know also, that whatever you decide to do, will most likely have irreversible consequences in the end.

Hopefully, you’ll like what you get.

Good luck!

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Smart Web Marketing Wins Profitable Farm Business Buyers [Hint: Poultry Farm Business Plan Preparation Service]

October 2, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

2 days ago I got a pleasant surprise when a “Production Metallurgist” with a Namibian firm sent me this message via TayoSolagbade.com:

“My boss gave me your ebook on the 25 articles on self-development as a present. However, I am struggling to contact you in order to get the links in the book to become functional. Can you possibly e-mail me the contact form so that I can send you a copy of the invoice. As it stands, I do not have access to all the articles in the ebook.”

It was the first time ever that I would be getting a message from one of many who had bought my 25 Articles PDF Ebook collection from my www.lulu.com/sdaproducts online store – since 2006!

Before now, I only got the payment alerts sent by Lulu.com. Not once have I ever been able to identify those who purchased my books.

The Lulu.com system – for obvious security reasons – does not permit that. However, it does allow us sellers to setup auto response messages in our online stores, to be delivered to buyers.

In mine, I invite the buyer to contact me if s/he needs help making use of the book etc.

Below: The web form message sent to me by the buyer…

Subject TayoSolagbade.com FFApp Demo Request

From <email removed for privacy>

To tayo at tayosolagbade dot com

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 08:18:55

On 2014-09-30 at 08:18:55,

The following information was submitted:

From Host: 41.205.140.178

name = <removed for privacy

submit_by = <email removed for privacy>

company = Production Metallurgist

address = < removed for privacy

city = < removed for privacy

states = —

country = Namibia

phone = < removed for privacy

how_found = I read about your ebook 25 articles on the inte…

interest = Poultry Farming

comments = My boss gave me your ebook on the 25 articles on self-development as a present. However, I am struggling to contact you in order to get the links in the book to become functional. Can you possibly e-mail me the contact form so that I can send you a copy of the invoice. As it stands, I do not have access to all the articles in the ebook.

Here’s the response I sent to him…

Subject Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

From Tayo K. SolagbadeAdd contact

To email removed for privacy>

Reply-To tayo at tksola dot comAdd contact

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 09:04:28

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

Send me the invoice via this email address.

Or if you prefer, the main website contact form is at www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

It would also help if you:

A. Attach the ebook you got from your boss as a gift

B. Provide further clarifications about your needs. For instance you indicated your “subject of interest” in your form submission (below) to be “poultry farming”. But my 25 articles ebook, which you got, caters to a multidisciplinary theme that does not directly deal with farm business, talk less poultry (?).

Look forward to your response.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service

(

http://www.speakingsuccess.com) In Africa

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

Then he replied with this message…

Subject RE: Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

From <removed for privacy>

To tayo@tksola.comAdd contact

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 09:55:35

25_articles_true_storie…u_succeed_more_often.pdf (attached file)

Hi Tayo,

Attached, please find the ebook and the invoice. I originally became interested when I read your article – Practical Farm Business Performance Calculations and thought that I could find an example of the work you done on excel in this regard. I viewed your video last night but I would appreciate it very much if you could probably forward me the following information:

1) A copy of the Poultry Laying Business Plan with calculations which you once wrote for a customer (I intend to start up with 2500 layers) and could possibly use your plan to guide me.

2) A List of parameters (apart from the 3 parameters you already alluded to in your article) which I can use in my spreadsheet to optimally manage my laying business.

I really enjoyed the ebook and downloads from your website.

Regards,

<name removed for privacy>

When I got his above response, with the attached PDF he had purchased and the invoice sent to his “boss”(who purchased it on his behalf) by the Lulu.com payment system, I knew I was dealing with the right person

Next, I sent him the first of a planned 2 part response as follows:

From: Tayo K. Solagbade

Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:30 PM

To: <removed for privacy>

Cc: M

Subject: Re: Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

Thanks for getting back <name removed>

Seen the file, invoice, and your request.

First off, I think the intro in the pdf may have been a bit misleading.

All 25 articles are actually already included full length in the pdf ebook. That’s why its length is over 140 pages.

Simply keep scrolling downwards and you’ll eventually come to the first of the 25 full length write-ups.

The preview section in the ebook was only included to give an idea of the other articles that were available on my website at time.

I’ve since moved them to my daily multidisciplinary blog at http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

When I respond in my next email to your other requests, I’ll attach an updated version of the 25 version of the ebook, with click able links to the other articles in their new locations.

I’ll also add links to much more recent farm business articles I’ve since written, that you may find useful.

With kindest regards,

Tayo

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

The above situation turned out to be a good opportunity to do something I ought to have done a long time ago i.e. to update URLs and other contact details in the PDF ebook.

Since I lost my 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com on 4th May 2014, I have been unable to find extra time to do the needed cleaning up in my other information products.

Ironically, one reason for this is the fact that since I adopted my tayosolagbade.com domain name, and began re purposing my website content on it, the leads generation I’ve been getting has really shot up.

I’ve said that much in subsequent articles – like THIS one (click).

My online sales (orders from buyers in my online store for my books and payments from clients for my Excel-VB software and services (e.g. business plan writing, web marketing etc) have increased.

Add to that the demand for my web marketing services by 2 new clients here in Cotonou, and you may understand why I’ve NOT been able to clean up my bylines in my Ezinearticles.com articles, talk less of updating the same in my e-books.

Thankfully, this buyer reaching out to me with my ebook made me dig in and do an much needed update. Now, I just have to make out time to upload it to replace the old one in my online store.

For now, I’ve sent the updated ebook to the above mentioned lady, as an email attachment.

And I also addressed the 2 requests he made…

Below: This afternoon, 2 days after sending him part 1 of my response, I followed up with the 2nd part of my response – see below

Excerpts from the response I sent to him, which I believe other farm business enthusiasts will find useful – hence my decision to share it here.

Hi <name removed for privacy>

Thanks for your requests.

First of all, find attached a cleaned up version of the 25 Articles PDF Ebook you bought.

I hope it makes for a more friendly reading experience.

When I can find the time, I will upload it to replace the one still in the online store.

Now, to the other requests you made…

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Your Question 1 – You asked that I forward to you:

“A copy of the Poultry Laying Business Plan with calculations which you once wrote for a customer (I intend to start up with 2500 layers) and could possibly use your plan to guide me.”

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Attached is a zipped folder named “Riaan-Question1.zip” containing the generic business plan preview documents I will be offering for FREE download on my website in a few days – once I finish setting up the sales/squeeze page:

Take a look through. I have taken out certain sections and left others in – but mostly blank tables and labels.

[Note to reader: If you’d like to view the above mentioned zipped folder’s contents, click here to send me a request.]

Note that the performance indicators featured in the tables are discussed in the articles I’ve linked to in response to your second question below.

You see, it so happens that the business plan I dispatched to the client is what I have already repackaged as a template to be sold to interested Farm CEOs (and those aspiring).

Due to the in-depth nature of this particular client’s project, I came to the decision that I can use a smart MS Excel projections workbook, in conjunction with a market survey questionnaire I developed, to help clients prepare comprehensive business plans.

All they need to do is purchase the template bundle (the full 24 page generic business plan with a one page micro version. Once that happens, I then send the buyer a questionnaire with which to collect data I will need for updating the dynamic projection tables in MS Excel.

The questionnaire will also get responses relevant to the client’s industry and market description etc, which are needed to complete other sections of the plan.

Using that info, I will customize the full plan, and produce a micro version, which will both be dispatched to the client in editable MS Word format. I will also send the MS Excel workbook containing all the projection tables with the data and formulas intact.

The client will be able to make changes as s/he may wish.

On the offer/sales page I will state the above benefits and process.

You are getting to know about it ahead of time because of your enquiry.

If you’d like to take up this offer, it’s for a FEE of N50, 000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) – payment required 100% up front.

You may use www.xe.com or www.coinmill.com to do a conversion to your currency.

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Your Question 2 – You asked that I forward to you:

A List of parameters (apart from the 3 parameters you already alluded to in your article) which I can use in my spreadsheet to optimally manage my laying business.

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Below is the download link to a zipped folder named “Riaan-Question2.zip” – containing 2 workbooks:

Riaan-Question2.zip- Click to download now

A. 5PowerfulTools.xls

This contains a sample template that explains how to compute certain Farm Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) discussed in an article I submitted to a 3rd party website in 2012.

Here’s the link to the article titled “5 Powerful Tools for Accurately Measuring Your (Farm) Business’ Health”

http://nigeriabusinesscommunities.com/features/5-powerful-tools-for-accurately-measuring-your-farm-business-health.html

The article uses the contents of the workbook to explain the calculation of each KPI – offering a download link at the end for the reader to view the workbook.

B. Figures1to4.xls

This workbook contains screen shots (4 of them) from different interfaces of my Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager software.

Click the link below to watch 16 video tutorials that show the app at work – including an automated chart generation interface for trending Hen Day Percentage (HDP) for layers

http://tinyurl.com/15pfmVideos

Incidentally, that software was built to automate the routine DAILY, WEEKLY and MONTHLY computation of the parameters described in my Practical Farm Business Performance Calculations article that you read.

This Figures1to4.xls workbook is actually linked to, from a more recent article titled “5 Essential Poultry Layer Farm Production Records” – that I got approved as a guest post in 2012 on Africabusinesscommunities.com. Click below to read it.

http://nigeriabusinesscommunities.com/features/five-essential-poultry-layer-farm-production-records.html

The article highlights calculation methods for 5 important farm production records I recommend every poultry farmer diligently capture.

Doing so will enable him/her take timely farm planning decisions that will result in the best possible performance.

Additional Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Articles:

Click the link below to open a page that – when you scroll to the bottom – offers a list of click able links to 10 articles (some you’ve read, others you’ve not).

http://tayosolagbade.com/pfmgr.html

Hope this helps.

In your service.

Tayo

PS: Due to my domain name change from spontaneousdevelopment.com to tayosolagbade.com – the links in those articles no longer work.

I’ve informed the webmaster for Africabusinesscommunities.com about the need to change the URLs, but have gotten no response.

But I plan to use both articles in special e-book collection I’m working on. So, it’s kind of a blessing in disguise :-))

Now, in case you’ve not read it, click the link below to learn what happened to my previous domain:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/tayo-what-happened-to-spontaneousdevelopmentdotcom/

And just like I said in the article below, I’ve re purposed my content to boost my website conversation rates WAY above what they used to be with the old domain:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/a-proven-strategy-to-find-profitable-buyers-regardless-of-your-domain-name/

Final Words: My new template based Poultry Farm business plan preparation service will soon go live!

In yesterday’s article, I announced that I was preparing a special business plan preparation service bundle – and that it was based on the recent elaborate business plan preparation project I recently completed for a new client in Nigeria.

Now, like I said in the email above, this new service will soon be formally launched here on www.tayosolagbade.com

When the sales page goes up, I will announce it on this blog, and also via a newsletter broadcast to my email subscribers.

UPDATE: The service is LIVE. Click here to visit the sale page.

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How Nigeria Can Manifest Real – & LASTING – Benefits of Independence (Hint: A Proven Zero Cost Strategy that INDIVIDUAL Nigerians Can use to Get Nigeria THERE!)

October 1, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Update: Uploaded CORRECTED PDF which now has pics – and NO missing text at 3.50p.m] Today, 1st October 2014, is Independence Day in my country – Nigeria. In this special issue No. 9, of “My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better” series (downloadable below as a PDF), I explain why I believe Nigeria’s ability to reap FULL benefits from her Independence from colonialists, will depend MAINLY on INDIVIDUAL Nigerians learning to THINK and ACT INDEPENDENTLY at ALL times.

Click the cover image shown below to download the PDF and start reading – no signup needed: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY!

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To Succeed More, Develop Smarter Farming Methods – Then Teach Others (for FREE or a Fee)

September 30, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

My 7 year stay in Guinness Nigeria opened my eyes to best practice strategies I now use to help farm businesses boost their performance. If you wonder what beer production has got to do with farm production, keep reading, and it’ll soon be obvious.

I joined Guinness Nigeria as a Graduate Management Trainee in Brewing, following the ban on wheat importation, in late 1994.

And I was subsequently privileged to partake in an internally driven initiative to conduct on-site trials for viable alternative brewing ingredients.

They wanted to maintain beer quality at international standard and at the same time lower production costs. The problem was that with the ban, they had to achieve that goal using locally available cereals, which were of a lower quality.

They could have waited for some large research body somewhere to come up with an idea for using locally available cereals.

But the company’s decision makers knew they would be better off taking their destiny into their own hands.

And we eventually did get it right.

So much so that when in 2000, I and a senior colleague were sent as delegates to the International Brewing Course organized by the Institute & Guild of Brewing (IGB) in the UK, we were referred to by Tim O’Rourke (the organizer), as “experts in Sorghum brewing” from Guinness Nigeria!

Why? Well, at that time, we (Guinness Nigeria) were the only ones in the world successful in brewing “international quality” beer using Maize and Sorghum exclusively.

You must understand this: Other brewing companies used those same ingredients – but only as a complement (i.e. adjuncts) i.e. in small quantities.

The main ingredient recognised for beer production worldwide was Malted Barley. It was regarded as the best ingredient to get the best results.

Few people imagined that respectable quality beer could be produced without it – at least not by 100% exclusion of it in favour of poorly regarded ingredients like Maize and Sorghum.

Guinness’ success in doing just that led to a major shift in perspective – earning that style of brewing a mention in the formal brewing documentation.

Proof of that fact was made apparent when Tim asked I and my colleague to read through a draft manuscript being written, which had a section on Sorghum Brewing. He wanted us to check that it was consistent with what we did.

The above story shows it is possible to take ownership of how one’s business performance evolves, by choosing to innovate more actively in running it.

That’s what Guinness did.

Now, beer manufacturing is basically a batch production process. And that (i.e. batch production) is what farm businesses do too!.

In the case of farm business, a farmer who develops a new system for getting more eggs or meat from poultry, on a consistent basics, can – for instance – decide to offer a coaching program.

This could be made available to start-ups and those already established. Except it involves use of some proprietary formula, I do not see why this cannot happen.

And even if you do have to keep an aspect secret, you can still offer the service.

A Farm CEO in Nigeria’s Ibadan that I’ve referred to several times in the past, told me how he discovered a way to use up to 40% inclusion of cassava flakes – locally called “gari” – in rations he feeds to his catfish.

According to him, this has led to significant sustained cost savings with no noticeable drops in farm output!

But like I’ve told him, he’s only doing half of what I believe is possible…

The other half is sharing your discovery, having tested and found it to be enduring, with others – be it free or for a fee.

I happen to know other farmers who are searching for solutions like his. Some who reached out to me, I referred to him. But there are certainly many more who would gladly contact him IF they knew he had such solutions to offer

Two years ago, I mentioned speaking – on phone – with a Nigerian professor, who is a World Bank consultant…

He revealed that he earned additional income by “selling” feed based on a ration formula he derived using linear programming.

And he jokingly noted that many buyers of his feed had asked that he give them the formula, and he had naturally declined.

That proves what I’m proposing in this article is possible.

You just need to go about it creatively!

I recommend that every farm CEO who wishes to make MORE money (outside the direct sale of farm produce) adopt the ideas I advocate here.

In other words, work hard to develop improved cost-saving ways of running your farm production processes.

Aim to lower you cost of producing each batch of farm output for instance.

Then take some of your useful discoveries you make and MONETIZE them.

The ones you choose to share for FREE will inadvertently attract positive attention from your target audience.

That would give you an indirect way to promote your ideas, and get name recognition/credibility.

A timeless and cost-effective platform, to implement this strategy would be a website – with an email newsletter system built into it.

What I refer to above, is what I do with my work. Some aspects of my methods/discoveries I offer for free.

Others I make available ONLY for a fee:

A good example is the Poultry Layer Farm Business Plan I dispatched to a client in Nigeria last week. I’ve now re-packaged it in a generic form, for sale to interested buyers, with an option of including the multi worksheet Excel workbook with projection tables, and formulas. Click here to contact me, if you’d like to get a copy.

And that’s just an example of many that I have done – and still intend to do.

I routinely announce my new discoveries/offers via my blog – which republished via RSS syndication to my website, face book twitter feed to visitors, fans and followers.

Plus, I send broadcasts periodically, via my email newsletter –and subscribers.

If you need help making use of the ideas I’ve offered here, to begin generating passive income outside your main farming business, click here to contact me.

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No. 161: To Succeed, be Prepared to Deliver a Smart Presentation Using Your (Farm) Business Plan

September 29, 2014 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Last week, I delivered an elaborate Poultry Layer Farm Business Plan (see below) to a new client in Nigeria.

Since reading it, he has sent me 2 emails (also below).

I now explain why, even with a well written plan, you’ll be wise to rigorously PREPARE yourself to deliver a convincing verbal presentation, to win over prospective investors!

SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE

Publication: Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS Newsletter

Date: Monday 29th September 2014

No:161

Title: To Succeed, be Prepared to Deliver a Smart Presentation Using Your (Farm) Business Plan

Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ]

Blog URL: http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

Archive (E-mail version started 14th May 2012): Click here to view

Archive (Blog version started 24th September 2011): Click here

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IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS newsletter is published online on the “reincarnated” version of my Self-Development (SD) Nuggets blog. I continue to put finishing touches to the content. If you encounter ANY bad/dead links, and you can spare the time, email them to me via tayo at tksola dot com. Thanks in advance

No. 161: To Succeed, be Prepared to Deliver a Smart Presentation Using Your (Farm) Business Plan

Last week, I delivered an elaborate Poultry Layer Farm Business Plan (see below) to a new client in Nigeria.

Since reading it, he has sent me 2 emails (also below).

I now explain why, even with a well written plan, you’ll be wise to rigorously PREPARE yourself to deliver a convincing verbal presentation, to win over prospective investors!

Email No. 1: Received 24 hours after I sent him the Full Business Plan

From: <Name and email address removed for privacy>

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:50:35 -0700

To: tayo at tksola dot com

Subject: Re: Here they are…!

Hi Tayo,

I have read and still reading the business plan, while trying to understand the cash-flow, forecasts and balance sheet projections better as well. So grateful for th(is) beautiful and comprehensive proposal, which by God’s grace will definitely never be in vain.

I stumbled on this article of a major firm in Uganda, taking advantage of the lack of supply of poultry demands in the country, to establish the largest poultry settlement in the whole of east africa, meaning that this livestock business and agricultural practice in general, will continue to strive and flourish until the world ends..lol, the link is: <link removed>

I will revert if there are still certain aspects of the excel sheets i need full interpretation on, while trusting God for fruitful outcome of my first meeting tomorrow evening.

Regards,

<Name removed for privacy>

NB: I sent him the full business plan, along with a One Page Micro Business Plan and the multisheet MS Excel Workbook containing the projection tables with formulas etc.

Email No. 2 (Received in the evening of the day after email No.1 arrived):

From <Name removed for privacy>

To tayo at tksola dot com

Date Sun,28 Sep 2014 15:44:04

“I have paid the 10k balance now, hope you have received alert. So grateful for your support all along and won’t hesitate to keep disturbing you 24-7 once your professional touch is required, even after the business empire stabilizes in Jesus name, hence you have no hiding place like the gold fish o…lol”

I’ll also keep you updated on progresses made whilst imploring you to also pray fervently along.

Thanks bro. Regards,

<Name removed for privacy>

Did You Notice I Did NOT Have to Wait to Get My Balance Paid?

I have said this in the past – about serving AUTHENTIC clients. Just devote yourself to delivering the VALUE you promise them, and they will return the favour.

BUT…it’s Not So Easy to Find “Authentic” Clients!

Indeed, it takes LOTS of practice – even trial and error – using your gut level instincts as guide.

There are however rules you can follow to increase your chances of finding such profitable clients.

Email me via tayo at tksola dot com if you’d like to know what they are, and how to use them.

Now, I must note here that THIS client, being a childhood friend, actually got certain concessions that others – even when I believe them to be authentic – rarely get.

For instance, I agreed to let him pay in 3 instalments – though the 1st 2 were the heftiest.

I did this because I knew him well enough to be sure he would honour our payment agreement.

The best I would offer most other clients, no matter how convinced I am that they are authentic, would be 2 instalments. And the first would be 80% of the total.

Details of why I operate as described above have been treated in past articles. And I’ll still share more insights in future write-ups. Hint: It’s manly due to chronic lack of integrity of many today.

The Above Emails from my Client Awoke Me to a Realization I’d Been Blind to For YEARS: About “How Your Public Speaking Competence Can Affect Your Ability to Sell Your Business Plan”

You see, from reading both emails he sent me, it was obvious he wanted to make sure he fully understood the plan’s contents ahead of the meetings.

And that’s smart thinking, because…

No Matter How Good Your Written Plan is, Using it to Raise Funds May Still Require YOU to Do a Formal Presentation to Prospective Investors

It won’t matter if the presentation is to a prospective investor who is your best friend, your former boss, or even your father.

Most people – even close relatives – won’t just dip their hands into their pockets and hand over the money you ask for. I doubt you would either!

We all want to be assured that we will not be throwing our money away by investing in another person’s business venture or idea.

But delivering a smart and convincing business plan verbal presentation – even to a familiar persons – can be a disconcerting experience.

And when you’re doing it before total strangers, it can get even more disorienting.

Your mind will constantly warn you s/he or they can say NO. And that possibility can make you nervous – to the extent that you botch your presentation.

But that will often ONLY happen IF you fail to prepare and practice ahead of that event!

The reality is that those who have to decide to “award” you funds will be expecting you to not only have a good written plan, but to also SPEAK about it convincingly.

Among other things, they will expect you to be articulate, and confident in responding to their questions or objections. If you’re stammering all over the place and fidgety, nervous or shifty eyed, they could quickly lose confidence…and interest.

So, How Can You Equip Yourself to Present Your Business Ideas Smartly Enough to Win Prospective Investor(s) Over?

What I recommend is quite simple:

1. First, know your subject inside out.

Do this by conducting a proper, real life market survey, and put together your business plan based on that.

2. Next, practice thinking and speaking about its contents relentlessly until it becomes second nature.

By this I mean, until it becomes something you can do without thinking, even when woken up from deep sleep.

A good way to achieve that end will be to enlist the help of your spouse and/or other competent persons to listen to you do the formal business plan presentation. Take on ANY questions they throw at you.

3. Repeat the exercise as often as necessary, until you feel at EASE doing it.

Once you can get yourself to do the above state of mind/competence, you’re likely to win more than passing attention from prospective investors genuinely interested in your idea.

It would just be a matter of time before you find one or more willing to give you what you want!

To Achieve The Above, Your Start-Up Idea Will Often Need to be A PASSION of Yours

Starting a poultry farm business, for instance, can be as risky as it is profitable.

Prospective investors would NOT be unaware of that fact. They would therefore want to be sure their money will be in capable hands most likely to deliver the promised returns on investment!

This is why it would be unwise to attempt starting a venture on other people’s money, IF it is not based on what I call a Magnificent Obsession (click here to read one of several articles in which I explain what having it means – for me)!

In certain ways, presenting a business plan to investors is similar to defending one’s university research paper, to qualify for graduation

By implication, you may find it useful to prepare your business plan, and presentation with a similar mindset.

For instance, you’d conduct a survey (field or literature review), then analyze – and interpret your data/findings. Following that, you would draw conclusions and make recommendations – or propose an action plan.

All of that would be written in your neatly bound document.

The way it happens varies across institutions. But you would typically have to do a formal presentation of your paper, to an academic panel who would have read it BEFORE you come before them to speak.

They would subsequently award a “pass” or “fail” rating – based on their impressions of your performance (taking into consideration the quality of your written paper).

It’s just like a prospective investor (or venture capital team) saying YES or NO to your request for funding – AFTER listening to your presentation!

The truth is not everyone finds it easy to communicate their ideas intelligently and convincingly, when in front of people they know will decide their fate!

I know people who really knew their stuff, and did all the hard work putting it together, only to stumble during their presentations.

In the process, they failed to win the support they needed.

Final Words: The Above is Why I Believe Everyone Needs Public Speaking Coaching!

At some point in life, we will each have to do a formal presentation of some kind. Why wait till you need to do it, to learn?

You’re much better off preparing yourself well ahead of time.

That way, having to think on your feet (which is a key requirement for success speaking) will be something you’re already comfortable doing. You would just need study the subject to speak on.

It is my considered opinion, that doing this will make much fewer people rate “public speaking” as their biggest fear (even ahead of exposure to life threatening danger), in research surveys!

I’ll be recommending the above line of action to my client in an email.

If he applies this idea diligently, I know his chances of impressing the prospective investors he plans to meet with, will greatly improve.

I hope you’ll take a cue from what I’ve said here, and start YOUR own public speaking training from today.

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…and good luck to you!

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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:

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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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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 160: Perceived Website Beauty Won’t Guarantee Success (Hint: The Value You Offer Matters Most – 2 Real Life Examples)
Entrepreneurship[Tuesday]:	Publish & Sell Your Books at ZERO COST to Earn Income (True Story)
Self-Development/Parenting [Wednesday]:	2 Reasons Not to Rush Into Quitting Your Job to Start Your Business (Hint: A Better Way to Do It)
Career Development [Thursday]:	A FREE Report (& Articles) To Help Farm CEOs Make Better Livestock Feed
Parenting [Friday]:	Achieving Your Goals Requires This ONE Ingredient (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)
Writing/Blogging/Entrepreneurship [Saturday]:	Always Stand Up and Speak Truth on Behalf of Those Who Need It!
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Basically, Ali told the young mane and the listening audience how he’d emerged from deep reflection to realize that after he retired from boxing, the best way to spend his time would be helping others.

To one of those closest to him amongst the latter group, Ali then used the analogy of how the different parts of the world came into existence.

So, for him, he said that was why he was convinced of God’s existence.

What Amazing Foresight from a Man of Real Vision!

Each of Us Needs to Emulate Ali – By Choosing to Start Something We Won’t Need to Retire From

As a result, even when he was not boxing, he remained in demand.

Each of us can do what Ali did i.e Use your VISION for the future, to drive yourself to EXCEL at what you do NOW!

No. 162: You Need Childish Enthusiasm to Achieve Uncommon Success

Unlike Most “Mature & Enlightened” Adults (Whatever That Means), I Don’t Act “Cool, Calm and Collected” When I’m EXCITED!

I’m not asking you to go goofing around in your suit and tie – although I would argue that one should do a bit of that every now and then :-))

I AM Living Proof That Indulging In “Childlike Imagination and Wonder” Yields Superior Performance

Many of the stories I’ve told on this blog – including my current string of Location Independent Multipreneuring based successes (since I relocated from Nigeria to Benin Republic), – offer verifiable proof.

Each time I connect with a client (old or new), I always check to see if a proposed project is one that EXCITES me.

Today, I try hard to avoid taking on such jobs when clients request my services.

If it happens I have another project in hand from the same client, I could tactfully try to redirect his/her attention to an aspect, as an excuse.

Final Words: Let Your Enthusiasm Guide Your Decision Making

EXAMPLE: Practicing What I Preach Above Recently Helped Me Discovered a 100% FREE – Way to Re-Launch My 10 Week Scheduled Flagship Auto Responder Email Course From My Website i.e. www.tayosolagbade.com

But recently, in the process of applying my childish enthusiasm towards implementing the web marketing project for a client here in Cotonou, I spent MANY DAYS researching the web for all sorts of resources.

All this due to my shameless willingness to CHILDISHLY believe enough, to actually INVEST hundreds of hours to find uncommon zero cost ways to make my client’s website EXCEL!

Final Words: Wherever You Find Yourself Feeling “Awe & Wonder” At Possibilities to be Had in Any Area, Be “Childish” Enough to EXPLORE Them Till You’re S-a-t-i-a-t-e-d!

Your chosen subject should be the one you feel most UN-inhibited thinking, reading and speaking about.

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When The Right Questions Are Asked, More Useful Answers Emerge

“Clearer Answers” which would then guide those aspiring to follow the same, proven path, even if with modifications or adjustments.

In Africa, We Do Not Currently Investigate & Document Achieved Success ENOUGH

The problem is that in our society, we are too much of “DOERS” – and LESS of thinkers!

The Result of Doing So Much Without Thinking Enough is: Poor Repeatability & Reproducibility Of Achieved Successes

Summary: Below I list three (3) compelling reasons to AVOID using such a haphazard approach:

Evidence to confirm that what I have said in this article is true, can be readily found when one looks at the number of World Champion Long Distance runners that have come out of an African country like Kenya.

Final Words: Check Yourself – Do You Know How to Reproduce Your Success?

It’s not just the money that concerns me, but also the experience and competence you will need “in-house” to handle the flock size to PROFITS (which is what really matters in the end!).

My point is: the projections in a business plan are to serve as a guide. What happens on the farm may not be as straight forward.

Starting conservatively will often be a wise thing to do – even if you have the funds to start with twice as much

The concern I have is to get you to understand why your decision of scope or scale to startup should NOT be informed by how big the pockets of your prospective investor are.

Here’s a true story to help you put this in perspective:

So no one is immune to making mistakes. It’s hands on diligence that counts most, and ultimately determines success or failure with livestock – especially poultry.

This is a very different scenario from investing in contract supply of imported rice, mobile phone, laptops or diesel – as you can imagine!

So to round up, I’m asking you to think more CAREFULLY about what you can realistically handle to deliver profitable returns on – based on the plan I’ve given you, and what I’ve told you here.

It was the first time ever that I would be getting a message from one of many who had bought my 25 Articles PDF Ebook collection from my www.lulu.com/sdaproducts online store – since 2006!

Below: The web form message sent to me by the buyer…

Here’s the response I sent to him…

Then he replied with this message…

When I got his above response, with the attached PDF he had purchased and the invoice sent to his “boss”(who purchased it on his behalf) by the Lulu.com payment system, I knew I was dealing with the right person

The above situation turned out to be a good opportunity to do something I ought to have done a long time ago i.e. to update URLs and other contact details in the PDF ebook.

My online sales (orders from buyers in my online store for my books and payments from clients for my Excel-VB software and services (e.g. business plan writing, web marketing etc) have increased.

Below: This afternoon, 2 days after sending him part 1 of my response, I followed up with the 2nd part of my response – see below

Your Question 1 – You asked that I forward to you:

Your Question 2 – You asked that I forward to you:

Additional Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Articles:

PS: Due to my domain name change from spontaneousdevelopment.com to tayosolagbade.com – the links in those articles no longer work.

Final Words: My new template based Poultry Farm business plan preparation service will soon go live!

Click the cover image shown below to download the PDF and start reading – no signup needed: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY!

I joined Guinness Nigeria as a Graduate Management Trainee in Brewing, following the ban on wheat importation, in late 1994.

But the company’s decision makers knew they would be better off taking their destiny into their own hands.

You must understand this: Other brewing companies used those same ingredients – but only as a complement (i.e. adjuncts) i.e. in small quantities.

Guinness’ success in doing just that led to a major shift in perspective – earning that style of brewing a mention in the formal brewing documentation.

Now, beer manufacturing is basically a batch production process. And that (i.e. batch production) is what farm businesses do too!.

A Farm CEO in Nigeria’s Ibadan that I’ve referred to several times in the past, told me how he discovered a way to use up to 40% inclusion of cassava flakes – locally called “gari” – in rations he feeds to his catfish.

Two years ago, I mentioned speaking – on phone – with a Nigerian professor, who is a World Bank consultant…

In other words, work hard to develop improved cost-saving ways of running your farm production processes.

A timeless and cost-effective platform, to implement this strategy would be a website – with an email newsletter system built into it.

If you need help making use of the ideas I’ve offered here, to begin generating passive income outside your main farming business, click here to contact me.

No. 161: To Succeed, be Prepared to Deliver a Smart Presentation Using Your (Farm) Business Plan

Email No. 1: Received 24 hours after I sent him the Full Business Plan

Email No. 2 (Received in the evening of the day after email No.1 arrived):

Did You Notice I Did NOT Have to Wait to Get My Balance Paid?

Now, I must note here that THIS client, being a childhood friend, actually got certain concessions that others – even when I believe them to be authentic – rarely get.

The Above Emails from my Client Awoke Me to a Realization I’d Been Blind to For YEARS: About “How Your Public Speaking Competence Can Affect Your Ability to Sell Your Business Plan”

But delivering a smart and convincing business plan verbal presentation – even to a familiar persons – can be a disconcerting experience.

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