Entrepreneurship
Conversation With a Prospect Seeking a Feasibility Study for a Startup Poultry Farm and Feed Mill
June 20, 2014









Based on this blog's schedule, I publish "Parenting" articles today, Friday. However on Tuesday, I published a "part-Parenting" article with a message on Entrepreneurship (Tuesday's topic). So, to even things out, I now feature my email conversation with a Canada based Nigerian, who wanted a "feasibility study/business plan" for "a startup poultry farm and feed […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Develop Spreadsheet Software for Co-workers (Conversation With a Multinational Employee About My Practical MS Excel-Visual Basic Coaching Service)
June 19, 2014









This article features excerpts from an online chat session I recently had with a friend who works for a multinational, about learning to build Custom MS Excel-Visual Basic Spreadsheet Apps at work. It's a skill you can QUIETLY acquire, and use to attract career advancement opportunities of all kinds! I KNOW, Because I've Done It […]







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Entrepreneurship
Request My Report on Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products (Plus Read Answers to Questions You Have!)
June 18, 2014









Two days ago, in issue 146 of my Speaking IDEAS email newsletter, I invited Farm CEOs to request my new PDF report: "Secret Strategies for Finding Bulk Buyers Online, for Your Farm Products". Before that day ended, a US based Farm CEO - a long time subscriber - had submitted a web form request! Below […]







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Entrepreneurship
To Achieve Success, Be Prepared to Give, In Order to Get (Lesson from an 11 year old boy, and his 13 year old brother)
June 17, 2014









This photo, is of a handwritten “contract” of sorts recently sent me by my (11 & 13 year old) sons. It reads: “Tayo, we will do anything you and mummy ask us to do without grumbling, but we need a deal. The deal is if we do anything for anybody in this house without grumbling, […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 146: Secret to Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products (PDF Report)
June 16, 2014









When poultry Farmers in Jos, reportedly asked the MD of Grand Cereals and Oils in Plateau state to buy up their excess eggs arising from a market glut, he challenged them to find outlets for their products, but offered to buy some, and donate to schools. He's since swung into action to fulfill his promise […]







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Entrepreneurship
If You Have a "Bankable Idea" Your Brain Can be Your Collateral (2 True Stories About People Who Did It)
June 14, 2014









The above screen shot shows my Facebook post quoting Ben Murray Bruce, President of Silver bird Entertainment as saying: '...My collateral is my brain...". Basically arguing that financiers (individual or corporate) need no physical collateral from people with "bankable ideas". I saw his point, and agreed with him. However, like I said in my post […]







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My DN Travel News
When She FACES the Real World WITHOUT YOU, Will the Preparation You Gave, be Enough to Help Your Child Succeed?
June 13, 2014









If you hold a degree, and plan to make your child get one too, I congratulate you! However, let me ask you this question: “AFTER s/he leaves home and begins FACING the real world as an INDEPENDENT adult, will your child be HAPPY with the preparation you gave him/her?” In case you did not know […]







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Career Development
Why You Need To Develop A Healthy Respect For Money
June 12, 2014









Back in paid employment, I was, like many of my co-workers, used to having my salary paid to me in bulk at the month end (almost without fail). I never really understood what it meant to EARN the money that came to me. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that those in […]







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Entrepreneurship
The Cheapest, Most Reliable Way to Find Buyers (Hint: It's NOT What You Think)
June 11, 2014









The first issue of my Self-Development Digest newsletter was published on Mon 5th Jun 2006. Six years later, in June 2012, it evolved into what is today my popular DAILY multidisciplinary Self-Development (SD) Nuggets blog, on which I publish my Monday Speaking IDEAS newsletter. Truth is, it takes UNDILUTED passion to keep going, day, month and […]







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Career Development
Why School Prepares People POORLY, to Succeed OUTSIDE Paid Employment
June 10, 2014









In 1992, I graduated with the highest ever C.G.P.A of 5.9 (First class was 6.0) in Agric. Extension from Unibadan. Then, in Guinness Nigeria, I earned senior management roles in less than 6 years from 1994. However, as an entrepreneur, I looked like a TOTAL IDIOT - for years - after starting. Yes, IDIOT, in […]







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