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Property Buyers Don’t Use Facebook (?)

July 23, 2013 Tayo Solagbade 2 Comments

NB: This article is based on a true story. A 25 year veteran real estate expert actually made the above statement to me few years back. Details below.

What do you sell? Is it physical or digital…or a mix of both? Is it a product, or a service? The answers to those questions determine how you go about selling.

Know this however: No matter how you choose to sell, a Web Marketing System (WMS) will always be a useful addition to your marketing and sales arsenal.

The global downslide in economic fortunes makes it even more imperative to adopt a WMS. It is the key to staying profitable for the long term, in these trying times.

Even in Africa, where development is said to occur at a lesser pace, more people are awakening to using the web for business in this manner..

However, some still resist it…

A Real Estate Client Once Claimed Property Buyers Did Have Time for Facebook (True Story)

I recall a real estate client whose company has branches round the country, telling me that using Facebook for business marketing was a waste of time.

He said “Look Tayo, I’ve been in this business for 25 years!“. This happened about 3 years ago.

According to him, property buyers did not have time for social media. He claimed they usually preferred to read print publications focussed on their areas of interest, and of course watch TV and Radio. He actually went as far as saying young scam artists were the ones who spent time on Facebook etc!

This was in response to my suggestion that he let me setup a facebook page for his company, as a part of the Web Marketing System I was developing for him.

I replied that those he referred to were the old and rich persons investing in real estate. I noted that a new generation of young millionaires was emerging e.g. via the entertainment industry. And many of them were/are keen on investing in real estate.

Despite my explanation, he refused to have a Facebook page setup. So, I suggested creating at least an Article Marketing account at www.ezinearticles.com. He agreed – and I published some of his articles that had been featured in national newspapers.

Using the Ezinearticles widget, I displayed previews to the articles on his website. Then I submitted the website pages to Google, and other search engines. Before leaving, I used the PDF user guide I wrote, to coach the secretary (who functioned as webmaster), on how to use the Joomla! based website I built for them.

When A South African Company Contacted Him Via The Article Marketing, He Changed His Tune!

About 2 months later, I got a call from this CEO. He told me a South African company had called him saying they had read one of his Ezinearticles.com articles found via Google. They apparently found it to be an authoritative piece on the properties market in Nigeria.

As a result, they wanted to get his insights with regard to investment opportunities. The call lasted for about an hour. After that, they sent him a $100 Amazon.com gift voucher as a way of saying thank you.

He was excited…and surprised. But I was not. When I’d read his articles, I’d told him publishing them online would win him credibility as an authority on Nigeria’s real estate.

What he said next was also not surprising to me: He asked when a Facebook page for the company could be setup! I firmly resisted the urge to say “I told you so”…but I certainly thought it!

Those Who Say the Internet – or Social Media – Is Not Useful for Them, Often Need Proper “Education” on the Subject

The point of this story is that many business owners who say social media, or the Internet, is not for them, often lack a clear understanding to base their conclusions on. Most would therefore benefit from guidance provided by a knowledgeable – and practically competent – expert in the field.

This article offers basic insights for such persons. If you need more help to discover how YOU can make the web work for you, click here to contact me

There’s no point in saying the Internet is not for you. I’ve heard many people say that. Quite often it’s because they are reluctant to change (or are afraid) – and not that they really know it’s useless.

This resistance to change is a big problem facing many people. To find more buyers at less cost, and with less effort, dispense with such negative thinking…or you’ll be left behind!

Be honest with yourself, and take a good look around the web. You’ll find that there is hardly any kind of business that – today – cannot be found represented formally on the web.

Smart business people are daily using their creativity to adapt the web to suit their needs. And the web enables them do it on a shoe string budget!

YOU can also do the same thing from today, and it will enable you spend less time and effort to make more money!

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No. 99: Smart Experts Avoid Lazy People

July 22, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

People who display an attitude of rarely wanting to exert themselves to get what they want, are often basically lazy. I’ve come across persons with a history of having “aid” or “support” given to them for virtually every major area of their existence.

As a result they’ve gotten used to always “getting”, even when they make no productive use of what they “get”. They are rarely required to be accountable for (or to show evidence of progress using) support or solutions given them e.g. learning opportunities, grants, zero interest loans etc.

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Date: Monday 22nd July 2013

No:99

Title: Smart Experts Avoid Lazy People

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This situation makes such people believe there is no justifiable need to exert themselves. As such, asking them to set goals, and aim higher can actually offend them.

Believe me, I’ve experienced this!

Now, imagine such people coming together as a group to invite an expert on “Personal Productivity Improvement” to speak to, and coach them for instance?

How successful do you think s/he will be in firing them up with renewed focus and determination?

Not very. Except a miracle happens.

Such lazy people can be found virtually anywhere – in societies at large, and within groups/organisations.

If You Choose Lazy People, You’ll Have No Success Stories to Tell!

As an expert, your credibility and reputation will depend mainly on the results you get – be it from giving talks, or delivering your products/services.

When you serve your target audiences, your expectations would stem from the achievements you have recorded with past audiences.

But if you choose the lazy kind, you may find that long after you leave, you rarely have any success stories to prove that you made a worthwhile impact on them!

I’ve seen/heard about some great teachers getting blamed for the failure of certain students, when most times the students were the ones who failed to put in the needed time and effort to succeed.

This sometimes happens with kids of rich and indulgent parents, brought up to put fun and pleasure ahead of almost all else. The parents assume they only need to pay for the “best” teacher.

That of course does not always work. The teacher may give his best. But if the students choose to fool around – instead of studying – till the exams are around the corner, they are unlikely to do well!

Choose People Ready to Do What It Takes

Everything I’m saying here is based on deep reflection on personal experiences I’ve had in the past 10 years – both in my country, Nigeria, and here in Benin Republic.

I’ve interacted quite closely, and for extended periods, with working adults, as well as students (at secondary and university levels), job seekers and even newly employed persons in organisations.

Take a competent expert and expose different kinds of people to him/her. They will each emerge with widely varying levels of performance.

Quite often, being the professional s/he is, the expert will be consistent in delivering required solutions to all of them. But people will vary in their individual degrees of interest, diligence and commitment.

An expert must therefore carefully select those s/he works with, if s/he desires long term success.

The Most Successful Experts Don’t Work With Lazy People!

One example is Burt Dubin – veteran mentor of some of the world’s higher paid speakers. He does not work with lazy people. He describes them as those who let “sloth and indifference” get in the way of their ambitions.

Burt’s “policy” accounts for his amazing ability to turn virtually every expert he mentors into a highly paid international speaker. He has a series of “hurdles” you must scale to “qualify” for his mentoring. That ensures he ends up with the right kind of clients as “students”!

It’s just like in cooking or manufacturing: the best raw materials always yield superior quality output in the hands of a competent Chef or Process Manager.

Final Words: Don’t Waste Your Expert Time, Energy and Effort, By Fetching Water in a Basket!

YOU, are a competent EXPERT “provider” of solutions/services in your area(s) of focus and interest.

To succeed more often, invest quality time and effort in painstaking pre-selection of the right kind of people to receive your solutions.

If you don’t, you may end up “fetching water in a basket”(which of course will never get full!)

That expression (i.e. “fetching water in a basket”) is one that people from my part of the world (the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria) use to indicate something they believe amounts to a waste of time and effort.

Don’t do that to yourself!

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Public Speaking [Monday]:	No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing
Entrepreneurship [Tuesday]:	4 Essential Factors Affecting Feed Formulation
Self-Development [Wednesday]:	You May Not Need New Ideas
Career Development [Thursday]:	To Move Up, Treat Your Subordinates With Respect
Parenting [Friday]:	To Be Truly Happy, Never Submit to Abuse
Writing/Blogging [Saturday]:	FYI: If You Experienced Difficulties Accessing This Blog’s Content between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013, This Could Be Why…
Writing/Blogging [Sunday]:	Use Smart Time Management to Write More Successfully (3 Tips)
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Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist – Tayo Solagbade – works as a multipreneurial freelance writer providing zero risk article and report writing support for website owners, while travelling slowly across West Africa as a Location Independent Entrepreneur.

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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, then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Self-Development Nuggets™ blog, and Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter (which he publishes to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent).

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Use Smart Time Management to Write More Successfully (3 Tips)

July 21, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up and starts running as fast as it can, so that the fastest lion does not catch up with it and eat it. At the same time a lion also wakes up and starts running as fast as it can so that it can catch and eat the slowest antelope.” – African Parable

Wild animals can be so diligent in making use of the time available to them each day. Their survival requires them to be that way. If they can do it, why can’t we…or indeed you – especially when your writing success is at stake?

How do you spend your 24 hours? How much of that time do you spend honing your writing skills every day you live through? How committed are you to the process of improving yourself? Does it show in your use of time? These are questions you need to answer honestly!

1. Adopt a Writing Schedule – It WILL Make You More Productive

Some people can write based on strict schedules. Others cannot. Less than a year ago, I used to think I could not write based on a schedule. But since November 2013, I’ve successfully published – on my new SD Nuggets blog, one post daily – on six different categories – in line with a writing schedule.

This is to ensure at least one new blog post is added to each of the six categories every week i.e. Public Speaking [Mondays], Entrepreneurship [Tuesdays], Self-Development [Wednesdays], Career Development [Thursdays], Parenting [Fridays], and Writing/Blogging [Saturdays])

Adopting the schedule has turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made about how to update my blog. And judging from the repeat visits I’m getting, it appears my readers feel the quality is not bad. Committing to a writing schedule in which a topic theme or category is pre-defined can cut the time and effort needed to do the work in half – literally. You’re forced to develop ruthless focus to get the post out before the day ends. Great stuff!

I’ve written on so many different subjects for different client industries. Based on hindsight, I now realize that working for those clients was similar to writing according to a defined schedule. No wonder I always felt more productive when working on a client project.

2. Capture Your Writing Ideas As Soon As They Arrive – Or You May Lose Valuable Ones

Before I started using the schedule, my own writing tended to be done in fits and starts. But for clients, I was often really focused on churning out the new set of articles for their web marketing to meet the agreed project deadlines.

I began using my daily writing schedule on 1st November 2013. Today I can easily turn out a ready-to-publish piece in under an hour if I set my mind to it. Note however, that most times the thinking up of content may sometimes happen as I go about my daily activities. And that’s where the use of time comes in. The truth is you may not always find the right time to write. So, I suggest you learn to make it happen on the move if possible.

Sometimes I stop driving to make an entry into my Blackberry memo pad, when another useful point for one of my posts-in-progress pops into my head. I STOP and record it so I don’t forget it, as can happen when one chooses to burden the brain with storing it.

Above: Screen shot from my Blackberry memo pad interface, showing titles of some posts-in-progress I’m working on for my SD Nuggets blog (www.spontaneousdevelopment.com/sdnuggets).

Sometimes I simply create the new entry with the title or theme that occurs to me.

Over the days or weeks that follow, I’ll add new notes or points to discuss. Then one day, when I need to get a post out, I’ll pick from here to my laptop, and finish it off.

3. Be Flexible – Adapt Writing Strategies to Suit Your Unique Circumstances

You may have noticed that I did not say that I have a specific time of the day when I lock myself in to do my writing.

I have a schedule which tells me I need to get a new post done within today’s 24 hours. So, I send my brain to work, as I move around. Sometimes I take advantage of free time from the day before, to finish one or more posts-in-progress (see screen shot below) to use for a few days…

Screenshot from my Blackberry memo pad interface, showing titles of some posts-in-progress Im working on for my SD Nuggets blog

The nature of work I do, and my personal responsibilities and obligations make it difficult for me to stick to a particular routine. In my part of the world, erratic power supply and limitations in available infrastructure make it necessary to adopt a flexible routine, and to be prepared to adapt to sometimes long periods of normal availability of net access.

I’ve learnt to do that, without letting it show in the quality – and volume – of work I do. I take advantage of every window of free time I can find, even when I visit socially, to move a writing task closer to completion, even if it’s by adding one extra paragraph into the copy of a post-in-progress on my phone!

In other words, I simply identify what I need to do to achieve my goal, and then actively challenge myself to create the time to make it happen. Until I achieve that goal, I ensure that any free time I have away from other priority tasks, is dedicated to making progress towards it, until I succeed.

Some successful people withdraw into isolation, in order to maintain the focus they need to achieve their goals. If you are not sure you can ignore distractions, do the same thing.

It will not matter if you only make tiny progress. As long as you commit diligent effort to moving beyond where you were the last time, you will be that much closer to your goal.

If you live alone, it should be easier. When you live with others – a spouse and kids for instance – it can be more difficult. But it can be done. I’ve been doing it – as a husband and father – for over 10 years.

Adopt a strategy that gets you the privacy you need: As I type these words, it’s 11.41pm and my wife and kids are all in bed. I’ve learnt to aim for periods like this, to get more work done on important tasks.

Spend a little time thinking up a strategy you can adopt for your unique situation. It’ll come to you.

“…Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade but of thought.” – Henry David Thoreau

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FYI: If You Experienced Difficulties Accessing This Blog’s Content between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013, This Could Be Why…

July 21, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

NB: Let me start by saying this post is being made for information purposes only. And it applies specifically to the period between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013.

In case anyone’s experienced difficulties accessing articles/content on my blog in the last few days…hostgator has now confirmed they’ve completed the migration of all customer accounts:

” onto brand new, more powerful hardware which will include the latest versions of cPanel and CentOS.”

Alert email notice announcing start of upgrade

Screenshot of email notice announcing start of my hosting account migration

In response to my enquiry, they’d replied thus:

“…there may be some performance issues for the server since the migration process will have an impact on the communications performance of both systems. This effect should be temporary.”

The screenshot below shows their email notice that the upgrade has been successfully completed for my account.

Screenshot of email notice announcing successful migration

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To Be Truly Happy, Never Submit to Abuse

July 19, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” – Frederick Douglass

Nothing is worse than an adult who lets other people use him/her as a door mat. No one deserves to be subjected to abuse in any form – by anybody. Sadly, some adults – who have kids of their own – are so insecure and unsure of themselves. They get intimidated into adopting a second class existence, in deference to the ego of some other persons.

This situation is worse in certain societies than others. Yet, even where it is worse, YOU always have a choice.

In this article I offer insights you can use, against the backdrop of a true story.

What If Someone Tries to Oppress or Intimidate You? (A True Story)

What I share below is based on excerpts from comments I made on a similar theme in a recent online discussion.

Over a period of six years, a hotel client used an Excel-VB driven Hotel Management Software I built specifically for them. The owner (who happens to be about 10 years older than I am) paid me to build it in November 2005.

Upon completing the staff training, I sent in an invoice for my balance, but he refused to pay up. Eventually, I stopped calling to ask.

Three months later, they had problems with the software and called. I told them my balance had to be paid up, before they could be eligible for support.

On learning of my response, he called me on his mobile, to say I had no respect for elders.

I pointed out that self-respecting elders did not refuse to pay younger ones struggling to fend for their own families, for completed work!

After making threats, this CEO arranged for police officers to pick me up in a (rickety) jeep. Their boss, the Divisional Police Officer, turned out to be a graduate of the University of Ibadan. Not surprisingly, he asked for my side of the story.

On hearing me out, he requested that I resolve the problem the hotel had. I replied that I wanted my balance paid.

Again, acting like the enlightened man he was, he sent an officer with me to the hotel, who told them my request. When they agreed to pay, I got behind a terminal, and eventually resolved the problem.

The accountant promptly handed me the balance in cash, and I signed for it.

The hotel owner (who though “rich” is poorly schooled), later said to me: “Tayo, you’re a very stubborn young man.” My reply was that I acted that way, only to persons who I felt wanted to cheat or intimidate me.

From that day in 2006, up till 2011, they continued using the software.

Each time they had a problem and called me in, the normal agreement was that my call out support fees would be paid – in cash.

Yet, every now and then he tried to stop me getting paid – even after I’d worked on the reported problem for hours – AND resolved it.

Sometimes he crossed out the fee on my invoice and wrote over it a figure 60% less!

But my ready willingness to confront without being combative ensured I got paid my full fees each time. I knew he did not like that. But I was not scared of him either.

This is important. Believe wholeheartedly that your creator will support you against such abuse, when you fight back in this manner. Never let fear control you!

Among other things, I knew giving in would be the beginning of a very bad treatment. I saw enough to warn me, each time I visited.

He once traveled before Christmas, without paying his staff salaries. And he returned in February! I’ve also heard him speak abusively on many occasions to staff. Guests hear him scream “MAD DOG!” at some of them.

What I find most hard to comprehend is the fact that some have worked with him for years. I often see them fidgeting fearfully anytime they have to face him.

A few have told me they have no choice. Yet many are young and able bodied.

The way I see it however, they only feel they have no choice because they are LAZY.

In addition, they also lack self-esteem and dignity.

It’s the only reason any sane person would accept let anyone subject them to abuse everyday at work. I feel little sympathy for people who choose to live in this way.

Their unwillingness to choose a more dignified path in life makes them undeserving of pity or sympathy. I say this without apology.

God did NOT create anyone to be stepped upon by another – no matter how rich!

I’ve since told that client I’ll no longer support his company’s use of the software.

It all came to a head after I had to defend myself against another attempt he made – using his police connections – to try intimidating me to work without due payment in 2011.

That’s however a story to be told some other time. Suffice to say though, that I wrote complaint letters to the Governor, State Security Service and eventually the Attorney General’s office to get him off my back!

Final Words

Here’s my point:

In society, one will always come across good and not-so-good people. It’s not a crime to view life through rose coloured glasses – believing that others will treat you right.

But even the bible records stories of people who were bad, and used their position, money and power to subject harmless/innocent others to abuse.

It therefore goes without saying that you must prepare to stand up to such individuals as the need arises. Or you’ll doom yourself to being oppressed by them!

You deserve better than that. And so does your child.

Being gentle, easy going, and not wanting any trouble, does not mean you have to be someone else’s door mat.

Learn to assert yourself – by confronting without being combative, when necessary.

And teach your child to be the same way. It’s the key to living a truly happy and fulfilled life.

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To Move Up, Treat Your Subordinates With Respect

July 18, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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

What you’re about to read is based on a true story. People usually start at the bottom to climb the corporate ladder to the top. Many new recruits have risen to become CEOs or top executives in the companies they work for. As new entrants, they had to be trained by people who would later become their subordinates.

That’s a fact of life.

In the military, a drill sergeant puts recruits through weeks of gruelling exercises. During this period he is their boss. But he ends up becoming a subordinate to those who survive, to graduate as “officers”!

A Reversal In Your Status Is No License to Mis-treat Those You’ve Surpassed

When a reversal of roles/status happens, interesting changes in the behaviour of people can occur. I’ve seen persons who turned round to victimize a former superior, saying s/he was too harsh on them.

Some people also look down on those they feel have lower status, position or authority to theirs.

Smart managers however know better than to treat their subordinates without consideration. Not even if such persons mis-treated them in the past, when their roles were reversed.

A Manager Dis-respects His Subordinates and Pays a Steep Price (True Story)

Some years ago, a set of graduate trainees recruited into a large manufacturing company underwent a company wide induction. As is the normal practice in most organisations, guidance and tutelage was given by people who later became their reports.

One trainee line manager was taken through the workings of factory plants by shop floor operatives. But he later became a thorn in their flesh, upon being confirmed as a full fledged manager…and their boss.

For this individual, it seemed having to learn from his future subordinates, was so damaging to his ego that he needed to erase the memory, by asserting himself at every opportunity.

So he frequently screamed instructions at the – mostly much older – men. And he rarely cut them any slack if they made mistakes or needed favours e.g. to attend to family matters.

Many got randomly served query letters anytime they worked the same shift with him, if he felt the output was not good enough. As a result, during end of year appraisal interviews, the men generally prayed not to have him chosen to assess their performance. Those who did rarely fared well.

Over the years, a silent resentment grew amongst the men towards this particular individual.

One night shift, an important machine on the production line stopped working. The operators called on the manager, claiming they did not know what the fault was.

From 11p.m till the close of that shift at 6a.m, this young man sweated trying to get the technicians to find the fault with the plant.

All to no avail. He was forced to write a handover saying the machine needed major engineering repairs. No work was done on his shift. He left for home feeling dejected.

Amazingly, 5 minutes after the next shift resumed, the resuming operators had the machine working!

When asked, he said he could find nothing wrong with it.

Your guess is as good as mine, as to what happened during that night shift…

Morale: Your Subordinates Can Make You Rise or Fall

That young manager could have had a better night shift, if he enjoyed the goodwill of his subordinates.

That is something that helps many managers look good on their jobs. It’s rarely that they know-it-all.

Back in Guinness, I had a habit of spending considerable time with factory shop floor operatives who reported to me, when I was a shift brewer. I always stopped to share jokes, ask after their families etc.

Even after I got promoted, and elevated to acting as a departmental head, I never gave up the habit.

Interestingly, some of my colleagues found reason to challenge me for associating that closely with shop floor level operatives in the company. They argued that as a manager, I needed to distance myself a bit from them, to avoid losing the necessary respect that would ensure I could control them.

But I ignored them. What I was doing was not acting. It was a natural thing with me. And if anything, rather than make me lose the respect of these men, I found that we actually bonded more!

A former expatriate boss – who was then Technical manager (and would later influence my promotion into higher positions lent credence to this assertion. He once wrote in a feedback form, that I had the loyalty of the men I worked with, and that my shift always delivered results.

And he was right. The relationship I shared with those men was a true friendship. These men often tried to discourage me from going on my inspection rounds while on night shift.

According to one of the shift leaders, when working with me, the men were always prepared to put in their best to make me look good. They felt they owed me a good outing any time I ran with them.

They’d say “Baba, look we will work for you. You need not nbother comeing to check on us!”

Of course, being a responsible manager, I never accepted to do that. However, I rarely had reason to think doubt their commitment either. Whenever we had problems on the shift, my heart always swelled with gratitude, to see them displaying just as much interest as I had in getting them resolved.

And if we failed, some actually felt so bad, they would come to apologise personally to me!

Final Words

You must understand that these men were mostly twice as old as I was. Most joined the company before I was even born! What’s more, I had been opportune, by virtue of my relationship with some, to meet their kids – who were about my age, and university graduates too.

Yet, they still maintained the respect they had for me.

That proves one thing: Respect is earned. And it is reciprocal. Treating people with respect will earn you their respect. In addition, it will bring out the best in them, and make them committed to helping you achieve YOUR goals!

So, no matter what anyone tells you, know this: The safest, and most reliable way to move up the corporate ladder (and stay there) is to treat your subordinates with respect at all times.

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You May Not Need New Ideas

July 16, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

If you’re struggling to achieve sustained progress towards your goal, it could be because you’re making the mistake described in this article. Sometimes we spend too much time, effort and resources searching for new ideas to achieve our set goal, and fail to make the most of the ones we already have. This makes us under-achieve most of the time. This article offers insights you can use to overcome this limitation, and achieve your full potential.

Times Change – But Success Principles Never Do!

The major guidelines for achieving authentic success, remain the same ones preached by gurus like Napoleon Hill, decades ago in his groundbreaking book “Think and Grow Rich”. They have not changed.

Most of today’s success gurus built their teachings on such time tested wisdom.

The steps for succeeding outlined below are among familiar recommendations they make – albeit in different words:

1. Set a goal
2. Break it into objectives
3. Take action
4. Persist even when you have setbacks
5. Remember to take care of your health
6. Look for mentors to guide/help you grow

And so on…

The Problem: Some People Take Success Guidelines For Granted

None of the above points is new. Really. Today we have a lot of learning resources written by experts which expand on the above guidelines – in creative ways.

The mistake some people make is in taking these truths for granted. They fail to think as deeply as they should about (and also diligently apply) them, to achieve the best possible output.

Instead they keep searching for the next shiny object to follow e.g. the next big idea they can quickly grab and run with, before others find out!

And that’s a big mistake.

We Need to Apply Our Uniqueness to Every Idea

Most times the key to our success lies right within us. It only requires bringing our unique abilities and talents to bear on whatever interests us.

No two humans think or act alike. We have different talents and abilities. And that includes even physically identical twins.

With respect to the success guidelines listed above, experts bring their unique insights to bear. Each gives us his/her perspective of how to apply them in our lives. From Zig Ziglar, to Brian Tracy, Robert Kiyosaki, Burt Dubin and so on. They only differ in terms of how they present the ideas for us to learn/apply.

It’s the same thing with religious teachers or leaders. Each one may offer his/her own take on specific aspects of a religious doctrine for instance. What they offer will often be dictated by insights gained from prayer, meditation and/or studying literature, scripture etc.

Start Making Better Use of Ideas You Already Have!

Some people dilute their efforts by running in multiple directions trying to catch the next big idea for succeeding.

For instance, they jump on every FREE webinar on offer, and keep exploring new initiatives. But they never stay long enough with one to make it work.

Yet quite often what you need to succeed may not be a new idea!

It could instead be a disciplined focus on applying your unique abilities to implement a few good ideas you already have – with consistency, faith and determination – over a period time.

And that’s my message to you in this article: Stop trying to find so many new ideas.

Take stock of those you already have. Identify viable ways to make the best use of them to achieve the success you desire. This is likely to require using your unique thinking and talents/abilities in a creative way.

It is the key to making your success inevitable – because it will attract people and circumstances you need to achieve your valued goals!

“No one can ‘download you’ (i.e. pick your brain) if you do not want them to. When you TRAIN yourself to be a relentless Ideas Generator™, what you give away won’t matter, because you’ll ALWAYS get better ones. The hard part is making productive use of the ideas. Not everyone has that locked down. And that’s why some people only get MEDIOCRE results, from great ideas!”
– Tayo K. Solagbade
www.spontaneousdevelopment.com

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4 Essential Factors Affecting Feed Formulation

July 16, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

In formulating your rations, there are four crucial considerations you need to keep in mind. I discuss them below in a question-answer format. I suggest you actively work through them in your decision making:

1. What feed ingredients are regularly available locally; in what condition do they come – and at what price?

Knowing the answers to the above will help you identify the most suitable ingredients to use as major components in your rations.

On Availability: For instance, if your farm is based in a location where maize is not available in adequate quantities, you’re likely to experience outages, if you formulate mainly maize based rations.

On Condition: Similarly, if your groundnut cake supplies often get exposed to moisture, you stand a risk of infecting or even poisoning your animals when it grows mouldy. In such situations, you may be better off settling on alternative protein sources with similar nutritional benefits, and/or reduce your use of groundnut cake.

On Price: Compare ingredient prices to discover which ones enable you minimise your costs, without sacrificing the desired nutrient profile in your formulated rations.

These 3 factors discussed above should guide your choice of key ingredients for formulating rations.

2. Are the ingredients you have chosen (or prefer to use) seasonal or available all year round?

Availability here differs from that discussed in 1, above: I refer instead, to the planting/production based availability, which is dictated by climatic seasons.

For instance, some ingredients are more abundant during the rainy season. So, when the dry season sets in, finding them in adequate quantities can pose a challenge.

Choose feed ingredients that are available for as much of your production period as possible.

Few feed ingredients can be stored for long periods without onset of spoilage or deterioration in quality. Therefore make your main ingredients those which can be readily found for most of the year.

In reality, your choice of main ingredients to choose will be influenced by what happens in 1, above.

3. Do you have substitutes that you can easily procure, in the event that your preferred ingredients are not available for any reason?

Let me put it this way: Have you explored the use of alternatives to your main ingredients? Do you have any that can be combined with your other routinely used ingredients to produce viable rations?

If no, you may run into problems. For instance, you could be forced to incur greater costs to source the main ingredients, if you don’t have viable alternatives at hand. And that will affect your ration’s cost.

Feeding often makes up 60% or more of total cost of rearing most livestock. You therefore want to achieve the most cost-effective production of your rations.

And that’s why exploring the use of viable substitutes that either cost the same, or are cheaper than your preferred ingredients, can be worthwhile. You will also want to do this proactively.

In other words, before the need to use substitutes arises, conduct trials to derive balanced ration using such substitutes. When your preferred ingredients become scarce, you’ll have a fall back formula ready.

4. What about quality of nutrient composition? Have you checked to confirm (via analysis) that the local ingredients you are using contain the expected profile of nutrients?

For instance, what if you get a supply of weevil infested Maize for use in compounding your rations? Using it would make your energy content calculations go out of sync with the actual content in the supplied grains. Your birds would therefore perform poorly, if fed on the resultant ration.

Some farmers fail to take this into consideration. And it ends up costing them greatly.

It’s like using adulterated medication when you’re ill. You’re unlikely to get well.

When the ingredients you use in your ration formulation are not of the right quality or nutrient composition, your ration will not deliver the expected performance in the animals fed with it.

The reason is simple. Your calculations are based on a certain expected nutrient composition in each ingredient. But that’s on paper. If the actual physical ingredients you end up using to make your animal’s feeds do not contain those expected nutrient levels, your ration will not be balanced.

If that happens, the animals’ performance will reflect it – and you will have wasted your money!

This is why results-focused farm business owners and/or feed mill operators often invest in periodic laboratory analysis of the feed ingredients they use.

Do this on a regular basis – at least weekly. Ensure sampling done is representative. Your efforts could save you a lot of money in the long run.

Final Words: Plan for the Unexpected

On a final note, keep in mind that beyond doing calculations o feed ingredients, you are also a manager.

Plan ahead for possible eventualities or the unforeseen – especially with respect to the above mentioned factors. If you don’t, your animals – and business – might suffer as a result.

PS: Click here to learn how my Feed Formulation Handbook and Excel-VB software can help you derive cost-effective rations.

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No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing

July 15, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

If I sound like a broken record on how writing builds name recognition, it’s because I continue to experience amazing benefits from doing it. And I see others reap similar rewards too.

IMPORTANT TIP: I discovered the power of writing as a means of self-promotion, when I read Burt Dubin’s “Why and How to Get Published”. If you’re serious about succeeding in your business marketing, click here NOW to read that article on Burt’s website, in a new browser window.

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Publication: Tayo Solagbade’s Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS Page (PSIP) Newsletter

Date: Monday 15th July 2013

No:98

Title: Boost Your Credibility by Writing

Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [234-803-302-1263]

Blog URL: http://www.spontaneousdevelopment.com/blog

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No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing

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If I sound like a broken record on how writing builds name recognition, it’s because I continue to experience amazing benefits from doing it. And I see others reap similar rewards too.

IMPORTANT TIP: I discovered the power of writing as a means of self-promotion, when I read Burt Dubin‘s “Why and How to Get Published“. If you’re serious about succeeding in your business marketing, click here NOW to read that article on Burt’s website, in a new browser window.

**Many Still Doubt That Writing Can Be That Powerful**

On with my newsletter message on this theme:

It pains me to see many who need it to SAVE time, effort and money in promoting their works, still not using writing!

Why do people still not use this low to zero cost marketing strategy that’s so effective?

I’ve asked myself this question often. I think it’s because they doubt that writing can be that powerful.

And who can blame them. When your peers and associates pour money exclusively into paid promotional marketing resources, you’re likely to think nothing would work better. Especially if those who do it have results to show.

But consider this:

If it costs you $5 US dollars to win a new buyer, using a paid advert, and you discover another method can help you win each new buyer for half a dollar, does it not make sense to adopt it?

Even if you’re already making hefty profits, would it hurt you to become even more profitable – this time by cutting down your costs? Would that not leave you with additional profit gain you can channel into other purposes, for the SAME effort you expend?

The above analogy shows how using writing for business promotion compares to other methods.

Nothing Beats a Marketing Resource with an Unlimited Shelf-Life

Look, every well written article (complete with promotional by-line linking to your product/service pages) is a timeless marketing medium, that can work for you, even while you sleep, at zero cost.

And as you write new ones, they will join those existing, to saturate search engines. When a potential buyer does a search, one or more of those articles will likely turn up on the first page of results.

Let’s say today s/he sees a piece by you at number 10 right at the bottom. Then maybe a week later your piece comes up closer to the top – possibly among the top five.

S/he may get curious on seeing it appear again – and she could click on your listing in the results page.

If you did a good job in your article, she could – on reading it – click your by-line’s promotional links. Especially if you put in an intelligent call to action.

Arriving on your web page, at least one of two things can happen (if you did your homework right):

a. She could send you an enquiry about something you offer for sale there, and could end up buying!

I’ve had that kind of experience too many times to count. Quite fulfilling – and addictive too. It makes you willing to do more. You basically taste blood!

b. If you have (wisely) setup a newsletter, which you publish regularly, s/he could subscribe.

Then over time, your useful information could move her to see you as a trusted adviser. So that when you make an offer to subscribers, s/he might eventually buy.

See how this works? It’s all linked together.

It Can Take a Year – But You Would Not Need to Stress Yourself or Chase Anyone Around!

Like I said in a past article (see screenshot below), I’ve had people who stayed on my mailing list for years, before finally buying from me.

In fact one such person – Oladipo Mann – just retired from paid employment some months ago, and started his own farm business. He recently emailed to inform me of that fact, after I re-sent him the password to login to the feed formulation software he bought from me last year.

We speak on phone and correspond via email like friends today – but still have never met face to face!

NB: In my article titled “Can You Be Trusted? (Real Conversations With People Just Like You)“, I told – among others – the story of how Dipo Mann took 3 years to check me out before becoming a buyer.

People Are Wary of Getting Duped. Your Writing Can Make Them Trust YOU!

If at some point during those 3 years, I’d stopped writing my articles and newsletter (to which he’s subscribed), I doubt Dipo would ever have gotten convinced enough to buy from me.

This gentleman wisely took his time to be sure about me. Then one day, late last year, after I sent out my newsletter, I was driving to Ikeja in Lagos, when I suddenly got an email from him on my Blackberry.

It read “Please send me your account details so I can pay for the software.” It was that simple. The first and ONLY time we’d spoken 3 years before, he’d balked when I told him I had no office.

But rather than get an office I did not need (and incur heavy rental fees) or place volatile newspaper adverts, I simply kept writing – online as well as off the web. I knew from experience that as long as I kept it up intelligently, I would attract those who NEEDED what I offered.

And that’s the beauty of this strategy: It helps you sieve the wheat from the chaff.

You actually attract pre-qualified prospects (not just curious people) – courtesy of your writing.

No other system offers such sustainable long term rewards.

You Don’t Need to Do It Yourself – If You Don’t Want to!

One more thing. If you don’t feel you have the time or training to do it yourself, you don’t have to!

Get someone competent to ghost-write for you.

I get approached – both on and off the web – by serious minded professionals needing writing support to promote the products and services they offer.

I ghost-write for them. I’ve done so for clients in a wide variety of industries for over six (6) years.

If you want ME to help, click here.

What matters is that you get good quality content out in YOUR name. As long as you’re competent, this will just be like dotting your “I”s and crossing your “T”s.

Doing so will cement your credibility in the minds of your target audience over time.

Need More Details of How to Make The Above Ideas Work for YOU?

If you need more specific details of how to make use of the ideas I’ve shared in this newsletter, send me a message using this request form – with “Re: Boost Your Credibility by Writing” in the subject line.

SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking [Monday]:	No. 97: Forget Circumstances, Create Your Opportunities (Bruce Lee)
Entrepreneurship [Tuesday]:	Fast-Food Energy: Self-Repairing “Artificial Leaf” Cheaply Generates Electricity from Dirty Water (New Discovery)
Self-Development [Wednesday]:	Graduates Can Use Purposeful Self-Development to Succeed
Career Development [Thursday]:	You Can’t Establish Expert Authority with Money
Parenting [Friday]:	Proof that Schooling Can Dis-Empower Your Child Economically!
Writing/Blogging [Saturday]:	Write More Productively – 2 Proven Ways to Prevent Burnout
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Have a lovely week!

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

Mobile: 234-803-302-1263

http://www.spontaneousdevelopment.com

He’s presently based in Benin Republic, where he’s preparing an English-French Language Guide, City Travel Guides, and a Commercial Rabbit Farming Guide.

For a limited time, Tayo is available to speak to your group or organization for a moderate fee. Send e-mail to tayo at tksola dot com. You can also visit www.tksola.com to learn more.

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Write More Productively – 2 Proven Ways to Prevent Burnout

July 13, 2013 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I recently read 2 of my favourite writers sharing about how they overcame some form of burnout. I don’t mean writer’s block. As I’ve said before, I do not believe it (i.e. writer’s block) exists. But burnout – just like it happens in other areas of endeavour, such as sports – does really occur in writing.

What Does It Feel Like, and Why Does It Happen?

I like to think of it as having nothing left to “burn”. Like when a car runs out of fuel. That means you come to a complete halt. In writing, you literally become unable to get yourself to write more. Your blog gets stale with no new content, and in serious cases, you may even struggle to deliver new writing to agreed deadlines for clients.

To write productively on a continuing basis, you must keep replenishing yourself with new ideas. And you must have sustained passion for what you do.

Burnout typically occurs when the above is no longer there. We can run out of ideas, and our passion for a chosen subject, topic or theme may fizzle out. This can happen to anyone.

How Can You Prevent Burnout?

It pays to make careful choices of writing themes or topics. Choose those you can maintain adequate interest in. Passion for the subject is a crucial requirement for long term sustenance.

Next, identity the source(s) you draw on for writing ideas. Common examples include your personal experience, material provided by clients, Internet resources etc. Diligently nurture each one of them, to boost your writing output.

Recognize however that sometimes you may have to look elsewhere to be sure you deliver quality output. Indeed sometimes the above sources may fail to turn up the ideas you need. That’s often when burnout begins to threaten. So, you need to know about other places you can go.

I offer a few suggestions…

1. Start Reading Everything Around You: Not Just Books!

Reading helps us feed our minds with ideas we can mould into new writing.

Now stop for a minute. ‘Reading’ I propose here is a little different.

When writers see the word ‘read’, our minds readily go to books, e-books, websites and other conventional formats on which writing can be found.

But in reality, you can get even better ideas, when you “read” random stuff you see around you.

So start paying attention to quotable quotes you see as you move around. You will encounter them on office walls, flyers, billboards etc.

What about tag lines people include in their calling cards? Useful inspiration can also come from there.

Bill boards litter most areas in many societies, announcing some idea or promoting some product or service. Stop more often to reflect on what is written on them. Seriously – do this.

Keep pen and notepad with you to capture them – as may be convenient.

Sometimes, someone may say them to you – or around you.

I’m always alert to these magical opportunities. And most times when I lack pen and paper, I quickly type what I hear into my smart phone memo pad.

Your aim will be to tweak such quick reads into a write-ups that will be truly useful for your intended audience.

One Example: I once stumbled on the following quote credited to Mahatma Gandhi. And it inspired me to write a new blog post (within 30 minutes).

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

I used each of the four highlighted actions he mentioned, as a subtopic in my article titled “Four (4) Phases Great Achievers Often Pass Through, to Succeed”.

Isn’t it amazing how having a logical outline to guide your thoughts can making writing much easier?

2. Use Anything Useful That Happens Around You: Be Alert!

In writing for a client here in Cotonou, I’ve had to unhinge my brain – almost literally speaking.

He is a legal consultant, and also provides private university educational services – in addition to professional language translation, for various cadres of clients.

The required writing was meant to cater for each of his fairly different areas of focus – all three of which I’d not written on previously.

To ensure I met his expectations, I carefully studied happenings in and around him, to gain useful insights I could apply to my work…

One day we went out for lunch. His young chauffeur made the mistake of failing to specify the size of bottled Sprite he wanted, when the waitress took orders.

As a result, when she came back with a large sized bottle, he requested she get him a smaller one.

My client was displeased with that – scolding him for making her do two trips, when she could have done one.

He said “Other customers are waiting on her, and some may also be due to pay up. Making her waste valuable time could upset waiting customers. Or she could forget to collect payment from some. That could cost her the day’s pay, or if a client leaves without paying a hefty bill, her job!”

That incident inspired me to write the first issue of a weekly newsletter targeted at his university undergraduates, on Acting with Emotional Intelligence – by treating others with consideration.

**Final Words: This Article Is Likely to Become Part 1 of a 2 Part Series**

I have some other ideas to share. This is a subject I’m quite passionate about – as a Performance Enhancement Specialist.

I’m tempted to make it a 2 or 3 part series (each one with 2 tips).

There are so many things you can do – honestly. I know because I write as if connected to a never ending source daily – literally at will – using these ideas!

A new post appears on this blog daily – even as I do similar writing for clients.

One basic assumption is of course that your love of writing, and your subject/theme (will) persist(s)…otherwise not even steroids will help you avoid a burnout

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If You Choose Lazy People, You’ll Have No Success Stories to Tell!

Choose People Ready to Do What It Takes

The Most Successful Experts Don’t Work With Lazy People!

Final Words: Don’t Waste Your Expert Time, Energy and Effort, By Fetching Water in a Basket!

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I pointed out that self-respecting elders did not refuse to pay younger ones struggling to fend for their own families, for completed work!

This is important. Believe wholeheartedly that your creator will support you against such abuse, when you fight back in this manner. Never let fear control you!

God did NOT create anyone to be stepped upon by another – no matter how rich!

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Start Making Better Use of Ideas You Already Have!

And that’s my message to you in this article: Stop trying to find so many new ideas.

1. What feed ingredients are regularly available locally; in what condition do they come – and at what price?

2. Are the ingredients you have chosen (or prefer to use) seasonal or available all year round?

3. Do you have substitutes that you can easily procure, in the event that your preferred ingredients are not available for any reason?

4. What about quality of nutrient composition? Have you checked to confirm (via analysis) that the local ingredients you are using contain the expected profile of nutrients?

Final Words: Plan for the Unexpected

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No. 98: Boost Your Credibility by Writing

Many Still Doubt That Writing Can Be That Powerful

Nothing Beats a Marketing Resource with an Unlimited Shelf-Life

It Can Take a Year – But You Would Not Need to Stress Yourself or Chase Anyone Around!

People Are Wary of Getting Duped. Your Writing Can Make Them Trust YOU!

You Don’t Need to Do It Yourself – If You Don’t Want to!

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What Does It Feel Like, and Why Does It Happen?

How Can You Prevent Burnout?

1. Start Reading Everything Around You: Not Just Books!

2. Use Anything Useful That Happens Around You: Be Alert!

Final Words: This Article Is Likely to Become Part 1 of a 2 Part Series

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