My DN Travel News
2 Dangers of Using Social Media As Your Business Home
April 7, 2013









If you promote your business primarily by using social media as your base platform, you're likely to shoot yourself in the foot. And very badly too. Read this article to learn 2 important reasons why you will be better off using your own website as a base, while your social media profiles function as secondary […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
3 Ways Travelling Can Prepare Your Child To Succeed (Features Pix of a Cameroonian Michael Jackson :-)
April 5, 2013









Picture below is of a guy I named "Cameroonian Micheal Jackson"...Your child is likely to see unique and exciting sights like those in the pictures below, if s/he travels and explores beyond the world she already knows. This enterprising chap was doing an impressive version of Michael Jackson’s moon walk in Douala’s Marché Mokolo (Mokolo […]







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Career Development
Going The Extra Mile, Can Make You A High-Flyer At Work!
April 4, 2013









This is another in a series of articles I have committed to writing, to help career persons in paid employment. If you aspire to climb high, as fast as possible, up the corporate ladder, in the organization you work for, this article can help you. I outline practical steps you can take to set yourself […]







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My DN Travel News
Update: Checked into hotel (Why I'm keeing my destinations and location secret for now)
April 1, 2013









Hi, I've just checked into a hotel room in the capital of a Francophone West African nation. You have take my word for it for now that I AM really outside Nigeria 🙂 At least my family knows I'm telling the truth - as does Burt Dubin who I've already emailed from my Blackberry on […]







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My DN Travel News
How to Jump Start Your Speaking Career (7 Steps) - By Burt Dubin
April 1, 2013









NEWS (Nigeria) : Expert Jump Starts International Speaking Career by Traveling Across West Africa as a Location Independent Entrepreneur. This issue of my Speaking IDEAS newsletter is based on text transcript excerpts I created from Burt Dubin's recorded responses to a question from a caller to a SpeakerMatch teleseminar.  Sandy (according to the host - […]







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Entrepreneurship
Why A True Entrepreneur Cannot Fail
February 19, 2013









“There is no such thing as an entrepreneur who failed. Only one who gave up.” - James Cook, author of the Startup Entrepreneur. There will always be good and bad times in life. But during hard times, the mind can play tricks on you. The successes you’ve achieved before could even begin to look ordinary. […]







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Entrepreneurship
Now That YOUR Website Is Up, What Do You Do Next?
January 25, 2013









NB: This original version of this article was first published online on 2011-11-04 (November 2011) on my 9 year old spontaneousdevelopment.com domain (now defunct). I visited the venue of the “Getting Nigerian Businesses Online”(GNBO) 5 day event (at Grandeur Events Centre at Billings way, Oregun) on day 2 – Tuesday 1st November 2011 – and was […]







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Entrepreneurship
Can You Be Trusted?(Real Life Farm Business Sales Conversations With People Just Like You)
December 13, 2012









Quick Take Away This article recounts some entertaining but true stories, about how I've had to go the extra mile, many times, to earn the trust of prospective buyers of my feed formulation software and handbook over the years, to get where I am today. The fear of getting scammed can be a real impediment […]







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General
How I Discovered And Used Print-On-Demand (POD) Self-Publishing For The First Time
November 17, 2012









Preview POD technology is today widely used worldwide by millions of people as a means to create a wide variety of printed products. Examples include branded gift items, like t-shirts, caps, stickers which have high quality graphic designs printed on them. Then there are the written publications - books, technical manuals, special reports which have […]







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