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PII 035:[Recommended] Why I Fear Nigeria Is Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb By Ijabla Raymond | Sahara Reporters

After watching Olaleye Samson’s video interview with Sahara Reporters, I knew I’d finally found an authentic fellow Nigerian willing to tell the truth about the reality of living and working in Nigeria.

Olaleye Samson, a well spoken B.sc degree holder presented compelling points to back up his argument on the theme of “What is Lagos doing for me?”

Watch the video here

This is what makes Nigeria an extremely difficult place to achieve authentic non-corner cutting success.

Little wonder that Ijabla Raymond made the following positive comments about Olaleye’s presentation in the article linked below:

“I do not need to go over the well-articulated points that Olaleye Samson, an unemployed university graduate, makes in this heart-wrenching interview because, quite frankly, his argument cannot be bettered. He describes how rich Nigerians have stolen the commonwealth and built themselves far too many houses and homes (which all lie unoccupied) than they need whilst thousands of youths sleep under our bridges.”

Click here to read the full article

Get Your Anti Recession Insulator™ Product FREE [Details Inside]

I don’t bother myself with hype in my messages – because it NEVER attracts people with the right mindset to fit into my target audience profile.

That’s why I share experience based true stories, mixed with a sprinkling of verifiable results, that combine to attest to the veracity of my claims.

Such messages have continued to attract authentic serious minded results-focused DOERS and ACTION TAKERS to me!

Yep.

People like the above indicated have often made the best clients for me :-)

For instance, in less than 18 hours of sending yesterday’s email on the above theme to my list (click here to read), I’ve gotten over 15% web form replies to my offer of details about “What You Need to Do, to Get My Recession-Proof Income Generating FREE Product Creation Service.

15% is a hefty response rate.

17% is industry standard for email open alone – so to have 15% taking the step to submit form requests is proof that this message resonates with my audience.

Chances are good that you also want details of how you can get my FREE service.

If YES, read on…

One of the form requests came from a Poultry Layer Farm CEO client based in Kaduna, who wrote as follows in the comments field:

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comments = It’s always a good idea to diversify ones so source of income
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And that’s the point I’m making with this initiative: The need to generate Multiple Streams of Income – regardless of what you do as your main vocation or profession!

Below is an excerpt from the full email details message I’ve sent to each web form requester so far:

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Fill and submit the web form linked at the bottom of the excerpt, to request that I send you the full offer message, complete with JPEG mindmap, PDF report and AMR audio primer you can listen to on your phone or PC.

***Email excerpt starts***

[Title]: Re: Re(Your Web Form Submission): What You Need to Do, to Get my FREE Product-Creation-Service

[Body]: Below I describe 5 forms of Recession-Proof Income Generating Product I can Create at Zero Cost for YOU [In 30 Working Days]

I end by specifying what you need to do, to get this FREE product-creation-service.

[TIP: Before you start reading I need to impress a very important point on you – that products you create and sell using this strategy/approach I recommend, need NOT even have anything to do with the business you run, the day job you do – or indeed what you majored in at school!

Listen to the attached audio clip in which I give a brief explanation using my own real life products as examples]

…Listen to the attached 15 minute audio primer…

Now, with the understanding you’ve gained from listening to my clarification in the audio, reading what follows below should open your inner eyes to a wider range of product creation possibilities for now and into the far future…!

***Email excerpt ends***

Fill and submit the web form linked below to request the full message, complete with the JPEG mindmap, PDF report and AMR audio primer you will begin with.
http://www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

Become my Farm Business Support Centre (FBSC)™ Partner & Get Zero Cost Feasibility Studies/Consulting, Software Development, Training & Marketing for Bulk Buyers for life!

Signup to be a partner of my Farm Support Centre. Through the FBSC, I offer Farm CEOs low to zero cost lifetime access to solutions like best practice extension advisory services, feasibility studies, consultation, custom software development, marketing, training etc.

NB: E-mail me via tayo at tksola dot com. to request a copy of the offer PDF with full details about what you need to do to signup as a partner.

I offer clients trusted experience based guidance to cost-effectively execute their plans.

Many have been asking me for support in various activities. Through the FBSC I provide a one-stop-shop front online, on-site/farm – and I’m working to have an offline location.

I always challenge clients to consider the big picture, and proceed in a way that enables them achieve that goal cost-effectively & efficiently for the long term.
I recommend you signup to be a partner of my Farm Support Centre.

The key point to note is that I offer Farm CEOs access to solutions they need, at low to zero cost, in addition to others that I already provide – ALL for life.

Why am I doing this?

Because I want to help farm businesses reduce overheads they expend on, to boost their bottom line.

My argument is that a good farm support expert must be willing to invest for the long term in helping the farm business client grow a sustainable model of profit making.

I have a vision to help farm CEOs achieve their vision. I want to be part of their success stories.

My passive income generation model makes it easy for me to work like this.

This offer is meant for ONLY existing clients who are members of my Farm Business ideas club and have therefore EXPERIENCED what it means to interact with me, enough to be SURE that I am not only competent, but that I always deliver on ANY promises I make.

E-mail me via tayo at tksola dot com. to request a copy of the offer PDF with full details about what you need to do to signup as a partner.

PII 034: 2017 Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager ##Coming Soon## Fuller Featured, More Bullet Proof, More User Friendly [TIP: Request New Features You Want Added to It]

Before the end of the year, a new, improved (fuller featured, more bullet proof, more user friendly) version of my popular Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager app will be announced. Click here to watch 12 screenshot userguide video tutorials for the current (2011) version

This article ends with an invitation to users and prospective buyers to send in their suggestions of features/functions they’d like to see in the 2017 PFM

[NB: Farm CEO Clients who purchased the license at the full (NOT promo) fee will get this new version 100% FREE – details below]

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

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Monday 3rd October 2016

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 034: 2017 Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager ##Coming Soon## Fuller Featured, More Bullet Proof, More User Friendly [TIP: Request New Features You Want Added to It]

Before the end of the year, a new, improved (fuller featured, more bullet proof, more user friendly) version of my popular Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager app will be announced. Click here to watch 12 screenshot userguide video tutorials for the current (2011) version

Below: Login screen of a 2016 Independence Day Celebration Promo version of the PFM sent to a new buyer

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This article ends with an invitation to users and prospective buyers to send in their suggestions of features/functions they’d like to see in the 2017 PFM

[NB: Farm CEO Clients who purchased the license at the full (NOT promo) fee will get this new version 100% FREE – details below]

Since building this app in 2009, for a 12,000 layer farm and then putting it up for sale online in 2011, I’ve patiently, and painstakingly, documented comments and feedback from inquirers as well as buyers/users.

Over time, I’ve adopted enhancements to be incorporated into the app to make it better meet the needs of my target audience I.e Farm CEOs and other stakeholders.

The New 2017 App Version Will Come With:

1. My trademark modeless custom floating automated data entry forms for time/effort saving posting of updates into various interfaces from farm operations to financial/sales and expenses records

This feature alone will double user productivity, including affecting a reduction in occurrence of user data entry errors to the barest minimum.

2. Automated menu driven charts for daily, weekly and monthly trending of broilers Key Performance Indicators e.g Feeding Rate, Feed Conversion Ration, Average Weight Gain etc

This feature adds to the existing Broiler Farm Operations Report which is generated dynamically for specific periods using drop menus.

Below: Print Preview Screenshot of the Broiler Performance Report in the work-in-progress upgrade version of the PFM

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Given the time sensitive nature of the broiler business model, the usefulness of this new feature is easy to appreciate. Daily/weekly review of the charted KPIs is made possible at the click of a button, like for layers.

I continue to encourage broiler farm CEOs to let me know what other features/functions to include.

3. Automated menu driven charts for daily, weekly and monthly trending of the PFM’s Income and Expense Summary report based on the respective income and expense heads or categories used.

This feature will put power in the hands of the Farm CEO to quickly and effortlessly track the changes in each area for timely and more accurate decision making.

In addition to the above, I’ve had to factor in the growing reality of the need to protect my intellectual property and the interests of those who choose to invest in purchasing the full fee license.

This is why I will ONLY be offering access to the New 2017 Excel-VB PFM:

1. To existing clients who purchased the license at the full fee. They get upgrades FREE for life as specified for all my apps.

2. To existing clients who purchased the license at a promo fee. They get upgrades at a promo fee offer I will broadcast.

All others who wish to buy this new app will need to join either of the groups above, or buy the New 2017 PFM license at the standard fee to be announced.

Below: Automated Modeless Floating Chart Generation Form for Trending Hen Day Percentages in the current version of the PFM

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Invitation

Click here to make inquiries and/or send me your suggestions of features/functions you’d like to see in the 2017 PFM – and/or any other comments or feedback you may have.

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New posts from last week*

Monday:

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[Friday]:

Food for Thought for Nigeria @56: “You Lazy African Intellectuals – by Field Ruwe” [Hint: How Lazy “Nigerian” Intellectuals Underdevelop “Nigeria”?]

[Saturday]:

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[Tutorial 02] Using Named Ranges for Super Spreadsheet Optimisation and Automation

 

THE FARM CEO (Issue 61): The seeds of success: 4 start ups leading the field in agriculture, 12 top ways Israel feeds the world, Growing a business that helps small farmers in Africa

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

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.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

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 (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. 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 (SDAc).

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 The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

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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THE FARM CEO (Issue 61): The seeds of success: 4 start ups leading the field in agriculture, 12 top ways Israel feeds the world, Growing a business that helps small farmers in Africa

In this week’s issue of The Farm CEO, I feature 3 reports about latest discoveries in Farm Business across Africa.

1. The seeds of success: 4 start ups leading the field in agriculture

[Tutorial 02] Using Named Ranges for Super Spreadsheet Optimisation and Automation

[NB: These are excerpts from a full tutorial emailed to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club. They received the MS Excel Workbook example, a Video Demo, as well as an AMR Audio Recording in which I explained the best practice philosoophy that guides my unconventional approach to developing custom spreadsheet automation. Click here to request copies you can download]

In this tutorial I introduce one of the most powerful tools you can use to seriously boost your work related productivity in using MS Excel either as a user or as a VBA solutions developer/programmer.

The  simple database table used in this case study illustrate how NAMED RANGES  can make working with your spreadsheet data  much easier and less stressful/confusing or indeed error prone.

In addition, use of named ranges can help you use VBA coding more efficiently and effectively, to control MS Excel for your custom automation needs.

Below: Screensot showing a named range (nfAge) in the example workbook sent to club members, which defines the range comprising cells A9:A16 inthe spreadsheet table.

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Below: Screenshot of the annotated interface for the MS Excel Workbook in which this entire case study was treated.

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Below: Screenshot of the tutorial demonstration video I created in which I showed the steps for creating named ranges in a duplicate version of the original table shown above.

This has been emailed to members of my Excel-VB club, along with a copy of the MS Excel workbook containing the examples shown.

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Click here to request copies of the full tutorial you can download

Food for Thought for Nigeria @56: “You Lazy African Intellectuals – by Field Ruwe” [Hint: How Lazy “Nigerian” Intellectuals Underdevelop “Nigeria”?]

Yesterday (Saturday 1st October 2016) Nigeria clocked 56 years as an independent nation. Celebrations were however understandably muted/low key. Tough times have been hitting hard.

Avoidable tough times or self-inflicted hardships due to mismanagement that is!

The above is why I believe the write-up linked/previewed below offers Nigerian intellectuals in particular, serious food for thought to address her many problems.

I first read this compelling piece in 2014, and most of its contents greatly resonated with me. It was reportedly written by a US-based Zambian media practitioner and author named Field Ruwe, who (at the time) was a PhD candidate with a B.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism, and an M.A. in History.

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They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished.

In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa is the trailblazer. Some still call it “the dark continent” for the light that flickers under the tunnel is not that of hope, but an approaching train.

And because countless keep waiting in the way of the train, millions die and many more remain decapitated by the day.

“It’s amazing how you all sit there and watch yourselves die,” the man next to me said. “Get up and do something about it.”

Brawny, fully bald-headed, with intense, steely eyes, he was as cold as they come. When I first discovered I was going to spend my New Year’s Eve next to him on a non-stop JetBlue flight from Los Angeles to Boston I was angst-ridden. I associate marble-shaven Caucasians with iconoclastic skin-heads, most of who are racist.

“My name is Walter,” he extended his hand as soon as I settled in my seat.
I told him mine with a precautious smile.
“Where are you from?” he asked.

Click here to continue

This Strategy Eliminates the Need to Sell Physical Assets to Make Money [Audio Podcast]

Once payment is received and ownership has changed hands, the seller of a physical product can no longer – legally – seek to earn income from the sale of that particular “sold” item.

The media has been awash with news about Nigeria’s national assets, and plans by the government to sell them to raise badly needed funds.

But I ask: What happens after that?

Are we going to sell human beings (our human “assets”?) to get money to implement our budgets, since Oil sales have refused to improve?

Of course not.

The problem I see is that the assets being talked about are ONLY the physical ones – they are items that can only be sold once.

Sadly, the thinking prevalent in the Nigerian social space, is indicative of a severe lack of insights relevant to profitable money making using INTANGIBLE ASSETS in today’s Information Age.

Yes.

I’m saying Nigeria (and her citizens) has (have) many intangible assets that, well leveraged, can – and should – be aggressively used to generate multiple streams of income in various areas.

What I refer to is being done by progressive nations in Africa, Asia, Europe and America!

In this audio I analyze the faulty – yet deeply ingrained – mental attitude (deriving mainly from the kind of schooling we undergo) that’s preventing Nigerians in and out of government from adopting a ready-to-use strategy (employed by developed nations) that can make generation of valuable foreign exchange earnings a regular, reliable reality.

The best part is we already have EVERYTHING we need to begin using it and profiting from doing so, from today.

However our success (or otherwise) will be greatly determined by how willing we are to CHANGE our faulty mental attitudes and socio-economic habits.

Email me via tayo at tksola dot com (with “Intangible Assets” in the subject line), to request the download link to this 20 minute audio podcast.

In it, I propose ready-to-use ideas for zero cost adoption by individuals or groups in government or society, that – properly used – eliminate the need to sell physical assets you own, to raise funds you need.

Nigeria @56: Claim Your N5,600-to-buy-ANY-Product-Awoof [Expires MNT Fri 30/9/16]

I love what I do :-)

It’s always so much fun to be able to think up new ways to communicate with my target audience!

I worked overnight writing new articles for a proJect, and managed to squeeze in a new audio podcast recording.

Then just as I was about to go to sleep at 6:30a.m, the idea occurred to me to use Nigeria’s new age to compose the following offer…

Lol: Notice how my promo fee EQUALS Nigeria’s age multiplied by 100? Like I said, I love having fun doing what I do :-)

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Nigeria @56: Claim Your N5,600-to-buy-ANY-Product-Awoof [Expires MNT Fri 30/9/16]

If you pay N5,600.0 on or before MNT tomorrow 30/9/16, I’ll send you ANY product of your choice – no matter the price

[NB: Offer valid for first 5 persons to reply YES via email to tayo at tksola dot com to claim the offer].

So if there’s any product you’re interested in, or that you’ve contacted me about in the past, THIS is your chance to get it.

You’ll be saving N3k to over N65k.

But here’s the best part:

If you claim this offer, you ALSO get full membership of my Farm Business Ideas club, which includes 40% lifetime discount to buy any other products or services I offer in future.

TIP: Tell a friend about this opportunity, even if you don’t need it.

S/he may thank you for it!
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Happy 1st October Independence Day celebration in advance!

Get Listed in TheFarmCEO.net’s Farm Products Bulk Buyers & Sellers Database [Hint: Get your Personalised Copy of my Excel-VB Driven Business Contacts Database Manager software]

Click here to fill/submit your details for possible inclusion in my Farm Products Bulk Buyers & Sellers Database.

I’ll be sending out the download link to an updated copy every month end.

If you get listed, you will get a copy.

Here’s a most recent email request I’ve gotten that proves this database will be highly valued by many stake holders:

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Good afternoon sir,

I am just getting your mail now. But I don’t know if you have a famer that can supply 2000 crates of eggs to Apapa latest by tommorow evening @ 705 plus transport. A 30% down payment after delivery and 70% payment in two weeks… My uncle’s farm can’t carry that presently as we have customers plenty on our neck oo
=Ends=

I’d contacted the above quoted CEO on behalf of a client seeking bulk buyers.

This updatable Bulk Buyers & Sellers database I’m compiling will empower parties on both sides. The requests I get confirm this.

I’m using my Excel-VB Driven Business Contacts Manager software to compile the data

Watch the video demo below, for the app which I built in 2006.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Y0gv8QjBZI

Click here to fill a web form. Specify the details of your interest in the comments field to do 1 and/or 2 outlined below
:

1. Submit your entry into the Farm Products Bulk Buyers & Sellers Database.
And/or…

2. Request a personalized copy of my Excel-VB Contacts Manager app for your own use at a special promo price offer.

PS: Here’s the original description of what the Contacts Manager app does, as I wrote it 10 years ago

Discard bulky cardholders & STILL have access to ALL your business/personal contacts data in ONE place.

You need to send out gifts, and greeting cards to your business contacts…BUT there’s A PROBLEM!

If only you had all the names, snail mail/email addresses, phone numbers etc in ONE place.

If only you could print out all the contact data for EACH person in a neat alphabetically arranged table format for you or your assistant to refer to in preparing mails or parcels to be delivered.

This app can help you do the above – and more.