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[Recommended] 5 Alternative Ways To Charge A Mobile Without Electricity [Hint: Why I’m Offering a Solar and Electricity Rechargeable Power Bank Gift to clients who signup for my Web Marketing/BOPMS offers]

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Sometimes having a power bank is not enough, because it will periodically need recharging, and if you cannot find an electric power source, your mobile phones will not get charged from it: you’ll be stuck with a dead power bank and mobile,

Lack of regular electricity in Nigeria makes the above scenario a persistent reality, making mockery of people’s efforts to invest in electricity dependent power banks.

In a bid to find a solution, I purchased and have been using a Solar Rechargeable Power Bank for a while now, which can also be recharged using public power supply as well as inside a car.

As you can imagine, my frequent traveling lifestyle makes this kind of multi featured power bank attractive to me.

The good thing is that when I’m recharging this power bank using solar energy, I am still able to connect and charge my Blackberry from its 2A outlet USB port. It’s so effective!

This device has so impressed me with its performance, that I’ve decided to buy and give it out to clients who signup for my WMS and/or BOPMS promo offers.

Why?

Because they will need their phones powered up as long as possible for use in the projects they sign up for.

For those without solar chargers, who find themselves without access to electricity, this recommended article linked below offers 5 alternative ways to charge mobile devices without electricity.

http://trak.in/tags/business/2014/08/07/5-alternative-charge-mobile-without-electricity/.

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Make Extra Money at Zero Cost (Plus: Get 1 Year Web Marketing Support) – Special Offer for Individuals and Organisations Serving Farm Businesses

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Indeed a section in my PDF Entrepreneur’s Survival Reference Manual (titled “25 Avoidable Mistakes No One Will Ever Warn You About In Starting Your Business in Nigeria) is devoted to JV Marketing.

See One Sheet Talk PDF reference to it here, and my 2006 EzineArticles.com reference to it here.

In that manual, I noted that many fail in business because they fail to explore use of JV marketing. I used excerpts from that book chapter to publish an article on the subject in Aug 2014 on my blog at http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/use-joint-venture-marketing-partnerships-to-achieve-greater-marketing-success/

Many times, I included specific examples of ways I try to use them – and how others have proposed them to me.

3 months ago, for instance, on 26th Feb 2016, in Issue 003 of my Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter, I offered a PDF report download, along with details of a Joint Venture proposal I made to Travel and Tours companies in Africa, regarding my Freelance Writing services.

That effort got me several useful Twitter mentions and retweets by notable players in the South African market.

Having said that, I must say that my personal experiences indicate that many Nigerian/African business owners and entrepreneurs need to explore using JV partnerships to boost their marketing reach and impact, while cutting their costs of marketing and customer/client acquisition by half or more.

I continue to explore ways to connect with others I identify, using this powerful strategy – the one below being a more recent example I’m promoting for consideration by individuals and organisations who serve Farm Businesses with non-competing solutions

This is an offer letter I sent out to the CEO of a magazine publishing outfit who reached out to me earlier in the year.

I share excerpts from it, for consideration by others who may be interested in this offer – and also to serve as useful information and education to those in need of ideas.

Dear (name removed),

Our previous phone conversation regarding your interest in Web Marketing Systems I develop for clients refers.

Thanks for connecting with me recently on Facebook. I was in Cotonou at the time, and made a mental note to contact you once I returned to Nigeria…

I’ve been thinking of ways to help you achieve your stated goals, along with mine, and I’m pleased to say I’ve found one that can work – if you’re interested.

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I propose we start a Joint Venture Marketing partnership
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Since we serve similar markets (I.e Farm business owners and stakeholders in the agriculture industry) we can use a barter exchange type arrangement to work together.

My offer:

One Year (12 Full Months) Web Marketing Support for your (magazine name removed) brand – (magazine URL removed).

This will be as per the details spelt out on the Dec 2016 offer page for my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service at

http://tayosolagbade.com/smclub-nonfarm.html

Ignore the past due offer dates on that page.

Ignore also the N150k service offer fee.

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Here’s what I request instead:
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1. Payment to develop a custom Web Marketing System to boost your marketing reach and impact, on or off the web.

The Dec 2016 Promo fee = N150k.

My JV Partnership Offer to you = N120k

However, if you take up the offer on or before:

I. MNT today (deadline date removed), you can pay N80k.

If that’s not possible, take it up on before…

Ii. 12 Noon tomorrow (deadline date removed), and you can pay only N100k.

NB: Regardless of which option you choose above, after developing it, I will manage the WMS I build for you, as described on the above page, for 1 year or longer – at zero cost to you.

What I will do for you is what I do for my brand (via www.tayosolagbade.com which led YOU to me) I.e to generate quality sales leads.

A WMS, when well designed, and used, gets you noticed by (and attracts to you) those who need the solution(s) you offer.

I. View a mindmap I use to explain the key components of a WMS at the link below:

http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/wms-mindmap-writers.pdf

Ii. In the email that will follow this one, I will attach a zipped folder containing a video in which I explain how a WMS works, using the above mindmap.

2. In exchange for managing your WMS FREE for one year, I would like to have FREE ad slots for my 3 Farm Support Products which I’ve sold for years using my own WMS (see details in the attached proof PDF) on your website, and in every issue of your magazine for as long as our JV partnership continues

3. Make N4k to N35k or more per sale of my products

The partnership I propose can also yield Passive Income benefits for you:

This is because regarding the adverts for my products that I propose you publish on your website and in your mag, I offer you 50% of any resulting sales – upfront – as JV partnership commission.

A special enquiry form designed to auto-copy enquiries to your email will be linked to the ad banners on your website.

Enquirers from your network will always be asked to make payment through you.

That way, you will be aware of sales made, and you’ll simply take out your 50% from payments made to you, before sending the rest to me.

All order fulfilment notes will be copied to your email box, for your use as Quality Control check that each buyer got what s/he paid for.

My 3 farm business support products are tried and tested in the market (having been on sale for years) and they meet a felt need of majority of farm businesses.

So this can make our partnership quite lucrative on the income generating front, even as I implement a custom WMS to better attract your target audience.

See the attached proof PDF document for 3 real life case studies of sales I made of my customizable ExcelVB Monthly Poultry Farm Manager software in a 6 week period, totalling N230k – all via my WMS, and without meeting any of the buyers in person.

4. Other benefits you get:

I. I will place FREE advert banners for ALL your magazine’s advertisers on http://www.tayosolagbade.com, in addition to http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets, http://www.thefarmceo.net and http://www.excelheaven.biz.

Ii. In addition, I will explore ways, in liaison with you, to implement other key components of a WMS for you. See the attached PDF mind map showing all 9 components.

5. Becoming my WMS client will get you lifetime membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs Club (see the closed/private Facebook group at https://m.facebook.com/groups/736287616508718?refid=27 )

Apart from FREE Web Marketing coaching, tips, ideas, information and strategies shared to members, this comes with 50% discount for life, to buy any other products or services I offer.

See examples at
www.tayosolagbade.com/sdn-sell.htm

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Summary: That’s my offer!
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I strongly believe we can make this JV partnership work, and that’s why I’ve put together this ready-to-implement offer, with significant concessions.

Some of the offers I’ve made are time limited, mainly because the discount concessions and benefits attached are quite hefty.

Many clients I have today are long term friends from years back because they too the required leap of faith to signup for my time bound offers.

The normal fees remain accessible upon expiration of the promo offer deadlines.

Let me know if you have questions or require clarification.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade*
Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur

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

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

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http://www.thefarmceo.net [The Farm CEO Newspaper]

http://www.excelheaven.biz [Custom Excel Visual Basic driven Software Development]

http://www.tksola.com [Response Generating Writing and Web Marketing Solutions]

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Make Me Your Secret Weapon to rapidly Propagate Marketing Messages to the Right Target Audience [Special Promo Offer to CEOs]

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Imagine a system that makes new clients come to you instead of YOU having to go around or sending people out to find them?

Visualize for one moment a system that answers most questions that such clients often ask.

A system that will make them contact you about buying even though you place NO paid adverts. Click here to request a proof PDF of the results I get.

Imagine a system that ensures that your online presence never gets stale in content!

In other words, you will be confident that anyone who goes there will be enriched.

Using this system, you can control what Google says about you or your business/company. Indeed, you can make Google feature pages and other contents about you in its results page, more than it does for your competitors.

The above will make you spend less money, time and effort to get found by more people who want to buy from you.

Not just that, this system will make the clients you have proudly tell others about you!

Most importantly, you will attract enquirers during holidays, after office hours, while you sleep.

TV, radio and newspaper advertising are often too expensive and always expire.

You can use a timeless WMS that markets your products for free and never expires!

A WMS can be used to improve other marketing efforts you make e.g. reducing cost, time, effort. It works by getting you noticed by those who need the solution you offer, so they decide to contact you by email, phone etc.

This system makes them believe what you tell them, and they also believe you are a better choice, compared to others they may be aware of.

As a CEO, your busy schedule can make it hard for you to implement a Web Marketing System as much as it should be done to get it up and running.

That’s why I’m offering 1 year support.

Think of me as the secret weapon you will have to overcome that problem so as to rapidly prepare and effectively propagate the exciting information, education and news that will get your business noticed by more potential clients.

See full details of what I will be doing for you here – click now.

What I want: Ignore the fees on the above page.

Instead pay N 120,000.0, and I will do everything on that page for you. Click here now to send me a web form message indicating that you read this Special Offer.

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PII 015 [TRUE STORY]: To Succeed, Your Farm Does Not Just Need a Software – It Needs a BOPMS!

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Below is a message I received from a Farm CEO few days ago, asking for a software solution:

“…I’m currently running a piggery business with no record keeping. At best, very poor and would love you developing a software that can help in terms of reporting, analysing and profitability including growth, effectiveness and efficiency.

I also have several colleagues needing same and it would be my pleasure leading them to you based on your products delivering my needs.

Let us explore this further please.”

I’ve been getting requests like these more frequently in the recent past, indicating that more Farm CEOs are keen to adopt best practice management of their farm businesses.

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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 015: To Succeed, Your Farm Does Not Just Need a Software – It Needs a BOPMS!

Below is a message I received from a Farm CEO few days ago, asking for a software solution:

“…I’m currently running a piggery business with no record keeping. At best, very poor and would love you developing a software that can help in terms of reporting, analysing and profitability including growth, effectiveness and efficiency.

I also have several colleagues needing same and it would be my pleasure leading them to you based on your products delivering my needs.

Let us explore this further please.”

I’ve been getting requests like these more frequently in the recent past, indicating that more Farm CEOs are keen to adopt best practice management of their farm businesses.

Below is a generic response message I typically send to them, in which I outline my recommendation for a complete solution, ending with several offers for the relevant CEO to choose from.

I share the contents of that message here, in the hope that others might learn a thing or two.

Dear (name here),

Thanks for your request. I’m an advocate of Best Practice Farm Business Management driven by the often neglected strategy of Variable Cost Reduction (VCR).
In 2009, I used my training and experiences as a Best Practice Batch Production Process Manager from my successful 7 year run in Guinness Nigeria, to develop what I call a BOPMS (Best Operating Process Management System) model, that I now encourage farm owners to adopt, and of which VCR is an integral element powered by custom software or Enterprise Information Systems (EIS).

I mentioned this BOPMS concept, with its mind map on page 11 of the International Agribusiness paper I got paid to write by a European Union funded NGO in 2013. Learn more about it at http://tinyurl.com/AgribizPDF.

I see the BOPMS format missing in many farm businesses. And that’s why many struggle to yield consistent output. As a result, most owners cannot stay away for too long for fear of things going wrong.

Among other benefits, the BOPMS, used correctly, as I prescribe after setup, can help you maintain – even increase! – your profits without raising your prices.

Years ago I published the following article on the foregoing theme:

http://ezinearticles.com/?You-Can-Increase-Your-Profits-Without-Raising-Your-Prices&id=199684

Now, given the multiple layers of input price increases and scarcity (e.g. of maize, petrol) faced by farms and their target buyers, you will agree with me that raising farm gate prices will likely cause drops in sales volumes. But I argue that you can maintain or boost your profits by spending less while producing more AND selling more via a BOPMS. You will be increasing or maintaining profits by reducing operating expenses, increasing output, and selling more. This will not happen overnight, but it can, if done right.

And that’s why I would like to offer you a ONE Year BOPMS based Support Service.

I recommend you adopt what I call a BOPMS for Profitable and Stress-FREE Farm Business Management.

My Poultry Farm Manager app was built in 2009 for use by Farm businesses as a first step towards getting them to adopt the BOPMS. I can build a similar performance improvement app for your kind of farm business as part of a custom BOPMS in the same way.

Get 2 FREE bonuses:

1. One year Marketing Support to find bulk buyers

This is as per the details spelt out on the Dec 2016 offer page for my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service – see below.

http://tayosolagbade.com/smclub-nonfarm.html

Ignore the dates. Ignore the N150k service offer fee: If you take up my BOPMS offer, you will get the service promised on that page – completely FREE for 1 full year (you purchase domain/hosting with me). That means I will develop and implement a Web Marketing System to promote your farm business’ to attract bulk buyers for 1 year at zero cost to you.

So, you will end up with an Effective Online presence (built around www.yourfarm.com for example) updated with 100% original bulk-buying client attracting content ghost-written in your name by me and auto-published via your website, blog, facebook and Twitter platforms. See full details at http://tayosolagbade.com/smclub-nonfarm.html

What I will do for you is what I do for my brand (via www.tayosolagbade.com which led YOU to me).

2. FREE Customization of your Enterprise Information System (EIS) or Software

During the course of the 1 year period, I will modify the software I build for you to:

A. Meet any additional needs we identify and agree on for your farm business

B. Accommodate the various aspects of the BOPMS that will be setup for you. This will ensure you and your team members have ready access to required documents, farm record forms and reports that will be auto generated for use in your BOPMS from custom interfaces in the app.

What you need to do to get the above bonuses:

Signup to have me setup a BOPMS for your Farm business. Attached to this email is a mind map (bopms-video-shot.png) with highlights of key components. Pay particular attention to the Workplace Organization module (which includes development of Job Descriptions, Work Instructions, Record formats, KPIs, Problem Solving Guides etc).

Click here to watch a screenshot video in which I use a mind map to explain the Best Operating Process Management System (BOPMS)™ and it's components.

 

Below are introductory articles about the BOPMS

Its proprietary nature makes it difficult for me to reveal more, except to paid clients.

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/best-practices-boost-farm-employees-productivity-3-tips

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/powerful-resources-to-boost-your-poultry-farms-performance/

FREE BOPMS Training:

I will provide FREE downloadable PDF, Video (and if you want, FREE on-site coaching) for you and members of your farm business on how to make effective use of your BOPMS daily, weekly, monthly etc

Payment Options

Option A: Standard BOPMS development fee – which includes building a custom EIS or software – is N500k (Five Hundred Thousand Naira).

However, you can sign up for full BOPMS by…

1. Paying N250k at once on or before (deadline here)

Or

2. Paying N350k in 3 installments, starting with N200k on or before (deadline here) followed by N75k payments every 30 days for 2 months.

Tip: You can take up ANY of the above time limited offers by sharing the payment with up to 4 other Farm CEOs. That way each of you only pays a fraction (e.g. N50k per CEO for Offer 1) of the fee to get the full BOPMS (which includes the software).

Another tip: If you need time to get buy-in from others, pay N75k on or before (deadline here), to tie down Offer 1, then pay the balance or before (deadline here).

Option B: If however the above offer of the BOPMS does not interest you, here’s an alternative offer:

I will build for you, a Custom Excel VB driven Pig Farm Business Manager software (based on requirements you specify), with similar best practice automated data handling and report generation features to my Poultry Farm Manager:

If you pay N200k instead of the standard N300k fee, on or before (deadline here)

Tip: You can take up this time limited offer to build a custom software for your farm by sharing the payment with up to 4 other Farm CEOs. That way each of you only pays a fraction (i.e. N40k per CEO) to get the full software.

Another tip: If you need time to get buy-in from others, pay N75k, on or before (deadline here), to tie down the offer, then pay the balance or before (deadline here).

Summary

Those are my offers (name removed). I hope you find one that meets your needs.

The options I have given you are a gesture of goodwill borne out of a desire to help you achieve profitable and stress-free benefits from your farm business.

I have done extensive research and review of best practice pig/swine farm business, and also have close contact with some active pig farm owners in Nigeria.

This is why I’m able to confidently offer you the above solutions. It goes without saying that I will still use my standard Functional Requirements Specification (FRS) Form to obtain additional information about specific features you want in your app, if you decide to go further with this.

 

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New posts from last week*

Monday:

PII 014: When Citizens Break Laws at Will, Foreigners Follow Their Lead [Two Real Life Case Studies from Nigeria’s Seme Border With Benin Republic]

 

[Tuesday]:

Smart Web Marketing Works (Hint: First Order Received for my Newly Launched “Custom Sewn Traditional African Outfits from Cotonou” Delivery Service!)

[Wednesday]:

Know Your Rights As An Electricity Consumer in Nigeria [Source: Publication by Dr. Anthony Akah,mni, Ag. CEO/Chairman,NERC]

[Thursday]:

[Friday]:

Protected: Get 1 Year FREE Support to Simultaneously Lower Farm Costs & Produce/Sell More! [Exclusive BOPMS Offer for Farm CEO Users of my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager Software]

[Saturday]:

RECOMMENDED: The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 2) – Presentation is Extremely Important [Strive Masiyawa’s Latest World Class “Business School Quality” Lesson]

 

 

[Sunday]:

Protected: One Danger of Using Shortcut Keys for Your Excel-VB Macros, and How to Guard Against It [Coding Tip for Tayo Solagbade’s Excel VB Automation Club Members]

 

Protected: THE FARM CEO (Issue 46): Poultry contributes 25% to Nigeria’s GDP – PAN President, Food Nigeria Expo and Conference 18 – 20 May 2016. Lagos, 1st International Conference on Quail and Lesser-known Poultry 2016 WPSA, FG to distribute 7,500 metric tons maize

 

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Creator of the Mastering Adversity for Perpetual Success Achievement Coaching Program

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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RECOMMENDED: The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 2) – Presentation is Extremely Important [Strive Masiyawa’s Latest World Class “Business School Quality” Lesson]

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I still do NOT understand why this wonderful man’s Facebook powered teachings, superior to what business schools offer in terms of real world relevance, are not SYNDICATED by media houses across Africa.

 

Strive Masiyawa dishes out weekly world class entrepreneurship wisdom to African entrepreneurs, and those aspiring, at zero cost – yet I cannot remember ever seeing or hearing him get quoted.

 

This man is a real life Digital Entrepreneurship International Success Story made 100% in Africa, yet most Africans I mention his name to do NOT recognize it(or so they say).

 

But mention Bill Gates and Richard Branson (both of who KNOW Masiyawa) and the same Africans will readily tell you who they are and what they do:

 

What is it with us Africans, that makes most of us so unwilling/unable to acknowledge promote our own to the rest of the world?!

 

Whatever it is, I refuse to let it hold ME back from doing what the spirit of the Creator within me has ALWAYS guided me to do.

 

Even if a person does not know me, for what I do, if I see that telling others about him/her will result in useful benefits, I will do it, as often as necessary, without needing anything from him/her.

 

It is with the above mindset that I share the following preview and link to Strive Masiyawa’s latest “World Class “Business School Quality” Lesson:

 

Title: “The third most important skill in business (Part 2).

__Presentation is extremely important.”

 

In July 1997 I learned about a public tender for a GSM cellular license taking place in the southern African country of Botswana. I decided that we must submit a bid, even though I knew the competition would be fierce.

 

Having purchased the bid documents, I sat down with my team and carefully went through each page, line by line. We must have spent three days, working over 20 hours a day, reviewing this document which was not more than 50 pages long.

 

Continue reading:

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Lagos To Host Food Security Summit In June (Source: Lagos Television)

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The 2016 Poultry Summit organized by Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) recently held at Astra Halls in Ikeja Lagos. The theme was “The Role of Poultry Industry In The Economic Revival of Nigeria”. I’m compiling news and reports highlights for that event, from various sources, into a special FREE edition of The Farm CEO newspaper to be published later this week.

For now, I feature this news report of another event of potential interest to more farm business owners and enthusiasts, being organised by the Lagos State government, called Food Security Summit – to hold In June 2016. Details below…

Lagos To Host Food Security Summit In June
Lagos To Host Food Security Summit In June

 

In line with the present administration’s Sustainable Food Security Initiative, the Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has concluded plans to host a world-class Food Security Summit in June, 2016.
Mr. Suarau Oluwatoyin Isiaka, State Commissioner for Agriculture disclosed this on Tuesday at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, during the 2016 Ministerial Press Briefing of the State Government in commemoration of the first year in office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
He stated that the summit becomes imperative in order to redress the food security challenges in the State, stressing that it is expected to attract organizations that seek to partner with the State in the realization of its Food Security Agenda. – See more at:<a href=”http://www.lagostelevision.com/lagos-to-host-food-security-summit-in-june” target=”blank”>http://www.lagostelevision.com/lagos-to-host-food-security-summit-in-june</a>
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Know Your Rights As An Electricity Consumer in Nigeria [Source: Publication by Dr. Anthony Akah,mni, Ag. CEO/Chairman,NERC]

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The text of this publication (signed by Dr. Anthony Akah,mni, Ag. CEO/Chairman,NERC) was sent to me by a Farm CEO client. I found the contents worthy of publication on my blog. In light of the suffering and abuse that Nigerian electricity consumers are routinely subjected to, access to this documented enumeration of consumer rights, by the top officer in NERC puts power back where it belongs: in the hands of the consumers!

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Many Nigerians do not know that they have certain rights as electricity consumers in the nation.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the body empowered to meet the yearnings of Nigerians for stable, adequate and safe electricity supply, has taken the bulll by the horn by releasing to the public, the rights of every electricity consumer.

Read the rights below:

1. All new electricity connections must be done strictly on the basis of metering before connection. That is, no new customer should be connected without meter first being installed.

2. A customer who elects to procure meter under the Credited Advance Payment for Metering Implementation (CAPMI) Scheme must be metered within 60 days, after which the customer will neither be billed nor disconnected by the electricity distribution company.

3. It is the customer’s right to transparent electricity billing. Unmetered customers should be issued with electricity bills strictly based on NERC’s estimated billing methodology.

4. It is the customer’s right to be notified in writing ahead of disconnection of electricity service by the electricity distribution company serving the customer in line with NERC’s guidleines.

5. It is the customer’s right to prompt investigation of complaints arising from the customer’s electricity service disruption

6. It is not the responsibility of electricity customer or community to buy, replace or repair electricity transformers, poles and related equipment used in supply of electricity.

7. It is the customer’s right to contest any electricity bill. Any unmetered customer who is disputing his or her estimated bill has the right not to pay the disputed bill, but pay only the last undisputed bill as the contested bill go through the dispute resolution process of NERC.

8. All complaints on your electricity supply and other billing issues are to be sent to your nearest business unit of the electricity company serving your premises. If your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, you can forward your complaint to the NERC Forum Office within the coverage area of your electricity distribution company. Customers also have the right to appeal the decision of the forum at the NERC headquarters in Abuja.

Log into: www.nercng.org for more details or contact:

NERC ZONAL OFFICE CONTACTS:
08164201445 Joseph John southwest; 08130363581 Tony Ray Ene South South; 08062219714 Ekeh Samuel Chukwuemeka Southeast;
07061117416 Hassan GWANDU north west;
07061097132 Mohammed Umar fufore North East;
07036948408 Friday Sule North Central.

Please share this information and help us protect your rights. However,note that you have an obligation to pay your valid electric bills,avoid meter by-pass or stealing of electricity and protect power infrastructure from being vandalized.

Together,by doing our part, we can get the power sector we all desired.

Dr.Anthony Akah,mni
Ag. CEO/Chairman,NERC