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PII 157: Why Is Nigeria Such a Terrible Country? [A Nigerian University Professor Gives a PERFECT Response to This Quora.com Question] – Highly Recommended

NB: At the risk of stating the obvious, far from being self-serving, this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a Public Service. 
Welcome.
Anyone familiar with me, and/or my writing most likely KNOWS that I do not hesitate to speak my mind on ANY issues. And when it comes to Nigeria, I am deliberately unapologetic and blunt in stating my views about how badly it has been – and is being run – by its leaders, and also how badly VERY MANY of its citizens behave, on a daily basis,  making it unpleasant for most people to live.
Little wonder that citizens readily seize any opportunity to FLEE to any other country.

When I saw the question “Why is Nigeria such a terrible country?” on Quora.com I felt a great urge to post a response to it.

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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 157: Why Is Nigeria Such a Terrible Country? [A Nigerian University Professor Gives a PERFECT Response to This Quora.com Question] – Highly Recommended

NB: At the risk of stating the obvious, far from being self-serving, this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a Public Service. 
Welcome.
Anyone familiar with me, and/or my writing most likely KNOWS that I do not hesitate to speak my mind on ANY issues. And when it comes to Nigeria, I am deliberately unapologetic and blunt in stating my views about how badly it has been – and is being run – by its leaders, and also how badly VERY MANY of its citizens behave, on a daily basis,  making it unpleasant for most people to live.
Little wonder that citizens readily seize any opportunity to FLEE to any other country.

When I saw the question “Why is Nigeria such a terrible country?” on Quora.com I felt a great urge to post a response to it.

I felt that way because I was almost convinced that most outsiders would NOT be accurate in the views they posted, and that any insiders (i.e. Nigerians in or out of the country) were likely to indulge in the usual nonsense like mentioning worse places, or saying Nigeria was getting better.
But right from the first paragraph of Prof. Omotayo Fakinlede‘s reponse to the question, I could tell that my contribution would not be needed.
By the time I was done reading, it was clear he had said ALL that needed to be said, making it crystal clear, like I had wanted to do, that Nigeria IS the way it is MAINLY because both leaders and followers are co-conspirators in the shameful mismanagement of one of the most blessed nations on the planet.
Hopefully it will serve as food for serious thought for those naughty individuals engaged in the sad practices described, so that they might turn over a new leaf, and enable Nigeria STOP being a crawling giant!

Read the preview below, and click the link at the bottom, to read his full answer:

Out of sixteen answers I can see here, the Jewish Agronomist, Ian Kedem, in a few words, hit the nail on the head. Before I discuss his answer, let us note that several of my compatriots here engage in a very “Nigerian” pastime: Dispute the basis of the question itself; get angry about the question and indulge in our kind of “nationalism” in wishing away the truth. Nigeria, AD 2018, is a terrible country to live in. Take it from me, I am more than sixty years old and have lived here most of my life. I have also traveled the world. I have a clear idea of how other peoples manage their problems.

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The British left here long before most of the Nigerians living today were born. Blaming them for Nigeria’s problems is not just foolish, but self immolating for the simple reason that it means that unless “lord” Lugard came back to life, we will continue to wallow in this mess. Thankfully, some other African countries are not waiting for us: Rwanda is shedding its recent violent ethnic cleansing and moving to a better country that can look after its people. Botswana, Namibia, and others are giving Africa something to be happy about. I rejoice greatly for these nations!

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Nigeria-such-a-terrible-country

 

 

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Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
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INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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PII 156: You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success

Google the question below:

“Do you need to be a good storyteller to be a successful sales person?”

The results you get confirm the accuracy of the claim made in the title of this latest issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, which says:

“You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success”

Indeed some of the most successful sales people in the world have been referred to as MASTER STORYTELLERS – and with good reason: they tell stories that make people buy!

In the rest of this piece, I explain how you can use storytelling to achieve your own repeat selling success.

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Monday 18th March 2019

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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 156: You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success

Google the question below:

“Do you need to be a good storyteller to be a successful sales person?”

The results you get confirm the accuracy of the claim made in the title of this latest issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, which says:

“You Need to Tell Stories to Achieve Superior Business Marketing Success”

Indeed some of the most successful sales people in the world have been referred to as MASTER STORYTELLERS – and with good reason: they tell stories that make people buy!

In the rest of this piece, I explain how you can use storytelling to achieve your own repeat selling success.

At the risk of sounding like I am bragging, I happen to be gifted in using storytelling to sell. And it has played a big part in the success I have achieved at various levels in selling my products and services internationally.

I have NEVER read ANY of the articles that came up on that Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when I did the search (see some below this article).

But I have known THE truth about storytelling being a key ingredient for selling, from my early startup years, back in 2002 through 2005 reading widely about the careers of many different successful entrepreneurs (This was when I started article marketing from my first website – spontaneousdevelopmentdotcom)

Over time, I intuitively adopted storytelling as a selling strategy, when – while struggling with serious cash flow limitations – I discovered that prospects tended to buy in more readily to offers I made when they read (or heard me narrate) one of many true stories about how I used my solution to solve problems for others like them.

Today, many years after I adopted that approach, I have gone on to publish hundreds of articles based on real life sales experiences I have had – AND they have boosted my sales leads generation efforts again and again!

Sometimes I even share transcripts from actual sales conversations, on phone, email, WhatsApp etc.

An example is the true story published in last week’s issue of this newsletter about an international sale I made, of one of my Excel-VB Software products.

It is this approach that influences those who encounter my web marketing (which is primarily done based Article Marketing where I share those stories) to make contact with me.

And like I have said in past articles on this theme, the stories I tell are often so compelling in their authenticity, that prospects who read them, often go out of their way, to connect with me.

For instance, there have been some who filled and submitted a request for my products via my website contact form, but got no response from me (due to problems with email delivery from the script to my inbox).

So they came back and resubmitted the form, after which some came over to contact me via Facebook, Facebook, even Twitter.

Examples: Screenshot of real life sales conversations initiated by different prospects via Facebook Messages either to my Personal Profile or one of my Facebook pages (SDAc’s Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas).

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[Interesting Fact: Looking back now, I just realized that the only Social Media platform I use, but have NEVER had a prospective buyer reach out to me from is LinkedIn.com.]

In essence I am saying, when you use storytelling the right way, especially through articles you publish and propagate via your Web Marketing System, potential buyers, who fit your target audience profile are more likely to become HIGHLY MOTIVATED to buy from you.

They will gladly go the extra mile to do what I needed to get money to you, in exchange for what you sell, which they want.

Isn’t that what we are all in business hoping will happen – repeatedly – for us?

Of course it is. But DOING IT takes work!

For one thing, you must use TRUE STORIES. No lies. No fairy tales. No false claims. Nothing phony.

You have to be 100% authentic – a good way being NOT leaving out stories about those times when you actually failed FLAT on your face. Don’t try to use your storytelling to paint yourself as being a perfect person. People want to connect with a human being!

Again – remember that lies or half-truths about your achievements will only create unexpected complications for you later.

Be upfront, honest and straightforward in sharing what you know and where you’ve been with your target audience, in a manner that demonstrates you have gained real world relevant competence that THEY can benefit from.

That is what SMART storytelling will do for you!

Read Master Salesmen Use Smart Ideas to Sell. Ordinary Salesmen Don’t! [TIP: Be a Master Salesman – Experience Based Ideas from a Master Salesman]!

I help clients – through my Freelance Writing/Web Marketing Support Service – achieve the foregoing and more.

Once they join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, I handle ALL of the work to be done, for 12 full months – and while doing it all, I also COACH and challenge them to DO what I coach them to do. This is so they will, at some point be able to do it by themselves, while I step back and provide support from behind the scenes.

Click here to learn how to join my Web Marketing for CEOs club.

Related Articles (Extracted from the SERP linked earlier in the above piece)

  1. Why Storytelling Is A Must-Have Inside Sales Skill
  2. The 7 storytelling secrets of successful salespeopl
  3. Storytelling In Sales: Make Your Client the Hero
  4. Why Good Storytelling Beats Good Selling
  5. Why Every Salesperson Must Be a Master Storyteller
  6. 5 Stories Every Salesperson Should be Prepared to Tell
  7. Why Storytelling Is Scientifically Proven To Boost Sales
  8. Trending This Week: The Salesperson as a Storyteller

     

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

Click here to learn how you can join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, and get my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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Download this PDF ebook to read the true story of how I literally single-handedly created a market for my Excel-Visual Basic solutions development service in Nigeria/Africa.

In February 2019, a young African university graduate, working as an Agric. Consultant in East Africa, wrote me on Facebook (See screenshot above with video demonstration link) that he had been inspired by my ExcelVB Ration Formulator to create his own version of THAT software, by learning and using MS Excel Visual Basic.

And he apparently now offers his own application and also his spreadsheet software development service, to Farm Businesses in his country. My vision is to help young people and interested adult experts make money like I do, as Excel-VB solution developers of low cost alternative custom software for small and medium businesses out here. 

Extension professionals can collaborate with Farm Business Owners to develop low cost custom spreadsheet software (like I do) to achieve useful data recording, analysis and report generation benefits, that aid timely profit-boosting farm management decision making. Learn more in this issue of my newsletter.

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Monday 11th March 2019

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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 155: Make Money Building & Selling Custom Excel-VB Software to Profitable Niche markets [Join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club to Start Learning HOW]

*FREE Membership Access for Agricultural Extension Professionals (Read Below)

Extension professionals can collaborate with Farm Business Owners to develop low cost custom spreadsheet software (like I do) to achieve useful data recording, analysis and report generation benefits, that aid timely profit-boosting farm management decision making.

Learn about my proposed Farm Business Suppot Centre (FBSC) at www.tayosolagbade.com/fbsc

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In February 2019, a young African university graduate, working as an Agric. Consultant in East Africa, wrote me on Facebook (See screenshot above with video demonstration link) that he had been inspired by my ExcelVB Ration Formulator to create his own version of THAT software, by learning and using MS Excel Visual Basic.

And he apparently now offers his own application and also his spreadsheet software development service, to Farm Businesses in his country. My vision is to help young people and interested adult experts make money like I do, as Excel-VB solution developers of low cost alternative custom software for small and medium businesses out here.

I run a coaching club called the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club with members from different countries. *To join, e-mail tayo at tksola dot com (Subject: “XLVB Club”) stating your name, job title, country and email address. *Agricultural Extension Professionals get FREE Access (Terms Apply)

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Name: SOLAGBADE Tayo Kayode

Title: Location Independendent Multipreneur [a Multiskilled Entrepreneur working as a Digital Nomad]
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Above: I met for the first time ever, with this Abeokuta, Ogun State – Nigeria based Poultry Layer Farm CEO (O. Azeez) on 15th February 2019

Venue was Sherryville Arcade (opposite First Bank Plc, Ojodu Berger, in Lagos. This was after he purchased my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager software.
Over the past decade, I have sold my applications to Farm CEOs from countries within and outside Africa e.g Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, United Kingdom, UAE, Canada, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi etc. Over 80% NEVER meet in person with me, yet we go on to build friendships via phone, email and social media. [Read No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

NB: All claims I make about my work are 100% verifiable. Simply get in touch with me (see details below) – DOWNLOAD the infographic below

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Connect with me using any of the following:

Phone: +234-8033021263 (in Nigeria) OR +229-66122136 (in Benin Rep)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com
Twitter: @tksola

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
Standard FEE for Talk – N100k

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Get 1 Year Web Marketing Saupport: Become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club

Click here to learn how you can join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, and get my 1 year Web Marketing Support Service

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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[RECOMMENDED] The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author) – Amazon.com

Linked/previewed below (incl. screenshot of online store) with its blunt, truth telling matter-of-fact title (The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018– is yet another publication I’ve found – this time a full book, (available in print and digital formats) preaching the need for us to change the way we EDUCATE people!

And it has been chalking up high ratings from buyers/reviewers for its unapologetic message about how irrelevant our traditional schooling system has become, to our needs in the 21st century and the future we all see coming.

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Hardcover – January 30, 2018 by Bryan Caplan (Author)

Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education

Despite being immensely popular–and immensely lucrative – education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students’ skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity?in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.

Click here to visit the online store to read the preview,  reviews, and buy it.

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Just yesterday, I published a new blog recommending the article titled “College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com”. In it, I linked to 3 other write-ups from several years earlier (two of them – one of which is a 62 page White Paper – written by me) on the same theme.

My eyes were opened to this problem through reading and listening to VISIONARY THINKERS like Robert Kiyosaki (author of If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don’t Go to School and Why A Students Work for C Students and Why B Students Work for the Government) and Sir Ken Robinson (TEDx talk titled Schools Kill Creativity).

It goes without saying that OUR numbers are growing i.e. those of us who SEE the harsh reality and are unafraid to say what others also SEE but are too scared to say or admit.

Like it or not, you – as a parent, teacher, or policy maker – will at some point (if you are yet to) come to ACCEPT that things need to change completely.

Our so called “education systems” no longer work well enough to support our individual societies.

We need to overhaul them and adopt a new system that is tried and tested. One which requires education to be DECENTRALIZED and customized to suit each child’s peculiar needs.

So much reinventing needs to be done – and societies that fail to make the needed changes WILL be left FAR behind by others that do!

It’s that simple.

Related Articles

  1. [RECOMMENDED] How Schools Are Killing Creativity – by Line Dalile, 14-year-old student and writer @ huffingtonpost dot com
  2. Schools Can Kill Your Child’s Creativity – IF You Don’t Apply These Tips
  3. Conversation between Entrepreneur Parent and His Kids’ Lesson Teacher
  4. [BPP] This 2016 Viral Video Sues “School” for Killing Creativity, Individuality and being Intellectually Abusive

[RECOMMENDED] College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

On 1st November 2017, I posted a link recommending the article titled Why The Degree is Dying (and being replaced by something better) by Isaac Morehouse – Founder & CEO of Praxis.

Five years earlier, on 13th November 2012, I’d written an experience based blog post titled A New Generation of Entrepreneurs PROVES That Our Schools Need To Offer a Different Kind of Education!

That earlier piece voiced my concern about the serious need for a total overhaul of the formal schooling system which most societies continue to operate, despite glaring evidence that it was becoming less and less relevant to the real world learners would have to enter!

I have since gone on to publish a 62 page White Paper which I have been invited to discuss with policy makers’ representatives. Read TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

The article previewed/linked below was written on 4th September 2018, less than 6 months ago, and echoes the same sentiments expressed in the write-ups mentioned above. The obvious implication is that nothing has changed, and our schools continue to offer what is effectively irrelevant education.

College is Dying, Design Your Own Education – by Jonny of Hackernoon.com

College is dying.

I’m not referring to the institutions — those will probably survive for a few more decades.

I’m referring to the paradigm.

A paradigm where in order to acquire education you have to:

  1. Select a single field of study.

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The truth is that parents today need to take control of their children’s education and ensure it it customized for each child, based on his/her natural abilities, talents and genius.

If you are a wise parent, you will take this warning and make needed changes for your child’s sake, before it is too late!

PII 153 [TRUE STORIES]: Using a Web Marketing System Yields Residual Sales Leads Generation Power – Bonus Commandment No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success

This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, doubles as BONUS COMMANDMENT No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success.

In it, I explain how using Web Marketing, the way I recommend can help you establish what I call RESIDUAL SALES LEADS Generation Power that channels a valuable timeless stream of high quality sales leads into your sales funnel on a regular basis.

To illustrate what I mean, I share screenshots from my sales conversations with:

1. A UK based Nigerian Startup Farm CEO who tried to reach me on phone without success, before deciding to send me a direct email towards purchasing my Poultry Farm Manager

2. A Malawi based Farm CEO who first emailed me on 28th September 2018 but had to persist in exploring ways to send me payment for my Feed Formulation Bundle – right up till 8th February 2019 (well over 4 months) last week!

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

Monday 11th  January 2019

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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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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 153 [TRUE STORIES]: Using a Web Marketing System Yields Residual Sales Leads Generation Power – Bonus Commandment No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success

This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, doubles as BONUS COMMANDMENT No. 3 of my 10 Commandments of Web Marketing for Business Success.

In it, I explain how using Web Marketing, the way I recommend can help you establish what I call RESIDUAL SALES LEADS Generation Power that channels a valuable timeless stream of high quality sales leads into your sales funnel on a regular basis.

Below: A Recent Web Request Form Submission by Visitor to www.tayosolagbade.com

Date: 2019-01-13|13:05:57

Name: Tunde [XXXXXXXXX]

Email: xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com

Business: Poultry Farm

Country: United Kingdom

Phone Number: 07xxxxxxxxx

How did you find us: internet

Subject: EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Comment: I will like to discuss your software (EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE) with you. I am looking to purchase one for my business with is going live soon. I have tried calling you Nigeria number but no luck.

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The above web contact form submission is just one of many hundreds, I have received for well over a decade, since I began using the web. And especially since 2013, when I focused my efforts on generating sales leads for solutions I offer primarily from the Internet.

That enquiry was sent in on the 13th of January. However, I did NOT see/respond to it, until the 1st of February (last week). In other words, it took me over 2 weeks to get back to him.

Definitely not an ideal way to handle sales enquiries, and for those who know me, it is very out of character. However, I had no way of knowing he had made the enquiry, because his was one of those affected by the yet-unexplained disabling of email delivery from the script handling web contact forms on tayosolagbade.com

I mentioned in a previous newsletter that this has been happening for about 4 months now, making me unaware of over 30 enquiries sent to me using my web contact forms. Only an accidental incident led to my discovery of the submissions.

I have since begun implementing the alternative system I’ve thought up, to ensure I no longer have to worry about missing enquiries like this one.

But I mention this particular gentleman’s enquiry because it shows how a smart Web Marketing System (WMS) can motivate the prospect to:

  1. actively pursue you – sometimes using multiple alternative channels for answers about how s/he can buy from you
  2. patiently wait, to get response from you about what to do and how
  3. diligently go the extra mile to make the payment using whatever options you recommend.

Let me warn here that the intention is not to present the prospective buyer as one who is begging the seller for access to the latter’s solution.

Far from it.

Indeed the exact opposite is the case, and THAT is why the prospective buyer is often willing and able to act along the lines mentioned in a, b and c above.

In other words, a Web Marketing System makes those who fit your target audience profile SEE that you offer what they consider not only a valid solution to a need they have, but also that gaining access to you and your solution would obviously be in their best interests, because it would be apparent to them that YOU are an authentically passionate solution provider who delivers what s/he promises.

All of this can be inferred from a well developed and implemented Web Marketing System, without your saying a single word to a prospective buyer of ANY solution you offer.

An even better example of how a WMS can motivate prospects, can be seen in the case of the Malawi based Farm CEO who first emailed me on 23rd September 2018 but had to persist in exploring ways to send me payment – right up till 8th February 2019 (well over 4 months) last week!

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Like many others before them, the Farm CEOs whose enquiries and conversations with me are reproduced above have experienced what it feels like, to be on the receiving end of my Web Marketing efforts.

It should be noted that the UK based Nigerian tried reaching me on phone, without success and that was why he settled for sending a web form enquiry.

Imagine therefore, if I had failed to provide a web contact form on my website?

Some people make that mistake. Others have the web contact form on their site, but it does not work.

I have used web forms for years and never let any of mine exist without functioning as they should. This new experience I’m having with non delivery of submissions to my email is one that I have studied and adopted an alternative solution to, so as to ensure I stop having delays in seeing messages sent to me.

The point I’m making therefore is that the foundation for a successful Web Marketing System is a fully functional response generating website.

Without it, you will most likely be pouring water you fetch, into a basket – to paraphrase a Yoruba saying which implies WASTING your efforts,

Having said all of the above, I now offer you the key message I want to pass on in this issue of my newsletter, which is that I have not been doing anything resembling the volume of writing I did from April 2013 to mid 2018, in a long while now.

Back then I wrote at least ONE new article daily, to promote various aspects of my multidisciplinary range of solutions. This was a well established routine that earned me great search engine visibility, generating leads/enquiries that I converted to sales.

Yet, despite the fact that I have not been doing as much active writing for marketing purposes online, as before, I have notched that enquiries have continued to come in for various solutions I offer.

If you have been following my writing over the years, you will have noticed that I share LOTS of true stories about sales conversations, and client support experiences I have quite often.

The reason I do that is to SHOW to my readers that far from being on an ego trip, with regard to what I offer online via www.tayosolagbade.com and other platforms I use, I am actually engaged in high profile money making interactions that add value to the lives of those I engage with.

This is why majority of those I relate with, both on and off the web, take me seriously. They SEE that I am the REAL DEAL, That I offer solutions that work, which I regularly, provide useful information and education about, to help them make up their minds.

Indeed, some of them found me because some other person who knew about me, but had up till then never needed to buy from me, recommended that they do so. Did you get that?

A person who has only heard of you, or followed you online, but neither met with you in the flesh or hired you him/herself,  recommends you so strongly to another person seeking a solution you offer, that the latter decides to buy from you…sometimes to the tune of over N50k!

It takes a rare kind of marketing effectiveness to get that sort of response from totals strangers. This is why I so boldly proclaim to any who will listen that a Web Marketing System, used the way I recommend is the ultimate, most cost effective and efficient marketing tool ANYONE can hope to have access to.

BUT you need to know how to use it right, to get the promised results. I offer lots of free ideas about how to do that here at tayosolagbade.com, Contact me and I will send you links you can study.

Or, better still join my Web Marketing for CEOs club and enjoy FREE coaching as I help you develop and implement a custom Web Marketing System to cost effectively and efficiently promote your brand to potential buyers/your preferred target audience.

INVITE ME TO DELIVER THE FULL 10 COMMANDMENT SERIES AS A LIVE TALK TO YOUR GROUP/TEAM MEMBERS

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It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
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PII 150: Stop Ancient Schooling: Your Child’s Success Depends on Her School’s Teaching Method [VIDEO: Jack Ma says “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”]

If we do not change the way we teach, thirty years from now we will be in trouble.” – Jack Ma, former teacher turned Billionaire founder of AliBaba.com speaking at the 2018 World Economic Forum [Watch full video at the link provided later in this issue]

Today’s parents (especially those in Nigeria/Africa) NEED to understand and accept that the PC/Internet Technology Revolution has PERMANENTLY changed the way REAL EDUCATION can – and should – be done,

As a result the “formal schooling” you provide to your kids MUST be adapted to suit the new needs created in society, by the revolution, so that it can deliver real world relevant know-how to learners.
Otherwise it will continue to be a WASTE of your kids’ time, effort and abilities and YOUR money…

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PII 150: Stop Ancient Schooling: Your Child’s Success Depends on Her School’s Teaching Method [VIDEO: Jack Ma says “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”]

If we do not change the way we teach, thirty years from now we will be in trouble.” – Jack Ma, former teacher turned Billionaire founder of AliBaba.com speaking at the 2018 World Economic Forum [Watch full video at the link provided later in this issue]

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Today’s parents (especially those in Nigeria/Africa) NEED to understand and accept that the PC/Internet Technology Revolution has PERMANENTLY changed the way REAL EDUCATION can – and should – be done,

As a result the “formal schooling” you provide to your kids MUST be adapted to suit the new needs created in society, by the revolution, so that it can deliver real world relevant know-how to learners.
Otherwise it will continue to be a WASTE of your kids’ time, effort and abilities and YOUR money e.g kids will leave schools unable to meet employers’ requirements, and lacking the competence to function in self-employment – despite their years of formal schooling preparation!

One example of how PC/Internet technology is being used to effect new teaching methods is what is seen happening in the Math Tutorial video shown below – with a kid doing the teaching :-)

I NEVER knew this “Common Core Box” method for doing multiplication, yet in this short video a few minutes, I NOW DO. And I did so without leaving my home, at 5.20a.m right from my laptop.
 
The implication of the above, is that MOST of what is being taught in schools can, today, be effectively taught and learned via Smartphones.
Indeed, the FREE online video based learning website  – www.khanacademy.org already PROVES this to be possible, with millions of teachers, students and their parents using it to achieve top class quality (and VERY pocket friendly) learning, regardless of their location, anywhere in the world – including the poorest countries in the developing world.
 
Sadly, for MOST Nigerian/African kids, regardless of how expensive and fancy their schools are, their teachers are unlikely to embrace this approach to teaching – because they remain stuck in the past, holding on to archaic teaching methods that NO LONGER serve the world’s needs!
Little wonder that I am yet to meet ONE Nigerian teacher or school owner who was aware of www.khanacademy.org BEFORE I mentioned it to him/her. And that’s no surprise because their kind would feel threatened by such a platform that makes learners independent of teachers and empowers them to do more thinking rather than engage in rote learning (aka cramming), which the teachers favour!
 

China’s Jack Ma, 54 year old billionaire business owner (worth over $27.9 billion today) once earned as little as $12 per month as a teacher.

His inspiring classic rags to riches story about how he endured countless repeated failures to get where he is today, is well known.
Recently, Jack gave a speech in which he used his experience based insights to tell the world that WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE EDUCATE OUR KIDS.
It’s a speech I strongly believe EVERY parent, teacher, policy maker and even students need to hear.

Click here to watch this CNN video of him speaking at the World Economic Forum, in which he noted that “We need to stop training our kids for manufacturing jobs”.

Or watch the Youtube Video below:

Jack Ma is right.
More emphasis now needs to be placed by our schools, on teaching learners/kids especially, soft skills – thinking, creativity, innovation are qualities that will equip our kids to succeed in a world where KNOWING stuff is no longer enough, given the robot/automation/artificial intelligence driven nature of today’s societies.

The rest of the world is listening to Jack Ma…but Nigeria/(some countries in Africa) seem(s) NOT to be keen to do so!

I know this from studying trends in the evolution of education worldwide over the past decade – in line with my work on Best Practice Parenting.
Countries like Finland have been leading the way long before now, in this regard. Experts like Robert Kiyosaki have been screaming for decades that we need to change the way we teach kids and WHAT we teach them.
 
But Nigeria continues to lag behind. And out kids are leaving school often boasting few if at all any competencies that make them internationally competitive. And even locally, they struggle to find relevance.
 
I am a product of Nigeria’s schooling system and I know what it feels like to discover that what you learnt in school is NOT enough to help you excel or flourish to your full potential, outside paid employment in your own society.
This is why today, I earn a living using skills I never learne din school after I unlearned, and relearned a lot of the things I was taught in school.
It was a most painfully excruciating experience – especially due to the fact that I got mocked and ridiculed for years, by those with much less schooling than I had, for not being able to fend for myself and my family, inspite of my brilliant academic abilities, and qualifications.
That drove me to spend thousands of hours thinking about what was wrong in the education i’d received, and I also did lots of reading to learn what I was missing, until it clicked.
I realized what I lacked and proceeded to begin, slowly and painstakingly developing the needed competencies.

Today, my new self-taught abilities enable me earn income in ways that others have told me are ground breaking especially out here in Nigeria/Africa.

I am also able to repeatedly defy adversity and failure to bounce back to success, no matter what life throws at me – because I NOW POSSESS these abilities – none of which is taught in formal conventional schools!
 
That’s why I wrote my 62 page White Paper titled “Schooling is a Means to and End, and NOT an End In itselt” – see details of how to get your copy, below.

TRUE STORY: An Invitation from The Ministry of Youth and Social Development to Discuss My Paper Titled “Schooling Is a Means to an End and NOT an End In Itself”

PII 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]

PII 132 – Part 2 of 2 [New Report] Stop Letting Nigerian Schools Cheat You, and Your Child – Best Practice Parenting Ideas

Get these 2 FREE PDF Downloads on Best Practice Parenting and Education from Me When You Join my Best Practice Parenting Group on Whatsapp

  1. Stop Letting Nigerian Schools Cheat You & Your Child! [How Nigeria’s Law About Children’s “Right to Basic Education” Is Made Impotent Via “Poor Quality Education” Children Get Served DAILY in MANY Nigerian Schools]
  2. Schooling Is a Means to an End, and NOT an End In Itself [Hard Truths Parents, Teachers & Policy Makers Need to Understand, to “Educate” Kids for “Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Success” in the 21st Century!]

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Below: Screenshot of a page from the 62 page version of the PDF report

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Text me your WhatsApp Number via +234-803-302-1263 (not my Whatsapp no!) and I’ll add you to my Best Practice Parenting™ group where download links to BOTH this report and the 62 page White Paper are accessible

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This talk is based on an educational weekly email series I created exclusively for members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

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PII 149: Live, Sleep, Eat, Drink What You Do, to Achieve Success [VIDEO INTERVIEW of Ruthie Davis – Award Winning Shoe Designer]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the message contained in this excellent video interview by Babson College, of Ruthie Davis – an award winning shoe designer, who is an alumnus of the institution.
Now, in as much as the video is self-serving for the authoring institution, Ruthie’s message resonates greatly with me, because I KNOW, from my experiences as an entrepreneur that what she says is true. Her insights are accurate and can help others.
That is why I have chosen to share THAT video with you, to start off 2019, along with a verbatim text transcript I have prepared. Note also that I have added a link to a downloadable mobile friendly version of the video you can watch offline.
Here’s wishing you greater joy, success and fulfillment in 2019 and beyond!

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PII 149: Live, Sleep, Eat, Drink What You Do, to Achieve Success [VIDEO INTERVIEW of Ruthie Davis – Award Winning Shoe Designer]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the message contained in this excellent video interview by Babson College, of Ruthie Davis – an award winning shoe designer, who is an alumnus of the institution.

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Now, in as much as the video is self-serving for the authoring institution, Ruthie’s message resonates greatly with me, because I KNOW, from my experiences as an entrepreneur that what she says is true. Her insights are accurate and can help others.
That is why I have chosen to share THAT video with you (see embedded version below), to start off 2019, along with a verbatim text transcript I have prepared.

Here’s the transcript, followed by the video:

Those who dream, we call DREAMERS.

Those who do, we call ENTREPRENEURS.

INTERVIEW – BABSON UNIVERSITY, USA

Ruthie Davis, MBA ’93
Award Winning Lead Designer and President Ruthie Davis Shoes

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“I literally dream about shoes, all the time.

I live, sleep, eat, drink fashion.

It’s not something I separate. I’m like always designing.

Historically, both in ready to wear and in shoes and accessories, it has been men.

I’m kind of the new garde, which is “wait minute, why shouldn’t a woman know what a woman wants when it comes to footwear?”

I’m always telling young designers, who are very creative coming out of art schools:

“You’ve got to learn the business. In the world we live today, you can’t just sit in the corner and draw shoes, for example. You have to know how to market the shoes. You have to know how to sell the shoes. You have to know how to cost the shoes. You know…you don’t design into a vacuum.

To be an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be like myself – the LEAD entrepreneur.

You know, the people who work for me, they all have to be entrepreneurs. So it’s really a way of thinking. It’s an empowering way of thinking. It’s an accountability. It’s you can make a difference. It’s going to your job and not just thinking that you’re a cog in the wheel. It’s thinking like you could affect the wheel. You can innovate the wheel. You can make it a better wheel. That kind of thinking is so important for any type of job, any type of career – and especially design.

I think having my entrepreneurship background gave me that confidence that I could go out on a limb and innovate. “

===Ends===

Note also that I have added a link to a downloadable mobile friendly 3GP version  (3.34 MB) of the video you can watch offline (right-click here to get it). 

TIP: Click here to watch it on Youtube

Here’s wishing you greater joy, success and fulfillment in 2019 and beyond!

 

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It provides experience based ideas, tips and insights for use by any persons engaged in business, who wish to achieve low to zero cost business marketing reach and impact by leveraging the the power of PC and Internet Technology.
It is NOW available in a specially bundled MP3 Audio and PDF Book package that can be downloaded online or accessed offline on a DVD delivered to you.
Attendees of THIS LIVE talk however get instant membership of my Web Marketing for CEOs club (N50k value – includes FREE weekly coaching via Private Facebook and WhatsApp groups) + FREE download link to the ebook/audios.
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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

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[DVAM] HIGH‐CONFLICT CONTACT DISPUTES: EVIDENCE OF THE EXTREME UNRELIABILITY OF SOME CHILDREN’S ASCERTAINABLE WISHES AND FEELINGS – Family Court Review | An Interdisciplinary Journal

This research paper’s findings speak for themselves. It was authored by “a child psychiatrist who acts as an expert witness within the family courts of England & Wales“.

Here’s an excerpt from his conclusion that I found powerfully compelling, and highly noteworthy:

I conclude that courts might exercise caution when evaluating the views of children and young people in this situation, and emphasises that assessors should consider including at least one observation of the child at a prolonged visit to the NRP. Because of the new orthodoxy some parents may be tempted to misuse their child’s right to a “voice” in court in order to achieve their own ends. Practitioners who advise courts may need to be more aware of these difficulties– Kirk Weir, Child Psychiatrist and Author of the Reviewed Paper

I preview/link to it below, as a follow up to the preceding recommended article that discusses “when kids lie, why they lie etc (which is also linked to at the bottom of the page”.

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HIGH‐CONFLICT CONTACT DISPUTES: EVIDENCE OF THE EXTREME UNRELIABILITY OF SOME CHILDREN’S ASCERTAINABLE WISHES AND FEELINGS

Abstract

This article challenges an increasing orthodoxy regarding the weight which courts might place upon the expressed views of children in a specific situation—high‐conflict contact disputes. I am a child psychiatrist who acts as an expert witness within the family courts of England & Wales. I have conducted a statistical analysis of cases in which I have conducted assessments of children caught in such disputes between their separated parents.

Fifty‐eight children met the criteria for inclusion in the study—the child’s consistent opposition to contact with the non resident parent (NRP), despite the court having determined that there was no good reason to constrain contact.

My assessment routinely included attempted observation of the child at a visit with the NRP. Despite their stated views most children had a positive experience in those visits that took place, and despite the fact that most had not seen the NRP for a long time. Overall there was a statistical association between increased resistance to contact and the greater age of the child and the longer the time during which no contact had occurred.

However, the responses of children and young people were unpredictable and it was impossible to conclude that apparent maturity or intelligence was a guide to the reliability of their expressed resistance. The possible reasons for this unreliability are discussed.

I emphasize that my sample of children is unusual as many of the cases had involved serious, though unfounded, allegations of abuse. In addition most of the children showed indications of having become “alienated” from the NRP.

I conclude that courts might exercise caution when evaluating the views of children and young people in this situation, and emphasises that assessors should consider including at least one observation of the child at a prolonged visit to the NRP. Because of the new orthodoxy some parents may be tempted to misuse their child’s right to a “voice” in court in order to achieve their own ends. Practitioners who advise courts may need to be more aware of these difficulties.

Continue reading…

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2011.01414.x

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[DVAM] When children lie and why they lie and why people who work with separated families should know that they lie and why

The article previewed/linked below – authored by a US based Parental Alienation Expert is powerfully educative and informative. It provides elaborate real life examples to support its valid argument that kids can, and do lie (often coached by a naughty parent in dispute with a partner) when asked to “testify” in matters relating to their quarreling parents.

My experiences strongly convince me that MANY experts in this part of the world, who have to work with disputing partners with kids, often invest little or no time to READ and LEARN about this aspect  of issues they have to mediate in.

Quite often they are clueless about the REAL possibility that serious problems – like LYING – could be happening. This is why many literally brag when discussing their work, that they KNOW how to get the kids they interview to tell them the TRUTH. They fail to realize it is possible for the kids they interview to be coached to tell lies by one parent, against a target parent. This makes them prone to being sometimes hoodwinked and used, by a naughty manipulative, vindictive parent against the other parent.

The above is why I consider such experts (I wonder HOW they are recruited to play sensitive roles of this kind!) a danger to those couples (and their kids) that they have to work with.

Aside from my personal experiences and observations, this problem of kids lying when testifying is something that reports have shown (See some examples in Google) happens quite a lot, making it imperative that experts take pains to check for it, before any decision is made in mediating disputes.

This is why I am compiling and promoting articles like the one below, as widely as possible, for the attention of disputing couples, and any experts or professionals working with them. Kids are fickle minded and LOVE their parents.

A manipulative parent can use them to hurt the other, even if the child does not like it.

Read the article below to better understand that things are not often as straightforward as they may seem, where so called “child testimony” is concerned.

Failure to put these considerations into use when dealing with disputing couples with kids could lead to villification of an innocent partner!

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TITLE: When children lie and why they lie and why people who work with separated families should know that they lie and why

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False allegations are a feature of family separation, especially when that separation is accompanied by high levels of conflict. Writing in the splendidly detailed and must have book for all mental health practitioners working with separated families – Parental Alienation – The Handbook for Legal and Mental Health Professionals, T W Campbell tells us

False allegations of CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) typically originate as rumours and can spiral out of control as the ensuing processes of rumour dissemmination gather greater and greater momentum. False allegations do not involve the malicious premeditation found in fabricated allegations (page 164)

Fabricated allegations however, are differentiated by Campbell as being

based upon premediated determination to direct allegations at an entirely innocent person (page 164)

Which is why, when we are working with separated families where such allegations are made, it is important to know how the allegation arose in the first place and then what impact the allegation had upon the concentric circles around the family. This allows differentiation and differentiation allows deeper understanding, of the nature of the allegations and why and how they arose.

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https://karenwoodall.blog/2015/03/21/when-children-lie-and-why-they-lie-and-why-people-who-work-with-separated-families-should-know-that-they-lie-and-why/

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