My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better

[Coming Up...FREE ONE Hour Talk!] Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep (True Stories About How)! - Thursday 5th March 2015

March 1, 2015

Coming up...FREE One (1) Hour talk! Topic: Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep (True Stories About How)! Speaker: Tayo K. Solagbade [Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur] Date: Thursday 5th March 2015 Time: 4 to 5 p.m Venue: Sherryville Arcade, Ojodu Berger Bus stop […]

General

Preparing Young People To Become Successful Adults - Using Extracurricular Activities

February 26, 2015

What follows are a few ideas I have advocated over the past decade (based on personal successes I have achieved as a parent and mentor), regarding use of specific extracurricular activities to empower young people - especially those still undergoing schooling. 1. Team Working/Building Activities: To help students learn how to work with others towards […]

Career Development

No. 182: You Need to Persevere and Innovate In spite of Adversity

February 23, 2015

Entrepreneurs – and I mean authentic, honest, integrity driven ones - remain an endangered species in Nigeria. Most of them never really do well enough to truly flourish like their counterparts in more friendly climes. That reality is in contrast to what happens in societies that Strive Masiyawa says “attract foreign investment and advance/develop” (as […]

Entrepreneurship

Dealing With Stereotypes and Innuendoes (True Story of a Nigerian Location Independent Multipreneur)

February 19, 2015

2 years ago, when I first relocated to Cotonou, from Lagos, the first few months exposed me to raw cynicism from most Beninese citizens I met...and it always happened once they learned I was Nigerian. I've shared several true stories about specific encounters I had, including one with a widely traveled PhD holder who was […]

Career Development

To succeed As a Role Model Be True to Yourself (True Story)

February 15, 2015

Last week, I had an interesting telephone/email based exchange with a lady banker who called about purchasing my "Ten Storyfied Yoruba Proverbs for Children" audio book DVD. It turned out she knew me from way back in 2002, my startup year, when we both served with an NGO as volunteer tutors. In addition to buying […]

Entrepreneurship

Teaching My Nigerian kids to make American style Easter Eggs (Hint: Why You Need to Teach Your Kids MORE Than What They Learn In School)

February 14, 2015

This photo shows a new set of "experimental" or "practice" Easter Eggs made by my kids, in our Lagos home, based on a movie we watched, and other learning resources I compiled for them. Our plan is to produce special Easter Eggs to give out during Easter to buyers of cakes, doughnuts and chin chin […]

Career Development

Don't Let Age Stop You From Becoming A Positive Change Agent!

February 6, 2015

I learnt a long time ago that one will only be as old as one thinks s/he is. That knowledge makes me very comfortable relating with people of all ages and across social strata, without bothering about their age, color, income class or educational level. What I look for is a desire for self-improvement, evidence […]

General

To Achieve Her True Potential, Nigeria MUST Reject "Government Magic"!

January 28, 2015

Babatunde Raji Fashola has been hailed both locally and internationally, for achieving unprecedented success as Lagos State Governor. To show how impressive Fashola's achievements have been, UK based "The Telegraph" (on 24th Oct 2014) did a flattering feature article on him titled "Meet the man who tamed Nigeria's most lawless city". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11184759/Meet-the-man-who-tamed-Nigerias-most-lawless-city.html Little wonder Lagosians […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 178: To Achieve Marketing Success at Low Cost, You Need a List of Potential Buyers

January 26, 2015

The more I “data-mine” my website mailing LIST of subscribers, and some actually go ahead and buy my products/services (sometimes years after signing up), the more I tell other business owners this: “The money is IN the LIST”! Curious to know what I mean? Keep reading then!! SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE Publication: Weekly Public […]

Career Development

Five (5) Action Steps That Can Increase Your Chances of Business Startup Success

January 17, 2015

In February 2001, about 4 months after I got promoted out of my shift-based Brewer position, to become the Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery Technical Training & Development Manager, I came to the conclusion that I needed to fast-track my plans to quit paid employment and start my own business. I had been plotting […]

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