Career Development
No. 196: As an International Speaker, Manually Formatting Your MS Excel Invoice Values in Different Currencies Can Cost You [Hint: Watch this 2 Part Home Study ExcelVB Video Tutorial]
June 8, 2015









As an expert-who-speaks, you'll periodically send out invoices. If you serve clients internationally (like I do), your invoices may sometimes have to be formatted in different currencies. For instance, I've had to deliver (by hand, but often email) invoices in Naira, FCFA, US Dollars, and Euros. But doing it manually takes time and effort, and […]







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Career Development
Download My Feed Formulation Handbook FREE (it sells for over N8k at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts)...
June 4, 2015









Download My Feed Formulation Handbook FREE (it sells for over N8k at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts)...when you subscribe to THE FARM CEO, my new WEEKLY PDF/PRINT newspaper. Also get FREE Bi-weekly ad for YOUR business! Continue reading...  







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Career Development
No. 195: (a) Being Likeable Can Cost You Success (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
June 1, 2015









When defending his title for the first time, under his new name (Muhammad Ali), the crowd roundly booed Cassius Clay and cheered Sonny Liston. Yet Ali knocked out Liston in round 1. Some claim it was a phantom punch (but that’s a whole other issue) - MY point is that YOUNG Ali's self-confident, and cocky […]







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Career Development
SDAc's Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic Club & COMPETITION [For Business Users & School Kids] - Download 9 Page Offer Slideshow
May 19, 2015









(a). The Microsoft Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic club offers serious minded business users a platform to learn useful spreadsheet automation skills using MS Excel-Visual Basic. (b). The competition provides such business users with a REAL WORLD relevant challenge that they can use to test their new skills, thereby building the confidence to deliver greater value […]







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No. 193: (a) Beautiful Genius Is Often Created from Crude Beginnings (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 18, 2015









 Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his public speaking prowess. But how many of us know that as a child, lacking access to formal schooling, Lincoln walked miles to borrow books he read, from the library? That disciplined self-studying habit was the key to his eventual success! It’s the same way few people know that JAY […]







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What You Need is NOT Size, But "Fight" to Outsmart Bigger Competition!
May 16, 2015









"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight Eisenhower The Yoruba's have a proverb that expresses a similar sentiment. It goes thus: "Kekere ni abere nkere. Ki nse gbi gbe mi fun adiye." Translation: "Don't be fooled by the […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Treat People Right!
May 14, 2015









"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people" - Thomas J. Peters I have major difficulty doing the OGA or BIG MAN thing. In paid employment it was so. As an entrepreneur, this "affliction" of mine has gotten worse. Owning things (which some use to […]







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No. 192: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 11, 2015









Many people are truly GIFTED at ANALYZING what it takes to succeed …or why failure happens. What most seem to LACK, in my experience based opinion it the WILLINGNESS (and NOT the ability) to unflinchingly persist in APPLYING the insights they possess to achieve their (supposedly) valued goals. This is why so many people ONLY […]







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No. 191: (a) How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! - [MP3]!
May 4, 2015









How confident would you be if your plans were failing so badly that everyone around you knew it? What if you had a business setback, and someone who had warned you against going into THAT business made of point of stopping over to say: "I told you so"? How confident would you feel subsequently, about […]







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No. 190: (a) ExcelVb Business Contacts Manager for Speakers Marketers Consultants and Entrepreneurs (b) One Question to Ask Yourself EVERY 24 Hours to Determine If You’re Using Your Website Profitably - [MP3]!
April 27, 2015









This week, I offer you a tool to help you with your sales lead generation or client prospecting - useful for Speaking Professionals, Sales/Marketing Professionals, Independent Consultants etc. Watch the video demo below, for my Excel-VB Driven Business Clients/Prospects Contacts Manager™ - built in 2006. SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL ISSUE   Tayo K. Solagade's […]







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