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[Coming Soon] New Version of my CB Solutions Mobile phone app for Android, Apple, Black Berry and Windows Operating Systems!

I’ve just published a new version of my CB Solutions Mobile phone app using a platform that makes the app work for ANY operating systems such as Android, Apple, Black Berry and Windows.

In a few days, it will go LIVE. For now, use the link below to check out the interactive features.

http://www.appsbar.com/WebApp/Facebook/app.php?AppID=1059085&HostSite=&Device=Embed

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[FREE] POWERFUL TRUTHS ABOUT REAL BLACK HISTORY, NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, BUT WHICH YOU (AND YOUR KIDS) NEED TO KNOW

Why do black people – and their nations – often lag behind others? I have argued for years that the reason is NOT genetic. Instead it is the mental attitude of majority of us.

No one can under develop us. We have the power to develop and advance ourselves. I am doing that for myself and my family. No one can stop me. I do NOT need the government to do it for me.

If more of us would adopt a similar mindset, we would transform our individual lives, and the fortunes of our respective families and societies.

My accomplishments over the past 2 decades prove that my sentiments are accurate. But the 2 books and a movie that I feature in this report offer incontrovertible proof that we, as a people have what it takes to excel on this planet.

I recommend you read this report and follow the URLs provided to learn more, so you (and your kids) can be empowered!

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 70): Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AESON conference coming up in April 2017 [ Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017]

In this maiden issue of my Farm CEO newspaper for 2017, I feature a flyer-based description of highlights from the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON)’s 22nd Annual Conference 2017, scheduled to hold at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria between 23rd – 26th April, 2017.

Theme: Mainstreaming Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Extension Practice in Nigeria

Highlights:

NB: Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017

Best Poster Paper Award

Best Paper Presenter Award

Networking & Collaboration Link Initiation

Funding Opportunities Enlightenment

Date: 23rd – 26th April, 2017

Time: 10:00a.m Prompt

Venue: Ebitim Banigo Hall, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Sub-Themes

In contemporary situations, Agricultural Extension is more strategic in the development of the wellbeing of farmers. This is because of the paradigm shift of Agriculture Extension practice will enhance farmers’ resilient capacity for a result-oriented agribusiness

The 2017 AESON conference will address how to mainstream entrepreneurship in Agricultural Extension through the frameworks of ICT, policy, agribusiness and value chain, tertiary institutions, national intervention programmes, health development. The conference is expected to attract stakeholders within various development networks to brainstorm and produce workable outcome for agricultural extension development.

This is going to be discussed under the following sub-themes:

 

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PII 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Anthony Robbins

One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in that field.

And when I say study, I mean you should make it a habit, a way of life, the activity in which you take a close look, analytically at what those who have succeeded in the field you wish to venture into have done to get where they are.

If you form a habit of doing that, over time you are going to be able to identify some common characteristics, attributes, or features that those individuals had. What they did and how they did it, to enable them succeed.

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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 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

[This write-up is based on a text transcript version of my first Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) Audio Podcast for 2017. Click here to request download link to the audio file]

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Anthony Robbins

In Cotonou's Missebo market

One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in that field.

And when I say study, I mean you should make it a habit, a way of life – the activity in which you take a close look, analytically at what those who have succeeded in the field you wish to venture into have done to get where they are.

If you form a habit of doing that, over time you are going to be able to identify some common characteristics, attributes, or features that those individuals had.

What they did and how they did it, to enable them succeed.

Having said all of that, not all of us are equally gifted in this area.

We don’t all have the strength, or gift, of being able to extract useful learning from what we observe.

And as a result sometimes you will need to go a step further and also read about and talk with other people – those people you see succeeding or who have succeeded. In doing that, you would try to find out what the grey areas or missing aspects of what you’re supposed to learn are.

Long story short, what I’m trying to tell say here is that you will need to understand what it takes to succeed in any particular field or vocation you want to venture into, before you can actually have some sense of direction in terms of succeeding, or trying to work towards achieving success in that field

A haphazard approach will not benefit you – because adopting one, in which you go about using a trial and error method not guided by intelligent feedback, means you’re going to go through needless and avoidable repetition of processes…and end up reinventing the wheel in terms of trying to succeed.

So you’re going to be making avoidable mistakes. You’re going to be going through needless prolonged delays.

In the 21st century, that’s not a smart way to go.

Indeed, there was never a time when it was a smart way to go (i.e. doing trial and error)…except in cases when you do not have persons who have gone that route before!

In other words, you’re trying to do something that no one else has done before.

But even when you’re trying to do that (i.e something not done before), there are still principles of success or guiding philosophies you can follow, that will enable you make an intelligent go at it.

And so in essence what I’m trying to say here is that you need to become a student of success.

You need to form the habit of analyzing both failures and successes that you experience, as well as those that you see others undergo,

Now if you form that habit, what will happen is that over time you will become smarter about how to go about the business of succeeding.

It doesn’t matter what field you may be in interested in.

The important thing will be for you to learn how to prepare yourself and how to handle yourself in the face of what is very likely to be a lot of adversity, uncertainty, and sometimes discouragement.

So if you get it right, you will find out that there is no goal you set for yourself, that you will be unable to achieve.

You will constantly be able to achieve your purpose and also be able to overcome any obstacles you encounter in the process.

Now those who are uninitiated – those who have not learned to operate the way you do – may end up coming around and saying you seem to have some kind of magic wand you wave to make things happen the way you want.

What they won’t know is that you’ve taken your time to learn the essential things you need to do to achieve that state of being, in which you are able to conceive a line of action for yourself and intelligently pursue it until you achieve it, and make it look so easy in the process.

In the next clip I’m going to explain why, when you have achieved the above  (i.e. when you’ve become somebody that is able to set his/her sights on a particular goal and pursue it until s/he achieves it) you will need to take a step further to learn how to pass that ability to other people around you.

Not just for people that are close to you, but also those who have to work or interact with you.

Most importantly, I will explain how doing so can actually make you EVEN MORE capable of succeeding authentically, in whatever area of endeavour you may be engaged in.

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[Friday]:

If You Don’t Understand Feed Formulation, You Cannot Formulate Feed Correctly [Hint: Answers to a Farm CEO’s Whatsapp Queries About Feed Formulation]

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Useful Example of How True Stories Can be Used for Business Marketing [Case Study: Lemonade Sets New World Record for payment of insurance claims – LinkedIn Pulse Article by Daniel Schreiber – CEO & Co-Founder at Lemonade Inc.]

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Make MORE Money: Convert Your Custom Spreadsheets to Mobile Phone Apps [Hint: My New Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service – See “Agricultural Field Inspection App” in test mode]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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

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

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

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

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

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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

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

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

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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The Seven Pillars of Success (Hint: My Interpretations of 7 Key Attributes Recommended by a Success Guru)

There is hardly any self-aware adult that does not desire success. But many of us struggle to understand what we need to do to achieve it. In this article, I discuss seven (7) attributes a true master of the speaking business (as attested to by many world class speaking professionals who call him their mentor) says you must develop, if you wish to succeed.

An Important Truth About Success

True success does not happen overnight, even if it might seem so at times. Quite often it happens progressively…in stages. Today, you could be at ground level, then one year later – with consistent effort – you emerge at level 1, then move up to 2, and so on.

People who have not seen you for a year may express pleasant surprise that “only just yesterday”, you were at level 0, and commend you for moving up so quickly. Others who have been seeing you daily for the past year, could criticize you for taking too long to succeed.

It’s all about perspective. But where your pursuit of personal success is concerned, it’s YOUR perspective that matters. Not anybody else’s. Keep that in mind as you read the rest of this newsletter issue.

A Speaking Success Guru’s Recommendation

What follows below are my interpretations of 7 key attributes, that an internationally acclaimed mentor of professional speakers says you NEED, in order to succeed in the business of speaking.

He actually labeled these attributes The Seven Pillars of Success As A Speaker.

When someone like that speaks, people listen. If I were you, I’d look through these 7 attributes he recommends, and see what I can do to develop them ASAP.

1.  Your Personal Character

As earlier noted, success tends not to come quickly or easily. But human beings generally find it tough dealing with the delays, disappointments, setbacks and suffering that accompanies the search for success. And that’s why your character is important. People who lack strength of character readily seek undignified outlets. Especially when they feel it’s taking too long or getting too hard to keep going, in pursuit of their valued goals.

That’s why we hear of some “experts” getting caught passing off other people’s work as theirs, for instance (They basically settle for “crooked” ways to get what they want, even though they know it’s wrong).

You cannot afford to do that, because it would destroy your credibility. You become a phony. A fraud. And even when nobody else knows, that knowledge of your infidelity will eat you alive from the inside. Except of course you manage to lose your conscience, like those who choose to become crooked…

The following quotes capture the essence of the message being passed in this first recommendation:

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

To succeed, your personal character must be nurtured to a point where it becomes practically impossible for you to become crooked or dishonest. You just will not be able to do it, because that’s not who you are. Period.

2.  Your bulldog blood

This has to do with your ability to persist regardless of the obstacles that you may come up against. This guru however advocates intelligent, and not blind persistence. For instance, he points out that you may encounter “insurmountable obstacles”. Your bulldog blood will keep you from giving up, so that you can find a way around the obstacle, rather than smashing your head against the wall – figuratively speaking.

3.  Your unstoppable work ethic

You must be willing to work hard and deliver tangible value to those you serve at all times. No matter what. It has to become an obsession of sorts. Something that you feel a compelling need to do, in order to be fulfilled. This attribute will make a lasting impression on others. And they will talk about you to those they know. Which can only be good for your speaking business.

4. Your authenticity

This is your originality or “trueness to type” as they say in the beer industry I once worked in as a brewer. To continually succeed as a speaker, at any level, you must strive to be original. As much as it helps to study and learn from others, the purpose is never to copy or try to imitate others.

Instead, let those you serve see that you bring something new to the table. Something that anyone can see is unique to you. By so doing, you become authentic. One-of-a-kind. And you’ll gain real share of mind.

Here’s a saying I love: You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.

5. Your transparency as you speak

A fitting phrase used by our visiting guru is that you need to “stand psychologically naked” before your audience. Let them see and feel your emotions when you speak. In other words, “speak with feeling“. That way, they know you’re not some infallible “expert being” that never puts a foot wrong.

When people see that you are just like them, your message makes more meaning to them. They become more willing to believe they can achieve the things you tell them they can. In other words, you gain their trust.

6.  Your diligence

Consider these two possible ways to serve:

a. You can choose to routinely deliver your speaking programs in line with what’s agreed, using the same generic material for all your clients. And it would be okay.

b. Alternatively, you could make a habit of doing custom research/preparation for each audience you have to address. So that each time you go on the platform, your audience gets treated to a never-before-seen-or-heard performance from you.

This second approach naturally requires a lot more work. And you need to be diligent to do it successfully. One thing is however certain to happen if you do: Your audience will rave about you.

Since we’re talking speaking success here, the choice to make is obvious, isn’t it?

7.  Your sensitivity to the human condition

My interpretation of this last point, is that you need to have empathy for your audience, if you want to succeed as a speaker. Nurture your emotional intelligence. Be interested in the circumstances of those you aim to serve. Find out where they are, and where they want to go, or be. Then in delivering your program, tell them what to do, and how.

That’s after all why they want to hear you speak!

These Attributes Are Useful In Life – Not Just Public Speaking

Personally, I have found these attributes outlined by this guru, to be useful for pursuing success in any area of endeavor. Not just the speaking business. It does not matter what vocation you are engaged in. If you diligently develop and demonstrate the above attributes, your success in that vocation, and life in general will be inevitable.

Good luck.

PS: The name of the 25 year veteran public speaking mentor whose recommendations I just discussed is Burt Dubin – President of the Personal Achievement Institute, USA. And there’s a lot more you can learn from him on the subject of success at www.burtdubin.com.

NB: This article was first published online in August 2012 via my Speaking Ideas newsletter on spontaneousdevelopment (now defunct).

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In addition, a video display interface presents users with a menu of 4 selected videos of my products, while also offering detailed contact information, including a contact form submission interface to send me a message via email.

This CB Solutions app will continue to evolve as I test and update it with features designed to make it add more value to users (clients and subscribers). 

Below I share 2 sets of images:

  1. Photos taken of a Samsung Galaxy Tablet showing various interfaces in the app, after I installed it.
  2. Screenshots of the various interfaces of the app as they appeared in a Samsung Galaxy Tablet that I installed it on earlier today, in Lagos-Nigeria’s Omole Estate Phase 2.

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1. Photos taken of a Samsung Galaxy Tablet showing various interfaces in the app, after I installed it.

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2. Screenshots of the various interfaces of the app as they appeared in a Samsung Galaxy Tablet that I installed it on earlier today, in Lagos-Nigeria’s Omole Estate Phase 2.

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PII 047: Sometimes Resourcefulness, NOT MONEY, Is What You Need to Succeed [Hint: A Lack of Ideas Can Hold You Back – A Lack of Money Cannot]

The ability to survive and/or thrive during a period of economic downturn is a function of how creative people can get.

Unfortunately, when things are tough financially, as they tend to be during such periods, most of us tend to focus too much attention on money and our lack (or what we perceive to be our lack) of it.

In other words, I’m saying that a lot of us want to succeed, but the minute we discover that we are limited in our financial means, with regard to achieving our set goals, we tend to get easily demoralized and give up psychologically, leading us to ultimately surrender in physical terms – by quitting.

My message in this maiden issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is therefore that sometimes what you need to succeed is RESOURCEFULNESS and not money.

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(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 2nd January 2017

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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 047: Sometimes Resourcefulness, NOT MONEY, Is What You Need to Succeed [Hint: A Lack of Ideas Can Hold You Back – A Lack of Money Cannot]

The ability to survive and/or thrive during a period of economic downturn is a function of how creative people can get.

Unfortunately, when things are tough financially, as they tend to be during such periods, most of us tend to focus too much attention on money and our lack (or what we perceive to be our lack) of it.

In other words, I’m saying that a lot of us want to succeed, but the minute we discover that we are limited in our financial means, with regard to achieving our set goals, we tend to get easily demoralized and give up psychologically, leading us to ultimately surrender in physical terms – by quitting.

My message in this maiden issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is therefore that sometimes what you need to succeed is RESOURCEFULNESS and not money.

How are you living your life with regard to achieving your valued goals?

The way you think about the problem you believe you have, especially with regard to achieving your goals using money, will determine how far you can go.

Quite often, you may find it useful to look into historical information available from other societies and cultures outside yours for ideas you can adopt or adapt to suit your unique needs or preferences.

If you keep an open mind, you’ll be shocked to find out that some people from the past you study achieved great success by being resourceful, so that their lack of money could not limit them.

What ideas can you borrow from them?

One big problem I see is that a degree of mis-education is holding many people back. And then there’s some amount of arrogance too, which is always very amusing to me.

I’ve met people who readily conclude the reason why one is emphasizing the need for “resourcefulness” is because you lack money – and not necessarily that you wish to be efficient in your use of money.

What these people do not know is that many wealthy people pay serious attention to making efficient use of their money. They are diligently frugal. Indeed some got wealthy by BEING that way!

That’s why they have wealth that makes them financially independent, such that if they stopped working they could continue living the same lifestyle without worrying about running out of money.

Some people have this mixed up. I’ve heard them say: “But Oga you’re bigger than N100 now. Why don’t you just forget it? No need to insist on collecting that little change.”

So if you insist on having your change, they call you a miser or say that you don’t have money.

I made peace with myself regarding this issue a long time ago, after I read this anecdote about John D. Rockefeller:

One day he made a phone call from a public pay phone after putting several dollar coins into the machine. When he was done, the time he spent indicated the machine was supposed to dispense a one dollar coin ads change, but this did not happen. After trying without success to get the machine to behave, this wealthy man decided to call the operator to file a complaint. But when the operator asked for his name in order to make the entry, it occurred to him that being a millionaire, making this formal complaint about a mere one dollar change would raise many eyebrows and make news he did not need. For that reason, he told her he’d changed his mind and hung up.

 

The moral of the above story is that if a millionaire of Rockefeller’s stature could be that concerned about keeping the small change, the rest of us have no excuse to be careless in handling such denominations.

 

So, one way to be resourceful is to spend prudently, in a manner that gets you maximum value for your money.

 

On the home front, what do you eat or drink? Must you always buy everything? Is it possible for you to make some of your own drinks for instance? What about the snacks you eat?

 

Example: In my home we make great tasting drinks from pineapple peels (based on a concept I developed in 2013, during my first year in Cotonou) along with various home baked products like cakes, cookies, chin-chin, African-style Pizza, bread etc. On each child’s birthday, the others join hands to make food and drinks for the family celebration – including cakes topped with icing.

 

The drinks in particular cost next to nothing because the major raw material is pineapple peels obtained free from fruit sellers in the neighborhood. The kids love it, as does their grandmother who gets sent bottled units most times we make them.

 

Every now and then the kids still buy and eat commercial soft drinks, but most times this homemade drink of ours is what they make, and it saves us money even as it is healthy.

The same thinking can be successfully applied to whatever you do in your business.

For instance, how many things are you currently doing with money to promote your business?

One of the things I say all the time is that today, PC and Internet technology puts so much power in people’s hands, but the lack of resourcefulness of people keep holding them back from using it to excel!

Do you understand how to SAVE some of that money by using the web to promote your products/services to your desired target audience?

If you do, how well are you succeeding? What can you do differently to get even better results?

 

The answers to all those questions relate directly to your ability to be resourceful – not how  much money you have, or are willing to throw at your Internet Marketing efforts.

Indeed, zero cost web marketing is a reality that MANY people live everyday – people like ME. So what I’m saying here is not just wishful thinking. I LIVE this stuff – and my resourcefulness is what makes it possible for me, and similar others to do so.

By the way, just in case you’re one of those who think your kind of business cannot be marketed effectively using the web, let me assure you that NOTHING could be further from the truth.

Only you and your willingness to think creatively – or your willingness to be resourceful in making use of the web – can determine your success, or otherwise!

It does not matter if you sell caskets or (what Yoruba’s in Nigeria call) “Ponmo” (i.e. cooked animal hide/skin) – the web is there for you to use to succeed. It is malleable – you can mould it to suit your unique business marketing needs.

Regardless of what kind of business you run or what part of the planet you are operating from. As long as Internet connectivity is accessible, your use of web marketing is bound to benefit your brand greatly.

The key is to KNOW HOW to use it to get the results you need. And that’s where being RESOURCEFUL becomes necessary.

That is the factor that separates those who get useful lasting results from those who don’t. It’s why people with less money, individuals sometimes, achieve superior marketing success for their brands compared to wealthier others – including organizations.

 

Final Words: A Lack of Ideas Can Hold You Back – A Lack of Money Cannot

Click here to read an article about a special kind of very low cost, but delicious chocolate cake recipe created during the period of economic depression (and called “Depression Cake”).

I came across it last week and the story about how a lack of money drove people living in those times to think up new creative ways to make foods they loved without needing to spend money like they used to, really resonated with me.

The same situation led to the creation of the Depression Sandwich.

In Nigeria, the secessionist Biafrans invented the use of a perennial evergreen weed as a replacement protein ingredient in livestock feed formulation, to survive the potentially crippling effect of the Nigerian government’s embargo. In other words, they had to be resourceful to find a solution to the problem they were faced with.

All of this is proof that the key to succeeding is not having money. Instead it’s about being creative, being resourceful, and being an ideas person!

This is the key to succeeding in any area of endeavor, under any economic situation, in any part of the world, in any culture you may have to operate under.

Once again I refer you to history. Read and you will find that some of the most creative ideas that make the world turn today, came through the efforts of some of the most financially deprived people , who had no financial means to pursue their goals with what privileged others would consider basic necessities.

So they had to learn to be resourceful in using what they had to get what they wanted, and to go where they needed to be!

If YOU want to achieve authentic success, for the long term, in spite of any form of adversity, be it economic recession, or depression, YOU WILL need to adopt a similar mindset!

When you’ve got RESOURCEFULNESS, it boosts your ability to attract what you lack (e.g money), or those who have it, and are willing to give it to you. Take it from me: I LIVE THIS STUFF!

 

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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

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

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

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

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

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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

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

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

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Can You Deliver RESULTS When Failure Is Not An Option? [Hint: Are You A “Choker” Or A “Big Match Player”?]

[Tip: This post is a Content-Repurposed version of a 2012 issue of my (now defunct) Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter. Even though the example used is based on public speaking, the ideas shared can be successfully applied in any other areas of endeavour]

In The Real World, Things Can Go Wrong – Sometimes Badly Too!

Even after we have done everything we think possible, to prepare ourselves for a speaking or project outing, one or more unexpected negative developments can still occur.

And it could affect upset us so much, that when we get on stage  (or client premises), the speech (or job) we have prepared well for before the D-day, might not come out as desired.

Possible Occurrences That Could Make You “Upset” – Before You Give A Speech or Do a Client Job

I discuss a few possible examples below. It goes without saying that there are  many others you may be faced with.

Know that the tips offered here can be applied to good effect in dealing with them as well.

1. BEFORE you have to go on stage :

Some years ago, I had to deliver a talk about 1 hour after I had engaged in a verbal (and near physical) exchange with my wife. It was so bad, that I left home late, and only managed to stop fuming minutes before I was called out to speak.

That took some major doing…but the tips I offer here made it possible!

Still another possibility:

You get some bad news via a phone call or SMS about a business deal, that’s fallen through. Let’s say you had been so sure you would win the bid. Imagine how deflated you would feel. 

Now what if this news got to you, say 30 minutes before you had to step on the podium to deliver a speech titled “Nothing Is Impossible” to a group of startup entrepreneurs. How convincing do you think your delivery would be?

Depending on your temperament, it can be quite difficult to avoid letting your bad mood spill over to your interactions with other people.

Think about the times you have been upset by someone at home. Were there instances when it happened just as you were on your way out of the house? If yes, how well were you able to handle yourself in relating with others, when you got to work, or whatever your destination was?

2. When You Are Already On Stage &/or Speaking:

Imagine that just as you are about to start (or while you are) speaking, someone shouts an embarrassing comment insult at you from the audience e.g. a heckler. If s/he hits a nerve or sore spot you have, your reaction could be anger, resentment.

In a separate article, I shared the story about how I flopped at the National Finals of a competition for young managers, because I could not find a particular (transparent) slide I wanted to use.

A Story That Illustrates One Way To Give A Speech When You Are “Upset”

Imagine having to give a speech just after UNEXPECTEDLY losing an election (for public office or otherwise). This situation actually played out in a movie I watched recently. A young US congressman had maintained an intimidating lead in the opinion polls, over an older candidate widely regarded by the public as no match.

But just 24 hours to the election day, a photo published on the front page of a national daily showed the young congressman carrying out a very naughty prank on colleagues when he was in college, caused uproar. There was no time for his team to react. He got roundly defeated in the elections by the other guy, even in his own state.

Once the results were in, he excused himself, and retired to the men’s room to rehearse his speech. He had previously prepared a speech to cater for (what was then) the unlikely possibility of his losing the elections. Faced with the reality that he had indeed lost the elections, he walked round the men’s’ speaking out the words to himself.

When he finally got on stage, he delivered the speech as is, but later added stuff NOT on the script. He told the audience for instance, how some of what had said about his personal philosophy was not really true, and had been added to the speech on the advice of experts and consultants.

He went on to say a lot more, which amounted to “Standing Psychologically Naked Before The Audience” – to paraphrase “Burt Dubin” – creator of the Speaking Success System™. The audience loved it, and the media raved about his speech, saying it was likely to make voters back him in larger numbers in the next elections.  Three years later, he ran again – and won.

What the congressman in the movie did was simple.

He used the setback of losing the election, as a psychological stepping stone to launch him into the future he desired. By refusing to let his loss UPSET him, and instead creatively adapting his prepared speech to “re-sell” himself to the voting public, he succeeded in making them overlook his college prank, and won them over towards his future campaign

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You can do the same:

I would be the last person to say this will always be easy to do. But if one is to merit being called a “Professional” it becomes imperative that s/he be prepared to act like one, by developing the competence to effectively manage your moods, so as to ensure you deliver satisfactory performances, whenever you have to speak before an audience.

Before Speaking, Put AWAY Whatever Upsets You In “Little Mental Boxes”

One could infer that the congressman described above, probably applied a variant of this approach for his purposes.

In using it, I force myself to APPLY what I once read, about putting ANY worries one has, into separate little boxes in different corners of one’s mind

This is the method I use and it has repeatedly enabled me bring my feelings under enough control to ensure I have a good outing.

Indeed, it has enabled me function optimally in my interpersonal interactions in both my personal and work lives for over 2 decades now. In certain instances, close associates ( who are aware of potentially disturbing issues I’m dealing with) have accused me of  unmasking a “steely” or “unfeeling” side!

 

Doing so helps you free the larger part of your mind, from the potential distractions that dwelling on the upsetting experience could cause.

But you don’t stop there. Later on, when at the right place and time, you can re-open any of your worry boxes, and reflect on ways to eliminate their contents, without the conflicting psychological pressure of thinking about giving a coherent speech!

Believe me – this worry/mood management technique has worked for me, for many years now. And it has enabled me go out daily during many dark periods of adversity, to deliver outstanding presentations to individual and group audiences.

Many of the clients I won during those periods would NEVER believe me, if I told them the psychological circumstances under which I won them over back then.

Summary

My message, in essence, is that in order to increase your chances of succeeding, when you speak to others, you really need to develop the capacity to manage your moods, under ANY circumstances. Even when you are upset, train yourself NOT to show it. You will be amazed at the level of deliberate self-control and mastery that you can achieve.

The ability to do this, will equip you to deliver compelling performances more often, regard.

One positive implication of being able to function in this manner is that clients and/or audiences will come to perceive you as someone who can be DEPENDED upon to DELIVER when it matters.

When they need a speaker at short notice, for instance YOU will naturally come to mind ahead of other possible candidates!

Final Words: Will You Be A “Choker” Or A “Big Match Player”? WILL YOU be Able to Deliver RESULTS When Failure Is Not An Option ?

Reflect carefully on this question, especially as it relates to serving your clients, who will be depending on you to bring the expertise they believe you have, to bear in the event that a problem arises.

In the real world, things may not always happen to plan.

Sometimes they will go badly wrong. When that happens, you ability to stay firmly in control of yourself will determine how you end up performing as a speaker – or indeed as an expert in your chosen field!

In sports, people who are able to deliver under pressure are usually referred to as “BIG MATCH” players

Those who always seem to cave in as they get closer to high pressure, psychologically tasking game situations in Golf, for instance, are called “Chokers”.

So, which do you want to be called, in the mind of your clients, and/or audience members?

A BIG MATCH player or a “Choker”?

The preferable choice is obvious. But to be able to manifest the attributes that will get you thought of in that manner, you MUST work on yourself, and develop the CAPACITY to absorb the shock from events or experiences that could upset you.

You can start from today – right in your home, with the kids, your spouse and relatives – maybe the annoying brother, sister or mother-in-law? Or that difficult colleague or business partner at work etc.

Promise yourself that you will NEVER let anything they do upset you to the point that you actually transfer it to another social environment you have to be in later on. Learn to leave it behind in a little worry box in one small corner of your mind.

Keep doing it for long enough, and you WILL become able to speak IMPACT-FULLY, to ANY audience, even when someone just (tried to?) upset you!

FREE Download Gifts from TayoSolagbade.com for Farm CEOs and Others

Some of the downloads below were originally made available (for Farm CEOs, Website Owners/Writers, Career Persons, Experts-Who-Speak etc) via my now defunct 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com – before it was taken over by Aplus.net (click to read story).

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17.0 Practical Feed Formulation Handbook(.pdf)

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13. Variable Costs Analysis Control Quiz for Business Owners –(.pdf)

This is an Acrobat PDF document containing 17 questions designed to get you thinking about possible areas in which you can look to apply spreadsheet facilitated VC monitoring/control and reduction initiatives in your business. Read the article titled “You Can Icrease Your Profits Without Raising Your Prices“. to learn more.

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12. Catfish Farm Resuscitation Action Plan Document (.zip)

Read An Action Plan Proposal Prepared For Resuscitation Of A Catfish Farm(zipped along with an article titled “Catfish Farmers, Beware Of Uncontrolled variable Costs!“. The plan never got used due to unexpected events. That however does NOT make the document any less valuable as a reference tool.

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11. Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist Template – (.pdf)

This Checklist will force you to document up front, the various key tasks you need to perform in order to achieve your set goal(s) over a defined time period.You will also be able to record DATE ACHIEVED next to each task successfully completed. Read the article titled “Where Do You Want Your Business To Be FIVE Years From Now? (Action Plan/Progress Evaluation Checklist)“. to learn more.

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9. Introduction To Public Speaking For Business Marketing (PDF)

This report explains why public speaking remains a powerful way strategy for cost-effectively marketing your products and services to large numbers of people at once – especially when you have a limited budget. It’s been used for decades by the smartest and most successful individuals and businesses in the world. You can learn to use it too.

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7. NEVER Let Anyone Tell You What YOU Cannot Do! (Transcript Slideshow Version of ESPN’s July 21 “SportsCenter” Profile video about Richie Parker – the engineer born without arms, who designs championship winning NASCAR race car parts/components) FREE Microsoft Power Point Show download in a compressed zipped folder created by Tayo K. Solagbade

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6. Burt Dubin’s latest book: “On Being a Master”

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5. A 2 chapter free PDF preview of my latest ebook (WHY YOU KEEP FAILING TO ACHIEVE YOUR WRITING GOALS! (10 Habits That are Holding You Back and How to Change Them for Good!), now on sale in my online store here.

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4.0 Tayo Solagbade’s Self-Development Bible (.pdf)

This is a FREE e-book version of the Self-Development Bible. It is a 113 page Self-Help manual that I wrote in 2002, based on a 1 Hour Talk I offer. The glossy covered print version became available for online purchase at Cafepress.com in May 2005, and Lulu.com in July 2005).

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The title is provocative. But it’s message is based on scientifically established facts – references supplied. If you run an organisation, or have to manage people, you’ll find it a VERY useful read. Every working adult needs to read this report because it uncovers a massive LIE that’s been burned into our thinking from our youth. Correcting this wrong thinking can help YOU maximise your full potential in life right into your 90s!

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2.0 Become UNSTOPPABLE:- Inspirational Mind Map Based On Abe Lincoln’s Life(.xls)

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