If you’ve been following me online before May 2014, you most likely will want to know why I moved my website to www.tayosolagbade.com.
My first online presence was located on the primary domain www.spontaneousdevelopment.com. And I built it up over a period of 9 years to one that generated high value income generating sales leads that won me clients within and outside Africa.
On 1st April 2013, I began traveling slowly across West Africa as a Location Independent Multipreneur, sharing updates on this blog.
But on 4th May 2014, my 9 year old domain was taken over and made inactive by Aplus.net – a web host that I moved my website from 2 years ago, in protest about VERY base service and support they were giving me.
THIS (i.e. http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets – see screenshot), is the “reincarnated” Self-Development (SD) Nuggets blog, to which I just successfully installed the MAIN database containing over 630 posts, on my new domain: TayoSolagbade.com.
So this was not the first time I was getting a raw deal from that company.
Do you run a farm business, or plan to start one? If yes, adopting the ideas below can save you time, effort, and lots of money – in the short, and/or long run. This article is based on transcripts of my video explanation, using a mind map, of key components of a Best Operating Process Management System(BOPMS)™.
What Does a BOPMS™ Entail – and How Can It Help You?
If you’ve been reading my writing a while now, you’ll know I often advocate adopting best practice systems.
As a result, sometimes I get phone calls from farm owners, especially poultry layer operators. They often want to know what exactly the BOPMS™ I talk about entails.
Some say they’d like to have it done for them.
It has a number of components – see the boxes in the mind map below (3 yellow ones, and 2 uncolored).
VIDEO: MIND-MAP BASED EXPLANATION OF BOPMS™ FOR FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT– BY TAYO K. SOLAGBADE
Click here to watch a screen shot video in which I use a mind map to explain the Best Operating Process Management System (BOPMS)™ for Farm Business Performance Improvement – based on its components [Note that www.thefarmceo.net displayed in the mindmap used in the video has since been retired and replaced with www.iff.tayosolagbade.com]
Basically those descriptions in the boxes refer to the key components of a BOPMS™
I came up with the concept myself – based on Best Practice World Class Process Management principles. And what I do basically is to give prospective clients 2 major options, in terms of implementing it.
It’s either they…
1. Develop and Implement an Enterprise Information System (EIS)
This option is a simpler alternative. The 3 yellow boxes are relevant to this option.
For those who are interested send me an email, and I’ll send you a list of articles that talk about this in more detail.
You Can Run Your Farm Business Without Tears…and LESS SWEAT!
But basically we’re talking about having an automated system for tracking the performance indices on your farm. This would enable you not have to stay every second on the farm monitoring what your operatives are doing.
To do that you need to have a specific kind of process record form designed, based on the manner in which you run your farm.
So basically I normally have to visit farms to find out how they operate, and then I design a form that enables them capture the relevant records.
Some of these indices can be quite useful in predicting, or anticipating, or proactively determining things that are about to go wrong.
For instance, a drop in Hen Day Production percentages could tell you a lot of things. Depending on how long your birds have been in lay, values should be about 70% or higher.
Feeding Rates should hover around 100 to 110 g/bird: Too low would suggest underfeeding, with consequent impact on egg laying performance. Too high would amount to over feeding, with implied needless waste of feed (reflected in lower number of eggs per bag fed i.e. egg to feed ratio). Neither is good.
When you don’t collect the records on the record forms, and post them into a software that trends them in form of charts, you may not see that.
When you collect eggs and manually record your numbers in a book, such subtle trends will not be readily apparent to you.
I say this based on over 20 years of developing applications for process monitoring and control.
Just last week, I got two farm managers nodding vigorously in understanding, as I coached them to post their data into the application I built for their farm.
As the data for each cage line was punched in, they saw the various KPIs appear. And when we began generating the report tables with charts, the plotted lines per cage and per pen for each day, week, and month we chose gave revealing trends.
This instantly triggered a discussion amongst them, as they tried to come up with accurate explanations of the variances noticed.
One of them said “Ah, this software will be quite useful.”
I had no need to say more.
The interesting thing is that to some extent, most farm owners can use MS Excel, by themselves, to track the KPIs too.
However, where my apps add value is their use of complex and elaborate formulas and functions, and as well as vba automation.
Then of course there’s the ready-to-print report formats.
But you can always start with the basics. That would be better than doing nothing – which would amount to working blind!
A Word of Warning About GIGO – Garbage In Garbage Out
You could have a software that your personnel make entries into.
But how can you be sure data hand-recorded on the forms used to post entries into the software are real or accurate values?
We talk about GIGO when it comes to computers. And never has it been more applicable than when it applies to farm operatives – who can get so busy they “forget” lots of things.
When that happens, some may try to remedy the situation by recording “guesstimates” – which could over time produce unreliable results.
In fact many farm owners often get surprised (unpleasantly) by their farm businesses.
One day the birds are doing very well, laying at 82% HDP. Next day you get a 55% HDP report, and you don’t know what happened in between.
Now, that‘s why you need to have Standard Operating Procedures.
In the Mind map Box Titled “Workplace Organisation/Best Practice Management to Entrench SOPs”, you’ll see I have in red two phrases: “Workplace Instructions” and “Job Descriptions”.
Those are powerful instruments that could be written out, and then training provided for your people to use them to produce uniform output consistently..
Such best practice training – among other benefits – ensures they know the importance of sticking with laid down procedures to achieve the farm’s goals.
There will be things that you will be able to monitor, that will help you determine whether or not your people are doing that.
Of course, no one who is NOT competent to be on your farm, in terms of following the established guidelines, will be allowed to operate in the process.
There’s an aspect of what I’ve said here that has to do with your ability to reduce your costs of operation.
More often than not, you cannot aim to increase the prices at which you sell.
Instead as a smart business owner – especially one running a farm operation – look for ways to reduce your costs of operation.
Specifically, your variable costs.
That means you will develop, and commit – on a long term basis – to looking for ways and means to reduce the cost at which you turn out your farm produce.
And that again has to do with the best practice SOP.
Exploring Variable Costs Reduction Initiatives (Ideas You Can Use)
There are so many ways you can reduce your operating costs.
Now this has to do with teaching your people and yourself how to think up ideas – new ideas and better ideas for running your operations.
For instance, a lot of people are exploring using complementary feeding ingredients. Others are exploring using Indomie noodles waste, and even cooked chicken intestines.
If you just want a simple approach to it, that can still help you, look at the 3 yellow boxes in the mind map e.g. Tracking your expenditure and income; having KPIs in place, and using a software to track them in charts and in form of data.
Those would help you go far in monitoring your farm operations and getting the best results.
Preamble: Why I Manually Transcribe Video and Audio Presentations (Especially Interviews) – By Tayo K. Solagbade
The thumbnail image below links to a verbatim PDF text transcript of a 23 minute long video interview conducted by Andy Brine (of Become Authentic on Video) with Efe Ohwofasa (Nigerian born, UK based business coach)
This is not the first time I’ll be doing a verbatim audio to text transcription of this kind. In the past, I’ve created similar resources from interviews and presentations with other experts and professionals.
Two examples are Burt Dubin (who I represent as Sole Agent on the African continent, for his speaker mentoring products and services), and Patrick Meninga (the gentleman who achieved fame as a blogger by building a $2,000 a month adsense website while working full time, and then selling it for $200,000).
“But why do I do it?” many people are likely to wonder?
Is it to get publicity, or to get those I feature to notice me and give me jobs? What is my real motive?
1. My main reason is that I want to help people discover proven techniques and strategies they can use to IMPROVE themselves in whatever area of endeavour they are engaged.
That’s why I call myself a Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist & Multipreneur.
I have a passion that has endured for over 20 years (right from my days as a student in the University, through my time as a high flying employee in Guinness Nigeria), to help serious minded and results focused individuals develop and implement practical strategies to do what they do better.
Due to my versatility, and quick learning ability, I have over the years proven myself to be a valuable addition to the arsenal of any group or organisation.
So many people find me to be a useful resource because my active search for practical information about what works enables me add value to them. Anywhere I go, whatever I see or read, my natural instinct is always to find ways to share it with others to help them improve their performance.
I’m the kind of person who cannot help HELPING others. I am naturally driven to be a catalyst. No matter who I interact with, I create the impression of increase. People generally find that they are better off when they leave, than they were when they met me.
Most of my clients often get much more measurable value from interacting with me, than they pay for.
I work this way not because I want to be Pope, or because I’m a priest, but because I LOVE to see people make the best use of their God-given abilities to achieve their fullest potential – NO MATTER what challenges they have to confront and overcome in life.
And that is why I pick on videos and presentations of authentic achievers, whose messages convince me they are who they say they are.
Due to the challenges of poor connectivity in my part of the world, I realise many who desire to benefit from the wonderful video and audio presentations available online may not get ready access to them – except via text transcripts like those I create.
This is why I create my verbatim transcripts and offer them free.
2. Another reason I make these transcripts is to contribute to the work done by those who create these FREE presentations.
Their willingness to share their knowledge and insights at no charge to the target audience, as a way of gaining name recognition and credibility deserves to be encouraged.
Doing so gives people who seek help, an opportunity to make more intelligent hiring or buying decisions. Their competitors or rivals, who do not offer such presentations naturally get challenged. They must show what they are made of in a similar way, if they wish to be taken seriously by the target audience.
Ultimately, a healthy atmosphere is created for “buyers” of their products and services to make safer and more rewarding purchases. By creating these verbatim transcripts I believe I contribute my own quota to the above, and I like that.
Of course, it goes without saying that all the parties involved also get to know me. And that will certainly help ME as well. But even if it did not, I would still do it.
3. A third reason is to demonstrate to the featured (and other) experts, an EXAMPLE of practical ways they can re-package and re-present the same material to achieve wider reach and impact.
In providing Web Marketing/Performance Enhancement services to clients, this is a habit I encourage them to develop. That is, to explore as many intelligent and cost-effective ways as possible, to present themselves to the target audience.
4. Lastly, I do it to distil useful learning summaries &/or develop Actions Plans for target audiences to adopt.
I am not unaware of the availability of software used for transcriptions. However, you see I also LOVE to learn – and to help others learn better. That’s why I extract or “distilled” lessons from each interview.
Forcing myself to do the manual transcriptions enables me listen REPEATEDLY to the material, until I internalise most of it. Then over a few days I let it “cook” within me, and soon enough, the “lessons” to be had from it become apparent.
I then write and publish it as a blog post – linking to the verbatim transcript. That’s what I have done with other transcriptions. And that’s what I will do with THIS one.
I have found that this method dramatically boosts comprehension rates of people. Not everyone can readily extract a useful summary of learnings, and develop action points by watching a video, or listening to an audio recording.
Final Words
It is my hope that you will find this PDF transcript useful, in reaping more wisdom from the powerful message shared by Efe.
If it helps you, I urge you to please SHARE it with others you know can benefit as well. I thank you in advance!
Speaking a foreign language can help you in paid employment as well as in business. I have had the unique priviledge of experiencing the amazing benefits derivable from being able to speak a foreign language, on both sides of the fence.
Below I outline 3 powerful rewards you can expect to reap repeatedly, from being able to speak a foreign language:
1. Unsolicited Support/Assistance – Often When You Least Expect It
There’s nothing quite as exciting and fulfilling as having obstacles that most others are unable to surmount literally get removed from your path by total strangers.
And that, simply because they discovered you can communicate in their language!
Be it in your country or abroad, there will be times when what you seek may seen impossible to get.
Then suddenly you hear the person in charge answer a phone call, or speak to a colleague in a foreign language that YOU, unlike others present, can understand.
Suddenly you realize there’s a chance you can connect with her (or him) on a different level.
And things go beautifully from then on.
The others, lacking similar abilities, are left wondering how you pulled that off!
This has happened to me, more times than I can count.
Out here in Benin Republic, my ability to communicate in French has endeared me to many who meet me.
For instance, finding rented accommodation like I did, at a quarter of the going rate happened not because I’m an expert french speaker(far from it!), but because (as many tell me) they appreciate the work I’ve done (and continue to do) to improve myself.
It apparently inspires those keen to learn english to keep at it.
2. Greater Opportunities for Friendship & Learning
While acting as Production Manager for a 5 week period in 2001, I initiated a series of trials to see if brewhouse output could be improved by increasing the quantity of “grist” (milled maize and sorghum) loaded into the old model mash filters used in the brewery.
Now this was not something that could be done arbitrarily.
Certain loading capacity calculations needed to be done to ensure the best possible results were obtained.
The problem I faced in implementing my idea was however that I could not find anyone who could give me reliable details of the formula for estimating loading capacity for the kind of grist we used.
The manufacturer – Meura, a Belgian company – originally built the plant to handle malted barley based grist(as you may know, French is spoken in Belgium).
But luckily for me, I remembered that a technical representative of the company had flown in few months before I got nominated to act as Production Manager.
At the time, I was his host in my office as Training & Techniaal Development Manager(TTDM), and while chatting he’d discovered I could speak, read and write French.
From then on, our relationship stopped being formal. By the time he left I’d learnt a lot about the filters and how they worked.
And that was why when my surprise nomination to act as Production Manager came up, I readily explored ways to use what I’d learned to improve the filters’ performance.
Realizing that I did not have enough information to competently modify the loading of the filter, I decided to write to my friend.
Starting my email in French (first paragraph) with pleasantries, I made my request known.
24 hours later, a reply arrived from a colleague of his, who explained my friend was away on leave.
But he went on to supply the exact filter loading formulas for our grist type, which they had derived based on extensive trials.
It was just what I – and any Production Manager – needed!
Little wonder that the substantive Production Manager (upon his resumption from leave) and other managers in the technical function, requested copies of that formula as soon as I announced that I had it, in a post secondment report I published after successfully completing my acting assignment!
As you can imagine, the above may probably never have happened if my French speaking skill had not enabled me get closer to the Meura rep.
3. A Foreign Language Gives You a Uniquely Powerful Competitive Edge
Again I say this from experience. Personal experience.
Living and working in a society where a very great majority of people do not speak French or any other foreign language confers a unique advantage on those who can.
And if you can also read and write in that language, your chances get even better.
In a past article, I shared the story of how I got massive career boosting recognition at senior management level while attending an international workshop in Hotel Aqua Palace, Douala Cameroon.
The short conversation I had with the expatriate Managing Director of Guinness Cameroon, in the hotel bar, took place while other delegates from Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, etc looked on.
Update (20th July 2021): PDF White Paper version now available for FREE DOWNLOAD – Click here.
Preamble
This write-up will interest farm business owners and policy makers in the Agricultural industry/sector. Keep an open mind as you read. I argue that African countries are currently NOT rearing the right mix of livestock types that can help them produce enough animal sources to boost protein consumption per capita. Complementary rearing of a particular micro-livestock type is advocated as a faster and cheaper strategy for boosting production of animal protein sources. I end by suggesting that governments modify current development projects to include the recommended micro-livestock type (making example reference to a World Bank sponsored 5 yearCAD project under which the Lagos State government is currently providing grants to Lagos farmers).
The main reason for this situation is the increased pressure on food sources due to the continued increase in population over the decades here in Africa. And that’s why livestock farming has been actively encouraged and supported.
But here’s one truth that may probably shock most people: We’re NOT rearing the right kind of livestock. And for decades it’s been slowing our progress towards the goal of bridging the per capita protein consumption gap between us and the rest of the world.
The point I’m raising here is crucial to the well being of a large majority of Africans living in Africa. And African policy makers need to seriously consider adopting a modified approach to livestock farming, to correct the unhealthy trend.
Animal protein sources we currently produce are not cheap enough for majority of Africans to afford.
Let me explain what I mean: The most popular commercial livestock ventures in Africa are poultry, fishery, piggery and other large livestock farming enterprises. These types of animals require mainly grains/cereal based feeds to yield profitable returns.
However, we know that over 60% of commercial livestock farming expenses arise from feeding alone. Since the grains used as ingredients for their feed are generally expensive and limited in availability, the resulting livestock farm products tend to hit markets at relatively high selling prices.
Most of these commercial farms target markets in the towns and cities where they are likely to find more buyers who can afford their products. The poor majority in both urban and rural areas consequently get left out!
Here’s a quick reality check to demonstrate the accuracy of the above statement: How many poor or low income families can afford to eat eggs or chicken daily – even weekly? “Very few” is the answer. The irony is however that most will often come near livestock farms as hired hands or as traders (e.g. market women) to buy and resell/retail! The current cost of production of our animal protein sources is too high.
And that is the REAL reason why per capita consumption is still low in many African societies. A disproportionate amount of the fish, chicken and meat being produced is being consumed by a relatively small financially capable fraction of the population i.e. the middle class and rich. The poor or less financially endowed cannot afford to buy.
If we continue this way, we may never get out of the protein defiency hole we’re in!
3 Key Justifications for Large Scale Adoption of a Complementary Commercial Livestock Type
1. Grains/Cereals Limitation: Grains based livestock farms will struggle due to high grains prices/scarcity. For instance, Industries like breweries for example are using more and more cereals as raw materials especially following ban on wheat imports. Competition is ongoing between man and livestock for this food source, resulting in a steady increase in price.
2. Grains Preferring Livestock: Many conventional commercial livestock farm animals like cattle, sheep, and poultry require mainly cereal based diets to turn out profits. The implication is that farms that rear them will continue to contend with relatively high productions costs.
3. An Alternative Livestock Type: There is a micro livestock type that we can quickly, easily and cheaply get majority of our people to rear commercially, to dramatically boost our animal protein production, in a short period of time.
A Micro Livestock Type That Can Solve the Problem
We need to focus more attention on smaller livestock that are cheaper to rear with higher meat to bone ratio and greater feed to flesh conversion.
Rabbits provide a viable complementary alternative to our conventional livestock meat sources.
I say this based on personal experience gained from careful study and rearing/breeding of the Rabbit for sale. The ideas I propose also derive from knowledge of tested and proven ideas developed for use on the continent (an example of this is given later in this piece).
Here is a summary of the Rabbit’s amazing mix of extremely useful attributes:
1. Copes well with varied food types. E.g. farm harvest waste such as food crop leaves; domestic waste e.g. oil-free left over rice, plantain/yam peels etc
2. Easily managed, and not noisy. Requires low capital and minimal infrastructure. This makes it ideal for the less financially endowed larger majority to adopt.
3. Boasts high feed to meat conversion ratio of about 1:1. This means for every 1kg of feed given to this animal, it can convert it to 1kg of meat. That implies a high ROI i.e. it is cheaper to feed for meat production – unlike the large livestock which often deliver to a feed to meat conversion ratio of 2:1.
4. High reproductive capacity. It reproduces fast and also grows fast. Therefore breeding will be easy and with good management, flocks will grow rapidly.
5. Biological Refrigerator. It makes artificial refrigeration unnecessary. Can be slaughtered and made at once into a pot of meat stew for a family. There would be no remaining pieces to store in the freezer!
6. Healthy white meat. Red meat/beef is considered unhealthy. More people now prefer fish and chicken. Rabbit meat is white meat, and comes highly recommended for persons with health concerns. That makes it attractive.
The Plan: Low Cost Backyard/Farm Waste Based Rabbitry Integrated With Fish/Crop Farming
State governments keen to more immediately boost per capita protein consumption amongst their citizens can promote adoption of backyard rabbitry by families. In other words, they can be encouraged to rear the animals to supplement their family’s meat supply. As time goes on, they’ll grow enough to sell some and earn additional income.
This would be done as a complementary alternative to current livestock farming efforts. Once this alternative and cheaper high protein source becomes widely available, demand for the grains fed livestock will reduce and pressure on the expensive grains will drop.
A Useful Model That Can Be Adopted: In 2009, Jacky Foo of Stockholm, Sweden came up with a (U.S.$20,000 grand prize winning) idea of a community rabbit-fish agri-business farm for producing affordable protein, and generating employment. African farmers and governments can adopt a variant of that model. From what I’ve seen online, Jacky Foo is willing to offer guidance to those who ask. See details at http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/03/541_rabbit-fish_farm_wins_contest/
Interested governments can modify current efforts (e.g. World Bank sponsored projects like the Commercial Agricultural Development Project described below) to INCLUDE the above Rabbitry initiative. The benefits to be had are enough to justify doing so!
Lagos state for instance already has Farm Service Centres. They only need to include the needed research investigation and development for rabbitry into their plans.
World Bank Grants for Lagos Farm Businesses
On a final note, I offer the following information for interested farmers based in Lagos State. Some weeks back, I got a call from a lady officer (Bunmi Daramola) from the Lagos State ministry of Agriculture. She told me she had read one of my articles on farm business marketing, and wanted to meet with me. When we met, she told me about the work being done by the State Commercial Agricultural Development Office (SCADO).
Under the auspices of the World Bank, Lagos State Government and the Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority, a 5 Year Commercial Agricultural Development Project (CADP) has been progressively implemented since April 16, 2009, and will be closing on December 31, 2014.
The project is designed to make farming more commercial and profit driven. Steps being taken include identification of beneficiary farmers based on specified eligibility criteria, and subsequent implementation. Key focus areas are Aquaculture, Poultry and Rice farming.
Farmers are being given grants, and supported with capacity building resources etc.
Full details are provided in a flyer the young lady gave to me, which you can view high resolution digital versions I’ve prepared (click below).
If you are a farmer and wish to know more about the CADP, I suggest you download the two pages of the flyer put up above. You’ll find the SCADO office address, email address, phone numbers on them. Google “Lagos SCADO” to get more details.
Click the links below to view latest posts in each category on the SD Nuggets™ blog
Do you know what happens when you type a web address or URL (like www.tayosolagbade.com) into your Internet Explorer browser’s URL entry bar, and click “GO” or press “Enter”? Read this article to learn what happens, and how/why this process sometimes can become slow to the point that it frustrates users like yourself!
(TIP: This article is 10 years old this month. It was first published online via spontaneousdevelopment.com – now defunct – on 1st March 2007 | I republished it via tayosolagbade.com on Jun 29, 2012 – and I’m re-purposing it here, as a public service via tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets – my blog – today, 27th March 2017)
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 059: Read This And Understand Why Your Internet Access Is Sometimes Slow
Do you know what happens when you type a web address or URL (like www.tayosolagbade.com) into your Internet Explorer browser’s URL entry bar, and click “GO” or press “Enter”? Read this article to learn what happens, and how/why this process sometimes can become slow to the point that it frustrates users like yourself!
Do you know what happens when you type a web address or URL (like www.tayosolagbade.com) into your Internet Explorer browser’s URL entry bar, and click “GO” or press “Enter”?
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Note: URL means “Uniform Resource Locator” and is the address for a resource(e.g. website) on the internet. It actually represents a unique string of numbers called an Internet Protocol(IP) address e.g. 164.205.65.105. Since words/names are easier for people to remember than numbers, URLs are used to specify website addresses – while the internet server “interpretes” it to mean the “number String” address equivalent.
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The following describe the sequence of events that occurs:
1. Internet Explorer sends the web address(www.tayosolagbade.com) to your ISP(Internet Service Provider).
2. The ISP sends “www.tayosolagbade.com” to the nearest node of the Domain Name Server(i.e. DNS, which is actually a set of databases shared amongst servers that stores the numeric addresses of Web sites. A new domain name e.g. tksola.com is added “or propagated” to these databases during the first few weeks after the domain name is registered. Only after this has been done, will it be possible to type the domain name into a browser and not get a “Page not found” error message).
3. The DNS returns the site’s numeric(IP) address to your Internet Explorer(watch the status bar of your browser when next you’re doing this online).
4. Your Internet Explorer sends the IP address to a router, which checks the traffic on the Internet, and finds the least busy path to the server containing the website(www.tayosolagbade.com) that you’ve requested.
5. The server receives the IP address, acknowledges receiving it(your status bar may momentarily read “website found”), then places the request in a queue to wait until earlier requests(by you or others e.g. when many people are trying to go to yahoo.com) have been fulfilled by the server.
6. The server then sends the website’s default page(index.htm for example) back over the Internet to your ISP, which then sends it to your computer.
The process described in 1 to 6 above normally happens within seconds, even with a slow internet connection.
When you browse using a fast connection(e.g. broadband/ satellite), the entire process can occur in an instant.
However, sometimes when the ISP has a problem and/or its resources are overloaded say due to many users online at the same time, prolonged access times can result.
That’s when at steps 5 to 6 you find yourself waiting for what seem like prolonged periods for the webpages you requested to appear.
So, how does the above information help you?
Well, for one thing, you are now equipped to understand why this happens, when it does, so you should feel less frustrated, if at all.
Secondly, this knowledge puts you in a position to communicate more intelligently with the administrator/ support staff for your Internet connection about the problem.
Thirdly, this useful knowledge puts you in a unique position to educate other internet users who experience similar problems.
Share this with someone you know would benefit from it.
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
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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).
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.
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.
In my Ten Ways self-help manual, I referred to a definition of luck given by someone as: “when preparation meets opportunity”. Well, that was just one of the many definitions of luck that have been given by people who have achieved success (see more below). Some people always try to explain away another person’s success (or lack of it) as being due to luck (or bad luck). But the fact remains very obvious to anyone who will take an objective look at the issue. There is NO shortcut. Lasting success, very frequently, comes to those who apply themselves with commitment to a chosen cause. Continue reading →
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