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The FARM CEO (Issue 89): GET 2 PDF GUIDES ON CATFISH FARM BIZ | INFOGRAPHIC: Find Serious Buyers For Your Property (5 Tips) – by Lanre Karim

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1. SUBSCRIBE TO THE MAKING EXTENSION SERVICES WORK (MESW) ™ WEEKLY NEWSLETTER!

Join my mailing list for weekly news, information and education on agribusiness/entrepreneurship, new findings, and latest development in farm business etc.

BONUS: GET 2 COMPREHENSIVE PDF GUIDES ON COMMERCIAL CATFISH FARMING BUSINESS

If you signup to join my mailing list AND GO FURTHER to join my Making Extension Services Work (MEWS) club by ordering ANY of my feasibility reports at the current promo fee of N5k (instead of N100k), before the offer closes at Midnight tomorrow Monday 31st July 2017, you will receive

(a) the feasibility report on Catfish Farming startup you ordered PLUS

(b) download links to 2 comprehensive PDF manuals on Commercial Catfish Farming that cover ALL aspects including Commercial Pond Rearing and ARTIFICIAL  REPRODUCTION based on what is done in real life Sub-Saharan African markets like Nigeria.

FILL & SUBMIT the web contact form linked on the page below to join my mailing list, ask questions, or request payment details to order a report & join my club!

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2. [REIC 034] INFOGRAPHIC: Do You Need Help Finding Serious Buyers For a Property? [5 Tried & Tested Ideas You Can Use] – by Lanre Karim

In this week’s issue of my Real Estate Investment Chronicles newsletter, I publish this special INFOGRAPHIC that highlights – in printable, one page size image format – 5 proven ideas and strategies you can adopt, even with no money, to attract serious potential buyers for properties you sell.

The contents are based not just on my experiences, but were also drawn from a selection of smart ideas shared by real estate professionals whose works I’ve studied (e.g It includes “6 Hard Truths You Need to Accept About Achieving Real Estate Marketing Success)

This infographic is a gift to my readers that I created specially on my birthday of 27th July 2017.

Click the link below to download the LARGE version and start reading!

http://lanrekarim.com/blog/2017/07/31/reic-034-infographic-do-you-need-help-finding-serious-buyers-for-a-property-5-tried-tested-ideas-you-can-use-by-lanre-karim/

PS: I will send you the normal article version – about 900 words – as a PDF, along with the slideshow,

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[RECOMMENDED] 4 Things Every Woman Should Know About Starting A Business – by Kim Kiyosaki | Thursday, July 20, 2017 | Read Time = 3 minutes

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[Estimated reading time for this article is 3 minutes. I’m a male business owner, and I found it most enlightening. If you’re a woman and think you lack the time to read it, THAT is a sign that you’re probably too busy for your own good, and actually NEED to consider the ideas offered in it by Kim Kiysaki]

4 Things Every Woman Should Know About Starting A Business

Now is the perfect time to take the leap to entrepreneurship.

Whether you’re sick of the soul-sucking rat race that is Corporate America, you have an exciting product or service to offer that could disrupt the marketplace, you’re re-entering the workforce after raising a family, or you’ve been told a hundred times that you would make a great entrepreneur, there’s just no reason to settle for a job you hate and an uncertain financial future in this day and age.

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http://www.richdad.com/Resources/Rich-Dad-Financial-Education-Blog/July-2017/4-Things-Every-Woman-Should-Know-About-Starting-A.aspx

 

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[RECOMMENDED] Why You Should Encourage Kids to be Rule Breakers – by Robert Kiyosaki

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[TIP: If you truly LOVE your child, and want him/her to make it in life – especially FINANCIALLY – you WILL stop and read THIS…right to the end]

Once again I find myself MOVED to share another powerfully insightful best practice parenting ideas article from Robert Kiysaki’s Rich Dad blog.

The following excerpt is just one of many parts of this piece that resonates so much with me:

“So, there are two problems. Our kids want to create jobs, which is a vital need for our country, and instead of teaching our kids how to create jobs, our schools teach them how to get jobs.

In the process, they build into them an employee mindset, which is one that is inclined to follow the rules instead of break them. This breaks their spirit, and it squashes their entrepreneurial dreams.” – Robert Kiyosaki, in “Why You Should Encourage Kids to be Rule Breakers” [Read the full article by clicking the link or image below]

It just amazes me how despite all the practical real world relevant, and life changing sense this many has continued to make with his writing, MANY MANY parents in this part of the world, who cannot claim NOT to have encountered his work, continue to put their kids, blindly through conventional schooling, with all it’s harmful aspects INTACT!!!

Suffice to say that MY kids will continue to spared THAT kind of damage…and you can be sure they ARE being TAUGHT to be unapologetic rule breakers…like I AM :-)

Why You Should Encourage Kids to be Rule Breakers

 

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http://www.richdad.com/Resources/Rich-Dad-Financial-Education-Blog/March-2013/will-our-kids-entrepreneur-dreams-die.aspx

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Part 4 – How I Built My Automated Cash Book/Bank Reconciliation Software [Adding In-Cell Drop Down Menus to Reduce User Data Entry Errors In The Imprest Cash Book]

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Part 4 – How I Built My Automated Cash Book/Bank Reconciliation Software [Adding In-Cell Drop Down Menus to Reduce User Data Entry Errors In The Imprest Cash Book]
The following files have been emailed to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club – to be used for their review of this week’s tutorial:
[1[ Step by Step screenshot video tutorial (screenshot below)
 
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[2] Example workbook used in the video demonstration, complete with the new features/functions added (screenshot below)
 
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Let me know if you need any help replicating or putting the demonstrated concepts into use,
In your service
Tayo
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Join Prof. Adesope’s Making Services Work Club™ [*You Get 95% Off Expertly Written Feasibility Reports for Real Life Business Startup of Snail Farming, Cassava Farming, Plantain Farming, Oil Palm Farming, Fish Farming, & also Cassava Processing Factory for Chips and Pellets Exports] – Discount Drops to 50% Off AFTER 31st July 2017

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Join Prof. Adesope’s Making Services Work Club™ [*You Get 95% Off Expertly Written Feasibility Reports for Real Life Business Startup of Snail Farming, Cassava Farming, Plantain Farming, Oil Palm Farming, Fish Farming, & also Cassava Processing Factory for Chips and Pellets Exports] – Discount Drops to 50% Off AFTER 31st July 2017

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[RECOMMENDED] Fake LinkedIn profiles used by hackers | Facebook Now Automatically Detects Imposter Accounts

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If you’re like most people you would welcome invitations from more people who want to connect with you on various social media platforms you use.

But – as recent experiences of many continue to show – if you indiscriminately say “YES” to such invites, sometimes some of those “people” may end up being “fake people” – using phony accounts.

Most of us know this can happen on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but only few of us are aware that it ALSO happens on LinkedIn – and has been with increasing frequency over the years!

The challenge, for you, will be how to detect such imposters and avoid accepting them into your network, so they do not cause you major pain or worse, down the line.

I’ve compiled a listing of articles that share expert tips and strategies for detecting these fake users and protecting one’s self from them.

Below I publish preview of a feature article, ending with a link to the full piece as well as links to several others articles on the same theme:

1. Fake LinkedIn profiles used by hackers

Mr O’Brien had some tips for LinkedIn users worried that they might have befriended a hacker.
“You can do a reverse image search by dragging and dropping the profile picture into Google Images and see what it brings up.

“Copying and pasting the job information in Google can also reveal whether it has been taken from somewhere else.”

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Twitter and Facebook also have problems with fake accounts but LinkedIn seems to be particularly attractive to hackers, said Mr O’Brien.

“It reveals the greater sophistication of cyber-criminals that they are prepared to play the long game by gaining information for future attacks in this way,” he said.
It is not the first time that researchers have pointed out the dangers of fake LinkedIn profiles.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34994858

2. Facebook Now Automatically Detects Imposter Accounts

A feature that will automatically alert you if someone is impersonating your Facebook profile is the latest security enhancement for users of the world’s largest social network. Approximately 75 percent of Facebook profiles are now automatically alerted when imposters use their profile photo and user name to create a fake account, Mashable reports.

If an imposter is detected, the system automatically alerts the real user account. That person can then flag the profile as an impersonation, and Facebook’s security team is notified to delete the account.

Impersonation is not a widespread security threat for Facebook users, but women in particular are vulnerable to imposters who create fake profiles to harass them.fbk-fake

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272961

Below are links to other educative pieces, written by competent experts, that I recommend you read, to be informed and armed to protect yourself against these phonies!

1. Fake LinkedIn accounts want to add you to their professional network

2. 3 Stunningly Good LinkedIn FAKE Profiles

3, How to spot a fake profile on LinkedIn

I’m on a mission to compile and feature as many informative and educative articles as I can find on this subject to help any interested persons.

Apart from the fact that it is the right thing to do, I also do this because I want to help others avoid the needless waste of time and effort those who do these silly things cause otherwise serious minded persons – like myself – to incur online.

Indeed, over the past few weeks I’ve had a rash of pranksters and prospective hackers try various ways to get at me, and it’s been most irritating. But I often know enough of what to do to protect myself. Yet I never stop taking up opportunities to learn more (hence my efforts to research and study this problem). I recommend you adopt a similar mental attitude.

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Proven 6 Step Formula You Need for Successfully Monetizing Your Expertise [Hint: Identifying Your Best Skill to Sell for Money]

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“I have long taught: if you can’t make money without money, you won’t make money with money either. And if you’re going to back somebody, pick an entrepreneur who has proven that he can survive without adequate capital” – Dan Kennedy (Millionaire Entrepreneur/Author of “How to succeed in Business by breaking all the rules”)

The above quote is one that has guided me well since I first read it over a decade ago.

Among other things, it helped me to dig in and LEARN how to leverage my genius/talents to make money when I lacked it. And over time as I gained proficiency in doing it, my confidence grew, such that I explored newer and smarter ways to do it, to earn more, with less effort and in less time.

This is not the first time I’ll be writing on this subject. Some of my past write-ups on this theme are linked further down, in this piece.

In this article however, I offer ADDITIONAL experience based ideas about strategies anyone can use to make money when s/he has no job or capital – by monetizing his/her expertise.

Now, one critical step to increase your chances of succeeding has to do with choosing the right “expertise” to monetize.

It’s one thing to feel you’re good at doing something; it’s quite another thing to demonstrate the level of competence that makes people willing to pay YOU to do it, because they BELIEVE you’re good enough!

I realize not everyone is capable of self-tutoring in this regard, and so you may, not be able to do it for yourself, like I did for myself.

That’s why in this article, I enumerate, with examples a 6 step formula for narrowing down to specific competences you can successfully monetize

To paraphrase Napoleon Hill in his timeless classic – the book titled “Think and Grow Rich” a person who lacks material resources, connections and capital can only hope to make money by selling of “personal services”.

I like to use the Yoruba slang expression “Fejerun” – which translated literally means “that which runs on blood”. In other words, something that ONLY needs you to be alive to DO IT successfully.

What I describe in the rest of this article is consistent with the theme or past articles I’ve written on the subject of making money without money.

Now, if you’re based in my part of the world – Africa, it’s likely you will find that some of the best opportunities for monetizing one’s expertise are to be had online – but most may NOT be available to you…because of your geographical location.

A good example is the linked page below, which announces a monetization opportunity for users of Sound Cloud,

http://blog.symphonicdistribution.com/2017/02/make-money-soundcloud/

You will see from checking the above link, that the territories covered by that opportunity exclude Africa.

But I have learned over the years to defiantly go after my goals, starting where i am, with what I have – and the WEB as a whole offers LOTs of alternative opportunities to the person willing to think creatively and be persistent.

That’s why I sell digital content (audios and videos as well as PDFs/Excel apps) without using PayPal – and instead getting people to send me money via Western Union, Guaranty Trust Money Transfer (GTMT), and bank transfer (for persons in Nigeria).

There are 2 other ways I use to get paid that are VERY unconventional. My determination to get paid made me think them up. I recommend you do same.

So how do you get started “Identifying Your Best Skill to Sell for Money”?

Well, maybe you’re good at telling entertaining stories in form of comedy skits usable on radio/TV, and you think that’s likely to make you some good money with the right packaging and promotion (?)

It would not be a bad idea to simply go out and start with THAT…

However, to make more productive use of your time, effort and resources (including your “blood”), you might want to put a little more thought into making that final choice(s).

Indeed, if I were you, I would start by sitting down in a quiet place and THINKING back to ALL the times anyone has EVER paid me for skills/abilities/knowledge I possess.

1. Write EACH one of them down on a separate line, and put in front how much you got paid, when it happened, who the client was and how the money got into your hands.

2. Keep listing out every single instance that this happened for as far back as you can recall

3. Make comments about what you did that ATTRACTED and WON OVER the client to pay you

4, Check which are the top 5 earners among the skills/abilities/knowledge you got paid for

5, Ask yourself honestly, which ONE of them you most enjoyed doing, and that you would NOT mind doing endlessly even if you were not paid for it. Note the next 2 after that first one.

6. Does the creation of stuff like the comedy skit fall into ANY of the top 3 earners you most love doing? If YES, then I strongly recommend you adopt the use of the web to monetize it like I do.

I could go on, but I’m sure you understand well enough, now, what you need to do – and how.

Otherwise you may wish to signup as a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club, so I can develop a web Marketing System (WMS) for you, which comes with FREE coaching on how to use the WMS to:

(1) cut down time, effort and money it costs you to promote what you sell

(2) generate sales leads of pre-qualified prospects/potential buyers.

See a mind map based explanation of what I mean by a WMS at www.tayosolagbade.com/uploads/wms-mindmap-writers.pdf

Like I said, there are FREE self-help resources on the web that one can study to make this happen. Google is a good place to start.

I offer FREE articles on my blog as well. Just type “TayoSolagbade.com: web marketing system” – that’s ONE of several strings that should bring up some of my articles.

See the Google search results page at: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=TayoSolagbade.com%3A+web+marketing+system&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Note that I also talk about monetizing your expertise by creating Digital Cash Flow Generating Assets *DCFGAs”.

That’s what I’ve done for years and I believe you can do the same with your creative content – if you are willing to do the hard work and persist till the sales come in.

Here are links to some:

1.How You Can Create Income Generating Assets Without Having a Job or ANY Money! (True Story)

http://excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com/?p=404

2, The Best Way to Make Money (True Story)

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/the-best-way-to-make-money-true-story/

The ideas I’ve shared above are what you can put to use without needing my direct involvement.

And that’s why I’ve offered them.

However, you can fill/submit this web form if you need to get my support if you need help.

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[RECOMMENDED] Purchase my Farm Business Support Software & Information Products FOR LESS from these Affiliate Partners of my Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™

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On the page linked below, I provide names and preliminary contact details of Affiliate Partners, from whom you CAN purchase ANY of my underlisted products at LOWER rates than their standard prices/fees.

Affiliate Partners

You will fill and submit a form linked on the page to contact the Affiliate Partner of your choice.

NB: The special discount concessions enjoyed by my partners  makes it possible for YOU to get more pocket friendly prices – from them – than you would get from me.

PPS: To learn how you can become an Affiliate Partner, fill the form linked on the Affiliate Partner page to request details

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[RECOMMENDED] Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years by CEO of Mercedes

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Comment by Tayo K. Solagbade: I prepared this print-ready 2 page PDF version (click here to download it now) of the message previewed below (reportedly given by the CEO of Mercedes), for my kids, who I’ve been coaching along the same lines, based on my observations/experience based intuition. It is my considered opinion, that every parent needs to read it with his/her kids!

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And truly WISE parents will enroll with their kids at Khan Academy (mentioned in the message)– it’s the future of LEARNING here today! See https://www.khanacademy.org/

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Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years by CEO of Mercedes

​In a recent interview the MD of Daimler Benz (Mercedes Benz) said their competitors are no longer other car companies but Tesla (obvious), Google, Apple, Amazon

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world

Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world,  10 years earlier than expected.

Click here to download the 2 page PDF I prepared in a ready to print format, for my kids.

Source: https://naukarinews4u.in/2017/05/14/must-read-article-on-how-our-lives-will-change-dramatically-in-20-years-by-ceo-of-mercedes/