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
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!
Many business owners have problems attracting the right kinds of people to buy from them.
Marketing is not just about getting people to buy from you. Instead you need to focus on how to find the right kind of people.
How can – or should – you define/identify them?
Another way I like to ask this question is:
What is your target audience profile?
If you are not sure, or simply do not know, THIS is as good an opportunity as ever, right now, right here, as you read this, to begin THINKING it all up!
I offer a few insights below.
Those are the kinds of people I have as my clients.
The ideas I share on this page, and this blog can enable you attract the above mentioned kinds of people to buy from you, if you apply them with intelligence, creativity, diligence and persistence.
It is with regard to the latter, that we notice many smart business owners/independent consultants offering “talks” and other learning events, sometimes paid, but often free to their target audiences.
They do so because they understand the powerful client recruitment benefits to be had from speaking to large groups of likeminded people potentially interested at the same time.
I don’t really believe there is any limit to what you can do with the information I share here.
You only need to apply creativity and a willingness to persist till you get the results you want.
The use of a Speaker One Sheet is yet another dimension to what I have already discussed with regard to using Public Speaking for Business Marketing.
Over the past decade or so, as I evolved my brand as a multi-skilled entrepreneur (aka Multipreneur) , I’ve learnt how to use a Speaker One Sheet to communicate details of what I offer by way of talks, seminars, coaching programs, workshops and other learning events.
Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve studied experts, especially outside Africa to learn how to develop unique resources, like the Speaker One Sheet, to attract potential clients – especially when one lacks money to use conventional paid channels or strategies.
In many cases, as I’ve noted in other articles describing how I’ve borrowed ideas from other cultures, I’ve had to creatively adapt what I learned about using the Speaker One Sheet, to suit my needs out here in Nigeria/Africa.
When you succeed in doing so, you suddenly discover it can be pushed even further – and much further too.
I’ve traveled that road, which is why I know it works – hence my recommendation that YOU think less of spending money of paid outlets, until you’ve put ideas like the one described on THIS page to test fully.
I recommend you aim to produce Speaker One Sheets, describing learning solutions you offer in a manner that makes people consider inviting you to SHARE your expert information and insights.
That process can ultimately opens potential doors of opportunities for you to communicate to others things you have to offer – whether for a fee or for free.
Hopefully, what you learn will equip you to better evolve your own brand, with regard to marketing or any other business promotion goal you may have.
I do this because I do not want people who will be annoyances in my business, and I do not want to constitute an annoyance to anybody.
I offer an analysis of the various sections (A to H) using one of my own Speaker One Sheets (below).
Like I noted earlier on in this piece, I evolved my own branded range of Speaker One Sheets, based on my studies of many others I’ve found online – especially on websites owned by experts based in the USA.
It is noteworthy here that I publish each of my Speaker One Sheets in PDF as well as image (PNG) formats.
This is to ensure they can be accessed and viewed by as many persons fitting my target audience profile as possible – regardless of what platform they use.
I recommend you aim to do the same thing with your own Speaker One Sheet, and indeed any other similar resources you use for your business promotion.
Then I send the URL to that blog post to any persons I wish to share the Speaker One Sheet with, so s/he can pick and choose from all that is provided.
To watch the video anatomy explanation – click below or go to www.tinyurl.com/tksAnatomyofS1S
The message in this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is based on transcripts excerpts from an audio podcast I recorded, to explain how business persons can explore alternative ways to get paid for what they do or what they sell.
Whether you’re a service provider, or manufacturer or producer of anything whatsoever, there are so many alternatives to getting paid in conventional ways that you can pursue, which will enable you to achieve the desired ends you want as a business owner.
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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) 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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It all still feels like yesterday – when in 2002 I quit a high paying job as a manager in a corporate multinational, in which I was an established high-flyer, to start offering my custom Excel-VB software development (and Freelance Writing) solutions to paying clients.
Not a few friends, relatives and co-workers thought I’d lost it. Indeed, some co-workers called me “mad” for doing so – as I noted in a past article (click to read) based on feedback reaching me years later.
I have found a reliable way to get paid what I want, the way I want, for what I do, and I am recognized internationally for it.
So what do I do exactly?
Well, I do several things, as a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur.
However, with regard to Excel-VB software development, I USED to work on client premises, face to face or in person, building a wide range of custom automated spreadsheet applications using Excel-VB programming.
Then in 2012, I moved to providing the same service 100% remotely using the web – and over time used the pattern of client requests I was getting, to settle on key applications I could offer for sale.
As time went on, I discovered it was better to build apps and offer them for sale, instead of looking to get hired by clients to build spreadsheet software.
That decision made me focus my efforts on identifying the best markets/buyer groups to sell to, and I eventually narrowed down to farm business owners as the most serious minded of them all.
Since I did that, I have had NO cause to regret it, as Farm CEOs (from within and outside Africa) continue to respond to the sales offers of my farm business support products. Examples include the Excel-VB Ration Formulator, its accompanying Feed Formulation Handbook, my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager and other information products on sale at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts!
I have LOTS of true stories to share on the challenges – seen and unseen – that I’ve had to overcome to survive, and ultimately begin to flourish like I do today. It took lots of unconventional thinking and creativity based on painful experiences and deep reflection to find a solution suited to my situation!
For instance, I’ve had employees of clients inform me that their bosses hired “expert” others to try hacking my spreadsheet software. Yep: my own client so badly wanted to avoid paying me call-out fees for maintenance/update of my software, that he invited supposed “experts” from elsewhere to try making the changes he wanted!
And THAT is just one of many examples I tell you.
I have seen – and heard – all sorts. It takes being a Ninja of sorts to function as a provider of creative intellectual solutions in the Nigerian market – especially when it has to do with SOFTWARE!
Apart from worrying about your work being stolen, a more serious challenge is getting paid ENOUGH to make it profitable to practice your software development service as a business.
Now, in my case, as I’ve explained elsewhere, when I started out NO ONE was doing anything remotely resembling offering custom commercial spreadsheet software for sale to individuals or organizations.
What made it easy was the fact that I had enjoyed great success developing business solutions that worked in a world class environment, while working in a large corporate multinational.
The experiences I had while I was there, convinced me that such solutions would be needed by others. It took me time to find them, but I eventually did, and after some years, I narrowed to the most profitable niche to serve.
The time, effort and money saving benefits delivered by the custom apps I built, in my spare time as a trainee brewer rapidly earned me a reputation as a problem solver – catching senior management attention at the corporate level.
That eventually led to rapid career advancement opportunities coming my way, so that in less than 6 years I’d earned promotions, and acting assignments at senior management positions well ahead of my peers.
But the workload, and the dreams I had of using my skills to serve a wider and more varied audience made me sure I needed to free myself from the restrictions of a 9 to 5 job.
So, I did my best to prepare for and eventually launch my entry into the world of self-employment.
I enjoy positive attention from stakeholders in the various markets I serve, for the solutions I provide – especially my custom Excel-VB software development service, as well as my Custom Web Marketing Systems (WMS) Development service.
In case you wonder about the latter (i.e. WMS), it is what empowers me to market the former, in a manner that gets total strangers to send me payment for the growing library of performance improving products and services I offer via TayoSolagbade.com.
In other words, I find and win over buyers for what I sell, by using my unique WMS at low to zero cost. It took me YEARS to develop this system and make it work for me.
That’s why I offer to help clients develop their own unique/custom WMS to sell their own products/services at less cost, in less time and using less effort like I continue to do!
Indeed I found myself serving clients with my heart and soul, working round the clock like I did on my corporate job, to deliver solutions that worked and saved them money, time and effort – only to end up getting used and dumped, or manipulated one way or another.
There were exceptions i.e clients that treated me with consideration and respect. But they were few and far between.
Most times I found myself unable to reconcile my invested time and effort with the monetary compensation I got from majority of clients I served.
All of this happened despite the fact that I diligently served in line with the 10 item code of ethics I’d found online.
It struck me that the elderly Excel-VB Developer based in Canada, who I’d “borrowed” the code of ethics from, had conceived it for a market in which he was assured of a relationship of mutual respect and consideration from majority of his clients.
People tend to behave themselves MORE over there, compared to what happens in Nigeria.
Reflecting on my experiences over more than 8 years (doing business as “CB Solutions”), it was apparent that I could not boast of being in such a market, in Nigeria.
That decision led me to refine my marketing and solutions development techniques to what I use today, and on which my Web Marketing System is based.
This has enabled me, for over 4 years now, to work 100% remotely via the web, to repeatedly and SUCCESSFULLY deliver my growing library of solutions to a global paying audience.
In other words, I have evolved to a system that makes it possible for me to PLEASE my clients, in a manner that earns me great rewards, of the kind I cherish financially as well as emotionally.
Central to my continuing success has been the diligent use of the 10 item code of ethics I adapted from Pierre Le Clerc’s website – and which I described in yesterday’s post (click to read).
2. 1 Hour Talk(No. 5): Proven Strategies for Using MS Excel to Boost Employee and Company Productivity
4. Achieve Business Success Using Spreadsheet Data Analysis & Reporting Automation
Today, I enjoy the privilege/benefit of being able to win buyers for my custom Excel-VB driven software from within and outside Africa.
Working 100% online to get found using a unique Web Marketing System I developed for myself, I continue to convince total strangers to send me payment for my custom automated workbook applications.
It’s however been a long – and difficult – journey getting where I am now – especially starting-up a software solutions development business, as a complete NOBODY, in a Nigerian market notorious for reckless software piracy and abuse of intellectual property: a VERY hostile environment indeed.
Yet I did it. Though it took lots of hard work and endurance.
Go to www.tinyurl.com/tksxlvbNigeriaStory from 6p.m or 3/3/2017 (That URL will NOT be active until then).
I outline 10 elements of my code of ethics below – noting that anyone, including YOU, can successfully adapt them for use in paid or self-employment/business.
In my case, this code has guided for YEARS me in relating successfully with ALL clients I provide my multidisciplinary range of solutions.
Purpose: I aspire to provide flawless service that will make my clients feel good about investing in me, and even brag to others about what I’ve done for them.
Article 1: The well informed – and profitable – client is always right.
Article 2: If the client is not well informed, I haven’t done my job.
Article 3: The services/products I provide answer to the needs of the client.
Article 4: I don’t do “miracles” and I know when to say “NO”.
Article 5: I haven’t been hired to prove that I am smart, but to be useful.
Article 6: My services/products enable the client master the use of computer and/or Internet technology to run his/her business operations, and not the other way round (i.e. my solutions do NOT overwhelm or intimidate my clients!)
Article 7: If the client feels stupid or thinks I am “God” there is something very wrong going on.
Article 8: What I do, the client could do, if s/he had the time and training.
Article 9: My services/products are public and I have no secrets.
Article 10: When I leave, the client who is interested is empowered.
*Adapted from Code of Ethics developed by Pierre Le Clerc, Excel-VB Developer
Email: tayo at tksola.com
Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Twitter: @tksola
Facebook: www.tayosolagbade.com/fbk
Excel-VB Club: Facebook.com/groups/736287616508718/
Tayo Solagbade | Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist; Founder of the Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition; Creator of the 9 Component Customisable Web Marketing System (WMS)
Nothing beats being a master of your craft. You need to invest endless time, effort, money and any other necessary resources, to become as proficient as possible at it, so that ANYTIME those you serve demand for your problem solving attention, you will not be found wanting.
It is with regard to my Excel VB Solutions Development that I have narrated the true story featured below, in this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter.
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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) 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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Below are links to some past articles I’ve published that I give out to farm CEOs who reach out to me – with my best wishes. No strings attached I.e it’s NOT designed to get you to buy from me.
These articles explain various aspects of what I call a BOPMS (Best Operating Process Management System)™ – or at least mentioned the need for it, towards achieving consistent farm business performance.
1. Story: After Resolving Layers Feeding Problems, Selling Increased Eggs Output Became a Headache! |
2. Your Business Should Free You, Not Restrict You
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3. Adopt Standard Operating Procedures to Succeed More With Less Effort (This Works for Solopreneurs and Large Organisations)
4. Five Essential Poultry Layer Farm Production Records
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5. Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations
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6. Five Powerful Tools for Accurately Measuring Your (Farm) Business’ Health
7. Five Proven Ways to Boost Farm Profits without Raising Prices
8. Producing Good Catfish is Important, But Finding Good Buyers is Imperative!
9. Reducing Catfish Feeding Costs (A Secret Weapon) – Part 1 of 2
10. Reducing Catfish Feeding Costs (A Secret Weapon) – Part 2 of 2
11. Top 10 Ingredients Used in Livestock Feed
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If you have (or plan to have) kids that go on to have empowering and fulfilling relationships in their personal and work lives, I recommend you STOP and read this article. It’s based on text transcript excerpts I prepared from a TV Talk show on Domestic Violence, featuring a Psychotherapist specializing in domestic abuse.
[A word of caution before you begin reading or acting on what you read or watch in the rest of this piece: This is another in my Best Practice Parenting series. The information offered is to guide your efforts in parenting your kids.
However, only an adult who is competent in handling him/herself in relationships, can be reasonably expected to be able to empower his/her kids to do the same.
So, if you struggle with the abuse issues raised here (be you the abuser, or the abused), I recommend you follow the tips offered by the expert (and others) to help yourself, so you can be better enabled to help your kids.
As the saying goes, “You cannot give what you don’t have!“]. Now read on….!
I do NOT want my child to ever have to wait to call in on a TV show, to get help to get free from abuse of any kind. What if no such show even exists where s/he lives?
In my adult life, I have both witnessed and experienced abuse – including vicious verbal, emotional as well as physical kinds. So I KNOW how damaging it can be. What has saved me from being ruined by my exposure to those potentially traumatizing experiences has been the powerful physical and mental stamina I developed and nurtured all through my adult life.
It is what has always protected me, and kept me from ever going under, till I freed myself from the abuser.
They will learn to do so, with regard to making the right choices of friends, and partners to relate with, and how to MANAGE those relationships to experience the healthiest physical, and emotional existence possible.
You owe yourself and your kids a similar obligation – and this TV show’s message provides a useful starting point.
Janelle So [Kababayan@la18.tv, 8/10/2010 4:46:07 PM]: All your questions about domestic violence being addressed today, on the show, with Dr. Jill Marie – a psychotherapist. She’s written a lot of books about domestic violence and we’ll talk a little bit about that also today.
But for now, let’s go to the phone lines, because the phone lines are burning. So many people want to call.
It’s okay if you want to call anonymously, we’ll still get your phone call.
Ehm. we have an anonymous call – a male caller. Hello and welcome to the show!
Anonymous male caller: Yes, hello, ehm…I would like to speak to a doctor(indistinct)
Janelle So: Yes, go ahead
Anonymous male caller: Okay, my name is Kotey, and I am in relationship, and er, my wife, sometime(s) she tell(s) me very mean thing(s), and sometime(s) she beat(s) me and she tell(s) me mean thing(s) like I have big nose and she make fun of my english. And she says if I report her to the authorities that she (will) take away my children. So I, I, I (don’t) know what to do.
Janelle So: Thank you
Dr. Jill Marie (Psychotherapist/Author): Well I’m really glad he called because we really shouldn’t think that this is all males abusing females. Females can be very abusive to men. They can be abusive physically and they can be abusive emotionally. And Janelle, these threats that this gentleman just talked about, that his wife is making, are emotional and verbal abuse.
And so….
…The title of my 3rd book is “But He Never Hit Me”, and I want people to understand that it is not “just” emotional abuse, or “just” verbal abuse. Those are crippling, crippling, abuses. A lot of times people ask me, what’s worse? Emotional Abuse or Physical Abuse? As if one is okay, which they are not. If I had to choose, I would say…
Do this for YOUR own sake, and especially for YOUR kids, and other loved ones who may benefit from getting the powerful insights provided by this expert.
It is my considered opinion that ALL adults MUST make the effort to equip themselves, as well as male and female kids they have, with the know-how to DEAL effectively with, and protect themselves against ANY form of abuse by others, be they members of the same or opposite sex.
I’m working on a new service to be offered via TayoSolagbade.com in which I will offer a monthly updated compilation of informative, and educative resources on “Protecting Yourself from and Succeeding In Spite of Domestic Abuse” from various sources that I will diligently research.
Click here to contact me if you wish to be notified when this new service goes LIVE.
This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter is a special broadcast edition that announces four (4) key Performance Improvement Solutions I offer via www.tayosolagbade.com, www.thefarmceo.net, and www.excelheaven.biz.
My achievements and reputation speak for me. I keep promises I make to EVERY client. If you want reliable expert support to Boost Your Success Achievement, consider taking up these solutions I offer!
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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) 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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