Self-Development - SD Nuggets™

Knowing How to Code Is NOT Enough for Spreadsheet Programming Success [MUST READ: FREE PDF Introduction to Excel-VB Programming by J.Latham]

September 11, 2016

[NB: This is a non-password protected educational piece for members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club] In 2007, it cost my brother-in-law (Segun Ogunlana) about $34 USD to buy me a copy of the 1st edition of Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET Today, […]

Entrepreneurship

A Buyer's Feedback About my Audio on Biafran Scientists' Animal Feeding Innovations!

September 8, 2016

[Audio Podcast] Amazing Story: How Biafran Scientists Innovated Low Cost Animal Feed (During the Nigerian Civil War) Using Zero Cost Local Ingredients ************************************ A Buyer's Feedback Within Hours of Getting the 1.5 Hour Long Audio ************************************ =Starts= "Good evening I really enjoyed the audio lectures you have actually hit the nail on the head and […]

Career Development

Protected: You Don't Need a Computer Degree to Make Money from Spreadsheet Programming

August 28, 2016

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Excel-VB Solutions

How To Get The URL for a FACEBOOK Post, status or comment

August 27, 2016

This video demonstrates the steps I described in the answer to my FACEBOOK PRODUCTIVITY QUESTION (posted 4th December 2011) - which was as follows: "Sometimes you want to tell OTHERS about a certain Facebook post, that interested you. The "Share" feature does NOT work in cases when you need to share the Post in a […]

Career Development

Why Today’s Extension Specialists/Farm Business Support Providers Need Spreadsheet Automation Skills to Succeed Better!

August 25, 2016

As a self-taught Excel-Visual Basic (VB) Solutions Developer, I've (over the past 2 decades) evolved my own unique approach to using my Spreadsheet Programming skills. And I realize others who work in the Excel-VB programming industry, especially outside Africa, who are used to the traditional approach adopted by a large majority of developers may find […]

Career Development

PII 027: Make Money Selling Spreadsheet Workbooks You Use

August 15, 2016

The key to making money is finding a solution to problems that others around us are prepared to pay us profitably for. If you know how to go about it, you CAN make good money selling the Workbooks you build for use in your work as a business user of MS Excel, or indeed any […]

Career Development

PII 026: You Can be Competent Yet Lack Confidence!

August 8, 2016

To boost your chances of making sales, you need to have sales conversations as often as possible. And that requires creating systems to generate a regular stream of sales leads/prospects. I learnt that truth the hard way, and today, I apply that learning with diligence. My ability to succeed in making sales in spite of […]

Entrepreneurship

[MP3 Audio] How to Deal With Prospective Buyers Demanding Lower Prices You Find Unprofitable

August 3, 2016

This audio is a sequel to last week's issue titled: The Secret to Succeeding Financially As a Service Provider Preview: Why you should never let your target audience interpret your service as a "commodity" they can get for any fee they want, via aggressive pricing, or "haggling". I explan (using true stories) that […]

Career Development

Attend Tayo Solagbade's FREE 1 Hour Talk on Potential Applications of Excel-VB Spreadsheet Automation: "Proven Strategies for Using MS Excel to Boost Employee and Company Productivity" [Sat 6th August 2016 & Sat 13th August 2016 in Ikeja-Lagos, Nigeria]

August 2, 2016

Invitation to CEOs/Independent Consultants, and other business users, as well as Trainers: Attend Tayo Solagbade's FREE 1 hour flagship talk linked below, on the tentative dates shown below, in Ikeja, Lagos... Title: Proven Strategies for Using MS Excel to Boost Employee and Company Productivity See details in talk's flyer at: http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/1-hour-talkno-5-proven-strategies-for-using-ms-excel-to-boost-employee-and-company-productivity/. […]

Career Development

PII 025: What Every Business User of Spreadsheets Needs to Boost Productivity

August 1, 2016

Quick Take-Away: This article will benefit ANY business user who wishes to understand how to get more productive work done by him/herself and/or others who work with/for him/her - using spreadsheets. My discussion is based on MS Excel, but the ideas I advocate apply to ANY spreadsheet application that offers code driven automation functionality. Over […]