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When you lack money, common sense dictates you get enough before traveling to another country doesn’t it. Of course it does.
Well, as described in a true 1999 story linked below, I did the opposite, with empty pockets, successfully.
How? Through Blind Faith (and I’m NOT talking religion): Blind Faith guides you to intelligently dispense with common-sense, doubt or fear, to pursue your goal (be it personal or business related), while BELIEVING that YOUR Creator will meet you at the EXACT point of YOUR need.
Note here that “intelligently dispensing with common-sense” in applying faith implies you will STOP “worrying/doubting/fretting” and LISTEN for insights – the tiny voice inside you – from the Creator on how to move forward in-spite of your handicap.
That often comes in form of subtle hints, suggestions, flashes of ideas: that’s Him ANSWERING your requests!
[NB: Here’s a warning: Unless you detect, and more importantly ACT on those insights He sends to you, you may find yourself unable to make useful progress, despite your best efforts: Not even when you get money!]
This is NOT textbook theory: I have experienced it countless times…
But it took doing it right, to begin to make sustainable progress in different endeavours.
I often try to explain – but most people fail to “get it”.
That’s why I write articles like this, every now and then, in the hope that some will come across it and LEARN!
Regular readers of my writing likely know it already. But in case you’re not one, I’ll tell you:
I am NOT religious – and have not been since 1989 (when I was 19 years old).
So this piece is NOT about religion.
My understanding continues to evolve till today, but the foundation was laid back then.
It happened when (having NO MONEY to pay my way after a 3 week stay), I embarked on a dangerous 12 hour overnight boat journey – under heavy rainfall – across the Atlantic ocean, in a desperate bid to return to Guinness Benin Brewery, in Nigeria’s Benin city, from Cameroon’s Douala.
[Full details of what happened/why are in my widely syndicated 2006 article – also published on Ezinearticles.com: Click to read.]
What I did that day by choosing to travel across the ocean under such risky conditions, even as I heard a radio report that some people had died when a boat capsized just few days before (!), would be called “foolhardy” or “crazy” by most people.
Yet doing so enabled me achieve my goal of resuming work from annual leave, on the very day and minutes to the time (2p.m) I was expected to resume as duty shift brewer!
After I arrived, my inner eyes opened, and I knew my life would never be the same again/
To put it another way: when faced with problems or difficulties, I often overcome them by taking calculated risks to do what MOST “right-thinking” persons would NEVER do.
The confidence – and conviction! – with which I keep doing the above, derives mainly from my experiences during THAT fateful journey across the ocean, when a guardian angel literally came out-of-nowhere to help me.
My understanding enables me achieve relentless advancement towards my goals, no matter the challenges, problems, setbacks or failures (aka temporary defeats) I encounter!
In other words, that “understanding” equips me to defy negativity in every shape and form it exists.
By implication, I defy evil and anything that goes against the will of the Creator for my life (because He never wishes us evil)!
Adopting such an internal state of mind attracts timely advancement opportunities, and insights for resolving inevitable challenges/adversity to you.
There are universal laws in nature, setup by the Creator, which make this possible.
If you abide by them, you simply CANNOT fail.
That does not mean you will not periodically struggle.
You will. As does every other human being.
But unless you do it wrong, your struggles will often be preparations for greater success held in store for you – IF you persist, and do not quit.
If you keep your PMA and continue having blind and unquestioning faith that the Creator will see you through, in-spite of any shortcomings you have, and because you NEVER do evil to others (which pleases HIM more than anything else)…YOUR success is inevitable!
It is impossible for ANY true child of God to BE otherwise!
This is why I continue to record progress towards greater successes in EVERYTHING I do.
It is also why I AM a spontaneous, fearless and bold DOER of what is good and right, AND challenger of wrong doing wherever I find myself – even at the borders I cross so often.
Some who have experienced me in this mould, have had cause to ask: “Are you a lawyer or journalist? Do you work with SSS?” etc.
When I answer in the negative, they look at me in unending puzzlement.
Concerned persons have warned me of the risk and dangers associated with doing the above – that I could get attacked, or even killed.
We forget that so often.
Our lack of faith makes us miss the point that if He does NOT permit it, even a loaded gun will fail to discharge its bullet load when pointed at YOU.
Isn’t that why we talk about “miracles”?
My life is full of miracles.
And I do it so well that I’m attracting an increasingly global paying audience, who send payment to me via various channels, without meeting me!
Today, I have wonderful friendships with many of my past buyers – and we still have not met.
It’s the philosophy I’ve shared here that makes it possible for me to do all this.
And I continue doing so even today.
That is to say, this kind of success did/does not come quickly, or easily.
Just the aspect o marketing my work by writing an article daily takes MAJOR effort, unless what you turn out is RUBBISH. To craft a compelling piece that commands the conscious attention and interest of others, on a regular basis requires having more than a passing interest.
This alone I have found most people unwilling to do – talk less of sticking with trying to create and sell custom MS Excel-VB driven software (like my Ration Formulator, Poultry Farm Manager, Payslip Generator etc) for N5k to N200k like I have now done many times – but which took me YEARS to get right!!!
It was FAITH in the Creator – the unflinchingly absolute and unquestioning kind.
It goes without saying that I believed in myself and my ideas.
But most of all, I had FAITH that the Creator would SHOW me how to use my abilities, to succeed with my ideas…
The results I get today show that he has since done so, and continues to do so.
Anyone willing to LIVE this way will record similar if not better results – be it in your personal or business life.
It’s that simple.
Click here to contact me about my Spontaneous Coaching for Mastery of Adversity(SCfMA)™ program.
I like to tell people that the highest qualification I have is an MA – but it is NOT the one we all know about.
This MA means Master of Adversity™ – and I earned it from my unpretentious studies in the University of Hard Knocks (aka Life or The Real World).
I recall being told in 2012, by a close relative who knew about the many ups and downs I’d suffered in business, that most as unmarried person would have gone crazy if they’d suffered half of what I’d been through.
Talk less of having to go through it like I had, with the added load of supporting (or being unable to support) my wife and kids as a result!
My MA “competence” is why nothing ever gets me down, no matter how difficult the circumstances I am faced with.
It is why I never ever gave up during the prolonged years of heartbreaking struggles I passed through, till I began to record sustainable success.
But I LEARNED to be this way when I discovered that doing so helped me achieve virtually ANY goal I set for myself – even if I am ALL ALONE with no one to help me.
What’s more, I have studied many other authentic achievers within and outside Africa, by reading their life stories, and found that most had to BE this way too, to achieve the success that made them.
That’s why I know that anyone who is willing can achieve similar results.
If YES, Click here to contact me about my Spontaneous Coaching for Personal Success Achievement program – because an MA is a key benefit you will reap from going through that coaching program.
I’ve recently noticed a gradual increase in the number of enquiries I’m getting from online prospects, about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager app.
Interestingly, more of them now ask if the app can work across an intranet. In other words, for those who have a network of interconnected offline PCs, or those who use apps that send and receive live updates via the web, the Farm CEOs ask me if my app offers similar functions.
Why would they do this?
Well I suspect it’s the same reason some of my past clients did so. Knowing that my app is built using MS Excel, which is NOT designed to be multi-tasking, they find it hard to imagine how ONE app like mine can possibly be used at the same time on multiple terminals across a network.
Rather than argue, I will simply tell the reader that I have done it more than once, and for GOOD pay too. Way back in paid employment I developed a Training Records Database application for use by departmental heads across the brewery via the intranet.
Each head was able to launch the app from where I’d placed it on the server, using the shortcut I’d placed on their PC desktops. They then quickly/easily generated training reports for individual employees in their departments, for printing.
If data entry needed to be made, that had to be done by posting into the app on the server, and then advising ALL users to close and re-launch the app to view the latest updates.
As you can imagine that option did not appeal to the CEO of a hotel I got invited to build a Hotel Records Management System (HRMS) for.
In his case he wanted the different sections of the hotel where data recording happened (e.g. Accounts, Reception, and Bar/Restaurant) to post their data as and when needed in a way that would promptly reflect in the report generation interface of the app, once it is REFRESHED.
In my usual way, I thoroughly investigated the possible options available online until I found a perfect solution described by an Excel-VB developer named Pierre LeClerc.
2 months later, I’d successfully trained the staff in the different hotel data entry sections, to use the app across the company’s intranet.
After overcoming the usual teething problems, they soon got up and running using the app. I still recall being asked by the CEO to call up the app on his laptop so he could view latest reports drawing from data being posted in the different sections.
It is the same method I used for the hotel that I would use as a guide for developing a network-able version of my Poultry Farm Manager app.
I cannot give details of how I would do it, but once completed, it would enable a Farm CEO readily access any latest posted data updates the staff may have done, from ANY terminal – including the web.
In my response, I will send you a one page annotated diagram that depicts the approach conceived by Pierre LeClerc, which I modified to develop the HRMS mentioned above.
Below is a small version of the diagram:
The larger version I will send to everyone who submits this web form, will come with boldly written explanatory notes, labels and generic information.
No matter how intelligent/well schooled, creative, competent, well spoken and nice a person may be, if s/he does not have strength of character, all those aforementioned qualities s/he possesses will not matter.
Why?
Because it takes having upright morals/values and strength of character to navigate the good and bad, as well as right and wrong in the real world. And how well you do that ultimately determines how authentically successful you become in life.
It’s society that teaches each of us what they are. Right from childhood in our parents’ homes through school, till we arrive adulthood in larger society.
As a child I spent my early years (10 to 16) getting into – often spectacular! – trouble (causing my parents major embarrassment) because despite being given the right exposure at home, I repeatedly let peer pressure and influence push me to act contrary to what I’d been taught about doing right and wrong.
They then report his/her misconduct to his/her parents who go on to reinforce the corrective feedback to the child.
I share 5 such true stories from my childhood, in my Best Practice Parenting book titled (Kukuru Danger).
The book is dedicated to all those uncompromising adults and parents who diligently pulled me back in line each time I derailed while I was away from my parents.
Without their efforts, I doubt I would ever have gotten the awakening that has since led me to reform myself into an uncompromising stickler for doing right at all times, no matter how hard it may be.
Doing the above requires a clear sense of right and wrong.
For instance, my ability to overcome years of prolonged heartbreaking struggles as a start-up entrepreneur unwilling to do crooked business in a society where that prevailed, is due to that foundation of sound character that I established in my formative years.
Today I enjoy authentic non-corner cutting success providing my unique range of unconventional Excel-Visual Basic software (like my popular Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager apps), Information Products (like the Feed Formulation Handbook), and services to a global paying audience.
To get where I am now however, I had to fight many attempts to make me compromise and do crooked business – especially during those years that I still focused my efforts exclusively on selling offline.
I’ve shared true stories in past articles about this, and how my siblings and parents had to bail me out time and time again.
If you’ve read some of them, you’ll know that I described myself as being the “Bambiala” (aka beggar) of my family during that phase.
I also noted how some friends and relatives repeatedly told me I could not make useful progress if I insisted on NOT doing things like over-invoicing to get assigned projects by decision makers in some (not all) companies. But I refused and kept looking for alternatives.
Eventually, through a process of trial and error in using the web, coupled with creative thinking in showcasing solutions I offered offline to an online audience of pre-qualified prospects, I’ve gradually built a passive income generating system that continues to evolve today(which I now teach others about)!
Using it has helped me limit exposure of myself to the offline annoyances I faced in the past, and I am better able to reap rewards for the work I do, without needing to compromise on my morals or values.
All this courtesy of the positive character moulding impact of Societal Parenting on me, from my childhood.
Sadly however, things have seriously deteriorated – on the Societal Parenting front, since I had my childhood experiences.
And it shows in what we see daily around us.
Youths who prefer to cheat to pass exams (actively aided by parents in collaboration with invigilators), who enjoy living on the wrong side of the law doing email fraud. Young female students who engage in sex for money or marks, and male counterparts who become campus cult members and inflict bodily harm on peers or even kill them when they disagree.
That’s to mention just a few!
Simply put, today’s Nigeria is brimming with human beings the larger majority of whom have seriously warped morals and values. This distorts or clouds their view of what constitutes right and wrong, effectively making them unreliable where decision making to uphold the law in words or action is required.
Not just their own kids, but more importantly the kids of the minority who still uphold the right morals/values and who teach their kids to do the same.
I happen to belong to that minority, and my concern about the above makes me limit my kids’ interaction with their peers in the Nigerian society. To do this I have taken certain drastic steps that’s gotten close relatives worried that I’m being too extreme.
But engaging the kids in discussion about societal happenings has revealed very clearly that my concerns are NOT unfounded.
I recently asked my 16 year old son if he knew about special centers where exam mal-practices were openly carried out in the country.
This is something that’s earned Nigeria Number 1 ranking amongst ALL countries that enroll students in the West African Examinations Council exams. The media regularly reports it.
He replied that some of his friends had told him about such places and practices, but that he had not personally seen any instances where it happened.
I then asked him if he felt what he’d heard that people like parents and invigilators did there (telling students answers to exam questions), was right.
He said (his exact words):
If it was not right, I don’t think they would do it so openly.
I could not believe my ears.
He had said it with an innocent look in his eyes which confirmed he actually did not know what was being done in those centers was wrong!
But I understood why he saw it that way. The impunity with which it was all done, and the fact that there was rarely any news that culprits were caught or punished made it appear to him that it was okay!
Unregulated exposure of impressionable minded children to unethical acts on a regular basis, can cause them to get so used to it that they think it’s normal.
That day, my determination to counter the corrupting influence of the society on them was renewed as a result of that incident.
I promptly called his siblings to join him and proceeded to explain to them why such practices were VERY wrong, and why it was important that they ALL never accept to see them as being otherwise.
To encourage them, I told them of the many instances I had suffered harassment in my personal and work life for refusing to do wrong that others did, and how staying firm that the Creator would open alternative doors for me to follow, yielded positive benefits for me, time and time again.
I refuse to let it happen to my kids.
And I will continue to take every step I feel necessary to TEACH them why they must not be that way, and also shield them from such corrupting influences, UNTIL such a time that I am convinced that they have developed enough strength of character to RESIST it all.
I suggest you seriously consider doing the same – IF you want to have peace of mind regarding your child’s LONG after s/he leaves home.
Those who do it right will never be afraid of getting news that their adult children have been found engaging in unbecoming conduct.
They will confidently say: MY SON OR DAUGHTER would never do that, and stand by their child no matter what.
I want to be able to do that.
Do you?
[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]
Preview (Issue No. 16):
Multi Award Winning West African innovator makes modern talking cars with 100% locally made engine blocks/parts; TVs controlled by clapping, plant extracts that boost livestock reproduction 4 times over & over 100 more.
Featured on BBC, Agence France, Aljazeera. Watch for details in this new issue of the Farm CEO newspaper…!
Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:
[URL] Made in Africa Talking Cars, Animal Reproduction Boosting Extracts & Incubators by a Church Leader?! P.1
[URL] World’s 1st Fish Farm in Shipping Container: A South African Invention P.2
[URL] New Innovations to Reduce Harvest Loss P.2
[VIDEO] Aquapod System That Can Enable MARINE Fish Farming by Africans? P.3
[URL] Kenyan Invention: Egg Monitoring Kit to Check Egg Fertility/Assess Incubation Progress P.3
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2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.
3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.
4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products
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Strive Masiyawa, billionnaire founder of Econet Wireless recently began writing a beautifully eye opening and educative series on the subtle shapes and forms in which corruption happens in business here in Africa – and I’m ecstatic he’s doing what he promised!
Thank heavens he’s a globally reconized billionnaire who rubs shoulders with authentically successful others (like Richard Branson) AND he’s also well known for being very pious and strictly honest in all his dealings.
If not for the above, coupled with well known true stories about how he successfully defeated corrupt state sponsored attempts to stifle his business right from his startup years, Masiyawa would by now have probably been accused by those with vested interests, of being “jealous” or “bitter” or “frustrated” etc.
That’s what those who benefit directly or indirectly from corruption readily say about those who speak out against it.
I’ve written about this great man in the past, noting that he is one truly authentically successful entrepreneur billionnaire African that I reckon with.
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Most of the others are phonies: What he is saying about corruption is how they make their own money!
I say this as one who has had to pay the price for doing so in my personal and business life for over a decade, and gotten mocked or criticized for doing so by most of my peers and younger others.
It is NOT easy to do.
Incidentally, some of the youth want to understand better how corruption happens and why they must resist it.
It’s the same question another billionnaire – Richard Branson – has had to respond to, in discussing the demise of the Virgin Nigeria venture he once operated in a partnership with that country’s government.
I certainly hope Masiyawa shares the details of what happened during that period he ran Econet Wireless in Nigeria!
Now, I hinted at it above, and Masiya himself has noted also, that following this true and honest (zero-tolerance-for-corruption) path will not be easy. He pointed out that you may lose friends, lose business/money and it could even cost you your life. Yet he recommends that you stay firm and do it anyway!
I agree with him, and the growing success, and significance I enjoy today for what I do, though long in coming, is proof that anyone who stands boldly against corruption with firm faith in the Creator, combined with a willingness to work hard and be creative, will NEVER fail.
For me, Masiyawa now stands head and shoulders above many other business owners in the world for being willing to stick his neck out in this manner, to EXPOSE inside details of corrupt dealings he has encountered and rejected on the way to becoming a billionnaire.
I never did, and some resent me for it, to the extent that they still look for ways to pull me down, till this day.
Yet I’m doing better than ever, because I used my creativity, with lots of hard work, coupled with blind and unquestioning faith in the Creator to develop a unique system that enables me earn over 80% of my income online.
I recall that at a point back in 2004 or so, I took my fight against corruption online by launching what I called a Beat The Nigerian Factor (BTNF) mini site, where I published examples of corruption I encountered.
That’s why I love what Masiyawa is doing so much!
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That means you now have no excuse to NOT do it.
The ball is in your court.
Will you join us to help kick corruption permanently out of Africa?
I hope you do, and the following quote by Masiyawa indicates he does too:
It’s time to play by a different (ethical) set of rules”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Quick Take-Away: You want to read this piece if…
A. you need ideas to get started selling your products/services.
B. you’re already making sales but would like to sell more, with less effort and at less cost.
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa 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 as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager. 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 Limited. 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 his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent). 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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There’s a spiritual dimension to authentic success achievement.
Note however that this has nothing to do with a person’s religious bias, and everything to do with his/her ability to successfully connect with the Creator and tap from the unseen depths of His wisdom to gain needed insights to better decipher what to do at various stages in the pursuit of worthwhile goals.
Sometimes you will have done all that can be done on the physical plane…
Yet it cannot be denied. Many authentically successful achievers have confirmed the role that an intangible yet powerful force played in their lives.
Some have called it luck or coincidence while others called it God, the Infinite Intelligence etc.
We all tend to have names for factors that help turn our fortunes around for the better, at that crucial moment when we’ve done all we know how to do, using everything we have, with little or nothing to show for it.
To borrow an expression from the great Emerson, at that point we would be at our “wits end”.
For the uninitiated, who are not familiar with the process of connecting with the creator, they typically end up going into a state of panic.
But that never helps and only creates more confusion.
But those who learn to connect with the Creator experience the opposite.
They are able to attain a level of spiritual understanding that gives them confidence in the face of uncertainty, no matter how prolonged.
So, rather than be seen running around in a confused state of panic (like the proverbial “headless chicken”), they instead exude an outward calmness in the pursuit of their goals, regardless of the delays, disappointments or setbacks they encounter.
Persons able to remain firmly in control of themselves in trying times like the above mentioned (by applying undying faith while waiting for breakthrough), are the ones most likely to achieve sustainable long term authentic success at whatever they do.
One of the advantages of Self-Publishing your physical book using Print-On-Demand technology, is that you spend very little to get it in print, and then get to buy it as the author, at the cost price.
This gives you good margin to play with in selling the books.
You can buy your books at your author cost price of $3 US dollars, instead of the $10 US dollars selling price!
That means you only need $60 US dollars, instead of $200 US dollars, to get the 20 copies you now want.
But you must add the shipping cost to it – and that has to be checked online at the payment processor. It probably won’t be much different from the $56 or so that they charged for the last order.
So you should be looking at spending $60 + $56 = $120 USD minimum to say $130 or worst case $140 USD, depending on what they charge to ship the 20 copies.
Note however that you also have to factor in the charge for the payment processing platform you use. If I recall correctly, Paypal charges 5% of total payment you make, which is not much of course.
Whatever happens, you will still make major savings, and that low price of $3 USD per book will enable you sell at more attractive prices.
The above is already attractive, but you can get even more…
For instance, by the time you take advantage of bulk discount options often on offer, from publishers like Lulu.com, the margins you enjoy can ramp up in an even nicer way!
It could be a FREE or paid lecture, workshop, or seminar.
Personally I prefer using a FREE or low priced learning event, which interested persons can gain access to by buying the book at a price below the selling price, but above the cost price you purchased bulk copies as the author.
The advert or promo for the event would offer the book at a reduced price, to all those who register to attend. They would have to make payment for their copies before the event, and then come on the d-day with any questions they have, which you would then answer, after your short presentation based on the book.
You would end by mentioning services you provide…
From there some could even hire you to consult for them.
To boost the marketing impact and create more awareness, you could give free invitations to journalists from media houses to attend.
If they like what they see or hear, they would broadcast in their media – but you would not have to pay them.
The planning for this must be done right though, and you could even hold it at regular intervals, say monthly, at different locations, to create awareness.
I used this to sell my books in the past. It works.
I call it Public Speaking for Business Marketing (PSfBM). It is a better way to sell your book. It helps you kill more than 1 bird with only 1 stone.
COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs – Benin Republic. This centre will be based on a piece of land to be purchased in Benin Republic (tentatively in the Seme border town area).
It will…
1. Provide real world relevant findings from pilot scale performance improvement trials in least cost Feed Formulation using locally available, low cost alternative feed ingredients.
NB: A key aspect will be the use, and continual improvement of the popular Excel-VB Ration Formulator app – especially to cater for in-depth amino acid balancing in formulating cost-effective balanced rations.
2. Offer coaching for Farm CEOs on Best Practice Farm Business Operations Management & Marketing in Livestock and Crop Production
3. Operate rabbitry, poultry, and fish production enterprises on a micro to small scale to showcase the potentially useful findings recorded by the centre.
NB: The existing Poultry Farm Manager app will be used and continually improved, while similar apps will be built for rabbit and fish production – which over time will be offered to interested Farm CEOS
4. Run a farm-based restaurant and bar designed to showcase how farms can earn extra income by processing their farm produce into products for sale in farm shops.
5. Publish The Farm CEO™ newspaper to disseminate latest news about findings, innovations and potentially cost-saving ideas from work done at the centre, and those reviewed elsewhere.
6. Offer limited accommodation facilities to members who wish to sleep over for learning events or leisure.
7. Provide on-demand Internet access, as well as transportation, for interested members – including pick up from, or drop off at the airport or the border.
8. Take on custom software or information product development projects from members, if enough of them show interest, and make the finished product available to them at low to zero cost.
9. Enable ALL members purchase the centre’s Farm Business Support Software (e.g. Excel-VB Ration Formulator, Poultry Farm Manager, Rabbitry Business Manager, Fish Farm Manager) and Information Products (e.g. Feed Formulation Handbook, Best Practice Farm Management 4 part E-books series, business plans etc)
10. Deliver on-demand practical coaching for Farm CEOs (including on-site technical support) on the development and implementation of a Best Operating Process Management System (BOPMS) for Farm Business Performance Improvement.
That’s why YOU are getting notified about it – in case you (or your group/organization/association or club) would like to contribute/invest in it.
As a member of my Farm Business Ideas Club (which comprises persons who have purchased N20k or more worth of products from me) – you fit the target audience profile.
Why?
Because those interested enough in a provider’s products and services to PAY (or want to pay) money to access them, are the ones most likely to favour investing in its evolution or growth.
Here’s an apt quote that underscores the above point:
“The supporters of your crowd funding campaign are your customers. Crowd funding is basically a way to pre-order products before they are produced” – Elite Daily (See http://elitedaily.com/money/why-you-should-crowdfund-your-startup/)
I have received all sorts of requests from people within and outside Africa. since January 2006, when I launched my Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Website – now at www.boostyourfarmprofits.biz or www.iff.tayosolagbade.com
Most of them were Farm CEOs – while others were students of agriculture, farm support experts(e.g extension professionals), lecturers, feed makers, NGO operators etc.
In several cases they wanted me to give them the product at hefty discounts or even FREE, but I was unable to oblige them much as I wanted to.
For instance, last year (2014), one Farm CEO from Mexico contacted me about building a custom Ration Formulator app for lactating cows in his Dairy Farm. When I eventually sent him the quote for developing the app, he NEVER got back to me, despite the animated phone conversation we’d had before he asked me to send it.
I knew the fee I’d given him was the likely deal breaker, yet it was the best offer I could make him.
The implication is that I’ll be able to HELP a lot more people that need it, than I’m currently able to – including YOU.
If this opportunity interests you, click here to send me a message requesting for details of how to get involved, and specific ways you’d like to benefit (e.g what you want me to do for you).
