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THE FARM CEO (Issue 19): Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop: FREE Entry for Buyers of Feed Formulation Pack, How a Ugandan Woman Became a Millionaire from Piggery, Mixed-Crop Livestock Farming: Traditional technologies for animal production, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CATFISH FARMS : Catfish Growth-Cash flow MS Excel Models, Genetic improvement of indigenous cattle breeds in Zimbabwe : a case study

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[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

Preview:

This issue of The Farm CEO™ announces my new on-demand monthly workshop for Farm CEOs on Feed Formulation & Compounding

[NB: Subscribers to The Farm CEO get a 75% discount to attend the workshop, while ALL buyers/users of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software get FREE entry].

Are you a Farm CEO looking to save money, and boost performance in feeding your livestock?

If YES, attend my on-demand workshop to learn Practical Livestock Feed Formulation and Compounding for Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle and Rabbits based on use of low cost locally available feed ingredients to formulate balanced rations…

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[EVENT] Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop: FREE Entry for Buyers of Feed Formulation Pack P.1

[URL] How a Ugandan Woman Became a Millionaire from Piggery P.2

[URL] Mixed-Crop Livestock Farming: Traditional technologies for animal production  P.2

[URL] FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CATFISH FARMS : Catfish Growth-Cash flow MS Excel Models P.3

[URL] Genetic improvement of indigenous cattle breeds in Zimbabwe : a case study P.3

 

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 19 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 12th October 2015)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 19 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 12th October 2015)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

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

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [Hint: FREE Entry for Owners of Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook & Software]!

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Are you a Farm CEO looking to save money, and boost performance in feeding your livestock? If YES, attend my on-demand workshop to learn Practical Livestock Feed Formulation and Compounding for Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle and Rabbits based on use of low cost locally available feed ingredients to formulate balanced rations.

Since 2006 I’ve conducted on-demand one-on-one feed formulation training, for INDIVIFUAL Farm CEOs. In the last 2 years, some traveled from as far as Uyo and Umuahia (while I came in from Cotonou), to meet me at the venue: a Feed Mill location in Oko-Oba, Agege area of Lagos.

Those unable to make it down often chose to purchase my Branded Auto run Home Study DVD containing 30 video tutorials.

However, a new trend has recently been developing in terms of enquiries I’m getting…

For instance, in the last 3 months, I’ve been approached by CEOs of organizations looking to invite me to conduct LIVE training on Feed Formulation for small groups.

The first time it was the Abuja branch of a National Government Agency.

More recently, it was the CEO of a Vocational Skills/Entrepreneurship Development Centre in Lagos.

This latest enquiry led to a request by the CEO for a price concession, to which I responded with the following offer:

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I appreciate the preference you expressed for a discount concession in light of the fact that you are looking to train 10 persons. I’ve done some thinking and come up with what I feel may appeal to you…

Here’s what I propose:

a. I will FREEZE invoice total for training at N250k.

In other words, you will NOT pay for the 5 extra persons you wish to attend.

b. Note however that to take up this offer, the full amount has to be paid AT LEAST 5 business days BEFORE the training date.

c. In exchange, I’d like to have space provided at your venue for up to 10 of my clients to attend.

I have a database of over 500 Farm CEOs based in/out of Africa. Some are past buyers of my Farm Business Support Products and Services (Custom Software, Information Products, Training and Web Marketing Services). About 70% of those past buyers are based in Nigeria – in various states across the country, and even though I have not met 95% of them in the flesh, we’ve enjoyed healthy relations via email and phone over the years.

When I read your latest message it occurred to me, that they might want to attend the training. So, this afternoon I called up about 10 of them, in places like Kano, Warri, Umuahia, Ibadan, Lagos etc, and so far 6 have told me they would love to attend.

It’s likely I’ll get up to the 10 I have in mind. All they need is the space (seats) to be part of the event.

They will take care of their own transportation, accommodation, feeding etc. I’ve cleared all that up with them and they are OK with it. Note however that they will NOT be paying me ANY money, as they already own my software and handbook.

Indeed, some have even paid for/attended my training in the past at a feed mill location I normally use in Oko-Oba area of Agege (I typically traveled down from Cotonou, while they came from places like Uyo, Umuahia etc)

My purpose is simply to add extra value to them by exposing them to the training at zero cost, so they become better equipped to make use of the products they purchased from me.

NB: I am also hopeful that they will be able to share experiences with YOUR 10 attendees, based on their practice of feed formulation in real-world situations.

This is the best way I can think of to make the required investment more pocket friendly for you.

If it appeals to you, please let me have your feedback on the following:

1. What is/are the intended Date(s) you wish to have the training?

Do you want it to happen in one day (6 to 8 hours) or over 2 days (3 to 4 hrs/day)? As I stated earlier, the N250k fee needs to be paid 5 business/working days before your intended training date. That’s the minimum notification and commitment I need to prepare for an event like this.

2. What is the address of the intended venue?

3. What are the demographic characteristics of your intended attendees? (E.g. Age, gender, educational level, Do they already run their own livestock farm businesses? if YES, what kinds? etc)

4. Please state the specific goals and objectives you have for holding your program/event AND WHAT your expectations are.

In other words, how do you intend to measure whether the training has been a success? (What will you see in your trainees/attendees; what will they say; what will they be ready/able to do AFTER the event in line with your organization’s vision/mission?)

5. Please state any other issues you want me to consider in preparing for the training.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade

===Ends===

There has NOT been a response yet, but even if the CEO takes up my offer, responses I have gotten from past buyers of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, who I contacted BEFORE sending my reply to the CEO, indicate that MOST of them would love to attend the workshop.

In speaking with past buyers, I discovered that the fact that it’s FREE makes it appeal readily to them. As a result, I already have nine (9) who’ve said YES, and now await details from me, of when and where etc.

Below are excerpts of the benefits as outlined on the flyer…

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Get LIVE Exposition and Hands-On Training on:

1. Theory and Practice of Livestock Feed Formulation for different  livestock – especially Poultry, Fish, Pigs, Dairy Cattle & Rabbits.

2. Identification of feed ingredients and considerations in  choosing them for use in ration formulation

3. Use of TK Solagbade’s ExcelVB Ration Formulator software

Attendees Get the Following at ZERO COST:                       

a. T.K Solagbade’s popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook – N8k

b. Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients (Print-ready PDF) – N7.5k value

c. Automated Ration Formulation Excel-VB Software – N12.5k value

d. PDF user guide for Automated Ration Formulation Application  – FREE

e. User-guide videos for the software will be on EACH attendee’s DVD – FREE

f. 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Feed Formulation (PDF) – FREE

g. Branded Auto run DVD containing 30 Livestock Feed Formulation
(& Compounding) Home Study Videos – N35k value

===Ends==

In light of the above, especially since those I’ve contacted are less than 25% of the total number I can make this offer to, it’s likely that I’ll need to have more than one run of the workshop to cater for all of them.

That’s one reason I decided to launch this formal on-demand workshop offer.

Another reason is that the busy schedules of my clients make it difficult to do a run that they will all find convenient to attend at the same time.

For instance, when I called one Farm CEO client based in Kano, who has purchased my handbook, Ration Formulation Software and Poultry Farm Manager, he told me he was headed on a trip across Asia, and would not be abel to make it.

This is not the first time that has happened with several of my Farm CEO clients across the country. Over the years we’ve tried to come together as a group, with little success due to various challenges.

So that’s ANOTHER reason I’m launching THIS On-Demand Workshop offer: The idea is to allow interested Farm CEOs and those aspiring, as well as other stakeholders, to book to attend the workshop at a time that is convenient for them.

As long as we get up to 5 persons (to a maximum of 15), the event will hold.

Details will be agreed with all those who register for the event. Over time, I hope to interests sponsors of various kinds, to partner with me, and make this more pocket-friendly for those who may wish to attend.

BELOW: One page flyer I’ve created to announce this On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop [*Image Updated in 2021 – from 2015] (http://tayosolagbade.com/ffworkshop)

 

One page flyer for On-Demand Feed Formulation for Farm CEOs Workshop

If you’d like to attend…

Fee = N50k

For payment details (and/or to discuss possible group discount concessions for your group members), email tayo at tksola dot com

Call +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 or send a message via www.tayosolagbade.com

If you already own my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, you get to attend FREE.

Just contact me to book your place!

Click to learn more - This Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ - tentative layout plan below - was first conceived in 2000 by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider.

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Make Money By Reselling my Customizable Spreadsheet Software Products for (Farm) Businesses

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Become a 50% Affiliate Partner of my Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™, and when anyone buys ANY of my products through you, KEEP 50%.

Here’s how it works:

Tell others about one or more of the following products:

1. Excel-VB Ration Formulator software – http://tinyurl.com/RealRationDemo

2. Feed Formulation Handbook – www.boostyourfarmprofits.biz (click Feed Formulation)

3. Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager – http://tinyurl.com/15pfmVideos

4. Livestock Feed Formulation (and Compounding) Home Study Video Pack – http://iff.tayosolagbade.com/wp/?page_id=256

5. The Farm CEO™ Weekly Newspaper – www.thefarmceo.net

6. And others at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts and www.tayosolagbade.com/sdn-sell.htm

NB: You can also RESELL any custom application I build for you (terms apply)

If ANY prospect decides to buy, just KEEP 50% of the money they pay to you, as YOUR commission, and send me the rest, with FULL buyer details, so I can send them their products!

I will setup a branded sales announcing YOU as a 50% affiliate partner. Then I’ll send you the page’s link, along with a PDF notification letter – like the one shown below, which I sent out yesterday.

 To get started: Signup with N10k   – click here to request payment detailsI will setup a branded sales announcing YOU as a 50% affiliate partner. Then I'll send you the page's link, along with a PDF notification letter - like the one shown below

Optional Bonus: As a 50% affiliate, you also get a 40% discount to have me develop YOUR OWN Branded Passive Income Generating Product for you to sell to a global audience.

For instance, without your needing to type ONE word, you can publish your own PHYSICAL book on your area of specialty, for sale to a global audience and/or use as a business marketing tool.

I’m currently ghost-writing 2 books: for a UK based business coach, and a catfish farm CEO in Abuja.

See details (incl. photos of a CEO client in Cotonou holding a copy of his book that I ghost-wrote and ordered 10 copies of from the USA, delivered via UPS to his office in Cotonou few months ago) at http://tayosolagbade.com/pod-letter.html

 To get started: Signup with N10k   – click here to request payment details

Buyers do NOT need to be PC literate to use my Excel-Visual Basic driven apps.

As a matter of fact, if you can use a mobile phone, then you can use my applications.

This is NO hype. That’s why I call them “PC Novice-Proof”.

What’s more, you are unlikely to need to replace them for YEARS.

That’s because I work with clients to think ahead, and try to anticipate likely need(s) that would necessitate modifications in the application. Then I build in user-friendly interfaces that allow the user modify the program’s behaviour to accommodate the identified need(s).

If this offer interests you,  signup with N10k   – click here to request payment details

PS: The Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ was first conceived in 2000 by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider.

[See tentative layout plan for proposed site to be based in Benin Republic:  http://www.tayosolagbade.com/fbsc]

Its purpose is to continuously investigate, document and publish Best Practice ways of profitably growing AND marketing livestock/crops,using locally sourced materials and indigenous knowledge/skills.

 

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Layout Plan for TK Solagbade’s Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ – Benin Republic

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This Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ – tentative layout plan below – was first conceived in 2000  by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider. Its purpose is to continuously investigate, document and publish Best Practice ways of rearing livestock (especially poultry, fish, and rabbits) and growing crops, as well as marketing BOTH crops and livestock, for higher yields and profits, using locally sourced materials and indigenous knowledge/skills.

This Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ - tentative layout plan below - was first conceived in 2000 by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider.

Central to the FBSC™‘s mode of operation will be elaborate development of custom Excel-Visual Basic driven software for data recording, analysis and report generation in carrying out the above activities. The low cost, easy-to-use apps tested in real life situations, will then be made available for use by farm businesses (as done with Tayo’s Ration Formulator, and Poultry Farm Manager), to boost performance measurement for timely decision making.

Regular readers of my writing know – from past articles I’ve written (like this one – click here) – that I am a keen student/active practitioner of the Science Of Getting Rich (SOGR).

If you don’t know what that means, I can tell you right here and NOW that you are MISSING out on a whole lot of powerful (and FREE) knowledge as well as insights that can empower you to achieve your FULL God-given potentials on earth.

Take it from me: The SOGR is a tried and tested foundation on which superlative human achievement can be built.

It is a proven path through which you connect to your inner God-like self and begin to manifest what others consider IMPOSSIBLE, yet make it look EASY.

You will be seen as a person who encounters (what they consider) the most devastatingly daunting kinds of adversity in your personal and work live YET gets back up time and time again to overcome it, and achieve at even greater heights.

My life is proof of it: I have defied and continue to defy adversity in every shape and form that it has shown up in my life, to record advancement in my personal and work life that I began by VISUALIZING – which is a key requirement for the successful practice of the SOGR.

Simply put, the practice of SOGR involves being able to LIVE inside your head and SEE only that which you want to see for yourself, about yourself, in terms of what is possible for you to accomplish.

And you will do that relentlessly, REGARDLESS of whatever may be around you physically, and not minding what ANYBODY outside of you says!

Veteran adherents to the SOGR emphasize KEEPING what we call a Clear Mental Image (CMI for short) – firmly in your mind

To achieve it, you MUST keep a CMI of the what you desire (a house, a car, money, a victory etc) as you go about your daily affairs.

Your CMI (along with the right thoughts and actions you take) will help you kick-start forces setup in nature by the creator that will ATTRACT what you desire to you.

The layout plan you see on this page, is based on the CMI I have kept for YEARS, of my Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC) ™ that I NOW wish to setup in Benin Republic.

I first conceived it in 2000 (2 years before my start-up year), and had ambitious plans to get funding to launch it in either Ibadan or Lagos, Nigeria.

Starting from 2003, I prepared business plans to get funding: I specifically recall getting used and dumped by a manager in the now defunct STB (Standard Trust Bank).

He got me to devote more than a month, of time, effort and money, to write a VERY comprehensive business plan using all the farm business contacts and information I had access to.

He did this was under the pretext of helping me submit my entry for a facility offered farm startups by the bank, that I’d come to enquire about. In fact I did all the writing based on the printed guidelines issue by the bank, which he gave me a copy of !

Sadly, the day I handed over the CDROM and printouts to him was the LAST day he ever picked my call. And when I visited the bank, I got turned back repeatedly at the security post, despite mentioning his name!

Undaunted I tried several other ways, as the years rolled by. One year I even participated in a national competition put together by a particular organization.

However, nothing came of that effort either. I will not bother to dwell on the fact that I saw a lot of “arrangee” (i.e. cheating) in the award of the funding prizes to so-called eventual winners.

The point I’m making here is that my experiences made me decide to look inwards for ideas of how to fund the start-up of my dream centre.

So, I resolved to use the web to achieve name/brand recognition for myself, as a provider of useful and reliable best practice solutions to Farm CEOs in a way that would enable me get taken seriously, when I eventually brought up the idea of launching this centre.

That’s why THIS layout plan, and my unconventional crowd funding announcement to my network of clients/past buyers and subscribers are now LIVE.

If you’re interested in learning more about what this centre will be doing for farm businesses, you can call me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 to speak with me.

I will also be writing short posts as time goes on, explaining what each of the layout plan’s featured “elements” will entail.

For now, click here to read more about my plans to use this centre to help farmers achieve increased outputs and profits, with LESS effort.

About Tayo Solagbade’s Self-Development Academy (SDAc)

Tayo Solagbade’s SDAc is a multipreneurial mobile creative outfit specialized in combining low operational overheads, highly skilled manpower, intelligent use of technology and fluid partnerships/collaborations – as the need arises – with competent professionals to deliver premium quality services at affordable rates.

The SDAc’s vision is to be the foremost provider of products and services relevant to Self-Development, Workplace Performance Enhancement, Custom IT Solutions and Best Practice Systems Development in Africa – and one of the best in the world.

To achieve this, we’ve evolved a unique variant of a low-cost business model we found on the net. This model allows Tayo Solagbade to be the only full time employee of the SDA. We promote this model for adoption by persons wishing to successfully launch similar businesses but who lack access to “adequate” capital. Contact us to help you.

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 17):How to Attract Farm Customers Online (Case Study: A Farm CEO’s Interesting Facebook Post on Human Salmonella from Backyard Poultry), The Hot 50 Small Farm Marketing Tips, 11 Steps to Successful Farm Marketing, Online Marketing Tips from the Farmer’s Market, 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas

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[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

Preview (Issue No. 17):

*This week’s theme is Best Practice Farm Business Marketing. I Apart from THIS page’s feature, written by me, the rest 4 are from other authors – YET they ALL echo the same sentiments I’ve continually expressed in my past articles on this subject/theme. ***

Feature Article: I recently stumbled on a facebook page run by a Farm CEO, that offered an interesting perspective in a piece about recent Human (yes HUMAN!) Salmonella outbreaks and their link to backyard poultry practice which is becoming quite common.

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[URL] How to Attract Farm Customers Online (Case Study: A Farm CEO’s Interesting Facebook Post on Human Salmonella from Backyard Poultry) P.1

[URL] The Hot 50 Small Farm Marketing Tips P.2

[URL] 11 Steps to Successful Farm Marketing P.2

[URL] Online Marketing Tips from the Farmer’s Market P.3

[URL] 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 17 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 28th September 2015)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 17 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 28th September 2015)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

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

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

ARCHIVES: Click here to view previews of ALL past issues of the newspapers

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 16): Made in Africa Talking Cars, Animal Reproduction Boosting Extracts & Incubators by a Church Leader?!, World’s 1st Fish Farm in Shipping Container: A South African Invention, New Innovations to Reduce Harvest Loss, Aquapod System That Can Enable MARINE Fish Farming by Africans?, Kenyan Invention: Egg Monitoring Kit to Check Egg Fertility/Assess Incubation Progress

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[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

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 16 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 21st September 2015)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 16 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 21st September 2015)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

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

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

ARCHIVES: Click here to view previews of ALL past issues of the newspapers

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My Proposed Not-For-Profit Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs: How to Get Involved

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My Web Marketing System is really helping the not-for-profit “Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs” launch – I’ve been inviting potential contacts from my website database of past enquirers and buyers to make donations towards in Benin Republic.

I continue to marvel at the superbly time, effort and cost-saving manner in which using my Custom Web Marketing System (WMS) generates high quality zero cost leads for solutions I sell, and initiatives I launch.

It’s been so easy to get taken seriously by these Farm CEOs and other stakeholders, because my WMS makes them see the depth of my commitment, and quality of benefits I can deliver!

This approach makes it easier to quickly win funding support or patronage.

That’s why I keep harping on the need for any person with serious ambitions to learn to use the web the way I do. The Conversion Rates I record prove that a WMS is a timeless marketing strategy truly works.

At this point, to better cope with enquiries I’m getting regarding the Best Practice Centre’s funding, I hereby publish below a generic outline I send out to those who request details about getting involved.

It gives more information about the plan, and 2 possible ways interested persons can contribute.

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1. The Campaign Strategy/Focus

Unlike a conventional crowdfunding campaign, which is thrown open to a potentially global audience, I’m focusing my campaign on my database of past enquirers and buyers within and outside Africa.

The initial broadcast will be followed up with each person, to clarify the details.

There are about 700 of them, and I estimate that I have had direct phone conversations with up to 100 of them between 2006 and now.

I believe such people know me, and the work I do, and are more likely to be interested in seeing it grow, and/or gain access to the benefits promised.

2. Why Locate the Centre in Benin Republic?

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 15): Assessing Farm Record Keeping Behaviour among Small-Scale Poultry Farmers, Reducing Cannibalism among newly hatched African Catfish, Fry by Grading, Understanding African Farming Systems – Science and Policy Implications, On-farm research leading to a dynamic model of a traditional chicken production system, Fish Farming Investment | 5 Ways to Lose Money | Tilapia Fish Farm Guide – West Africa

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[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

Below is a preview of THE FARM CEO newspaper for this week (Issue No. 15):

This week’s feature is a publication that discusses findings from the investigation of farmer’s disposition to record keeping. If you’ve been following my writing on the subject of Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas, you will know that I have written several pieces that stress the importance of farmers developing the healthy habit of data recording and analysis for timely and accurate decision making.

I found it quite interesting that the farmers interviewed asserted that they did not keep records mainly because it was “not beneficial” to them.

That, to me, is a clear indication of the need for proper education and reorientation of the farmers about the powerful Key Performance Indicators, they can quickly, and easily track to manage their farms more profitably. The immediate past Issue No. 14, of this newspaper (The Farm CEO™) featured several of my articles which discussed such KPIs and their methods of calculation in elaborate detail.

Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[URL] Assessing Farm Record Keeping Behaviour among Small-Scale Poultry Farmers P.1

[URL] Reducing Cannibalism among newly hatched African Catfish, Fry by Grading P.2

[URL] Understanding African Farming Systems – Science and Policy Implications P.2

[URL] On-farm research leading to a dynamic model of a traditional chicken production system P.3

[URL] Fish Farming Investment | 5 Ways to Lose Money | Tilapia Fish Farm Guide – West Africa P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 15 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 14th September 2015)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 15 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 14th September 2015)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

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

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs – Benin Republic

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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.

[Updated 1st Oct. 2015, 1.33p.m, from Lagos-Nigeria] Below: Layout Plan for the centre (still work-in-progress)  – Now LIVE – read more here

This Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ - tentative layout plan below - was first conceived in 2000 by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider.

I will be CROWDFUNDING this project, because it’s designed to be a Not-For-Profit initiative to make the products and services I offer more pocket-friendly and accessible by majority of my target audience.

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/)

Hundreds of past enquirers and buyers requests tell me this support centre is LONG OVERDUE…

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.

With crowd funding of this Best Practice Support Centre for Farm CEOs, I’ll be able to give MORE of such people what they want, and also CREATE quality time to develop new solutions they tell me they want.

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).