This video is the first in what is going to be a special experience sharing series on BSF Farming Business Ideas.
This is just a test project.
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This re-invented version of my Farm CEO Newspaper is designed to challenge Farm CEOs and other stakeholders to look beyond their current focus on core production activities, towards exploring additional capacity boosting and income generating opportunities in industries and markets they serve.
From sleeping on the streets of Cotonou and Porto-Novo in Benin Republic for about 2 of my first 4 weeks in Cotonou (after relocating on 1st April 2013), I went on several months later to:
A. Win a diplomat in the Nigerian Embassy as a client who:
1. Engaged me to build a website for his farm business based in Iludun, Ekiti state, in Southwest Nigeria.
2. Provided me accomodation in his official residence – for 3 solid weeks.
3. Arranged for his driver to take me down to his Farm in Southwest Nigeria (3 different times) – click photo below to view actual Facebook post from September 2013 – to install my Excel-VB poultry Farm Manager software on his farm, and coach his Farm Manager (and young relative of his – a graduate of agriculture in her early 30s) on how to use it.
B. Get contacted by a European Union Funded NGO: who went on to pay me 2,500 Euros for writing (at their request) a Case Study paper about my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and how it was being purchased and used by Farm CEOs in and out of Africa.
Using funds I’d earned from him and other payments I had begun receiving for my digital products and services (even locally), I moved out of the diplomat’s residence after 3 weeks and rented a face-me-I-face-you single room apartment in Cotonou.
Then I continued my relentlessly focused online marketing to generate more search engine based sales leads…
By January 2014, I’d gotten paid 2,500 Euros by CTA.int for the international Case Study paper they commissioned me to write about how my Excel-VB Ration Formulator was being purchased and used by Farm CEOs in and out of Africa.
They contacted me in September 2013 [Read: No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]
After waiting in Nigeria for over 2 months pleading for her to change her mind, I was forced to return to Cotonou to inform my Landlady I no longer needed such a big space to live in.
I lost over 60% of the money (to cover the rental period I’d been the occupant, and also utilities bills), but true to her real estate agent’s word, the balance I had left was refunded to me in full.
This totally unexpected development really set me back considerably, as I had to return to spending on hotel accommodation. But I survived and my growing earnings helped me keep going.
Today, the online marketing based income earning generation system I was able to establish using 24/7 access to electricity in Benin continues to serve me well, enabling me to live my dream working as a Location Independent Multipreneur/Digital Nomad.
Now that I have almost sorted out – via permanent separation – the negative impact of periodic domestic abuse on the home front, after my return to Lagos, which kept causing me problems delivering some client projects, I am achieving sustainable progress in my work.
My earnings are proof of it. (FYI: You can watch my 1st November 2020 IG LIVE Interview with Coordinator, Lagos State Domestic & Sexual Violence Response Team – DSVRT – Coordinator here – and/or get the video to text PDF transcript here).
Soon, I will resume traveling again and commence video interviews to promote my brand even further via my YouTube channel.
The full story of the actions I took, and especially the mental attitude I maintained – which continues to help me defeat adversity in various shapes and forms today – will be told in an Audio Podcast True Story Narration I will be posting in my YouTube channel soon.
To get notified when it goes LIVE, send your email address and WhatsApp number to me via +234-803-302-1263 with the phrase “Send me the ‘Streets-to-Success’ Podcast”. Alternatively, fill/submit this web marketing form.
This Lagos based Phone Repair and Accessories Sales business is owned by a 19 year old – Secondary School leaver – called Kelvin. Click here to continue…
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Enquiries from livestock Farm CEOs regarding my Best Practice Farm Business Solutions continue to reach me from within and outside Africa.
In this video, which is based on an article that I first published six years ago (2014), I noted that most of the farm owners who contacted me, in answering my questions, revealed that they started out using haphazard methods to formulate rations for their animals.
I explain how I take time to educate them on the best practice need to adopt more reliable methods, if they wish to reap optimal returns for the long term.
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“When I started they were laughing at me. They said “Ah Oga wetin you dey do with maggot? Oga? Some would even go to my farm…saying “This man wan take dis tin do juju! So, now they have understood that it can be used.” – Onitsha, Anambra state based Pioneer Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Breeder/Trainer in a Phone Chat with Tayo K. Solagbade, www.discovercotonou.com
I have been searching online for, and conducting phone interviews with BSF breeders based in Nigeria for 3 months.
So far, I’ve spoken with about 15 persons I identified from various platforms offering BSF larvae supply and/or training.
From that number, I’ve now narrowed down – as at today, Tuesday 6th October 2020 – to ONLY two as being reliable.
This PDF is a Text Transcript version of the audio recording I made, of my first phone conversation with one of the 2 shortlisted breeders.
![Click to download NOW - True Story: Conversations With REAL Black Soldier Fly Farmers in Nigeria [Case No. 1: Ilorin - Kwara State] - Download PDF Audio to Text Transcript](http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bsf-biz-group-transcript.jpg)
Contrary to popular stereotype, this video clearly shows that the woman is the aggressor.
Her body language as well as her words show she is threatening and trying to intimidate/dominate the husband.
Without the video, the man would find it hard to prove this!
If we did not have the benefit of watching this video, it would be hard to believe a WOMAN could speak and act this AGGRESSIVELY in challenging her husband, and that he would NOT react to the provocation.
What you see happening in this video is VERY similar to what my own ex-partner used to do to me. (e.g. “I will kill you!” and “I’m an Igbo woman – we don’t take nonsense from any man!”).
And she would often attack and inflict injury on me at the slightest opportunity – hence my many injuries, hospital visits and police reports.
But when I reported to police, or relatives/3rd parties, she would deny it all and claim she was no match for me physically.
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This video is a FREE Public Education Service about Domestic Violence Against Men (DVAM)
Watch in my channel at https://youtu.be/v-7rT8q3bRg[Click]
The point made by Robert Kiyosaki in the above screenshot of his Facebook post is valid – and underscored with emphasis by:
(a) my personal experiences, some of which I’ve described in the true story narrated below AND
(b) the powerful quote I have appended to the bottom of this piece.
During my Startup years (from 2002 to well into 2007), people laughed at me for daring to think I could sell “ordinary Excel files” or get hired to build what I told them were “Custom Excel-Visual Basic driven Spreadsheet Software”.
![[True Story] You Need to be Unreasonable to Achieve Authentic Success](http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/dc-be-unreasonable.jpg)
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