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PII111: Create Additional Revenue Streams & Boost Your Marketing Reach & Impact ONLINE

Quick-TakeAway: If you own a business, and are looking for new ways to boost sales leads generation, and profits, the offers I make below may interest you.
 
In a past article, I noted that there are 2 main keys to increasing your profits without raising your prices – in ANY business:
 
You either (a) INCREASE your SALES or (b) REDUCE your COSTS or (c) DO both a. and b.

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 26th March 2018

Logo - Tayo Solagbade's Self-Development Academy


NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII111: Create Additional Revenue Streams & Boost Your Marketing Reach & Impact ONLINE

Quick-TakeAway: If you own a business, and are looking for new ways to boost sales leads generation, and profits, the offers I make below may interest you.
 
In a past article, I noted that there are 2 main keys to increasing your profits without raising your prices – in ANY business:
 
You either (a) INCREASE your SALES or (b) REDUCE your COSTS or (c) DO both a. and b.[TIP: Read my Guest Post on AfricaBusinessCommunities.com: 5 Proven Ways to Boost Farm Profits without Raising Prices. Also read Use Custom Automation Of Your Spreadsheet Reports To Drive Down Costs And Increase Your Profits]The good thing about adopting either or both of those strategies, is of course that your customers will NOT be made to deal with prices increaases – and are therefore likely to STAY happy.

Every smart business should AIM for that outcome – because HAPPY customers can yield GOOD things (like repeat business and referrals) for the business that makes them feel that way!

Below, I reproduce excerpts from an offer I sent to a Lagos based fitness solutions provider to help achieve the above outcomes…

1. To Help Your Company Create Additional Revenue Streams

Every business will experience sales peaks and troughs. Gym businesses are no exception. Indeed apart from the challenge of getting new members/clients IN, a real challenge will be how to prevent client attrition or turnover.

This can be especially true with regard to non-corporate clients i.r those whose membership fees are not paid for by their companies. Such individuals may choose to no renew leading to a loss of revenue for your gym. But if you have income coming in from other sources, they would provide a cushion effect that goes a long way to keep you afloat even during dull seasons.

In other words, these additional income streams would complement your main income stream from running the gym e.g the Training sessions you conduct for members

In this regard, I offer a solution I call MONETIZE YOUR EXPERTISE, which is designed to help you identify specific aspects of your knowledge and  skills that you can sell, by packaging and presentign them in a marketable format. 

In 3 months I can work with you to deliver to market, ready for sale, a Digital Cash Flow Generating Asset original and unique to [company name removed].

I will forward an offer email from Sept 2017 for this service to you AFTER this one. It’s titled ” Two Part System for Monetizing Your Expertise [PDF Outline and 13 minute Audio Podcast]
 
2. To Help Your Company Boost Marketing Reach & Impact ONLINE to Generate QUALITY Sales Leads

Both your main offering (training etc) as well as any additional income earning solutions you offer, will NEED to be effectively marketed to the right target audience in order for sales to happen – and money to come in.

The web provides an excellent avenue to achieve the above – if well utilized.

From my assessment of what you currently have (on your website) VERY little has been done to leverage the power of the web to achieve low to zero cost client profile DEFINITION and CONVERSION…

I think that is a mistake.

A BIG mistake that will make you keep spending avoidable but substantial sums on other forms of business marketing that are LESS likely to yield the results you want = SALES LEADS!

Like I told you, I’m a fitness practitioner myself and have been for over 3 decades.

And I’ve actively used the web to develop and maintain my interest in this field e.g I follow leading fitness and nutrition experts online internationally.

Many of the most successful gym businesses I have followed over the years make smart/intelligent use of Web Marketing to get noticed and ultimately contacted by prospective clients/members.

I use the web to generate sales leads for 100% of the digital products and services I offer. – so I KNOW What REAL Web Marketing That Works Entails

Examples of my successes in using the web to win total strangers from within and outside Africa, as buyers for my range of mostly digital products and services, at low to zero cost is described in this true story from back in 2014 and this one from as recently as Feb 2018.

[TIP: The attached PDF (note to reader – request it using this form – is a document I use to show REAL LIFE examples of how my Web Marketing generates sales leads that I convert to sales]
 
It took me YEARS to learn how to use the web to sell like I do today. My experiences and achievements convince me that a business like yours can do MUCH better, marketing-wise, if MY kind of approach is used for you..

[TIP: The attached JPG image is a mind map that I use to show the 9 key components I recommend that every business have in its Web Marketing System]

That’s why I offer to help your company create and propagate a Branded Web Marketing System

Clients who hire me to handle their web marketing often already have websites they use. Since that is the case with your company – you may find my 1 Year Web Marketing Support Service of potential interest and benefit. View details at http://tayosolagbade.com/smclub-nonfarm.html

What I Want

You do NOT have to pay all cash to get access to the solutions I offer above. For instance, I have a 50% barter exchange option that clients can readily adopt.

In exchange I want the following…

1. A formal partner office location for my new Travel Product/Service website where prospects and members can get information and support in Lagos/Nigeria.

Among other things, there is a requirement for on-demand supply of Travel Accessories that members will order via phone, email or the website and pickup from the partner location (if courier delivery is not chosen).

I would supply details of specifics to be said and done.

Your company would advise me on the equivalent naira value for playing this role as a partner office location for DiscoverCotonou.com

2. [This idea just came to me NOW!] A Joint Venture Partnership to Open a Fitness Gym Branch of your company in Cotonou, with ME heading operations there as an Independent Consultant.

Citizens of Cotonou are fitness enthusiasts. I know this from years of living and working among them.

Sundays remain amazing in terms of the spectacle one witnesses as numerous citizens – sometimes entire families (including kids)! – make their way to Stade De L’amitie (their National Stadium) to exercise and do a variety of sports as well as martial arts training from as early as 6.30am till well past noon.

High profile residents and visitors in Cotonou are also keen on fitness.

From my review of your site’s content, these groups fit your target audience profile. I can help to research and investigate the market there, to get firmer details of what it will take to get started etc.

If this interests you, my familiarity with the market, and my interest in partnering with you would make it a low risk, low cost opportunity for you to explore.

In the article linked below, I hinted at the fact that I would offer *FREE accommodation for my Cotonou Mobile Health & Fitness Club members.

Join http://discovercotonou.com & Get French Speaking Coaching Audios/PDF Weekly for 1 Year [Bonus: FREE access to my 8 Week KPI Computation and Interpretation BOPMS™ COACHING PROGRAM (save N50k)

The initial plan was to partner with fitness clubs over there, for my fitness events, which are designed to be used to create awareness about DiscoverCotonou.com. But now, I’m thinking I could partner with Fitness-Options to have a location IN Cotonou to operate from.

Just my thoughts of course. Would love to know what you think.

Click here to send me a message

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

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[Wednesday]:

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[Thursday]:

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[Friday]:

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[Saturday]:

Protected: The New FARM CEO (Issue 001): Ideas for Saving Money In Your Farm Busienss – 7 Articles for 7 Days!

[WORKSHOP] How to Make Drinks You Can Sell Using Peels of Pineapples – Lagos based NGO invites Tayo Solagbade to Train 30 Members

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*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)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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 solutionsweb 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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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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PII110: People Will Gladly Pay to BE SERVED by YOU [Get My Help to Monetize Your Expertise by Creating Cash Flow Generating Assets Branded For You]

Your wealth of knowledge, insights, experience can be monetized to offer a RESOURCE of some sort for persons looking for a reliable solution provider. 
For instance, I create and sell the following range of Cash Flow Generating Assets.to people who NEVER meet with me in person, before they pay:
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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 19th March 2018

Logo - Tayo Solagbade's Self-Development Academy


NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII110: Discover Business Opportunities in Cotonou – FREE Market Entry Support Service from www.discovercotonou.com

Below: Verbatim phone SMS response I received from a prospect less than 1 hour after I sent 

him (and 3 others) an SMS notifying him of a Web Marketing Promo Offer (reproduced later in this post) I’d broadcast to them.

“Hello Tayo,
Glad to hear from you. Am interested but how much is the financial involvement so that I prepare for it. My email is ……@yahoo.com

He pastors a church in one of the Eastern states in Nigeria, and was an attendee at an event hosted by an organisation that invited me to give a talk at a hotel venue in Nigeria’s Lagos.
 
Below is the SMS reply I sent to him…

Hello Pastor,
Thanks for your response to my SMS announcement. Like I said in my SMS reply to your query. I actually designed THIS offer to be pocket-friendly. You only need to pay N25k to join my Web Marketing for CEOs club (TIP: pay ONLY N15k if you pay before MNT today) – and by so doing TIE down the 3-in-1 offer of benefits outlined in the text below.

[PAYMENT DETAILS: removed for privacy]

Within the next 24 hours of making payment to join the club, you start getting my FREE coaching – via MP3 Audios and PDF tutorials.

Then ANYTIME you are ready, you will be FREE to take up your 50% discount to have me build a money making product with your name as author/owner. Read the full offer below.

BELOW: The verbatim email offer I sent out to him and 3 others earlier today…

3-in-1 offer designed based on my “MONETIZING YOUR EXPERTISE” solution
The good thing about this offer is that it involves my setting up a client attracting online presence for you (i.e. www dot yourname dot com) from which the product/service I help you develop will be offered for sale.
That means that you will be able to over time include your favoured MLM – and other – products (with my support) into the same website. In other words, you get to eat your cake and have it.
Your wealth of knowledge, insights, experience can be monetized to offer a RESOURCE of some sort for persons looking for a reliable solution provider. 
For instance, I create and sell the following range of Cash Flow Generating Assets.to people who NEVER meet with me in person, before they pay:
3. Information Product DVDs (like my Passive Income Generation Ideas Audio DVD)
5. Print and digital ebooks (like my popular Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, and many others in my online store)
ALL of the above mentioned items I created using my own computers and smartphones. I have NEVER had to visit studios or professional outfits, to get them done. 
This helps me to maintain GOOD profit margings.
It goes without saying that using professional services at some point will be beneficial to me, and I am approaching that point now.
The point I however make is that one does NOT need to start that way, especially when you are working to a tight budget or lack funds
I have found that it PAYS to start small while thinking big when it comes to making money – or indeed achieving ANY valued goal in life. 
As you make “small money” and gain experience doing so, you WILL begin to gain insights about how to make “BIGGER money” – and with time, you will make it happen. But starting small would have made it possible!
You can do the same thing. With me at your side, telling you what to do and how, indeed DOING most of it for you, behind the scenes, you will go from concept to market in a much shorter time than would be the case if you did it alone.

Bury your doubts. Don’t for one moment entertain the thought that people will not be willing to pay for what you end up with.

What you know and/or can do is valuable. People will gladly pay to BE SERVED by you. 

 
I can help you create a BRANDED PRODUCT of your own, plus a platform via the web to do just that.

As long as you are COMPETENT in your chosen field (and I know you are), it’s simply a matter of time before we find the right way to do it, and the right audience to present it to.

Knowing the foregoing can take time, but the web marketing system I will help you setup will make it easier to do.

So, in summary, here’s my 3-in-1 offer to you:

Pay N25k (instead of N50k) to join my Web Marketing for CEOs Club – and you’ll:
 (TIP: pay ONLY N15k if you pay before MNT today
1. Get 50% discount to have me Create (over 12 weeks) a Cash Flow Generating Asset (CFGA) – your own original money making product – branded with YOUR name, and put on sale in 3 months from now, via www.yourname.com – your own branded online presence that I will setup for you..
Required invesmtent = N150k – so at 50% discount you only pay N75k [See OPTION 2 under ITEM 1 in the attached PDF – click HERE to view it – for details]
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Payment Terms: 
a. You pay the N25k to join the club at once ANYTIME you are ready.
 
TIP: You pay only N15k if you pay before MNT today Mon 19th March 2018
b. You pay the N75k for the CFGA via N15k monthly installments over 5 months, starting from 31st March 2018
TIP: You can pay N50k instead of N75k if you pay before Noon tomorrow Tue 20th March 2018
2. Get 50% discount to have me incorporate ANY of your Businesses (Life Plus and others) into the online presence (www.yourname.com) I setup for your CFGA.
3. Get my FREE Web Marketing Support Service: For 6 full months, after it is up and running, I manage EVERY asopect of 1 and 2 for you AT NO COST to you, and also coach you to do it yourself.
If you are even remotely interested in this offer, I recommend you at least TIE it down by paying to join my Web Marketing for CEOs club for starters.
If you don’t have that much, get a trusted other to help you pay and reimbourse him/her.
Then you can take your time to commence payments for 1 and 2. Note that I will begin certain aspects of the work to be done, once you join the club. For instance, you will start getting FREE web marketing tutorials and you will also receive a questionnaire I use to generate original content for marketing each client.
Call me if you have questions or require clarification.
With kindest regards,
Tayo

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

N/A

[Thursday]:

N/A

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

N/A

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*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)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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 solutionsweb 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.

====
[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
==================

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

Home |About | Contact | SD Nuggets™ | Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS | Web Marketing Systems | Freelance Writing | MS Excel® Heaven™ | Cost-Saving Farm Biz Ideas

PII109: Discover Business Opportunities in Cotonou – FREE Market Entry Support Service from www.discovercotonou.com

If you are like a growing number looking for business opportunities in Cotonou (who have reached out to me since I began writing – in April 2013 – about my experiences as I shuttled the Lagos-Cotonou axis), this article will interest you.

Entering a new market requires careful planning and research

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 12th March 2018

Logo - Tayo Solagbade's Self-Development Academy


NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

************

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII109: Discover Business Opportunities in Cotonou – FREE Market Entry Support Service from www.discovercotonou.com

If you are like a growing number looking for business opportunities in Cotonou (who have reached out to me since I began writing – in April 2013 – about my experiences as I shuttled the Lagos-Cotonou axis), this article will interest you.

Entering a new market requires careful planning and research.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2.Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

N/A

[Thursday]:

N/A

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

N/A

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*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)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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 solutionsweb 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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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Hurry Merchants With Get-Rich-Quick Mentalities Cannot Use a Web Marketing System (WMS) Successfully

In this article, I explain why people looking for quick-results-with-minimal-effort in their business marketing are unlikely to find my Web Marketing System (WMS) suited to their needs.

I am unapologetic in telling anyone who asks me what s/he stands to gain by adopting my WMS, that s/he can look forward at the start to a LOT OF HARD WORK, requiring deliberate application of PATIENCE in a bid to narrow down to what works and what does not.
Those things that work, will be the ones that get you the marketing result you want – which is SALES LEADS i.e. pre-qualified prospects or potential buyers that you recruit via your WMS.
Those things that don’t work are the ones that do NOT deliver (or support/complement the delivery of) the outcomes described in the above paragraph.

“Hurry Merchants” are often fixated on the idea of making sales happen as fast as possible, no matter how new the business they are doing is. 

They are the kind who want to get a prospect to part with money within minutes of meeting him, and typically go about doing this by being manipulative. They often employ hype and put psychological pressure on the prospect in a manner designed to force his/her hand.
To put it simply, they use the pushy-salesperson strategy or what I call the “Cave Man with a Club” approach.
I do NOT like that technique, because I find it does not earn me the right QUALITY of clients in the long run. 
 

Quite often those you will win over using manipulative strategies tend to be people who come on board not just with wrong expectations, but also who have WARPED mental attitudes. 

Wrong expectations could include wanting you to do MORE work for them than they pay for. .
That initial sale having happened, such people can go on to make your life a living hell, if you are a service provider.
A product sales person may escape from such negative returns if the buyer does not return to do more business with him/her, but the service provider who has collected money from a client who is not a good fit for him/her may end up regretting starting that relationship in the first place.
One Example: Imagine for instance a ghost-writing client who after reading though a manuscript and telling you s/he is okay with it, only to come back 2 weeks later with a demand that you completely add an extra chapter, based on several anecdotes s/he just recalled as important, BUT insists s/he will not pay any extra fees?!
I have had such experiences, and they make you miserable even when you do what you LOVE. We have a term that describes it: Scope Creep, and I’ve written several articles on it, based on true story experiences I’ve had – like this one.
Hurry Merchants are always trying to cut corners – and frequently play mind ganes
That’s when you see someone who adds you as a friend on Facebook last week, saying s/he needs your help,turning around to try selling you HIS/HER own version of that solution s/he said she wanted from you!!!!
I have that experience all the time – and most times I simply cut all links with the person because THAT singular action betrays a lack of integrity that I cannot tolerate.
On one occasion, I got an invite to LIKE a page, from someone who had previously reached out for my help in developing a web marketing system.
Below is the text of the message I sent to the individual, in a bid to offer some reorientation and guidance:
Thanks for the invite to LIKE your page. I am quite willing to do what you ask and LIKE it. I would even gladly share the page to my wall, if you want me to.
However, I feell led to point out to you that I own several pages of my own (and even paid private groups) NONE of which I have EVER invited anyoine to LIKE.
In other words, I have let people find and LIKE them by themselves – by posting content that is in line with the page’s purpose, and which appeals to those who fit the target audience profile I have defined for each page.
I’ve written serveral articles in the past, to explain the thinking behind this counter-intuitive approach I recommend for adoption, which has helped me connect with REAL people with serious interest in what my page offers.
Below are links to a few that I am currently able to recall, which I suggest you explore to better understand what I mean.
Your purpose should NOT be to get MANY LIKES for your page = that is good, but it is better to get LIKES from the RIGHT kinds of people, if you hope to later convert them to buyers (your ultimate goal)!
TIP: I, for instance really do NOT think I fit what would be the target audience profile for your page. Honestly. You need to do the thinking regarding who does, and then use smart marketing content creation and propagation to ATTRACT them to the page.
Hope the articles below help…
[NB: This 3rd one is a paid product I published last year – but the preview I wrote should still give you some insights. I’m NOT adding it here to make you buy it.]
PS: Below is a link to part 3 of 4 in a series I wrote about how to measure a blog’s performance, 
The thinking in it also applies to use of a platform like Facebook where people comments, likes and shares are ways one can measure performance of content published by a page owner.
My experience has been that the nature of what you sell, and the kind of people likely to be interested in it can make you have a largely QUIET platform,with few or even no comments/likes per post, and yet you could still be making sales because visitors choose to skip doing all that and contact you directly via messaging, email or your website.
This 4 part series was written way back in October 2012, and today, I’ve amassed MANY experiences that confirm what I said then (based on my experiences for over 7 years before) was correct.
I hope you find some of these materials of some use – and I sincerely wish you well, as you work to make better use of the web to achieve your business marketing goals.
Here’s one final tip: Remember what I said during my talk – TRY NOT TO BE TOO DIRECT i.e. by doing outbound marketing. Focus instead of doing things that will bring people to you i.e. by doing in-bound marketing. It really works. Believe me 
FINAL WORDS: Hurry Merchants fret about paying for solutions that require NURTURING of potential sales leads
They want to speak/write to you now and have you dropping money once they make a Call To Action.
Sadly, the world does not work that way -at least for the most part. Not all products and services can be “sold” that way. Unless you’re lucky, you will need to invest quality, time, and effort to build the trust and credibility to win people over.
And to increase your chances of success, you will be better off learning the most effective and efficient way to get the results you want.

For those who struggle to make up their minds about whether or not to signup for my Web Marketing Support Service, I generally offer the insights below

If what I’ve written below does not make you feel “safe enough” to signup, call me and I will explain further why you do NOT need to be concerned about the “result”.
This is a passion for me. My purpose is to get MORE people to DISCOVER they can save LOTS of time, effort and money, while boosting their marketing reach and impact.
It’s a smarter way to do business.
All I need is your ACTIVE cooperation – you cannot be lazy about doing what I will ask of you. You must be ready to learn a new way of doing things and diligenly APPLY what you learn DAILY – like I do,
If you don’t succeed, I cannot brag about how my method works. People will assume it ONLY works for me.
This is why I want to work with persons who reach out to me.
AND if you do NOT give up on yourself, I will NOT give up on you.
My clients in/out of Africa value me because I KEEP MY PROMISES.
Call me, and I’ll ask you some questions to OPEN your eyes to the fact that you will be better off using this approach.

When you say RESULTS – there are 2 main ones to look forward to:

1. REDUCED MARKETING EXPENSES – you will begin to spend LESS money, time,  effort and resources to market your busines.
Doing so means you retain more of your income as profits, makign you better off
2. INCREASED SALES LEADS – While spending less you will be able to reach out to MORE people likely to be interested in what you sell, with your marketing messages.
And this will over time lead to increased sales leads (enquiries), which you will then work to convert to buyers.
The system I offer to setup for you will help you have MORE sales conversations over time – which is the key to making more sales.
Just understand that you MUST be prepared to do a lot of HARD work with me. If you’re NOT ready for that, it’s best you do NOT signup for  my offer.

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PII106: [True Client Story] Smart Web Marketing Will Boost Your Reputation and Cement Your Credibility

Nothing beats getting feedback from a client that the solution you developed/implemented for him is not only working, but that s/he is making smart use of it to get more done with less time, effort, money and resources!

Every now and then I get such feedback from my clients and it’s a really good feeling.

One such message reached me yesterday morning, from a real estate client I developed and implemented a Web Marketing System (WMS) for last year.

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 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII106: [True Client Story] Smart Web Marketing Will Boost Your Reputation and Cement Your Credibility

Nothing beats getting feedback from a client that the solution you developed/implemented for him is not only working, but that s/he is making smart use of it to get more done with less time, effort, money and resources!

Every now and then I get such feedback from my clients and it’s a really good feeling.

One such message reached me yesterday morning, from a real estate client I developed and implemented a Web Marketing System (WMS) for last year.

Today, he continues making truly impressive use of the range of web marketing resources in his online presence to achieve potential sales leads generation outcomes.

Like I tell my clients, a WMS – built right and implemented correctly, will transform the way your target audience, competitors as well as your professional colleagues/peers SEE you.

You will achieve what is called an Expert Authority status that will make others see you as a leader of thought, and reach out to you for expert contributions at events and other fora, in a manner that boosts your reputation and cements your credibility

The email below shows a Guest Post submitted by my client in response to a request sent to him by the editor for a magazine published by a subsidiary of the group of companes he partners with.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM, [Name removed for privacy] wrote:

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Notice how in the mail screenshot below it, I excitedly congratulated him on the achievement.

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 9:08:39 AM GMT+1, Tayo Solagbade  wrote:

Baba O!!!!

Kudos to you for this one jare That’s what I’m talking about: YOU ARE taking ownership of and using this powerful Weapon of Mass Awareness Creation/Leads Generation you have in your arsenal!

Have actually had you mind for some weeks now, but pressure from my speaking engagements and work on preparing CONTENT to sell on DiscoverCotonou.com has kept me from reaching out.

Happy New Year O.

Let;’s talk – I’m doing some new things through DiscoverCotonou.com that I believe can create selling opportunities for you.

Cheers,

Tayo

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That request was proof that his WMS had enabled him achieve Power Positionining status in the mind of the decision makers for that magazine’s content.

And you can imagine that he must now be motivated to do more.

See the email from him below, in response to mine, in which he acknowledhs the benefiits accruing to him from use of the WMS developed for him.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:51 AM, [Name removed for privacy] wrote:

Yeah! Mr Tayo.
LOLz.na sooo! I was asked,by one of our subsidiary,tha give them an article,to be published in the magazine,in view of our convention next month 12th.I was writing a new one,and remember that,ive got countless of them,thus,saving myself the hassles of writing a new one.I decided to use,that one i sent to her,will pull alot of attention to the magazine,printed.

Although,i had intention of calling you some days back o!na forgetfulness sha,perhaps,this night…..we shall continue as usual.Some articles are already on ground,but,i dont want them to go online just like that,without you rewriting,although,they can still go online,but,i want your touch as usual.

I have been making vital use of them,in so many ways on my social media and online platforms,such that,they don’t seem old in the minds of the readers.

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Regard to the family
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Also worthy of note is the preference he has expressed (not for the first time) to keep me in the loop, helping to fine tune whatever he does in using his WMS – especially in the area of article writing and marketing.

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Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*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)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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 solutionsweb 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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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Powerful Strategy for Making Money from FREE Talks You Give [NO, It’s Not Back Room Sales]

I use what I call a “Public Speaking for Business Marketing” (PSBM) to cost-effectively boost my name and brand recognition in my target market place.

This involves looking out for and/or creating speaking opportunities in which I share my knowledge and expertise to a niche audience of experts interested in the solutions I offer.

Most times when I am the one who initiates contact with the target group or organisation, I do NOT request payment for my talks. 

They are typically 20 minutes to 1 hour in duration, and most times I’ll have created a BREAKOUT session of a day or more, which will require the client to make payment,based on what would have been a positibe experience with the short preview talk.

Contrary to what most people tend to think when they first encounter my offers, however, the intent is rarely to get hired to speak or provide a service to be paid.

Instead, my purpose is very often to establish a trust based relationship by giving massive value without demanding or expecting ANYTHING in return.

Sometimes I notice those I offer/give FREE talks seem to see me as foolish and even proceed to act in ways that suggest they believe I’m losing out by doing things that way – and THAT makes me smile inwardly!

Yes, I smile to myself because I KNOW they think that way, because they lack ONE powerful insight that I have had access to, via my studies of accomplished public speaking self-marketing professionals like the legendary Burt Dubin, who I have had the privilege of working with, and enjoy great friendship with.

At 95 years of age, today, Burt no longer actively sells most of the solutions offers.

But a visit to www.burtdubin-blog.com/ should still give you a peek into the exciting variety of high quality information products he has provided to public speaking and business marketing expertise around the world, for many decades.

That’s in addition to phone and email mentoring he did (and probably still does).

So what’s the insight that I gained from exploring Burt’s wealth of knowledge and wisdome?

Well, it’s that EVERY talk you deliver or indeed any speaking event you host (seminar,workshop etc) can be recorded and sold = REPEATEDLY, after it ends, thereby generating a potentially endless stream of passive incoem for you.

Think about it this way – and I have experienced it, so I know it’s not a far fetched idea:

Not every target groups of experts that needs your talk will have the time, money or resources to invite you to speak to them. Sometimes it might even be YOU who lacks the time or resources to make yourself available to speak to some group members or other audiences.

However, there is a solution that works, if done right.

You see, while giving that talk, you can record your entire presentation LIVE, and then later edit/publish it, say as an MP4 video, or MP3 audio for download online, or playback on CD/DVD. such that it delivers roughly the same learning as those who attend your LIVE event will get.

Once you’ve done that (to an acceptable quality standard, that would justify charging a fee), put a price on it, and offer it to those who may NOT be able to attend your LIVE event for any reason.

I have done this with great success to show many times for various products and services I offer. Typically, I would sit in a quiet room and record whatever message or presentation I know is in demand, and them offer it via my website.

But it was from Burt Dubi’s website that I got the idea to record myself speaking during my LIVE talks, and then offer THAT recording for sale to a LARGER audience of potential buyers (in addition to the original audience members, in case any are interested).

He actually has products like that on sale, from decades back.

Think about this and you will see how it can transform the way you make money.. 

Even when you give FREE talks on a subject you’re an expert authority on, if you record it the way I propose here, you can leave that FREE talk venue and go elsewhere to sell that recording to others who may not be able to invite you, but who NEED or WANT to hear your message.

That’s what I did 2 days ago, when I gave my flagship Web Marketing talk to executives of a network marketing company this past Thursday, 15th February 2018.

The audience and organizers did not notice it, but I had my powerful smartphone recorder ON as I spoke, and periodically checked it to be sure it was working okay, as I spoke, right till the end.

However, as is my usual habit, I did not stop with just the audio recording. Instead, I went further to transcribe the audio to a written PDF ebook version,

So, by the end of last night, I had a new product that I announced via Facebook as being available for sale: the PDF ebook.

Today, I’m sending out notices to all my subscribers and contacts, offering the ebook (with the option of download access to the audio) for sale to interested persons.

I gave the talk FREE – But now sell a new product created by recording THAT same talk!

But how can I be sure anyone would want to buy the ebook or audio?

Well, going by the comments they filled on my feedback form, my talk added significant value to them in various ways, some of which they stated (see in image below) .

Therefore it’s likely to add useful value to others like them – and such persons are those likely to welcome the ebook product.

Indeed, even some of those who attended the event may wish to own the PDF ebook version so they can RELIVE the experience and/or share it with their team members.

See how being willing to give of yourself, so FREELY can still equip you with powerful money making opportunities? 

All it takes to discover and harvest these kinds of ideas is to keep an open mind, and avoid having a rigid mindset about how things are (or should be) done.

Click here to request details of how you can get the PDF ebook version of my talk.

 

Here’s an excerpt from the ebook version of my talk

PDF Ebook Transcript Version of LIVE AUDIO Recording of Tayo Solagbade’s talk titled “Attract Profitable Buyers at Zero Cost…Even While YOU Sleep” delivered Thurs 15th Feb 2018 to National Executives of Life Plus International at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy, Opebi – Ikeja, Lagos – Nigeria.

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Excerpt No. 1: “I’m trying to tell you that you have to have passion for what you do. And you have to use this your passion to build relationships. So when you were discussing about those people that will come and signup, I was thinking “How will they get there? How will you find and win them over to sign up? It’s easier said than done!”

One way is (what I call) the Cave Man approach: You know the marketer that goes around with metaphorical club, hunting for clients. Once s/he sees someone likely to need the product/service, s/he beats him/her (figuratively speaking), on the head saying “Oga signup, sign-up!” repeatedly till the person gives in (often out of frustration) and buys!

Then there is the other way in which you dangle a carrot: For instance you know when you’re fishing, how you put a worm at the end of a hook that you then dip in the water where you want to catch fish, using a fishing line. And the guy comes nibbling at the bait – you don’t have to do much of anything because he wants it!

That second method is better, because you don’t have resentment.”

Click here to request details of how you can get the PDF ebook version of my talk. http://tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

Use a Web Marketing System to Create a RELIABLE Stream of High Quality Sales Leads of Pre-Qualified Prospects, That You Eventually Convert to Buyers [True Story: New Member of Tayo Solagbade’s Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Joins from Kenya’s Nairobi]

“No matter how difficult the socioeconomic environment of your primary target market is, smart web marketing know-how like the one I possess, and which I use to support my clients (via a customizable Web Marketing System) CAN, over time, be successfully leveraged to generate a RELIABLE stream of high quality sales leads of pre-qualified prospects, that you eventually covert to buyers, using the right techniques!” – Tayo K. Solagbade, Creator of the Web Marketing System for Low to Zero Cost High Quality Buyer Recruitment

Below is a screenshot (followed by the verbatim text) of a welcome email I sent yesterday (Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:14 PM) – with a FREE gift copy of my Excel-VB Payslip Generator software – to the latest PAID member (from Nairobi – Kenya) of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club

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From: Tayo Solagbade
Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Download Your Personalized Copy of my Excel-VB Driven Payslip Generator Software
To: [name removed for privacy]

Hey Tirop,

Thanks for making the $200 payment to get the promised $50 discount, and complete your advance payment for access to my Excel-Vb coaching progam.
By so doing, you have also gotten a 1 year membership of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club.- watch 9 intro videos HERE and view the private Facebook group HERE.
Find attached your personalized copy of my Custom Excel-Vb driven Payslip Generator Spreadsheet software.
Also attached is an MS Word file (EnableDisable.docx) which shows the steps (via screenshot images) to follow in order to open and run this kind of application by enabling macros.
When you try opening it for the first time in your copy of MS Excel, it will be reduced to a small window on your screen due to the Excel security disabling the code as a default protection against possible macros viruses.
 
By the time you follow the instructions to enable macros correctly, a LOGIN screen will appear. (see attached screenshot image of what it looks like – filename = z-xlvb-payslip-gen-login-screen.png)
 
Choose your name from the drop menu and type in the password into the next field to the right, as: tks2020
Be sure to type the password EXACTLY as it appears.
Clicking the login button will take you to MAIN MENU navigatiion interface. From there you will click the buttons provided to go to the different interfaces where data entry and report generation can be done using buttons provided.
Note that there are tip boxes all over the different worksheet interfaces  read them and follow their instructions to interact with the software,
Just take your time for now, to move around and get familiar with the various interfaces. We will talk more so you can competently use the app to prepare reports you want,
Let me know if you have any questions or require clarification.
Talk later,
Tayo
PS: Below is a link to an article about how I started developing custom spreadsheet software in paid employment.
The MENTAL ATTITUDE I have always had, of ALWAYS aiming to use my coding skills to create dummy-proof, easy to use solutions continues to help me create software that clients enjoy using today.
You may wish to adopt a similar attitude as you commence using Excel-VB to solve problems for those you serve.

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Below: Screenshot of the Login Screen of the FREE personalised copy of my Excel-VB Payslip Generator software I sent to him

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Below: Screenshot of emails we’ve exchanged since he got my welcome email and downloaded the software

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In my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club I provide (via email) step-by-step coaching tutorials (videos, PDFs etc) for business users/expert members on how they can use smart Excel-VB coding to automate their use 0f MS Excel – and boost their work related productivity.

This Kenyan financial consultant supports clients with accounts management services, in which he helps, for instance, to prepare salary schedules and payslips, in addition to routine book keeping and other accounts related tasks.

Regular readers may recall that I shared screenshots from the email enquiry this Kenyan expert sent to me, in last week’s article titled “To Sell More, You Need More Sales Inquiries and Conversations: A Smart Web Marketing System Can Deliver That – Even While You Sleep!” (click to read)

Well, since that first exchange, we’ve had MANY more email and phone conversations.

As we conversed, I used my YEARS of keenly honed sales conversation making expertise, to move him from the stage of enquiry, till he made actual payment – by following instructions I emailed him, on how to open a Paypal account with his credit card, and then sending a total of $200 USD advance payment (of a total $500 USD agreed) to me, to signup for my 1 year Excel-VB one-on-one coaching program.

[Read Signup for Tayo Solagbade’s One-on-One MS Excel Heaven™ Visual Basic Coaching Program & Finish With Your Own Custom Excel-VB App You Can Use at Work and/or Sell to Clients!]

Here’s what’s especially noteworthy: I got him, to send payment from Kenya, to a paypal address belonging NOT to me (since Nigerians still cannot receive money via Paypal), but to my brother-in-law in London, whose name neither sounds, nor looks ANYTHING like mine.

I’ve done this countless times – getting total strangers to CONFIDENTLY send me considerable sums of money with NOTHING to go except what they see online and what I tell them via email and phone.

And most times what they want is 100% digital. The key to my success in doing this repeatedly with people from different parts of the world is the POWER of what I call a Web Marketing System (WMS), that I RELENTLESSLY develop and implement to promote the solutions I offer.

It helps me make sales of a variety of solutions in different fields – I sell products (software, books), services (coaching, training, speaking etc) and even ideas e.g affiliate partnerships and so on.

If you lead a group or organisation andwould like to learn how to use Web Marketing like I do, to successfully generate serious inquiries from buyers, willing and able to buy from your members, click here to find out how you can invite me to give my talk on this theme (Web Marketing) to members of your team.

Alternatively, if you work alone, simply ask how you can signup (click now) to become a member of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.

 

 

PII 105: To Achieve Greater Success, Offer to Speak Online – and Especially Offline [True Story: The First Speaking Invitation I’ve Accepted for 2018]

This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature a preview and link to a Speaker ONE Sheet from 2015, which announces my FREE 1 hour talk titled “Attract Profitable Buyers at Zero Cost…Even While YOU Sleep 

One evening on Tuesday 3rd March, I arrived the office of a multidisciplinary client company in Cotonou, Benin Republic, for a meeting with the CEO and members of his team.

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 105: To Achieve Greater Success, Offer to Speak Online – and Especially Offline [True Story: The First Speaking Invitation I’ve Accepted for 2018]

You no doubt know that public speaking is what people do when they run webinars and other forms of online training/coaching.

I however argue that at a point, depending on the kind of brand you’re building, and your purpose, you may want (even NEED) to put a face to your “name” by giving talks in person i.e standing physically BEFORE your audience, and not behind a computer.

This happens to be the case for me, especially as I am now implementing my long standing dream (conceived from 2013 when I first arrived Cotonou), of running my own product/service Travel Website  – which is now taking shape and form at www.discovercotonou.com.

In this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature a preview and link to a Speaker ONE Sheet from 2015, which announces my FREE 1 hour talk titled “Attract Profitable Buyers at Zero Cost…Even While YOU Sleep

One evening on Tuesday 3rd March, I arrived the office of a multidisciplinary client company in Cotonou, Benin Republic, for a meeting with the CEO and members of his team.
That outing lasted approx. 5 hours, during which time we discussed how to use promotional materials from a groundbreaking beauty pageant event they were organizing, to take their web marketing to the next level, so as to better create client attracting awareness.
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Above Inset Photo: Taken during the meeting in their boardroom
The next day, I was back in Nigeria (at Sherryville Arcade, at Berger Bus stop, in Lagos), speaking to Small Biz CEOs and Network Marketing professionals on this same theme.

Attracting profitable buyers at zero cost while one sleeps is what I do, as a Location Independent Multipreneur.

Over 95% of my clients have NEVER met me – yet some have known me over 7 years from across Nigeria (Lagos, Kano, Bayelsa, Abuja, Nigeria, Oyo, Ekiti, Plateau, Kaduna, Enugu, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Anambra etc) as well as in/out of Africa (Canada, Abu Dhabi/UAE, Tanzania, Benin Republic, Guinea, USA, Holland, Uk, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya etc).
During my talk, I explain how I get total strangers to CONFIDENTLY buy remotely from me, – AND how YOU can do same!
Learn more about my1 hour talk on the page linked below:
Fill/submit the web form at www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm to request details of how you can invite me to give this talk to members of YOUR organization.

Below: Invitation letter from an organisation, whose decision makers I’ve been in discussions with since December 2017

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It’s an indigenous Network Marketing outfit and they want to engage me to give talks to their members.

My key objective/purpose for giving FREE talks on this theme (or web marketing) is to sell access to my Web Marketing for CEOs club, which involves getting interested members to signup for hosting with me, and I then handle web marketing for their individual network marketing businesses.

The above means I’ll be speaking in the coming week.

The topic I will be speaking on is described on the page linked below on my blog:

FREE ONE HOUR TALK: Attract Profitable Buyers at Zero Cost…Even While YOU Sleep [Thur 5th Mar 2015 | 4p.m | Sherryville Arcade, Ojodu Berger Bus stop | Lagos-Nigeria]

I picked up the brocade outfit I had sewn for the outfit from my Dad’s tailor on Thursday.

Now I have to settle down to prepare myself so as to ensure I give a good showing to achieve my goal while adding value to my audience.

I’m told they have over members across the country, so if I do this right, the end will be VERY good for everyone.

Fill/submit the web form at www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm to request details of how you can invite me to give this talk to members of YOUR organization.

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To Sell More, You Need More Sales Inquiries and Conversations: A Smart Web Marketing System Can Deliver That – Even While You Sleep!

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Above: Screenshot image of an email message (see text below) that I received early this morning, Saturday 3rd Feb 2018, from a Kenya based expert, regarding the Excel-VB Automation Coaching I offer.

===Starts===
“Hi Tayo,
I happened to have bumped into one of your YouTube videos and found it amazing.Am interesting on learning how to customize and make my work easier and also teach my other friends and colleagues.
Kindly get in touch.
[Name removed for privacy]
(Nairobi – Kenya)”

===Ends===

Now, the custom Web Marketing System I use to promote the solutions I offer, enables me to trace how most of my sales come to me. And this helps me to refine it for more effectiveness and efficiency, over time.

One look at the information this gentleman supplied immediately told me how he’d found me:

It was through a demonstration video (see below) I published in my Youtube channel, in which I showed in step-by-step fashion how a custom automated Cash Book I built for a hospital client in Nigeria’s Lagos worked.

At the end of the video, I’d made a simple Call To Action (CTA), inviting the viewer, if interested, to contact me, using information supplied on the screen about learning to automate MS Excel using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in the manner I’d demonstrated.

And THAT was why he’d sent me the email – at the address I’d indicated.

I therefore know where he’s at (in the Sales Process), and have sent him a generic email response asking him to call me, to which I now await his reply.

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Why ask him to call me and not just respond directly to the request he’s made?

Well the answer to THAT question is one that I provide in form of coaching instruction to clients who signup as members of my Web Marketing for CEOs club.

It’s based on a bit of counter-intuitive line of reasoning that derives for YEARS of experience I’ve had in converting enquiriers to actual buyers.

Here’s a hint: When a lady plays hard to get, men who admire her tend to feel more driven to pursue. There’s something attractive, and somewhat enticing, about a person or thing that is not easily obtained. Anything that is scarce tends to be more desired that somethign that is found everywhere.

Suffice to say, for now, that I’ve successfully gotten countless prospects/enquirier to call me on my mobile lines in Nigeria as well as Benin Republic, towards finding out how they could purchase my solutions.

But it takes know-how, to get sales leads generation and ciient conversion right. It’s not a random or arbitrary process.

Like I noted earlier, it took me YEARS to learn how to win people (mostly total strangers who never meet me before sending money to me) over using this approach I developed

The fact that I continue to do it, even when people complain of money being hard to find and the economy being “down”, proves that this method works.
When you join my Web Marketing for CEOs club, I not only work with you to develop and implement a custom WMS to promote your brand, but I also COACH you to do what you see me do for you, so that over time you will be able to carry on without me.
Click here for details of how to signup for my 1 Year Web Marketing Support Service

Final Words: I Work Differently from Other Excel Experts (Here’s Why)

Due to the nature of my work as a MULTIPRENEUR, in which I function is a variety of roles, serving clients in multiple industries, I find it hard to offer my Excel-VB skills to those who approach in what is the traditional way.
For instance many Excel experts spend lots of time offering answers to questions posed in forums online.
I tried doing that years ago, but simply could not keep up.
Over time, I reasoned that I would be more productive if I tried to build Excel-VB know-how in the primary market I serve (Africa), where most users have no idea what amazing things they can do with VBA.
Enquiries like the one from the above mentioned Kenyan expert continue to prove that it will only be a matter of time before THIS movement of mine gains sustainable momentum!