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Your Own Money Making Product Built by Me [Offer Expires MNT Thursday 27th April 2017]

[I began sending THIS promotional offer to clients last year (2016). This year, I’ve thrown in the bonus of a FREE 3 to 5 minute Business Marketing Trailer Video]

Would you like to build your own Digital Passive Income Generating Information Product in YOUR area of proven knowledge/competence/expertise, BUT worry that you may lack time/training to START, and FINISH it?

If you said YES to the Above, This Offer May Interest You

Here is an example of titles I proposed each client consider (based on what I’d seen of their individual brands and personalities):

Secrets for Successful Pig Farm Business Startup & Operation (True Story)

[NB: This offer expires MNT today 27th April 2017. ONLY 2 slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message]

Let me do all the work for you as a Ghost-Writer (research, writing, recording, book cover design, book publishing, audio/video DVD Information Products creation etc) .

In other words, I will help you write, design and publish a PHYSICAL BOOK to MONETIZE your knowledge and expertise in your vocation or profession.

We can do it face to face or remotely. It won’t matter.

I will interview you (and record/transcribe what you say) on the topic, to get what you know in written form. Then I’ll use my wealth of experience to research the subject to add more to what you give me. I will then combine it all, creatively, to make a ready-to-sell Information Product in PDF format, with front and back book cover designs for a PRINT version – both will be put up for sale in an online store I will setup for you.

NB: You will be the author, and you will own the content and copyright. I would literally NOT exist …except to YOU.

What Do You Get When I’m Done?

NB: If you’re already a member of my Inner Circle, you ONLY need to pay 35% of the N50k promo offer fee (as per your lifetime 65% discount membership benefit).

1. A complete Information Product published in both DIGITAL and PRINT/PHYSICAL formats, with your name as Author, ready-for-sale to a global audience in Print-On-Demand Publishing Online Store (See an example of such a product that I created for a Cotonou based client at http://tayosolagbade.com/pod-letter.html)

My standard fee for ghost-writing/publishing a book as above is N150k. But for this offer, I will do it FREE for ALL 4 of those who take up this offer within the deadline.

Below: Photo of Cotonou based Dr. Arnold Nana Kouayep, holding a physical copy of his book (ghostwritten by me in 2015) – after 10 copies I ordered from his online store were delivered by UPS to hi office. 

Barr. Arnold Nana Kouayep - A Cotonou based client (President of Cotonou based Global Konsult Group) holds a copy of his book delivered to him from USA by Lulu.com - Click to learn more

Below: Book Cover Announcement of Hope Agwulonu’s Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farm Business Which Was Published Via My Book Ghost-Writing Print On Demand Publishing Service in 2016.

Click the link below to read more about this project with Hope.

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/now-live-quick-start-guide-to-catfish-farming-business-by-hope-agwulonu-ceo-of-progidence-farms-limited-abuja-nigeria

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You can visit her online store to see the book on sale at www.lulu.com/spotlight/hopeagwulonu [She also has the MS Word manuscript and a read-for-use PDF version which she can email to buyers who pay directly to her bank.

2. One-on-One Coaching by me on how to:

a. take the product I develop for you, and promote it to attract potential buyers for it, both online and offline

b. create other DCFGAs by yourself – including detailed instructions of where to go to download FREE tools/resources for creating your own branded range of digital products, like I do.

My standard fee for One-on-One Coaching is N50k. But for this offer, I will do it FREE for ALL 4 of those who take up this offer within the deadline.

The above means that instead of paying N200k, I will do 1 and 2 for you, at ZERO COST!

All you have to do is join my Inner Circle by paying N50k (approx. $250 USD)  at N200 to $1 USD

[NB: My Inner Circle membership is currently priced at $500 USD: See http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/InnerCircle.pdf]

Doing so gets you FULL benefits of membership of my Inner Circle, in addition to my FREE offer outlined in 1 and 2 above…

Note that you DO NOT need to pay the full fee at once to take up this offer

Instead, you can TIE DOWN the offer by paying at least N10k BEFORE the deadline expires…at MNT today Thur 27th April 2017

Subsequently, you will pay at least N10k every month, until the full N50k fee is paid up.

[NB: If you pay N20k before Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017, you WILL get a further N10k discount i.e. instead of paying a total of N30k balance, you ONLY pay N20k balance, meaning you’ll end up paying ONLY N40k in total, instead of N50k to take up this offer.]

On my part, as a gesture of goodwill, once you pay up to N30k, I will formally commence work with you as per the FREE offer in 1 and 2 above.

Regarding your membership benefits, once your N50k fee is fully paid up, I will send you the promised FREE product of your choice from my Inner Circle members library (e.g. my Livestock Ration Formulator softwarePoultry Farm Manger software or my Payslip Generator software or any of my Information Products that you choose) as well as other gifts that members are eligible to receive.

You also get your 65% lifetime discount to buy ALL my other products and services.

So, to summarize, here are the key features of this offer to you:

To get Your Own Digital Cash Flow Generating Asset (DCFGA) Built by Me….

1. Simply join my Inner Circle by paying N50k (approx $250 USD) instead of N100k (approx. $500 USD) – at N200 to $1 USD

2. You can pay the N50k offer fee at once, or tie down the offer by paying at least N10k BEFORE the deadline expires, then paying monthly instalments of at least N10k till the full N50k fee is paid up.

3. When your payments reach N30k, I’ll start working with you to write and publish your Information Product based on 1 and 2 above

4. When your payments are completed at N50k, I’ll send you ANY FREE product you want, and activate your 65% discount to purchase ANY of my other products and services, as a member of my Inner Circle.

5. This entire offer expires at Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017 – and ONLY 2 slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Important Notes

a. If you pay N20k before Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017, you WILL get a further N10k discount i.e. instead of paying a total of N30k balance, you ONLY pay N20k balance, meaning you’ll end up paying ONLY N40k in total, instead of N50k to take up this offer.

b. If you’re already a member of my Inner Cirle, you ONLY need to pay 35% of the N50k promo offer fee (as per your lifetime 65% discount membership benefit).

c. If you’ve attended my talk (and/or purchased my Audio DVD) on Passive Income generation, and you’re interested in this offer, email or send me an SMS and I’ll hold a slot for you to take up on or before the deadline..

6. For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email me via tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message

Bonus Offer: Get a Branded 3 to 5 Minute Trailer Video to Promote Your New Product On Youtube Once It’s Ready!

Pay the full N50k fee at once, for me to build your new information product, and I’ll create a branded Trailer Video (N50k value) to be published on your own branded Youtube channel, to promote the product online

Why Am I Making This Kind of Offer?

Simple.

I am on a mission to SHOW others that they can also achieve the kind of success I enjoy via Passive Income Streams generation using my branded Digital Cash Flow Generating Assets.

To achieve my purpose, I want to have 2 persons (who take up this offer) to serve as MODELS of what is possible…

If YOU begin earning passive income using the cash flow/passive income generating asset I build for you, others will BELIEVE it is possible.

Then they will be motivated to take PERSONAL ACTION to do what you’re doing, thereby empowering themselves to be financially independent.

When YOU, and others who are so impacted succeed, I WILL naturally succeed as well, because you would provide REAL LIFE testimonial case studies for me to point out to MORE potential clients!

For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email me via tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message

Below: Photograph of my Audio DVD Information Product titled “Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income” (sitting on my copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Why ‘A’ Students Work for ‘C’ Students, and ‘B’ Students Work for the Government”)

Photograph of my latest Audio DVD Information Product titled Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income (sitting on my copy of Robert Kiyosaki's Why 'A' Students Work for 'C' Students, and 'B' Students Work for the Government)

This was handed over on Sunday 12th July 2015 p.m (when we met for a private session) – to a newsletter subscriber who paid for it on Monday 6th July 2015, but was unable to join us at Tantalizers Fast Foods Restaurant, along Ojodu-Berger Road, in Nigeria’s Lagos, on Wednesday, 8th July 2015, for the face to face coaching session I had with others on the subject.

Want a copy of the Audio DVD? Price is N5k. Click here to let me know.

You can invite me to deliver my FREE 1 hour talk  on this subject members of your group, team, company/organization. Click here to view the flyer for the maiden talk held on Sunday 5th July 2015. Click here to invite me.

PII 063: You Can Use Video Marketing to Attract Profitable Buyers For Your Products [Hint: Get Ideas & Support]

If you want to sell successfully, and for the long term, in a manner that is sustainable, you need to LEARN how to DEMONSTRATE to potential buyers, that solutions you offer are exactly what s/he needs. I offer ideas (and support) you can use below.

Since, most times, especially when using the web, it is unlikely that you will get a chance to speak to, and convince, a potential buyer via face to face interactions, the reality is that you will need to put in place a system that enables you to say ENOUGH of what you normally need to say, remotely, to win him/her over.

From 2005, when I decided to come online (via spontaneousdevelopment.com – now defunct), to begin offering my products and services via the web, the above stated goal (of winning total strangers over as buyers without face-to-face meeting) dominated my thinking.

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PII 063: You Can Use Video Marketing to Attract Profitable Buyers For Your Products [Hint: Get Ideas & Support]

If you want to sell successfully, and for the long term, in a manner that is sustainable, you need to LEARN how to DEMONSTRATE to potential buyers, that solutions you offer are exactly what s/he needs. I offer ideas (and support) you can use below.

Since, most times, especially when using the web, it is unlikely that you will get a chance to speak to, and convince, a potential buyer via face to face interactions, the reality is that you will need to put in place a system that enables you to say ENOUGH of what you normally need to say, remotely, to win him/her over.

From 2005, when I decided to come online (via spontaneousdevelopment.com – now defunct), to begin offering my products and services via the web, the above stated goal (of winning total strangers over as buyers without face-to-face meeting) dominated my thinking.

You see, I’d gone though a lot of stress, inconvenience and hardship using conventional door to door salesman-style pavement pounding marketing methods to win clients.

And it was just not working well enough for the kinds of solutions I offered.

I was getting too few clients and they were paying just too little, compared to the time and effort I always had to invest in return for what they paid me.

One example: In 2008, I recall getting paid N40,000.0 for a job that took me all of 2 months to complete  – and I mean every day of those 2 months, in which I would leave home as early as 6.00a.m to drive down to the home based small scale factory premises of the client, where I would then work, on site, from 7.30a.m till sometimes well past midnight – after which I would drive about 45 minutes to get back home, and repeat the same routine the next day.

Yep. I worked a lot like that back then, because it took so much hard work to find new client work, with people willing to pay anything worthwhile.

But I always knew there had to be a better way. 

So I began to research alternative ways to make sales. As time went on, I came up with the idea of selling products I’d worked so hard to create for other clients. This option had the distinct advantage of getting me paid without my having to commit to the crazy on site work regimen of building new apps or website for clients.

In case you wonder why I had to work on site…

It was not all the time. But there were often times when the nature/scope of work made it smarter to offer clients the option to pay less, if they covered my electricity/fueling costs.

All of that has however long been in the past. It’s now been over 4 years since I began working 100% online selling my products to buyers from within and outside Africa.

For instance, as recently as last week, I received payment from a Farm CEO, who has still NOT met face to face with me, for 5 of my products, which he purchased via a time limited promotional offer I emailed to him.

  1. This gentleman had done a Google search that led him to watch Video Demonstrations of my products and he’d then submitted a web form enquiry to request details about how to buy them. 

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2. I replied using my generic template, asking him to call me, so I could ask him a few questions. The next day, he did that, and after I’d gotten satisfactory answers to the questions I asked him. I told him the prices for the products he’d asked about, and later sent him the email offer. That night, he sent full payment via bank transfer, and notified me via email. 

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3. Once I confirmed the payment, I prepared personalized copies of the products and emailed them to him.

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The process I’ve just described above is the Sales Cycle that most of my buyers go through; based on the automated Web Marketing System I propagate using the web. Central to the operation and success of this system is an intelligent use of smart (not fancy!) Video based Marketing.

It is worth noting here that over 80% of my sales today come as a result of exposure of prospective buyers to my Video Marketing.

Not just that, I have clients in my network who have gotten referrals from me, through my system that led them to make money.

For instance, last month, a prospective pig farm business CEO who purchased my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software, asked me for help in locating a reliable Pig Farm Business Owner/Consultant that he could connect with for guidance, towards successful startup.

I wasted no time in referring him to a member of my Farm Business Ideas club who I knew owned a Pig Farm Business in a large Farm Settlement (Gberigbe) in Lagos. They have since met face to face – money has changed hands between both parties, and I understand they are looking to do more business together.

The irony of it all is that I STILL have NEVER met face to face with the prospective Pig Farm Business owner. What a great way to make a difference and an impact: I LOVE It!

But what makes it possible for me to work this way today, and NEVER again need to do all that manual labour I used to do, to find customers?

It’s my strategic use of Video Marketing, based on an elaborate Web Marketing System I conceived, to boost name/brand recognition and win credibility/trust in the mind of prospects

People want to be SURE that you can help them. Video Marketing is a particularly potent medium for SHOWING people what you can do, and how it can help them.

But there is no one-size-fits-all approach for use of this technique. Each person will have to think creatively about how to make it work for him/herself. The way I use it may not be the best way for you to use it.

That’s why I offer to help any business owners who are interested in creative smart TIMELESS marketing videos that NEVER expire, to promote their products and services.

I do it, and it wins me paying clients internationally, without my having to pay for any advertising. Examples of videos I use include the following:

  1. Watch 4 part video demonstration for my popularExcel-VB Ration Formulator software here
  1. Watch 16 part video demonstration for my popularExcel-VB Poultry Farm Manager software here
  1. Watch sample video from my Home Study Feed Formulation Video Tutorial Package, based on my Feed Formulation Handbook.

Example: How to Correct Excess Energy Content in a Livestock Ration [Feed Formulation Home Study Video Series]

I use the video below THIS screenshot to show prospective buyers excerpts of what my Feed Formulation Handbook offers.

This exercise in Tayo Solagbade’s Feed Formulation Handbook is explained in Video 21. The video displays THIS view of pages 26 and 27, as the explanation is given.

To get the results I do, all I do is to DILIGENTLY use the rest of my Web Marketing System to propagate the video marketing resources I create. Note that HOW I do it is however the reason I succeed in making REPEAT sales without needing to leave home!

What I do is something ANY business owner can successfully do for his/her brand, IF s/he knows how. I offer to do it for you, or coach you to do it yourself, if you are interested. 

Simply let me know by telling me about yourself and what you do using this form – click now.

Over the past 14 years, I’ve developed custom Web Marketing Systems (WMS) for clients in a wide variety of industries e.g. real estate, audiology/hearing and speech improvement, medical consulting, real estate investing, leadership consulting, health and fitness, hospitality (hotels, restaurants, and bars), legal consulting and others.

My multidisciplinary aptitude equips me to work with clients in virtually any industry, handling ALL their Web Marketing needs remotely, anonymously, confidentially.

I can do the same for you!

Like I explain using the mind map I created, Video Marketing is one of the 9 key components of a WMS that can be used to take one’s business marketing to the next level. If THAT is what you want for your brand,

Simply let me know by telling me about yourself and what you do using this form – click now.

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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

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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.

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Protected: The FARM CEO (Issue 80): Secret to Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products, Introduction to Web Marketing for Zero Cost Buyer Attraction [African Farm Businesses as Case Study], Request My Report on Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products (Plus Read Answers to Questions You Have!)

Your 2016 Excel-Visual Basic Automation Home Study Tutorial Archives DVD is READY!

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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 solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (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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[RECOMMENDED] My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe? – By Niyi Osundare (Renowned Nigerian poet)

The good Professor Niyi Osundare wrote the poem below quite a while back about Nigeria’s Judiciary and Legal Profession.

Sadly, his words remain ever so relevant today.

This is one of many reasons I argue that most conventional “schools” offer limited real world relevant preparation – especially in a society like Nigeria.

We are supposed to be trained in learning and character, when we pass through school. Character is so important for long term success achievement in adult life.

What we see in today’s Nigeria indicates very little of character building happens in the schooling majority of our population gets.

If that was not the case, we would not have such a dominant majority eagerly engaging in and supporting blatant wrong doing for personal gain. Societies where schools work are not like that!

The Professor eloquently describes the sad state of affairs in our country today, in the following words:
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My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe? – By Niyi Osundare (Renowned Nigerian poet)

My Lord

Please tell me where to keep your bribe?

Do I drop it in your venerable chambers

Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion

Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank

In your well laundered backyard

Or will it breathe better in the septic tank

Since money can deodorize the smelliest crime

Shall I haul it up the attic

Between the ceiling and your lofty roof

Or shall I conjure the walls to open up

And swallow this sudden bounty from your honest labour

Shall I give a billion to each of your paramours

The black, the light, the Fanta-yellow

They will surely know how to keep the loot

In places too remote for the sniffing dog

Or shall I use the particulars

Of your anonymous maidservants and manservants

With their names on overflowing bank accounts

While they famish like ownerless dogs

Shall I haul it all to your village

In the valley behind seven mountains

Where potholes swallow up the hugest jeep

And Penury leaves a scar on every house

My Lord

It will take the fastest machine

Many, many days to count this booty; and lucky bank bosses

May help themselves to a fraction of the loot

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

The “last hope of the common man”

Has become the last bastion of the criminally rich

A terrible plague bestrides the land

Besieged by rapacious judges and venal lawyers

Behind the antiquated wig

And the slavish glove

The penguin gown and the obfuscating jargon

Is a rot and riot whose stench is choking the land

Behind the rituals and roted rigmaroles

Old antics connive with new tricks

Behind the prim-and-proper costumes of masquerades

Corruption stands, naked, in its insolent impunity

For sale to the highest bidder

Interlocutory and perpetual injunctions

Opulent criminals shop for pliant judges

Protect the criminal, enshrine the crime

And Election Petition Tribunals

Ah, bless those goldmines and bottomless booties!

Scoundrel vote-riggers romp to electoral victory

All hail our buyable Bench and conniving Bar

A million dollars in Their Lordship’s bedroom

A million euros in the parlor closet

Countless naira beneath the kitchen sink

Our courts are fast running out of Ghana-must-go’s*

The “Temple of Justice”

Is broken in every brick

The roof is roundly perforated

By termites of graft

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

Judges doze in the courtroom

Having spent all night, counting money and various “gifts”

And the Chief Justice looks on with tired eyes

As Corruption usurps his gavel.

Crime pays in this country

Corruption has its handsome rewards

Just one judgement sold to the richest bidder

Will catapult Judge & Lawyer to the Billionaires’ Club

The Law, they say, is an ass

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow

But the Law in Nigeria is a vulture

Fat on the cash-and-carry carrion of murdered Conscience

Won gb’ebi f’alare

Won gb’are f’elebi**

They kill our trust in the common good

These Monsters of Mammon in their garish gowns

Unhappy the land

Where jobbers are judges

Where Impunity walks the streets

Like a large, invincible Demon

Come Sunday, they troop to the church

Friday, they mouth their mantra in pious mosques

But they pervert Justice all week long

And dig us deeper into the hellish hole

Nigeria is a huge corpse

With milling maggots on its wretched hulk

They prey every day, they prey every night

For the endless decomposition of our common soul

My Most Honourable Lord

Just tell me where to keep your bribe.

*   Large, extremely tough bags used for carrying heavy cash in Nigeria

** They declare the innocent guilty

They pronounce the guilty innocent

Prof. Niyi Osundare

PII 059: Read This And Understand Why Your Internet Access Is Sometimes Slow

Do you know what happens when you type a web address or URL (like www.tayosolagbade.com) into your Internet Explorer browser’s URL entry bar, and click “GO” or press “Enter”? Read this article to learn what happens, and how/why this process sometimes can become slow to the point that it frustrates users like yourself!

(TIP: This article is 10 years old this month. It was first published online via spontaneousdevelopment.com – now defunct – on 1st March 2007 | I republished it via tayosolagbade.com on Jun 29, 2012 – and I’m re-purposing it here, as a public service via tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets – my blog – today, 27th March 2017)

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(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 27th March 2017

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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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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

PII 059: Read This And Understand Why Your Internet Access Is Sometimes Slow

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PII 059: Read This And Understand Why Your Internet Access Is Sometimes Slow

 

PII 058: Do You Want a Marketing Manager That Never Sleeps?

You run a business and have a website for it, as well as a Facebook/Twitter etc pages with fans/followers.

The problem is however that you cannot boast of getting sales inquiries talk less closing sales through leads from those channels

You can change that situation for the better by developing and implementing a custom Web Marketing System to better attract enquiries from quality clients to you – in a way that integrates all aspects of your online presence and brings them alive.

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

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

Monday 20th March 2017

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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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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

PII 058: Do You Want a Marketing Manager That Never Sleeps?

You run a business and have a website for it, as well as a Facebook/Twitter etc pages with fans/followers.

The problem is however that you cannot boast of getting sales inquiries talk less closing sales through leads from those channels

You can change that situation for the better by developing and implementing a custom Web Marketing System to better attract enquiries from quality clients to you – in a way that integrates all aspects of your online presence and brings them alive.

Imagine a system that makes new clients come to you instead of YOU having to go around or sending people out to find them?

Imagine a system that answers most questions that such clients often ask.  A system that will make them contact you about buying even though you place NO paid adverts.

Imagine a system that ensures your online presence never gets stale in content:

Using this system, you can control what Google says about you or your business/company. Indeed, you can make Google new about you/your work in its results page, more than it does for your competitors.

None of the above mentioned benefits will likely happen overnight or in the short term. It takes working hard/smart  often for months, sometimes longer, to get there. But if you go about it the right way, this system can work for you as described above!

Done right, this system will make you spend less money, time and effort to get found by more people who want to buy from you. Not just that, this system will make clients proudly tell others about you! Most importantly, you will attract enquirers during holidays, after office hours, while you sleep.

TV, radio and newspaper advertising are often too expensive and always expire. A WMS, being timeless (never expires), will promote what you offer forevcr!

It’s like  a marketing manager that never sleeps!

A WMS can be used to improve other marketing efforts you make e.g. reducing cost, time, effort. It works by getting you noticed by those who need the solution you offer, so they decide to contact you by email, phone etc. This system makes them believe what you tell them, and they also believe you are a better choice, compared to others they may be aware of. I’ve used it for years with success.

As a CEO/Self-Marketing Expert, your busy schedule can make it hard for you to develop and implement a Web Marketing System the way it should be done to get it up and running correctly. That’s why I’m offering 1 year support. Think of me as the secret weapon you will have to overcome that problem so as to rapidly prepare and effectively propagate your WMS to get you noticed by more potential clients.

Click here to contact me.

Related Articles

1. Adopting a Smart Web Marketing System Results In Money Well Spent

2. Why You Need a Web Marketing System (WMS) – Part 1 of 3

3. Why You Need a Web Marketing System (WMS) – Part 2 of 3

4. Why You Need a Web Marketing System (WMS) – Part 3 of 3

5. You Cannot Sell Marketing as a Commodity (Hint: Suggestions to SEO Commodity Marketers

6. Tested Ideas You Need to Make Your Web Marketing System Work

7. It Takes Proven Know-How to Achieve Repeatable Web Marketing Success

8. To Remove Time Wasters from Your Sales Leads, You Need a Web Marketing System (WMS)

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:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Get Smart Cost-Saving SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE from SDAc’s Excel Heaven™ – Provider of Pre-programmed Custom Spreadsheet Solutions

[Friday]:

Why You Need Feed Formulation, and NOT Feed Mixing, to Get Superior Performance from Your Livestock

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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 solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (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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[Coming Soon] New Version of my CB Solutions Mobile phone app for Android, Apple, Black Berry and Windows Operating Systems!

I’ve just published a new version of my CB Solutions Mobile phone app using a platform that makes the app work for ANY operating systems such as Android, Apple, Black Berry and Windows.

In a few days, it will go LIVE. For now, use the link below to check out the interactive features.

http://www.appsbar.com/WebApp/Facebook/app.php?AppID=1059085&HostSite=&Device=Embed

cbs-app-new

[FREE] POWERFUL TRUTHS ABOUT REAL BLACK HISTORY, NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, BUT WHICH YOU (AND YOUR KIDS) NEED TO KNOW

Why do black people – and their nations – often lag behind others? I have argued for years that the reason is NOT genetic. Instead it is the mental attitude of majority of us.

No one can under develop us. We have the power to develop and advance ourselves. I am doing that for myself and my family. No one can stop me. I do NOT need the government to do it for me.

If more of us would adopt a similar mindset, we would transform our individual lives, and the fortunes of our respective families and societies.

My accomplishments over the past 2 decades prove that my sentiments are accurate. But the 2 books and a movie that I feature in this report offer incontrovertible proof that we, as a people have what it takes to excel on this planet.

I recommend you read this report and follow the URLs provided to learn more, so you (and your kids) can be empowered!

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[Recommended] The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion

[Tayo Solagbade’s comment: If you’re not doing Shameless Self-Promotion (I call it “SSP” for short), you are short-changing yourself BIG TIME in your business marketing. This excellent Copyblogger article explains why SSP works, and how to do it] Here are some excerpts:

The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion”So self-adulation is something I try to stay away from. But self promotion? That’s a whole different story.If you take a look at the most successful (or talked about) people in any field, you’ll almost always see someone incredibly talented in the art of self-promotion….If you implement this plan successfully, you’ll probably take some flak. People might label you over-confident or cocky.That’s good. Define yourself in such a way that people either love you or hate you.There are fans out there for every self-promoter. Your task is to find them. That, and to make it easy for them to bring a friend.Your ideas need you. If you have a vision, don’t let anyone stand in your way.”Read the full article at:http://www.copyblogger.com/shameless-self-promotion/

PII 053: If Achievement of Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Web Marketing Success Was Easy, Everyone Would Be Doing It! [Hint: What You Need to KNOW – and DO]

Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all.

I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult – phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What’s more, experience has also taught me that succeeding in web marketing (and indeed any other area of life) is more a journey, than a destination.

So it’s a never ending endeavour.

In my case, one powerful weapon I have successfully leveraged to achieve growing web marketing success over the years, has been the Web Marketing System I conceived several years ago.

Today, I help clients within and outside Nigeria, develop and implement their own unique WMS to promote their products and services to potential buyers at less cost, using less effort and less money, and in less time.

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

Monday 13th February 2017

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

PII 053: If Achievement of Authentic Non-Corner-Cutting Web Marketing Success Was Easy, Everyone Would Be Doing It! [Hint: What You Need to KNOW – and DO]

Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all.

I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult – phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What’s more, experience has also taught me that succeeding in web marketing (and indeed any other area of life) is more a journey, than a destination.

So it’s a never ending endeavour.

In my case, one powerful weapon I have successfully leveraged to achieve growing web marketing success over the years, has been the Web Marketing System I conceived several years ago.

wms-mindmap-writers

Today, I help clients within and outside Nigeria, develop and implement their own unique WMS to promote their products and services to potential buyers at less cost, using less effort and less money, and in less time.

Adopting a custom Web Marketing System (WMS)™ to promote solutions you offer, to your target audience will make you a member of an elite community of results – focused self-marketing business owners, who leverage this unconventional self-sustaining promotional strategy, to get high impact exposure.

Note however, that if you have been operating in a different way before now, and not had the results you wanted, then you must understand that CHANGING to this new approach is highly unlikely to yield 100% profitable returns overnight.

I can however assure you of certain immediate benefits you can harvest IF you begin to use your WMS™ the way I recommend:

  1. You WILL record a significant – and measurable -drop in time, effort, resources and money you expend in promoting your business.
  2. You WILL also be able to more accurately correlate your marketing expenditure to your client conversion.

By way of interest, a parameter you WILL find it useful to periodically measure is your Cost of Customer Acquisition (COCA) – to ensure you recruit new clients/customers as cost-effectively as possible.

Let me emphasize at this point, that if you want to get the best value from your investment in your WMS™, you need to (if possible printout and) read;

(a) Michel Fortin’s 10 commandments E-book and

(b) Burt Dubin’s Articles on speaking/marketing

I will add that it would serve you well to re-read them, many times over – especially when you need new ideas.

I recommend, in addition, that you also conduct online searches for useful write-ups by other competent authors, to generate new ideas you can try out over time.

In essence I’m saying that your learning must never stop. Indeed you will need to be perpetually hungry for new perspectives you can use to make your marketing more effective.

This is because business marketing is about communication – ultimately.

The quality of useful information and education you offer people who fit your target audience profile, will draw them to you even when you don’t use paid adverts.

The above is a TRUTH that is known by the world’s top marketers – including the 2 gentlemen I’ve recommended i.e. Burt Dubin and Michel Fortin.

What I do today for clients is based on ideas and strategies I developed by studying their works (and those of many others I took time to read up) towards achieving my own business marketing purpose

Today, the web marketing success I enjoy, attracting mostly zero cost sales leads/enquiries from potential buyers within and outside Africa confirms that the ideas I picked up – and adapted creatively for my use – really do work!

That’s why I strongly recommend to all my clients that they FIRST of all develop familiarity with the original concepts, principles, ideas and strategies – by READING what seasoned experts have to say in their written works.

You see, it is when you have done that to a point that I will be able to more effectively add value by working with you to adapt their ideas, to suit whatever unique perspective you have to operate from.

I will bring to bear, over a decade of experience failing miserably repeatedly, in doing the above, having to re-visit and refine my approach, until finally, I found a way to make it work, to achieve financially rewarding returns in my business.

The advantage you will get, from working with me to develop your own unique WMS, is the benefit of my experience based insights.

This will equip me to help you get your WMS up and running faster, minimizing the trial and error involved in the process of evolving what works for you!

“Many people make the mistake of thinking marketing is about selling. The truth is that it is NO (especially when done online i.e. Web Marketing). Marketing is about getting noticed and building credibility in the minds of potential buyers, until they are convinced enough to take buying action which then leads to the sale.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

The point made in the above quote explains why many top marketers/salespeople worldwide agree that in order to make a sale; you FIRST have to make a friend i.e.  ‘making friends’ who eventually ‘buy’ from you to become your clients or customers.

Study the Mind Map of a WMS

Click http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/wms-mindmap-writers.pdf to view the mind map I created to illustrate the key components of a WMS.

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:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Custom Spreadsheet Applications Are NOT Only for Accounting or Financial Reporting [Hint: Case Study of Tayo Solagbade’s Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager – an Entreprise Information System]

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

2016 Excel-Visual Basic Automation Club Home Study Tutorial Archives DVD [COMING SOON]

Protected: The FARM CEO (Issue 73) : 26 Ways to Make Money From Your Small Farm, 20 Ways to Make $25,000 per month running an Agricultural Business, THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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 solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (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

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[Recommended] Why Nigerians Hate Igbo – by Chinua Achebe

When I saw the thought provoking Facebook post/query (shown below) by Joe Ibekwe, I instantly recalled the words of Chinua Achebe in the last book he gifted us before passing on.

joe-igbos-hate

However, a quick check in my travel bag soon revealed, to my dismay, that I’d left my well read Copy of Achebe’s “There Was a Country” back in Cotonou.

Out of desperation, I Googled to find reviews or commentaries on the book that may have highlighted the sentiments expressed by Achebe, that I felt held the answers Joe (and others seeking insights) would appreciate.

I was not disappointed: I found EVERYTHING I needed – and even more…bless the Google team for making and keeping this search engine so powerful!

So much so, that I have NO need to add anything else.

Instead, I simply invite any persons interested in getting accurate answers to the excellent poser by Joe, to read Chinua’s words on the pages linked below:

Why Nigerians hate Igbo, by Chinua Achebe.

Let me note here that I’m Yoruba, but my LOVE for the positive attributes of the average Igbo person has NEVER been hidden.

Articles (like this one) on this blog provide verifiable proof of the fact that I admire those qualities in them and admonish other Nigerians and indeed Africans to emulate them.

Yet, even I have noticed certain shortcomings that characterize majority of them.

My respect for Chinua Achebe’s honesty and his capacity for balanced reasoning grew exponentially, when I read his words below, in which he identified certain Igbo tendencies that often make others despise them – in spite of their many positive attributes.

Here’s how Nigeria’s The Nation newspaper captured it in “Why Nigerians Hate Igbo – by Chinua Achebe”:

Achebe, however, saved some criticisms for his kinsmen. He criticised them for what he described as “hubris, overweening pride and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or even worse that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness.”

He added that “contemporary Igbo behavior(that) cab offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.”

Judging from my personal experiences as a conscious thinking adult over the past 30 years in paid and self-employment, I believe Achebe’s criticisms are spot on!

I honestly believe that if the average Igbo person minimizes display of any of the negative tendencies highlighted by Chinua Achebe, s/he is likely to experience little or no friction with most people from other tribes or cultures s/he encounters.

Let it be known however, that I speak primarily for MYSELF (and maybe others who think like me) and not for the generality of Nigerians, talk less Africans.

Many thanks to Joe Ibekwe for bringing this up. My half-Igbo kids are sure to benefit from the useful insights that this exercise will expose them to (Yep: I’m printing copies for them to read)!

Related Articles

1. “˜There Was a Country’: a review of Chinua Achebe’s Biafran memoir – By Ike Anya

2. Chinua Achebe reflects on Biafra, but for whom?

3. Igbo, Yoruba at war over Chinua Achebe’s criticism of Awolowo in new book

4. Succeeding Through Hard Work, Determination and Persistence: 3 Lessons from Nigeria’s Igbo Traders