Writing/Blogging - SD Nuggets™

[Recommended] The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion

March 4, 2017

[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. […]

Entrepreneurship

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]

February 13, 2017

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 […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[Recommended] Why Nigerians Hate Igbo - by Chinua Achebe

February 4, 2017

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. 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 […]

Career Development

PII 050: You Cannot Achieve Your Goals All Alone (Hint: How to Get Others to Gladly Support You to Succeed)

January 23, 2017

2 weeks ago, in issue “PII 048” of this Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I explained why “You Need to Habitually Study Successful People", if you wish “To Make Success a Habit. In that piece I also explained why you need to analyze your failures (and they will be MANY) also in order to learn […]

Career Development

Fear Can Be Very Costly!

January 20, 2017

This is a true story. Names, dates and locations have been changed. ---- It was a quiet afternoon in March 1995. She was visiting me as usual in the Training Centre, during break time. Annogu looked at me and said “Tayo, I hope you’re not going to get so busy as you often do, and […]

Entrepreneurship

THE FARM CEO (Issue 70): Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AESON conference coming up in April 2017 [ Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017]

January 15, 2017

In this maiden issue of my Farm CEO newspaper for 2017, I feature a flyer-based description of highlights from the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON)'s 22nd Annual Conference 2017, scheduled to hold at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria between 23rd - 26th April, 2017. Theme: Mainstreaming Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Extension Practice in Nigeria Highlights: NB: Deadline for […]

Entrepreneurship

[Recommended] Marissa Mayer to Leave Yahoo Board; Yahoo to Change Name to Altaba

January 11, 2017

[Moves will come after $4.8 billion sale to Verizon] Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer will step down from the board of directors after the core internet business is sold to Verizon, while what remains of the company will be renamed Altaba. Yahoo Inc. said Monday it will whittle down its board after completing its deal […]

Career Development

PII 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

January 9, 2017

"Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want." - Anthony Robbins One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in […]

Career Development

Download and Install Tayo Solagbade’s FREE Creative Business (CB) Solutions Mobile Phone app [Hint: Get Instant Access to Latest Information, Education, and Offers from TayoSolagbade.com]

January 4, 2017

The Tayo Solagbade’s Creative Business (CB) Solutions Mobile Phone app is now live! Download it at http://www.tksola.com [Email tayo at tksola dot com if you need help] Install it on your smartphone and get instant access to latest updates I publish to my Facebook and Twitter pages. ==== Compatibility: iOS Requires iOS 8 or later. Compatible […]

Career Development

PII 047: Sometimes Resourcefulness, NOT MONEY, Is What You Need to Succeed [Hint: A Lack of Ideas Can Hold You Back - A Lack of Money Cannot]

January 2, 2017

The ability to survive and/or thrive during a period of economic downturn is a function of how creative people can get. Unfortunately, when things are tough financially, as they tend to be during such periods, most of us tend to focus too much attention on money and our lack (or what we perceive to be […]