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Send Me 14 Photos, and I’ll Use Them to Create a Branded PDF Calendar/Meeting Planner for YOU (Hint: But DO THIS FIRST!)

December 19, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

2 days ago I sent out an email offering to create a FREE branded PDF calendar/meeting planner for EACH of my clients, using photos/images they send me(click here to download my 2016 FREE Calendar).

If you’re a client, and plan to take up my offer, then as you read the reproduced email message excerpts below, imagine that I’m “speaking” to YOU.

Once you’ve done that, take steps to ensure the images you send to me, are optimized using any of the options I’ve outlined in my message.

If you don’t do that, I’ll have to reply saying I cannot create the promised PDF for you.

This post spells out requirements any client interested in taking up my offer to create branded PDF calendar/meeting planner using images s/he supplies MUST conform with.

I realized I should have put up this information BEFORE sending out my offer, after having difficulty downloading images sent to me by one of those who responded.

This happened due to their rather large sizes, and the unfortunate development of erratic connectivity around the same time I began trying to access them. We’ve since gotten the PDF done, but I’m publishing this post, for others to read, so they know how their images need to reach me.

What follows below is based on the verbatim email message I sent to the client whose images I had the problem with.

Like I always tell my readers, I sometimes deliberately write my email messages to clients in “explanatory mode”, if I feel what I’m telling them would be useful to share with others. That way, when I dispatch the email, I can later return to use it as the “body” for a blog post to share with others I anticipate may find the information useful

Hi Taiye,

About 3 of the images gave me download problems due to their rather large sizes.

I (made) repeated attempts to download, but what I ended up with were versions in which the images were only partially displayed.

I tried improvising by combining 2 to make 1 image (see page 4 – February), and also cropping out the bad sections in others.

Unfortunately, 2 pages STILL remain without images I can use i.e. December 2016 and January 2017.

So I think it’s best you find a way to get them to me at reduced sizes).

They were in the email titled “3rd Batch 4 Pictures, which you sent via tayo at tayosolagbade dot com

The filenames are:

1. 20150819_105844.jpg (7.5 MiB)

2. 20150526_133145.jpg (5.4 MiB)

3. _DSC0246.JPG (7 MiB)

There’s something I neglected to mention yesterday, that could have prevented this from happening.

Attached are 2 examples of BEFORE and AFTER versions (named “taiwo…”.jpg) of images you sent me.

You’ll notice they are many times smaller than the ones I downloaded from your email.

The article linked below is one that I wrote several years (on September 03, 2007) back…

It’s meant to guide persons intending to email images or photos on how to reduce the sizes of the images, to make it easyfor the SENDER to attach and send them, and also for the RECEPIENT to download them.

My decision to write it back then was due to a client’s staff sending me over 50 HUGE photos and images meant for a web design project, that could have been trimmed down, with NO loss of display quality using the techniques I mention in the article.

The steps I enumerate in it are those that I followed to create the smaller versions of the images attached to this email.

Click to read it on my Ezinearticles.com profile

In case you do not have ready access to Photoshop or Corel Draw, ask a friend you know to be familiar with graphic editing.

Alternatively, go to Google.com and search for “Free website to reduce the size of my photo” – or something along that line.

You should get a web link to a web based FREE service that will enable you create much smaller sized versions of the photos without damaging the quality.

Once you have those reduced images, just email them to me and I’ll generate the complete PDF calendar and email to you.

****Now, in case none of the above options is convenient for you, consider purchasing the editable MS Word template for $150 USD.

Once you make payment, I would email the template to you, with VIDEO instructions on how to insert your own photos, add quotable quotes etc.

The advantage of taking up this option is that you not only get to make multiple calendar versions for yourself, but you will also be able to create calendars for others.

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Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience Based Knowledge & Insights to Share? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation]

December 17, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

My name is Tayo Solagbade, and I am your host on the CEO Spotlight Interview (CSI) Series.

I believe that it is important to capture the knowledge, insights, and wisdom of people who have been able to excel in their chosen vocations or professions, so as to inform, educate and empower others who aspire to do the same, or better.

That is my ultimate purpose for conducting this CSI series.This is a public service, and I hope you will find it useful.

The CSI Will Feature ONLY Authentic Achievers Willing to Share Useful WISDOM to Empower Others

Now, if you are familiar with me, and what I do via www.tayosolagbade.com, you most likely know that I do my due diligent research and background checks before I choose to showcase anyone as a model of what is possible in terms of personal achievement in ANY area of endeavour.

For every guest, I will be asking twelve (12) questions. However, the questions, for the most part will be personalized for each person, based on his/her unique area of expertise, as well as experience, achievements etc.

In other words, the questions will be designed to help us extract useful learnings that can be had from his/her experiences and achievements in life.

Do You Have Unique Experience Based Insights That Can Help Others Excel, Like YOU?

If YES, then I’d like to interview YOU on the CSI platform.

This post is designed to be an open invitation to ANY interested CEOs or experts who may wish to feature on the CEO Spotlight Interview.

From what I’ve said above, and the content of the interviews already available here, the requirements are easy to discern.

You simply need to have useful information and education, based on YOUR personal experiences and achievements, to share.

Most importantly, I am always on the lookout for new, original or innovative ideas, methods, strategies and techniques discovered, developed or adapted by the CEO or expert to achieve perfromance improvement in his/her personal or work life.

Click here to fill and submit a web contact form, to send me your message.

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You Need a Domain Name for Your Business to Succeed (3 Tips)

December 12, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I’ve recently been conducting extensive checks on players in target markets I have in mind, who fit my target audience profile, for my freelance writing services.

In the course of doing that, I’ve noticed that certain individuals and organizations engaged in formal business, publish their marketing messages using 3rd party FREE hosting platforms e.g. website URLS like www.theirbusinessname.somefreehost.com, often along with FREE 3rd party email addresses!

Below, I explain 3 key reasons why anyone doing THAT is unnecessarily shooting him/herself in the foot, to save what amounts to pennies per day!

1. You’ll spend literally nothing on your own domain name per day, even as it boosts your name/brand recognition

How much does a domain name cost?

Between $10 to $20 USD should get you the domain name on a TLD you want [TLD = Top Level Domain e.g. .com, net, .biz etc]

Spread that amount over the 365 days that make up a year, and it means you’re spending a measly $0.05 (5 cents) per day!!

Note that I worked with $20 USD. I own 5 domain names, and each one costs me approximately $11 USD to renew. So, the 5 cents per day is a worst case scenario in my opinion, and comes to 25 cents per day for ALL my domains.

Compared to the income I earn from them, that’s nothing. Peanuts!

Now let me ask you. As a business person, do you really think it would be unwise to invest 5 cents a day in a URL that can boost your prestige as a business person, such that you can command the serious attention of potentially profitable clients/buyers?

I certainly hope not.

2. Your own domain name makes it easy for prospects and clients to find you.

The number one asset you need to take ownership of on the web is www.yourbusinessname.com (or whatever TLD you prefer).

Think about this for a moment.

Ideally, the URL you choose should be based on the name of the business you run, or the solution you provide (e.g. Data Recovery Expert Service – www.datarecoveryexpert.com).

A Suggestion: Now, not everyone agrees with this, but I believe it’s an intelligent futuristic strategy to purchase www.yourpersonalname.com (e.g. www.tayosolagbade.com)

Here’s why…

Your business name, if it’s not based on your name (e.g. “Fela Solagbade’s Information Services” is likely to be more easy to recall, and associate with you, than say “Superb Information Services” for instance.

In other words, when you meet people, and tell them your name, there’s a good chance that the first thing they’ll do when they get the chance will be to Google your name, to learn more about you.

If you have purchased your name as a domain URL, that means they are likely to find you easily. What’s more, if you’ve put up the right kind of content on that domain’s web space, it means you’re likely to make an even better impression.

Not having your own domain name, especially one that’s based on your personal name, can deny you the opportunity to capture valuable potential sales leads.

I recommend you think of yourself as an extension whatever number of businesses you run. By this I mean, make it possible for those who search online to find any products or services through you. For instance, www.tayosolagbade.com leads interested persons to the different products and services I offer. So, when anyone Googles my name, their chances of finding any solution they know I offer are greatly enhanced.

Note that I have URLs that lead to each of my key offerings…

1. www.excelheaven.biz [Excel-VB Software Solutions]

2. www.thefarmceo.net [The Farm CEO newspaper]

3. www.tksola.com or www.tayosolagbade.com/tksdiary [Results Focused Writing and Web Marketing Solutions]

4. www.boostyourfarmprofits.biz or www.iff.tayosolagbade.com [Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas]

However, by setting up my online presence using my personal name as a domain URL, I have created an extra means by which potential clients can find me. This has happened more times than I can count.

Buyers who told me they read my articles and noticed I mentioned one of my products (e.g. the popular Ration Formulator), which they were interested in.

Unable to reach me via the old domain URL in the byline of my Guest Post on the 3rd party website they were on, they simply Googled my name and on arriving at www.tayosolagbade.com, followed the instructions provided to request details of how to order the app.

3. Your own domain name makes it easy for prospects and clients to communicate with you

Which is easier to remember: tayo at tayosolagbade dot com or olufelatks at yahoo dot com?

Ok. Forget that.

Which one sounds more impressive or respectable? The answer is obvious.

One more question: Which one is easier or more logical to recall?

Again, the answer is obvious. Anyone who knows my name can more easily recall that my email address is tayo at tayosolagbade dot com. Burt Dubin’s clients also find it easy to recall they can reach him via burt at burtdubin dot com.

See how it works?

To sell successfully, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to contact you about doing business with you.

A good first step in that direction is to make it easy for them to recall information they can use to do that!

I marvel all the time at how some business owners readily put out their unwieldy gmail, hotmail and yahoo addresses on promotional materials used on and off the web.

To me, it’s the most glaring evidence of the fact that you do NOT take yourself and/or your business seriously.

Nothing screams amateur, and CHEAP, more than use of FREE email services for business.

Don’t get me wrong. I use FREE 3rd party email accounts as well – just NOT on my flagship online presence

I also do not use them in corresponding with potential clients/buyers or prospects.

The only people I readily use my gmail address to communicate with are those who are already doing business with me. That’s because by that time, they would already have been exposed to my formal branded marketing resource and would know that I operate professionally.

The use of my gmail address, for instance, would then only arise if I had to send a file attachment and my domain based webmail was temporarily down.

But to use gmail as my primary mode of business marketing communication would be to shoot myself in the foot.

Final Words: Do you nurse the ambition of GROWING your brand and building your business to the greatest possible heights?

If YES, know that your attitude towards investing in little things that can boost your marketing reach and impact at low to zero cost, will go a long way to determine how well you succeed.

How can you run a business you want potential clients/buyers to believe can help them, when you – the owner – are unwilling to demonstrate faith in it by making the tiny little annual investment of less than $20 USD to maintain a domain name for it??

That attitude will only attract the wrong type of clients to you i.e those with the CHEAP mentality, unwilling to spend what it required to get what they say they need (kind of like YOU, with regard to your domain name)!

To take your business to the next level (and the one after that), if you’ve been thinking of a domain name as a needless expense, CHANGE your mental attitude today!

Go get a URL for your business today, so more of the right kinds of clients begin to take notice of you!

Need help getting started? Click here to tell me how I can help you.

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 27): Farming is the new ‘it’! – Beauty Manake, Researchers develop Beans that cook in 15 minutes – Farming, Overview of pepper (Capsicum spp.) breeding in West Africa, Improved NEWEST Rice variety to African farmers, Nigeria releases improved cassava varieties to boost productivity P3

December 10, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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

In this issue, I feature a report – by Anne Wangalachi of http://agra-alliance.org, that highlights the fact that a new generation of your young African agro entrepreneurs is emerging. They are described as “well-educated, business- and tech-savvy, stylish and the epitome of success” – running well manged farms that compare favourably with other kinds of businesses.

The rest of this issue features news articles announcing latest varieties of crops like Rice, Beans, Cassava, and Pepper.
PREVIEW

An emerging class of youthful entrepreneurs is tapping into the black and green gold that is abundant in Africa; the rich farm lands and their bountiful yields. They are well-educated, business- and tech-savvy, stylish and the epitome of success. They are showing that well-run farms can be as successful as any other business venture.

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

[URL] Farming is the new ‘it’! – Beauty Manake P.1

[URL] Researchers develop Beans that cook in 15 minutes – Farming P.2

[URL] Overview of pepper (Capsicum spp.) breeding in West Africa P.2

[URL] Improved NEWEST Rice variety to African farmers P.3

[URL] Nigeria releases improved cassava varieties to boost productivity P3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 27 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 7th December 2015)

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

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

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

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

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

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

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Guest Posting Offers Superior Marketing Rewards to Traditional Media [Hint: It’s based on SYMBIOSIS i.e. “Win-Win” for both Blog Owners and Guest Post Authors!]

December 10, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Still on my offer to pay $50 USD for Guest Posts I accept on my multidisciplinary SD Nuggets blog at TayoSolagbade.com from January 2016.

Between last nite and this morning, a long time subscriber to my newsletter mailing list, working with a leading multinational telecom’s service provider in Nigeria, signed up for a revised version of my End of Year Book Ghost-Writing offer.

He also indicated interest, as I’d hoped he would, in submitting a one or more tips/tricks based guest posts, on his area of expertise (Telecom’s), as it relates to use of mobile phone technology by everyday users.

But something he said about signing a “copyright agreement” made me do a response, that I now feel is worth publishing online for the benefit of others who may be considering my offer, and not sure what exactly it will involve.

Here’s an excerpt (edited to protect his privacy) from his message

===Starts===

From: Seun <Surname and email removed for privacy>

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:08:03

To: “Tayo K. Solagbade”

Subject: RE: Our phone con – follow up

Thanks Tayo for your acceptance to ghostwrite for me.

1) <text deleted for privacy>

2) <text deleted for privacy>

3) & 4) I would go through the links immediately after this mail.

5) I take the offer of the write-up as a challenge, but would need to check my
company policies if this is allowed. I think a ‘general operators’ thing would even
be more educating. But I wouldn’t do it in one fell swoop. I need to make multiples
of 50USD. And then we would need to sign copyright agreement.

===Ends===

Below, is the response I sent to him:

===Starts===

—–Original Message—–

From: “Tayo K. Solagbade”

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:22:06

To: Seun <Surname and email removed for privacy>

Subject: Re: Our phone con – follow up

Don’t worry about copyright.

YOU retain all ownership rights, and your name, photo and byline etc will appear on
each article you submit that gets accepted.

You see, I just get the exclusive rights to publish your piece on my website, so all
who want to read it have to come to my blog to do so, earning me traffic, and giving
you name recognition as well as expert authority status.

This is a practice used online in Europe and America for win-win business and brand
promotion by website owners over there.

E.g.

I’ve gotten paid from it, and I decided to challenge people from my part of the
world to begin doing it as well.

I actually believe by Jan 2016, I will be the first owner of my kind of website, in
Africa, to pay for Guest Posts.

Hopefully others will take a cue.

Talk later.

Tayo

===Ends===

Notice my assertion above, that I believe mine will be the first blog of it’s kind (i.e business/non-political) in this part of the world (Africa) to offer payment of any kind to content contributors.

Especially payment up to $50 USD, in exchange for QUALITY Guest Posts by competent experts or writers.

The truth is website owners in this part of the world generally do NOT really invest much intellectual effort in creating content for their platforms. Many do not even have blogs, and most who do rarely update them.

The common exception are those engaged in a VERY basic form of news content curation/republishing.

By “basic”, I mean little or no effort is made, editorially or otherwise, to accurately establish whether or not a news item is worth republishing on their platform. Instead, the primary determinant is often the opportunity to drive traffic, and get more income via click based monetization systems they’ve setup on their blogs.

The result is that the mental attitude that prevails, most times, is one in which creative generation of useful content by expert authors is NOT valued.

Evidence of this is seen in the various “Write for Us” pages that most of these blogs put up…

Those pages state a preference for (guest posting) experts with proven knowledge and expertise, to write for them. But all they offer in return are “exposure” and rarely little else [A True Story]

When I read those pages I always remember a client of mine who got approached by a popular national daily in Nigeria. They asked him to write a piece based on his expertise as a hearing and speech professional, that they could publish as a special feature on their website.

After he’d naturally expressed interest, they then told him he would have to pay for it to be published!

That was a shock, of course. But he calmed himself and asked how much that would cost. N200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira) they told him – and they explained how readers all over the country would see it, read it, get to know his name, and his company name etc.

ALL that would happen – supposedly, in 24 hours…Yeah, right!

In reality, those claims were exaggerated. Most times micro to small/medium operators simply cannot afford to purchase the kind of exposure that would yield enough tangible ROI on their limited budgets.

The truth was that the national daily in question most times had over 150 pages per edition, and most readers never managed to make it through half of those pages, before the next day arrived, and a new issue beckoned for their attention!

To make maters worse, very few readers ever bothered to keep particular issues for later reference. What was more, those that did often ended up forgetting or misplacing the copies!

In essence, their sales pitch was designed to benefit them and NOT my client.

My client never took them up on THAT offer, preferring – wisely in my opinion – to stick with the classified ad that had been working for him.

At this point I’ll highlight some potential benefits to be had from Guest Blogging, compared to traditional media

As a business owner, when you write a Guest Post, whether free or for a fee, unless something goes badly wrong to make your host take it down, it WILL remain there for life…doing what practitioners call TIMLESS MARKETING for YOU!.

That means it remains accessible to anyone who finds it online, to read and learn more about you, be impressed and possibly reach out to you. Since today’s technology allows anyone do that 24/7, it means you could be sleeping and I would be reading your guest post, for instance.

By say 9a.m, what I read at midnight, in your piece, could make me give you a call to ask if you could ghost-write a book in your field of expertise, for me (THAT, has actually happened to me more than once i.e. prospects calling me up after reading my piece on 3rd party platforms like Ezinearticles.com, Africanbusinesscommunities.com – and some going on to buy my products/services).

Unlike ads placed in newspapers and other conventional media (e.g. TV, Radio, Magazines) your guest post will have a zero shelf life, and never “expire”, go out of circulation, or require renewal payment etc

It will therefore continue to turn up in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) when people conduct relevant searches – at ZERO COST to you!

This is likely to happen with increasing or consistent frequency if you did a good job writing it. And especially if you got it published on a high profile blog or website, that enjoys good search engine visibility.

Consequently, more people will read your write-up, resulting in name/brand recognition for you as an expert authority in your field.

Your byline, if well crafted, will also do the added work of making some go over to your own blog:

a. to read more of what you offer

b. and/or signup to get your new content (e.g. via an email newsletter)

c. Or even to contact you for possible business

The blog owner benefits in several ways as well…

First of all, offering to accept guest posts will make his/her blog pop up when prospective guest posters conduct “Guest Posts Wanted” searches online.

Secondly, by hosting guest posts submitted by competent expert authors, his/her blog will gradually get indexed by search engines as a reliable source of useful content, leading to even greater visibility, more traffic, higher authority status etc.

Thirdly, the authors whose articles get published will go out of their way to tell others in their networks about it, by sharing the URL. That will create more buzz, and back links, leading to more people talking about the blog, and visiting it.

As is obvious from the above, both parties (guest blogger and blog owner) will reap multidimensional benefits from the symbiotic relationship.

In essence, done right, Guest Blogging will always be a win-win experience for those who engage in it – even if NO MONEY changes hands

It’s important that I make the clarification that guest posting can – and does – work even when authors do not get paid.

In other words, blogs offering to accept guest posts without paying for them may STILL deliver enough useful value to the guest poster, to make it worthwhile. This will be especially so, if such blogs enjoy good search engine visibility, and/or are enjoy authority status in the market they serve.

Having said that, I also argue that we, as blog owners, can take the game to the next level, by challenging guest posts authors to send in BETTER content quality, in exchange for decent remuneration.

I’ve said it before, and I’m saying it again: one need NOT already be a millionaire to be able to offer payment for guest posts one accepts!

So, I’m taking a stand (following the example of USA based Carol Tice when she did it in her part of the world, some years back)…

I’m challenging other blog owners seeking guest post submissions (especially those who claim to be earning six figure income) out here in Africa, and indeed elsewhere, to begin offering payment to their authors.

….AND I challenge them to do it right by offering payment from $50 USD upwards. Nothing less.

I do this because I believe we should aspire to international blogging standards or best practices, not just in terms of work quality, but also in terms of pay we offer to get such work done for us.

Except you go looking in content mills, you will find that $50 USD per article is generally considered the acceptable minimum for paying writers online.

PS: For those who doubt my intentions, or my ability to do pay up (click here to read how I’ll fund it), January 2016 is less than 4 weeks away – TEST ME, or watch for the post author’s testimonial

If you’re a blog owner seeking guest posts, I challenge you adopt this idea I propose

…and if you’re a guest post author, KNOW from reading this that even if others will NOT offer to pay you, s o long as you can deliver an acceptable piece that meets my content quality requirements, I WILL pay at least $50 USD to publish it on TayoSolagbade.com

In fact, I invite YOU to test me!

If you’re a guest post author, and can offer compelling content quality in the categories featured on my multidisciplinary blog, send in your submission (see guidelines here).

If it meets my requirements, I’ll accept it and let you know.

Whatever happens, my offer is open to an international audience, and I am sure I WILL find one person with stuff good enough to feature every month, starting January 2016.

When the Guest Post goes live and payment is dispatched, I will provide visual proof, and get the author to confirm it, below the post’s page.

Join me, and let’s spread the word. The benefits will be enjoyed by ALL of us!

PS: Screen shot – My $50 USD for a Guest Post Offer already appears on page 1 of Google’s SERP for the string “Guest Posts in Nigeria“…as at 12 noon Nigerian time today, Thursday 10th December 2015.

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Write4SDN Blog: Get Paid $50 USD For Your Guest Post [GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION]

December 9, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Below are guidelines you need to follow, to get your Guest Post accepted by me for publication on my SD Nuggets blog

Click here to continue

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Re: About My Offer (at http://tinyurl.com/getpaid50USD) to Pay $50 USD for Useful, 100% Original Guest Posts on TayoSolagbade.com [It is NO JOKE] – My Purpose

December 9, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Nigeria, and most of Africa remain places that baffle me in terms of how the large majority of locals fail to understand that the way they use the web is NOT the main way those in developed societies, who make it work, use it!

Later today, my Writers Submission Guidelines go LIVE regarding this offer (details here).

For now, a few thoughts about my purpose…

I’m on a personal mission to challenge web users, at least serious minded ones, out here, to begin thinking about its use more in terms of legitimate, creative income earning effort making, and LESS in terms of the silly hyped “become a millonnaire fast” or “make money without working”, often scam based offers most people out here settle for.

My brother in law (Segun Ogunlana, who is connected to me on on Facebook), as well as my sister (Tomi Ajayi) have been involved in getting royalties in USD to me from sales of my books, my ExcelVB software, and agent commissions from my US partner for quite some time now.

That is apart from a large payment I got paid by an international organisation in Holland, to write a 4,000 word case study research paper about adoption of my Ration Formulator software by farm business owners in and out of Africa.

Coming closer home, I get paid by clients in Nigeria, Benin and beyond, to ghost write articles, website copy and books on their behalf.

My STRATEGIC vision is to boost my earnings in USD by serving more international clients with my solutions.

My success so far has helped me weather the countless storms of erratic business climate in my local market in Nigeria especially.

It has also enabled me demontrate to those who supported me when I began, that I have something that works!

I have articles on my blog in which I’ve provided details of all these, and some are visble right now on my Facebook wall!

It is instructive to note that my offer is nothing like any other seen on ANY website in Africa.

Take it from me: www.tayosolagbade.com is the first ever website in Africa, to offer payment of this kind to contributors of good quality Guest Posts/Articles

Most will simply ask you to write for free, if at all.

My other reasons for doing this are stated in my blog post including the soon to be announced new Joint Venture partnership I’m starting with a famous US based Internet Marketing personality, who recently made me an offer of co-ownership of his website.

Let me make it clear that the USD funds I aim to use to pay authors who take up this offer comes from monthly passive income earnings I have been getting for a while, which I’ve now arranged, with the sender, to redirect part of towards this purpose.

Paying $50 USD out of it amounts to using about 30% of it. To me, that is a good investment.

Note that my offer has been emailed to my database of subscribers some being in Asia, America and Europe.

I will also be notifying leading blog and website owners in and out of Africa, with audiences fitting my target audience profile that I’m doing this, so they can spread the word if they wish.

In other words, this is intended to be a process that will yield QUALITY content I can feature to command better attention for my blog, with associated benefits.

Anyone thinking of taking up this offer must understand that I belong to a little known world of hard working experts who write (in my case I also code and sell software etc) for a living.

Keyword there = Hardworking.

Ever written a marketable 1,000 word article?

I mean an authoritative piece that made serious content publishers contact you for permission to republish in a journal to be put on sale, or even to pay you for rights to republish in their newsletter?

Well I have – many times. And writing such a piece is NOT easy, even though most of my clients continually comment that I make it look so. But I always remind them that I’ve been doing this for over a decade, and for many years I kept doing it even though I got no one offering to pay me!

That’s all changed now. Today, I belong to a world of silent success, where hard work, done with creative intellectual effort yields great ROI at low to zero cost.

By the time I accept and pay for the first Guest Post in January 2016, it will be clear to any doubting Thomases that THIS offer is no joke.

By the way, just so you know, paying for guest articles has been a widespread practice for YEARS in America especially.

I have benefitted (and continue to benefit) from that culture.

Now that I earn passive income in USD to support doing so, I intend to grow my brand to the next level by paying those willing to do the hard work to meet my stated requirements to submit useful content on my blog as well.

To illustrate, here’s an article that lists 79 websites that pay writers up to $100 USD.

http://www.makealivingwriting.com/websites-that-pay-writers-2015-79-sites/

Nothing stops YOU from sending submissions to them as well!

PS: Note that not a single one is in Africa. Not even one. Well I intend to change that with my offer from January 2016.

One need not be earning millions already to do this.

It’s common sense business marketing I.e people who hear will talk about your blog, as will those who get paid, leading to more visitors etc.

Get it??!

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Coming Soon: Hope Agwulonu’s QUICK START GUIDE TO CATFISH FARMING [Hint: Includes Chapters on Processing & Marketing]

December 8, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Below: Screenshots of Book Cover for Hope Agwulonu’s forthcoming guidebook for aspiring Catfish Farm Business Owners.

Title: QUICK START GUIDE TO CATFISH FARMING

Subtitle: How to Start Your Own Low Cost Catfish Farm Business

If all goes according to plan, this book will go LIVE in Hope’s online store, for purchase as an e-book, before end of December 2015 or early January 2016.

Here’s the text of the abstract on the cover page – by the Author:

“Catfish farming is serious business. Not just by virtue of the lucrative returns it yields when done right, but also due to the heavy demands it places on the owner to keep it running that way (i.e. profitably!) for the long term. In my experience at Progidence Farms Ltd, not everyone can make a success of catfish farming. Certain qualities are required which are more important than just having the money or required capital. This book highlights the key attributes you need to succeed in Catfish farming, and also discusses theoretical requirements in conjunction with practical considerations you will need to provide for, if you wish to successfully start and run your own profitable Catfish farming business, without stress, and with peace of mind.” – Hope Agwulonu, CEO, Progidence Farms Limited

Below: Screenshots of some of the book’s inner pages up till the Table of Contents (TOC)

Would you like to get YOUR PHYSICAL book published in YOUR area of expertise – and without needing to write it yourself?

If YES, this might interest you.

So far, 2 of the 3 slots of my Ghost-Writing for Print-On-Demand book publishing promo offer have been taken up. One by a client based in the United Kingdom (who has since engaged me to develop and implement a promo web marketing system) and Hope in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory – Abuja, who I’m working on THIS Catfish guide book with..

One more slot remains, and I still look forward to working with whoever eventually signs up for it.

Click here contact me if you’re interested.

You can download my FREE 1 hour talk flyer on the same subject HERE.

Click here to read Issue 222 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter titled No. 222: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

In it, I explain why I’m keen to encourage – indeed challenge(!) – more CEOs/Experts to use writing for experience sharing, business promotion & income generation.

You can also learn more about how I helped a CEO in Benin Republic’s Cotonou get his book written and published in physical form at ZERO COST, using Print-On-Demand publishing.

Not just that, I went on to use my Paypal account to order 10 copies of the book on his behalf. Click here to visit the page where you’ll see him holding copies of the book. You’ll also see photos of my Self-Development Bible, delivered to me back in November 2005, from also from the US.

Most importantly, to back up my claims about your book writing generating passive income for you, the above page also features screenshots showing royalty payments to me, from sales of my digital as well as physical books.

Anyone can do it. And once your book is written and published using this method, you can keep selling for life – just by promoting it.

Like I said, one more promo slot remains, and I still look forward to working with whoever eventually signs up for it.

Click here contact me if you’re interested.

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No. 222: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

December 7, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Starting January 2016, I will begin paying $50 USD for guest posts/articles on this blog at www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

Authors must be either:

(a). CEOs/Experts with new, innovative ideas, discoveries or experiences to share.

(b). Writers/bloggers with verifiable knowledge/expertise & a track record of writing useful content.

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Date: Monday 7th December 2015

No: 222

Title: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ]

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

Starting January 2016, I will begin paying $50 USD for guest posts/articles on this blog at www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

Authors must be either:

(a). CEOs/Experts with new, innovative ideas, discoveries or experiences to share.

(b). Writers/bloggers with verifiable knowledge/expertise & a track record of writing useful content.

I get paid to write articles, reports, website content and books, by clients in various markets, in and out of Africa.

My vision is to challenge more of my target audience to use writing for experience sharing, business promotion & income generation.

Full details/WRITER GUIDELINES will be published this week.

To get notified by SMS when it goes LIVE, send email titled “YES GUEST POST” to tayo at tksola dot com

How a new partnership opportunity led me to launch this Paid Guest Posting offer

It’s interesting how potentially beneficial opportunities sometimes come from the least expected sources.

I’ve recently been doing some HARD re-thinking about how I want to hit the ground running in 2016.

This became necessary, after I got a new Joint Venture partnership offer from someone I admire and have learnt important lessons about blogging and web marketing from.

What he proposed was an opportunity that appealed to me.

However, I knew it would require putting in lots of time and effort to make it work, and I was not sure if I would be able to meet up my “quota”.

I was concerned about how to keep my own blog updated with useful new content, do client jobs, and still put in quality time and effort to play my agreed part new venture.

The process of thinking through the possibilities during the past week, was what made me decide to offer payment to Guest Bloggers.

Basically, I decided to begin paying for Guest Posts from January 2016, so as to buy me some free time I can channel into working with on the new venture. To implement this plan of paying for Guest Posts, I resolved to redirect some of my USD earnings.

It also occurred to me to give setup of traffic based monetization on the blog another try.

When I first tried it 3 years ago, my domain was still spontaneousdevelopment.com, and the content on it was NOTHING near what I have today on www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets.

As an advocate of best practice and continuous improvement, I am NOW launching a new initiative to take advantage of traffic I’m getting to boost my earnings further.

This involves monetizing this blog using adverts in various forms.

I don’t often mention it, but I get offers of all kinds through my daily SD Nuggets blog. Quite often it’s the guys offering me access to some high database of potential customers they assure me I can send bulk mails to and reap excellent responses from.

Sometimes it’s the guys who want to do a link exchange, or those suggesting that I include links to certain URLs on my Recommended Websites list.

At other times, I get an offer from some individual or company, to PAY me to place an ad on my blog.

This last one has been happening with more frequency over the past 2 months or so, and it got me thinking that it was time to try monetizing this blog by connecting with relevant online companies again.

Over this past weekend, I’ve been checking out various providers, installing plugins, adding code to templates and pages, and test running scripts. So far, I’ve not had the outright rejection I reported getting back in 2012, when I first tried it (this blog was VERY young then).

But 2 of the main providers I have my mind set on have told me “we are currently reviewing your website, and will get back to you in a few days”.

So, I’m waiting to hear from them. But I’m running with those I have activated – and waiting to see what happens earnings wise.

We’ll see if things will turn out better with the monetization of traffic.

One thing is certain for now: My offer of payment to authors of Guest Posts is VERY likely to attract attention (and traffic) to this blog, and good things can come from there!

I’ve now been able to take up the offer made by my new partner, and if all goes well, we should be able to make a formal announcement about our TEAMING UP soon.

If you do it right, your writing/blogging can generate multiple streams of income for you…AND you should reinvest some of your earnings to GROW your brand

My blogging has been instrumental to the success I have recorded in selling my custom Excel-VB Software and Information Products – especially the Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager, as well as the Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook.

They have been my main sources of passive income, complemented periodically by royalty earnings from my other publication in my online store at Lulu.com.

Apart from selling my products (and services), I also earn income via a joint venture partnership, which involves using this blog (and my email newsletter) to promote a high profile range of products and services to a specific target audience.

Final Words

As you can see, this week’s issue of my newsletter has been an update of sorts about the strategies and plans I’m putting in place to ensure I can close 2015 on a HIGH and hit the ground running in 2016.

I hope this makes you decide to do something similar for yourself, before the New Year rolls in.

No matter what you think you’ve gone through – or are GOING through – in this closing year, it PAYS to take time to PLAN for the future you are about to encounter!

Good luck.

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 221: CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, USA Based 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [FREE PDF & VIDEO]
[Tuesday]:	To Make More Money You Need to Study Your Buyers
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 26): Farm CEOs Lack of Sales and Marketing Savvy REMAINS a major problem, Products (e.g. Delicious Chin Chin) made from Cassava – Going beyond Fufu, Gari etc, Agro Nigeria: a 100% Nigerian magazine on Agriculture, 300 Ha Pineapple Plantation in Nigeria’s Calabar – Rivers State, Specialty Fats & Oils Made From Different Parts of the Palm Fruit [FREE Download – Complimentary: Special Issue. Agra Innovate Exhibition Visit Report]
[Thursday]:	4 Web Marketing Tips You Need to Achieve Success [True Story]
[Friday]:	N/A
[Saturday]:	Make Me Your Secret Weapon for Harvesting High Quality Sales Leads!
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

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 as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

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 Limited.

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 his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

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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Make Me Your Secret Weapon for Harvesting High Quality Sales Leads!

December 6, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Do you want to boost your chances of attracting a regular stream of sales leads for your products and services?

If YES, then you need to implement the 12 strategies listed by Steve Roller in his article titled Reap What You Sow.

I created my mind map based on it (see image below).

In other words, I’m saying those 12 strategies NEED to be added to your marketing arsenal…AND if you need help, the 12 month offer I make at the end of this piece might interest you!

[NB: A video presentation in which I use my mind map to explain how to use the 12 strategies is on the mind map’s download page – here.]

However, adopting some of them may require expertise you do not have, or cannot find the time to use or develop.

That’s where I come in for my clients, using my skills as a seasoned Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur.

If there is ANY of those 12 areas you struggle to get things right, simply let me know and I’ll work with you to set it right.

The best part is that my pocket-friendly payment system enables anyone who engages me to do the above, literally eat their cake and have it, as far as what they spend to hire me is concerned.

By this I mean that I go the extra mile to give them more than DOUBLE the value they pay for, in form of products and services bonuses that NO OTHER professional in his/her right mind, who does what I do would EVER accept to do.

Below are examples of key solutions I offer, towards helping you develop and implement each of the 12 strategies recommended in Steve Roller’s article.

1. Scheduled Email Auto responder Course Creation

2. Ghost-Writing of articles, books, reports etc

3. Web Marketing Systems Development

4. Branded Email Marketing Newsletters

5. Print-On-Demand Book Publishing

6. Guest Posts Authoring

7. Mobile Apps Development for businesses

Do an audit of your current marketing and identify which of Steve Roller’s 12 strategies you’re missing. Then contact me to help you with it.

Sometimes, you may be doing EVERYTHING, but NOT in the right way to harvest the profitable returns you need!

In that case, a simple conversation with me, and/or some tweaking of your adopted strategy, with my help, may just be what you need.

That’s what I had to do for myself, back in 2013, AFTER I read Steve’s article!

My resulting success made me create the mind map, to help others quickly appreciate insights contained in that excellent article.

So, tell me where you’re at, and what you need help with, in your business’ web marketing.

I have BIG plans to demonstrate how powerful and cost-effective web marketing can be, when done right, and I’m looking for a few clients willing to stand as models of what is possible.

My reward to them, for taking the leap of faith to signup, will be to serve them with many times more value than they pay for, way beyond what any other competent professional, who does what I do, would be willing to do, in his/her right mind.

Below is a screenshot of a Special Offer page I recently launched:

Note that I already have ONE client, a business coach based in the United Kingdom, who has signed up.

For 12 calendar months, I will handle ALL aspects of his web marketing, in line with the promise I made on THIS offer page.

If you’d like to enjoy similar benefits, click here to let me know! [Note that I only have 2 slots left to fill]

It costs you nothing to reach out and ask for help (If not me, maybe someone you can confirm has the requisite competence to guide you correctly).

This post spells out requirements any client interested in taking up my offer to create branded PDF calendar/meeting planner using images s/he supplies MUST conform with.

What follows below is based on the verbatim email message I sent to the client whose images I had the problem with.

The article linked below is one that I wrote several years (on September 03, 2007) back…

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1. You’ll spend literally nothing on your own domain name per day, even as it boosts your name/brand recognition

2. Your own domain name makes it easy for prospects and clients to find you.

A Suggestion: Now, not everyone agrees with this, but I believe it’s an intelligent futuristic strategy to purchase www.yourpersonalname.com (e.g. www.tayosolagbade.com)

Not having your own domain name, especially one that’s based on your personal name, can deny you the opportunity to capture valuable potential sales leads.

3. Your own domain name makes it easy for prospects and clients to communicate with you

To sell successfully, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to contact you about doing business with you.

Don’t get me wrong. I use FREE 3rd party email accounts as well – just NOT on my flagship online presence

Final Words: Do you nurse the ambition of GROWING your brand and building your business to the greatest possible heights?

To take your business to the next level (and the one after that), if you’ve been thinking of a domain name as a needless expense, CHANGE your mental attitude today!

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But something he said about signing a “copyright agreement” made me do a response, that I now feel is worth publishing online for the benefit of others who may be considering my offer, and not sure what exactly it will involve.

Below, is the response I sent to him:

The truth is website owners in this part of the world generally do NOT really invest much intellectual effort in creating content for their platforms. Many do not even have blogs, and most who do rarely update them.

Those pages state a preference for (guest posting) experts with proven knowledge and expertise, to write for them. But all they offer in return are “exposure” and rarely little else [A True Story]

ALL that would happen – supposedly, in 24 hours…Yeah, right!

At this point I’ll highlight some potential benefits to be had from Guest Blogging, compared to traditional media

Unlike ads placed in newspapers and other conventional media (e.g. TV, Radio, Magazines) your guest post will have a zero shelf life, and never “expire”, go out of circulation, or require renewal payment etc

The blog owner benefits in several ways as well…

In essence, done right, Guest Blogging will always be a win-win experience for those who engage in it – even if NO MONEY changes hands

So, I’m taking a stand (following the example of USA based Carol Tice when she did it in her part of the world, some years back)…

PS: For those who doubt my intentions, or my ability to do pay up (click here to read how I’ll fund it), January 2016 is less than 4 weeks away – TEST ME, or watch for the post author’s testimonial

PS: Screen shot – My $50 USD for a Guest Post Offer already appears on page 1 of Google’s SERP for the string “Guest Posts in Nigeria“…as at 12 noon Nigerian time today, Thursday 10th December 2015.

For now, a few thoughts about my purpose…

My STRATEGIC vision is to boost my earnings in USD by serving more international clients with my solutions.

Take it from me: www.tayosolagbade.com is the first ever website in Africa, to offer payment of this kind to contributors of good quality Guest Posts/Articles

Note that my offer has been emailed to my database of subscribers some being in Asia, America and Europe.

Ever written a marketable 1,000 word article?

By the time I accept and pay for the first Guest Post in January 2016, it will be clear to any doubting Thomases that THIS offer is no joke.

If all goes according to plan, this book will go LIVE in Hope’s online store, for purchase as an e-book, before end of December 2015 or early January 2016.

Below: Screenshots of some of the book’s inner pages up till the Table of Contents (TOC)

Would you like to get YOUR PHYSICAL book published in YOUR area of expertise – and without needing to write it yourself?

Click here to read Issue 222 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter titled No. 222: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

Most importantly, to back up my claims about your book writing generating passive income for you, the above page also features screenshots showing royalty payments to me, from sales of my digital as well as physical books.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

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My vision is to challenge more of my target audience to use writing for experience sharing, business promotion & income generation.

How a new partnership opportunity led me to launch this Paid Guest Posting offer

The process of thinking through the possibilities during the past week, was what made me decide to offer payment to Guest Bloggers.

As an advocate of best practice and continuous improvement, I am NOW launching a new initiative to take advantage of traffic I’m getting to boost my earnings further.

One thing is certain for now: My offer of payment to authors of Guest Posts is VERY likely to attract attention (and traffic) to this blog, and good things can come from there!

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THEY WROTE…

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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:

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:

However, adopting some of them may require expertise you do not have, or cannot find the time to use or develop.

Below are examples of key solutions I offer, towards helping you develop and implement each of the 12 strategies recommended in Steve Roller’s article.

Sometimes, you may be doing EVERYTHING, but NOT in the right way to harvest the profitable returns you need!

So, tell me where you’re at, and what you need help with, in your business’ web marketing.

Note that I already have ONE client, a business coach based in the United Kingdom, who has signed up.

To get in touch with me NOW, and find out how I can help you, click here to send me a message.

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