Career Development
STOP Procrastinating And START Achieving The Goals You Dream About!









Every January, many people announce new year resolutions, but by December achieve little or nothing. I've had some intriguing characters PAY me to teach them web design, or Excel-VB, ONLY to leave wondering why I'm chasing them to attend agreed sessions: Funny world indeed! This article explains why you must make procrastination your enemy, and […]







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Career Development
No. 154: KUKURU DANGER™ - 5 True Stories About the Adventures - & Misadventures! - of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life (FREE 20 PAGE PAPERBACK BOOK PREVIEW)









This week, I continue my call on experts-who-speak in the education "industry" to offer programs to influence school curriculums towards better equipping students to succeed in the real world. I offer a FREE preview of my new book, which is based on the same theme, for interested experts to review.  SCROLL DOWN TO READ FULL […]







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Entrepreneurship
Use Joint Venture Marketing Partnerships to Achieve Greater Marketing Success









The use of Joint Venture Marketing Partnerships to boost sales is a time tested strategy. Sadly, not many people understand how it works, and/or how to use it successfully. This article offers explanations and insights interested persons can use. How It Works: The example of a well known publisher of a business magazine This gentleman […]







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Career Development
[Now Available!] KUKURU DANGER™: 5 True Stories About the Adventures - & Misadventures! - of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life.









In this unusual book, Tayo Solagbade narrates 5 true stories about a dizzying variety of (sometimes shocking) escapades he engaged in – while schooling - that repeatedly landed him in trouble, causing his parents avoidable heart breaks. In the first story, Tayo suffers the embarrassment of having a female classmate falsely accuse him – to […]







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Career Development
No. 153: A “Formula” Schools Need to Teach, But Don't! (FREE PDF Report)









“Any school that teaches this “formula” will discover her products – who apply it diligently – will never beg for jobs, or experience “unemployment”, talk less of poverty. If you think that’s a reckless claim, I challenge you to read this report with an open mind. Unless you detest authentic success, when you’re done, you’ll […]







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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs Need Opportunities To Serve For A Profitable Fee - NOT Handouts Or Pity!









What would be your reaction if an individual just starting up, or in the difficult early stages of running, his/her business (e.g a book writing and publishing support service) approached you, asking you to consider purchasing part-ownership in it? Would you look objectively at his/her ability, the market potential of his (hopefully) unique offering and […]







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Career Development
"Bleaching" Your Skin Insults Your Creator, and Makes You Lose Dignity (Message from Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Lupita Nyong'o to Black/African Parents & their Children)









One of Fela's most popular songs when I was a child was :"Yellow Fever" - released when I was 6 years old, in 1976. I LOVED that song. Still do too(see Youtube video below)! He was basically challenging skin-bleaching black men and women, who wanted to become "white" by force, out of an inferiority complex, […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 152: Do You Need Blogging To Achieve More Speaking Success?









I say YES, because to become an expert-who-gets-paid-to-speak, you NEED to establish yourself as a thought leader – indeed an authority - in the minds of your target audience. Blogging is a powerful (and zero cost) strategy that can be used to achieve that outcome for the long term. I say this as an expert-who-gets-paid-to-speak, […]







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Career Development
To Succeed Despite Misconceptions and Stereotypes, Let Your Work Speak For You (2 True Stories)









Yesterday I had a Skype chat session with a Pakistan based Poultry Farm CEO, about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager. At a point, he wrote: "it is good to see that kind of work from Africa"(screenshot below). I knew he meant it was rare to find an African based in Africa, selling functional, and customizable […]







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General
Achieve Parenting Success By Telling True Stories (Hint: About Your Childhood Failures & Successes)









I wrote my new book titled KUKURU DANGER™ for my kids. It's a collection of 4 TRUE stories about my trouble filled years between the ages of 10 and 16. In this article, I explain why I decided to offer it to other children and their parents. The book is subtitled "Adventures (& Misadventures!) of […]







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