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Up-sell to Offline Clients Using Your Online Writing (True Stories)
September 5, 2013









I read online articles written by different freelance writing experts about how to get clients. I’m however a bit of an unusual kind of freelance writer. [NB: I'd planned to auto schedule this post to appear on Saturday, in line with the normal schedule, but I'm getting an error message. Since I'm travelling, I've decided […]







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Career Development
Why Won't LinkedIn Stop Sending Me Email Invitations, Months After They Agreed To?
September 3, 2013









When - on August 16, 2013 - Alison Doyle, About.com Guide wrote her article titled “Don’t Waste Your Time On LinkedIn”, she got more than she bargained for: her readers’ summarily bashed LinkedIn in the comments section! About 21 of the 32 comments on her article described LinkedIn using expressions like “a complete and utter […]







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Writing In Different Genres Succeeds (If You're Made for It)
August 30, 2013









(NB: My posts on writing/blogging normally go live on Saturdays, but I'm publishing this a day early). Do you do "cross-over" writing (that's how I like to think of it!)? In other words, do you write in multiple genres? If yes, you likely know you're one of very few. Most of the advice I’ve encountered […]







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Career Development
Mutual Benefit Proposition for Sponsorship (Low Cost Microbrewery Drinks Production from Peels of Pineapple & Other Fruits)
August 28, 2013









[mpoverlay]By Tayo K. Solagbade – www.tayosolagbade.com | www.tksola.com | COTONOU, 22ND AUGUST 2013 @10:00a.m Your organisation needs to market/sell your products, while building brand loyalty and long term repeat customers. What I propose below can positively influence your target customers, while also advancing your marketing objectives. NB: See download link to a FULL PDF version […]







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If You Really Want Success, Lack of Money Won't Stop You
August 25, 2013









Success in freelance writing - or indeed any other area of life - requires passion, backed by effort, commitment, diligence – and most importantly, relentless persistence. Except you want to cheat - your way to success (and some do!), the foregoing are a reality you must face. But what if you lack money? This article […]







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Career Development
Error-Free People Rarely Achieve Authentic Success
August 17, 2013









"Success tends not to go to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk averse. Rather, it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal tasks.” – Donald Rumsfeld I […]







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Your Writing Competence Matters Greatly
August 10, 2013









Be less concerned about how many “years of service” you’ve given, and more about how much you’ve improved over that period – Tayo K. Solagbade Your competence as a writer will often determine how well you do in any field you choose to write  in. We don't often realise this, but it is quite possible […]







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Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough to Purpose - Andy Brine Interviews Efe Ohwofasa (Verbatim Text Transcript Created by Tayo K. Solagbade)
August 7, 2013









Preamble: Why I Manually Transcribe Video and Audio Presentations (Especially Interviews) – By Tayo K. Solagbade The thumbnail image below links to a verbatim PDF text transcript of a 23 minute long video interview conducted by Andy Brine (of Become Authentic on Video) with Efe Ohwofasa (Nigerian born, UK based business coach) This is not […]







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You Cannot Teach Experience
August 3, 2013









“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience” – Sasha Azevedo As a writer, there will be times when your knowledge alone will not be adequate. In other words, if you’re honest with yourself, you will sometimes not have enough personal experience based insight, to do a good job writing on a […]







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Entrepreneurship
Passion Will Not Save You, If You Lack Mastery!
July 27, 2013









“Reading without thinking gives a disorderly mind, and thinking without reading makes one unbalanced” - Confucius All the obsession and exercise in the world will not make you write better if you do not know enough about your chosen topic or subject. It may appear like I’m stating the obvious, but I’ve read some blog […]







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