Self-Devpt. Nuggets™

Dear Farm Business Owner,

Thank you for your interest in and/or enquiry about my Excel-VB Driven Poultry Layer Farm Manager software.

If I sent you a link to read this letter, that most likely means I have already spoken with you.

I have a habit of calling up anyone who contacts me on phone, just to be sure the message is not from a prankster. A lot of that used to happen in the past ;-))

The video you watched is of an app I built for a large poultry layer farm in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

[Watch the video on Youtube here or as a Shockwave Flash file presentation here

In 2009, I built a similar one for a 12,000 layer farm in Ogun State, also in South West Nigeria.

It has a range of useful, time and effort saving features. A novice PC user can learn to use it within a day.

The key features and functions are demonstrated and described in the video.

If you’d like to buy the full app “as is”, I offer it at N200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira), to ALL who agree to fill my questionnaire (ownload here).

You can check what that price comes to in US dollars using this website: http://www.coinmill.com. That’s where all who buy from me from “abroad” do their conversions.

Among other benefits, you become a member of my Farm Biz Ideas club, which entitles you to a lifetime 40% discount on ALL my other products or services.

See full details about the club at this page: http://spontaneousdevelopment.com/workshop_ffhb_ideas.htm

A scaled down and therefore less pricey version (which comes without the menu driven automated KPI charts) of the Poultry Layer manager can be made available for N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira).

It would still have the capacity to handle data for 12,000 layers. You would use the tabulated reports of KPIs to monitor the performance of the birds.

However, there would be no accompanying charts.

Please note that that this Poultry Layer Farm Manager app is NOT an accounting application.

Yes, it does income and expense recording and reports weekly, monthly and annually as indicated in the video.

However it’s main purpose is to record daily operations data so as to auto-generate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for determining how well the animals are doing on a DAILY basis.

As data is punched in, the automated charts are instantly plotted for KPIs like feeding rates, Hen Day Percentage, Mortality Rate; Feed to Egg Conversion Ratio.

The trend of the charted data quickly tells you if there’s anything to worry about. And you can then take corrective action.

I call my applications of this kind “Enterprise Information Systems” (EIS).

[NB: For a broiler operation, feeding rate, feed to flesh conversion ratio, mortality rate, growth rate would be the KPIs to measure. The app would have to be modified to compute those indices.]

Next Steps I Recommend You Take:

I have a vision to help small holder farmers adopt intelligent and cost-effective custom software solutions to manage their farm business more profitably for the long term.

This is why I’m being deliberate in finding the RIGHT farm owners to work with.

If you’d like to take this further, I look forward to getting your responses to the requests below (along with any feedback you might have).

1. Please take a few moments to fill and submit the form on the page linked below (ignore the preceding message about Facebook):

http://iff.spontaneousdevelopment.com/contact.html

2. Attached is a workbook containing 3 worksheets:

Note that only the questionnaire and the Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) worksheets  in it (i.e. the first 2 – from the left) need your input. The FRS simply requires you to choose features you want to have in your app, by adding an X in the right column. The questionnaire is self-explanatory.

Feel free to ignore supplying any fields for personal information in the worksheets, if you’ve submitted the website contact form in 1.0 above. If there’s any aspect you do not understand, just skip it, and fill those you are clear about. Then SAVE the file and send back as email attachment.

The information you fill into the attached workbook, will give me a better understanding of the kind of farm business you operate, and what your needs are likely to be.

(For instance, there’s a daily recording form that will be printed/hand-filled with farm data, then later used for data  entry into the software. We will need to ensure the one I have will work for your farm. If not, I’ll modify it, with your guidance).

I will then get back to you with more accurate information regarding your request.

Thanks for your interest in my work. I look forward to being of service to you.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade  (Friday 3rd January 2014, @9.45a.m Cotonou, Benin Republic)

Performance Enhancement Specialist & Location Independent Multipreneur

PS: The above letter is based on a template I’ve been sending out to a growing number of enquirers regarding my Poultry Layer Farm Manager that I recently put up for sale online, after checking that it can be successfully customized to suit the needs of different farm business owners. Click here to visit my Cost-Saving Farm Biz Ideas website.