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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – How A NEW Client Paid For My Website! [Why “Bartering” Can Help You Sell More – True Story]

To succeed as an expert-who-speaks, you need a website. Actually, a Web Marketing System (WMS) will serve you better. I share the true story of how a new client paid for my website’s hosting renewal via a barter exchange – after a standby payment arrangement that had been in place for 4 years, failed to go through!

This dramatic series of events that lasted nearly three weeks too place between April and May 2009, regarding my former 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com.

I had a premonition towards the end of April, that it would be smart to make alternative arrangements to get payment

for my site’s renewal in May 2019, so I started the process of opening a domicillary account with a bank here in Lagos.

It took some running around to meet all the bank’s requirements, but I eventually did.

Unfortunately, some days to the renewal date, I got an email from the bank saying my accound had been blocked for some reason I did not care to even call them about.

On the due date (2nd May), the credit card attached to my account

– belonging to a friend in the USA (and which had been used for 4 previous renewals since 2005), failed when it was charged for that year (the 5th). I got an auto-email from (web host name removed)

to that effect.

So, what did I do? Well, I have always been a business to business barter exchange enthusiast, and have often offered clients the opportunity to save cash by paying for my services in kind.

(For instance, I once had a client who paid about 50% of my fees by printing one of my t-shirt designs on to t-shirts for kids. Visit www.cafepress.com/ezeartsonline to see the Eyo Masquerade designs used on the T-Shirts.

What I did was to offer a prospective client I was discussing with in the last week of April, a discount, and some other incentives, to use his domicillary account to transfer the required amount (approx $130 excl. charges which amounted to almost $50 at the end) to

(web host name removed).

And he agreed. In fact, two days later (after crediting the required dollar amount to the account), he did the transfer. I subsequently followed up with

(web host name removed).

But alas, all did not turn out well.

After a series of enquiries (back and forth email messages and chat discussions), over a number of days, we finally discovered that a certain off-shore charge had not been provided for by my client in the total amount he sent, which led to the money that got to

(web host name removed) being lower than my renewal fees.

By this time, my site had gone offline as a result of the non-renewal.

But things have a way of working themselves out.

In what was a wonderful coincidence (and reversal of fortunes), my new client pointed out that he would be leaving for the USA to attend a course, and could easily send over any balance if I let him know the outcome of my discussions with.

THAT was exactly what happened.

I had one final chat session with another

agent of the hosting company, and I verified the remaining amount to be sent over to complete my payment. I emailed my client the details in Atlanta, and he sent another wire transfer from his US bank to (web host name removed)’s bank in Kansas.

48 Hours later, my site was back online, and I sent him the following email:

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Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Saturday, May 16, 2009 5:44 PM

From:

To:

Elvis,

Just a quick note to say thanks for your efforts to make this come to pass – as it has.

have re-instated the site and updated my account. Hurry up and come back, so I can start showing what I am also made of, by keeping my own end of the bargain!……

Have a great time out there and don’t forget to bring some “puff puff” O!

Cheers,tayo

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And he replies me with this email:

Re: You did it – BIG Thanks, Man!

Monday, May 18, 2009 5:00 PM

From:

To:

Tayo,

No wahala!

How u dey? I travelled to Virginia Beach…just came to Atlanta. Will be back by the weekend.

Cheers.Name deleted

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Now, do the above sound like exchanges between two people doing business or between two friends? I’m sure you will choose the latter.

Consider also the fact that this chap had already made payments to me in Naira for some part of the work I was doing for him at the time, even though the bulk of it would only begin when he returned.

That should convince you that what I have said in many of my past articles about the principles described in the “Science of Getting Rich” e-book really works.

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it has MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

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2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable sociopolitical climate.
And for as long as that stable sociopolitical climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings, and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

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“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000).

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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 start his own business).

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