You should read this article if:
(a). You have formal training and/or experience in Accounting/Finance and wish to acquire a new skill to double your income.
(b). You (or someone you know) lack a job and need to earn income. \
(c). You (or someone you know) is retired or preparing to retire or resign or have been laid off.
You can learn to do what I do (and do better than I am doing) – earning good income by developing useful custom MS Excel Visual Basic driven software for those who need them.
I have no formal IT training or certifications. Yet my work continues to attract newer and higher profile clients.
At the risk of sounding like I am bragging, the truth is I have also come across many people with all the formal IT qualifications.
Many hold on tightly to salary jobs. They often cannot demonstrate practical problem-solving competence that comes close to mine.
That proves you do NOT need any formal qualifications to learn to do what I do.
Just be interested enough to diligently apply what you learn.
I Make This Offer Especially to Persons Who Think Lack of Money or Capital is a Problem
I assure you it is not. I wasted all the money I left Guinness with, after I resigned to start my business in 2002.
It was subsequently, IN SPITE of my…
- lack of capital
- lack of an office (up till this day)
- lack of financial backing
- …and lack of people who believed I could make money providing spreadsheet solutions…
… that I built this brand which is now gaining wider recognition in the market place.
A Warning: This is Not a "Fast-Food" Income Earning Opportunity
The natural human instinct makes us lean towards business opportunities that offer the great rewards FAST, with minimal effort.
Lots of online offers one sees today make such promises.
Most are scams.
The opportunity I describe here does NOT fall into that category however.
It requires those interested, to expend generous amounts of intellectual and physical glucose.
They will have to:
(a) learn and become competent and…
(b) deliver results to clients/customers…
…so that they are PROFITABLY rewarded with money and other benefits.
One Thing I Can Tell You: If You Put in The Required Effort, you WILL Get The Rewards
I have ample evidence to back up ALL the claims I make here about this vocation.
And I would welcome any invitation to furnish details at any venue, and before any audience.
This is a business that I have been personally engaged in as a service provider since 2002 – over 10 years ago.
I started it from Lagos, Nigeria. But I’ve been based in Benin Republic since April 1, 2013.
Yet, this business is responsible for my being here in Nigeria for my 4th day running.
Right now, I’m in the farm house of a client farm business owner at 3.42a.m, typing this article.
My transportation, feeding and accommodation are being taken care of by him (AFTER my fees have been paid).
This business is called "Preprogrammed and Custom Spreadsheet based solutions Development"…or "Built-In Excel Solutions Development"
But prior to my starting-it-up, it did not exist in any tangible form here in Nigeria.
You can quote me on that. I have had to create a market for this service single handed.
In the past I used to get laughed at by friends, relatives and prospects.
But I adopted variants of intelligent business marketing techniques like Power Positioning and Top Of Mind Awareness, as well as Public Speaking for Business Marketing, combined with smart Web Marketing Systems implementation.
Today, prospects seek me out and engage my services AFTER discovering me via what I did for others, or through the Internet.
Just How Profitable is This Line of Business?
Let me answer this way:
Clients have also paid me as much N250, 000 (divide by N162 to get dollar equivalent) to purchase my existing customisable applications, or have me build one from scratch in 30 working days.
If you have lived/worked in Nigeria a while, you will know that getting paid that kind of money to develop custom software of this kind – without "connections" – means the clients believe you offer true value.
If You Have Formal Training and/or Experience in Accounting/Finance, Pay Attention!
You can dramatically boost your income earning potential as a consultant, if you develop proficiency in spreadsheet solutions development.
Around 2008, the Lagos state Government intensified its tax collection drive, requiring companies to fulfill their obligations in this regard.
New and old clients have sought out and paid me handsomely to build/modify my applications to compute their taxes, as a result.
One example was a project in which I built custom Excel-VB driven software to automatically compute Monthly Profit & Loss Report (i.e. Manufacturing Account, Trading Account etc) for a Lagos based small scale factory with a N5million monthly turnover.
I worked closely with a seasoned financial consultant to finish that project. Imagine what YOU can do!
But It Goes Beyond Financial Data Management – You Should Build Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)
Before you start thinking this is about building software equivalent to off-the-shelf accounting software, let me add this.
Most of the work I do today has to do with developing application to generate Key Performance Indicators for managing the "operations" and "processes" in businesses.
Non-financial data handling (e.g. medical records, client records, farm production records) are the major areas I’ve had to develop solutions for. To give you a good idea of how the applications I build help day to day business decision making, click here to watch two videos:
1. A video demonstration of a Poultry Layer Farm Management software I built this month (September 2013), for a farm business in South West Nigeria
2. A video presentation of a mind-map describing the benefits of adopting a Best-Operating Process Management System (BOPMS) – based on a custom EIS.
Get in Touch to Learn How I Can Help YOU Acquire This Competence.
You can start earning income EVEN…
a. without quitting your day job
b. without having capital
c. and without owning a PC of your own
When I first started there was a 12 month period when, I did not own my own PC. I got clients to provide everything, including power supply!
Visit my Excel Heaven mini-site at : http://www.excelheaven.spontaneousdevelopment.com to learn more about what I do – including the coaching service I offer.