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No. 178: To Achieve Marketing Success at Low Cost, You Need a List of Potential Buyers

January 26, 2015

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The more I “data-mine” my website mailing LIST of subscribers, and some actually go ahead and buy my products/services (sometimes years after signing up), the more I tell other business owners this: “The money is IN the LIST”! Curious to […]

Farm Biz

[Recommended Article] Poultry: Good Start for Better Future Performance - by DR. ADEBAYO KOLADE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (OPERATIONS) ZYGOSIS NIGERIA LTD

January 24, 2015

This article titled 'Poultry: Good Start for Better Future Performance' (written by DR. ADEBAYO KOLADE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (OPERATIONS) ZYGOSIS NIGERIA LTD on www.farmingadvice.org) is the maiden article entry in my blog's new "Recommended Website & Articles" category. I found it rich with useful guiding information for rearing chicks in the critical brooding stage. The author's […]

Farm Biz

[Recommended Website] Farming Advice Digest - www.farmingadvice.org: An Online Magazine for Farmers (Published by a Nigerian)

January 24, 2015

The Farming Advice Digest magazine is the maiden website entry in my blog's new "Recommended Website & Articles" category. I believe every Farm CEOs will find www.farmingadvice.org a valuable addition to his/her self-improvement library. Rather than bore you with a preview, I invite you to click here and visit the site now. Note that I […]

Career Development

Boost Your Ability to Achieve Success Using THIS Strategy!

January 23, 2015

My DIY (Do-It-Yourself ) mental attitude is the reason I have relentlessly succeeded, in spite of myriad challenges, over the past decade as an entrepreneur. Many of the obstacles I encountered were intimidating, and would have stopped me permanently, if I had NOT possessed this DIY reflex. For instance, this website (www.tayosolagbade.com), my newsletter, indeed […]

Entrepreneurship

Money Is Just ONE Measure Of Success - It Is Not The Basis Of Business

January 22, 2015

In 2003 my second year as a startup entrepreneur, I had the opportunity to benefit from the wisdom of the managing partner in a popular management training firm. I had gone to introduce my service on website marketing strategy development to his organisation, in a bid to interest them in having a website newsletter set-up […]

Career Development

Should You Give Up On Someone Who Is Chasing An "Impossible Dream"?

January 21, 2015

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" During some difficult times in the life of my business, I have found […]

Entrepreneurship

Do You Need A Business Plan If Your Idea Is New, Untested, or Unproven?

January 20, 2015

"Market research does not work. One cannot do market research on something that does not exist." - Peter Drucker Who Should Read This Article? Anyone nursing a new (especially untested and unproven) - idea for a business, and/or who is at a loss as to whether or not it will be beneficial to undertake a […]

Career Development

No. 177: To Be Unstoppable, You Must Be Incomparable!

January 19, 2015

Those who become unstoppable at what they do, often stand out from the crowd, in terms of their demonstrated abilities, and achievements. In other words, they are incomparable. By implication, their names come first in people's minds, ahead of any others who do what they do. One person I believe really personifies this concept is […]

Career Development

Five (5) Action Steps That Can Increase Your Chances of Business Startup Success

January 17, 2015

In February 2001, about 4 months after I got promoted out of my shift-based Brewer position, to become the Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery Technical Training & Development Manager, I came to the conclusion that I needed to fast-track my plans to quit paid employment and start my own business. I had been plotting […]

Career Development

Creating Demand for Custom Automated Spreadsheet Software Solutions in Nigeria/Africa (True Story by Tayo K. Solagbade)

January 17, 2015

Download this PDF ebook to read the true story of how I literally single-handedly created a market for my Excel-Visual Basic solutions development service in Nigeria/Africa. Since 2004, I've helped individuals and businesses in Nigeria/Africa (in recent years Asia/America as well) get MORE productivity boosting value out of the Microsoft Excel® on their PCs, at […]

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