Career Development
[Hope for Nikel] Let's help Nikel Lakise (Patrick Meninga's Friend) to Beat Leukemia
December 8, 2014









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Most regular readers know that Patrick Meninga is the popular US based blogging expert whose blogging strategy I adapted (in 2012) to make this blog succeed: and we've since become friends. Yesterday, Patrick emailed me this link (http://www.hopefornikel.com/), about a […]







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Entrepreneurship
How to Choose the Right Website Design Service Provider (4 Tips)
December 6, 2014









Are you trying to choose a web designer to build a website for your business? You may not realize it, but today, great design skills are NOT all you need to check for. In this article I list 4 important issues you MUST consider before parting with your hard earned money to put your business […]







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Career Development
Why You Need to Mix Things Up Periodically - Even in Business (Hint: There Are Many Ways to Get Results You Want)
December 5, 2014









Even though you use the web for marketing, it PAYS to periodically connect with "humans" offline e.g. via phone and face to face. BUT not with intent to sell. Doing so once got me invited - in May 2012 - as Guest Speaker at Yaba College of Technology's Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial […]







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Career Development
What's The Future Of Spreadsheet Automation?!
December 4, 2014









I build custom Excel-VB driven software used by a growing number of individuals and businesses within and outside Africa. Over the past decade in particular, I have successfully tailored the solutions I offer to SUIT the local environment we have, in my part of the world (Africa). And I did it in a way that […]







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Career Development
The Secret to a Worry-FREE Life: Never Let Your Problem Give Birth to Babies
December 4, 2014









“Either do wrong or feel guilty but don’t do both. It’s too much work.” - Anonymous A number of factors can cause a person to worry. Examples include financial difficulties, problems in the family or workplace etc. Sometimes we become so worried or pre-occupied by certain things that we inadvertently let them affect our behaviour […]







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Entrepreneurship
White Paper (PDF), Blueprint for a Low Cost Automated Spreadsheet Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)™
December 2, 2014









In August 2007, an old client engaged me to write a research based paper on development of a low cost networkable Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) for a South Western state in Nigeria. We later traveled down from Lagos, to the state, so I could present the paper, but were unable to meet with top […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 170: Achieve Speaking Success Using Your Audience’s Local Proverbs & Stories
December 1, 2014









Popular Yoruba proverb: “Èhinkule l’ òtá wa, ilé ni aseni ngbé” [Meaning: “The enemy lies in wait in the backyard.  The traitor lives in the home”. Read story-based interpretation in photo below].To speak successfully, one must connect emotionally and intellectually with an audience. Pastor Tunde Bakare is a speaker who does that effortlessly using local […]







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General
Success Quotes Only Work When Diligently Acted Upon
November 29, 2014









I once heard a famous American celebrity quoted on radio by a presenter as follows: "Success is the result of good judgement. Good judgement is the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgement". The moral - according to the radio presenter - is that FAILURES we go through in life (often as […]







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Career Development
To Succeed, Make Your Excel-VB Software Complement Others
November 28, 2014









"Tayo, what is your honest opinion about commercial off-the-shelf accounting software, compared with the custom applications you build?" I am sometimes asked the foregoing question in various forms, by prospective clients trying to make up their minds about what option to choose (i.e off-the-shelf apps versus my custom Excel-VB application development service). Here's a typical example of the […]







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Entrepreneurship
Boost Your Supermarket Bookshop or Factory's Profits With a Custom Excel-VB Software [Hint: View Screenshots of an Excel-VB driven Pure Water Business Manager™ app built for a Pure Water Factory in Ogudu, Lagos-Nigeria]
November 27, 2014









UPDATE - 29TH DECEMBER 2020: Watch video demonstration of NEW version with Auto Cashbook, KPI Charts etc. The Typical Scenario Some bookshop/supermarket owners (especially in my part of the world – Nigeria/Benin/Africa) focus - almost exclusively - on capturing sales and recording expenses using cash registers/POS tools (sometimes in conjunction with a PC based financial reporting […]







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