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No. 156: To Succeed, Always Count Your Blessings During Adversity (Hint: Would You Work At Your Best If Power Supply Was Erratic?)

August 25, 2014

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am not sure how many of you on my mailing list know what it feels like to endure YEARS of VERY erratic power supply on a daily basis from your country's power company. That's what Nigerians in Nigeria endure […]

Entrepreneurship

Use Prospective Buyer Requests to Beef Up Your Marketing Portfolio (Hint: Features All In One User Guide for Tayo Solagbade's Excel VB Ration Formulator)

August 23, 2014

At about 8pm this past Wednesday(20/08/14), I had a 10 minute phone conversation with Hakim, an Algerian Phd Student who'd contacted me (from Algeria) via my website about my Ration Formulator. By the end of the call, I sent him a 3 day time limited demo of the app, for him to test run. However, […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Study and Persist in Creatively Emulating Authentic Achievers!

August 22, 2014

"There are no quick wins in business. It takes years to become an overnight success." - Richard Branson. Since 2002, when I began offering unconventional Excel-VB (& other solutions) in Nigeria's difficult socio-economic enviroment, I've grown my success by creatively applying ideas advocated by Richard Branson, and other authentic achievers. Especially useful has been his […]

Career Development

Speaking & Acting With Self-Confidence Does NOT Make You Arrogant!

August 21, 2014

I've been accused of being arrogant several times - especially during my startup years. Some "critics" actually said MY arrogance was why I struggled in business back then. They told me to "humble" myself, so I could be "elevated". I laughed at such suggestions back then. And I still do today. Here's why... As a […]

Entrepreneurship

"HOW I MADE MY FIRST MILLION AS A WRITER SELLING BOOKS…" - by Charles Ayo Dada (Hint: This is the FREE Downloadable PDF version of his original Facebook post)

August 20, 2014

I like Facebook a lot, but I've had to develop a strategy to beat its habit of sometimes inadvertently "hiding" potentially useful information from those who most need it. A good example is the amazingly educative story told on 18th August 2014 by the award winning Nigerian writer, Charles Ayo Dada on his Facebook wall. […]

Entrepreneurship

Proven Strategy for Making Your Business Idea Investor Friendly

August 19, 2014

I recently read an appeal posted as a comment by a young MBA student on a millionaire’s Facebook page, asking the latter to consider investing in a business idea he had. My heart went out to young man, because I knew he needed to be told a (potentially) painful truth. The harsh truth: It will […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 155: To Excel, Avoid Rigid Routine & Focus on GETTING RESULTS THAT WORK!

August 18, 2014

Last Friday (15th August 2014) a.m., at Mr. Biggs’ Maryland outlet in Lagos-Nigeria, I met - for the FIRST time ever in 2 years - with Enuenwemba Chukuyenum (Chuks) - a past buyer of my Ration Formulator app. We shook hands, hugged, then held each other like old friends (see photo below), while my 15 […]

Entrepreneurship

Beat Competitors by Doing Things Differently!

August 16, 2014

"It should be encouraging to know that practically all great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services, or from sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?" - Napoleon Hill in "Think & Grow Rich" Business marketing […]

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To Succeed, START Living in the Real World - TODAY! (Hint: And Teach Your Child to Do the Same!)

August 15, 2014

As I said in the research paper I presented at the Center for Management Development, a dangerous craze to acquire paper qualifications in order to secure jobs or higher positions has overtaken many in today's Nigeria. They have lost sight of so many things they can learn through diligent application of self-development. By "things" I […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Go Beyond Quoting Quotes

August 15, 2014

One morning in 2009, I heard the following quote (credited to a famous American celebrity) on radio: "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 (as a […]