Entrepreneurship
No. 146: Secret to Finding Bulk Buyers Online for Your Farm Products (PDF Report)
June 16, 2014









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When poultry Farmers in Jos, reportedly asked the MD of Grand Cereals and Oils in Plateau state to buy up their excess eggs arising from a market glut, he challenged them to find outlets for their products, but offered to […]







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Entrepreneurship
If You Have a "Bankable Idea" Your Brain Can be Your Collateral (2 True Stories About People Who Did It)
June 14, 2014









The above screen shot shows my Facebook post quoting Ben Murray Bruce, President of Silver bird Entertainment as saying: '...My collateral is my brain...". Basically arguing that financiers (individual or corporate) need no physical collateral from people with "bankable ideas". I saw his point, and agreed with him. However, like I said in my post […]







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My DN Travel News
When She FACES the Real World WITHOUT YOU, Will the Preparation You Gave, be Enough to Help Your Child Succeed?
June 13, 2014









If you hold a degree, and plan to make your child get one too, I congratulate you! However, let me ask you this question: “AFTER s/he leaves home and begins FACING the real world as an INDEPENDENT adult, will your child be HAPPY with the preparation you gave him/her?” In case you did not know […]







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Career Development
Why You Need To Develop A Healthy Respect For Money
June 12, 2014









Back in paid employment, I was, like many of my co-workers, used to having my salary paid to me in bulk at the month end (almost without fail). I never really understood what it meant to EARN the money that came to me. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that those in […]







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Entrepreneurship
The Cheapest, Most Reliable Way to Find Buyers (Hint: It's NOT What You Think)
June 11, 2014









The first issue of my Self-Development Digest newsletter was published on Mon 5th Jun 2006. Six years later, in June 2012, it evolved into what is today my popular DAILY multidisciplinary Self-Development (SD) Nuggets blog, on which I publish my Monday Speaking IDEAS newsletter. Truth is, it takes UNDILUTED passion to keep going, day, month and […]







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Career Development
Why School Prepares People POORLY, to Succeed OUTSIDE Paid Employment
June 10, 2014









In 1992, I graduated with the highest ever C.G.P.A of 5.9 (First class was 6.0) in Agric. Extension from Unibadan. Then, in Guinness Nigeria, I earned senior management roles in less than 6 years from 1994. However, as an entrepreneur, I looked like a TOTAL IDIOT - for years - after starting. Yes, IDIOT, in […]







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Career Development
No. 145: A Few People Can Make Life NEEDLESSLY Miserable for Many, IF Not Called to Order (Case Study: My Experiences at the Nigeria-Benin Republic Seme Border)
June 9, 2014









[NB: This issue of my newsletter is a public service edition.] Last Saturday a.m (7th June 2014), I published a blog about my near 12 hour traffic jam ordeal coming from Seme border to Mile 2 the day before (i.e Friday). What I did not mention was that before that, I’d had unpleasant money-related “disagreements” […]







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Career Development
Failure Does NOT Happen Suddenly...(Hint: It takes time for your inactions to cost you success)
June 7, 2014









James Cook in his book titled "The Startup Entrepreneur" explained that certain successful entrepreneurs get very uneasy whenever things seemed to be going (in their opinion) "too smoothly". They are rarely comfortable with "good times" and when such times come upon them, they take pains to stay on the alert for things that could go […]







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General
When a 3 Hour Journey Takes Half-a-Day Due to Traffic Jams, Some Person(s) Are NOT Doing Their Jobs
June 7, 2014









From 12 noon to 2.30 p.m yesterday, I had a meeting in Cotonou with a client. Then right after, I took off for Lagos. It's now 1.51a.m, today 7th June 2014, and I'm typing this from my home in Lagos, Nigeria. A Lagos cab I hired from Mile 2, just dropped me off over ten […]







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Career Development
Treat People As Though They Were What They Ought To Be (A Management Tip from Johann Von Goethe)
June 5, 2014









The fact that THAT man or woman is sweeping floors today in your company today, does not mean s/he cannot be the owner of a successful business tomorrow. Actually, s/he could one day become YOUR boss, or indeed the CEO of the company you work for! Countless examples abound!! Where I come from (Nigeria) people […]







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