Entrepreneurship
No. 137: Succeed By "Looking Bigger" Than You Are!
April 14, 2014









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Size (in physical or financial terms) can confer “popularity”. So can appearing to be everywhere. That’s why I argue that making yourself look bigger than you are, can make your marketing more successful! People – and organisations - that are […]







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My DN Travel News
Activism Does Not Succeed With Egotism (Case Study of Nigeria's Activists)
April 13, 2014









I believe about 80% of Nigeria's activists let egotism and hidden ambitions diminish their impact. This is based on my personal observations, and subtle testing, of many I've related with over the past decade. Screaming, tearing your hair out, or beating your head against the wall won't change my view. And if youre objective, you'll […]







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My DN Travel News
An Idiot With an Educational Qualification?
April 13, 2014









To give our children a good head start in life, so they can enjoy better success than we have (and in the process contribute to society even better than we will), we must help them discover themselves. In other words, we are obligated to help our children find their purpose in life. If we can […]







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Career Development
Why I Give Free Money Making Ideas to Excel Trainers
April 11, 2014









I periodically offer unsolicited income generating ideas, via phone/email to CEOs of training companies I discover offer MS Excel training. In fact, I just did THAT today, with a Lagos based trainer. This article explains why I give away money making ideas I could use by myself! As an Excel-VB Solutions Developer, I've used my […]







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Career Development
The Story of an Employee Whose Cup was “FULL” (How Thinking You Know It All, Can Cost You/Your Employer!)
April 10, 2014









As a keen student of human nature, I’ve noticed that once (we think) we’re doing well, many of us have a tendency to conclude no one can tell us anything new. Last week, I encountered a young lady afflicted with this problem while visiting my bank. I’d overheard her giving marketing tips to a new […]







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Entrepreneurship
How my Automated Invoice Generator Was Built to Solve a Real Life Client Problem
April 9, 2014









Last Tuesday, during a meeting with a Web Marketing client, a Jos based business owner called asking for the price for my mini Poultry Farm Manager software. 6 hours later – around 8p.m at night - he’d done a bank transfer to me.The next day he called and asked “Do you have software to generate […]







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Entrepreneurship
Why You CAN Succeed In Your Livestock Farm Business [Feed Formulation Video Series]
April 8, 2014









Quick Take-Away : This is a verbatim transcript of Video No. 2 (out of 33) in my New Practical Feed Formulation (& Compounding) Home Study Video Series. I explain background details about my popular feed formulation handbook, which the video series is based on. Watch the full video below. Email tayo at tksola dot com, […]







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Career Development
No. 136: Stop Taking Failure Personally!
April 7, 2014









People who take failure personally, often fail to succeed. Some who succeed fail to continue succeeding, for the same reason! Most people want things to work the way we want all the time. And when that doesn't happen, they give up on themselves. But people who succeed often do so, because they NEVER take failure […]







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Entrepreneurship
Fulfilling Farm Business Best Practice Product Orders, Amidst Chaos (True Story)
April 6, 2014









[Lagos, 6:49a.m, 6th April 2014] Each time I visit Lagos, I see more reasons to justify not doing any aspect of my work from here. I spent all of Friday 4th February 2014 - under stressful conditions - battling to prepare and send courier packs to 3 Farm CEOs who paid for my products. One […]







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Career Development
To Sell with Your Writing, Touch on Different Areas of Your Target Audience's Life
April 5, 2014









Successful selling in any area of life requires gaining the trust of the prospective buyer. If you think about why YOU buy things, you'll likely discover multiple factors often influence your final decision. For instance, I have bought tutorial CDs and books on a variety of subjects, because I felt they would be useful for […]







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