My DN Travel News
How Benin Republic Youth are Driving African Innovation (PLUS Women Cassava Farmers in Nigeria Earn Extra $2,200 in Off Season By Planting Cucumbers)! - Review of 12 Page PDF 2011 Report By International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
April 25, 2013









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This update starts with a few notes about the responses to my new text and audio guide for english/french learners. I've provided names, links, and locations to help ANYONE interested in following up/acting on the information I've supplied here.(No time […]







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Career Development
3 Ways Speaking a Foreign Language Can Make You Succeed More Often
April 23, 2013









Speaking a foreign language can help you in paid employment as well as in business. I have had the unique priviledge of experiencing the amazing benefits derivable from being able to speak a foreign language, on both sides of the fence. Below I outline 3 powerful rewards you can expect to reap repeatedly, from being […]







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My DN Travel News
Humanize Yourself By Talking About Your Mistakes: Audiences Will LOVE You For It! (PLUS Speak English or French FAST - FREE Downloads)
April 22, 2013









What would you do if as the invited speaker for an event, you make the mistake of travelling (by air) to the right city, but in the wrong state, less than 12 hours to the event? That’s what happened to Burt Dubin in 1983! As a mentor of world class speakers (for over 25 years), […]







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Parenting
5 Leadership Lessons for Parents from “Maximus” the “Spaniard” in the “Gladiator” Movie
April 20, 2013









“There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting” – Jim Rohn Do you consider yourself a good leader? At work? How about in your home – to your kids in particular? It’s not about how much money you have to buy them things. As the Gladiator movie shows, a slave who owns nothing can be […]







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My DN Travel News
AUDIO: Why I'm Traveling SLOWLY Across West Africa to Show Business Owners, Experts & Professionals How To Use Public Speaking & Web Marketing Systems for Low (to ZERO) Cost Business (or Self) Promotion
April 19, 2013









This is what you could call my "Mission Statement". This blog post contains the download link to the audio version of an 8 minute video presentation I created, as well as a verbatim text transcript. The video was recorded using my Blackberry Pearl 9105 Smart phone video camera on Sunday 31st March 2013 from 11.23 […]







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Career Development
Why I've Told LinkedIn to Delete My Profile (Talk About Trying to Give a Dog a Bad Name to Hang It)
April 19, 2013









UPDATE: Isn't it just amazing? I sent the request for linkedIn.com support to delete my tayo@spontaneousdevelopment.com profile at 13.05pm on 19th April 2013, and after failing to reply my previous email sent more than 24 hours earlier, I get a response confirming my request has been carried out at 13.11pm on the SAME day. Wow! […]







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Career Development
Educational Commercials Will Boost Your Marketing
April 18, 2013









If you are a business owner, or someone responsible for sales and/or marketing in the company you work, the information provided here can help you. This article is based on a suggestion I recently sent as an email message to a solo entrepreneur. I ended up making it so long and detailed that I've decided […]







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Entrepreneurship
They Want to Learn English from Me & I Want to Improve my French! (PLUS Video of an angry Beninese Grasscutter, Photo of Rabbits, & a Photo of a 13 Year Old Burt Dubin Classified Ad!)
April 17, 2013









This is not the main update on my adventures in Benin Republic. It’s just a preview - especially because of an exciting development that’s occurred. Apart from the news, and stories, I’ve included (1) a photo of a Burt Dubin Classified Advert from 13 Years Ago! (2) few pictures of me with people out here […]







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Entrepreneurship
Use Excel-VB Automation To Boost Your Profits
April 16, 2013









This article explans - with practical examples - how developing in-house expertise in automation of Microsoft Excel.can dramatically boost productivity - and profits - in your company.. Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for analyzing and presenting information. Too frequently however, many users – individuals and organizations – fail to realize the extensive range of […]







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My DN Travel News
Use Persuasion to Save (or Make) MORE Money (3 Tips)
April 15, 2013









The core message in this week's issue of my newsletter is that you never know what you can get, until you try...or ask. If you always accept what you're told - be it price or options - you may end up shortchanging yourself in life. Virtually everything can be negotiated. And if your persuasion skills […]







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