Self-Devpt. Nuggets™

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self” – Cyril Connolly Are you struggling to meet your writing goals? Do you have difficulty consistently writing articles, blog posts or […]

The habit I describe in this post is a silent weapon used by smart thinking salesmen and business owners to record highly profitable sales even when they are dead broke (especially then). Its successful use is based on the practicing individual’s self-belief. It does not matter what line of business you are in or how […]

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This is the fourth and final post in the series I began on the 6th October 2012. The first post argued that you need to determine if your blog needs comments to succeed – instead of worrying about what others say. Note that I refer specifically to blogging for business purposes, with emphasis on earning […]

In this post I mention the case of a teacher who told her pupils to stop watching Tom and Jerry cartoons for the above mentioned reason. If you’re surprised that a teacher could make such a misleading assertion, know that you are not alone. And it is because such things can happen that I believe […]

The lessons I share in this article are based mainly on a true-life experience I had, in 1997, at the age of 27. I was delivering a management research paper at the National Finals of the (now repackaged) Young Managers Competition, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Management(NIM). I provide graphic details of how my […]

Are you in paid employment, and eager to advance up the position ladder or corporate hierarchy? If yes, there’s a good chance you’ll have to confront the above challenge at least once in your career. Most people would agree that going against laid down operational guidelines (especially those affecting product or service quality/delivery) is wrong. […]

The use of the word “smart” is deliberate. It’s meant to represent anything you do to boost your business’ marketing performance which does NOT make running your business more cumbersome or expensive. In this write-up I discuss six steps you can take, to create an online presence that can attract high profile bulk buyers for […]

Can a competitor (e.g. the “friendly” chap next door, who just launched a similar outfit to yours) harm your website or blog rankings using the rules set by Google and other engines? If you said NO, you’re in danger of getting a rude shock one of these days, because it could just happen to you. […]

Preview: I want to tell you a story. A real-life experience that I had very, very recently. At the end, I simply ask YOU to be the judge as to what really happened. It was a Friday morning. I had gone out with my 3 year old daughter to make a few purchases at the […]