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Make MORE Money: Convert Your Custom Spreadsheets to Mobile Phone Apps [Hint: My New Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service – See “Agricultural Field Inspection App” in test mode]

January 8, 2017 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This is my first broadcast to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club in 2017 – and it is a special Audio Podcast.

In it, I reveal the many insights I’ve gained from over 6 months of careful research into the potential opportunities to be harvested from venturing into development of mobile phone apps using custom spreadsheets.

My message: Regardless of your field of interest or specialization, you can LEARN to create mobile phone apps you can sell, based on custom spreadsheets you use in your work!

My interest in doing this was first aroused after a series of clients asked me if my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and the Poultry Farm Manager software had versions that could run on mobile platforms.

At that time I waved off such inquiries as being from overzealous users. But later on, after I encountered a feed formulation app built to work on Android devices, I realized that not only would it be wise to explore building my own app to work on mobile devices, but that I could create a whole new range of products, based on spreadsheet customization – and even help other professionals using proprietary spreadsheet models they’ve built.

At the end of the audio, I announce my new Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service.

Click here to request a copy of the audio podcast

NB:

0. If you’re a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club, REPLY YES to the email in which you’re reading this message, and I’ll send you the audio file in your email inbox as an attachment.

1. If you’re NOT a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club and you’re reading this online: Text “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017” with your name and email address to +234-803-302-1263

2. If you’re NOT a member of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club, and you’re reading this in an email: simply click REPLY and type “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017”. Alternatively, send “YES – XL Heaven Podcast 2017” to tayo at tksola dot com

Below: Screenshot of an Example “Agricultural Field Inspection App” – in test mode

It’s a mobile app for agriculture field inspections.

How It Works:

The app comes with 2 links that allow you to to install it on (a) your mobile device and/or (b) run it in your web browser.

1. Users will use it to collect images, notes, and GPS locations while working/inspecting locations in the field.

2. The app automatically records date, time, and GPS location when a new record is posted.

3. It also allows the user capture up to two images and type in accompanying notes for each record.

4. This nifty app will come in especially useful for field workers/researches when they need to document specific issues while in the field.

NB: Variants of this app will be created for other applications. For instance, Primary Health Care Database Facilities Inspection etc.

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Being Germ Free Can Make You UNHEALTHY [Hint: Why Intelligent Mistake Making Is the Key to Authentic Success Achievement]

December 29, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

In this piece, I discuss one very harmful mindset that can hold anyone back, from achieving authentic success.

By this I refer to the habit of avoiding mistakes.

Some people believe in avoiding mistakes at all costs. What they fail to realize is that a time tested way to learning quickly and effectively is by making mistakes – but doing so INTELLIGENTLY.

I call it IMM – Intelligent Mistake Making.

Some of the wisest people you can find are people who take risks to try new things.

People who have experienced the ups and downs of life. People who have made mistakes, learned their lessons/paid the price and moved on to success.

Sometimes they fail, have to get up and try again, and again, until they succeed. Indeed their are times they end up NOT succeeding. But the benefit is rarely ONLY in the final outcome. Quite often it is in the experience – what is learned in the process of trying and failing.

The minute a human being achieves a fault – or error – free status, I believe s/he needs to relocate to heaven.

There would be NOTHING else to remain on earth for. And that’s why I have little patience with persons who make too much of a big deal of mistakes. No one is ever going to be perfect – or free from defect. It is in fact our imperfect nature, which should give us a sense of purpose, if we wish to make our stay on earth worthwhile.

Nature itself offers lessons that buttress the above point. She demonstrates through our exposure to diseases, that we NEED to get a little dirty every now and then, in order to become stronger or “better”.

Let me explain: Those of use who live in Africa know that our children are born with marked natural immunity to Malaria, especially when compared to children born in places where that disease is not endemic.

Our children get their immunity from parents and also from exposure to malaria via mosquito bites. This same principle applies to the use of vaccines (which are produced using the disease causing organism which the vaccines is meant to act against).

In essence I’m saying that it is NOT beneficial to completely INSULATE ourselves from exposure to germs. Research evidence and real-life experiences confirm that 100% germ free environments may deny us the opportunity to develop some degree of natural resistance (via production of anitbodies in response to exposure) to common disease causing organisms, that we may encounter.

The implication of the above point was captured quite eloquently in a line I picked up from a martial arts movie I recently watched.

The star actor said:

“Water that is too pure, has no fish in it”.

I would put it this way:

“People who do not make mistakes, NEVER really achieve progress.”

And that’s the truth. But some people go through life claiming to be better than others, because no one sees them fail at anything.

Sometimes it’s NOT healthy to be too “clean”.

I argue that ANYONE who is not experiencing periodic failure (temporary defeat), is either NOT taking any risks, or is hiding those failures from others. Whatever the case, s/he stands to lose a lot from living that way.

As you start this new year, I ask you to face up to the challenge of getting yourself a little “dirty” (from failing/falling) as the opportunities present themselves (AND THEY WILL!). Your progress towards achieving self-actualisation will depend greatly on doing this.

On a final note, let me wish you joy, happiness, good health, and success in pursuit of your valued goals in 2017 and beyond.

QUOTES WE LOVE

“Water that is too pure, has no fish in it” -Unknown
Source: Line I picked up from a movie

“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.” ~ Niels Bohr

“Flops are part of life’s menu. Everyone makes mistakes. High achievers learn by their mistakes. By doing that, an error becomes the raw material out of which future successes are forged. Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.”~ Unknown

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”~ Sophia Loren

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you are playing it too safe.” ~ John Maxwell

This article is based on a piece first published in 2012 via spontaneousdevelopment.com (now defunct).

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A People’s Ability to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable is Crucial for Societal Advancement [Hint: Why Too Many of Today’s Nigerians Are Often Too Angry to be Reasoned With!]

March 23, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

It’s something that first began to really strike me when I visited Nigeria for the first time about 6 months after relocating to Cotonou.

I mean the fact that there are a LOT of (indeed too many!) VERY angry people within the geographical entity called Nigeria.

One time I was in the chauffeured 4 wheel drive of a Cotonou based Nigerian diplomat as we drove through the border town of Badagry, on our way to his farm house in Ekiti.

I could not help pointing out to the driver how readily one could see people shouting insults and curses at one another on either side of the road. Some were even fighting – right next to the highway, with most others simply walking past.

Motorists themselves acted no different as we continued. The tiniest misdeed on your part as you drove readily earned you a torrent of insults – or if you were lucky an impatient look of contempt!

This was in stark contrast to what I’d seen and experienced during the tough first 6 months I’d stayed in Benin Republic. Indeed, the only time I ever saw ANY form of aggression displayed by locals in Cotonou was when 2 robbers were given the beating of their lives, and left bleeding for the police to pickup, after they tried to rob a woman emerging from a bank around Etoile Rouge.

Look, as I’ve said in past articles, I once spent 3 months – in 2013 – living among undergraduates half my age, in a room on the National University campus Calavi, when I failed to find accommodation in Cotonou.

It was a last resort arranged by a friend I made which saved me from getting further duped of 2,000 FCFA multiples, by the greedy estate agents I naively trusted to take me around to see flats I could rent.

But my housing problem apart, I NEVER once saw a single fight occur on that campus all through my 90 day stay there. Not once – and believe me, I moved around a lot.

If anything, I discovered from being among those young Beninese male and female students, that theirs was an environment in which PEACE MAKING valued in the larger society, was not only actively promoted, but also strictly enforced.

Indeed, if you were heard or seen shouting at one another, without so much as physically touching one another, chances were good that those involved would get summoned and possibly disciplined.

I saw that happen at least once, before I left that campus.

One day in Cotonou, after I’d left Calavi and found my own apartment, I recall seeing a commercial bike rider accidentally splash water in a pothole on a man standing along the road.

The latter angrily called out to him, and the bike man stopped and retorted in like manner. Before they could do anything more, a 3rd person who was just passing by, stepped between both of them and said, in French “Ici au Benin, c’est toujours la paix!” (Translation: “Here in Benin, it is always peace!”).

Magically, that simple statement instantly deflated the anger in both men, and I marveled as all 3 men smiled, shook hands and parted ways!

That was the day I realized that citizens of a nation have the power to determine whether or not they get along – regardless of the antics their leaders may try to use to cause conflict among them.

Sadly, this is one more truth I see too many people in my country, Nigeria, simply do not understand: As a result, they routinely let their emotions get out of control in relating with one another, especially when holding opposing views, to the extent that understanding and peace become strangers in their societies.

I argue that we must “learn to disagree without being disagreeable“.

It’s hard to remember where I first read or heard the above phrase used, but it has stuck in my mind since.

Life would be a joke, or an exercise in deception if human beings did not periodically disagree with one another.

There is a quote I once read that:

“Where everyone thinks alike, no one is doing any thinking!”

For some strange reason, people raised in the Nigerian society arrive adulthood with a notion (and a VERY faulty notion it is!) that one must accept the reasoning or thinking adopted by the majority.

Some will even parrot the popular saying (used most times out of context) that “majority carries the vote” – to justify going along with what others say, and demanding that you do the same.

Anatole France, the shipping magnate however wisely noted as follows:

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

Sadly, Nigerian society is a place where those willing to express divergent views on an issue often find themselves in the minority…

This is because most others would rather quietly align with the majority to avoid criticism, or worse, from others who have been taught o be viciously intolerant of opposing views.

It does not matter what the subject is – be it religious or intellectual. It does not matter how logical the arguments made need to be: If it so happens that some people are more “friendly” with one another, chances are good that they will simply gang up against those with opposing views – even if their own argument makes no sense!

After observing this happen for some time, and having it done to me several times, I conceived the following quote in an article published back in 2006, to describe those who allow themselves to be brow beaten and stifled by irrationally argumentative others who predominate in society.

“Some people join the crowd in order to become “hidden” or “protected” from criticism or scrutiny. Since they also take care never to voice contrary (and at times ANY) opinion, they are rewarded with the anonymity they seek – and the insignificance that results from it.” – Tayo Solagbade

I’ve done additional research on this subject and found that such irrationally argumentative people also exist in other societies around the word – including the wonderful US of America!

The difference I’ve noticed however, especially in the developed societies, is that those who hold divergent views from the irrationally argumentative group, generally REFUSE to give up their rights to FREELY EXPRESS their difference of opinion in public or private.

Not just that, the various sociopolitical structures extant in those countries make it literally impossible for ANYONE to stifle or intimidate others, even if they are a minority, from VOICING their opinions as and when they please, where and when they want.

It’s every human being’s fundamental right to speak FREELY what s/he believes about an issue. You do NOT have to accept it, but you must RESPECT his/her right to do so.

That is how a civilized society functions. We must never let our emotions blind us to the proper ways of doing things – or stop us from acting with consideration for the feelings of others around us!

It is my considered opinion that given what I see in today’s Nigeria, if Socrates had been born in our time, in our country, Nigerians would probably have lynched him to death before he could make a name for himself!

Yep. He would have probably been shouted down – or worse killed – for his adopted questioning technique, which forced those he debated with to furnish credible logic based arguments to defend their adopted positions on issues.

People intolerant of others unwilling to agree with them would find a person like Socrates simply intolerable!

Yet, if Nigeria is to evolve and mature into a progressive society, the QUALITY of debates we are able to have among ourselves, without rancour, really needs to improve.

I’ve witnessed lively debates on various issues under the sun by Beninese adults holding opposing views over the last 3 years, and NOT once have I ever seen it end in broken friendships, or harsh language. It seems to be something they’ve learnt to do from their youth – as my stay on their campus indicated!

Now here’s one quote I especially LOVE, because I think many people fail to realize how doable it is:

“I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.” – Anthony Bourdain

You see, it is my considered opinion that unless a person you like, love or respect has done something UNWORTHY or UNBECOMING or simply BAD, you really have NO NEED whatsoever to CHANGE how you feel about him or her.

So, if s/he chooses to support a different candidate during the elections for instance, you will understand that s/he holds a different view of what that person is capable of achieving in office, compared to the candidate you prefer.

That should not stop both of you from remaining friendly with one another during or indeed after the elections are over.

I recall we used to say back in my undergraduate days that:

“We can agree to disagree”

Only people who take things too personally, fail to understand the need for this matured way of living. They believe they must either win you over to their line of thinking or stop liking you or speaking with you. Haba!

The quotes below provide a fitting end to this piece, and also throw a challenge to ALL of us, regarding our adopted attitudes towards debatable issues.

“I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.” – D.R. Silva

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.” – (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) Albert Einstein

“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.” – Ashly Lorenzana

Final Words: The ability to act in line with the above admonition will often be a function of the DEGREE of Emotional Intelligence(EI) an individual possesses.

It’s a shame that in this part of the world many still do not realize that EI is more important than IQ for achieving success in life.

Actually most do not even know what EI is or means!

And the few who do fail to understand that unlike IQ, it can be improved by any person willing to make the effort. Indeed, many progressive societies are modifying their schooling systems to incorporate activities that help learners (especially kids) develop their EI.

Click here to read my widely syndicated article on EI – based on what I learned by reading Daniel Goleman’s similarly titled book back in in 2006.

Here’s one final quote to drive home my point…

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. – Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

So, dear reader, I say this to you:

Engage in intellectually stimulating debates with others, without letting your emotions get out of control. And while doing so, be sure to remain objective in looking at the issues from all perspectives, while keeping an open mind to acknowledge possibilities you may not have considered previously.

Most importantly however, AIM to always end your debates on a positive note with him/her or them.

Make it your resolve to never take anything that is said personally. The world NEEDS diversity to evolve – but the truth, about all issues, even if initially hidden will eventually be revealed to all!!!

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PII 006: Succeed by Becoming an Expert at Solving Real World Problems [Hint: Highlights from Maiden Edition of Tayo Solagbade’s FREE Monthly Workshop for his MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Members Held on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria]

March 21, 2016 Tayo Solagbade 2 Comments

Photo[Apologies for slightly poor image]: Attendees at the maiden edition of my FREE Monthly Workshop for Members of my Excel-VB Club held in Lagos at Sherryville Arcade, Opposite First Bank Plc, Ojodu-Berger, Lagos.

The topic was Introduction to Excel-VB Automation.

It was VERY practical and I told lots of true stories to add useful perspective for the learners in the small group of 5. But we had NO power supply and NO petrol for generator. Thankfully, the laptops allowed us make useful progress, for about 2 hours before their batteries ran out of juice!

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PII 006: Succeed by Becoming an Expert at Solving Real World Problems [Hint: Highlights from Maiden Edition of Tayo Solagbade’s FREE Monthly Workshop for his MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Members Held on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria]

The topic was Introduction to Excel-VB Automation.

In the coming weeks, I’ll build on this foundation given them with MORE online tutorials and tips, until next month’s edition.

By way of interest, before the workshop went into full swing, I received 2 phone calls from potential buyers in the presence of my attendees….

One was from a Startup Farm CEO in Enugu who had contacted hours before, in the morning, via my website auto response message about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager.

The other was an individual who called – for this first time – using a UK mobile phone number.

24 hours later (i.e. on Sunday p.m.), the former had made a deposit into my account to take up an offer I’d made to him. I delivered his personalized version of the products to him this morning before leaving to resolve some issues with my bank.

I mention the above incident, because that development served to further convince my learners that acquiring Excel-VB development skills like I had, would translate to significant income earning benefits for them!

This journey of building a club based follower ship began in May 2015. But to get this far, I’ve had to work hard on myself for YEARS!

I’m a self-taught developer of Custom Excel-VB driven Spreadsheet Software – and I’ve been developing custom spreadsheet solutions for business users in a very wide range of industries using my self-taught skills for 2 decades (starting with Lotus 1-2-3 before switching to Excel-VB in paid employment).

Initially, I did it while in paid employment, in my spare time – but it transformed my career and opened many doors of rapid career advancement opportunities that would NEVER have materialized otherwise.

Since I quit paid employment to do it for a living, in 2001, my work has evolved to a whole new level – with my products getting purchased by clients within and outside Africa.

All this has happened with only my self-taught skills. However, my self-development efforts in this regard have NOT been haphazard.

In order to improve myself, I studied – and continue to study – the works of experts recognized as established thought leaders and practitioners in Excel-VB Solutions development in the real world.

Examples of those whose works have influenced me are Pierre LeClerc, the fatherly gentleman based in Canada, whose approach to Excel-VB programming makes it so easy to rapidly improves one’s self via self-study, using resources he provides.

My encounter with his work, in 2005 changed the way I worked with Excel. He it was who really made me understand how to OPTIMIZE the Excel calculation engine, using it’s powerful spreadsheet functions and features, while enhancing my productivity by incorporating Excel-VB automation – where relevant.

You see, Pierre explains that a competent Excel-VB Solutions Developer will have a real world relevant problem solving mind set – as different from the world view adopted quite often by people called “Programmers”.

Indeed, most times an Excel-VB developer will have a background in management, which will guide his/her intelligent use of MS Excel and its VBA back end for real world relevant problem solving.

This philosophy has helped me escape the trap that many others fall into, of wanting to CODE the life out of every problem in an unconscious effort to show how skilled one is in programming.

The authors of Professional Excel Programming – which I call the Excel Bible – agree with this line of thinking. Indeed, in the first part of their book, the actually described 5 categories of Excel Developers – and they named those with the above tendency: “VBA Developer”

At the bottom of this piece is a diagrammatic representation, with notes, of those 5 categories – which reflects LEVELS of Excel-VB proficiency of a user.

I have chosen to base the coaching support I offer my target market on use of this model.

For the market I serve, I’ve found out that most users will most likely fall into Levels 1 and 2. My vision is to help those interested to move up to Level 4 – through the one-on-one experiential coaching I offer as well as the generic coaching I provide via my Excel-VB club.

But one problem I anticipate is that of the VBA developer types of business users and/or those with such a mind set

Excel-VB Solutions Development is NOT about ego tripping. We are not people obsessed with displaying our programming or coding prowess. Instead, we make intelligent use of our coding skills to ENHANCE our work productivity as it relates to our data recording, analysis and report generation for timely decision making.

That’s why I have examples of automated workbook reports (like this one build for the National Distribution Manager of a Large Multinational Telecom Company) that do NOT use a single line of VBA code, and yet cuts down report generation time by over 80% – compared to status quo!

Those who want to learn from me or engage my services must be willing to adopt this perspective, otherwise it would be impractical for us to work together.

A recent enquirer sent me some code he was having problems getting to run normally and asked that I help out. I was due to run my first workshop for my Excel-VB club members at the time, so I told him I’d create a video tutorial based on it later.

As I type this, it’s 3.24 a.m. Monday 22nd March 2016 and I just took my first real look at the code after pasting it into the code window of a new workbook.

What I saw INSTANTLY screamed “VBA Developer” to me.

Why?

Because some of the code sentences showed he was using code in VBA to do things that would have been better handled using Excel’s spreadsheet functions.

Whoever wrote that macro procedure/subroutine did a lot of coding overkill.

It pays to LET EXCEL BE EXCEL, if you want to get a solution that gives the user best results.

With what I’ve seen, I’ve decided I’m going to ask the gentleman to show me the data he wishes to handle, so I can gain better insights into what he wants to do with the code.

Then based on that perspective, I’ll point out the inadequacy of the coding approach adopted and propose an alternative more consistent with best practice.

In order to sell custom Excel-VB software as a profitable business in a socioeconomic environment where it did NOT previously exist (Nigeria), I’ve had to adapt ideas from developers in Europe and America to suit my needs.

The priority I’ve had to pay attention to has been the mental attitude of business users out here who balked repeatedly at any efforts to deliver solutions with a DIY provision.

In other words, they did not want to learn how to do what I’d done for them or how to maintain or improve on it.

Instead, what they wanted was for me to deliver what amounted to a “dummy-proof” range of solutions – that did not even require them to know ANYTHING about using MS Excel!

This is why today, in my promotional messages, for my Excel Heaven brand, I say “If you can use a mobile phone, you can use my custom Excel-VB apps”.

The above experiences have made me realize that users in these parts especially, or those with similar backgrounds to them will best be helped to develop interest in learning Excel-VB automation by using what is called a Case-Study based Experiential Coaching Approach.

Basically, this means that I offer to teach them Excel-VB programming by focusing on using the work they consider important as a basis on which to provide my tutorials, in such a way that at the end of each session they will leave with something they can immediately begin to apply to improve their work related productivity.

This strategy of Experiential Coaching necessarily makes it difficult, if not impossible to provide a one-size-fits-all range of tutorials for learners.

Instead, I have step-by-step video and PDF tutorials meant to introduce every learner to foundational concepts of Excel-VB programming.

These will give him/her the needed sound footing to build up his/her skills in BEST PRACTICE Excel-VB coding.

But to ensure s/he is able to make good progress without losing enthusiasm, I will use information I obtain using my Needs Analysis Questionnaire to identify – in liaison with him/her – key work based tasks that we can use as Case Studies for his/her learning.

Based on what I learn from his/her questionnaire responses, and our interactions as the coaching progresses, I can go on to create a special range of tutorials for him/her to use for home study.

This is my approach, based on the needs of my target market/audience, identified over the past decade.

Click here to learn more about my Home/Self-Study Tutorials used in my One-on-One Experiential Coaching

It is basically a custom solution in which I create learning “content” for YOU based on needs I identify you have. Access to this option requires joining my Inner Circle.

This is different from the arrangement in which I offer general coaching via short weekly tips and tutorials to members of my Excel-VB club (click here to see my members-only private/closed Facebook page for club members).

The required investment for the former (which is $500 USD via my Inner Circle) is different from that for the latter (which is $65 USD per annum – for membership of my Excel-VB club – click here for details).

It goes without saying that the one-on-one coaching option is more intensive than the Excel-VB club alternative. You will need to decide which one you will be best able to cope with – because I WILL CHALLENGE you to stick with agreed milestone targets/dates!

Click here to see the course content for my 4 day Excel-VB Programming Coaching LIVE Workshop

By way of interest, I offer to produce a home study video tutorial version of what I would normally teach during the above mentioned LIVE event – for interested persons – be you a one-on-one learner or member of my Excel-VB club.

But again, since not everyone will have similar needs, the specific examples I will use will vary depending on the individual’s identified needs.

Below: A mind-map showing 5 levels of Excel-VB Solutions Development Competence I offer support to achieve

I came up with this diagram based on categorizations made in Professional Excel Development – the massive Excel-VB programming bible written by 3 of the world’s foremost developers i.e. Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey and John Green.

Each has delivered high profile commercial Excel-VB software solutions to the world’s largest corporations.

Note that my experiences over the years indicate that majority of business users want something around the Power User level – especially career persons in paid employment in this part of the world – as against what obtains in developed societies.

Having said that, my goal is to use my Excel-VB club platform to gradually encourage more users in and out of paid employment, to over time build their competence to the level of Excel Developer – and possibly beyond i.e. to Professional Excel Developer.

True Story: Responding to last week’s request for Excel-VB coding help from a business user in India

Last week, I published a blog in which I shared details of the above mentioned request I got from an Indian gentleman at about 12:53 p.m. on Tuesday 15th March 2016 (Read it here).

Early this morning, at about 4.30a.m or so, I got up and checked out his code, then wrote in modifications my first instincts led me to use – and they worked.

Then, just as I’d promised the gentleman, I proceeded to record a screen shot demonstration tutorial in which I explained what I’d done, and why. In the video, I gave him my opinion about the intended purpose of the code snippet he’d sent to me, noting the fact that better use of the Excel object model could minimize the need for VBA use for the task in question.

Below are screen shots of the original code he sent, and the modified one I sent back, PLUS email/facebook exchanges we’ve since this morning…

Above: Email in which he replied (after seeing my code) expressing satisfaction with what I’d sent him.

Notice in his last email response, above, that he said he looked forward to requesting more of my “help” in the same manner…

And interestingly, he stated that he was sure I would give it…being the “nice sir” that I am of course…hee hee!

Unfortunately, I do NOT do flattery. I do NOT need it.

I also do NOT feel ANY need to prove myself in terms of my Excel-VB coding (or any other) competence.

So, one thing I KNOW will NOT be happening again is ME doing any such thing for him again.

Either he joins one of the countless free forums, or he enrolls for a course online. Or he could join my Excel-VB club.

But even when if he joins my club, I will NOT be doing coding for him. I do NOT code for any of my members. Instead I teach them concepts, tips, techniques they need to know and then guide them to THINK up ways to use what they learn to solve ANY problem they raise for use as a case study.

That’s why I call my approach Experiential Coaching.

Some people believe that if you really know something, the best way to prove it is to TELL the learner. They argue that “using questions” and prompts, like I do suggests I’m not confident or competent or both – and that THAT is why I hide behind that approach.

My response is that I have a library of commercial Excel-VB apps that I’ve been selling to an increasingly global paying audience for over 10 years now. Not only did I build them – and find buyers – ALL by myself, I also provide LIFETIME after sales support 24/7 to ALL my buyers.

And that is ALL the proof I need!

If you’re a business user of Excel in Nigeria/Africa and you represent a group, organization or association of business users, and would like to gain access to the learning solutions I offer with regard to the above, click here to contact me.

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New posts from last week*

Monday:

PII 005: You Need Excel-VB Coding Skills to MAKE and SAVE Money [Attend Tayo Solagbade’s FREE 4 Hour “Practical Introduction to MS Excel-VB Automation” Workshop]

[Tuesday]:

[Advice for Smart Parents] You Need to Give Your Kids Real World Relevant Coaching NOW, If They Are to Succeed…In Their Adult Lives!

[Wednesday]:

How can a “Switchboard” Make Your Life Easier in an MS Excel-VB driven Corporate Data Management/Report Generation System ? [Download A Useful Infographic]

[Thursday]:

Conversations About Productivity Boosting Excel Visual Basic Automation [True Stories: Enquiries from a business user in India and Nigeria]

[Friday]:

You Have to Believe In Yourself First, Before Others Can Really Believe in YOU [Maiden Edition of FREE Monthly Workshop for Tayo Solagbade’s MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Members Holds Today – Sat 19th March 2016]

[Sunday]:

Protected: THE FARM CEO (Issue 41): 3 Ways to Profits in Cassava Business, SECRETS TO MAKING MILLIONS IN PLANTAIN FARMING BUSINESS IN NIGERIA, GET LISTED FOR CASSAVA AND YOUR OTHER PRODUCTS TO SELL TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Creator of the Mastering Adversity for Perpetual Success Achievement Coaching Program

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical
Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS

newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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You Cannot Sell Web Marketing as a Commodity (Hint: Suggestions to SEO Service “Sales Persons” and Those Who Buy From Them)

March 3, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Update – 5th March 2016 at 19:28: Click here to listen a short audio recording I did on this subject BEFORE I wrote this article]

The views I express in this piece may rub some hard core SEO practitioners the wrong way. However, I urge you to keep an open mind as you read, so as to appreciate the often missed perspective I offer.

A few days ago, I got a call from a young lady who boldly announced the name of the company she worked for, and then asked:

“Are you Tayo Solagbade, the owner of thefarmceo.net?”

When I replied in the affirmative, she said “We can get thefarmceo.net to appear in the number one spot on Google. What do you think about that?”

At this point, I understood where she was headed with her line of questioning, and sighed as I realized the nuisance I’d endured for years via email, from so called SEO providers had come to me via yet another channel.

I proceeded to calmly and politely explain to her that thefarmceo.net was one of 5 domains I owned, and that I had no need to get it to appear in number one spot on Google.

I explained further that I did not do SEO in the conventional sense she proposed, where one aimed to appear on number one, for a fee. Instead I use(d) a zero cost Web Marketing System to achieve the search engine visibility I needed (via multiple sales pages indexed) , in a manner that brought me a regular stream of high quality prospects via search engine queries.

She asked some more questions, in a way that indicated she was trying to wrap her mind around the unusual point I was making. How come I did not do SEO?

I replied that I did some basic SEO, but that I focused more of my efforts on using my Web Marketing System to get noticed in a favourable way by the engines and my target audience. For instance, I told her thefarmceo.net, for me, does not need to appear in Google’s SERP at number one, because I use it mainly as a forwarder to a sub domain on my flagship website i.e. www.iff.tayosolagbade.com. I therefore place greater priority in getting TayoSolagbade.com top visibility in search engines results pages.

At that point I heard a click, and the line went dead. She was gone.

Whether she’d cut the call, or had run out of airtime, I had no idea. One thing was certain though: she would not be calling back, because all I’d said clearly indicated I would NOT be interested in buying the “commodity” of number one position in Google for a fee, that she wanted to sell.

It is my considered opinion, that outside standard SEO that most website owners know/do, the smartest, most effective way to attract attention from potential buyers online, is intelligent creation and propagation of useful, value adding and interesting content, on a regular basis.

I believe many supposed SEO service providers focus on selling commodities instead of solutions. That often serves them, with little or no benefit to clients.

For those who still don’t get it, here’s why an offer of that kind should NOT win you over easily:

1. Getting into number one can be achieved, depending on a variety of factors.

But that has to be done within a defined context relevant to your unique needs. Since they come telling you they can do it without even knowing what you’re about, how can you be sure they’ll make it happen in a way that will attract the right kind of people, you need to buy from you?

Getting into number one MUST be a means to an end YOU want to achieve.

If you get into number one for irrelevant search strings, you’ll make little or no sales. And if you get into number one for the wrong reasons, or you get into number one in the wrong “niche”…then you’re on a wild goose chase!

Those are the fine details these “vendors” never tell most uninformed clients (Sometimes I suspect even they (the SEO “vendors” – as I like to think of this breed – do NOT know those details themselves!)

They simply play the trick of massaging people’s egos.

Showing up on Google’s number 1 placing becomes a bragging right they encourage the client to aim for. The client is made to forget that THAT appearance is supposed to translate to quality sales leads can result in actual buying transactions taking place.

2. Staying at number one in the manner they propose will require that YOU pay THEM money to keep it so

It becomes a recurrent expenditure, once they lock you in. I say your money will be better spent most times!

There are website owners caught in this trap now, paying to stay in their so called number one placing, even though their leads generations is showing no significant improvement.

3. Web marketing when done right, can deliver timeless returns on your investment.

A person who comes offering to get you into number one, without asking for information to evaluate what your brand is about, does NOT care about you.

S/he is hunting for money.

Choosing the right expert, and paying him/her to handle your SEO can yield good results. However, it can be hard to find experts with integrity, and competence, who will not be a bit pricey.

So, when you get offers of quick-fix SEO solutions, at “low prices” consider such offers with a big spoon of salt.

4. One more thing. I don’t know if I’m the only one who has noticed this…

When I was trying to reinvent my website marketing i.e. when traffic was close to nil, and I was starting this blog in 2012, I got few offers from these SEO guys.

But as soon as things began moving up for me traffic wise, especially from Google and You tube, in late 2013. When I’d built up some critical mass of blog posts, I suddenly started getting a rash of almost daily email offers to help me get more traffic and page 1 SERP placings!

That’s like offering me medication for an ailment I already cured myself of!

Apart from a few articles (like the one here and this one here) I’ve ignored them for the most part – until this phone call incident from a few days ago. The former link leads to an article titled “Open Letter To Intending SEO Service Providers – From Tayo Solagbade of the SD Nuggets Blog” in which I PREDICTED that I would succeed with my web marketing WITHOUT using their services, or adopting their methods.

I’ve since been vindicated many times over – including the time my domain got poached and I rebuilt my brand to even greater search engine relevance on a brand new domain less than 6 months! (Read A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name)

Here’s one of several analogies I use to drive home my point about the power of original and useful content in web marketing

Imagine putting up a (never-before-seen) page with a link to watch a video showing Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi trading tackles in a secret one-on-one match up, to see who could score more goals against the other, on a web page with ZERO SEO done to it!!!

I’m sure you’ll agree with me that THAT video will chalk up a massive number of views from soccer enthusiasts in no time – regardless of what platform the page owner chooses to announce it from.

Why?

Because the target audience, who are die hard soccer lovers, would watch and then tell one another, and possibly keep coming back to watch.

In the process, Google and other search engine robots would follow the “traffic” of visitors to that page and the video, and it would climb right into page 1 of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). And it would begin trending, then more people would get to know about it, and the cycle would continue.

We all know this is what happens. And that’s why I believe sometimes we go overboard in the way we talk about SEO.

Having said that, some highly competitive markets do require extra and more sophisticated SEO efforts to gain the slightest advantage.

However, those tend to be in the minority. Especially in my part of the world. The degree of needs sophistication regarding web marketing is much lower in Africa, compared to what obtains in developed societies.

A large majority of website owners out here are not so technical minded.

My experiences and observations also indicate that few are willing, talk less able, to pay competent hands to to do it for them. And that’s if any worthwhile returns – measurable and sustainable – can be had.

Unless it’s not too pricey and a one-off expense (both not likely) most of them would balk at doing it.

For me, as far as today’s web marketing goes, my experiences tell me once you know the demographics of those you want to attract, the rest is easy.

You would begin by doing
the standard SEO stuff e.g. add keywords, title and description tags to articles, images plus submit your domain to directories and search engines.

You would also follow key Google webmaster tools recommendations. Setup profiles on Google plus, You tube, and other social media platforms you consider relevant – being sure to use RSS feeds and URLs to link the aforementioned with your website and blog.

Such standard steps generally suffice.

Next you would focus on churning out useful and interesting information via
as many channels and in as many formats as possible, to meet your target audience’s needs

As you do that – and continue to do so – simply watch Google’s fair play algorithms do their magic in your favour. Your webmaster tools account would offer more insights into analyzing your performance, and you could use that to improve your efforts.

Apart from attracting a larger number of potential buyers to you, this approach also ensures they are more profitable as well!

Unfortunately, Africans in general, and Nigerians in particular still need to learn to NOT be so
egotistical and negatively competitive in both business as well as personal life.

Our way of life too often encourages people to think and act from Win-Lose (instead
of Win-Win) perspectives in relating with one another.

As a result, trust is a stranger amongst us, as is the true spirit of excellence
that thrives where negative competition is absent or minimal.

The above is why we often find ourselves looking to others from Europe and America
to help us develop, since our best people often find it hard to come – and stay –
together in lasting collaboration to make desired results happen.

In this field of Web Marketing for instance, this problem is one that I have
pointed out many times.

It is why too many web development practitioners in these parts still continue
selling web marketing to clients as a “commodity” with a shelf life, when in fact it
needs to be delivered as a self-sustaining “solution” that is timeless in its
impact.

Since their clients don’t know better, they accept this inefficient and more
expensive approach until they can no longer afford it and/or the results no longer
justify the continued monetary investment.

These developers see a person preaching low to zero cost timeless marketing
strategies like me as a threat.

They believe I want to make them do more work for clients than
they are willing to. So, rather than reach out to learn from me, they begin to look
for ways to discredit me before clients who are often not savvy enough to see
through their antics.

And that’s why:

1. I offer web marketing educational resources for CEOs – to over time arm them with
insights to be more discerning in terms of what they accepts from providers –
including me!

2. Once in a while I also offer messages to other web development service providers
fitting the description given above, about the need to invest quality time to learn
better ways to serve clients improved results.

The pod cast I will publish on this blog tomorrow, offers content catering to both groups, that I believe they
will find to be a wake up call of sorts.

1.Can Competitors Trick Google Into Penalizing Your Website Wrongfully?

2. 3 Reasons to NOT Pay for Facebook “Likes”

3. It Takes Proven Know-How to Achieve Repeatable Web Marketing Success [True Story: How My 9 Year Old Domain Got Poached In May 2014, and I Used My Web Marketing System On a NEW Domain, to Build My Online Brand/Sales to a Higher Level Within 6 Months]

4. 5 Reasons Why Buying Facebook Likes Is a Waste of Time and Money for Your Business

5. Why Article Marketing Is Still Effective

6. Open Letter To Intending SEO Service Providers – From Tayo Solagbade of the SD Nuggets Blog

7. A Website That Works Wins You Repeat Visitors, Leads, & Sales: NOT Admirers & Compliments!

8. PII 003: Proven Web Marketing Ideas Your Travel and Tourism or Hospitality Business Needs

9. A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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For Web Marketing Success You Need to Tell Compelling Stories [Hint: How Educational Commercials Can Help You]

February 27, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I create Educational Commercials (EC) for clients in various markets, and continue to do so for myself as well. It’s a resource I have found to be quite versatile in that it can be used both on and off the web to establish expert authority status and generate potential sales leads.

However, not many business owners I meet, who own websites of their own, are aware that this kind of publication can help them.

[TIP: Click here to download one of my most popular Educational Commercials, titled “Proven Techniques (& Strategies) You Can Use to Start & Finish Writing ANYTHING“]

Simply put, an EC helps you present potentially useful information and education in a manner that makes potential clients feel you can help them – even though you are not directly marketing your solutions to them.

You can do this by using a storytelling approach to communicate the ideas and strategies you advocate for adoption. Or you could adopt a white paper based format in which you offer insights and recommendations based of formal investigate research you’ve done into the theme or subject of the EC.

There are countless ways you can use prepare an Educational Commercial. I have however found storytelling to be especially effective, because many times the stories resonate with the readers who fit my target audience profile.

This is why I always advise my clients to tell true stories about experiences they have in their personal and work lives, making sure to find creative ways to weave in subtle references to what they do, in a way that alerts readers to the solutions they offer.

It can take a while to et the hang of it, of course, but when eventually you do, you WILL be amazed by the results you will get – in form of people reaching out to you as if they’ve always known you. Potential clients will call you and eagerly demand for details of solutions you offer, based on what they’ve read in your writing.

Having said the above, I must add that writing the EC is one thing, but getting it found and read by those you NEED to do so, is quite another thing!

This is because regardless of the shape or form your EC takes, you need to develop and implement a smart Web Marketing System to effectively promote it to your target markets.

My experience and success with Web Marketing prove that it pays to intelligently break down one’s story into different reusable parts, so as to appeal to one’s target audience in as many ways as possible.

I’ve studied experts who tell their stories to sell their books and services like Kiyosaki, and noticed that some of his books offer more details about his “story” that other books he’s written do not. I also noticed that he uses the details to determine the marketing slant he adopts for the book.

At my own small level, I have done the same thing with aspects of my own life story e.g. for my parenting articles/books compared to my career development articles/books or my entrepreneurship articles/books – and it’s worked so well for me.

I am convinced, based on my experiences over the years, and the success I enjoy with my Web Marketing today, that anyone who diligently follows the guidelines I specify, will achieve similar, if not better results compared to mine.

Recommendation: Listen to My Web Marketing Pod cast Series

A few days ago, I published the first pod cast in my new series on this (Web Marketing) theme.

Click this link to listen to it at https://soundcloud.com/tayo-solagbade/making-money-with-your-online

What I say in it are examples of what I do for myself, and for my clients.

All of that is however something that YOU can also learn to do by yourself, for yourself – IF you have the time and the needed training.

Those who hire me often do NOT have the time or the training, and/or prefer to engage my experience and expertise to boost their chances of getting sustainable results faster.

Click here to contact me if you need to learn more.

Educational Commercials Will Boost Your Marketing

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A Smarter and Cheaper Strategy for Earning Foreign Exchange [Hint: It’s NOT Related to Crude Oil or Agricultural Exports…But It’s Cheaper And More Sustainable]

February 19, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

It’s become more apparent that we as a people in Nigeria still refuse to GET IT, when it comes to identify SMARTER strategies for earning TANGIBLE foreign exchange on a sustainable basis to boost our economy.

Since I became a child capable of intelligent thought, growing up in Nigeria, most times the subject of foreign exchange earnings has been discussed, it has always been MAINLY regard to sales of Crude Oil, and Agricultural Exports.

Fast forward many decades later, and I’m approaching my 46th birthday, yet nothing has changed.

Both the leadership and followers in Nigeria still cannot see that there are MANY more reliable alternative ways today, to earn substantial amounts of foreign exchange, on a long term sustainable basis, at much less cost, using much fewer resources, and in much less time!

This is the Information Age we’re in for heaven’s sake. A time in which PC and Internet technology drives virtually every area of our lives – even including the exploration of our crude oil (which now commands pitiful selling prices in the market) as well as our agribusiness endeavors.

I recently got a browser error message displayed in my attempt to make online renewal payment for a client’s website hosting using my Debit card, linked to my Paypal account.

The message shown advised that my card been “denied by the card issuer”: I had no clue what that meant.

By the time I called the bank’s support arm, they checked and announced that the funds paid in by my client were insufficient. In reality however my hosting provider platform was working with Nigeria’s N200 to $ 1 USD official exchange rate showing that I have well over the required amount.

Long story short, by the time I voiced the above fact, the bank customer service operator told me that N300 to $ 1 USD rate was set for online card transactions, due to the continued fall of the Nigerian Naira, was responsible!

Yet, NO notification was sent out to card users to that effect.

So users discovered that fact only at the point of payment! By implication of the above, my client, who’d I only recently hit with a price increase, to adjust for an earlier value drop, now has to absorb yet another hike to make the payment possible.

My point however is that this is all happening because Nigeria’s major means of earning sustainable amounts of foreign exchange is via crude oil and agricultural sales, for the most part. With the former providing the bulk of the earnings, effectively making us a mono-economy for decades, we were NOT ready for the drastic change in fortunes when it happened.

Now that the oil market is no longer so lucrative, our leaders and people are turning to Agriculture – which is not bad. However, in doing so they are adopting the same mental attitude employed in handling our generation of Forex earnings from crude oil sales.

By this I mean, for instance, that they are working to setup large plantations, agricultural estates, farm settlements and the like.

To be fair to them, such models are proven to be viable and in some areas are already working. The problem I see, which many of those involved seem not to, however, is the fact that this adopted approach takes A LOT of time, money, effort and resources.

This is why despite the lucrative prospects of venturing into agribusiness, so many who want to, have not been able to. And since government itself is no longer exactly swimming in a pool of free-to-spend cash, they are unable to give out as much financial assistance as they would like to.

Add to that the massive hole smashed into Nigeria’s coffers, by the political looters, most still being chased for possible recovery, and it becomes obvious that this capital and resource intensive strategy used for so long is simply not worth making our main focus.

We need to put in place something that can work faster, with much less (if possible zero cost) requirements, while at the same time impacting a larger number of our people.

Such a solution exists and has been in existence for decades.

But it is ALIEN to our society, for the most part. We are simply not used to functioning in such dimensions.

That is why it is understandable that up till this moment, despite ALL the pain, suffering, and lack visited on majority of us, we and our leaders still choose to ignore it or pretend it’s not there.

Yet if we were to adopt it, massive benefits can accrue to us a nation, within a much shorter period, and on a much more sustainable basis compared to what we currently have in place!

This solution requires deliberate use of the Creative Mind, the brain, the thinking faculties – in as many varied ways as possible, to earn income.

To some extent one could argue that we have elements of that happening already in Nigeria. That would be with regard to our entertainment industry. I won’t waste time explaining much.

One example should suffice.

What do David O, Tuface, Olamide, Sunny Ade, Wiz Kid, Seun and Femi Kuti, Lagbaja and so many other musicians getting international recognition do to make money?

Simple. They think up songs and strategies to deliver those songs to their target markets in a way that gets them invited to perform, and also earns them royalties from records sales.

But let’s get real here. Most Nigerian artistes don’t really know what it feels like to live on royalty earnings. The system we have here simply does not protect their interests that well in the respect.

As a result, they depend heavily on LIVE shows for their living. However Lagbaja, the Anikulapo-Kuti Brothers, Asha and other Nigerian acts who have established themselves by traveling and recording internationally, can boast of such royalty benefits being significant. Fela Anikulapo Kuti did that so well, that his albums continue to generate earnings for his offspring toda, MANY years after he’s passed on.

Most people in Nigeria don’t get it but THAT is another way foreign exchange earnings enter Nigeria.

Having said that however, even the music or entertainment creation model does not offer as much rewards to a large population like ours, compared to the solution I have in mind.

Among other things, getting started in music can often require having access to scarce funds. And this has caused some great talents to NOT take off in that industry.

The solution I advocate for adoption has much fewer barriers to adoption – even age is almost no limitation!

The fact that Nigerians in general have not adopted this solution I have in mind, does not imply we are dumb, blind or stupid.

No. It’s more of a problem of one-sided thinking caused by years of exposure to an environment in which VERY little critical thinking is done.

That is why we all think the same way about subject like these. We keep saying oil prices affect our dollar earnings. We forget some countries don’t even have Crude Oil to sell, yet they earn BILLIONS in US dollars annually!

A good example is India.

The Indians are leaders worldwide in software development and sales, and it earns them huge volumes of foreign exchange annually.

Unlike us, they did not sit around waiting for oil wells to be dug and oil to be drilled from them for sale to other countries at the huge expense we all know it takes to do it.

Instead, several decades ago they invested quality time and money to bring in top programmers to teach coding to Indian youths from primary school level on a formal basis.

It was a deliberate strategy that they diligently pursued until they began to turn our armies of young programmers, with the marketing skills to take whatever solutions they created and use the web to reach their target buyers.

Today, we know that many organizations in Nigeria use Indian software, which they often purchase RENEWABLE user licenses for – at premium rates in US dollars, all of which goes right into the Indian economy.

Yet I know of no single digital solution conceived and developed by Nigerians in Nigeria, that is purchased for use by Indians in India – whether as individuals or organizations.

It is also instructive to note that this happens with comparatively less effort and money being expended by the Indians – when compared to the costs we incur to get our crude oil to buyers!

In other words, the Indians (and other nations like them) are making low to zero cost use of the creative intellect of their nationals, across various age groups, to create foreign exchange earning solutions needed on a regular basis by people across the world.

[Hint: Note that I say the above as one who has made sales of my customizable Excel-VB Ration Formulator software to buyers in places like Canada, Philippines, England, Tanzania, Uganda and other countries but NOT ONE sale to anyone – so far – in India. Yet, over 90% of the enquiries posted under one of the most viewed videos for this aforementioned app were made by Indians who repeatedly request in their posts that I send them the app FREE…for some strange reason!]

If we in Nigeria are really serious about getting ourselves out of the mess we are in, with regard to having adequate foreign exchange earnings, we WILL have to look beyond the traditional capital intensive methods we’ve gotten so used to.

We will have to do something similar to what the Indians, Americans and many other developed countries are doing.

We will have to invest MORE time in using the creative intellect of our people, which comes at low to zero cost, to create solutions we can sell to a potentially unlimited global paying audience of eager buyers, just like the Americans and Indians have been doing to us for years.

Once we begin doing that, our own army of creatives will generate solutions that will attract buyers from abroad to pay in foreign currency.

Over time, that will add up like it does for India, giving us enough reserves to NOT have our currency fall so badly in value that prohibitive exchange rates stifle our ability to make online payments for what we want.

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No. 230: Post Employment Survival Strategies & Biz Startup Ideas [Hint: Signup for my Confidential Business Startup Ideas Support Service]

February 1, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Tough economic times, fewer jobs for those seeking, and more job losses looming on the horizon for people in industries we once thought to offer job security, ALL combine to make the message in this issue of my newsletter most relevant and compelling!

You will want to read this write-up if you are:

a. preparing for retirement

b. an organizational decision maker who prepares employees for retirement

c. planning to start a business part-time, while remaining in paid employment

d. planning to quit your job to start/run your own business full time

Many people spend a substantial part of their lives working for their employer without giving thought to the day they will have to leave – often by way of retirement. There are of course those who resign to start their own businesses.

And…there is that not so lucky group who get asked to leave

The question is how prepared WILL the people who fall into the above categories BE, for the real world of their societies when they find themselves in it?

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Date: Monday 1st February 2016
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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Post Employment Survival Strategies & Biz Startup Ideas [Hint: Signup for my Confidential Business Startup Ideas Support Service]

You will want to read this write-up if you are:

a. preparing for retirement

b. an organizational decision maker who prepares employees for retirement

c. planning to start a business part-time, while remaining in paid employment

d. planning to quit your job to start/run your own business full time

And…there is that not so lucky group who get asked to leave

The question is how prepared WILL the people who fall into the above categories BE, for the real world of their societies when they find themselves in it?

For many who have made that transition out here, in Nigeria, the experiences were often traumatizing.

The truth is that in Nigeria, going from salary to self-employment is NOTHING like what obtains in America, or other developed societies! There are NO social security safety nets. Few “protection” bodies exist that diligently help those who get “knocked” down unfairly as often happens out here.

Which is why having access to INFORMATION and EDUCATION from a credible and reliable source about what lies ahead, and how to proceed – by way of special reports, feasibility studies and even non-formal background checks/investigations, can be something of a God-send.

I nurse a special interest in this group of people and offer a customized range of products/services designed to help them prepare for that inevitable exit from paid employment.

No matter what anyone says, my experiences have taught me that apart from being COMPETENT, there is a serious need to develop the proper mind set needed for adapting to life without “steady salaried income”, as well as the need to “control bad/unhealthy spending habits” among a lot of other issues.

Most importantly, taking the decision about WHAT to do after you leave your job – and how to prepare for it, so as to increase your chances of success, is a major task to be given quality attention.

Read my article: Even When Competent, You CAN STILL Fail: 3 Abilities You MUST Develop To Protect Yourself!

You need information – the RIGHT information.

Unbiased, down to earth, factual, and experience based observations (and up-to-date data) from someone who has been on the streets.

I offer unique insights especially relevant and applicable in the African market, but also adaptable for use elsewhere.

Many times what you read in papers and hear on radio/TV, especially about what business is good to venture into, is NOT so accurate.

Why not minimize the risks you expose yourself to? And the pain that frequently accompanies resultant losses?

You can do that by signing up for my confidential service in which I help you do all the ground work – moving around the right places and people, to gather information, insights, data etc into reports and feasibility studies/business plans/reports or white papers you can use to make intelligent decisions?

The best part is that the required investment for this service entitles you to 25% discount – ALL my products/services (Custom Spreadsheet Software development, Web Marketing Systems Development,, Best Practice Farm Business Solutions, Freelance Article and Book Ghost-Writing/Publishing etc) which are designed to support business owners.

How to Get Started With My “Confidential Business Startup Ideas Support Service“

I’ve seen and heard of too many people getting duped by quack farm business “experts”. That’s why I am on a mission to support competent farm business experts to provide startup and business management support to those looking to emulate them.

But I realize not everyone will want to go into farming, and since I serve clients in other markets as well, thereby earning income doing so, it goes without saying that THIS confidential service is also open to persons who need it to pursue business interest in other areas.

Fill/submit the form here, to request details of how to get started.

Trying To Decide IF You Should Quit Your Job?

My Personal Stories Narrated in the Articles Linked Below Can Help You:

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Are You a Decision Maker Or Meeting Planner? Invite Me To Speak To Your Prospective Retirees

Many responsible companies organize “Pre-Retirement Seminars” for their outgoing employees.

I think it’s a great thing.

However, I have – in a past life – functioned as Training & Technical Development Manager in a large multinational manufacturer. Looking back, I honestly believe – going by my subsequent experiences over the past 10 years as an entrepreneur – that most of those events rarely offer THE REAL-WORLD RELEVANT information or education, that is badly needed by these people.

That’s why I now offer to give specially developed talks and seminars for employees of interested companies. If you are a decision maker, please consider engaging my services.

Your prospective retirees WILL thank you.

Fill/submit the form here, to request details of my Pre-Retirement Learning Events.

=========Below, are 3 examples of ways in which I already add value to business owners and those aspiring – PROOF that I am uniquely positioned to help you intelligently investigate your options towards choosing the right business======

Example 1: Book Cover Announcement of Hope Agwulonu’s Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farm Business Which Was Published Via My Book Ghost-Writing Print On Demand Publishing Service a few days ago.

This new publication is the product of my efforts to help Farm CEOs produce quality information products for use by aspiring farm business owners – especially those leaving paid employment, and looking to invest their life savings in worthwhile ventures.

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Example 2: My CEO Spotlight Interview (CSI) Series periodically features real life Farm CEOs with unique experience based insights

My CSI series is a public service to give CEOs, & those aspiring, ready-to-use experience-based information & education. The purpose is to promote experience-sharing amongst CEOs, about Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are tried and tested practical techniques/methods developed by active players in a venture to get improved results, often through application of creativity and innovation.

The first farm CEO to feature on it was Roseline Imoudu – a retired senior manager from a popular multinational, now – owner of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (aka RAS) based Seed Catfish Production Farm Business in Nigeria’s Ibadan. Click here to download the PDF interview transcript and/or watch the video version…

NB: I continue to research and connect with other farm CEOs that I consider potential candidates for the CSI series.

PS: The original version of this write-up (which I’ve revised/updated here) was first published online on Tue 6/14/2011 1:36 PM via spontaneousdevelopment.com (my former 9 year old domain – which is now defunct).

Example 3: World Class Mentoring for Experts-Who-Speak & Those Aspiring

You can start a speaking business by using your hard won experience from your time in paid employment to inform and educate a carefully identified profitable niche target audience.

If that appeals to you, then Burt Dubin can help you!

This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them.

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers, and with speakers who want to be masters. Click here to visit his website NOW to discover TONS of wonderful home study resources you can get started with, including his mentoring, at pocket friendly fees.

While there, submit a contact form message telling him what challenges you’re facing, and how you’d like him to help you. Tell him I sent you, and you’ll get a pleasant surprise offer from him.

You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and

Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable sociopolitical climate.
And for as long as that stable sociopolitical climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K.

Solagbade

It’s FREE for all my Web Marketing/farm business clients, and ALL members of my Inner Circle as well as for ALL subscribers to THIS newsletter.

If you are not yet ANY of the above, just send me a message here to let me know.

If you want me to send you the full MP3 recording, just say so in your message.

NB: If you’re already a client or subscriber, email me via tayo at tksola dot com and let me know you want it

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Click here to read TONS of Burt’s useful articles on professional public speaking and business marketing.

While there, be sure to download his audio experiences (MP3) on the right. Most importantly, take a few moments to use the link provided on the top right, below the banner, to send Burt a message, about your needs and interest in his mentoring solutions.

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are interested

in.

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Learn about Burt Dubin’s speaker mentoring products (books, audios etc) below…

If you need help purchasing ANY of Burt’s products, call me on +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic, my base) or +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or email tayo@tksola.com

Have a great week :-))

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THEY WROTE…

“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000).

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*
*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

start his own business).

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Click here to contact Tayo…


SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 229: How To Excel As An Employee (4 Experience Based Strategies)
[Tuesday]:	Using LinkedIn – The Required Mindset For Best Results
[Wednesday]:	The Need to Insist on Your Rights – Even Against The Police [A True Story: Letter to the Ogun State Commissioner of Police]
[Thursday]:	Create Mini Information Products to Boost Your Passive Income
[Friday]:	Welcome to my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club [Introductory Videos You Need to Watch]
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[Saturday]:	[FREE DOWNLOAD EDITION] THE FARM CEO (Issue 34): Hope Agwulonu – Abuja based Farm CEO – Publishes 60 page Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business – Download Your FREE Chapter Preview, Chapter 1: The Serious Biz of Catfish Farming, Why Farm CEOs Need to Read Non-Farm Related Articles, Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation],Your Own Money Making Information Product Built by Me!
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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No. 228: To Achieve Extraordinary Feats, Be Prepared to Overcome Extraordinary Trials! [Hint: That’s Why You Need Practical Guiding Philosophies to Pursue Success]

January 18, 2016 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” – C.S (Clive Staples) Lewis, 20th century British novelist, poet, literary critic, theologian, broadcaster, lecturer (November 29, 1898 to November 22, 1963)

The above C.S. Lewis quote was shared by a Facebook friend, on her wall, with a question asking if her observation that most successful people have often “been through the absolute worst times” was correct.

Something about the way she made wrote it got me thinking, that not everyone aspiring to success will readily understand why they should accept severe trials, and hardships as necessary stepping stones to achieve their valued goals.

So I wrote THIS piece to explain…

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“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” – C.S (Clive Staples) Lewis, 20th century British novelist, poet, literary critic, theologian, broadcaster, lecturer (November 29, 1898 to November 22, 1963)

The above C.S. Lewis quote was shared by a Facebook friend, on her wall, with a question asking if her observation that most successful people have often “been through the absolute worst times” was correct.

Something about the way she made wrote it got me thinking, that not everyone aspiring to success will readily understand why they should accept severe trials, and hardships as necessary stepping stones to achieve their valued goals.

So I wrote THIS piece to explain…

In my case, I learnt that truth by studying books about authentic success achievement, during the darkest days of my struggles as a startup/struggling entrepreneur.

Without the insights I gained from doing that diligent self-education, and the understanding they helped me develop about the need to have a GUIDING PHILOSOPHY for pursuing the success I wanted, I am convinced I would NOT be succeeding the way I am today.

Over 12 years on, since I quit paid employment to start my own business, I am able to build on my successes with confidence and determination, regardless of delays, disappointments or setbacks I encounter.

Without the success philosophies I read and adapted to suit my needs, I would have fallen by the wayside a LONG time ago!

The harsh economic times we’re in are TESTING people to the limits of their confidence, patience and self-belief…

I draw from my personal experiences and studies/investigations, including references and quotes, to explain why, if you want great success, you will most likely, as a matter of necessity have to endure great adversity BEFORE you achieve whatever dreams you set your mind on.

I know this because I made out time to carefully investigate it from my early startup years as a novice entrepreneur.

Among other things, I did a lot of reading e.g. Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich, Cynthia Kersey’s bestseller “UNSTOPPABLE!” (which tell 45 amazing true stories of entrepreneurs who overcame great suffering to succeed) as well as James Cook’s New York Times Bestseller “The Startup Entrepreneur”.

What I learnt helped me learn how to deal with frequent and prolonged hard times I faced in my business till I gained mastery that enabled me succeed more often.

As time went on, I found, by reflecting on my own experiences, that the authors of those books were right.

In past writings, I’ve noted that James Cook stated in “The Startup Entrepreneur” findings from his personal experiences as an entrepreneur, as well as his research into the lives of over 500 successful entrepreneurs in America.

Among other insights, Cook found that there is a direct correlation between the degree of suffering an entrepreneur goes through and the height of success s/he eventually achieves.

According to him, the greater the suffering, the greatest the height of eventual success achievement.

Jim Rohn, in one of his book explained why the above happens by saying:

“Be grateful for adversity, for it forces the human spirit to grow…there cannot be achievement in the absence of adversity.” –
Jim Rohn

Anyone who wants to achieve sustainable long term success in any area of endeavour in life needs to understand, accept and apply these truths and philosophies in his/her life.

Those who do never feel a need to complain when the going gets tough, because the know it’s going to make them better equipped to succeed.

What I’ve found is that many people do NOT know this truth before they embark on their journey into tough, unpredictable world of business/entrepreneurship.

And that’s why most of the allow hard times they encounter to discourage and make them quit.

Napoleon Hill noted that it’s important to have a guiding philosophy you adhere to (like that outlined in his classic bestseller – Think and Grow Rich), in pursuit of your valued goal, especially to keep you going through adversity or failure which is also known as “Temporary Defeat”.

Below: Cover image for my recently published CEO Spotlight Interview with Efe Ohwofasa…

Efe’s amazing rags to riches life story perfectly illustrates the point I’ve made in this write up about the need for you to RESOLVE to overcome hardships in your life, till you succeed.

Click here, or below to read his story, and be inspired to defeat ANY trials you encounter!

[LEARN MORE] Read the articles linked below…

In some of them, I referred to excerpts from the books mentioned above.

1. To Succeed, Understand That Suffering Can Be Good for You!

2. No. 223: Dealing With Adversity Requires The Right Mental Attitude

3. Why You May Want to Rejoice When Others Mock You

4. Do You Know How To Deal With People Who Mock And Ridicule You?

5. How To DEFEAT Haters – Permanently!

6. Why You May Want To Rejoice When Others Mock You!

7. Practical Guiding Philosophies For Entrepreneurial Success

8. Handle Your Problems Without Drama!

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves

experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

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Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers, and with speakers who want to be masters. Click here to visit his website NOW and submit a contact form message telling him what challenges you’re facing, and how

you’d like him to help you. Tell him I sent you, and you’ll get a pleasant surprise offer from him.

2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and

Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

Solagbade

It’s FREE for all my Web Marketing/farm business clients, and ALL members of my Inner Circle as well as for ALL subscribers to THIS newsletter.

If you are not yet ANY of the above, just send me a message here to let me know.

If you want me to send you the full MP3 recording, just say so in your message.

NB: If you’re already a client or subscriber, email me via tayo at tksola dot com and let me know you want it

Alternatively, click here to request the FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD.

******

Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Click here to read TONS of Burt’s useful articles on professional public speaking and business marketing.

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are interested

in.

*************

Learn about Burt Dubin’s speaker mentoring products (books, audios etc) below…

If you need help purchasing ANY of Burt’s products, call me on +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic, my base) or +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or email tayo@tksola.com

Have a great week :-))

*************

Get Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring
for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

Useful Resources for Speakers

*******

NEW: Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those

Aspiring (Volume 1)

Download above PDF

******

NEW: KUKURU DANGER™: 5 True Stories

About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life

Download above PDF

THEY WROTE…

—————————–

“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

start his own business).

———————–

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

====
[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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No. 217: Attract More Buyers at ZERO COST Even While You Sleep [Hint: I Meet A Past Online Buyer in Lagos Face-to-Face; This is Like Having ROBOCOP On Steroids as Your 24/7 Business Marketing Manager]

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Imagine having new buyers/clients regularly discovering (and reaching out to you), without your spending on adverts, fliers or paid business promotion channels in general?

I’ve done THAT for YEARS in selling my unique range of products/services to high profile buyers in and out of Africa.

See proofs (photos and screenshots) along with tips you can use, in the rest of this article.

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Date: Monday 2nd November 2015 No: 217 Title: Attract More Buyers at ZERO COST Even While You Sleep [Hint: I Meet A Past Online Buyer in Lagos Face-to-Face; This is Like Having ROBOCOP On Steroids as Your 24/7 Business Marketing Manager] Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ] Blog URL: http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets Last Week: Read articles published on my blog here Newsletter Archive (E-mail version started 14th May 2012): Click here to view Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.[Click to view Archives]

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Imagine having new buyers/clients regularly discovering (and reaching out to you), without your spending on adverts, fliers or paid business promotion channels in general?

I’ve done THAT for YEARS in selling my unique range of products/services to high profile buyers in and out of Africa.

See proofs (photos and screenshots) along with tips you can use, in the rest of this article.

ONE EXAMPLE: Just yesterday (Sunday 1st Nov. 2015), I met for the first time with a Farm CEO – Mr. Tunde O.<surname removed for privacy>- who bought my Ration Formulator Software and Handbook bundle (for N20,500.0) about 4 months ago.

That happened at a Feed Mill in Oko Oba area of Agege, owned by Engr. Olopade (an elderly but very knowledgeable man) – who I’d also NEVER met before that day!

[NB: The photos of the 3 of us – shown below were taken, at my request (after the session ended) by Tunde’s “madam” who accompanied him in his car to the venue]

However, the story behind our being able to meet up (3 total strangers!) on a Sunday at a feed mill owned by one of us is a real testimony to the power of intelligent Web Marketing….

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If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know I’ve been connecting with past buyers of my Feed Formulation Products so they can attend my on-demand FREE workshop

But it’s not been easy to put things together.

Many of those who’d indicated interest had chosen widely differing dates, making it virtually impossible to get the minimum of 5 persons required to justify doing a run of the group training/workshop.

So, I decided to offer them the opportunity to come down on an agreed date for a one-on-one session (still FREE) and/or to buy my Home Study Feed Formulation Video Tutorials DVD.

Most of those who’d indicated interest chose the DVD option. One is yet to get back to me.

But Tunde O.

made it clear he wanted the one-on-one option, as well as the DVDs.

So we agreed Saturday (31st October 2015) which he’d chosen.

However, when I called him on Friday (30th October 2015) he told he was at the time in Portharcourt, and would be taking the next flight back to Lagos, but that he had an unexpected change of plans, and so would not be able to make it for Saturday.

In case you wonder, we were trying so hard because he’d told me he would be going on an overseas trip (he’s a Geophysicist and runs the farm part-time with help from relatives and trusted hands), so this FREE window was the best shot we had – and we’d been planning this for close to a month!

Knowing that, I was not ready to let all our hard work go to waste…:-))

We talked a bit more, and eventually agreed to try and see if we could meet for a short version of the session on Friday by 1 p.m. Our projection that his 45 minute flight would end before then if it took off on schedule.

Unfortunately, by the time his flight arrived from PortHarcourt, where he’d gone for an event, it was already 3p.m – and we were not too keen on braving Lagos traffic to the Oko Oba end, where the feed mill to be used as venue is.

So I began making calls to CEOs of feed mills in the area to ask if they opened Sundays.

They all said NO.

I’d known that would be the likely answer…

But I’m always a never-say-never kind of person. So I began calling feed mill CEOs to ask if they would consider opening briefly & explained our peculiar need.

It took almost all day as I did other work, but last night at 10p.m, I finally reached one CEO (Engr. Olopade) who graciously accepted to personally open the feed mill for us at 4p.m the next day – Sunday, since the mill would naturally NOT be open for work, and the staff would not be around!

I recall telling Tunde – and Chuks – another past buyer that I’ve met once that I’d resolved to find a way to thank Engr. Olopade, for being so flexible minded and obviously humble/unassuming. His kind are truly rare in my experience.

It might interest you to know that I called up to 15 CEOs whose numbers I got from online directories, but NONE said YES to my outrageous proposal…

My never-say-die attitude kept me going despite all the blunt refusals I got from each person I spoke with.

THEN I got to Engr. Olopade…whose mobile number I also picked off an online directory of feed mill business CEOs in Oko Oba…and the story changed…!

It was about 10p.m when we spoke. I requested that he allow me use his Feed mill for a one-on-one training for Tunde, explaining the peculiar circumstances.

Note however that before I called him, we had NEVER heard of one another, talk less of speaking.

In other words were 3 total strangers agreeing to meet!

With the exception of Tunde, who had at least seen photos of me from visiting my website, I and Engr. Olopade had no idea what the person we were to meet looked like.

In fact a funny incident occurred when Tunde parked his car at the Abattoir bus stop outside the Police Station, to wait for me.

When I got there, I began trying to call his number to ask where he was parked.

But I kept getting a busy signal. So I had to redial repeatedly.

While doing that my eyes periodically caught an air conditioned blue Honda parked just beside me with a tall heavyset man at the wheel, and a female passenger next to him.

But each time I dismissed the idea of knocking on the window to ask if it was him, because I could not see him holding a phone to his ear. It was only when my call went through and I told him where I was standing that he looked round and our eyes met.

Then we knew! (Hint: Apparently he’d been using the hands-free feature during the previous call he’d been on!)

Long story short, 24 hours later, we were talking like old friends inside Engr. Olopade’s (he’d driven down in a 4-wheeler) feed mill – which turned out to be equipped with a VERY impressive modern milling system, complete with an extruder etc.

Before leaving, Tunde had taken Engr. Olopade’s business card, promising to get in touch (regarding milling his feeds there), while I stayed back to discuss several areas of potential collaboration with our host.

Believe it or not, we (Engr. Olopade and I) were together for well over an extra hour, sharing experiences and exploring possibilities!

See how the power of intuition and intelligent use of the web can combine to connect you with your target audience of buyers and potential partners??!!

Among other reasons, I share this story as an example of how not giving up/keeping an open mind/thinking outside the box can enable one make progress to achieve one’s purpose when it seems most unlikely.

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This story also illustrates the importance of getting your business online via as many platforms as possible.

If Engr. Olopade had NOT put up his company’s details on the directory I would never have found him.

That’s the power of intelligent Web Marketing!

It enables me earn over 80% of my income via online channels, selling my unique range of 100% original products/services.

Now I’m going to be helping Engr. Olopade setup and promote a branded Facebook business marketing page – at NO CHARGE to him – as my way of saying THANK YOU to him, for his generosity.

Later on a Web Marketing System will follow 😉

If you’re an independent professional (e.g. expert-who-speaks or consultant etc) looking to reach potential buyers/clients at low to zero cost, an intelligent Web Marketing System(WMS) is what you need

It is what has enabled me attract clients/buyers from places like Tanzania, Uganda, Canada, Benin Republic, UK, USA, Philippines, and across Nigeria (from states like Lagos, Delta, Kano, Gombe, Zamfara, Abuja, Oyo, Ekiti, Plateau etc) for my services as a Custom Excel-VB Software developer (especially my Farm Business Software), Freelance writer, Web Marketing Specialist, and Expert-Who-Speaks.

They come to me, without my needing to pay for ANY advertising, or distributing flyers etc.

To get an idea of how my Web Marketing System makes prospects find me, click http://www.google.com (it will open in another window) and type the following words into the search string entry bar, then click SEARCH (or click this: “feed formulation software”)

Unless something changed really suddenly – and BADLY, you’ll see that at least 2 of the 10 results Google presents to you on the first page are about me – with respect to the same software i.e. my Ration Formulator.

BELOW: See the screen shots from the Google results page I generated for “feed formulation software” today – Monday 2nd November 2015 – at 14:48 Lagos-Nigeria time:

What you see happens because of the Web Marketing System (WMS) I use.

But getting found is just one way a WMS helps.

A well implemented WMS goes further to make you pop up again and again, when varying search strings are used, related to YOUR offering! That process in which you show up repeatedly then makes the “searcher” believe you are likely to be the one with the most value-adding solution s/he needs.

EXAMPLE [TRUE STORY]: Last night I got an email from Yemi A.<surname removed for privacy> a Farm CEO who’d contacted me via my website about my Ration Formulator back in August 2014 (i.e. over a year ago).

I was in Cotonou (my base) at the time and we’d spoken on phone for quite a while. In the course of our discussions, we found we had something in common. Around 1991, he’d worked in Guinness Benin Brewery, with a senior colleague of mine – Sola Adeniran.

I however arrived as a Graduate Trainee Brewer in 1995, by which time he – the Farm CEO – had left the company. So we never met. But Sola was still around and we ended up working together on several occasions. So as we ended our phone conversation, I responded to his query about how I got into software development, despite lacking an IT background, by telling him to ask Sola.

In order to help him understand, I explained that I enjoyed rapid career success for 7 years in Guinness mainly due to the recognition I got for developing custom applications to replace manual reporting systems, using Spreadsheet programming.

Over 4 of my apps were used for formal reporting. Sola himself had requested my help to develop an automated chart-plotting/reporting application for his Utilities Department!

So, when we spoke on phone this morning, the CEO told me he’d attended an event 6 months ago with Sola. I did not ask, but I sensed he must have asked Sola. But this guy was NOT fully satisfied.

After I’d answered all his technical questions about my software, and feed formulation (note that I was – as is my usual habit – the one calling him – the enquirer – at my expense), he asked me to tell him how my app compared with others in the market.

At this point I laughed, and gently teased him saying: Why don’t you just Google “feed formulation software” – I’m sure you’ll get answers readily to that question. You see, I don’t compete. I simply tell people what I offer and leave them to explore available alternatives to make up their minds.

He replied that he’d tried Googling but most of what kept coming up included links to me, which was why he’d come back to me via the last emails we’d exchanged since August 2014 i.e. over a year ago.

That, right THERE, was proof of the power of a Web Marketing System when used the right way on a consistent basis!!

I told him I could not help him any more than I had, and explained that others had found me the same way – including international organizations.

I noted further that in December 2013, a European Union funded NGO paid me to write a 4,000 word Agribusiness paper about the rate of adoption of this same app (my Ration Formulator), by small farm business owners.

Final Words: You can have similar low to zero cost marketing success stories to tell, IF you adopt a custom WMS

I’ve been selling the Ration Formulator mentioned above (with upgrades) since 2004, and most of those I’ve sold it to found me via Google or Youtube, but have NEVER met with me till today, despite buying it.

It’s the same way I sell my Feed Formulation Handbook – which I wrote in 2002.

That’s also how I get hired to ghost-write books for clients.

My WMS is the glue that fits all of them together!

When used correctly, a custom WMS can help you attract eager potential clients/buyers for ANY solution you offer.

It’s like having ROBOCOP on steroids as your 24/7 business marketing manager working to generate sales leads/enquiries even while you sleep!

Do you want to have a similar system working for you?

TEXT “YES WMS” with your name and email address to +234-803-302-1263 or fill and submit the web form at: http://tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

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He evolved and refined it over MANY years to the point that it began generating VERY comfortable passive income streams for him. It was by studying systems like Burt’s that I developed what I call a WMS today.

If a veteran like Burt can use a WMS, it goes without saying that you should as well!

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Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others. In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix (TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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Below: Screenshot of an Example “Agricultural Field Inspection App” – in test mode

Some of the wisest people you can find are people who take risks to try new things.

The minute a human being achieves a fault – or error – free status, I believe s/he needs to relocate to heaven.

Let me explain: Those of use who live in Africa know that our children are born with marked natural immunity to Malaria, especially when compared to children born in places where that disease is not endemic.

The implication of the above point was captured quite eloquently in a line I picked up from a martial arts movie I recently watched.

I argue that ANYONE who is not experiencing periodic failure (temporary defeat), is either NOT taking any risks, or is hiding those failures from others. Whatever the case, s/he stands to lose a lot from living that way.

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I could not help pointing out to the driver how readily one could see people shouting insults and curses at one another on either side of the road. Some were even fighting – right next to the highway, with most others simply walking past.

Look, as I’ve said in past articles, I once spent 3 months – in 2013 – living among undergraduates half my age, in a room on the National University campus Calavi, when I failed to find accommodation in Cotonou.

One day in Cotonou, after I’d left Calavi and found my own apartment, I recall seeing a commercial bike rider accidentally splash water in a pothole on a man standing along the road.

For some strange reason, people raised in the Nigerian society arrive adulthood with a notion (and a VERY faulty notion it is!) that one must accept the reasoning or thinking adopted by the majority.

Sadly, Nigerian society is a place where those willing to express divergent views on an issue often find themselves in the minority…

I’ve done additional research on this subject and found that such irrationally argumentative people also exist in other societies around the word – including the wonderful US of America!

It is my considered opinion that given what I see in today’s Nigeria, if Socrates had been born in our time, in our country, Nigerians would probably have lynched him to death before he could make a name for himself!

Now here’s one quote I especially LOVE, because I think many people fail to realize how doable it is:

Only people who take things too personally, fail to understand the need for this matured way of living. They believe they must either win you over to their line of thinking or stop liking you or speaking with you. Haba!

Final Words: The ability to act in line with the above admonition will often be a function of the DEGREE of Emotional Intelligence(EI) an individual possesses.

Here’s one final quote to drive home my point…

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By way of interest, before the workshop went into full swing, I received 2 phone calls from potential buyers in the presence of my attendees….

This journey of building a club based follower ship began in May 2015. But to get this far, I’ve had to work hard on myself for YEARS!

In order to improve myself, I studied – and continue to study – the works of experts recognized as established thought leaders and practitioners in Excel-VB Solutions development in the real world.

You see, Pierre explains that a competent Excel-VB Solutions Developer will have a real world relevant problem solving mind set – as different from the world view adopted quite often by people called “Programmers”.

At the bottom of this piece is a diagrammatic representation, with notes, of those 5 categories – which reflects LEVELS of Excel-VB proficiency of a user.

That’s why I have examples of automated workbook reports (like this one build for the National Distribution Manager of a Large Multinational Telecom Company) that do NOT use a single line of VBA code, and yet cuts down report generation time by over 80% – compared to status quo!

Because some of the code sentences showed he was using code in VBA to do things that would have been better handled using Excel’s spreadsheet functions.

In order to sell custom Excel-VB software as a profitable business in a socioeconomic environment where it did NOT previously exist (Nigeria), I’ve had to adapt ideas from developers in Europe and America to suit my needs.

The above experiences have made me realize that users in these parts especially, or those with similar backgrounds to them will best be helped to develop interest in learning Excel-VB automation by using what is called a Case-Study based Experiential Coaching Approach.

Instead, I have step-by-step video and PDF tutorials meant to introduce every learner to foundational concepts of Excel-VB programming.

Click here to learn more about my Home/Self-Study Tutorials used in my One-on-One Experiential Coaching

Below: A mind-map showing 5 levels of Excel-VB Solutions Development Competence I offer support to achieve

True Story: Responding to last week’s request for Excel-VB coding help from a business user in India

Below are screen shots of the original code he sent, and the modified one I sent back, PLUS email/facebook exchanges we’ve since this morning…

Notice in his last email response, above, that he said he looked forward to requesting more of my “help” in the same manner…

That’s why I call my approach Experiential Coaching.

If you’re a business user of Excel in Nigeria/Africa and you represent a group, organization or association of business users, and would like to gain access to the learning solutions I offer with regard to the above, click here to contact me.

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Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A few days ago, I got a call from a young lady who boldly announced the name of the company she worked for, and then asked:

It is my considered opinion, that outside standard SEO that most website owners know/do, the smartest, most effective way to attract attention from potential buyers online, is intelligent creation and propagation of useful, value adding and interesting content, on a regular basis.

Here’s one of several analogies I use to drive home my point about the power of original and useful content in web marketing

Having said that, some highly competitive markets do require extra and more sophisticated SEO efforts to gain the slightest advantage.

For me, as far as today’s web marketing goes, my experiences tell me once you know the demographics of those you want to attract, the rest is easy.

Next you would focus on churning out useful and interesting information via as many channels and in as many formats as possible, to meet your target audience’s needs

Unfortunately, Africans in general, and Nigerians in particular still need to learn to NOT be so egotistical and negatively competitive in both business as well as personal life.

In this field of Web Marketing for instance, this problem is one that I have pointed out many times.

And that’s why:

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However, not many business owners I meet, who own websites of their own, are aware that this kind of publication can help them.

There are countless ways you can use prepare an Educational Commercial. I have however found storytelling to be especially effective, because many times the stories resonate with the readers who fit my target audience profile.

My experience and success with Web Marketing prove that it pays to intelligently break down one’s story into different reusable parts, so as to appeal to one’s target audience in as many ways as possible.

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Fast forward many decades later, and I’m approaching my 46th birthday, yet nothing has changed.

I recently got a browser error message displayed in my attempt to make online renewal payment for a client’s website hosting using my Debit card, linked to my Paypal account.

Now that the oil market is no longer so lucrative, our leaders and people are turning to Agriculture – which is not bad. However, in doing so they are adopting the same mental attitude employed in handling our generation of Forex earnings from crude oil sales.

We need to put in place something that can work faster, with much less (if possible zero cost) requirements, while at the same time impacting a larger number of our people.

This solution requires deliberate use of the Creative Mind, the brain, the thinking faculties – in as many varied ways as possible, to earn income.

But let’s get real here. Most Nigerian artistes don’t really know what it feels like to live on royalty earnings. The system we have here simply does not protect their interests that well in the respect.

The fact that Nigerians in general have not adopted this solution I have in mind, does not imply we are dumb, blind or stupid.

Instead, several decades ago they invested quality time and money to bring in top programmers to teach coding to Indian youths from primary school level on a formal basis.

Yet I know of no single digital solution conceived and developed by Nigerians in Nigeria, that is purchased for use by Indians in India – whether as individuals or organizations.

If we in Nigeria are really serious about getting ourselves out of the mess we are in, with regard to having adequate foreign exchange earnings, we WILL have to look beyond the traditional capital intensive methods we’ve gotten so used to.

The question is how prepared WILL the people who fall into the above categories BE, for the real world of their societies when they find themselves in it?

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Next you would focus on churning out useful and interesting information via
as many channels and in as many formats as possible, to meet your target audience’s needs

Unfortunately, Africans in general, and Nigerians in particular still need to learn to NOT be so
egotistical and negatively competitive in both business as well as personal life.

In this field of Web Marketing for instance, this problem is one that I have
pointed out many times.

Tayo K. Solagbade’s
Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS Newsletter

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for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

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Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS Newsletter

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