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Smart Web Marketing Wins Profitable Farm Business Buyers [Hint: Poultry Farm Business Plan Preparation Service]

2 days ago I got a pleasant surprise when a “Production Metallurgist” with a Namibian firm sent me this message via TayoSolagbade.com:

“My boss gave me your ebook on the 25 articles on self-development as a present. However, I am struggling to contact you in order to get the links in the book to become functional. Can you possibly e-mail me the contact form so that I can send you a copy of the invoice. As it stands, I do not have access to all the articles in the ebook.”

It was the first time ever that I would be getting a message from one of many who had bought my 25 Articles PDF Ebook collection from my www.lulu.com/sdaproducts online store – since 2006!

Click now to visit the online store

Before now, I only got the payment alerts sent by Lulu.com. Not once have I ever been able to identify those who purchased my books.

The Lulu.com system – for obvious security reasons – does not permit that. However, it does allow us sellers to setup auto response messages in our online stores, to be delivered to buyers.

In mine, I invite the buyer to contact me if s/he needs help making use of the book etc.

Below: The web form message sent to me by the buyer…

Subject TayoSolagbade.com FFApp Demo Request

From <email removed for privacy>

To tayo at tayosolagbade dot com

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 08:18:55

On 2014-09-30 at 08:18:55,

The following information was submitted:

From Host: 41.205.140.178

name = <removed for privacy

submit_by = <email removed for privacy>

company = Production Metallurgist

address = < removed for privacy

city = < removed for privacy

states = —

country = Namibia

phone = < removed for privacy

how_found = I read about your ebook 25 articles on the inte…

interest = Poultry Farming

comments = My boss gave me your ebook on the 25 articles on self-development as a present. However, I am struggling to contact you in order to get the links in the book to become functional. Can you possibly e-mail me the contact form so that I can send you a copy of the invoice. As it stands, I do not have access to all the articles in the ebook.

Here’s the response I sent to him…

Subject Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

From Tayo K. SolagbadeAdd contact

To email removed for privacy>

Reply-To tayo at tksola dot comAdd contact

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 09:04:28

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

Send me the invoice via this email address.

Or if you prefer, the main website contact form is at www.tayosolagbade.com/contact.htm

It would also help if you:

A. Attach the ebook you got from your boss as a gift

B. Provide further clarifications about your needs. For instance you indicated your “subject of interest” in your form submission (below) to be “poultry farming”. But my 25 articles ebook, which you got, caters to a multidisciplinary theme that does not directly deal with farm business, talk less poultry (?).

Look forward to your response.

With kindest regards,

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service

(

http://www.speakingsuccess.com) In Africa

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

Then he replied with this message…

Subject RE: Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

From <removed for privacy>

To tayo@tksola.comAdd contact

Date Tue,30 Sep 2014 09:55:35

25_articles_true_storie…u_succeed_more_often.pdf (attached file)

Hi Tayo,

Attached, please find the ebook and the invoice. I originally became interested when I read your article – Practical Farm Business Performance Calculations and thought that I could find an example of the work you done on excel in this regard. I viewed your video last night but I would appreciate it very much if you could probably forward me the following information:

1) A copy of the Poultry Laying Business Plan with calculations which you once wrote for a customer (I intend to start up with 2500 layers) and could possibly use your plan to guide me.

2) A List of parameters (apart from the 3 parameters you already alluded to in your article) which I can use in my spreadsheet to optimally manage my laying business.

I really enjoyed the ebook and downloads from your website.

Regards,

<name removed for privacy>

When I got his above response, with the attached PDF he had purchased and the invoice sent to his “boss”(who purchased it on his behalf) by the Lulu.com payment system, I knew I was dealing with the right person

Next, I sent him the first of a planned 2 part response as follows:

From: Tayo K. Solagbade

Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:30 PM

To: <removed for privacy>

Cc: M

Subject: Re: Re(Your Enquiry): 25 Articles Ebook…

Thanks for getting back <name removed>

Seen the file, invoice, and your request.

First off, I think the intro in the pdf may have been a bit misleading.

All 25 articles are actually already included full length in the pdf ebook. That’s why its length is over 140 pages.

Simply keep scrolling downwards and you’ll eventually come to the first of the 25 full length write-ups.

The preview section in the ebook was only included to give an idea of the other articles that were available on my website at time.

I’ve since moved them to my daily multidisciplinary blog at http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

When I respond in my next email to your other requests, I’ll attach an updated version of the 25 version of the ebook, with click able links to the other articles in their new locations.

I’ll also add links to much more recent farm business articles I’ve since written, that you may find useful.

With kindest regards,

Tayo

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

The above situation turned out to be a good opportunity to do something I ought to have done a long time ago i.e. to update URLs and other contact details in the PDF ebook.

Since I lost my 9 year old domain – spontaneousdevelopment.com on 4th May 2014, I have been unable to find extra time to do the needed cleaning up in my other information products.

Ironically, one reason for this is the fact that since I adopted my tayosolagbade.com domain name, and began re purposing my website content on it, the leads generation I’ve been getting has really shot up.

I’ve said that much in subsequent articles – like THIS one (click).

My online sales (orders from buyers in my online store for my books and payments from clients for my Excel-VB software and services (e.g. business plan writing, web marketing etc) have increased.

Add to that the demand for my web marketing services by 2 new clients here in Cotonou, and you may understand why I’ve NOT been able to clean up my bylines in my Ezinearticles.com articles, talk less of updating the same in my e-books.

Thankfully, this buyer reaching out to me with my ebook made me dig in and do an much needed update. Now, I just have to make out time to upload it to replace the old one in my online store.

For now, I’ve sent the updated ebook to the above mentioned lady, as an email attachment.

And I also addressed the 2 requests he made…

Below: This afternoon, 2 days after sending him part 1 of my response, I followed up with the 2nd part of my response – see below

Excerpts from the response I sent to him, which I believe other farm business enthusiasts will find useful – hence my decision to share it here.

Hi <name removed for privacy>

Thanks for your requests.

First of all, find attached a cleaned up version of the 25 Articles PDF Ebook you bought.

I hope it makes for a more friendly reading experience.

When I can find the time, I will upload it to replace the one still in the online store.

Now, to the other requests you made…

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Your Question 1 – You asked that I forward to you:

“A copy of the Poultry Laying Business Plan with calculations which you once wrote for a customer (I intend to start up with 2500 layers) and could possibly use your plan to guide me.”

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Attached is a zipped folder named “Riaan-Question1.zip” containing the generic business plan preview documents I will be offering for FREE download on my website in a few days – once I finish setting up the sales/squeeze page:

Take a look through. I have taken out certain sections and left others in – but mostly blank tables and labels.

[Note to reader: If you’d like to view the above mentioned zipped folder’s contents, click here to send me a request.]

Note that the performance indicators featured in the tables are discussed in the articles I’ve linked to in response to your second question below.

You see, it so happens that the business plan I dispatched to the client is what I have already repackaged as a template to be sold to interested Farm CEOs (and those aspiring).

Due to the in-depth nature of this particular client’s project, I came to the decision that I can use a smart MS Excel projections workbook, in conjunction with a market survey questionnaire I developed, to help clients prepare comprehensive business plans.

All they need to do is purchase the template bundle (the full 24 page generic business plan with a one page micro version. Once that happens, I then send the buyer a questionnaire with which to collect data I will need for updating the dynamic projection tables in MS Excel.

The questionnaire will also get responses relevant to the client’s industry and market description etc, which are needed to complete other sections of the plan.

Using that info, I will customize the full plan, and produce a micro version, which will both be dispatched to the client in editable MS Word format. I will also send the MS Excel workbook containing all the projection tables with the data and formulas intact.

The client will be able to make changes as s/he may wish.

On the offer/sales page I will state the above benefits and process.

You are getting to know about it ahead of time because of your enquiry.

If you’d like to take up this offer, it’s for a FEE of N50, 000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) – payment required 100% up front.

You may use www.xe.com or www.coinmill.com to do a conversion to your currency.

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Your Question 2 – You asked that I forward to you:

A List of parameters (apart from the 3 parameters you already alluded to in your article) which I can use in my spreadsheet to optimally manage my laying business.

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Below is the download link to a zipped folder named “Riaan-Question2.zip” – containing 2 workbooks:

Riaan-Question2.zip- Click to download now

A. 5PowerfulTools.xls

This contains a sample template that explains how to compute certain Farm Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) discussed in an article I submitted to a 3rd party website in 2012.

Here’s the link to the article titled “5 Powerful Tools for Accurately Measuring Your (Farm) Business’ Health”

http://nigeriabusinesscommunities.com/features/5-powerful-tools-for-accurately-measuring-your-farm-business-health.html

The article uses the contents of the workbook to explain the calculation of each KPI – offering a download link at the end for the reader to view the workbook.

B. Figures1to4.xls

This workbook contains screen shots (4 of them) from different interfaces of my Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager software.

Click the link below to watch 16 video tutorials that show the app at work – including an automated chart generation interface for trending Hen Day Percentage (HDP) for layers

http://tinyurl.com/15pfmVideos

Incidentally, that software was built to automate the routine DAILY, WEEKLY and MONTHLY computation of the parameters described in my Practical Farm Business Performance Calculations article that you read.

This Figures1to4.xls workbook is actually linked to, from a more recent article titled “5 Essential Poultry Layer Farm Production Records” – that I got approved as a guest post in 2012 on Africabusinesscommunities.com. Click below to read it.

http://nigeriabusinesscommunities.com/features/five-essential-poultry-layer-farm-production-records.html

The article highlights calculation methods for 5 important farm production records I recommend every poultry farmer diligently capture.

Doing so will enable him/her take timely farm planning decisions that will result in the best possible performance.

Additional Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Articles:

Click the link below to open a page that  – when you scroll to the bottom – offers a list of click able links to 10 articles (some you’ve read, others you’ve not).

http://tayosolagbade.com/pfmgr.html

Hope this helps.

In your service.

Tayo

PS: Due to my domain name change from spontaneousdevelopment.com to tayosolagbade.com – the links in those articles no longer work.

I’ve informed the webmaster for Africabusinesscommunities.com about the need to change the URLs, but have gotten no response.

But I plan to use both articles in special e-book collection I’m working on. So, it’s kind of a blessing in disguise :-))

Now, in case you’ve not read it, click the link below to learn what happened to my previous domain:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/tayo-what-happened-to-spontaneousdevelopmentdotcom/

And just like I said in the article below, I’ve re purposed my content to boost my website conversation rates WAY above what they used to be with the old domain:

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/a-proven-strategy-to-find-profitable-buyers-regardless-of-your-domain-name/

Final Words: My new template based Poultry Farm business plan preparation service will soon go live!

In yesterday’s article, I announced that I was preparing a special business plan preparation service bundle – and that it was based on the recent elaborate business plan preparation project I recently completed for a new client in Nigeria.

Now, like I said in the email above, this new service will soon be formally launched here on www.tayosolagbade.com

When the sales page goes up, I will announce it on this blog, and also via a newsletter broadcast to my email subscribers.

UPDATE: The service is LIVE. Click here to visit the sale page.