Excel-VB Solutions
Study Your Child's Naughty Actions to Discover Her Genius [True Story: Secretly Keeping a Pet Turtle - Then Getting Caught & Flogged!]









Kids will always get into trouble. Every parent must accept this as a reality. What matters is how we help them LEARN from the mistakes they make, so they arrive adulthood as well rounded and competent individuals. I for one got into all sorts of trouble between the ages of 10 and 16. Today, I […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Formulating Livestock Rations by Adjusting for Dilution Effect of Non-Protein Contributing Ingredients [True Story: Helping a Farm CEO Client Understand the Thinking Required]









Last week, I had to respond to a Ugandan farm CEO client who requested my help formulating 3 rations (30%, 20% and 16% protein content respectively) using the Excel-VB Ration Formulator he’d purchased from me (via Western Union Money Transfer payment). In addition to some notes/screenshots and a short video demonstration, I referred him to […]







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Career Development
No Experience is Ever Wasted - Be Hungry to Learn New and Better Ways to Achieve [True Story: How I Learnt Spreadsheet Programming as a Graduate Trainee by Watching my Training Manager DO IT Every Chance I Got]









Below: Photo of me (Tayo K. Solagbade) as a 25 year old Graduate Management/Brewing Trainee in Guinness Nigeria Ikeja's Training Centre - seated beside Richard Chambers, expatriate Brewery Training Coordinator at the time (1995) . NB: See 3 past articles at the bottom of this piece, in which I made reference to Richard Chambers) Today, I use […]







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Entrepreneurship
Protected: [True Story] Build Bullet Proof Spreadsheet Apps Then Go Many Extra Miles to Resolve ALL User Problems

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Entrepreneurship
PII 032: Maximise Returns by Integrating Rabbit Farming into Your Farm Operations [True Story: Excerpts from my response to a tweeted request from Eno, a Nigerian Rabbit farm owner]









Below: Screenshot of a tweeted request from Eno, a Nigerian Rabbit farm owner. I've been passionately preaching the gospel of Commercial Rabbit Farming on this blog for years (see past articles below). This is because I believe its potential as a high quality protein supplying micro livestock (aka "Biological Refrigerator) is grossly underestimated. It is […]







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Entrepreneurship
PII 031 [TRUE STORY!] Growing Weeds Can Help Farmers Lower Animal Feeding Costs









The phrase "Useful Weed" understandably sounds like a contradiction in terms, since a "weed" by definition is an unwanted plant. However, that expression perfectly captures the revised status of a onetime notorious weed, which today has been established by farmers/agronomists and animal nutritionists as a reliable alternative source of plant protein for use in livestock […]







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Career Development
How You Can Create Income Generating Assets Without Having a Job or ANY Money! (True Story)









The gentleman posted as follows: "...so how can young people in South Africa create Assets with out having jobs?..." This article is based on a comment I recently posted in response to the above question posed by a South African follower of Robert Kiyosaki(RK)'s Facebook business page, in response to a post announcing a new […]







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Entrepreneurship
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]









Two great quotes by a great man, who achieved great results in his chosen field of expertise: "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am" - Muhammad Ali "It ain't bragging if you can back it up" - Muhammad Ali Image Source: http://orig06.deviantart.net To paraphrase Ali with regard to BOTH quotes, […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Take Your Kids Out to Experience The REAL WORLD of Your Society [True Story: A Last Minute New Year's Outing with my Kids to the Bar Beach via Public Transportation in Nigeria's Lagos]









You take it for granted, but your kids don't have a clue about it - even though they WILL have to deal with the reality in future. I'm talking about everything you have to do, to provide for them and/or to pursue your goals in life. That includes the STREET SMARTNESS to move around in […]







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Entrepreneurship
Drama at Midnight: Disappearing ATM Card Palaver in Cotonou - 2 Lessons Learnt (True Story)









2 days ago, on the night of Thursday 19th Nov 2015, after I (once again) exited my favorite Cyber Cafe here in Cotonou, as the last customer few minutes past 11p.m, I visited the ATM at Ecobank Gbejromede (Hint: For those who wonder why I REFUSE to use a private Internet connection - the experience […]







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