No. 176: Serve Clients Fanatically & They’ll Speak GLOWINLGY About You [VIDEO: Clinical Audiologist Client Speaks About Tayo K. Solagbade]

Due to my diverse client base I get many requests for widely differiug solutions I offer as a Multipreneur. Most come to me because they trust me. So much so that they even ask me to help evaluate prospective employees, or to decide what expert to engage to carry out tasks for them.

They act this way because I have proven myself to be a competent and trustworthy provider of solutions they value enough to pay for.

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Date: Monday 12th January 2015

No:176

Title: Serve Clients Fanatically & They’ll Speak GLOWINLGY About You [VIDEO: Clinical Audiologist Client Speaks About Tayo K. Solagbade]

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No. 176: Serve Clients Fanatically & They’ll Speak GLOWINLGY About You [VIDEO: Clinical Audiologist Client Speaks About Tayo K. Solagbade]

Due to my diverse client base I get many requests for widely differiug solutions I offer as a Multipreneur. Most come to me because they trust me. So much so that they even ask me to help evaluate prospective employees, or to decide what expert to engage to carry out tasks for them.

They act this way because I have proven myself to be a competent and trustworthy provider of solutions they value enough to pay for.

Many have complimented me on my versatility, which enables me delievr on promises I make to provide solutions regardless of the industry the client operates in.

I am able to do this NOT because I have training in their fields, or know better than them.

No. Instead, I serve them so well because I have learned to painstakingly RESEARCH and INVESTIGATE what every single client does, to gain useful insights into how the solutions I provide can help him/her succeed MORE at less cost, and with less effort.

I invest this kind of effort and time, to study and better understand my clients’ needs, because I truly want them to succeed.

You see, I know that if I help them succeed, they will naturally appreciate having me around. And that ensures not just a positive relationship, but also possible opportunties of repeat business in future.

My decision to work this way, is based on yet another of Burt Dubin’s articles that I have read.

It was titled “Turn Your Clients Into Ardent Advocates This Way” (click to read).

In it, Burt advocates doing for your clients, MORE than any other expert who does what you do, in his/her right mind, would EVER do.

By following Burt’s recommendations, I am getting more and more clients I work with, raving about me, on and off the web, within Nigeria/Benin Republic and even outside Africa, as far as Canada (in 2012), and more recently, in Abu Dhabi (December 2014).

Watch a Clinical Audiologist client I have served since 2007, speak about me in an impromptu video at: http://tinyrurl.com/tksInnerCircle (Or click the image below to read the verbatim text transcript of the video testimonial)

Verbatim text transcript of video testimonial about Tayo K. Solagbade at http://tinyrurl.com/tksInnerCircle by Mr. Simeon Afolabi, Clinical Audiologist, BSA Hearing & Speech Centre, Lagos/Abuja – Nigeria

Click here to watch the video

Hint: If you’ve been reading my writing a while now, you must have deduced – quite correctly – that I am a keen student of Burt Dubin’s works in the areas of public speaking and business marketing.

It goes withou saying that I’ve had to adapt Burt’s ideas to suit my unique socio-cultural setting, as YOU should also do, if you choose to make use of them.

The results I’m getting PROVE I’m learning from the right source.

And that’s why I urge others to make Burt their mentor!

When you do the above – which I like to call “Serving Fanatically” – you instantly stand out from others who do what you do.

Your clients may however intially wonder to themselevs “How can he do so much or give so much, without being sure of getting anything in return?

Some may even get suspicious and say “Hmm, maybe there’s something he wants. There has to be a catch of some sort. Let’s wait and see!”

They may not ask you, but they could think it…

Regardless of the feedback you get (if any), however, just focus on continuing to serve fanatically!

Also make sure you keep delivering way beyond what you promise. Over time, it will become apparent to them that THAT is how you work.

That discovery will make them realize that anytime they invest in your services or products, they are sure to get A LOT MORE than they pay for…which will often make them LEAN towards havign you serve them.

That is what serving clients FANATICALLY can do for you, if done right!

Let me emphasize here, that I also do this with people who are NOT yet clients i.e prospects or potential clients/buyers.

Yes. So it’d not just with people who have already bought from me, that I do it.

And I do it without expecting that they will buy.

It goes without saying, of course, that I want them to buy, and hope they will. But I do it without having ANY regrets if they do NOT.

You can however ONLY serve in this manner, if you truly CARE about people, and want the best for them!

I do CARE, and my demonstrated attitude is making those who come into contact with me take particular note of me.

In the process I am gaining more and more credibility, and name recognition, which further boosts the reach and impact of my marketing efforts.

A Warning: But not everyone will deserve your “fanatical support” – so learn to screen then out!

I have attracted high quality clients to myself for YEARS by serving in this manner. During that time however, some have displayed exploitatve tendencies, trying to take advantage of me.

It took me a while, but I eventually learned how to identify such people and gently offload them from my social space.

Today, I can confidently assert that over 95% of clients I have are those with whom I enjoy mutual respect and consideration.

I now want them to have more cost-effective access to my multidisciplinary solutions…

Many are showing interest in more and more of the new products and services I offer.

Especially my Farm Business software (Poultry Farm Manager, Ration Formulator, Payslip Generator etc) – as well as my Web Marketign Systems Development services.

To help such persons, I launched (on Thursday 8th January 2015) my Inner Circle Membership offer

Through it, any interested persons can get as much as 65% off the prices of ALL the solutions I offer.

If YOU have EVER considered (or if you ARE currently considering) any solutions I offer – or in having me provide any other solutions for you – joining my Inner Circle will be your best bet to get cost-effective access to me.

Join MY Inner Circle for $160 USD per year and Get custom Farm Business Software, Business Plans, Information Products, Freelance Writing,  plus Web Marketing, & Software Development Services – ALL at 65% off for LIFE! Get fanatical support that my clients enjoy. Watch a Clinical Audiologist client I have served since 2007, speak about me in an impromptu video below, or on Youtube at: http://tinyrurl.com/tksInnerCircle – Tayo K. Solagbade

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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.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organisations 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 organisations, 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:

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:

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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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Glaring Contrast Between Cyber Cafes in Lagos and Cotonou (The Need to Create Enabling Environments) – True Story

Traveling helps one gain useful perspectives and insights, making one broad minded. My travels have taught me that one does need to be rich, or make big money to enjoy great QUALITY of life.

In well managed societies, even the poor can afford a decent existence devoid of avoidable annoyances.

The story I share below illustrates a glaring contrast in the conditions under which people running the same type of business have to operate in their respective countries – which share a common border.

In Cotonou, most Cafe’s I use open as early as 8a.m, and I sometimes work in Cafe’s well past midnight.

I once arrived from Lagos about 15 minutes to Midnight and got a bike rider to take me around till I found a Cafe still open (and many users in it), where I was able to quickly publish my blog post for the day.

But no matter how late it was, I never had problems getting home. Within minutes of stepping out on the sidewalk, I would flag down a commercial bike rider, who I would confidently allow to take me home.

Whenever I’m in Lagos however, things get very complicated.

Cafes here open as late as 9.30 to 10a.m. The owner of the one close to my home told me his staff lives 2 hours away in another state (Ogun) and the traffic makes it hard to get in earlier.

So I’m usually waiting till 10a.m before I can start work. My attempts to use other cafes had taught me few promised good value for money and time. This one does. But unlike the Cotonou cafes, it closes, almost unfailingly at 9p.m(sometimes 8p.m, if the boss is away as the staff needs to leave for home early)..

I asked why, and the guy explained that staying open longer would expose them to thugs or robbers coming in to hold up the place, which had happened before, and the loss was painful.

Compare the guy in Cotonou with my man in Lagos, and it becomes obvious the latter has to battle daily to be profitable.

A. Starts 2 hours later

B. Stops 3 hours earlier

C. Incurs high generator fueling and repair costs due to poor public power supply

D. Yet he charges approximately the same rate per hour, as the Cotonou guy.

This means the Lagos cafe retains considerably less profits compared to the one in Cotonou, despite doing more work.

The above makes me empathize greatly with cafe owners here in Lagos, indeed Nigeria in general.

And that’s why I did not get upset when I had to miss achieving a goal I set to publish my new book on Yoruba proverbs on Thurs 8th Jan 2015, due to the unavoidable closure of the cafe at 9p.m as usual.

[NB: It’s now live: See Ten Storyfied Yoruba Proverbs for Children]

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I had so much client work to do, and had been there from 10.30a.m till 6.50p.m, then went out to get a bite to eat and buy some groceries for the kids.

By the time I returned, it was 8.40p.m and I knew there would not be enough time to setup the book in the online store.

Pity.

That’s why my operational base for building my brand via passive income generating products creation is Cotonou.

Over there, I would have easily returned to the cafe and finished publishing the new book.

Generally, when I come to Nigeria I get much less creating done and focus more on promoting what is already created for sale.

But you probably wonder why I don’t use my own private Internet USB stick?

The answer is that I used to, both in Lagos and Cotonou.

However, being the heavy duty user that I am, I discovered that option rarely gave me value for money. The bandwith assigned either ran out too fast or poor connectivity forced me to keep shuttling to the cafes to get important client work done.

That made no sense, especially since one made a hefty payment for it.

In contrast, the bulk time purchase I make in Cotonou cafes especially, can be paused when the connection is slow. And the best part is that it never expires!

Hopefully this disparity will be rectified when a government that can deliver steady power and security of lives and properties comes into power in Nigeria this year.

Acquire Real World Relevant Skills. Create the Future You Want.

Real world relevant skills immunize those who have – and make diligent intelligent use of – them against failure.

I always tell people of a news report I once read over a decade ago, when Daddy Showkey (who invented the unique dance styles and music genre that made him famous) explained how he survived his early years in poverty.

He said "Anytime I needed money, I would just start singing and dancing".

He did that in almost any public space. Crowds often gathered quickly and by the time he was done, a good number would have dropped money to show their appreciation.

Showkey has since used that skill of his to inspire many others, as he grew his brand to success. Today, he owns his own house, and lives comfortably with his family.

But we cannot all be skilled entertainers.

Not everyone will be gifted in that department or interested in pursuing success in that field.

And that’s great, because the world is badly in nee, today, of skilled persons with unending passion for what they do in many diverse areas of life, or markets.

Having useful skill better equips you for success.

I especially love those skills that eliminate the need to search for big startup capital.

That’s why I’m partial to catering (especially baking), PC and Internet related products/services creation and delivery, hair dressing, electrical problem solving, and other vocations

Once you acquire a skill, nobody can take it away from you.

The above is what drives me daily to support my kids to acquire and develop multiple, potentially useful real world relevant skills.

It is also why I remain a relentlessly fervent advocate of the work being done by organizations like Omowale Ola’s Field of Skills and Dreams in today’s world.

In case you still don’t get my point about skills and raising capital…

It is interesting to note that many skilled people, who do get it, often use their skills to earn money they then channel as capital to startup brick and mortar or physical entreprises they dream of owning.

For instance, a web marketing expert could channel 80% of his earnings towards starting a grocery store business managed by his spouse.

Since he works from home and has few overheads, this would be a good way to establish and grow over time, an additional stream of income to secure his family’s future.

Those who do this often end up with little or no debt to worry about. That’s why skills matter so much!

Quite often, skilled people are able to make money simply by creatively putting their skills to use, at low to zero cost, in the SERVICE of others towards solving problems or even providing entertainment.

Examples include the skilled hairdresser, PC/mobile phone repairer, automobile technician, electrician, tailor/fashion designer, dancer/singer, web marketing solutions provider etc

My personal experiences and achievements, as a Location Independent Multipreneur convince me that skills make the impossible possible

That’s why I have a keen interest in telling others to acquire skills.

I’ll end with this quote by Napoleon Hill, which perfectly captures my sentiments:

"It should be encouraging to know that practically all the great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services or from the sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?" – Napoleon Hill, from his evergreen bestseller "Think and Grow Rich"

Everything You Want for Your Business Success…and MUCH MORE!

UPDATE: Good news. Apart from 65%discount on ALL my products/services, every member of my InnerCircle now gets ONE of my products of his/her choice FREE(e.g my Poultry Farm Manages, Ration Formulator, Payslip Generator etc). Read the updated offer pdf click here and let me know which product you want. Tayo K. Solagbade

Watch a Clinical Audiologist client I have served since 2007, speak about me in an impromptu video below, or on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mA_reF_WIY&feature=youtu.be

“Join MY Inner Circle at www.tayosolagbade.com for $160 USD per year and Get custom Farm Business Software, Business Plans, Information Products, Freelance Writing,  plus Web Marketing, & Software Development Services – ALL at 65% off for LIFE! ” – Tayo K. Solagbade

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Every Inner Circle member gets a PERSONAL login username and password access to benefits.

I recorded this video in his office (on 8th Dec. 2014) and DELIBERATELY left it unedited, as you’ll hear us…

Below: Verbatim text transcript of video testimonial by Mr. Simeon Afolabi, Clinical Audiologist, BSA Hearing & Speech Centre, Lagos/Abuja – Nigeria

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(Tayo Solagbade’s voice in Yoruba) “E duro, e duro. Oya” (i.e Yoruba for “Wait, wait. Okay”)

“Mr. (Tayo) Solagbade is a very industrious person. Very very committed to his work. He’s always full of ideas and solutions to problems, and for me, he is somebody that can give some great ideas to a business person that is facing some difficulties in any field you may think you are.

I’m in a clinical setting and he has been offering some great solutions to problems we face everyday. I listen to his relations with many of his clients. Some are into Agricultural sector, some are into legal sector, and he has been helping them to improve their practice, and to do better business.

He has a very good customer relationship. He knows how to relate with people, how to talk with people, how to flow with people.

And he’s somebody that when you enter into conversation with him, you ke(ep) on talking without having to end it. (Tayo’s slight laughter in background). He’s good. Good (laughs).”

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[UPDATE: It’s now LIVE in my online store here – click – Watch the preview video at [Audio Book] Tayo Solagbade’s “Ten Storyfied Yoruba Proverbs for Children” Audio Book DVD – YouTube] or below:

After working on it all through December 2014, I’m excited to announce this new learning tool, originally created for my kids, will go LIVE at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts tomorrow night!

Title: Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children

Sub title: Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children & and learners in general

Cover Photo - NEW Book titled Ten (10) ‘Storyfied’ Yoruba Proverbs for Children. Subtitle - Ten popular Yoruba proverbs with contextual translations and story-based examples of their use, in daily life, for young children

For those who wonder, this is the first in what will be a series.

I did a preview of it in an issue of my weekly newsletter, few weeks back.

My motivation to do this is MAINLY to empower my kids to communicate proficiently using Yoruba.

It is also to enable them appreciate the beauty of the language – which can best be enjoyed when knows how to use and interpret proverbs and wise sayings appropriately.

I did not have the benefit, during my youth, of deliberate effort being made by adults to FORMALLY expose me to Yoruba

But I was lucky that my Dad firmly insisted, during our teenage years, that we read OUT the Yoruba bible during the daily bible study sessions we had.

That left me with the ability to actually READ the language despite being raised in Lagos city, and speaking English most of the time.

On my own, I went further as I grew older, to learn the phonetic aspects of speaking and writing Yoruba. But not in any structured way. It was all haphazard.

For instance, during my 5 year stay in Ibadan’s University of Ibadan, I was blessed to share a room with 2 guys from my home town Abeokuta, who grew up there and obviously spent most of their years with adults who had superb grasp of the language.

Almost every day my room mates mocked me about my lack of dexterity in the use of Yoruba. I was teased for speaking “Lagos Yoruba”. And they were right!

Rather than resent them, my habit of relentlessly pursuing self-improvement, made me ask them to share their knowledge with me, and by the time I left campus, even though I was nowhere near them, I had picked up enough to build on.

Over time I have consolidated that foundation, and today I have a growing library of learning resources, that I am now using to prepare coaching content for my own kids.

It goes without saying that despite the above, I am NOT in any way, an authority on reading, writing or speaking the Yoruba lanuage today.

However, what I have, I KNOW, can benefit MY kids and lots of others who lack it.

As such, I choose to focus on sharing THAT with them – and where I find others with superior proficiency, I will expose my kids to them as well!

Experience has taught me that one can teach successfully, by INVOLVING the intended learners in the process of creating the learning resources.

That way, the get exposed to it earlier, and come away with deeper understanding in the process.

That’s why the proverbs featured in my book are those that I have already discussed with my kids, and I even got them to create the MP3 audio clips with me – helping to say the proverbs in Yoruba and/or in English.

I initially planned to make it 25 proverbs per issue (click here to read details I gave in a preview)…

Below is a screenshot from the first proverb’s slide.

My “Storyfied” model is designed to facilitate contextual comprehension of proverbs by persons with limited proficiency.

Click to view larger screenshot of page from my forthcoming book - 25 Storyfied Yoruba Proverbs for Children - Read story-based interpretation in photo below

My tight work schedule all through Christmas right into the New Year, has however made me settle for a 10 proverb per issue volume.

This way I can get them out with some regularity. Even if I have to churn out smaller volumes.

This is a project VERY close to my heart.

One that I am simply too passionate about and too determined to ever stop doing UNTIL I complete it (that’s talking thousands of proverbs – so maybe with time I’ll step back up to 25 or more per issue).

In case you’re wondering, my kids understand Yoruba, but they do not speak it so well.

That’s why I want to use my “Storyfied” Proverbs to break them in faster.

The stories will boost their comprehension of the proverbs, and since opportunities to use them will occur in life, they will over time learn to express themselves using proverbs.

The prestige that will result from demonstrating that ability will cause them to pay greater attention to learning MORE proverbs, and in the process they will learn MORE of the Yoruba language and culture itself. ( The language and the culture cannot be separated you see!)

The more contact you have with, and conscious attention you pay to a language, the more you internalize it.

Eventually at a point, you will achieve critical point where you become proficient.

Having said that, I realize there will be others who desire the same for their own kids, but who may not have the time and training to create a resource lik this for them.

This is why I continue to publish various resources I create in a manner that enables interested others purchase, and adapt them for their own use.

Click here to see my online store, where this new book will go on sale from tomorrow p.m.

Final Words: This Storyfied language book project won’t end with Yoruba however…

Each day I see my kids, taking instructions from and communicating in Igbo language with their mother(who is from Obosi inNigeria’s Anambra state), I tell myself I need to do the same thing (i.e create a Storyfied proverbs book) for them with the IGBO language, which also has a rich store of proverbs.

And I already have material I can start with – from a 2002 paid 3 month IGBO language course that I attended in a coaching school at Allen Avenue. But it goes without saying that – as I am doing with the Yoruba version – I will also visit persons proficient in use of the language to LEARN and get guidance to ensure I do a good job of it.

All contributors names will be acknowledged in the publication – as has been done with this Yoruba book.

PS: By way of interest, those who have followed my work since I relocated to Benin Republic in April 2013, will know that I have a Quick and Dirty Guide to French Language for English Speakers/English Language for French Speakers that I created and have been selling.

Before creating the above guide, I’d published my ebook titled “Proven 5 Step Formula for Learning ANY Language in 3 Months or LESS“.

It was based on my experiences learning to read, write and speak the French Language, within 3 months in 1999 (traveling to stay in Cameroon to improve my fluency).

 

Sell What You KNOW for Profit – by Presenting it Professionally (True Story)

“Thanks Mr. Tayo for the visit, timely n wonderful. Thankx. Mr. K (name removed for privacy).”

[Lagos, 6p.m] I just returned from a 5 hour long visit to Lagos’ Oko Oba-Agege’s equipment suppliers, vet shops and feed mills. The above message was sent to me by a poultry farming expert I consulted there. So why was he thanking ME, when I was the one who went to consult HIM?

SMS sent to me by a farm business expert I visited in Oko Oba - “Thanks Mr. Tayo for the visit, timely n wonderful. Thankx. Mr. K (name removed for privacy).”

Well, like I tell people all the time, I adhere to a success philosophy that requires one to CREATE AN IMPRESSION OF INCREASE to everyone s/he comes in contact with.

Read on to find out how I did that, to the extent that this gentleman felt obliged to send me a thank you message after I’d left (NB: I strongly recommend YOU form the habit of doing same)!

Mr. K is a poultry farm business consultant who specializes in helping people start-up/manage broiler and poultry enterprises.

I found him when I did a Google search for farm businesses located in Oko Oba. I do this all the time when I wish to save time in visiting an area. Most people simply get dressed and go around asking for directions.

I happen to know that more and more farm business owners are taking the pains to put their business online via one or more platforms – often free ones. Most are not very web savvy, but they know the web offers potential benefits that can help them make more money or reduce operational (e.g. sales and marketing) expenses.

My search threw up about 2 pages of useful addresses, one of which was an abandoned facebook page setup in about 2 years ago, by Mr. K for his business.

He had posted a few updates and then stopped. But his mobile phone number was still visible.

I was browsing on my Blackberry, so I clicked on the phone number, and after 2 rings he picked up.

I explained to Mr. K, that I wanted to visit Oko Oba to consult with him and a few others, towards getting information to prepare an elaborate Broiler and Poultry Farm Business Plan for an old client, who wishes to venture into both areas.

This is an independent consultant client I’ve known since 2007, and who has hired me to develop several Excel-VB software for him over the years.

Now, he’s planning to retire from consulting to a property in his home town, which he wants to run the poultry business on.

Mr, K agreed to meet with me, and promptly gave me directions to find my way to his office. Around 12 noon, I arrive there, and he readily gave answers to all my questions relating to the data I needed for the plan I need to prepare.

In my usual manner, I went out of my way to find out how I could also add value to him – as a way of giving back…

I asked why he’d not continued using his Facebook page. He explained that he’d launched it to promote a broiler production project for a client, and once that ended, he’d stopped.

When he said this, I pointed out the fact to him that our meeting would never have happened if he had not left his mobile phone number on that page. I then added that many Nigerians today, readily use the web to search for information on how to start-up poultry and other farm businesses and that most were looking to hire a competent expert to help them begin.

I went on to tell him that if they encounter even a simple Facebook page regularly updated with useful information along the lines of their interest, they are likely to connect with owner of that page – if not immediately, then over time.

Quite often they would start by LIKING the page and monitoring the updates from it.

What I was saying was not theory: I promptly showed him a real life example of a Facebook page doing just that from Ibadan, in South West Nigeria.

This chap basically has built a captive audience of fans for his business on his page, and regular conversations are visible, in which they ask for his products and services, in response to offers he makes. And sometimes they simply thank and commend him for the useful information he shared (e.g. a Facebook note on a topic of interest) on the page.

Like I told the owner of that page, when I called him late last year to make my usual no-strings-attached suggestions, he can do SO MUCH more and reap even better monetary rewards, if he were to setup a system to automatically capture and use the contact information of his fans to reach them OUTSIDE facebook. So far, it does not appear that he has acted on my suggestion.

But even without doing what I proposed, it’s obvious the Ibadan based CEO is getting useful results from his Facebook page based marketing (click here to request the link to view his page)

I just do not like the rather manual, and non-viral/non-syndicated, Facebook limited nature of his model.

Having said that, I knew Mr. K would benefit greatly from adopting a similar model, which is basically zero cost. So, I showed him the Facebook page on my phone, and emailed him a link to it at the same time.

Then I forwarded 2 other emails containing links to other resources I send out to interested persons, which explain more about how to use what I call a Web Marketing System to boost marketing of your products, and also to sell your knowledge.

I told him that rather than simply let people make him prepare broiler production plans and have it free, promising to get back to him (which they rarely did), he could prepare a special handbook or guidebook on Starting a Broiler Production Business, and offer it for sale to those who contact him.

That way, when they call, he can simply offer a brief cost-free consultation and they say “If you want more detailed information, buy my information pack or e-book etc”.

No serious minded enquirer will say no to this!

But even if s/he does say NO, you can still say “Okay, I offer a one hour consultation session for say N5,000 or N10,000”. In certain cases you may choose to apply your discretion, and waive this condition, if you perceive the person is not likely to pull a fast one on you. I do this all the time.

What is important is to have a formal procedure in place for dealing with people who come to you for INFORMATION and/or EDUCATION which your unique experience and expertise makes you qualified to give.

Do NOT give everything away: You have the right to sell what you KNOW for profit. It is the key to lasting success and profits.

What I’m saying here applies to ANYONE in ANY line of business.

The key is to know how to go about it.

Note however, that no textbook explains how, and no limits exist to what you can do and how. If you need help thinking up ways to apply what I’ve said here, click here to tell me your unique needs.

Final Words: If you are good at what you do, there is absolutely NO REASON why you should not monetize what you know, to earn useful passive income – for LIFE!

No matter your field of specialization or vocation, even if it’s painting or broiler farming, if you’ve been at it a while, there will be knowledge and insights you have, that others lacking your experience and exposure will want.

In other words, apart from the physical products you offer, you should be able to earn useful income, for the long term, selling your “knowledge” (NB: I have been doing this for years selling my Feed Formulation Handbook and other information products listed in my online store).

However, your target audience will NOT know you have what they want, or need, IF you do NOT let them know.

Which brings us to the logical question: How do you let those who need what you know, discover that you have it?

That is what I have tried to explained to you in this article. Hopefully you can take what I’ve told you and run with it by yourself.

If not however, I can help you develop and implement a Web Marketing System to make it happen for YOU – like it does for me, and for my clients.

Call me on +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) for more.

Related Articles:

1. Barter Your Digital Products to Make More Money (True Story)

2. No. 175: Why Speakers Who Barter Products and Services Will Make More Money

No. 175: Why Speakers Who Barter Products and Services Will Make More Money

 

Unconventional ideas, used intelligently, can yield superior results compared to “popular” ones. Years of testing ideas advocated by myriad experts, in my search for success have taught me that what WORKS, and NOT necessarily what’s popular, is what REALLY MATTERS.

This has made me a fervent advocate of seasoned, and highly successful experts like Burt Dubin, Terry Dean, Dan Kennedy etc.

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No. 175: Why Speakers Who Barter Products and Services Will Make More Money

Unconventional ideas, used intelligently, can yield superior results compared to “popular” ones. Years of testing ideas advocated by myriad experts, in my search for success have taught me that what WORKS, and NOT necessarily what’s popular, is what REALLY MATTERS.

This has made me a fervent advocate of seasoned, and highly successful experts like Burt Dubin, Terry Dean, Dan Kennedy etc.

In studying their works, I found they possessed the rare ability to NOT care about conforming with the majority…

Instead, they displayed a readiness to go out on a limb, if necessary, to test and find out what worked for them, and once they found it, they fearlessly put it to use, and taught willing others to do the same.

With the exception of Burt Dubin, who I have represented as Sole Agent for marketing his Speaker Mentoring products and services for a few years now, the other 2 experts, probably do not even know I exist.

So this is not some attempt to curry favours or seek recognition on my part.

Instead, my purpose is to point out, as we start this new year, that sometimes, sticking with what everyone else knows and does, may do you more harm than good, in your business!

You need to get into the habit of TESTING what you are told, to see if it really adds value to you, in the way you want, so you can achieve YOUR valued goals.

The fact that it works for some big-name-expert, does NOT guarantee you will get the same results!

That’s why TESTING ideas and strategies to see how they work, for YOU, is so crucial!

Today, I have gotten useful experiences under my belt, doing tons of testing, and emerged with my own original concepts, ideas and strategies for achieving the kinds of success I seek on a regular basis (Note that I continue to TEST…it’s a never ending process!).

Now, a key area in which I have reaped the greatest rewards has been discovering the use of “barter exchange” – an ancient concept – but used in a modern way.

I have used it in the modern way now for years, since first reading about it in several of Burt Dubin’s articles and reports over a decade ago. .

Basically, you have to keep in mind that sometimes you can sell more, if you’re flexible and open minded about HOW you get paid your stated fee or price.

In his articles, Burt explains that when he was still a speaker (today, he’s a renowned mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers), he often let companies that invited him to speak, pay in kind and/or cash, to the tune of his full fee.

Sometimes he got part of his payment in form of hotel accommodation across a weekend, for him and his wife, in the city the event would hold. The client could have a hotel in the city in which a special arrangement enabled them get FREE rooms for a limited period, for their staff.

This tends to make it easy for the buyer/client company’s decision to commits, since s/he may have other things that limited funds need to be spent on.

Or better still, s/he could then use the savings from that barter exchange to purchase some other product or service YOU offer that they would not have had the funds for if they had paid your full fee in cash!

In other words, bartering your products and services can make it easier for you to not only close sales, but also to attract repeat – or additional purchases – from the same or other clients (since delighted clients are likely to tell potential others)!

Even farm business owners can use this barter approach (e.g to cut down Variable Costs) as I explain in my guest post on http://www.africabusinesscommunities.com titled “5 Proven Ways to Boost Farm Profits without Raising Prices“.

I have written several articles in the past, in which I shared stories about how I used the bartering technique to win client projects and walk away with physical products I went on to sell (see below).

True Story No. 1:

Some years back, a small Telecom & IT equipment installations company in Ikeja, Lagos, wanted me to build a Web Marketing System (WMS) for them.

When the CEO asked for a discount, I proposed a barter exchange that would enable them pay me part cash and part via a product they already had in stock.

He was open minded enough to let me explain further. They had a new subsidiary that did beautiful Heat Transfer prints on T-Shirts. I told him I wanted some branded T-Shirts made in bulk.

So we went to the printing room and I pointed out the white T-shirts they had in bundles, then showed then my high resolution Eyo Masquerade graphic on my flash drive, that I’d modified in Photoshop based on a friend’s Pointillism artwork.

One of my branded Eyo Masquerade T-shirts on sale in my Cafepress.com online store

My request was that they print my design onto enough of the T-shirts that would total 50% of my fee for developing the WMS for them.

The operatives did the calculations and announced that I would get 70 branded T-Shirts, ready to wear or sell.

That was good by me. I would NOT have to buy ANY materials, neither would I need to do any hard work printing anything. They would do it all and hand them over to me once I was done with the WMS.

So, it was agreed.

And here’s the best part: I got the 50% cash in advance, and the T-shirts were put on record as the balance I would get on job completion!

Since the work to be done in developing the WMS was a service that required no significant expenses (other than my internet costs and generator fueling), this meant I was more or less eating my cake and having it.

Yet, the client was also happy to be able to pay much less cash than he would normally have had to part with.

Isn’t that just great? I think it is!

[Click here to view the Cafepress.com online gifts store I setup the images to be impressed using print on demand technology onto T-shirts and other items (NB: I will be updating the URLs from spontantaneousdevelopment.com to tayosolagbade.com in a few days) ]

My Cafepress.com online store with branded gift items for sale

There are no rules about how one can barter, or what one can barter!

Yep. And that means your only limitation is your creativity.

Burt Dubin shares with his mentees, many proven strategies for using this Bartering techniques and others, to reap profitable benefits. Need help? Click here to send him a message.

In my case, I’ve taken a lot of what I learnt from Burt, and added several twists, over the years, to come up with new ways of doing it. This especially to leverage my own unique skills as one who creates a unique range of high profile digital products like my Excel-VB software.

Which bring me to True Story No. 2:

Last month/year – on 1st December 2014, a Filipino gentleman (Nelson) who works with a company in Abu Dhabi, but runs a piggery business back home in the Philippines, purchased my Feed Formulation Handbook PDF from my Lulu.com online store.

He did so on my recommendation, after we spoke on phone.

In actual fact, he’d contacted me asking about my Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator software.

However, after speaking with him, I’d advised that since he did not have formal knowledge about the science of Feed Formulation and Compounding, that he first buy my handbook and read up on that.

But our conversation also revealed a potential problem, which has affected other international buyers.

Since he was outside Nigeria, in order to buy the software, Nelson would either have to send payment via Pay pal (through a 3rd party – my brother in law) or Wire Transfer (which is not so reliable and tends to take long).

Neither option sounded appealing to him, from the response he emailed me. He ended by saying he would get back to me, once he decided.

Later in the month however, I was sending out my usual Xmas/Year end promo offers to all past buyers and subscribers, when it occurred to me that I could ask him to pay for the software, by purchasing physical copies of some of my new paperback books that I just published with Lulu.com, and shipping them to me (through my brother in law who lives in London)..

The books are available in my online store for delivery to the doorstep of a buyer anywhere in the world.

I had been planning to order copies of some of them (like my Speaking IDEAS book and my Best Practice Parenting book titled “Kukuru Danger”).

This was because I wanted to give out as gifts to a few relatives and my kids. The opportunity to have the physical books without spending ANY money from my pockets therefore instantly appealed to me, and I quickly drafted a modified version of my Xmas/Year End promo and emailed it to Nelson.

Not only did my offer afford him a considerable discount, it was also a SAFER alternative compared to sending money directly to me – since he had to “buy” from Lulu.com’s secure platform.

On 30th December 2014, he sent an email confirming that he had taken up the offer and made the purchases, for delivery to my brother in law’s home in London as I’d requested. Click to see the screenshots of the invoice, he sent me in this article.

Click to see the screenshots of the invoice, and email he sent me in this article

So, now we wait for confirmation that the books have arrived London.

Once that happens, I’ll simply email him the download link to his personalized copy of the Ration Formulator, its PDF user guide and the 4 video tutorials.

(NB: Last week’s piece titled “Barter Your Digital Products to Make More Money (True Story) features the verbatim emails we exchanged – click to read it)”

If I had not employed this barter strategy, it’s likely Nelson would probably still TODAY, have been trying to make up his mind how to send me payment for the software.

But this barter option I gave him helped him decide quicker. Plus, I’m now getting copies of my new books that I need!

Meanwhile all I have to give in exchange is my Excel-VB Ration Formulator software that I’ve been selling since 2004 – digital, zero cost item!

Final Words: Anybody can use the ideas I’ve shared above!

So many possible applications can be explored – and it will not matter what field you are in.

As an expert-who-speaks, you can really make profitable use of this “barter” approach to win over more clients, and rake in more money.

All you have to do is keep an open mind.

In 2015, the ability to do THAT (i.e. keep an open mind), and also constantly think outside the box, while NEVER letting yourself be limited by the opinions of others, will help you excel way beyond the limits you (think you) have!

I wish you success!

[NB: This write up is the promised sequel to last week’s piece titled “Barter Your Digital Products to Make More Money (True Story)” that I published on 31st December 2014, to close the year.]

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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.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organisations 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 organisations, 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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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:

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:

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Article Marketing Can Make You More Credible and “Famous!”

I have written this article to share a number of (hopefully useful) experience based ideas about the massive name recognition building and brand marketing potential that Article Marketing can afford ANYONE who uses it correctly. I have inserted specific examples at various points in this write up mainly to provide details that demonstrate the effectiveness of this method – and NOT to promote or market myself.

Today, I have over 150 articles published online on various subjects/themes via Ezinearticles.com.

One of the benefits this has resulted in, is that more and more people (over 150 unique visitors per day, with over 250 page views) are finding my website via online searches. Now, these numbers are not BIG, but comparing them to what I used to record BEFORE I adopted Article Marketing (and what obtains in my local market), they are impressive.

This growing website traffic has brought new/repeat patronage every now and then for different products and services I offer.

For instance, in January 2011, about 15 persons who had visited my Farm Biz Support website in the past, responded to a special LOW PRICE offer I made (via bulk SMS message I sent to phone numbers they submitted via my website contact form), to purchase the eBook version of my Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook by paying into my bank account from different parts of the country – Abuja, P/Harcourt, Sagamu, Lagos, Ibadan etc.

Indeed, some who had problems finding the appropriate bank branch to pay into, were so determined to get the eBook, that they called and asked if they could send recharge cards of equivalent naira value to pay. I accepted, and two of them sent their payments in form of recharge card pins numbers (to my mobile phone). They got their eBooks in their mail boxes – as promised.

But what is my point here? It’s simple really.

All these people – without exception – went this far to send money to me even though they had NEVER met me, at great risk to themselves.

Question: How could they have known I would not simply take the money without sending them anything? Answer: They took a leap of faith!

But the TRUTH of the matter is that they ONLY found it easy to take that leap of faith because of the articles and other resources they had gone through on my website(s), which had convinced them I was credible enough to be given a try.

That’s what Articles Marketing, and other components of a web marketing system can do for you: help you to BUILD trust and credibility in the minds of your target audience. Never bother yourself about those who say they have no time to read your stuff – quite often, they will NOT be people who need or can benefit from what you offer.

Article Marketing is called a timeless marketing technique, because everything you do to promote yourself in this manner, builds on what you have done before. So, it GROWS over time. And you get to enjoy the results.

Make yourself a recognized expert FASTER. Using Article Marketing, you can make your name (or that of your company) get widely known online – and over time offline (those online will talk about you to others who are not) – through articles you write.

It’s NOT easy work, and sometimes one may not do a good job of it, but with consistent effort over time, you can expect to improve, and by so doing build a good following, that would rub off positively one way or another on you/your business.

My experiences confirm that the foregoing is a very realistic expectation you can nurse, when you start your Article Marketing campaign. Just remember to DILIGENTLY follow the best practice guidelines for using this technique – such as editorial tips provided by the articles submission directory you choose.

On a final note, there is a book titled “Get Slightly Famous” with the subtitle “Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business with Less Effort.”

A description of the book states that “The best clients and customers are those who seek you out because they have already heard of you. Get Slightly Famous shows how to build visibility and credibility by positioning yourself as a valuable resource and mini-celebrity within your target market.”

Article Marketing is one VERY powerful instrument that can be used to very cost-effectively achieve EXACTLY what is stated in the above description.

NB: This article was first published online via spontaneousdevelopment.com and Ezinearticles.com in March 2011

Do You Really Have To Find A Conventional Publisher? (A Case for Print On Demand Publishing)

Following recent sales conversations, I have come to the conclusion that many aspiring authors in my part of the world, STILL fail to see the cost, time and effort saving advantages offered by web based Print On Demand Publishing services.

Let me point out the following:

1. Conventional (brick and mortar) publishers will NOT always see the GENIUS in every authors work, even if it’s there.

That’s because they are human. The owner of the work may have to fall back on his/her BELIEF to forge ahead, IN SPITE of their rejection. Historical evidence bears testimony to the accuracy of this fact.

2. Even when traditional publishers do find your work interesting, very often their fees – for the aspiring writer – can be prohibitive.

3. If you adopt web based Print On Demand publishing to get your book into the market place, you will enjoy the benefits of having potential buyers access previews of your book, towards deciding if they are going to buy. And this would happen without your having to incur anything close to what it would take to get published conventionally.

Also, you will be able to inexpensively use articles on related themes to DRAW attention and generate leads to your book’s sales page. Most importantly, since you will be using the web, it will cost you next to nothing to keep this going.

Furthermore, with the widespread availability of FREE self-promotional tools such as directories, and social media (e.g. facebook), you can successfully carry on a sustained marketing campaign, tweaked periodically based on results you get, to create more awareness about and interest in your book.

Now, wouldn’t that be better than leaving your written manuscript in your bottom drawer, waiting till you can find – and afford to pay – a conventional publisher?

The choice is yours. I certainly hope you don’t wait for ever. Indeed if you take ACTION to adopt the Print On Demand Publishing referred to above, THAT could lead to your work getting noticed by a GOOD PUBLISHER that could decide to sign you up – even if they require that you improve certain aspects.

FINAL WORDS

Use what you have to get what you want…GET YOUR BOOK OUT THERE VIA THE WEB, and promote it with the passion that made you write it. Sooner than later something GOOD will happen. You’ll be better off doing that, than sitting around and waiting for a publisher to discover you!

There’s a lot to learn…those of us in Africa need to tread softly when it comes to spending heavily to get published. If/when we have to spend, let’s do so to purchase systems and resources that stretch every unit of money we spend, so we can get maximal, sustained benefits.

And That’s why I LOVE web based book publishing and marketing methods. With Print On Demand Publishing, you get your book in a ready to print/publish state at almost zero cost. The onus then falls on you to create needed marketing buzz to get people to BUY the book from its online store. Only when they buy does the provider charge a fee. Then you get your royalty.

We are in Africa. Nigeria to be specific. Most of those who read seriously enough to want to buy from us are based OVERSEAS. Our best bet is to minimise overheads and starting costs. Print On Demand Publishing offers the needed flexibility.

All of this is of course my opinion, and you have every right to think differently.

One last point:

I recently discovered that some people do not take the pains to read up and understand what Print On Demand publishing entails, before they choose to argue against it!

There is a saying that “The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open”.

Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand for a generic introduction to Print On Demand publishing.

Potential Benefits of Promoting Your Business Online Via Articles, Newsletter & Facebook Marketing

In working as a Web Marketing Specialist, one of my key offering to clients is “development of a Web Marketing System” that helps the client generate more business leads and/or WIN more potential customers.

To win over prospects as clients, I often provide – in easy to understand language – information and education about key web marketing system components that can be incorporated into their websites to achieve the above mentioned purpose.

The importance of the somewhat unusual service I offer out here is reflected in the fact that over 95% of those who have hired me already had existing websites – which they engaged me to re-invent by incorporate a custom web marketing system.

But Exactly What Benefits Do I Offer, That Convinces Them?

In case the above question has crossed your mind, you will be glad to know that you are not alone. Every CEO with a sense of responsibility has asked the same question. My answers – often given verbally in a meeting but sometimes in written form (via email) – in 70 to 75% of cases have been good enough to win me the job.

What follows below, is a reproduction of explanations I have provided prospects in the past about specific web marketing system tasks I components I will integrate into their websites (as well as tasks/activities I will carry out), and the benefits that will accrue to their business as a result.

If you want to get the kinds of results promised below, you will NEED to implement a web marketing system comprising the described components for your business on the Internet. Contact me if you need help deciding how to go about it.

1. Publish A Website Newsletter:

Your company MUST have a “face” it presents to the world, through which it will communicate with customers and potential customers. The newsletter not only helps you stay in touch with those you know, but it also enables you use them to reach and convert those they know.

In addition, you get to make direct sales pitches to your subscribers who are more likely to be trusting and OPEN to your advances. Over time, you will find that MORE sales, requests for your services and other income-earning opportunities will come through your newsletter channeled offers. And that is why you NEED to run a regular newsletter service.

You can design a Custom Newsletter HTML template. An HTML newsletter is simply a visually embellished/enhanced version of a text based one, BUT it offers you the advantage of being able to present image based information to subscribers, which is proven to stimulate higher reading interest in subscribers.

Having said that, some subscribers may not get the HTML newsletter in the format you send it, if they use email clients that “filter” HTML emails. In Nigeria however, since majority of people use more of Free services like Yahoo!, which are HTML friendly, there are still reasonable benefits to be had.

2. Create An Articles Marketing Profile:

including crafting of a promotional byline (at top directories like Ezinearticles.com) for the CEO, and/or other key officers.

It is VERY important to populate reputable directories and other marketing outlets online with your profile (formal descriptions of YOU, your BRAND, and what you do). Doing this will ensure that when someone types your name in a search engine, the RIGHT image you want to project is what they see.

In today’s world, when people meet or hear about someone that interests or concerns them, they usually immediately “Google” his/her name. It is imperative that you control the descriptions of you that come up.

By crafting a personal profile for you, and publishing it on article directories and other places online, you will boost your international exposure and appeal, while consolidating your credibility as “experts” in your field of specialisation. This is guaranteed to make your readers perceive EACH author as competent and reliable.

3. Write Articles On Tested Topics Of Interest & Publish/Promote Through Online Directories

Do most of your website visitors get your website address from you, newspapers,and other mass media? If YES, you may have some work to do. I tell my clients that to AIM to achieve is a situation where up to 80% of those who visit your website are people who find it themselves without getting told the URL. And that’s why getting found by search engines is your best bet for achieving maximum marketing reach and impact, cost-effectively.

Articles marketing is recognised by the best business marketing specialist worldwide as a timeless marketing technique that enables you achieve optimal fame and recognition that knows no geographical limitations.

Articles marketing will bring you MORE followers through indirect channels – that is outside the reach of mass media and other advertising channels.

4. Do Diligent Facebook & Website Marketing Online

Many businesses tend to operate a Facebook presence with a one-sided perspective. That is to say that they let people come to them on Facebook. What you need to do is develop and implement a strategy to DELIBERATELY create additional awareness within and outside Facebook ABOUT your Facebook and website based products and services.

This is VERY important, because there will be thousands of potential followers out there who still do not know you exist. You must PUSH out (go to their social circles on Facebook and the net in general) and PULL them in to Facebook.

You will for instance deliberately participate in online forums/discussion groups and Facebook networks in discussions, making sure to add tangible value. As the opportunity presents itself, you will add your signature – or link to relevant pages on your website or Facebook page – that readers can click. In the process, some of those who follow those links will develop interest in what you offer.

It could be argued that placing a Facebook Ad would help achieve the above, BUT the reality is that the Ads are temporary (and require payment), while what I propose will leave PERMANENT or long term “trails” that others will be able to follow to get to your Facebook and website presence – AND you will not need to make payment to keep doing it FOREVER!

Summary: The above strategies, if well implemented, will dramatically boost your marketing reach and impact online.

If you stay diligently committed to doing them regularly, you are bound to achieve measurable name/brand recognition that will be sustained for the long term, winning you favourable attention and interest from your target audience over time. Good luck!

PS: This article was first published online in 2011