It’s been exciting to discover this interesting Vocational Skills Training and Consultancy solution on use of High Quality Cassava Flour to Make Snacks (Doughnuts, Pies and Chin-Chin) being delivered by Prof. Adesope.
[WATCH HIS NEWLY LAUNCHED HIGHLIGHT VIDEO NOW]
In this video, Prof. Olufemi Martins Adesope shares insights into how he began his work on Cassava Entreprise Development.
Click here to watch it on his blog…
The offer is now ended. Two Farm CEOs signed up for payment in installments , and have now completed it (see notification letter shown below – names removed for privacy)
From today, I begin supporting them to deliver the 3 products to ANY buyers they find in their respective states.
Well, that’s because I KNOW the value that will accrue to me in the long term from doing that.
That is in addition to the multidimensional income generating benefits I’ve already obtained from interacting with this group of clients.
You see, I KNOW for a fact that they are the reason I have been able to grow my brand, as a Location Independent Multipreneur, to what it is today – and NOT the casual visitor who passes by my site every now and then!
These CEOs on my mailing list – especially those who have PAID me for at least one of the solutions I offer, are the reason I succeed.
I’ve been saying it for years in my writing, and I’ll say it here again:
A smart US based expert once wrote in an article I read over 10 years ago: THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST.
He knew what he was talking about, My experiences and achievements as one who earns income online confirm it!
Don’t put your hope or faith in Google or other search engine driven traffic.
If you do, you’re likely to end up with twisted insides as you try to make quick enough adjustments to your online marketing, to deal with fluctuations in traffic coming to you, as Google change their algorithms every now and then!
You’ll simply find yourself wondering why visits suddenly drop sharply, even though you’re still doing the same thing you’ve always done.
Meanwhile, when that happens, if you have a sales system that depends on the volume of traffic you get from that channel, the likely implication is that the income that accrues to you will also drop.
This is why it’s always so much safer, smarter and ultimately more profitable, to invest your quality time, effort and money in converting as much of the traffic as may come to you at any point in time, into sales leads or what is called Prequalified Prospects.
People who indicate by reaching out to you (e.g. by subscribing or send a web form message), that they are INTERESTED in what you offer.
Once you have them in your database, and so long as you keep creating response generating web content to make more people WILLINGLY add themselves to your database (some do this by calling me up and ultimately texting me their full details lol!), no amount on search engine traffic fluctuations will be enough to bother you.
I say the above, of course, on the assumption that you know what to do with a mailing list database to make money.
That kind of “mining” is what you CAN do to make money even if your website is down, like mine (TayoSolagbade.com) was for about 40 hours earlier this week. It’s why I never really fret about looking for traffic, like some people do.
I aim instead to increase my Website Conversion Ratio (WCR).
If you do not know about mailing list database mining, then you’re WASTING your money online!
If you do not know why monitoring and working to INCREASE your WCR is more important than fretting over so called “traffic” to your site, especially when you do NOT sell “popular” or conventional products, or worse, you are a custom service provider, then you really need help.
Believe me when I say that I make more money from “mining” my mailing list database than I do from sales coming as a result of search engine driven traffic. I am able to do this by driving up my WCR to bring the right kinds of people in contact with me.
Click here to let me know you’d like to learn more about how to do the above, to make money from your website with peace of mind and confidence!
For now, below is a screenshot of the notification letter I sent to two long term clients, who as members of my Farm Business Ideas club have INVESTED so much in various solutions I offer, that I decided to come up with an income generating system to reward them.
Dear (Farm CEO name removed)
I think we need more people like them in Nigeria/Africa i.e. those who will not wait to see you do it all before they decide to put money where their mouths are, to invest in what you tell them is possible!
Since late last year, I’ve been developing and implementing a custom Web Marketing System for a Farm Business Support Professional (a Professor in one of the nation’s leading universities) who travels locally and internationally to support Farm Businesses and Stakeholder groups by facilitating learning events.
Apart from capacity building, one of the key areas of focus this real world focused academic offers valuable support to players in the farm business sector across Africa, is Agribusiness Vocational Skills development training.
In that regard, this gentleman continues to impress me with his demonstrated hands-on proficiency in very practical vocations. A good example is the use of agricultural food products in making snacks.
But one particular area I’ve been most excited to see his work has been that relating to the use of High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) as a replacement for more expensive conventional wheat flour in baking of bread, and snacks like doughnuts, pies and chin-chin.
For those who do not know it, HQCF is costs about 50% less than wheat flour. Yet, continuing research and trials are showing that it has the potential to deliver similar benefits in the baking and snacks foods production chain that wheat flour currently deliver.
More people need to be made aware of what HQCF can do. We grow Cassava all over this continent. If more of us embrace the production of HQCF from Cassava that we grow, and we make use of it in larger amounts in place of Wheat, the implication for savings of scarce Forex resources are huge.
Reports have it that Ghana has long established itself as a leader in pursuit of this goal and is doing quite well.
I share the report from the FAO below, in the first of many efforts I will be making to create more awareness about this opportunity, out here, for more of us to follow up.
This is why I’m supporting my client with various promotional resources, so he can get increased marketing exposure for the training workshop on use of HQCF for snacks production that he offers.
FAO: ‘Promising’ cassava flour can drastically cut costs for bakers
Flour made from cassava can be up to half the price of regular wheat flour, holding great promise for bakers amid commodity volatility, says the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Dear All,
Our phone discussion regarding my farm business support products that you purchased refers.
I offer you the following 2-in-1 combination of specially discounted solutions to support you at this early startup phase of your farm business operation.
- Get FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager for ONE YEAR (Save over N150k)
Over the course of ONE full year, I will modify your Farm’s Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager to meet any additional needs we identify and agree on for your farm business.
This includes accommodating the various aspects of daily best practice operational needs you have.
This will ensure you and your team members have ready access to required documents, farm record forms and reports that will be auto generated for use from custom interfaces in the app.
- Get One year Basic Web Marketing Support to boost name/brand recognition and attract profitable paying bulk buyers for your Farm (Save Over N150k)
If you take up FREE customization above, (I,e offer 1), you will get items 1 to 4 of my Web Marketing System shown in the mind map image attached to this email (wms-pricing.jpg) – completely FREE for 1 full year (you purchase domain/hosting with me) – to boost your marketing reach and impact.
Click here to request the full PDF download.
If you want to sell successfully, and for the long term, in a manner that is sustainable, you need to LEARN how to DEMONSTRATE to potential buyers, that solutions you offer are exactly what s/he needs. I offer ideas (and support) you can use below.
Since, most times, especially when using the web, it is unlikely that you will get a chance to speak to, and convince, a potential buyer via face to face interactions, the reality is that you will need to put in place a system that enables you to say ENOUGH of what you normally need to say, remotely, to win him/her over.
From 2005, when I decided to come online (via spontaneousdevelopment.com – now defunct), to begin offering my products and services via the web, the above stated goal (of winning total strangers over as buyers without face-to-face meeting) dominated my thinking.
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) 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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This issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter features a dissection of the sections in Farm Operations Record Keeping Form that comes ready-to-print in my popular Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager software.
Then photocopies of the printed blank form are produced, with a copy being filled in daily, by the farm hands or other assigned personnel, using records from the shop floor or as the activities to be documented happen.
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) 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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In this week’s issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature specially, a flyer announcing the forthcoming August run of Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture’s Annual 4 Day Executive Weekend Training Programme On Investment Opportunities in Fish Farming
Lagos State Government, Ministry of Agriculture Invites you to the:
4 Day Executive Weekend Training Programme On Investment Opportunities in Fish Farming
Training Objectives
– To Equip The Participants With Relevant Knowledge of Best Practices In Agriculture
– To Broaded The Respective Participants Practical Experience In Fish Feed Production
– To Expose Participants To The Rudiments of Fish Fingerlings Production
– To Acquaint Participants With Modern Techniques In Fish Farming
Training Programme 1 (ONE) = Concluded!
Already held on 1st, 8th, 15th and 16th April 2017
Training Programme 2 (TWO) – Date” 5th, 12th, 19th and 20th August 2017
Venue [Days 1 & 2]: Cooperative College, Training Room, Johnson Agiri Agricultural Complex, Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos State
With Special Focus On:
– Overview of Fisheries Development in Lagos State
– Fish Culture Systems and Management
– Water Quality Management & Disease Control
– Prospect of Cage and Pen Culture System in Lagos State
– Hatchery Management and Fingerlings Production/Introduction to Shrimp Culture in Lagos State
– Fish Feed Formulation and Nutrition
– Fish Farming Insurance
– Fish Preservation, Processing, Packaging, Marketing and Export Potentials
Venue [Days 3 & 4]: Ikorodu Fish Farm Estate Beside Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu-Sagamu Road, Odogunyan, Lagos.
Time: 10.00a.m
Day 3: Saturda7, 19th August 2017
– Fish Hatchery Management and Fingerlings production(Practical)
– Fish Feeds (Practical)
Day 4: Sunday 20th August 2017
– Fish Processing (Practical)
– Internactive Session and Closing Ceremony
Targeted Audience
- Aspiring Fish Farmers
- Retiring Executuves Both in Private and Public Sectors Who May Wish to Investin Fish Farming
- Local Government Chairmen and Supervisory Councillors of Afric
- Agro Allied Companies Who May Want to Diversify Into Fish Farming
Fee: N45,000.00
For Further Enquiry and Reservations, Contact:
- The Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture,
Block 23, Room 105
The Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos
- Director of Fisheries
Ministry of Agriculture
Block 23, Room 012,
The Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos
Tel: 0802-305-0072
A.N Busari: 0802-315-1440 OR O.F. Hamzat; 0802-811-0939
This is the 2nd or 3rd time I’m getting this kind of bothersome feedback.
It would appear some person(s) have been impersonating me in relating with Farm CEOs and other stakeholders.
A member of my Farm Business Ideas club – Tunde Okunuga – called me up at 08.56 this morning to say he’d referred his brother based in Ede to me a while back, and that the latter said he had been corresponding with me – claiming that I had even sold FISH to him!!!
Fish ke! Where would I keep them? Ede is a location I have never gotten a single call from. This made no sense at all!!
My mouth was hanging on the floor by this time, and I recalled a Real Estate CEO who’d told me a “Tayo Solagbade” – with a different photo from mine – had been sending him messages!
Beliow is the SMS I sent him after the call, which I post here as a precursor to a formal disclaimer I will publish later.
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Hey Tunde.
I just spoke with MTN call center about your assertion that Alfa, in Ede, spoke with me on phone, noting that I never got such a call and have never heard that name or had an enquiry from Ede in my life.
Neither do I sell fish to anyone! The operative at my instance checked and found no active call direct on my line. A
s things stand it would be useful for me to speak with your brother to get a better idea of what’s going on.
Do respond.
Tayo
NB: I have since not been able to reach Tunde Okunuga on his line for some strange reason. And he has yet, as at this moment (4p.m) to reply my above SMS.
UPDATE (17th April 2017 @ 20:21): Tunde, who is on my newsletter mailing list, replied to the email broadcast version of THIS post, which I sent out, saying he would call his brother today, to find out what was really going on, noting that it did appear that someone was using my name. I’ll be posting any feedback he sends me, here, as soon as I get it,
In this week’s issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature 3 new reports, from different websites, about latest farm business ideas/opportunities available to be had in Africa.
As the popular saying goes, IDEAS rule the world.
This blog – and my brand showcased via tayosolagbade.com as a whole – is a product of YEARS of hard work, mixed with lots of blood and sweat.
I have kept it going DESPITE myriad encounters with adversity. including countless attempts by MANY naughty others to pull me down by trying to discredit me/the solutions I offer.
My advice to YOU, the reader of the ideas featured in these reports is that you MUST understand that making successful use of the ideas described will require that you adopt the same NEVER-SAY-DIE mental attitude I have used to build the name/brand recognition I enjoy via this platform today.
Like it or not, some people WILL at some point find it necessary, to try pulling you down. Whether they succeed will be entirely up to YOU.
Have a good read!
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1. 50 Most Profitable Agriculture Business Ideas
Preview: Agriculture industry specifically in India is at the crossroad of a new revolution. The entire food chain is supposed to be modernized and the production is expected to be doubled in the coming 10 years. Apart from domestic demand, this industry brings in huge export prospects. At present agri-business may involve either an input or a produce or service and encompasses items such as:
Continue reading…
https://99businessideas.com/50-most-profitable-agriculture-business-ideas/
2. 100 Agribusiness Ideas for 2016
Nigeria is one of the most developed countries in Africa. In fact, she has progressed tremendously in the service industry of late. She has also improved immensely in the information and communication (ICT) industry. According to World Bank reports, over 50% of the total GDP of Nigeria lies within the service industry. –
Continue reading at: http://www.worryfreeworker.com/100-agribusiness-ideas-2016/#sthash.eoCsyAJR.dpuf
3. 2016 Seven most profitable agribusiness ideas for a willing entrepreneur in Kenya
Do you know that Agricultural businesses are the most lucrative businesses in the world?
Apart from the low-cost of start up and running the business, agricultural businesses turn out a huge profit of up to 100%. With the increase in unemployment, young people in Kenya are now embracing agriculture which was erstwhile considered a dirty business reserved only for the poor.
Continue reading ..
http://www.farmerstrend.co.ke/2016-seven-profitable-agribusiness-ideas-willing-entrepreneur-kenya/
