Career Development
Coach Others to Be Super Achievers (5 Experience Based Tips)
October 3, 2013









The email testimonial below, was sent to me by a former subordinate. He’d visited me a year after I resigned from the company to become self-employed. Why? He wanted tips on how to excel at work, the way I had during my 7 year career. The amazing results he shared in his e-mail, within ONE […]







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Entrepreneurship
Searching for Farm Business Opportunities? (5 Tips, Based on a Real Life International Phone Conversation)
October 2, 2013









I recently took an international call, from a Nigerian based abroad, on my mobile line. I was then on a farm in South West Nigeria, where I was coaching users to use a Poultry Farm Management application the CEO hired me to build. The caller and a partner were trying to decide on investment opportunities […]







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Entrepreneurship
What is a BOPMS for Farm Improvement? (a Mind Map Based Explanation - By Tayo K. Solagbade) - Video and Text Transcript
October 1, 2013









lTIP: The mind map based video explanation now offered from this page is actually a re-RECORDING to replace the original version that (strangely) became "Not Found" in my Youtube channel] Do you run a farm business, or plan to start one? If yes, adopting the ideas below can save you time, effort, and lots of […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 109: Earn Extra Non-Farm Income at Zero Cost
September 30, 2013









By learning and creatively employing public speaking (and creative writing), farm business owners can effortlessly generate substantial ADDITIONAL income streams, outside sales of normal farm products. Smart thinking farmers can do this IF they get more organized. Adopting a BOPMS can help. It will free you up from routine farm demands, so you can nurture […]







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Entrepreneurship
Use Authority Status to Sell Anything
September 28, 2013









A few months ago, I got an email request from a lecturer friend (a Nigerian born Professor) based in South Africa. He wanted help in marketing his published works for sale online. If you do any form of formal writing (including publishing research papers as a lecturer in the academia), it's always a good idea […]







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My DN Travel News
When Cultural Beliefs Make Truth Telling a Taboo, Society Stagnates (True Story)
September 27, 2013









Doing reliable social research in societies where people tell “unnecessary lies” in responding to questionnaires, can be a frustrating endeavour. University of Ibadan’s Professor Janice Olawoye (a white American married to a Nigerian), in a paper she published over 30 years ago, explained the real life experience of a popular researcher who visited a Nigerian […]







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Career Development
One Zero Start-up Cost Lucrative Business YOU Can Do
September 26, 2013









You should read this article if: (a). You have formal training and/or experience in Accounting/Finance and wish to acquire a new skill to double your income. (b). You (or someone you know) lack a job and need to earn income. \ (c). You (or someone you know) is retired or preparing to retire or resign […]







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My DN Travel News
Make It Impossible for Anyone to Badmouth You Successfully
September 25, 2013









What I am going to say in this article may rub some people the wrong way. But it needs to be said. It’s funny.  Sometimes people periodically resent others for no justifiable reason. They may even subtly engage in acts aimed at bringing those they resent down, by discrediting them. No one – regardless of […]







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Entrepreneurship
Grow Your Sales Log, and You'll Always Be In Business!
September 24, 2013









“Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results, all the rest are 'costs'." - Peter Drucker NB: This article is based on excerpts from an issue of my Self-Development Digest newsletter published in November […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 108: How to Sell More Successfully
September 23, 2013









Not all prospects go on to become buyers. Having great qualifications, a nice office, and proficiency in your chosen vocation may not always be enough to make people buy. A few factors, some having little to do with those criteria, can influence “buyers” purchase decisions. A prospect may decide s/he does not “believe” you. Or […]







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