It’s not just about being competent in your vocation or business or whatever you plan to do. People going into business will need to develop “street wisdom” to competently interact with buyers or clients. Otherwise they can be competent, and still struggle to get paid for their products and services! Believe me when I say […]
History has shown that men and women in love, will often go to great – sometimes unimaginable – lengths for one another. Yesterday being Valentine’s Day, we’ve had lots of talk about love – especially the romantic kind. However, the truth is that the “love” for which Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated is more all […]
What follows below, is a verbatim text transcript of a 3 minute video interview by CTA, with Professor Oladimeji I. Oladele [Professor of Agricultural Extension] In this video, Prof. Oladele explains how Crop Farmers (in Kenya and Ethiopia) recorded 30% income rise, due to increased crop yields arising from enhanced timeliness of decision making and […]
Forget the hype you encounter so often online. Achieving tangible, authentic and reproducible web marketing success does NOT come easy – at all. I know this, because I’ve passed through the – long and sometimes difficult – phases required to get there. And I’ve found that there are various levels of success. What’s more, experience […]
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It feels just like yesterday, that I hosted the Maiden Edition of my FREE Monthly Workshop for members of my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria. Since then I have diligently churned out weekly Videos, Workbooks and Articles on various aspects of basic Excel-VB programming with a focus on […]
The video screenshot below (click here to watch it) is of an Excel-VB spreadsheet software (called Poultry Farm Manager™) that I built – in 2014 – for a large poultry layer farm in Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria, owned by a Nigerian diplomat, who was then based in a Francophone West African nation. In 2009, I […]
This article features – and discusses (with charts) – responses to questions in an agribusiness research survey questionnaire I circulated a few years ago. The semi-structured questionnaire was used to solicit responses from farm owners, feed makers and extension experts. Some were buyers/users of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator™. CEOs of smallholder (fish, pig, and poultry) farm […]
Various farm support experts already offer different Excel based feed formulation tools for farmers. Some itemize steps users can follow, to manually create formulas in MS Excel worksheets, to build simple feed formulation tables. When the user gets it right, this works okay. But such solutions can sometimes be like asking users to work in […]
In this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I discuss – using annotated screenshot images – design considerations employed in developing my popular Excel-VB Ration Formulator spreadsheet software. Prospective buyers, as well as users/owners of this app curious to better understand how it works, and how to make more productive use of […]
