This afternoon I will meet with members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club (and some invited professionals/prospective members), to conduct the MAIDEN edition of the FREE Monthly Workshop for paid club members.
When I conceived this idea in May 2015, of launching a club to teach MS Excel to business users (with a kiddies arm for youths), nothing happened for the rest of the year, despite my efforts to create awareness using ALL resources/channels I had access to.
But, years of experience building my brand based on provision of a previously unknown solution (MS Excel-VB software development) had taught me to resilient!
It’s been like this for me since 2002. I have ALWAYS had to start out by BELIEVING all by myself, until others who needed what I offered EVENTUALLY realized they did!
If you expect people to jump instantly at your offers, or ideas, you are fooling yourself. You have to believe and persist, with creativity and determination, UNTIL they see what you see and begin to believe WITH YOU!
[EXAMPLE 1] Here’s an article I first published online over 10 years ago which proves that I practice what I preach.
Title: Achieve Business Success Using Spreadsheet Data Analysis & Reporting Automation
Data recording without analysis and interpretation is ultimately useless. Such data makes little or no meaning. Don’t keep records for the sake of it. Records only add value when they tell us one or more of the following 5 things:
1). If we are doing well or not;
2). How well – or badly we are doing;
3). When we are doing well – or badly;
4). WHERE we are doing well or badly;
5). And if possible “point to” WHAT – is probably responsible for our performance at any point in time.
All of the above of course happening in a timely manner that enables us take appropriate actions.The key imperative for most people who handle data is to use it to monitor – and where feasible – control performance i.e. they study/anticipate trends in a way that helps decision making towards ensuring REPRODUCTION of desired results, while minimizing – or eliminating – undesirable ones.
The Excel workbook applications I develop for my clients help them do the foregoing and a lot more.
I am always careful to take into consideration the peculiarities unique to each client’s situation, which many traditional software programmers would be unlikely to cater for – at the same rates that I am able to offer my clients.
But not everyone knows that MS Excel can be used to develop high profile industry level applications that can hold their own against (or even outperform) conventional off-the-shelf software.
[EXAMPLE 2] Here’s a 1 Hour Talk I’ve been offering since 2014
Key Target Audience: CEOs & Corporate Executives, Sales/Marketing Managers, Clubs/Association Presidents etc [Breakout sessions available]
“Everybody knows some Excel, but stop seeing Excel as an office program that everybody MASTERS and that is used to organize numbers in columns and make a few calculations. Excel is the best reporting application on the market and it is fully programmable with its own PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE within called VBA” – Pierre LeClerc PLI Consulting Inc
Attendees will learn proven strategies for:
Click here to continue reading…
All you need to succeed is vision, faith, determination, creativity and persistence!
I’ll end by saying this:
If you want to know what it means to practice LIVING with FAITH – take a close look at my “history” in paid and self employment. Better still, take a look at my timeline RIGHT on Facebook!!!
I offer myself as a reference or model, not out of arrogance, but to indicate, especially to people from my part of the world, or anyone who feels s/he has no background upon which to reasonably aspire to innovate and create in a noteworthy manner, that ANYONE can do it.
You need no connections and success is NOT about genetic or heredity.
You don’t need to come from a family of entrepreneurs to succeed as one. You do not need to be the first to be the best.
I am proof of it, as I commence this NEW journey of creating an army of Excel-VB Solutions Developers with smart real world relevant know-how, who will be able to provide time, effort and cost saving business solutions for their employers and/or clients over time.
I’ve been developing high profile, bullet-proof automated spreadsheet apps for over 2 decades.
As an employee in Guinness I gain company wide fame for building custom spreadsheet apps that completely eliminated manual reporting systems in the departments I worked. I did this in my spare time – and I was NOT employed as an Information Technology staff. I was just a brewer/manager with self-taught spreadsheet programming skills.
In 2002, I followed my dream of developing custom spreadsheet software for a living, by quitting my job to become self-employed.
There was NO market for such a solution or service and over a 4 year period I had to create a market for myself.
Today, I have a library of apps I’ve built for clients in varying industries e.g. hotels, hospitals, medical clinics, independent consultants, health and fitness clubs, farm businesses, factories etc. I’ve not only sold my apps locally, but also to clients outside Africa – in places like Canada, Philippines, the UK etc. [See also the links at the bottom of this post for videos and other details]
What I have to offer MS Excel business users/learners – especially in Nigeria/Africa – goes beyond what you will find in ANY books or websites.
The insights I have about creating and SELLING custom Excel-VB solutions in our part of the world (and indeed beyond are drawn from thousands of hours of trying and failing until I found a way that worked.
Below, I offer more information for those willing to accept my guidance – be you corporate multinational or one man operation.
RELATED RESOURCES
Below are some links with information that throws light on potential applications of Excel-VB Automation for Boosting Business Productivity and Profitability
1. 1 Hour Talk(No. 5): Proven Strategies for Using MS Excel to Boost Employee and Company Productivity
Go to http://tinyurl.com/xlvb1hourtalk
I offer the above linked FREE talk to organizations and business groups/associations that meet the terms for providing it.
2. Conversations About Productivity Boosting Excel Visual Basic Automation, True Stories, Enquiries from a business user in India and Nigeria
This is a new article I published yesterday…
3. Achieve Business Success Using Spreadsheet Data Analysis & Reporting Automation
This article offers VERY useful insights for business users like yourself and other members of your profession.
1. LEARN MS EXCEL-VB AUTOMATION FROM ME…IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME!
http://excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com/?page_id=66
2. Learn more about what you get on the DVD below:
Title: Get My Home Study Excel-VB Programming Video Tutorial DVD
http://excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com/?p=336
3. This page provides a detailed background (including a 9 part slide show presentation) about my Excel-VB Club and Competition:
Title: Welcome to my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club [Introductory Videos You Need to Watch]
http://excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com/?p=318
4. My Excel-VB Club’s Closed/Private Group on Facebook
Here’s the URL…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/736287616508718/
You’re reading You Have to Believe In Yourself First, Before Others Can Really Believe in YOU [Maiden Edition of FREE Monthly Workshop for Tayo Solagbade’s MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club Members Holds Today – Sat 19th March 2016] by Tayo Solagbade, originally posted on his Daily Self-Development (SD) Nuggets™ blog. If you loved reading this post, be sure to follow Tayo on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
You may also wish to check out his growing library of tutorial and demonstration videos on Youtube. Click here, to download over 10 resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), was taken over by Aplus.net. Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build (and move his website contents into) a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” at http://www.tayosolagbade.com.
Most URLs bearing the old domain name appearing in search engines should now work if “spontaneousdevelopment.com” is replaced with “tayosolagbade.com”. 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:
Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix (TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)
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:
A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
Source: ExcelVB
