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Who Is This Website For?
This website -
www.spontaneousdevelopment.com
- is especially targeted at people who desire
to learn how they can take advantage of the
virtually limitless opportunities for self-determination,
accessible through diligent application of
proven self-development techniques in conjunction
with technology and The Internet.
Spontaneous
Development Dot Com is home to Self-Development
Academy Limited on the World Wide Web. We
offer New Ideas, Information, Articles, True
Stories, Strategies and Services for Career
Development, Performance Enhancement, Small
Business Best Practice, Spreadsheet Automation,
Professional Web Design, Copy writing, Freelance
Writing and more. Spontaneous Development
Dot Com is a dynamic online resource for ANY
individual, group or organisation passionately
driven to continually function at their best
in whatever they do.
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What Can It Do For You?
This site's
primary objective is to offer useful, real-world relevant
information, and education, that shows people what
they can do by themselves for themselves to achieve
their set goals - with minimal trial and error. Articles,
books(print
and electronic), learning events(talks,
seminars, workshops) based on practical experience
are available. In addition, the Self-Development Academy's
Business
Support Services and Custom
Excel Software can help you increase your profits
by enabling you to do what you do at less cost, in
less time and using less resources/effort are showcased
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Why The Focus On Information And Education?
"..the
biggest challenge facing most African nations is to
creatively adapt ideas to their unique environment."
- Mr. Patrick Boateng, Adviser for
Africa, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
at the African Internet Summit and Exhibition(AFRINET)
2002, held in Abuja, Nigeria.
In the October
20, 2000 edition of Newsweek magazine, Tim Berners-Lee,
inventor of the World Wide Web(NOT the Internet, which
was created 20 years before the web) in an interview
expressed his belief that the Internet presents a
"real chance" of integrating the Third World
with the rest of the world.
He narrated a story(told to
him by someone who had been a missionary in Africa)
about a woman who had taught herself English through
the Bible, and subsequently began earning a living
by translating documents received in English over
the net into the local dialect. As Tim put it, Internet
access can enable a person earn income in a way that
would not have been possible before, and can even
benefit an entire village. He added that there are
numerous jobs which are just "information-in,
information-out" that anyone anywhere in the
world can do if they are given access to the Internet.
(SDAc invites you to visit www.freelanceworkexchange.com
to see countless examples).
The SDAc, through
this website aims to demonstrate practically, specific
ways any individual or group can successfully utilise
self-development, in conjunction with technology and
the Internet, to empower themselves economically,
socially and politically. We will provide real-world
relevant information and education that will equip
our target audience with competencies they need to
more frequently achieve authentic personal successes,
and also show them how they can help others like themselves,
achieve similar successes. |
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Business Profit Making Combined With Social Development
"I want
to be part of a South Africa and Africa sending out
a new message to the world, of taking responsibility
for our own challenges. The world has got used to
a picture of Africa asking for support, with cupped
hands. It's time we create a new image of Africa.
It's time that we ourselves start giving and assert
our sense of dignity. We deserve respect. It is time
we stop apologizing for ourselves and acknowledge
our achievements".
- Graça Machel -Mandela
Even though we
are engaged in people development and empowerment,
the SDA is NOT - and has no intention of becoming
- a Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO). We maintain
a profit making focus, and believe that by so doing,
we will be better able to empower our target audience
with income-generating skills than if we ourselves
depended on grants and other unearned income sources
to fund our operations. Click
here to learn more about the Self-Development
Academy Limited. |
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About
Self-Development Academy Limited |
The Self-Development Academy is a multipreneurial
outfit specialised in combining low operational overheads,
highly skilled manpower, intelligent use of technology and
fluid collaborations - as the need arises - with competent
professionals to deliver premium quality services at affordable
rates. The SDAc Ltd is NOT a Non-Governmental
Organisation(NGO).
Use the links below to access the sections
of content on this page:
Our Vision(Primary Focus)
Our Mission
Having Money Does Not Equate To True
Success
KEY STRATEGY - Facilitating Low Startup
Cost Business Ownership
Our Philosophy
Vision(Our Areas Of
Primary Focus)
To be the foremost provider of products
and services(especially information and education) relevant
to Self-Development, Workplace
Performance Enhancement, Custom
IT Solutions and Business
Best Practice Systems Development in Africa - and one
of the best in the world. In the near future, we will offer
home-study and/or in-residence learning programmes in our
core areas.
Mission
In January 2006, when this website
was launched, we stated here our mission was : To expose
Ten Thousand (10,000) persons to our information and education,
by December 2006, so they know how to become authentic successes
in society, who will always strive to make their success contagious!
We define success as being able to do what YOU want, when
YOU want IT, and HOW you want IT . A truly successful person
is able to do all THREE.
As at 1.35 pm on Wednesday
27th December 2006, our records at the Ezine Articles Directory
showed that our 57 syndicated articles published online had
been viewed 13,926 times.
As at 30th November 2008, over Thirty
Thousand (30,000) views of our over 100 syndicated articles had been recorded. Most interesting however has been the HUGE increase in the volume of re-publishing/syndication of our articles by other online publishers. Many websites across the internet today features a growing number of articles published by Tayo Solagbade. We expect these figures to GROW faster/further in 2009.
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Having Money Does Not Equate To True Success
It should be noted that even though
being financially secure is one way of measuring success,
it is not complete. Some financially secure
people are VERY insecure and tend not to be able to do what
THEY want, when THEY want, and how THEY want because of the
way they think. They are daily trying to
match their rivals or get approval or admiration of others.
For us, that is NOT true success. True success is when a person
can exercise FREEDOM to be him/herself.
The following quote by Ralph
Waldo Emerson accurately describes what we consider to be
success:
| "To Laugh Often And Much, To Win The Respect
Of Intelligent People And The Affection Of Children,
To Earn The Appreciation Of Honest Critics And Endure
The Betrayal Of False Friends, To Appreciate Beauty,
To Find The Best In Others, To Leave The World A
Bit Better, Whether By A Healthy Child, A Garden
Patch, Or A Redeemed Social Condition; To Know Even
One Life Has Breathed Easier Because You Have Lived.
This Is To Have Succeeded!" - Ralph
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STRATEGY - Facilitating Low Startup Cost Business Ownership
In order to achieve our mission, one
of our strategic objectives is to nurture the evolution and
proliferation of highly profitable yet low startup/operating
cost businesses(with a bias for Multipreneuring*)
towards empowering people to be financially independent. Our
approach offers the unique advantage of limited expenditure
of "lean" finances on office space, staff maintenance
and other high overhead features of conventional business
models.
*(Click
here to view Tom Gorman's book titled "Multipreneuring:
A Career Strategy For Success in the 90's and Beyond"
on sale at Amazon.com)
To achieve our goal, we've evolved
a unique variant of a low-cost business model we found on
the net. This model allows Tayo
Solagbade to be the only full time employee of the SDAc.
We promote this model for adoption by persons wishing to successfully
launch their businesses but who lack access to "adequate"
capital. Contact us
to help you. CB
Solutions - Creative Business Solutions(formerly CB Studio
i.e Corporate Business Studio) - is an arm of the SDAc Ltd
providing creative digital services and solutions for individuals
and organisations. SDAc uses it to demonstrate the
application of business ideas and strategies it promotes.
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Philosophy
The SDAc believes that by helping people
ADAPT knowledge, ideas,concepts and philosophies about success
and achievement, from across the world to suit their peculiar
local conditions in their respective societies, we will MORE
successfully empower them to take control of their lives and
achieve whatever dreams they have.
Our aim is therefore to act as Influencers
and Social Change Agents by leading the way in doing just
that i.e. empowering people - who are willing - to take control
of their lives socially, financially and any other way they
desire, no matter the how
long it takes or how hard it is.
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Informational
& Educational Articles |
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USEFUL ARTICLES/REPORTS |
Proven Strategies For Succeeding When
You Are Seconded Or Promoted
Make It Easy For Others To View Your Pictures
- Optimise Them For Display On The Web Before You E-mail Them!
Why Lack Of Capital Cannot Hold
YOUR Business Back
7 Deadly Myths That Can Stop You
From Succeeding !
Your Kids Need Teacher-Educators,
NOT Teacher-Dictators (10 Distinguishing Traits)
How Poverty & Trial-By-Fire Can Be Deliberately
Used To Prepare People To Succeed !
To Win Profitable Clients More Frequently,
Find & HIT Your Prospect's Exposed Felt-Needs Nerve!
Every
Business, No Matter How Small, Needs PC-Based Record Keeping
& Accounts Automation
Once
You Start Your Biz, You Must Think & Act Like An Entrepreneur
To Succeed!
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60 Years - And Above!
Are Your Employees
Happy & Satisfied With Their Jobs?(A Ten Item Quiz That
Can Help You Find Out)
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you do nothing else while on this site, visit our rapidly
growing Information Products library using these links:
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SELF-HELP |
ARTICLE:The Customer Will NOT Always Be Right: Don't
Be A Victim Of Entrepreneur Abuse™
By Tayo
Solagbade
I do not know what your
experiences so far in business have been, but mine and those
of a surprising number of others I have read - this year alone
- tell me that the market in which we look for clients and
prospects is awash with all kinds of characters. I have as
a result adopted a philosophy that contradicts what the popular
saying "The customer is always right" suggests.
My purpose for writing this article is to: a).
Help entrepreneurs who read my writing learn how to protect
themselves from exploitation while trying to meet clients'
needs (b). Help those who patronise entrepreneurs
learn how NOT to behave if they are to avoid being guilty
of Entrepreneur Abuse™. Read this article to learn more
about Entrepreneur Abuse™, and why you will need to
distance yourself from a client/customer who practices it. |
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SPECIAL REPORT I: Using
Technology And The Internet To Teach(& Encourage Software
Entrepreneuring) Across African Societies.
Here is an excerpt:
" Why is it that when African students want to research
topics on the net for their studies, they hardly ever find
any web sites run by persons/bodies based in Africa offering
useful content they can download and use?"
Why Don't Our Schools Use PC/Internet Technology
Well? Yes, they conduct computer and Internet appreciation
classes, BUT that's where it ends. There is little or no effort
put into using these tools to CREATE and INNOVATE. That's
why our educational institutions cannot boast of having web
sites (if they have a web site that is!) that visitors regularly
visit to read/download useful learning materials developed
by their OWN teachers/pupils or lecturers/students."
Why don't we have young African software programmers
(i.e. products of our institutions) selling
THEIR own 100% locally developed software on the Internet
to an international audience, the way many others do from
Asia, America etc? |
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SPECIAL
REPORT II: How
Nigerian/African Media Organisations Can Use Their Websites
And The Internet To Earn MORE Customers & Revenue!.
Here is an excerpt:
1. Few(if at all any) TV, Radio or other media organisations
have anything close to a respectable online presence that
is FULLY FUNCTIONAL.A respectable online presence is one that
is befitting of the status of the organisation it talks about
or represents.
A FULLY functional website is one whose features and tools
work as intended, and add value to the user experience, in
a way that makes him/her see the organisation that owns the
website in a positive light, while affording the owner increased
opportunities to do business with the visitor(s).
2. Few appear to realise the HUGE profit pulling
(international relevance boosting) potential of maintaining
a credible online equivalent of their offline publications.
And those that do, seem to have limited ideas about HOW to
use that potential to boost actual revenue earned.
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FISH
FARMING DOWNLOADS!
Action Plan Proposal For Setting Up A Catfish Farm Best Operating
Process Management System(BOPMS)™ - By
Tayo Solagbade
I am a strong advocate of setting up best practice systems
that put knowledge and power in the hands of even a novice
farm owner, while at the same time enhancing the ability of
process operatives employed by THAT owner to do their jobs
better, and deliver desired results more consistently. The
Action Plan document I share here describes some of the key
considerations needed to successfully setup the Best Operating
Process Management Systems(BOMPS)™ I refer to.
PLUS: A Free Article Titled
"Catfish Farmers Beware Of Uncontrolled Variable Costs!!
You get this in a zipped folder along with
the Action Plan document. The article points out practical
cost-saving considerations EVERY farm owner needs to make
in order to ensure avoidable expenses do not eat into the
profits s/he earns. Download
the zipped folder containing the two documents
from the April/May page of our Cost-Saving Tropical and
Cat Fish Farming Ideas mini site.
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Think
You Know All There Is To Know About Aquariums?(Read This Report
To Find Out) - By Tayo
Solagbade
This report provides real-life experience based insight drawn
from nearly 4 years of work we have done in developing extremely
low maintenance aquarium systems. These 100% natural systems
stay attractive - and keep fish alive for years - despite the
absence of electrically powered water pumps, filters etc - and
ANYONE can use them. Hobbyists and professionals will be interested
in details of what we have to share on this mini site. |
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CB Solutions(Creative
Business Solutions) is an arm of SDAc
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and solutions for individuals/organisations.
SDAc uses it to demonstrate the application
of business ideas and strategies it promotes.
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CB Solutions Mini Site |
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