29 Steps and Ideas for Freedom and Motivation

I really love motivatethyself.com and zenhabits.net and would like to share some of the latest posts from the two blogs.

12 Ways To Get Your Motivational Groove Back

9 Steps to Turn off the Autopilot and Start Living Your Dreams

8 Liberating Strategies for Clearing the Queues in Your Life

I really encourage you to read these posts, [...]

June 15, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Personal  No Comments

Free Business Ideas

A while ago I found this list of business ideas, published by Y Combinator. The list is interesting to me, because it gives a glimpse into what venture firms might want to invest in.
Enterprise software, CRM, measuring apps, financial applications and some sort of site builders are some of the things that I have [...]

June 15, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Business  No Comments

Web Application Startup – a howto

Having business ideas is not enough. As I have previously written I have a lot of them. My ideas have primarily been generated out of what I know, and as such from the needs that I either have had myself, privately or profesionally, or that I have experienced first hand from others. As such I [...]

March 18, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Business, Web development  No Comments

Remote Desktop Access as a Business

I know that there exists a several solutions for accessing your desktop from anywhere. But I was thinking, would it be possible to create another solution, based on open source software? This off course means that you would have to earn your money on the actual service, instead of on the software. There exists a [...]

March 13, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Business, Desktop development  No Comments

The Sales Presentation

This morning I wrote about Script for Cold Calls. The follow-up is probably just as interesting. It is about how to make the sales presentation.
The overall model for his method is as follows.

Properly qualify the prospects on the phone
On the first meeting you should determine if you can work together. (And that you [...]

March 12, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Business  No Comments

Sales is More Important than Marketing

While reading a post about the marketing trap I got to thinking. I have seen this behaviour before. In 9iA we had this belief, and reinforced ourselves and eachother, that we were not salesmen. As a consequence we relied on marketing instead of sales-activities. Marketing was in our case definitely the wrong way to go. [...]

March 11, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Business  No Comments