Claus Witt » links http://www.clauswitt.com software and web developer Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:07:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 29 Steps and Ideas for Freedom and Motivationhttp://www.clauswitt.com/29-steps-and-ideas-for-freedom-and-motivation/ http://www.clauswitt.com/29-steps-and-ideas-for-freedom-and-motivation/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:00:52 +0000 Claus Witt http://www.clauswitt.com/?p=254 I really love motivatethyself.com and zenhabits.net and would like to share some of the latest posts from the two blogs.

I really encourage you to read these posts, subscribe to the rss feeds, and visit the sites regularly.

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Enterprise software, CRM, measuring apps, financial applications and some sort of site builders are some of the things that I have looked into previously.

In the near future I will unveil some of the projects that I have been working on lately. Stay tuned.

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In the weekend I found the following video with Perry Belcher which stated that you should pretend that using social media is like attending a party.

This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.

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We never tried cold calling, not even warm calling. Well, not exactly true. We tried once or twice. A few calls. And then went back to believing that we could not sell.

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I am however shure that when I leave the seminar, I will have learned something new. And if I know myself, maybe even with a couple of business ideas (for the evergrowing list of things I do not have enough time for). And maybe I should just be happy that the other people do not speak about “Platform as a Service” and “the Cloud”.

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This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video.

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Enabling mod_deflate

Enabling browser caching

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