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		<title>20 Frugal Marketing Ideas for Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Giveaways Use your website, blog, or your presence in the local community to publicize a give-away. You don&#8217;t have to have hundreds of people participate, and you don&#8217;t have to give away anything expensive. It can be a product or service you offer, or it can be something completely different, a fruit basket or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/20-frugal-marketing-ideas-for-small-business/</link>
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		<title>Small Business Blog Writing that Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any business can have a blog, so make yours better&#8230; 1. Produce longer content. Numbered lists, short posts with big photos, a little linking and one-sentence reviews with the embedded YouTube videos: short content.  Balance the little stuff, the shallow stuff, with some big, deep, heavy, valuable, longer content. Actual articles, with good quotations and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/small-business-blog-writing-that-works/</link>
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		<title>Are You a Crisis Creator?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217; an entrepreneurial epiphany moment brought o you by 3 preschoolers. [And the letter C and the number 4.] My daughter and son and niece are swimming. Floatie-laden. I&#8217;m sitting beside the pool, trying to read. Suddenly: screams. Terror. Flailing arms. I jump up and nearly jump in when I realize no one&#8217;s drowning. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/are-you-a-crisis-creator/</link>
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		<title>Finding Your Way Through the Book Buffet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of a library or a bookstore as a giant book buffet, and then compare that to a huge food buffet. You can’t eat all the food at a buffet, and you don’t want to. Some is better than others. Some is tastier, some is healthier, some will make you fat just by looking at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/finding-your-way-through-the-book-buffet/</link>
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		<title>Defeat, Not So Bad After All {Food for Thought, Issue 2}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.&#8221; -William M. Marston &#8220;When you make a mistake, don&#8217;t look back at it long. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/defeat-not-so-bad-after-all-food-for-thought-issue-2/</link>
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		<title>How to Use Google Ad Words Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Ad Words you should know about, but you might have avoided because 1) you&#8217;re not sure how much it costs and 2) you&#8217;re not quite sure what to do with it. Let&#8217;s solve those problems right now. First, in almost any business-related magazine (Entrepreneur, FastCompany, Inc., etc.) you&#8217;ll find a Google ad offering a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/how-to-use-google-ad-words-free/</link>
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		<title>How to Make People Remember You (in a good way)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Focusing on what matters feels like the riskiest thing to do. You want to cover all your bases: social networking, online marketing, offline marketing, direct marketing, business blog, business website, professional portfolio, texting, emails, phone calls, social clubs, new business cards. But it&#8217;s like this: You have a loaf of Wonder Bread. Those are your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/make-people-remember-you/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Tyler Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wishbone salad dressings. Professional chefs. And sell-outs. Here&#8217;s a little something to ponder about how we (as in, consumers) think. I don&#8217;t mind paying $25.99 for a cookbook full of recipes I could have gotten for free if I&#8217;d searched the Internet long enough. I like having the book. It has pretty pictures. I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/dont-be-tyler-florence/</link>
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		<title>What Does Your Website Say About Your Business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pssst&#8230; this is important. Which one are you? Over-Eager Beaver [Information Overload] &#8220;And here&#8217;s a three-page description of our product, and here&#8217;s a 5-page brochure with 17 case studies, and here&#8217;s 23 client testimonials, and here&#8217;s our history (7 paragraphs) and here&#8217;s a 30 minute long podcast, and all our tweets exceed the 140 character [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/what-does-your-website-say-about-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Marketing by the Golden Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You, translated into business terms: Market unto others as you would have them market unto you. What does that mean? Seth Godin, author of New York Times Best Seller &#8220;Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable&#8221; (among others), put it this way in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/marketing-by-the-golden-rule/</link>
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