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	<link>http://anniemueller.com</link>
	<description>help with your small business blogging. plus free rants about productivity.</description>
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		<title>How to Keep 66.6% of Your Customer Base</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Anirudh Koul You&#8217;re a small business owner. You&#8217;re used to weighing the risks, counting the cost before you make a move. You have to. You can&#8217;t afford to do stupid stuff and waste your money. So let&#8217;s just look at a few numbers as you ponder whether investing in a blog for your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2012/05/how-to-keep-66-6-of-your-customer-base/</link>
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		<title>Takeaways from Small Business, BIG Vision [Adam &amp; Matthew Toren]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All quotes below from Small Business, BIG Vision by Adam and Matthew Toren. Read my review. 1. You need a vision, because otherwise you will burn out before you even get started. 2. Entrepreneurism isn&#8217;t for weenies. &#8220;Turning your initial vision into a viable businss has everything to do with your level of passion and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/09/takeaways-from-small-business-big-vision-adam-matthew-toren/</link>
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		<title>The 4 Conditions for Small Business Survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; photo credit: Eustaquio Santimano Peter Drucker named these &#8220;four entrepreneurial activities that run in parallel&#8221; as the conditions for survival. He also called them Universal Entrepreneurial Disciplines but I think conditions for survival makes a catchier headline, don&#8217;t you? Condition 1: Organized abandonment &#8220;of products, services, processes, markets, distribution channels, and so on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/08/the-4-conditions-for-small-business-survival/</link>
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		<title>[OPEN] 27 Real-Life Small Business Mistakes And What They Learned (Part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 is up today: You don&#8217;t build success on success alone. You build success on one failure after another—if you learn from those failures and move forward. What can you learn from these real-life business mistakes? Here are the second group of nine. 10. Mistaking a business relationship for a personal relationship Since small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/05/open-27-real-life-small-business-mistakes-and-what-they-learned-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>[OPEN] 27 Real-Life Small Business Mistakes And What They Learned (Part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New article today at AmEx OPEN Forum: Twenty-seven ways you can mess up in small business means 27 ways you can learn something and do better the next time. You don&#8217;t build success on success alone; you build success on one failure after another —if you learn from those failures and move forward. What can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/05/open-27-real-life-small-business-mistakes-and-what-they-learned-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Do You Have What It Takes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a small business owner &#8211; whether you&#8217;re a one-man shop or you&#8217;re overseeing 50 employees &#8211; is not easy, not for the faint of heart, and definitely not a sure ride to success. While I have, and will continue, to sing the praises of small business, micro business, home business, and freelancing, and while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/04/do-you-have-what-it-takes/</link>
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