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	<description>help with your small business blogging. plus free rants about productivity.</description>
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		<title>Bare Bones Guide to Writing Copy that Sells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Commons License photo credit: rick
Writing copy that sells is an important part of business blogging. When you're blogging for your small business, you want to

    Get the attention of potential readers (customers) from a particular group.
    Get them to read, and be interested enough to keep reading.
    Get their belief in what you're saying (promises about products, information, expertise).
    Get them to act on what they now believe (sign up for mailing list, purchase product).]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/08/bare-bones-guide-to-writing-copy-that-sells/</link>
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		<title>Writing Productivity Tip: It Doesn&#8217;t Take That Long&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: this lyre lark Chances are you wear more hats than the one that says &#8220;Writer&#8221; on it. You&#8217;ve got stuff to do besides writing&#8230; As unfortunate as that is, it&#8217;s the way of life. Maybe you have only 30 minutes today or three hours once a week or late night hours after a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/07/writing-productivity-tip-it-doesnt-take-that-long/</link>
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		<title>11 Tips for Writing Clear Copy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Wade Rockett Writing great copy is part of business blogging. Why? Because copywriting is, at its best, good writing that moves people to take action (i.e., buy something). These are notes from a classic for copywriters, Robert W. Bly&#8217;s The Copywriter&#8217;s Handbook. 11 tips for writing clear copy from Mr. Bly 1. Put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/07/11-tips-writing-clear-copy/</link>
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		<title>[Chapter 8] Thief: A Novel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four days into the voyage I am the only one of our small group not retching into a bucket. Ziel made herself sick from nervousness before the ship even left the dock; Asa succumbed to the rolling of the waves by noon on the second day. Neanthe seemed fit enough, wandered the deck with me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/07/chapter-8-thief-a-novel/</link>
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		<title>[Key Success Factors] Six Steps to Effective Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: (matt) Success is rarely an accident. -Stephen Kraus Stephen J. Kraus wrote a book called Psychological Foundations of Success (which you can preview courtesy of Google Books). In it he discusses, amongst other things, how to effectively set goals. Turns out, we&#8217;ve been doing it wrong. True success in life isn&#8217;t rare because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/07/key-success-factors-six-steps-to-effective-goals/</link>
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		<title>Writing Productivity Tip: Write at the Speed of Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outlines help, don&#8217;t they? (Have you tried outlines? If you haven&#8217;t, then quit reading this and go read this, then come back and read this. Or go write an outline.) Still, outlines don&#8217;t solve everything. You can have a stack of outlines and look at the first and realize you have no idea what you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/03/writing-productivity-tip-write-at-the-speed-of-light/</link>
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		<title>Writing Productivity Tip: The Outline Is Your Friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The toughest part of writing is starting, staring at the blank page, trying to remember all your brilliant ideas. You had so many of them last night, during your kid&#8217;s piano recital&#8230; and again, during that totally unproductive meeting at work&#8230; but now&#8230; now.. Where have all the ideas gone? This is the relationship between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/03/writing-productivity-tip-the-outline-is-your-friend/</link>
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		<title>Do the Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating is not difficult, necessarily. It&#8217;s not even time-consuming. When you&#8217;re really going, when you&#8217;re in the midst of creating, producing, you&#8217;re hardly slow. You&#8217;re moving at the right pace. You&#8217;re in the flow. No, the difficult, time-consuming thing is to get past all the sludge, the details, the urgent, the unimportant, the obligations, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/02/do-the-work/</link>
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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>Free Workshop: Social Media, Online Marketing for Small Biz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Online Marketing for Small Business” workshop: Tuesday, September 21, from 7 to 9 p.m.. Get help finding the most effective and affordable ways to reach people online. From basic websites and blogging to Twitter, Google ad words, and Facebook, this workshop will help small businesses choose the right fit for online marketing, get the basics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2010/08/wisdom-action-success/</link>
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