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	<description>help with your SMB writing &#38; blogging. plus free rants about productivity.</description>
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		<title>8 Reasons You Should NOT Build a Small Business Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: HPUPhotogStudent The motivation does matter. If you&#8217;re thinking a blog will save your dying small business, replace a marketing strategy, or provide personal fulfillment, maybe get some therapy instead. You should NOT blog as a (sole) means of advertising and marketing. A blog can be part of your overall marketing scheme, but a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/10/8-reasons-not-to-small-business-blog/</link>
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		<title>4 Great Reasons You Should Build a Small Business Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Incase. Quit sitting on the fence, pardner. It&#8217;s time to make hay while the sun shines, or, um, build blogs while the Internet hums. You should blog to establish authority. Authority, or expertise, can set your business apart in a competitive field as the top-tier business, the one that really knows its stuff, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/10/4-great-reasons-you-should-build-a-small-business-blog/</link>
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		<title>Find It Easier to Get the Dollar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The person who would be freakishly productive needs to quit focusing on the cut-the-costs-to-save-a-buck mentality of doing business, and embrace the one that increases production which increases value which increases sales which increases profits.]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/10/find-it-easier-to-get-the-dollar/</link>
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		<title>How to Get Great Blog Post Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Content is great until you're stuck coming up with fresh, relevant, helpful, valuable blog posts, day after day after day after day.
What you have to do is capture the ideas before you need them (have you ever noticed how ideas leave as soon as it's time to brain storm?).

Here are potential idea sources...]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/10/how-to-get-great-blog-post-ideas/</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>Book Review: Small Business, BIG Vision [Adam &amp; Matthew Toren]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure: I frequently guest post for YoungEntrepreneur.com, founded by the Toren brothers. So, another business book. Just what we need, right? Except, here&#8217;s the thing: When two guys who have been successfully starting, building, and selling companies since their teenage years decide to write a book about entrepreneurship, you can figure it might be worth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/09/book-review-small-business-big-vision-adam-matthew-toren/</link>
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		<title>Everybody will help you find excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar And help you justify those excuses. And give you ideas for some more. Everybody. We don&#8217;t want to make people feel bad. Really. And some of those excuses are legitimate, right? It&#8217;s much nicer to agree, and nod and smile, and give out pats on the back. We want people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/08/everybody-will-help-you-find-excuses/</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>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>How to Reach Your Goals: What the Research Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might want to know this stuff. It's important.]]></description>
		<link>http://anniemueller.com/2011/08/how-to-reach-your-goals-what-the-research-says/</link>
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