Annie Mueller
With six years of experience, Annie Mueller has used her attention to detail and standard of excellence to produce high-quality content for business websites, lifestyle blogs, business and tech blogs, print newsletters, and educational publications. She specializes in helping small businesses and entrepreneurs navigate the world of internet marketing and create effective and affordable strategies for online marketing and social networking. She can be found online at www.AnnieMueller.com.
How to Start Up and Pay Down Your Student-Loan Debt
New graduates face higher student loans than any other generation -- making starting up all the more intimidating. Here are five lean start-up strategies to help you shake off those debt woes.
Is Pivoting a Smart Strategy for Young Entrepreneurs?
The benefits of switching gears are being heralded left and right these days. And though it can be painful, it may be a strategy that businesses of any age can get behind.
When You Think Quitting Is a Good Idea
You’ve got to know where you want to go if you’re ever going to get there. The truth is, and one that all productive people must realize and come to terms with, is that there will always be more opportunities …
How to Finish What You Start
The only way you can finish one thing is to say no to other things. You have to say no to all the other books you could write in order to finish the one you already started writing. You have …
Create Better Content Part 2: Before You Talk, Know Why You’re Talking
"The inherent tension in marketing is that companies always want to talk about themselves and what their products or services can do. Everyone else, meanwhile, only wants to know what those products or services can do for them. Creating content …
Create Better Content Part 1: Before You Talk, Know Who Will Listen
This may seem like a simple idea, because it is. But many businesses launch a blog as a part of a miraculous online overall marketing strategy without figuring out the target market for their blog. You wouldn’t make that mistake, …
10 Reasons You’re Not Reaching Your Goals; or, What I Learned from Writing a Really Crappy Novel
I hit a big goal of mine – finally – just before 2011 ended. I finished writing the novel I began five or so years ago. When I say finished, however, what I mean is that the very first, very …
Why You Don’t Need to Be (More) Organized
“…the advantages of being neat and organized are typically outweighed by the costs.” – Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, A Perfect Mess Now, before the professional organizers rain down fire upon my head, let me put in a caveat: …
The Surprising Key to Getting Things Done
There’s no point in getting more efficient at doing things that don’t need to be done. -Jan Jasper Before you start making a schedule, organizing a task list, setting deadlines, gathering materials, delegating, prioritizing, and so on, stop and do …
The Biggest Mistake Internet Entrepreneurs Make
My last post was all about why you shouldn’t give up on the dream, and as I sat down to think about my next post here I realized the logical follow-up was something along the lines of Okay, now what? …
7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Give Up on the Dream
The way of the entrepreneur is fraught with danger. You’ve got to climb mountains of skepticism and cross chasms of underfunding, where beneath you the skeletons of ill-fated startups lie… and there’s only that thin rope of your own determination …
Be More Productive: Cut the Mental Clutter
Mental clutter, like physical clutter, is distraction and reduces your ability to focus and get the work done. Mental clutter forces you to keep redirecting your brain to the task at hand. Mental clutter makes our productivity weaknesses – procrastinating, …
The True Key to Business Survival
My grandfather was a farmer. Before that he was an airplane mechanic for the United States Army during World War II. Then he bought a little land, and started growing some cotton and soybeans. He bought more land, then some …
6 Social Networking Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
The glory of social networking, for entrepreneurs, is that it’s a low-cost and open-ended platform for finding the people who will be interested in your business. From trolling your LinkedIn network for possible VC contributors to blogging about your business …
