First of all – I apologize. The months of June and July were crazy busy.
Not that that is an excuse but to be perfectly honest, there’s only so much work I can get done in a day and my first priority has to be to my paying clientele. Hey, I even stopped riding my bike except for the weekly group rides I was on.
Looking forward, the month of August is a little weird. It’s the last chance for those with school age kids to go on vacation. It’s funny because the traffic on the freeways and number of people in restaurants in August is way way down. The same probably goes for you too, right?
So, it’s a great time to get back into the swing of things.
I’m back to riding my bike 4 to 5 days a week. It’s a great way to reset the mind, sharpen the saw, and I can get a decent workout in just an hour or so.
As far as business goes, I finally got around to adding some of the latest recommendations to the site. I’m blown away at the nice things they have had to say. I would bend over backwards for these people. Thanks Guys!
I am a REALTOR® by profession. My previous website looked beautiful; I loved it. However, as my business grew, I discovered its limitations. After serious research, it became clear WordPress provided the features and flexibility I needed most. After interviewing multiple real estate agents, I heard Mike's name mentioned several times. My husband, who handles all things social media, contacted Mr. Mueller. They hit it off superbly well. My husband can be quite exacting when it comes to design. I am so grateful for Mike's perseverance. The final website design and function surpassed our expectations. I highly recommend Mr. Mueller's services to anyone searching for website design.
Mike did a great job setting up my web site while providing me with helpful coaching along the way in order to get the site up and running.
Mike was a pleasure to work with. I had tried other developers previously but they did not implement my vision. He was thorough and took the time to provide me with what I was looking for. I am extremely happy with my site and look forward to continue to work with Mike. I would highly recommend him.
Mike came highly recommended as a creator of professional, lead generating web sites and that confidence was not misplaced. As a relative newbie to the different facets of web based marketing, social media, etc., I found his insights and suggestions to be invaluable. I would not hesitate to recommend him or to use him again on future projects.
Mike did a great job designing my new website and I am very pleased with the results. It goes without saying that Mike is extremely knowledgeable in every aspect of this business and in addition he's a great guy to work with. He is very helpful and patient in answering every question or concern that I had and always in a very timely manner. Why would you pick someone else to design your website?
I found Mike through a Facebook group in which I belong. He has taken quite a burden off me. I started the process by trying to create my own website. I left IT about 15 years ago and never wanted to go back. Mike rescued me. With trying to be the best real estate sales person I had no time to be a IT person as well. He keeps it simple, yet the website he created checks all the boxes. I am sure that as I become more attuned to my client's needs it will be a much better website in the future with Mike's help. He always has time to answer questions and often will create short videos to help explain something. I look forward to a long relationship. Do yourself a favor, hire Mike. You will be many dollars ahead.
If you're looking to work with someone who answers all your questions, responds to every email in record time, and actually does what he says he's going to do, then Mike Mueller is your guy. I'm an impatient girl from New Jersey and he has been fantastic to work with at every stage of this process and I would highly recommend him. Thanks Mike!
I knew what I was looking for. After months of working in wordpress on my own and signing up then canceling a "boxed" website service, I came upon Mike. From the first conversation to my finished website, he is knowledgable, personable and has an up-to-date knowledge of his industry that I can rely on. I WILL recommend him to people who can benefit from his services.
I had a self-designed website for well over a decade, and I knew I needed upgrades in all areas.
Mike was so easy to work with and answered all of my questions (no matter how silly they may have been)! He was able to create an awesome website for me and taught me how to maintain it! I am so glad I chose to have Mike create my site! 
As the President & President Elect for the Arizona Chapter of the Women’s Council of REALTORS, we looked to Mike Mueller of AreWeConnected.com to help us create a website that would put us in a position to attract new members to our organization as well as give our present membership a place to go to get information they need. Our old website needed updating to create a new look and we worked with Mike to get the “look” and content to be what we thought would be esthetically pleasing as well as user friendly. Mike gave us some tips, listened to our “wish list” and together we created a wonderful website in a time frame needed. Changes were made with ease whenever requested and Mike has always been a great communicator whenever we had questions or concerns.
When I needed to upgrade and update my professional real estate website, I was referred to Mike at AreWeConnected.com. Mike met with me and listened to my overall website plan, wants and needs. After discussing what was possible, what might be possible and some of his own ideas, he worked off of a shared document to go one by one down a list and make the modifications needed. He was very responsive, often fixing or making adjustments often within moments of my request.
This was not my first website build. I have other ones and have used other Designers. Mike offers creative ideas that solve problems, pre-design meetings that answered questions and the communication through the process was excellent. I would strongly recommend Mike and his team.
Mike is busy! And now I know why! What a great website developer, explained everything to me in detail, and was very patient with every question that I had for him. He must of thought he was talking to Fred Flintstone at some point in time when it came to website development and other related matters! He had some good ideas as well and we got on track with the direction I wanted to pursue. I look forward to continuing to work with him in the future and I would definitely recommend him!
Mike is great to work with. Our organization just went through a rebrand and Mike was able to process my non-web speak and make the changes we needed for our site, as well as suggest others to make it even better!
Mike has been helping our company develop our rental website for last 4 or 5 months. His assistance and expertise in developing our site has been amazing. He is very responsive when a question arises and has great ideas on how to make our website all it can be! Greatly appreciate the help Mike!
To my real estate pals, I wanted to give a BIG-High-Five and sincere thank you to Mike Mueller. Mike is the go-to-guy if you know your blog is sorta weak and needs a major upgrade and some modern day mojo. I've heard great things about Mike and his work for years. It's refreshing to work with someone who's the real deal. My only regret is that I bumbled along too long before calling on him. If you need some blog magic, an impressive Facebook Biz page or other online excellence, starting or amping-way-up, I recommend Mike.
Good, Better, BEST! If you are looking for the best in designing a Facebook business page or a mentor for social media and the web then look no further! Mike Mueller knows how to get you connected! We used Mike on two designs and his responsiveness, creativity and communication are second to none. 
Mike is very easy to work with. Emails are answered in a timely manner and the work is completed on time. This is my second time working with Mike.
Let's be real. Everybody likes a pretty website. It also needs to be easy to navigate, easy to use (for non-geeks like me) and attractive to Google. Yeah. SEO.
Mike has worked with us a few times, creating custom Facebook tabs/apps for our page. He's super-easy to work with (a few emails takes care of the details); quick to get the job done; and the work always looks great! PS: his posts are pretty good, too!As for sites, pretty much every site I build these days is secure. What that means is that the site has a valid SSL Certificate attached to the hosting. It’s critical these days as Google has mandated every site “should” be secure.
How do you know if a site is secure?
Google’s Chrome will show the site with a green padlock:
FireFox will show the same:
And strange as it seems Apple’s Safari shows a minimal looking padlock:
Oh well, I guess it’s an Apple thing. I’m still mad at them for killing the MacBook Pro.
Back to the topic – HTTPS involves obtaining that SSL Certificate but here’s the thing. There’s more than a few different types of certificates out there. Prices range wildly depending on what you need but typically they are around $100 a year. There’s even a free version called “Let’s Encrypt”, but it has it’s drawbacks and can’t be used on every site.
To try to sort all of this out for you and make it easier to understand I’ve started building a FAQ just for SSL/HTTPS.
Because I’m building this as a custom post type, I can insert it here and it’ll automatically update as I add new Qs and As. Yay! 🙂
[qa cat=ssl]
Like I said, it’s just a start.
I’m also planning on getting back into the swing of 2 Minute Tuesdays. These are my short posts that won’t take up too much of your time. Most have a podcast below them that’s… you guessed it, 2 minutes long. Speaking of which here’s an episode on SSL
Lastly, I want to write about the things that are important to you. I don’t really know what that might be. I can guess, but really the best thing would be for you to let me know exactly what you would like to see. You can do that in the comments, or via email, or tag me when you share this to Twitter or Facebook – you are going to share this right? 🙂
He's an avid hockey fan, rides a mountain bike, sometimes rides a road bike, has a few motorcycles (he had a really fast one, bought a cool orange one, rode a really slow one, and now,a perfect "BDR Weapon"). If that isn't enough, he makes cheese and sourdough bread, loves strong beer and good red wine, and poorly plays the Mandolin.
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