LIABILITY INSURANCE + BUILD YOUR BEST BUSINESS + LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!
The most comprehensive program to create, launch, lead, and grow your maker business.
A joyful life. A profitable business. A meaningful legacy.
Launched in 2000 by attorney, author, award-winning home-based business advocate, and Certified Entrepreneur Mentor Donna Maria, the Indie Business Network provides entrepreneurial training and coaching to American Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs.
Grow your business with affordable liability insurance and our certified mentorship expertise!
• live weekly coaching and mentoring
• members only book club
• fun physical and virtual events
• our proprietary Indie Business Blueprint™framework
• the most comprehensive program to create, launch, lead, and grow your maker business.
Your best life and business can be yours!
- A joyful life. We help you envision and live out the most amazing life on your terms.
- A profitable business. We empower you to build a profitable business that complements your life.
- A meaningful legacy. We coach you to combine life and business live your meaningful legacy.
Our Success Path, the Indie Business Blueprint™, will get you to there.
If you're tired of wasting precious time searching for the right advice or wondering what you should do next, then the Indie Business Network is for you! Join us today!
Meet Our Founder!
Donna Maria is an attorney and an award-winning entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of the Indie Business Network. She is the author of “Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions,” and the creator and Lead Coach of the Indie Method framework delivered exclusively to members inside the Indie Business Network.
Donna Maria started over 2 decades ago making soap and turned it into a business. She started with a small retail space and quickly realized that it wasn’t her dream. She wanted to empower other makers to take their skills and grow a business.
Donna Maria and her work to encourage entrepreneurs has been hailed by Black Enterprise as a “Haven for small business owners.” Her expertise and/or story has been featured in dozens of media outlets including Working Mother Magazine, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, Global Cosmetics Industry Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NPR News, ABC World News, Entrepreneur Magazine and more.
Donna Maria was named by Forbes.com as one of the Top 20 Women In The Country Tweeting About Small Business And Entrepreneurship. She is also a winner of the United States Small Business Administration's Home-Based Business Advocate of the Year Award.
Donna Maria is a guest blogger for Small Biz Trends and American Express Open, and is one of the first contributors to Chris Brogan's Owner Magazine. Her mission, both personally and professionally, is, “To empower women to maximize their potential through small business ownership.”
Donna Maria currently splits her time between homes outside Charlotte, North Carolina and her native Washington, DC — and wherever she wants to work that there is also a WiFi connection.
Meet The Indie Business Network Team
Jennifer is the glue that keeps the Indie Business team connected and on task. She is our WordPress design and maintenance professional and our main graphic artist. In addition to ensuring that our websites hum smoothly and always look neat and tidy, Jennifer is a trusted business advisor whose entrepreneurial instincts and project-management skills are unsurpassed — and improving every day.
Chelsea helps to execute the brand experience of the Indie Business Network by supporting relationships and nurturing brand loyalty. She uses her considerable organizational and planning skills to reflect IBN's core values to the world. Chelsea's work is designed to consistently improve the internal and external collaborations that are the lifeblood of our brand.
With over two decades as a successful maker entrepreneur under her belt, Teri is uniquely qualified to mentor our members as an Indie Business Blueprint Entrepreneur Mentor. As a wife an mom, she also understands the importance of an integrated and balanced life. Teri is also an certified athletic trainer and coach, and has been a member of the Indie Business Network since 2010.
Jeff maintains our organized member database and clean back office. His expertise combines over 25 years of search engine optimization and database automation to provide IBN with comprehensive member database management services.
Tenika is a coding genius. Whenever Indie Business needs something done that a template or traditional automation cannot handle, Tenika puts on her Super Coder Cape, and hooks us up like a champ. When the right hand needs to hand the baton off to the left hand behind the scenes, Tenika writes the code to make it happen.
What members think ...
Joining this group, hands down and without question, has been the best thing that I have done for my business. The contacts I've made, the information that I've gotten has changed the course of my business. The supportiveness, the helpfulness of the group makes me feel that I am never alone to figure out a problem, to vent or to celebrate! Thank you DM for providing us with this wonderful resource and for your gentle, kind guiding hand.
“Donna Maria is trailblazer. She is a constant beacon of light leading the way for others to follow and pursue their own dreams. Women and men across America have created businesses that support the lifestyle of their dreams under the wings of Donna Maria. She has broken every limiting rule that could have held her back. Not only has she built her own corporate ladder, but she has shown anyone, willing to learn from her, how to build their own ladder.”
My membership to the Indie Business Network has been invaluable to my business! No other place will you find makers, who often make the same things, never competing against each other, but rather lifting each other up, helping each other, and supporting one another. It is truly a incredibly unique, and priceless dynamic that is hard to find other places. When I have a business or industry type of question, this group is the absolute first place I go for help and suggestions. The members are genuine, and are honestly a remarkable group of people. Donna Maria's vision for the network is progressive and inspiring! Very grateful for this group and how they have facilitated growth in my business.
Our Core Values
Why Join the Indie Business Team?
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DELIGHT IN MEANINGFUL + FULFILLING WORK
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TAKE OFF WHEN YOU WANT OR NEED TO
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SET YOUR OWN FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE
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SAVOR BEING PART OF A FUN TEAM
We believe work should be fun and fulfilling. As a team, we make it that way by encouraging and supporting each other as we encourage and support our members. Join the party!
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LUXURIATE IN REMOTE WORK
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ENJOY FANTASTIC BENEFITS
Monthly Dinner Out With Your Family
Personal Growth Reimbursement
Health and Fitness Reimbursement
And more …
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