Break all the rules. Build your own corporate ladder. Create the life you love.
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.
Break all the rules. Build your own corporate ladder. Create the life you love.
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 on your terms with our sequential training, organized content, live events, and certified mentorship expertise.
• weekly live coaching and mentoring
• members only book club
• fun physical and virtual events
• proprietary Indie Maker Method™ framework
• Maker Mastermind™ LIVE Intensive
We Empower American Makers. Period.
Our #1 priority is to help you leverage the amazing products you created to build a buying target audience, a loyal community of fans, and a brand that will serve as the platform for a lifetime of sales opportunities.
You're busy. You are determined. You know that tossing spaghetti at the wall and hoping some of it sticks is not a strategy. You don't have the time to digest a million “how to start a business” blog posts, watch thousands of YouTube videos (most of which are ultimately trying to sell you something), and read business books until your eyes glaze over.
What you need is a Success Path, and you have found one right here.
IBN is a one-stop shop that eliminates distractions and gives you the critical ingredients needed to create strategies that leads to a never-ending stream of sales opportunities. IBN puts the coaching and resources you need in a sequential order you can follow straight to the fulfillment of your business dreams — all organized in one place.
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!
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 host of the Maker Mastermind a boutique business incubator program exclusively designed to help Makers and Handmade Entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level.
A maker through and through.
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. Her dream was much bigger. 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.”
A native of Washington, DC, Donna Maria lives in her adopted hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family.
Meet The Indie Business Network Team
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.
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.
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.
As the daughter of Indie Business's very first member, Kathleen Lewis of Kathleen Lewis Beauty Worldwide, Larissa is extra special to us. Inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit, she uses her writing skills to help innovative thinkers tell their stories in interesting ways. She is the main brains behind our Instagram page, and also writes the articles for our blog that showcase our awesome members each week.
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
