51 Great Topics For Your Newsletter (Or Blog)
51 great health, beauty, lifestyle and family topics to get more readers at your newsletter or blog.
Donna Maria is an entrepreneur mentor, the founder and CEO of the Indie Business Network, and the host of the Indie Business Podcast and the Indie Business Retreat. She has been recognized as one of the most trusted voices for Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs. Her coaching and consulting enterprise trains thousands of new and evolving entrepreneurs every day.
"I Won Best In Show!"
Danielle Flemming of Danielle and Company, winner of “Best In Show” at Extracts, talks about her winning product and how she enjoys being a small business owner.
Top 10 Reasons To Buy Indie
[Note: this post was slightly updated on February 22, 2010.] I am the founder and president of the Indie Beauty Network (IBN) so it will come as no surprise that I think my members make the best products in the world. Whether you want candles, sugar scrubs, perfumes, essential oils, lotions, jewelry, body oils, hair…
8 Ways To Get More Newsletter Subscribers
Connecting With More People Increases Your Bottom Line One question I get over and over again is how I got thousands of subscribers to my email newsletter. The answer is: I got to know my customers and consistently filled my newsletter with information they enjoy reading. Lots of people ask me…
Vault Episode #96: Steven Little [Podcast]
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The Vault is an archive of my first podcasts so there is a record for you to enjoy. Welcome to the Vault Episode 96 featuring my interview with Steven Little. Drawing inspiration from the concept of perfection often attributed to the number 7, our guest has authored “The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth.” While…
How To Give Away Free Stuff …
Without Breaking The Bank Thursday night’s group coaching sessions was incredible. While I’m told by everyone in attenance that it was an excellent investment of time, the best part is that everyone found a way to contribute something unique to the conversation. We were all uplifted and encouraged. This month, we’re launching and improving email…
The 1-2-3- Blog Post Method
3 Steps To A Basic Yet Solid Blog Post Blogging can enhance your business, but while it’s easy to consider blogging, it can be more work than it’s worth, especially if you don’t post regularly. There are millions of blogs in the blogosphere, but only a small fraction have fresh content added at least twice…
Happy Valentine's Day!
I have always loved roses. They smell fantastic and each one is so unique. The petals are soft and delicate. I guess it’s fitting that something so lovely should only last a few days. I got some roses today and this makes me very happy. Whether or not you get roses,…
Make Your Email Newsletter Sparkle
3 Easy Steps: Teach, Inspire, Do Email newsletters are the most convenient, efficient and cost effective way to use technology to create, develop and enhance relationships with your customers around the globe. My Group Coaching session last night was filled with information on how to launch and maintain an email newsletter to grow your business.…
Alaskan Indie Takes On The Big Apple
Indie Beauty Network Member On The Big Idea Even though I don’t ascribe to the belief that making millions is the ultimate small business goal, I do enjoy The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch. I especially like it when my friends are on the show. A few weeks ago, my friend and fellow Mocha Mom…
Flowers And Fusion
East Meets West In Wedding Design Business When Dorothy (“Dot” for short) was a child, she and her sisters desperately wanted a video game console. Rather than buy one for her children, Dot’s mother gave them some glue, paper and cardboard and told them to make their own video game. The sisters spent hours assembling…
Vault Episode #95: Maggie Kennon [Podcast]
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The Vault is an archive of my first podcasts so there is a record for you to enjoy. Welcome to the Vault Episode 95 featuring my interview with Maggie Kennon. Maggie’s website, www.givingadvice.com, offers personalized 1-on-1 Giving Strategy sessions to help you create a powerful giving action plan and maximize your charitable impact. Inspired by a…
Making A Giving
Smart Philanthropy For Indie Business Owners As Indies, we like the idea of aligning our business with charitable causes that help those in need. As people, we enjoy helping others. As business owners, we enjoy the tax deduction. But how can we be sure that our donations really get to those…
Ask Not What The Economy Can Do For You
Create Your Own Economy With My FREE Group Coaching Along with dozens of major newspapers yesterday, the New York Times reported that more Americans were laid off in January than in any other month in the last four years. To me, this is much more than a statistic. When my husband was laid off in…
Soap and Business, The Indie Beauty Way!
Longtime Indie Beauty Member Struts Her Stuff I am always so pleased with the success of Indie Beauty Network members. Of course "success" is different for all 650+ of our members, but there’s no denying that video makes it easy to share what my members are doing. Today, I’m pleased to present this clip where…
New Year's Resolutions
Have Yours Fizzled or Sizzled? It’s the last day of the first month of 2008. Have your new year’s resolutions fizzled or sizzled? Let’s admit it, we Indie Business owners can easily set ourselves up by making resolutions that are a little unrealistic. And while hope may spring eternal, the reality is that specific goals…
The Best Credit Card
… Is No Credit Card A few weeks ago, in response to a reporter’s query, I suggested that the best credit card for Indie Business owners was no credit card. I explained why. I never heard from her again. Presumably, her story ran without my input, but that’s OK becuase I…
IBTV Episode 20: Carol's Daughter Product Review
I first discovered Carol’s Daughter products when I spoke at a women’s conference in Pennsylvania in 1996. A woman had a booth filled to the brim with goodies made from exotic fragrance oils, herbs and colors taken from natural ingredients like alkanet root and calendula. The first one I tried was Mimosa Hair Honey. Of…
Vault Episode #94: Robin Ryan [Podcast]
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The Vault is an archive of my first podcasts so there is a record for you to enjoy. Welcome to the Vault Episode 94 featuring my interview with Robin Ryan, a career expert with a passion for pushing you forward. Robin specializes in individual career counseling and emphasizes the importance of commitment to your success. She’s…
Repeat After Me …
Put The Needle On The Record When I was an attorney representing the business interests of a Fortune 500 company many years ago, my colleagues and I quickly figured out which arguments swayed the regulators to our side and which ones didn’t. As we preapred for a trial or hearing, we knew that, while we…
Vault Episode #93: Dawn Fitch [Podcast]
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The Vault is an archive of my first podcasts so there is a record for you to enjoy. Welcome to the Vault Episode 93 featuring my interview with Dawn Fitch of Pooka Pure and Simple. From crafting products on her apartment stove to a Kearny, NJ showroom, and distribution across Whole Food markets and online…