Have you ever wondered whether your soap and cosmetics products labels comply with FDA law? Have you ever struggled to understand how to make cosmetics in accordance with the Good Manufacturing Practices recommended by FDA to protect your customers and produce safe products? Do you ever think you should label your products to comply with…
Donna Maria shares an IBN member’s Beauty In Haiti IndieGoGo campaign to empower women through entrepreneurship.
Donna Maria announces the 2012 12 Handmade Holi-Days Multi-Media Celebration!
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
This page in IBN’s Handmade Holiday Gift Guide is filled with discount codes, so don’t miss them. Even without a code, our publication is filled with articles and American businesses owners who will inspire and encourage you.. Please join me in celebrating the entrepreneurs featured today: Dropwise Essentials, High Sierra Botanicals, Sweet & Woodsy Aromatherapy.
Earlier this month, I had an interesting conversation with a local store owner who is having trouble getting her store off the ground. She opened in September with a ribbon cutting party (I attended), and was well received in the community. Her space is located in an area with good foot traffic. Stores around her…
In her book, The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love, author Jill Conner Browne writes as follows: Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.” I have always loved jewelry, but even the most dazzling jewels I…
Every Thursday evening from 8 to 9pm ET, IBN hosts #HandmadeChat, a Twitter talk show to help handmade entrepreneurs sell more products and make more money. While the show is aimed mainly at artisans, crafters and business owners who make and sell handmade consumer products, the topics and discussions can empower and encourage the growth…
Introducing Flower Essence Energy and Skin Perfection in IBN’s 2012 Handmade Holiday Gift Guide!
Achievement is by executive decision. You decide. You achieve.
Recently, Kelly Johnson with our member Plum Hill in Eagle, Idaho, was featured on their local ABC4 station. Watch as she shares how sugar scrub can help you take care of your skin, especially during the winter months. There are some super winter skin care tips, and for all you guys out there, check out…
Donna Maria shares tips to help you avoid your own fiscal cliff.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Handmade Holiday Holiday Gift Guide Features: Sea Blossom Soaps, This Little Soap of Mine, Mailelani Samoa, Eclipse Spa.
10 steps to an efficient, effective content marketing system.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The holiday are in full swing and it’s time to introduce you to more of the Indies featured in IBN’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide. I continue to be so proud to introduce you to some of the nation’s most amazing small business owners … people who are making massive contributions to their local economies and…
This morning, our member, Lisa Kennally of lisa anne skincare, was interviewed on her local television morning show in Connecticut. Watch as she demonstrates how to make a quick and easy mask with yogurt, pumpkin, honey and herbal tea. (Click the “full screen” option to enlarge the view.) As you can see, host Al Terzi…
The holidays are in full swing, and it’s time to introduce you to more of America’s “real” small businesses, featured in IBN’s 2012 Handmade Holiday Gift Guide. Today, I’m pleased to introduce Magic Moon SoapWorks, Bella Lucce and Naturally Good Soaps! Let me tell you a little about these companies.
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.” -Melody Beattie HANDMADE ENTREPRENEURIAL COACHING AND MENTORING The best coaching and mentoring for handmade entrepreneurs is at Indie Beauty Network. Click here to connect at our social network.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and…