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Donna Maria shares a simple and effective way to use your email newsletter to drive new traffic to your site year after year after year.
Donna Maria shares a simple and effective way to use your email newsletter to drive new traffic to your site year after year after year.
Donna Maria shares tips to help you make the most of your online advertising budget.
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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 146 featuring my interview with Sophfronia Scott, the author of “Doing Business By The Book: How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements than You Ever Thought…
Donna Maria shares how easy it is to charge a flat fee for some products and services to create more efficiencies for buyers and sellers and new mutually beneficial business relationships.
Donna Maria shares the cool collaboration between two Indie Beauty Network members who met at the social networking site and worked together on a new project.
Donna Maria encourages readers not to wait for new opportunities, but to get out there and create them!
Donna Maria interviews Melanie Notkin, the Savvy Auntie, about her experiences with sponsored Twitter conversations for the Walt Disney Company.
Donna Maria summarizes tips from this week’s Indie Business Radio Show guest, Marc Kramer, author of “The Small Business Turnaround.” Marc advises that sometimes, a business needs to scale down in order to scale up.
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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 145 featuring my interview with Marc Kramer, the author of “Small Business Turn Around: Revitalizing Your Struggling or Stagnant Enterprise.” With the recent spotlight on large corporations facing financial crises and the…
Donna Maria announces her new column in the North Carolina Startup Blog, and syndication of the Indie Business Minute.
Donna Maria interviews Internet marketing and social media expert Jason Keath about what it takes to get a job or start a consulting buisness in the rapidly expanding social media industry.
Donna Maria suggests that one of the way to “be where your customers are” is to target social networking sites where they hang out and engage with them there by starting conversations based on posts that you re-publish at other sites.
Donna Maria shares advice that websites are not about pretty pictures, but about attracting the right people and motivating them to take desired action.
Approach business growth from a “crock pot” rather than a microwave mentality.
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to use technology to create their own media outlets.
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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 144 featuring my interview with Faythe Levine, the author of “Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design.” Faythe has traveled the globe, conducting interviews with artists from diverse backgrounds.…
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to beef up their online branding efforts to make it easy for everyone to fin them when mentioned online, even without a live hyperlink.
Indie Business is featured in Black Enterprise Magazine in an article about how to use online video to boost your business botton line. The article features 8 specific ways you can use video and at least one is bound to be perfect for your business. Kudos to others featured: Robert Campanell of Blastro, an aggregator of…
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to “lurk and learn” new technologies, embracing the advances and what they can do for their business, instead of avoiding them for fear of doing the “wrong” thing.
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to invest time in making people feel special, and shares how doing so helps create buzz for your business.
Donna Maria shares her 45-minute “The Media Is You” presentation, including live video recording, audio Q&A and chat stream.