Get paid for what you deliver
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 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.
A lucky happenstance
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.
Create a new opportunity today!
Donna Maria encourages readers not to wait for new opportunities, but to get out there and create them!
People in glass houses …
Donna Maria interviews Melanie Notkin, the Savvy Auntie, about her experiences with sponsored Twitter conversations for the Walt Disney Company.
Scale down to scale up
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.
Vault Episode #145: Marc Kramer [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 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…
North Carolina Startup Blog Goes Indie!
Donna Maria announces her new column in the North Carolina Startup Blog, and syndication of the Indie Business Minute.
How to Land a Job as a Social Media Director
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.
Be where your customers are
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.
Your action-oriented website
Donna Maria shares advice that websites are not about pretty pictures, but about attracting the right people and motivating them to take desired action.
The crock pot business
Approach business growth from a “crock pot” rather than a microwave mentality.
The changing of the guard
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to use technology to create their own media outlets.
Vault Episode #144: Faythe Levine [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 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.…
Make yourself findable
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.
Black Enterprise Magazine features Indie Business advice
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…
Lurk and learn
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.
The buzz starts with you
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.
The Media Is You Video: Training and Q&A
Donna Maria shares her 45-minute “The Media Is You” presentation, including live video recording, audio Q&A and chat stream.
Vault Episode #143: David Bullock [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 143 featuring my interview with David Bullock, the managing director of The White Bullock Group and co-author of “Barack Obama’s Social Media Lessons for Business.” David brings an engineering perspective to social…
Are your underestimating your entrepreneurial power?
Donna Maria encourages readers not to underestimate their potential to be successful in business.
Indie Business Launchpad: PRIIA Cosmetics
Donna Maria announced the launch of her client’s new Indie Business, PRIIA Cosmetics.