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.
DetailsA 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.
DetailsCreate a new opportunity today!
Donna Maria encourages readers not to wait for new opportunities, but to get out there and create them!
DetailsPeople in glass houses …
Donna Maria interviews Melanie Notkin, the Savvy Auntie, about her experiences with sponsored Twitter conversations for the Walt Disney Company.
DetailsScale 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.
DetailsNorth Carolina Startup Blog Goes Indie!
Donna Maria announces her new column in the North Carolina Startup Blog, and syndication of the Indie Business Minute.
DetailsHow 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.
DetailsBe 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.
DetailsYour 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.
DetailsThe crock pot business
Approach business growth from a “crock pot” rather than a microwave mentality.
DetailsThe changing of the guard
Donna Maria encourages Indie Business owners to use technology to create their own media outlets.
DetailsMake 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.
DetailsBlack 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…
DetailsLurk 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.
DetailsThe 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.
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