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.

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People in glass houses …

Donna Maria interviews Melanie Notkin, the Savvy Auntie, about her experiences with sponsored Twitter conversations for the Walt Disney Company.

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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.

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Vault Episode #145: Marc Kramer [Podcast]

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…

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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.

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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.

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Vault Episode #144: Faythe Levine [Podcast]

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.…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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