Today, I’m excited to share that I have been invited to speak at the Tennessee Soap and Candle Social on May 4th, 2013, at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in the beautiful city of Nashville. Hosted by Rachel Turner of Music City Suds, the Tennessee Soap and Candle Social is an annual gathering of soapmakers and candlemakers…
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Today’s the day! Melissa Rivera, our Local Director in New York City, is hosting #IndieMeetUp today at noon at Vapiano’s New York City. If you’re looking for a fun way to connect and MasterMind your business this afternoon, head on over to Vapiano’s at 113 University Place in NYC. This month’s #IndieMeetup Theme is Get…
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Today’s the day! Yesterday in this post, I introduced you to IBN new Local Director in Long Island, New York. Well, she got busy fast, and is hosting #IndieMeetUp today at noon. If you’re looking for a fun way to connect and MasterMind your business this afternoon, head on over to the Panera Bread at…
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On Thursdays at 8pm ET, IBN hosts #HandmadeChat, a weekly Twitter talk show to coach, inform and inspire #handmade and creative entrepreneurs. If you’ve never attended, now is the time. #HandmadeChat is a fun, inspirational and supportive event where you’ll learn so much about making your business more successful. As you’ll see below, you can…
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I am thrilled to introduce you to Christine Laureano, IBN’s new Local Director in Long Island! Christine is the founder and Chief Formulator at Ba6 Botanicals. Christine has been connected to the Indie community for years, going back nearly a decade when she led a company called Good Ground Botanicals. I am so pleased to…
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On Thursday evenings from 8 to 9pm ET, IBN hosts #HandmadeChat, a Twitter talk show to help handmade and creative entrepreneurs sell more products, have more fun, and be more successful personally and professionally. While the show is aimed mainly at business owners who make and sell handmade consumer products, the topics and discussions can…
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Iam pleased to introduce you to IBN’s new Membership Coordinator, David Boling. David is a native Charlottean, and we are so excited to have him right here with us as we prepare to open our offices in south Charlotte. David is a seasoned relationship builder who enjoys meeting and connecting people, and helping them be…
DetailsOur member, Kelly Bloom of Soapalooza in Richmond, Virginia, was recently invited to show viewers how to make sugar scrub on on the Richmond CBS affiliate. Take a look. Kelly is a high school science teacher by profession, and her natural teaching abilities shine through beautifully here as she shows the host, Cheryl Miller, how…
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Iam pleased to announce our March 2013 Indie Business Book Club pick: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live Without Regret, by Richie Norton. If you are an IBN member, click here to join me in our private Facebook book club group, and request to join in…
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On Thursday evenings from 8 to 9pm ET, IBN hosts #HandmadeChat, a Twitter talk show to help handmade and creative entrepreneurs sell more products, have more fun, and be more successful personally and professionally. While the show is aimed mainly at business owners who make and sell handmade consumer products, the topics and discussions can…
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Today, I’m honored to announce that I’ve joined the team at Global Shea Alliance as 2013 Global Shea Conference Social Media Liaison. You can read the Global Shea Alliance announcement here. For those who don’t know, I have traveled to Africa previously, in particular living for a time in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I taught…
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On Thursday evenings from 8 to 9pm ET, IBN hosts #HandmadeChat, a Twitter talk show to help handmade and creative entrepreneurs sell more products, have more fun, and be more successful personally and professionally. While the show is aimed mainly at business owners who make and sell handmade consumer products, the topics and discussions can…
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Lots of amazing things happened on #IndieCruise last week, among them the sharing of these customized lip balms from our member, Emily Caswell at GCDSpa in Topsham Maine. Just look at how gorgeous this is — a customized lip balm made with cocoa butter, shea butter, sweet almond oil and other lip loving goodies. Our…
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou 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.
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Of course you must leverage all of the typical free and low cost promotional tools at your disposal. But if you really want to step up your marketing and create something special that stands out in the crowd, you have do to things that other people aren’t doing. One of your options is to host…
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