Four steps to writing your book
Donna Maria summarizes tips from this week’s Indie Business Radio Show guest, Sophfronia Scott, author of “Doing Business By the Book.” Sophfronia offers 4 great tips to help you get your book from concept to reality.
Indie Beauties at the 2009 Georgia Spring Fling
Donna Maria interviews Regina Mowrer (Dr. Flower’s Essentials), Kelly Bloom (Southern Soapers), Jennifer Kirkwood (La Dolce Diva) and Evelyn and Debbie Shepherd of Goode Scents about the Indie Beauty products they offer.
Optimize your website for free
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.
How to buy online advertising
Donna Maria shares tips to help you make the most of your online advertising budget.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your true "net worth"
Donna Maria shares thoughts on the true meaning of “net worth,” and how it’s more than mere numbers reflected on a few pieces of paper.
Do you believe in miracles?
Donna Maria shares her perspective on giving away no- and low-cost, value added products and services to attract people to your website.
Freeconomics
Donna Maria shares her perspective on giving away no- and low-cost, value added products and services to attract people to your website.