How To: Generate Sales With Your Email Newsletter
Donna Maria’s basic (and we mean basic!) tips for using a newsletter to increase sales.
How To Avoid Social Media Wipeout
Donna Maria shares three sure-fire ways to avoid getting sucked in and wiped out by social media!
4 Simple Strategies That Will Make Your Cash Register Ring More
Donna Maria shares simple strategies and action steps to maximize efficiencies and increase sales.
On The Indie Business TV Set
Donna Maria shares a behind the scenes look at the Indie Business TV set.
The Sale Is Made Before People Get To Your Website
I talk to many people who are investing a lot of resources in their websites. Since you cannot sell anything without a good website, this is a good thing. What many people don’t embrace, however, is the fact that e-commerce at a website happens after a sale is made. In other words, a sale is…
The Importance of Owning Your Core Marketing Outlets and Content
Donna Maria reminds small business owners not to rely on third parties like Twitter, FaceBook, Posterous, YouTube, etc., for their core marketing outreach.
Blogging Brings Home The Business
This is the third in a series of posts featuring small business owners’ suggestions for things you can do to be successful in 2010. Last week, I told you about Joan Morais, an IBN member who increased her productivity and profitability this year by hiring a virtual assistant. I also told you about Marla Bosworth,…
Radio Show and Book Review: My Interview With Michael McLaughlin
This week’s Indie Business Radio, show features Michael McLaughlin, author of Winning the Professional Services Sale: Unconventional Strategies to Reach More Clients, Land Profitable Work, and Maintain Your Sanity. Michael is a management consultant and speaker with more than twenty years in the professional services industry. He is the founder and a principle of MindShare…
3 Steps To "Yes!"
A salesman once told me that he had to get through an average of 11 “no” responses before he got to one “yes.” He defined “no” responses as more than just the word. Also included, he said, are things like body language (excessive fidgeting, arms folded across chest, furled brows, etc.) and being easily distracted…
A Fun, Easy Way To Increase Newsletter Subscribers
Easy, fun and fast!
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.
Mark Tewart: Earn Your MBA Without Going to College
Mark Tewart Shares His Massive Bank Account (MBA) Secrets Today, Indie Business Radio aired live for the first time simultaneously via audio stream, video stream and live chat. My guest, Mark Tewart author of How to Be a Sales Superstar: Break All the Rules and Succeed While Doing It, answered viewer questions immediately in the…
Radio Show from June 2, 2008
– Title: How to Expand Your Business By Selling What You Know– Description: Robert Skrob, co-author of "The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing" has made a business out of helping people market information. He’ll be on hand today to tell you how to use the expertise you’ve gathered over the years selling products…
Radio Show from May 26, 2008
– Title: Blow Up Your Business With Email Newsletters– Description: Kitara Wilson, the Writing Wonder Woman and author of "Captivating Content: Success Stories and Expert Advice on Using Ezines to Skyrocket Your Business" joins us to share ways you can use email newsletters to grow and expand your business.
Small Business Smackdown
Donna Maria shows you how to apply the successful business strategy of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to your small business.
Women’s Conferences Spur Sales
Indie Beauty Network member Jamila White is a busy woman these days. In addition to working on a lucrative e-commerce consulting project for the Smithsonian Institution, she serves several clients one-on-one and also runs j.blossom, a bath and body products company aimed at young girls. I caught up with Jamila yesterday at the Mocha Moms…