Making Our Market: Donna Maria + Turning Your Indie Beauty Business into an Online Success

Friend and Indie Business Entrepreneur Donna Maria is a New Market Maker. She turned her passion for making beauty products into the Indie Beauty Network and Indie Business Blog, both resources designed to help crafters and beauty product business owners learn how to package, promote, and profit from their creations.

Video Above: Indie Business TV Episode 20: Donna Marie Talks About the Carol’s Daughter Brand and what you can learn from Lisa Price to build your own business brand.

Similar to many of the New Market Makers I will showcase this Black History Month, Donna Marie is passionate not just about building her own business but showing other entrepreneurs how to do the same. Donna Maria knows the value of social networking for entrepreneurs, as a member of BBWO she has a rich collection of business and marketing blog posts to help your build your business online:

Prepare For 5 Indie Business Pitfalls
What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You: This post is about the stuff most people don’t talk about because it hits too close to home. But I don’t want you to be caught like a deer in the headlights as you grow your business …

A Frugal Mindset Is Money In the Bank
For Indies, financial success is about stretching every penny to cover as much as possible, both on the home front and the business front. Frugal principles are not complicated, but because they intersect with our emotional connection to money, they can be difficult to implement….

Twitter Is The Icing, Not The Cake
I am a passionate believer in the power of social networking for small business owners. I have spoken many times at conferences and teleseminars about small business owners can use Twitter to create relationships and expand their sphere of influence. …

My Social Media System
How I Maintain My Social Network Without Losing My Shirt: Thank you for the great collection of comments, tips and insights you are sharing on yesterday’s post about making connections on Twitter. One of the themes of the comments …

Being Oprah Winfrey
Love Her or Hate Her, What You Can Learn From Her Journey: Once upon a time, as a small child growing up in the south, Oprah Winfrey had few financial resources. But that was then. Today, she is one …

Blogging: So Easy, Anyone Can Do It
5 Actions That Keep Blogging Simple And Fun: I’m helping a client launch a blog this week so I’m answering a lot of questions. While each one has a different slant, there is one central theme: Am…

Flex Your Media Muscle
Save Time, Money and Take Control: The longer I coach Indie Business owners, the more I am persuaded that our success requires that we become our own best media outlets. We must become the news we want to be. While traditional media …

Start Where You Are to Create Successful Video
Don’t Be Discouraged If Everything Is Not Picture Perfect: Last week, Leesa Barnes, a guest on Indie Business Radio, posted suggestions at her blog to help readers produce video on a budget. She encouraged …

Collaborate Or Die!
Partnering: Your Recipe For Success: I’ve always been a social butterfly. I love meeting new people, and when I connect with someone with whom I have a lot in common, I can chat them up for hours. The other day, my Pastor …

Indie Dawn Fitch on CBS Evening News
It’s not every day that IBN members get the kind of national media attention they deserve, so when it happens, I’m all over it! This past Tuesday, I was all over longtime IBN member Dawn Fitch and her company Pooka Pure and Simple …

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