Advertising Solutions

Hi! I'm Donna Maria and I Can Help Increase Buzz and Spread The Word About Your Business!!

Thank you for your interest in allowing me to help you share your brand with our community. If you are ready to get started, click here to choose your ad type and size and we will contact you quickly to set you up.

Indie is a rich, deep, unique niche community composed of highly influential and networked small and independent handmade business owners, who make soap, candles, cosmetics, jewelry, artisan perfumes, aromatherapy products and confectionery items. Nearly everyone in our community is either actively engaged in starting a business or is already a business owner. Most use social media extensively.

About This Site

This site provides resources of interest to small small businesses and entrepreneurs. It features a lively Discussion Forum, active Local Groups, an always filled Events Calendar and thousands of photos and videos.

We discuss Sales and Marketing, Social Media, Packaging, Business Planning, FDA cosmetics regulations, how to make and sell soap and more. As you can see, we are a supportive community.

Everyone here has been screened before being admitted. As a result, avatars are of people, not pets and babies. This site is monitored hourly is there is almost no spam here.

Content is contributed by real people who care as much about helping others as they do about asking for tips and ideas to help them be successful.

We do not accept text link ads.

We do not display Google ads.

We do not accept payment for product reviews or paid placements.

If you would like your brand to be displayed next to real-time conversations your customers and prospects are having every day, we would love to include you!

If you and I have already spoken and you're ready to reserve your branded display, click here to proceed to the payment page. Otherwise, please browse this summary of how I can help you, including our charted site statistics shown below.

Branded Banner and Button Links

As you can see at the top and right side of each page of site, sponsored links are available to help you spread the word about what you have to offer.

Ad Sizes

468 x 60 - top
125 x 125 - right sidebar
468 x 60 - special placement within subject matter pages

Ads are sold on a monthly basis, for a minimum of 3 months each. Payment in advance is required for 3 to 6 month placements. Placements for longer than that may be automatically billed.

When you are ready to purchase your slot, all you have to do is click on your payment link to send in your payment. I will contact you immediately to arrange receipt of a properly sized graphic and your requested landing page.

Customized Interactive Programs

Using the power of people who are eager to inform and empower one another, I can work with you create a customized, branded, interactive program especially for you:

- site-wide polls
- branded discussion forums
- customized widgets that aggregate your Twitter feed or other content about your products
- special holiday promotions

Online Statistics

We use a combination of Quantcast and common sense to track the performance of this website. According to Quantcast, our site "reaches 3,619 monthly people, of which 2,694 (79%) are in the US. The site attracts a 35-49, more educated, largely female audience."

Our community is 64% female and largely college educated.

Our community is proactive and tenacious. As demonstrated by the bar graph below, it is also very communicative at this website. Note that participation trends have steadily risen over the past 12 months.

Because this site and the people who frequent it are so interconnected, the reach of our programs expand far beyond the borders of this domain, including to our FaceBook Page, the Indie Business Blog, our Twitter Page and more.

Other Opportunities

If you are interested in sponsoring the Indie Business Podcast, hosted by Donna Maria since 2005, please email indiebusiness [at] gmail [dot] com to inquire. Appearing as a guest on the radio show is NOT a paid placement, so please do not send inquiries requesting payment in exchange for broadcast appearance. All radio show guests volunteer their time and provide strictly editorial content that is useful to our listeners. Guest are chosen based on their ability to inform, encourage, uplift and inspire small business owners.

If you are interested in sponsoring the Indie Experience Newsletter, published by Donna Maria since 2000, please email indiebusiness [at] gmail [dot] com to inquire.

How May I Serve You?

Please proceed to the payment page is you are ready to make your purchase.

As the chief facilitator at this website, and the leader of a growing movement of men, women and families who are owning and managing businesses in this country at increasing rates, I am excited to have the opportunity to serve you. Please feel free to have a look around and get to know some of the people here. Ask them what they like about this community and ask them what they think about the companies who help me maintain it. You'll quickly find out how fun and beneficial it is for everyone connected here. I look forward to the opportunity to serve you!

If you have any questions, email me at indiebusiness [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thanks!