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1. We often blog about members of Donna Maria Coles Johnson – donnmaria.com. Our members pay annual dues to enjoy the benefits of the trade organization. We also blog about some of the companies that sponsor Donna Maria Coles Johnson – donnmaria.com work to support and advocate for small businesses in general. We often blog, Tweet and FaceBook items of interest about these companies.
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3. Our founder and CEO, Donna Maria Coles Johnson, is the host and producer of Indie Business Podcast. Her author guests provide her with one or more copies of their books so she can review them in preparation for the podcast. From time to time, they send her more than one copy and we sometimes give extra copies away as prizes to our blog readers.
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