In exchange for your vote, Donna will leave you inspired. Turning passion into profits.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 9:42AM 
I promise Donna's story and video will leave you inspired! Donna is owner of Betty Belts (located in Ventura, CA) where you will find unique ethically handmade belts, jewelry and accessories. She is one determined gal to win the $25,000 grand prize in the Intuit Small Business United Contest and needs our VOTE to make it happen!
I love to help other entrepreneurs realize their dreams and as an entrepreneur this is what I know: 1) taking your business to the next level with limited funds is beyond challenging 2) support doesn't come easy and 3) a small amount of encouragement can go a long way!
Watch her short video and click on useful, inspiring and funny to place your vote!
Here's what Donna wrote to me that left me inspired...
"I need to spread this far and wide. If I win this grant, I can do so much more with my business that I haven't been able to do. I work so hard and never get beyond a certain level of "just getting by" but at least I'm not in debt and everyone along the way gets paid!"
A glimpse of her story...
When you leave home at 17, you don’t know where you are going, and can’t know that choices made out of passion or caprice will lay the foundation for the rest of your life.
I left San Francisco as an artist, skater and punk, propelled by teen angst to follow a drummer boy to Europe. Eventually, home became the fabulous city of Berlin, where I blossomed as a social elite, the wife of Baron Elmar von Hoesslin.
Watch Donna's short video to hear the rest of her story!
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