The Boss of You

Back when design*sponge’s Grace started blog­ging on the Slate BizBox Blog I men­tioned that I thought I’d be link­ing there more than once. Well here’s the proof.

I just went to catch up on Grace’s lat­est mis­sives and this piece about the lessons she learned in set­ting up her online shop is so choc-full of advice that you sim­ply must go read it. I’ll admit I’m a bit biased as this piece, which amounts to her own per­sonal case study, could read a primer for our upcom­ing book in terms of the ground she cov­ers. The arti­cle is par­tic­u­larly rel­e­vant if you’re think­ing of start­ing up an online busi­ness, as Grace really takes you through the steps and hur­dles she’s been through so far. By far my favorite piece of advice how­ever is con­tained in this quote about know­ing when to ask for help:

“Up until now I’d done most every­thing con­cern­ing my site entirely on my own. No interns. No employ­ees. A con­trol freak by nature, the idea of giv­ing some­one access to my pass­words, con­tent, etc. was ter­ri­fy­ing. But part of run­ning some­thing big­ger than I’d done before was rec­og­niz­ing I couldn’t do it on my own.”