The Boss of You

Well, here we are, a day out from our book’s official release date (though, somewhat anticlimactically, Amazon started shipping it a couple of weeks ago, not that we’re complaining [and many thanks to all of you who have already bought your copies!]), and we’re sort of in that “if it isn’t done now, it won’t [...]

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This profile, of one of my absolute favourite local clothing designers, kicks off our Boss Lady Profiles section (in truth we profiled a few gals eons ago, but given the long period of dormancy it seems hardly fair to count those). Eventually we’ll branch out, but for starters we’ll be profiling some of the truly [...]

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Jennifer Perkins, of the Naughty Secretary Club, has an awesome article up on her blog right now about Social Networking sites and how she uses them to her marketing advantage. While it’s easy to think that Facebook was created solely for the purpose of wasting precious entrepreneurial time searching for your ex’s and elementary school [...]

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When we were writing the finance chapters in The Boss of You, more than once we wished we could ship our book with a little USB drive full of sample Excel spreadsheets. Then we realized that of course, we could simply post said spreadsheets on our website for everyone to use — that’s right, even [...]

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We’ve had our heads buried so far in our own book activities that we’ve failed to let you all know about another new book for smart business minded ladies, particularly those of the freelance persuasion. Michelle Goodman, author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide has been working on a sequel of sorts that focuses in on [...]

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The always-awesome Jenny Hart has a great new installment of her “Crafting a Business” column up at VenusZine.com, and this time she’s talking about copyright and patent protection for creative business owners.
There are different ways you can express [your licensing] agreement to make sure it communicates your values and restrictions. This is assuming you can [...]

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AKA: Why you need a partnership agreement.
I mentioned in my post earlier this week about business partnerships that I’d address the issue of partnership agreements here, so here we go. We go into this in detail in the book, but really it’s quite simple: you need a partnership agreement. I don’t care if your [...]

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Ah, Photojojo: I love your sass and savvy, your wit and pragmatism. You are one of the few email newsletters to which I still subscribe, even though my inbox overfloweth with mail.
Why do I love Photojojo so much? I’m not even much of an amateur photographer, much as I keep thinking I’ll become a good [...]

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Fast Company has a short, sweet, and awesome article on their site called “Polarize Me,” which is all about narrowing down your target audience by figuring out who you can safely ignore. The authors begin by discussing online personal ads and their general suckiness.
We examined more than 1,000 Match.com ads–from men and women, old and [...]

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It’s a big day around here. We’ve unveiled a new look for the Boss of You website (a big thanks to Lauren for the design work and Colin for the implementation), the redesign is still a bit of a work in progress, so things may continue to shift over the coming week or so.
And, in [...]

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