The Boss of You

We’re incredibly excited to be appearing at one of our favourite bookstores, Seattle’s fabulous Elliott Bay Books (map), this coming Saturday, May 17th @ 4:30 pm. (Note the early start time — we’ll have you done in time for dinner and you’ll have the whole night free for less business-y endeavours!) We’ll be introducing our [...]

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There’s nothing like talking about insurance on a Monday morning to start the week off with a bang. A few weeks ago now, Michelle Goodman asked us some questions about liability insurance and we chimed in with our two cents. She’s posted our thoughts over at her blog, so if liability insurance is in your [...]

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Our last stop on our blog book tour is over at Alex Beauchamp’s fabulous site Another Girl at Play as the May Newsletter issue. It’s wonderful to be posting over at Alex’s site as she is not only a dear friend, but she has served as an inspiration throughout the process of conceiving of our [...]

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Heard this story on the radio this morning and thought it was an interesting lesson for employers (and managers, for that matter): Workers Who Feel Trusted Will Boost Sales and Provide Better Customer Service: Study Companies that communicate their trust to employees will see superior sales and customer service performance, says a psychology researcher from [...]

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Our third book tour stop takes us to one of our favourite e-zines: All Things Girl. Their blog is a regular haunt for me, and we’re delighted to be guest-bloggers for a day. Today’s post is all about overcoming any apprehensions you may have about becoming an employer, and staying true to yourself as you [...]

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We’re having a big day over here: A television interview this morning, our event at Sophia Books tonight, and in between we got news that The Vancouver Courier has published a lovely article about us. I think they (or rather, the fabulous author Cheryl Rossi) captured our philosophy very nicely — that your business doesn’t [...]

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We’ve got post number 2 in our world wide blog book tour up at Felicia’s site this morning. Today’s topic is figuring out who to hire, once you’ve decided you need some help. It’s going up a little bit late as we spent the morning sitting in a green room with the very charming Kurt [...]

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Our blog book tour begins! Today we kick off the “hiring help” series with a post on The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: “How do I know when it’s time to hire some outside help?” We tell the sad-but-true tale of two women (us) who didn’t recognize the signs that it was time to bring in some [...]

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Tomorrow’s going to be a big day for The Boss of You in the Vancouver area: We’ll be making an appearance on Breakfast Television. We’re told we’ll be on sometime between 8:30 and 9:30 AM, for about five minutes. (That’s on Channel 13 for those of you on Shaw cable.) I believe there will also [...]

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As we have mentioned many times, we’re big fans of Jenny Hart‘s “Crafting a Business” column over at Venus Zine. So it’s an understatement to say we were honoured when Jenny asked us to contribute to this month’s column on the subject of business advisers. Here’s a quick excerpt: What are the warning signs of [...]

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