The Boss of You

We do! And we especially love Cupcakes Take the Cake, an all-cupcakes-all-the-time blog co-authored by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Nichelle Stephens (who by the way has a great business blog of her own), and Allison Bojarski. We’ve known Rachel for years, from back in our Soapboxgirls day (and before she became a hugely famous writer), so [...]

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I received an email a couple of weeks ago from a woman I attended university with, years and years ago. Although we still know people in common, we hadn’t stayed in touch really, until she emailed me to tell me she was setting up her own PR company and had wandered into the bookstore’s entrepreneurship [...]

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How excited are we to be guests at The Lab at Velocity Art and Design in Seattle next week? Very, very excited.
I mean, for starters, I fell in love with their website ages ago, and they carry just about everything Roost makes, and I suspect I may come home with an item or two for [...]

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I’m always on the lookout for business books that embrace, promote & celebrate small & locally-owned businesses. I don’t believe that small & local are always or inherently better, but I have a strong affinity for spending my dollars on products and services that help support the livelihoods of good people, and supporting my neighbours [...]

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I love it when my professional-geek life and my author life intersect. I was checking out the new issue of the esteemed web design e-zine A List Apart today, and came across Natalie Jost’s excellent article on working from home, “Walking the Line When You Work From Home,” and the lessons therein definitely apply to [...]

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We’re a little late in posting about this, but we’re very pleased to have been featured in The Financial Post. Many thanks to Wendy McLellan, who wrote the article and did a great job of conveying the key message of The Boss of You in classic pithy journalist style.

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The ever-inspiring Cinnamon Cooper of Poise.cc has written an absolutely lovely post about The Boss of You at her blog. Those who’ve read the book might recognize Cinnamon as one of the women we interviewed for the book, and her advice and stories are peppered throughout The Boss of You. Cinnamon has been reading the [...]

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A client called me the other day to tell me she’d spotted a seller on eBay who had lifted elements of her product design — but even more blatantly, was adorning her eBay pages with graphics she’d stolen from my client’s website. In these days of digital everything, it’s easier and easier to rip off [...]

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Did any of you see the New York Times article, “Would You Hire Your Husband?”
Collecting a handful of examples of men employed by their wives’ businesses, the story has such a perpetual tone of amazement, I half expect the author’s face to be frozen into an o-mouthed, eyebrows-raised mask of surprise. The subtext that runs [...]

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Author Michelle Goodman, of Anti 9-to-5 Guide fame, has a pair of free passes to the two-day BizJam conference in Seattle that are up for grabs via her blog. BizJam looks to be a really cool business conference (by which I mean actually relevant for small-scale, indie business owners, and worth taking the time away [...]

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