The Boss of You

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a book sign­ing at the Urban Craft Upris­ing in Seat­tle on Decem­ber 6th (the show is both the 6th & 7th). I spent some time last night review­ing (and get­ting totally lost in) the sim­ply awe­some list of ven­dors for the show and I’m pretty sure I’ll […]

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A great arti­cle over at the Etsy blog today about a hus­band and wife crafty team who moved to Ams­ter­dam and have built up a craft busi­ness that has allowed them both to quit their day jobs and cre­ate a crafty empire. Now I may just find this a com­pelling lit­tle read because I occasionally […]

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A friend sent me a link to Sum­mer Pierre’s awe­some video announce­ment of her good news, and it reminded me…
It was Thanks­giv­ing up here in Canada a week or so ago, and I had meant to post some­thing here about grat­i­tude. I’ve been pro­cras­ti­nat­ing because things are very, very busy at our happy lit­tle web […]

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When we were in Seat­tle for The Lab at Veloc­ity Design back in July, we had the great plea­sure of meet­ing the fab­u­lous Kris­ten Rask of Schmancy Toys, who is just as cool as you would expect her to be. Turns out Kris­ten has joined forces with four other Seat­tle biz ladies who are starting […]

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Hey there smart blog read­ers. Any­body out there know of a super awe­some resource for HR Poli­cies for a small busi­ness? Awe­some books that helped you with yours? Use­ful web­sites chock-full of info and pos­si­bly some basic tem­plates? If you know of any­thing of the sort, please share!

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When I logged on to my com­puter last Mon­day, I had over five hun­dred emails in my inbox. Let me clar­ify: that’s just my work address I’m talk­ing about. I keep sep­a­rate email addresses for per­sonal use and for Boss of You busi­ness, and those had full inboxes, too.
Why the pileup? I had taken two […]

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We *heart* Michelle Good­man, author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide. She’s smart, funny, and a source of incred­i­bly solid, down-to-earth career advice. You know those women’s mag­a­zine career columns where they fix­ate on office pol­i­tics, what to eat dur­ing staff lunches, and dress­ing for suc­cess? Michelle’s writ­ing is the com­plete oppo­site of that junk; […]

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