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Entries from February 2009

WTF?">More Revenue = More Debt? WTF?

February 24th, 2009 by Emira · 4 Comments

This finan­cial conun­drum has had me stumped and frankly a bit in denial for I’d say the bet­ter part of the last year. Since our busi­ness has grown (some­thing we’re very grate­ful for) every year, and con­tin­ues to grow in rev­enues it seems like we need more and more credit to get by every month […]

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Tags: Business Advice

Is Marketing Evil?

February 23rd, 2009 by Lauren · 2 Comments

I was delighted to read Seth Godin’s lat­est blog post, “Is Mar­ket­ing Evil?” on the bus to work this morn­ing — heck, I was charmed by the title alone, see­ing as how Godin is an amaz­ing mar­keter and I love peo­ple who can laugh at how oth­ers per­ceive them. We devoted a large chunk of […]

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Tags: Entrepreneurial Inspiration · Thoughts

We’re hiring!

February 20th, 2009 by Lauren · No Comments

[Cross-posted from the Raised Eye­brow blog…]
Things have been so hop­ping busy at Raised Eye­brow that we hardly have time to blog… and now that we’re set­tled into our new office space and have a bit more elbow room, we’re ready to add a new mem­ber to our team!
We’re look­ing for a Junior Client Man­ager to help […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Peeking inside Emira’s house

February 16th, 2009 by Lauren · 3 Comments

As those of you who read The Boss of You are aware, we are big fans of design*sponge, Grace Bonney’s home design blog. Grace shares our affec­tion for shop­ping local, find­ing a bal­ance between care­ful bud­get­ing and pay­ing for qual­ity, and for appre­ci­at­ing and valu­ing beauty; her blog is a reg­u­lar stop when­ever we […]

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Tags: Our Story

Getting A Business Banker

February 4th, 2009 by Emira · 3 Comments

Ear­lier this month (like four days ago) we cel­e­brated our 9 year anniver­sary as a com­pany. Over those nine years we’ve been bank­ing with the same credit union and while this post is not meant as crit­i­cism or praise for the insti­tu­tion specif­i­cally, I’m going to be hon­est here: until recently, we didn’t really love […]

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Tags: Business Advice