The Boss of You

I went to Danielle Laporte’s blog this morning for a dose of inspiration — she’s a neverending source of it — and read a post that brought tears of recognition to my eyes, and a great big inner “Yes!”
My beloved, creative, entrepreneurial friends, if you read one blog post today, make it this one. So, [...]

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I just finished reading “The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker” over at Inc.com — and before you gag on how cheesy that sounds, hear me out, because it’s kind of awesome.
There’s a lot in it I don’t relate to, because the subject of the piece, Keith Ferrazzi, is a relentlessly ambitious guy who has [...]

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This smart, simple Venn diagram has been making the rounds on Twitter, and I like the way it neatly summarizes some great business advice. The creator, Bud Caddell, comes from a service firm perspective, but I think this stuff applies equally well to product-based businesses.
I was particularly delighted to read Caddell’s thoughts about the “Learn [...]

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The economic woes we’re facing right now feel awfully familiar.
See, Emira and I started our business in February 2000; by the end of that summer, our industry (and in fact all things web-related) had experienced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and family wondered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong [...]

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So, I’ve been kinda quiet around here of late. My schedule got full and writing blog posts kept falling to the bottom of my to-do list — not because I don’t love writing, or because I don’t have a ton of ideas, but because it got to that point where it just felt like one [...]

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They say to write what you know, so I’ve made another contribution to my “HR for the Self-Employed” series (part of the larger Biz Ladies series) over at design*sponge on the subject of delegating.
I suck at delegating. But I’m trying hard to learn how to do it well! And I’m a firm believer that it [...]

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Ever have one of those moments when you come across something incredibly cool, and your initial reaction — delight — is followed swiftly by self-recrimination of the “Damn! I wish I’d made that” variety? That’s how I felt when I found FreelanceSwitch’s Guide to Making Passive Income. It’s a smart, pithy guidebook, available online in [...]

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I stumbled across a great blog today while following up on Boss of You mentions around the blogosphere: Sweet Sassafras. (Great name, no?) And okay, it feels a little self-serving to link there, given that the most recent post at the moment recommends our book (thanks, Sarai!) — but let’s skip right past that and [...]

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Forgive the slight tangent from regular business talk here while I share a truly awesome video with you. As a fellow author and a big ol’fan of Babycakes in NY I could not resist sharing this:

BabyCakes, the Book of Recipes: It’s Here! from BabyCakes NYC on Vimeo.
How great was that? BabyCakes Book of Recipes comes [...]

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Since Alex had a post up at the Harvard Business Blog, I’ve found myself checking in there regularly for what is, not to surprisingly, great thoughts on business. And by “great thoughts” I mean ideas and analysis around entrepreneurship, leadership and business that apply to small business, innovative business and well generally the kind of [...]

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