The Boss of You

I suspect most of us creative types have, at one time or another, considered picking up a few bucks on the side doing something we’ve previously done just for fun — whether it’s knitting ASCII-art wrist warmers, making spicy fruit preserves, or making hand-tooled leather belts. But not all of us want to turn that [...]

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Nearly 10 years in, I still get asked all the time how we came up with the name Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. Maybe people are just being polite to me at networking-type events, but I always take it as a good sign that it’s an interesting enough name that they want to ask about it.
In [...]

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When I first met Janice, a colleague and friend who I very much admire, and a whip smart consultant to boot, she was just re-entering the workforce after having taken a few years off with her kids. As she recounted for me some of the tales of interviews she had been to, where HR reps [...]

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In my previous post on this subject, I suggested we relax our hold on the myth that we can achieve a perfect balance between work & personal life, online & offline, etc. This philosophical musing was inspired by the following question from a friend during an email conversation about Twitter:
How the hell do you balance [...]

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A friend of mine sent me an email today that contained 3 questions about Twitter. The first two were standard “how-to” questions (inquiring about such things as the simplest way to send a direct message), but the last one gave me pause for thought. Here’s what she asked me:
How the hell do you balance your [...]

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It was March 2007; I was in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, the annual gathering of the tech-geek tribe, and it seemed like Twitter was all anyone wanted to talk about.
The Twitter server kept crashing because everyone at SXSW was using it nonstop: to tweet about the panels & keynotes, to find each other, [...]

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I had the indulgently delicious pleasure of seeing Valentino the Last Emperor last night for the second time. Oh the glory of it all. While it is certainly a film about fashion and the industry, it is equally a film about business, partnerships and well let’s face it: ego. On my second viewing however, I [...]

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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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