The fabulous Danielle Laporte did me the great honour of inviting me to contribute to her amazing entrepreneurial toolbox, The Firestarter Sessions. (It’s kind of like an e-book, but bigger & bolder — there are videos and worksheets and you just kind of have to experience it. In fact, Danielle calls it a Digital Experience [...]
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3 Keys to a Website That Sells
May 24th, 2010 by Lauren · No Comments
Tags: Boss Ladies We Love · Business Advice · Entrepreneurial Inspiration · Resources for Women in Business
5 ways to be a great web design client
May 19th, 2010 by Lauren · 3 Comments
The fabulous Danielle Laporte did me the great honour of inviting me to contribute to her amazing entrepreneurial toolbox, The Firestarter Sessions. (It’s kind of like an e-book, but bigger & bolder — there are videos and worksheets and you just kind of have to experience it. In fact, Danielle calls it a Digital Experience [...]
Tags: Boss Ladies We Love · Business Advice · Entrepreneurial Inspiration · Resources for Women in Business
Co-operating to Co-Promote Your Small Business
May 18th, 2010 by Emira · No Comments
We wrote in our book about the idea of businesses hooking up together to co-promote, here was our example: “… give discounts on your yoga clothing to everyone who brings a juice card from the healthfood store next door, and you in turn give out coupons for a free shot of wheatgrass with every purchase [...]
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Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs’ Blog Wisdom
May 13th, 2010 by Emira · No Comments
The organizers of the Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs (more details on the event, which Lauren and I are speaking at here) website has been posting some super handy tips lately in the format of “5 minute pre-conference tips”. For example: How to Optimize Your Etsy Shop Get an EIN (a handy thing for US based [...]
Tags: Business Advice · Resources for Women in Business
Top 10 Business Books as Recommended by Design Sponge
May 11th, 2010 by Emira · 2 Comments
Design Sponge has put together a great list of business books for the creatively inclined small business owner/freelancer. And, I’ll be so bold as to say that The Boss of You makes a nice addition to the list — and I’m not the only one, a few people have emailed/pinged me to say the same [...]
Tags: Business Advice · The Boss of You: The Book
Reader Q&A: How to estimate pricing when your time investment is unpredictable
May 3rd, 2010 by Lauren · 1 Comment
I posted on our Facebook page to see if Boss of You fans had any business questions for us, and we got a great one right off the bat: I read your book (awesome, thank you!) and I ran into the first snag when trying to figure budgets. What i want to do would be [...]
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WomanzWorld Interview and Book Giveaway
March 22nd, 2010 by Lauren · No Comments
I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Natalie Sisson, a Vancouver-by-way-of-New-Zealand (and very well-traveled) entrepreneur whose intelligence and energy are inspiring. She maintains a blog called WomanzWorld, where she posts video & written interviews with women entrepreneurs, along with resources and advice. I highly recommend you check it out. Natalie was sweet enough to [...]
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Crafty Superstar
January 11th, 2010 by Lauren · 8 Comments
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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Naming our baby: The story behind “Raised Eyebrow”
November 16th, 2009 by Lauren · 5 Comments
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. [...]
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Tips for Staying Relevant While You Take a Break From the Workforce
October 19th, 2009 by Emira · 2 Comments
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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