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 our […]

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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 workload […]

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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, or […]

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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, 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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