The Boss of You

As we’ve blogged about in the past, one of the first traditions we instituted when we started Raised Eyebrow was honouring International Women’s Day, March 8, as a statutory holiday. It felt consistent with our feminist principles as well as just a fun thing to do (hello, mid-week day off in March!). Over the years, [...]

[Read more →]

Today our business, Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, turns twelve. In our industry, that’s a long time. A really long time. When I look around we have few peers who are still in the game (by which I mean firms, many of our peers are still doing this work but have started and folded companies or [...]

[Read more →]

Just cross-posting this from our Raised Eyebrow blog, in case any Boss of You readers are interested – or know someone who might be! Last year brought our first-ever Raised Eyebrow baby, when Emira gave birth to a delightful wee girl – and she seems to have started a trend. There’s another baby (actually, two [...]

[Read more →]

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been invited to participate in GoToMeeting’s excellent webinar series for entrepreneurs… and next week we’ll be presenting a 1-hour session: “Small + Successful: Defining and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Goals.” If you’ve read our book, you know that for us, success isn’t about being big or small – it’s about [...]

[Read more →]

I’m dipping my toe into this Reverb 10 thing. Not sure I can devote 31 posts to it, and December’s already halfway gone, but as I understand it, the spirit of the project is to inspire and catalyze reflection and transformation, not to create heavy homework – so if one post is all I manage, [...]

[Read more →]

Just a quick cross-post from the Raised Eyebrow blog… We’re excited to announce that Raised Eyebrow has an opening for a Project Manager. If you’re a seasoned PM looking to join a friendly team of creative and technical experts working in a beautiful Gastown studio, with clients who are making the world a better place, [...]

[Read more →]

Hello, friends. What’s new? You may have noticed we’ve been a little, um, absent lately. It’s been about six weeks since we last blogged here, but we haven’t been slacking, no ma’am. Here’s what’s up: We’re blogging weekly for BC Business magazine, for one thing – recent topics include getting over your fear of firing, [...]

[Read more →]

I’m not sure how many web developers read this blog, but if any of you lovely people know a kick-ass coder who wants to work in a small Vancouver studio with amazing clients, please point them to Raised Eyebrow’s latest job opening, OK? Here’s a bit more info from the Raised Eyebrow blog: We’re excited [...]

[Read more →]

A funny thing about being an author is that although you get to take most of the credit for your book, the fact is there’s a huge network of people and organizations involved in getting your book into readers’ hands: From your agent and your publisher to bookstores and libraries, bloggers and reviewers, the web [...]

[Read more →]

As Lauren mentioned, I started Maternity leave the beginning of February, and on February 9th at 9:56am my daughter Lena was born. She’s six weeks old today and I’m sitting here marveling at how fast the time is going while I get my first uninterrupted visit at the computer (with baby monitor at my side) [...]

[Read more →]