The Boss of You

Oh my good­ness. Where to begin?
We’re only a month into 2010, and already it’s a doozy. Emira’s started mater­nity leave (more on that soon); we just hired a new employee; and we’re in a bit of a tug-of-war on a busi­ness mat­ter that I don’t really think I should talk about here, but will just say […]

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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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Today we’re pulling the wrap­ping paper off some­thing very, very excit­ing.
We are beyond thrilled to unveil a project we’ve been schem­ing about for a few months, which is to bring a chap­ter of the Grass­roots Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion to our home­town of Van­cou­ver.
As some of you may know, the gals who run the Seat­tle Grass­roots Business […]

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Con­fes­sion: I don’t read a lot of “artist” books. I’m a designer, and a some­time musi­cian, but I don’t really iden­tify with the “artist” thing for some rea­son — prob­a­bly because I don’t draw well and I don’t wake up in the dead of night with an insa­tiable urge to write songs or poems, paint […]

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On June 16th, The New York Times launched a new blog aimed at small busi­ness own­ers.
My ini­tial reac­tion? Awe­some! Hooray! About time! (Except that they totally stole our name… but who can blame them, really? It’s such a good one.)
But my pos­i­tive first impres­sion was imme­di­ately fol­lowed by frus­tra­tion that their ros­ter of writ­ers (scroll down […]

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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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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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The oh-so smart and savvy team behind local Van­cou­ver newslet­ters yoy­omama and yoy­obelly, for mom’s and mom’s to be respec­tively, have just launched their own blog at Yoyo Diaries. I have a pretty strong hunch that the BizTips cat­e­gory is def­i­nitely one to watch for work­ing and entre­pre­neur­ial moms. How do I know this? It […]

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We often receive press releases about grant and prize oppor­tu­ni­ties for entre­pre­neurs, but this past week I got word about one that fits so closely with our val­ues that I’m very excited to share it with you.
Eileen Fisher, a cloth­ing com­pany that puts envi­ron­men­tal and social con­scious­ness at the fore­front of its busi­ness prin­ci­ples (yay!) offers […]

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