The Boss of You

I’m posting an Excel Document here for attendees of the September 22nd, 2012 School House Craft workshop I gave. It will make the most sense to those folks — who have already had a walk through of it, but if anyone else is interested in downloading it by all means, go for it. A few [...]

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We’re delighted to have been invited to be part of Etsy’s Holiday Boot Camp for their wonderful sellers of handmade & vintage goods. Our contribution is a special budgeting spreadsheet that we designed for small-scale sellers who are planning ahead for their busy season. Figuring out your shipping rates, gift tagging options, and even budgeting [...]

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The long, long list of things I love would have two things right up near the top: striving for self-improvement(*), and the elegant use of technology to help humans do better. When the two come together, I get really, really excited. I discovered a lovely and incredibly useful tool a while ago, but was recently [...]

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Hey there, A lovely reader (listener?) of the audio version of our book emailed us to ask to get the Resources Guide in hard copy, as going back to listen through a bunch of links and reference materials isn’t quite the same as paging through them. And so, viola! Here, for those of you who [...]

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We had such a great time at the Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs in Seattle this weekend. It was my first conference with baby in tow, and as a result I wasn’t able to spend as much time hanging around and networking as I might have liked, but it was great to be out and about [...]

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Gina Trapani, one of my favourite writers on topics like work, productivity, and all-around geekery, has written a great post over on Freelance Switch (it’s aimed at freelancers, but I think most entrepreneurs, especially small-scale ones, can glean something valuable from it) about what she calls her Personal Business Model. The PBM is basically a [...]

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Something very exciting happened last week: I got my new iMac set up at work. And the heavens opened, the angels sang, the earth shook a little (gently)… then I got straight back to work, because let’s face it, things are busy. This wouldn’t be such a big deal, I guess, except that until recently [...]

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When we were writing the finance chapters in The Boss of You, more than once we wished we could ship our book with a little USB drive full of sample Excel spreadsheets. Then we realized that of course, we could simply post said spreadsheets on our website for everyone to use — that’s right, even [...]

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