The Boss of You

The economic woes we’re facing right now feel awfully familiar.
See, Emira and I started our business in February 2000; by the end of that summer, our industry (and in fact all things web-related) had experienced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and family wondered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong [...]

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I love Danielle Laporte. She’s an awesome, creative, wicked-smart woman who we’ve been fortunate to know for many years. She’s the co-author of Style Statement: Live by Your Own Design, which she wrote with her former business partner, Carrie McCarthy; and now she’s working under the moniker White Hot Truth, writing, speaking, and working with [...]

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I’m taking a hop down to San Francisco next week for a conference and have tacked on a few extra days ahead of time to explore the city. There was a time when I regularly visit San Fran and the Bay Area, but that time feels like forever ago and so I’m looking for recommendations [...]

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Do you travel for business? It’s not something we do a lot of — most of our clients are local — but for those who are on the road a lot, efficient planning and effective use of your travel time make a huge difference to the return on your travel-dollar investment.
Our friend and esteemed colleague, [...]

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I got sucked into the New York Times’ wage gap graph because of the title: “Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller?” Turns out there isn’t room on the page for a meaningful answer to that question, but the infographic itself is very, very interesting.
As usual, the NYT designers have done a great job of displaying complex [...]

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We’ve got two news items up on the Raised Eyebrow blog that it strikes me might be of interest to some of y’all Boss of You readers:

We’re hiring (a second position!) — this time we’re looking for a Junior Web Designer. Know anyone?
We have desks available for rental in our beautiful new office space, which [...]

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[Cross-posted from the Raised Eyebrow blog...]
Things have been so hopping busy at Raised Eyebrow that we hardly have time to blog… and now that we’re settled into our new office space and have a bit more elbow room, we’re ready to add a new member to our team!
We’re looking for a Junior Client Manager to help [...]

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We’ve received some great press for The Boss of You lately, and I want to share a few highlights. But before we get to that, let’s take a quick swerve back in time…
Some of you may remember that back in May we got a chance to meet four-time world champion figure skater Kurt Browning when [...]

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With options that vary as widely as choosing between having your boyfriend’s roommate build you a website in exchange for making him dinners for a week, or paying a professional studio like ours to design your website (let’s put our cards on the table here and I’ll let you know that typically our budgets start [...]

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We do! And we especially love Cupcakes Take the Cake, an all-cupcakes-all-the-time blog co-authored by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Nichelle Stephens (who by the way has a great business blog of her own), and Allison Bojarski. We’ve known Rachel for years, from back in our Soapboxgirls day (and before she became a hugely famous writer), so [...]

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