The Boss of You

Author Michelle Goodman, of Anti 9-to-5 Guide fame, has a pair of free passes to the two-day BizJam conference in Seattle that are up for grabs via her blog. BizJam looks to be a really cool business conference (by which I mean actually relevant for small-scale, indie business owners, and worth taking the time away […]

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Our Victoria event at Silk Road Tea Co. was a pleasure, and we’re grateful to those who came as well as to Daniela, Silk Road’s co-owner, who made us feel welcome and graciously and efficiently organized seating and tea (both hot and iced) for everyone in attendance. I got a chance to chat with Daniela […]

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Apologies for the quiet around here… We have the least original entrepreneur’s excuse ever: Work is very, very busy. We’re paying the piper a little bit at the moment, catching up on work we put off while we focused on book  promotions, and now we’re getting close to several deadlines that absolutely need to be […]

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The folks at Studio Four with Fanny Kiefer graciously gave us their blessing to post the interview we did on Wednesday’s show. Ms. Kiefer is a stellar interviewer — she covers a lot of ground and has a very strong grasp of the book. It was a huge pleasure to be her guests.
The interview is […]

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This month’s topic at The Lab in Seattle (hosted at Velocity Art and Design) is on blogging: how to set one up, the importance of Search Engine Optimization, etc. You can read more about the event, which takes place tomorrow evening, here. One of the women profiled in our book, Megan from Not Martha, will […]

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Tomorrow we will be visiting the U.S. capital — it’s the first time for both of us, and we’re excited about it. We were invited to Washington, DC by a fabulous woman named Kennetta Wainwright who organizes a series of monthly events featuring business authors and entrepreneurs in panel discussions on various topics. Our topic […]

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We’re incredibly excited to be appearing at one of our favourite bookstores, Seattle’s fabulous Elliott Bay Books (map), this coming Saturday, May 17th @ 4:30 pm. (Note the early start time — we’ll have you done in time for dinner and you’ll have the whole night free for less business-y endeavours!) We’ll be introducing our […]

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Tomorrow’s going to be a big day for The Boss of You in the Vancouver area:

We’ll be making an appearance on Breakfast Television. We’re told we’ll be on sometime between 8:30 and 9:30 AM, for about five minutes. (That’s on Channel 13 for those of you on Shaw cable.)
I believe there will also be an […]

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To celebrate the launch of The Boss of You, we are embarking on a week-long blog book tour. “What’s a blog book tour?” I hear some of you ask. Well, it’s basically the online version of a book tour, where we visit a few of our favourite bloggers, share some thoughts and advice, and answer […]

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I just caught word of what looks like a great event in San Fran this weekend. Lifting from their website, Craft Con is: “a business development conference for the craft community. People who make things of all types, of all backgrounds, will come together to talk about the business side of crafting, how they market […]

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