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Article in The Province

June 22nd, 2008 by Emira · No Comments

The Province is one of our daily papers here in Vancouver, and a few weeks ago now we had an interview with their careers writer Wendy Mclellan about the book. The resulting article is here, if you’re interested (for now anyway, I think they hide these things behind a subscriber link after a few days). The […]

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When it rains, it pours: The Vancouver Courier weighs in

May 7th, 2008 by Lauren · 1 Comment

We’re having a big day over here: A television interview this morning, our event at Sophia Books tonight, and in between we got news that The Vancouver Courier has published a lovely article about us. I think they (or rather, the fabulous author Cheryl Rossi) captured our philosophy very nicely — that your business […]

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Blog Book Tour: Stop Number 2!

May 7th, 2008 by Emira · No Comments

We’ve got post number 2 in our world wide blog book tour up at Felicia’s site this morning. Today’s topic is figuring out who to hire, once you’ve decided you need some help.
It’s going up a little bit late as we spent the morning sitting in a green room with the very charming Kurt Browning […]

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Guest Bloggin’ with Michelle Goodman

May 6th, 2008 by Lauren · 1 Comment

Our blog book tour begins! Today we kick off the “hiring help” series with a post on The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: “How do I know when it’s time to hire some outside help?” We tell the sad-but-true tale of two women (us) who didn’t recognize the signs that it was time to bring in some […]

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Falling Back in Love

March 28th, 2008 by Emira · 4 Comments

Every author we know tried to console us during the final slog of the editing process by promising us that when we held our first real live copy we’d fall back in love. They told us that the emotional surge we’d feel the moment we tore open that box of author copies would help […]

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Our Very Own Holiday

March 7th, 2008 by Lauren · 2 Comments

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When you run your own business, a lot of people (mostly the ones who aren’t entrepreneurs) will make comments that manage to sound both admiring and a little snide — for example, when you tell them you’re heading home early (typically after pulling seven straight ten-hour days), they’ll say something […]

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This Season’s Must-Have: A More Diverse View of Women Bosses

August 21st, 2006 by Lauren · 3 Comments


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Wanna hear what my business partner sounds like?

July 14th, 2006 by Emira · No Comments


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Cleaning House

May 15th, 2006 by Lauren · 3 Comments


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Boss Lady update

May 9th, 2006 by Lauren · Comments Off


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