by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 16, 2025 | About Us, This Week In Business
New Chapter, New Name I named my company ‘Breaking Even Communications’ back in 2008 because my personal finance blog, which I started in 2007, was called Breaking Even. Because of this, I could use one domain for both the ongoing blog and the potential...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 19, 2018 | About Us
I was talking with some people earlier this year about figuring out a business birthday. I mean, we all know our birthdays but what day did you start your business? If you open a storefront (or say a coworking space), that date is pretty straightforward (i.e. when you...
by Nicole Ouellette | May 29, 2018 | About Us
I’m going to say it: from about age 27 to age 33, I had no hobbies. My hobby was this business: getting it going, growing it bigger, making it better. For years, I tried to buy only clothes I could wear to work. I tried to read books that would apply to my job....
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 2, 2017 | About Us
We all know ‘buying local’ is a great idea. More money stays in the community. We have access to goods and services we wouldn’t have otherwise. We have vibrant downtown centers. New people relocate because they have options to make money. It is a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 31, 2015 | About Us
For our year in review, a bit of fun and wisdom from each of us. John Swinconeck Something I Think Everyone Should See I’m sharing with you this photo I took of boxes of Gronk Flakes Cereal. Launched in 2012, these frosted cornflakes endorsed by the...
by John Swinconeck | Dec 18, 2015 | About Us
Dear Apple, We had a good thing going — and I sincerely thought that you felt for me with the same undying love that I felt for you. It’s taken me a couple of years since we stopped seeing each other exclusively for me to cut through the haze of denial....
