by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 4, 2010 | This Week In Business
The beauty with a website business is that, at least theoretically, you should be able to have a customer anywhere. Note the ‘should’. In my first year of being full time, all but one of my clients was in Downeast Maine. (And the non-local one I met at a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 28, 2010 | This Week In Business
I’ve gotten a few emails. “I miss your blogs!” I miss them too! Last weekend, I was in a wedding in Massachusetts and, combined with being busy at work in general, updating my own blog often seems like something I want to do and don’t have...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 12, 2010 | This Week In Business
I often get asked, “Why don’t you give free seminars?” I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately and here’s my response: First of all, it isn’t true that I don’t ever give free seminars. Once a month, I do a free seminar for a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 9, 2010 | This Week In Business
It’s been said that hairdressers have the worst hair and the cobbler’s kids are the last to get their shoes. Growing up in a hardware family, we were often the last to get handy people at our house. Good thing my mom is pretty good with powertools! Well,...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 16, 2010 | This Week In Business
So the Obama family spent the weekend visiting my normally quiet corner of the world. It’s pretty much all anyone can talk about. Seeing the folks with signs sitting on lawn chairs near the bridge connecting MDI to the mainland was really sweet. Some people...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 24, 2010 | This Week In Business
It’s been an interesting two weeks in the life of my company. The highlight (ok low point but viewed in an optimistic way) was when I took down my own website for about 12 hours last week. Apparently, I am tech savvy (but I guess in this case, more tech...