by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 9, 2009 | This Week In Business
I can’t tell you how many conference calls I’ve been in on in the last week. Sometimes it feels like I’m spending a lot more time checking on things than actually doing things. Conference calls are to small business owners, however, what meetings are...
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 2, 2009 | This Week In Business
Ideally, we all want feedback. We just want it to be good most of the time. Sometimes though, a business has to be able to listen to honest negative feedback and step back from what they are doing to improve. And that is what I learned, or perhaps more accurately...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 26, 2009 | This Week In Business
As I continue to work on my business plan and video (and, you know, paying work), here is what happened in Breaking Even Communications this week:I tried my streetcorner market research.A couple weeks ago, I vowed to stand on a street corner ask people the market...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 20, 2009 | This Week In Business
There are times in your life where you are forced to say something to the effect of “Dear Diary, Nothing happened to me. I ate a piece of key lime pie and it was good. Goodnight.” (I had a daily diary in second grade, and a lot of it read sort of like...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 12, 2009 | This Week In Business
This week felt for some reason like it was going in a million different directions. It could be that a lot of projects are taking off and in addition, I am trying to keep working on my two big projects for my business itself (the video and the business plan)....
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 6, 2009 | This Week In Business
This week in business, it’s been more of the same as it was last week. Dare I call it a routine? OK, maybe not, but it does seem to be a repeat of last week. A few new developments:I officially gave up on video importing and am turning it over to someone more...
