by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 23, 2021 | This Week In Business
If you think of singing ‘Kumbaya’ around a campfire or walking across hot coals when you think of company retreats, think again. You can mix business and fun, even if you have a small team by getting everyone together in a ‘room’. This video is...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 16, 2021 | This Week In Business
The best analogy I can come up with about how most RFPs (request for proposals) feel to me are getting a bunch of people who had bad online dating experiences together and have THEM write a dating profile. RFPs, which are meant to outline work and fairly compare bids,...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 28, 2016 | Tech
I was approached recently by a non-profit about volunteer management. This seems like something you should be able to do online, right? (Or maybe that’s just how I think.) If we break down the volunteer management process, we can see it comprises a few things....
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 11, 2013 | This Week In Business
It seems like it would be pretty easy to run a two person business with a few subcontractors, right? Well increasingly, it wasn’t easy. Emails get lost or misfiled… that and I can’t easily look at my email and know a project status if Alice is...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 23, 2010 | This Week In Business
There are some weeks where it seems that you get a lot done but it all seems like small and unrelated things keep coming up for you to deal with? That was this week at Breaking Even Communications. Good news is it was all pretty manageable.Here are a few things that...
