by Nicole Ouellette | Apr 10, 2013 | This Week In Business
I have several friends who have very recently started their own businesses. I am pretty encouraging about this sort of thing, so long as they aren’t remortgaging their house or selling their children to pay for it (or something similarly crazy). Honestly, six...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 29, 2013 | This Week In Business
I think a lot of us (myself included) think of ways to do things that are easier for ourselves versus easier for our customers. Here’s a great (not me) example. Derrick blows glass and he was invited to enter one of his pieces in a contest. He was sent to a...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 20, 2013 | This Week In Business
Running a business means taking a fair bit of rejection. This company is no exception. Just a few weeks ago, we lost a bid on a large project to another company. It was a project was local, run by people we know, and matched our skill set. It would have also kept both...
by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 5, 2013 | This Week In Business
I spend a lot of time watching online video. More than I should probably admit. Sometimes, these videos distract me. These are usually animal videos. But other videos kind of give me some inspiration to work hard and do more. Here are three of my favorites:...
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 18, 2013 | This Week In Business
The last conference I went to had a record number of women… 23%. This was a statistic that people were impressed with (as in ‘Wow, there’s a lot of women here!’) but, as even the author has acknowledged, we have a long way to go. It’s...
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...
