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BEC Story #3: Space To Grow

BEC Story #3: Space To Grow

One thing I love/hate about running a business is when problems you thought you solved reappear (or sometimes more accurately, decisions you thought you had already made and were done with). For example, once upon a time had an office... until we needed another...

BEC Story #2: The Password Problem

BEC Story #2: The Password Problem

What, Breaking Even Communications has problems?!? Of course we do. My goal is our problems over time 1) change or become different and 2) become smaller. This story is about a semi-recent problem we faced. Problem: Our client passwords were precariously stored. They...

BEC Story #1: The Haunted Page From 2013

BEC Story #1: The Haunted Page From 2013

This month, we've decided to go through and tell a series of stories related to Breaking Even Communications. The theme this month is 'brand story' and nothing helps you make a cohesive interesting story like telling several smaller ones and looking for a pattern....

Ten Stories: What Would You Say?

Ten Stories: What Would You Say?

When I was 25, I read 'What Color Is Your Parachute?' As a huge fan of the self help genre, and I was in a bit of a career crossroads, so it was the perfect read. But when I saw how many exercises there were, I only did some of them. One of the ones I did was writing...

Once Upon a Brand

Once Upon a Brand

One of my favorite parts of Mad Men was when they have their brainstorming sessions for a client. A group of people sit around trying to come up with an idea for a print ad, commercial, or tagline. Without being necessarily overt about it, they go through the...

Marketing Monday: Acadia National Park

One of the best parts about living and working where we do is having Acadia National Park right in our backyard. Actually, it really is our backyard. There's hiking for all skill levels, swimming opportunities, it's dog friendly, and-this might be a bit surprising-...

Myth Making

Myth Making

Things are not always as they seem online (we talked about this a couple years ago around April Fool's Day). Of course, we now have access to sites like Snopes that sort through the various stories circulating online (like whether or not Stepbrothers 2 is really in...

When To Use A Google Doc As A Webpage

When To Use A Google Doc As A Webpage

I saw something very interesting happen a few weeks ago. A woman who runs an online business academy created a document of case studies, which she sent to her email list about 48 hours before registration closed. Normally, Marie Forleo is really on brand and all her...

Picking A WordPress Theme

Picking A WordPress Theme

One of the things we do is training, and some of that training is related to Wordpress, a popular web design software. It happens that every time we train people, at least one in the group is going to ask me to help pick out a Wordpress theme. Now it's not that I...

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