by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 18, 2009 | This Week In Business
It was an exciting week at Breaking Even Communications, mainly because I’m sitting pretty and ergonomically correct now. Three things that happened to my microbusiness this week:
1) I bought a chair. Now I often don’t get jazzed about spending $150 but this week was an exception. After searching far and wide Downeast and doing an inquiry on bothTwitter and Facebook, I realized I could not buy my new office chair locally, even if I wanted to. I connected with the folks at Creative Office Pavillion.
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 10, 2009 | This Week In Business
Week four of Breaking Even Communications has revealed to me that I need a good manager, and that person has to be me. And in the universe of perfect timing, my shoulder has been killing me by mid-morning most everyday for the past almost two weeks. I have...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 5, 2009 | This Week In Business
I love periodicals probably as much as I love blogs. When I have a doctor’s appointment, I sometimes go early so I can catch up on my reading.
But no medical appointment is necessary now; the inn has plenty of magazines for me to peruse, including some restaurant and lodging trade publications not carried by my doctor or my dentist.
One restaurant magazine, Santé had a feature article in their May issue called “Sarah’s: Succeeding In Tough Times.” Sarah and Bernard Bouissou own Bernard’s Restaurant in Ridgefield Connecticut. It’s an upscale place with great food that was doing well until the recession hit.
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 4, 2009 | This Week In Business
Week three my new business venture is going well. My energy level is higher, in part because it finally stopped raining in my corner of the world, and my anxiety level is lower, in part because I am in the process of securing regular work with a large client. Besides taking a mental deep breath, here’s what I have been up to:
by Nicole Ouellette | May 29, 2009 | This Week In Business
In week two of self-employment, it has become clear that the honeymoon is over. My dog and I are officially sick of each other. The papers, for which a filing system was created last week, are in a small pile on the couch. Creating systems was one thing, and this week the challenge was to not only keep up with them but to improve them.
In order to hold myself accountable and entertain you at the same time, here is some of what I did/learned this week:
by Nicole Ouellette | May 21, 2009 | This Week In Business
The other day, I had lunch with the great business blogger Carl Natale. Since I am just starting a new business venture, Carl that I ought to do some kind of reporting out on a regular basis about how it’s going and what I’m learning on the blog.