The erosion of customer loyalty is a hot subject these days, along with how cost-conscious buyers are putting a higher priority on price. Fortunately, the repeat customer is far from becoming an endangered species, but you do need to do everything possible to ensure that relationships with your customers don’t end at the point-of-sale. Central […]
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Social media workshop date set
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Tourism Network and The Maine Woods Tourism Training Initiative, sponsored by the Maine Woods Consortium, is offering a workshop highlighting industry trends, tactics and best practices for utilizing online marketing to build audience and deepen engagement. The workshop will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at […]
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Len Greaney: Try managing government like a business
By now, even the least politically inclined American is frustrated with elected officials at all levels of government. It seems that the federal government, which controls tax-and-spend decisions, has legislated central control at the expense of good reason. Big government has swallowed up tax revenue from the states and made numerous wasteful decisions regarding how […]
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Another town: Poland, joins the ranks of Maine’s “business friendly”
Paris officials hope they’ll make the list and they’re working to make it so. So far, only 25 of Maine’s 492 towns and cities have been certified “Business Friendly” by Gov. Paul LePage’s administration. State officials say only 35 have applied for the designation by filling out a seven-page application that includes narrative answers and […]
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Auburn continues review of Growth Council contract
AUBURN — Councilors on Monday said they wanted to pick and choose which parts of a proposed Twin Cities economic development contract they wanted to fund. “It seems to me that we are the stewards of taxpayers’ money,” Councilor Joshua Shea said. “It’s about getting the best bang for our dollar, not about seeing what […]
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After abysmal attendance for past two months, the Maine Jump might shut down on Nov. 1
BANGOR — Barring a large uptick in business to finish the month, The Maine Jump will close its doors Nov. 1, according to owner Ryan Hatch, who attributes the potential shutdown to a nosedive in attendance this fall and poor management decisions. Maine Jump is an inflatable play place, featuring slides, climbing walls, obstacle courses […]
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Bar Harbor businesses stay busy despite Acadia National Park closure, but hotels suffer
BAR HARBOR — Eleven days into the closure of Acadia National Park, the local business community is becoming more anxious about what sort of impact a longer-term federal government shutdown might have on the area’s tourism industry. According to a national group that advocates for national parks and their employees, the closure of the federal […]
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F. Koris: Overzealous environmentalists
A recent Sun Journal article showing Maine’s business climate and economic standing to be last in the nation brings to mind what may have been missed opportunities. For instance: the Dickey-Lincoln hydroelectric proposal (remember the Furbish’s lousewort?), an oil refinery in the Eastport-Machias region, a plan to develop an eco-friendly resort community in the Great […]
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Belfast designated as “business friendly”
BELFAST (AP) — Belfast is the latest Maine community to be designated as “business friendly” by the state. Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner George Gervais will present Belfast with a “certified business-friendly” certificate and road signs on Monday. Twenty-four Maine towns and cities have earned the “business-friendly” designation since the program was launched […]