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🔒Northern Maine SCORE chapter rides startup wave to national spotlight

SCORE's northern Maine chapter has been recognized with the SBA's 2026 National SCORE Chapter of the Year Award.

A three-step playbook to make your business more profitable

Improving profitability is about focus and discipline, not complexity, our guest columnist writes along with some nuts-and-bolts advice for small businesses.

Five ways to recession-proof your small business

From staying flexible to putting customers first, here are some useful tips to prepare for the next downturn.

Blueprint for success: How to build a solid business plan

A good business plan can be as short or as long as it needs to be, our guest columnist writes.

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A guide to Maine’s resources for startups and innovators

Here's a start for startups navigating Maine's network of pitch competitions, funding sources and advisor groups.

How to make connections and plug into a new community

For anyone who has recently relocated, guest columnist Katie Shorey offers a playbook for building your professional and personal networks.

For SCORE award winners, ‘easy’ was not the chosen path

At the annual SCORE awards luncheon in Freeport, award winners detailed the arduous journeys sometimes taken by small business owners.

SCORE annual luncheon will honor Maine small business leaders

Beth Greenlaw, CEO of Portland-based Sea Bags, will be the keynote speaker at the Portland office of SCORE's annual awards luncheon.

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Maine’s first PFAS testing facility triples annual capacity

Market research showed there was a PFAS testing backlog, delaying turnaround by weeks. A Norridgewock lab processes samples in 10 business days, giving it early success bringing on clients.

5 years after COVID, here’s how business in Maine has changed

Five years ago, when the first positive case of coronavirus was confirmed in Maine, business would be forever changed for companies from food vendors to manufacturers.

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