May 16, 2022 EditionEdition

🔒Ask ACE: What does innovation look like?

A contributor from the Association for Consulting Expertise advises a reader whose business is "stuck." Innovation can help, but involves more than a single lightbulb moment.

🔒How to improve your hiring — and bolster the overall candidate experience

The current hiring market makes it critical for employers to improve the job-seeking experience, writes a recruitment expert, who also explains how.

🔒How to develop a skills inventory and talent development plan

A former Unum executive and chairman of the Maine International Trade Center writes about why businesses of all types need to take stock of talent and plan accordingly. In cybersecurity and elsewhere, it's important to know what you know.

🔒Newsworthy people and performances for May 16, 2022

The Mainebiz roundup of businesses and businesspeople that have been making changes in recent weeks. Check out our compilation of new hires, promotions, accomplishments and more.
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🔒On the Record: Camden entrepreneur has big plans for home-based business

The founder of LooHoo Wool Dryer Balls has her sights set on expanding into more laundry and pet products.

🔒How to respond to RFPs and build business in the public sector

For B2B companies looking to expand their markets, government clients can be a lucrative opportunity. It helps to first understand their often-complex contracting process.

🔒Scrappy small businesses: Despite labor shortages and supply chain issues, there’s optimism

Many small businesses are looking beyond the pandemic with a sense of excitement. There's a vigorous spirit in Maine's small-business community, despite difficulties including staffing shortages and supply chain woes.

🔒Lending a hand: New Maine microloan program supports immigrant-owned small businesses

The Indus Fund is a new microloan program for small business owners in Maine’s growing immigrant community.
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🔒From the Editor: Small businesses roaring back after a rough couple of years

While we hesitate to say the pandemic is behind us, we have at least had the good...
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