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September 4, 2023 EditionEdition

🔒How to provide your sales team with the right tools

Guest columnist Dennis Boyle writes that today’s competitive business landscape calls for sales tools that provide the necessary technology and resources to meet evolving demands. He offers his list of the Top 10 sales tools.

🔒Ask ACE: How do I address recurring issues?

ACE columnist Terry Johnson of Practical Decisions offers ideas about how startups can tackle some vexing — but commonly encountered — problems.

🔒Newsworthy people and performances for Sept. 4, 2023

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements and businesses and nonprofits around Maine.

🔒On the Record: Bite Into Maine on a roll with new anchor in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood

Bite Into Maine founders Karl and Sarah Sutton reflect on the growth of the business they launched with a single food truck in 2011.
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🔒Turning the page: Maine boasts growing crop of independent bookstores, book-themed startups

Business models range from books-and-mortar businesses to a pair of early-stage technology ventures and a Camden-area bookstore-on-wheels in the planning stages.

🔒Biochar: Startups use thermal process to transform waste wood into a versatile product

A new forest product sector in Maine is heating up as startup companies establish facilities to turn forest residuals into a versatile high-value product called biochar.

🔒The entrepreneur’s journey boils down to this

Entrepreneurs are used to failure, rejection and being called crazy. A brick wall is just catnip for someone crazy enough to launch a startup. We see people take on this journey but often give little notice to what it takes to start a successful business.
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