Tag: Island Institute

Wrapping Up 2020: A word from Craig Olson of the Island Institute

A Year. I’ll leave it at that. It’s been “A Year.” You can read whatever you want into it.  Claire Donnelly and I recently sat down to wrap up our current Commercial Currents podcast series, Business in Uncertain Times. It’s really a review of our impressions of 2020 for businesses in Maine, successes and failures, […]

Marketing Skills Workshop Series will be held in October

Looking to fine tune your marketing skills and put together a plan in time for the holiday season? Island Institute Small Business Team has partnered with Shannon Kinney of Dream Local Digital to help you do just that. In the following two-part series, Kinney will provide tools needed to drive sales, grow your audience, and […]

Commercial Currents Podcast: Business in Uncertain Times

                      To better understand how our local small businesses are doing during this time of change, Island Institute Small Business Team is making a series of short, pre-recorded interviews with some of Maine’s island and coastal small businesses. These conversations are designed to check in […]