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#14: Nancy Marshall of Nancy Marshall Communications

January 28, 201401/28/14

Nancy Marshall is one of Maine’s most remarkable entrepreneurs. From her days handling public relations for Sugarloaf, to today as CEO of one of Maine’s most well-known, longest-tenured, and successful marketing firms, Nancy’s built a brand that is practically unmatched in Maine. In fact, a research study by the Portland firm Critical Insights found that Nancy Marshall Communications was the state’s most recognized public relations or advertising agency. Recently, the firm has developed the Marshall plan, a 65 step coordinated, measured, and metered marketing attack; the last step of which is apparently to have a big party on Maine’s biggest ski mountain.

If this is something that sounds right for you, Nancy’s offering a free one-hour personal or business branding assessment, which you can find at www.marshallpr.com/growmaine . Nancy and her team will contact you to set up a time to meet, and I guarantee you’ll come out of there with some omigosh moments.

Nancy Marshall is not afraid to be awesome! Don’t be afraid to be awesome! And as always, help me get the word out, wouldja? I went to Gould Academy, and our longtime board chair Al Ordway (dearly departed and much missed) used to say, shake two hands for Gould today. Can you send two tweets for #Maine today? And if you follow me @growmaine I will follow you back!

Also: while we’re mentioning alma maters, Nancy has an MBA degree from Thomas College (yay, Laurie Lachance!) and undergraduate degree from Colby College (yay, LEED-Silver Colby College Museum of Art!).

Shortlink to this episode (makes it easy to mention it to someone): www.growmaineshow.com/nancy

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Mick Dunn of Shift Energy LLC

January 17, 201401/17/14

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Mick Dunn is one of Maine’s most remarkable entrepreneurs. OK, well, he’s one of Australia’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, but he’s here in Maine. (Don’t you just love these Maine businesses that are national and international leaders?).

Mick’s got a background in commercial construction, and a multimillion dollar renewable energy business in a niche I’m guessing you don’t even think is legit, solar air heating. But if it’s done right, solar air heating can easily heat a gymnasium, and that’s what Mick’s company Shift Energy does.

So listen in as we get to hear some good Australian business expressions like ‘even the keel out’, and international perspective on doing business in Maine, including that it can be an insular market, and why that’s a good thing; as well as an introduction to Mick’s podcast, Risking Failure.

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#11: Ry Russell of The Saco Drive In

December 17, 201312/17/13

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This week, we’re joined by Ry Russell of The Saco Drive In, another awesome entrepreneur making it in the worst state in the USA for business! Ry took over the Saco drive in two years ago, and turned it from dying to profitable in just one season by showing first run films. But then, movie studios issued an ultimatum: no more film, we’re going digital. So with 30 days to save the theater, Ry, a facebook branding expert, leveraged his more than 25,000 fans to win a national prize from Honda Motor Company to pay for the conversion.

Like they say about entrepreneurship, jump off the cliff and put the plane together on the way down. It was either Shut Down and Cry, or go all out. And plus, as you’ll see, when you’ve got a portable jump starter, you’ve going to create raving fans with your customer service.

Something new this week – we’re collecting a master list, an EPIC list of resources for Maine entrepreneurs. Of course we’ve got MTI, MCED, MITC, and MVF, but actually we’ve got more than 50 so far, and counting. But you’ve probably got a great resource for Maine entrepreneurs that I don’t know about, so tweet it to me @growmaine, and I’ll add it to my list, and when it’s done I’ll tweet it back out with a map and contact information.

And as you may have heard, I’ve been saying ‘Don’t Be Afraid to be Awesome’ on my casts for the last few episodes. So, I’m taking my own advice, and going to ONCE a WEEK in 2014. The cast has been great, but it’s a little harder to promote between episodes, so I’m going for it! Cheers! DBATBA!

And if you want to hire Ry to work his magic for YOU, click here.

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#1: Martin Grimnes of Harbor Technology

July 22, 201307/22/13

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Martin Grimnes is one of Maine’s most remarkable entrepreneurs. In 1980, he founded Brunswick Technologies, which went on to be publicly traded. After the acquisition of the company, he brought his same skill set to a new composites company, Harbor Technologies.

Learn about Martin’s first bike, how to cook a lobster, and how to form an industry consortium to bring in new business you can’t handle on your own.

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