The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Businesses Program is like a “mini MBA” designed in conjunction with Babson College, a national leader in entrepreneurship, offering a 14-week crash course that offers existing businesses new business skills, a powerful network, and the...
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COVID Relief Grants
The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship has been awarded $24,000 to provide mini grants of up to $2,000 to small businesses in its network. The microenterprise assistance grant was made possible through $100,000 in statewide funding by Citizens Bank. These funds...
How to Grow Your Small Business Out of a Coworking Space
When building a small business out of your home, you may one day find that it’s time to scale your venture and expand your team, rising to meet new demands and challenges. At that point, a home office may no longer be an option. But instead of investing major working...

Exiting Your Business: Why You Should Begin to Plan
Some experts say that that up to 50% of all businesses will change hands or be sold in the next 10 years. As of 2018, New Hampshire is tied for the second oldest population in the country and with over 20% of its population being 60 years or older, a planned exit...
How Google Ads Can Help You Grow Your Business
If you’re a business owner who’s interested in boosting your SEM (search engine marketing) game, you probably already know that online advertising in the form of Google Ads is one of the most effective actions you can take when it comes to garnering new business. For...
Making Your Own Way: Getting Started in the Gig Economy
By guest blogger: Lucy Reed, owner/blogger/developer, https://gigmine.co/ If, like many people, you’ve spent the majority of your working life in a traditional office environment, the idea of starting your own gig can seem pretty scary. However, if you’re fed up with...
How We Dropped Google AdWords Cost Per Conversion 76% in Less than 2 Months
written by guest blogger, Ben Robertson from Menadena. Menadena had the pleasure of taking over for a food products company, a Shopify customer whose website we designed and we now manage their SEO. We were working with 6 months of Google Analytics data at the time...
Maximizing Profits and People with guest blogger Jeanne Dietsch
The weary stereotype that pits people against profits collapses when you scrutinize it. Sure, squeezing payroll gets that last bit of toothpaste out of the tube for companies that hawk look-alike commodities. In innovative companies, however, good people generate...
Time Management with Paula Mathews
Time – Your Most Valuable Asset by Paula Mathews You’ve heard the saying, “A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place.” Corporate America is teaching this as 6-S or Kaizen, but all it means is that you don’t waste time looking for things. Wasting time isn’t as...

Hannah Grimes Center Offers Lean Manufacturing Course
The Hannah Grimes Center is partnering with MEP to offer a course on lean production on January 31, 2017. The methodology, designed to help companies increase their production efficiency by identifying waste and processes to improve consistency, is used globally in...