MBSTL Business - Growing a Business - Finding New Customers: Home

Finding New Customers

• How IoT Creates New Customer Relationships (Harvard Business Review webinar)
• Finding New Customers and Increasing Sales  (FDIC)
• A New Framework for Customer Segmentation (HBR)
• The New Path to Customer Engagement: Real-time Analytics (HBR)
• When Every Customer Is a New Customer (HBR)

SCORE Materials

• Gain More Positive Online Reviews...Manage the Negative Ones 
• How to Turn Your Customers into Volunteer Marketers
• Developing a Marketing Strategy for Your Start-Up Business
• 7 Excellent Ways to Get New Customers
• Marketing Fundamentals: 8 Ways to Reach New Customers, Starting Today
• How to Connect with Any Potential Customer, Referral Partner, or Influencer
• The Culture Imperative-Drive Growth with Customer Obsession 
• Hug Your Haters: How to Retain Customers by Embracing Complaints
• The Culture Imperative- Drive Growth with Customer Obsession
• Create a Winning Customer Experience
• Simple Social Media Must-Do's for Small Business Owners
• Social Media Secrets: Transforming Followers into Customers

Lead Generation

• Marketo Lead Generation
• An Introduction to Lead Generation (HubSpot)

Expanding outside your Local Area

Manage Distributor Relationships

• How Suppliers Should Manage Their Distributors (Gallup)
• Turn Your Industrial Distributors into Partners (HBR)
• Industrial Distributors—When, Who, and How? (HBR)

Find Wholesalers

• Wholesale Central
• Wholesalers Network
• Worldwide Brands
• Alibaba
• TopTen Wholesale

Find a Distributor

• Top Distributors in 15 business sectors (Modern Distribution Management)
• National Association of Wholesaler and Distributors 

You can also search the national retailer or distributor association for your industries.

Tradeshows

• TSNN
• 10times

Maine Business Directories

Online Sources

• Maine Business Listing
• Maine Chambers of Commerce – Member Search
• Retail Association of Maine – Member Directory
• Maine Corporate Name Search (Department of the Secretary of State)
• Employer Locator (CareerOneStop)

Print Sources in Fogler Library

• Maine Business Directory
• Maine Business and Professional Directory
• Maine Manufacturing Directory
• Harris New England Manufacturers Directory 

Selling your products to other markets, check out the Growing a Business - Exporting & Support.

Selling your products to the government, check out the Growing a Business - Selling to the Government.

Libraries in Maine have a good collection of books on business start-ups and entrepreneurship. Search Mainecat, the library collections in Maine and contact the public library near you to request the book.

Thousands of magazines,journal articles, newspapers, and reference books are available anywhere in the State of Maine through the Digital Maine Library.

Ebook and audiobook collection available for Maine Residence; required your public library card to download the ebook

Contact Us

Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
fogler.mbstl@maine.edu
Reference Desk: 207-581-1673