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FastTrac® Testimonials
"I wholeheartedly support the partnership of small business educators and agricultural enterprises as a vital link in the development of Maine's rural economy. FastTrac education is an important step in the journey toward OneMaine."
- Governor Angus King
"FastTrac is a course that showed me that I had been placing my business energies in some of the wrong areas. I have a great service but the bottom line was not where it should have been. Since I have taken the FastTrac course, I have shifted my emphasis to areas that have the bottom line. My sales are up with only a slight increase in cost. My profits have increased as well as my business confidence. I was in the process of selling my business but FastTrac has changed my mind. I have just recently purchased a new franchise that increases my area by three counties."
- Trevett Hooper
"The training sessions, designed to help people interested in starting a small business or expanding their existing operations, are an excellent vehicle to help ensure the economic viability of Maine. The FastTrac education program is yet another step in helping Maine's small business entrepreneurs succeed."
- Senator Susan Collins
"Through the FastTrac program, farmers can learn to evaluate the merit of new products and ideas and develop business plans necessary for efficient management and accessing loans. FastTrac small business education is poised to become an essential element in the process of strengthening and developing Maine's agricultural economy."
- Congressman John Baldacci
"After twenty-five years as a retailer and manufacturer, twenty-two of those in partnership with my wife in our own business, I felt I knew most of what I needed to be successful. This course has not only demonstrated the many things that I did not know, it has also taught me better ways to use the knowledge I already possessed to analyze my business... Like most small business owners, we seldom sit and write those business plans and hold our enterprise up to that examination because it isn't the "fun" part of our business. The classroom setting with our fellow entrepreneurs and terrific instructors help to make it the "fun" part. The value of that is very hard to estimate, but it is huge!"
- Christopher Rector
"Ed Larking sold some of his spring-loaded triangular-based devices under his company, Computer Peripheral Research, Inc. He knew he had great potential, if he could only come up with the right business plan. So he signed up for a FastTrac Planning business class. There he met fellow attendee Jim Packard, of Winthrop, a man with experience shepherding a business from startup to success. Packard found a few investors and others with business experience and founded a new company, telling a grateful Larking, "Let us do what we do best." That company is now Mouse Bungee."
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