Being a Sustainable Business
Key success factors for new businesses aren’t just numbers, but also behaviors and activities. This is particularly true of consumer...
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Bob OBrien
- Oct 31
- 1 min
Welcome to CI Works, Patriot Vending!
Patriot Vending & Amusements, LLC (Steve Belmonte) is now calling CI Works home. We are so pleased to welcome Steve to our wonderful...
Bob OBrien
- Oct 26
- 1 min
Successful Solutions Tutoring Expands Staff
Education faces an overwhelming challenge now, post-pandemic. Kids being removed from the classroom and having limited social...
bobrien1
- Aug 19
- 5 min
Electric Utilities - Environmental Stewards or Not?
The state of Massachusetts claims to be a leader in solar PV deployment and energy efficiency, and utilities claim to be involved and...
bobrien1
- Jul 26
- 3 min
Is your business actually a ‘small’ business?
All businesses face the dilemma - when starting out every business is actually a very small business. At this stage, they could use the...
bobrien1
- Jun 24
- 2 min
CIWorks Receives Innovation Award
The Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce awarded CI Works with their Innovation Award in the small business category during the June...
hunterhodge0
- Jun 23
- 3 min
Holly B. Design's Workshop of Wonder
It is very rare for someone to unintentionally start a business, but Amesbury native Holly Janvrin experienced this when she created a...
bobrien1
- May 23
- 2 min
Fling Golf Tournament
Has anyone heard of such a thing? Up against the PGA Championship this past weekend on TV, Fling staged their own tournament. Why would...
bobrien1
- May 23
- 2 min
Expansion of Amesbury Farmers (and Makers) Market
Two young women – Osiris Macias and Kristen Costa have done a fantastic job of starting a Farmers Market in Amesbury over the last three...
hunterhodge0
- May 19
- 1 min
Blackburn's Effort to Save the Planet
Blackburn has developed their RealGen technology to take advantage of the inefficiency of petrol engines to charge batteries that power...
hunterhodge0
- Apr 22
- 3 min
Building Envelope Materials Invests in the Environment
It takes a special awareness to be able to look at the things we use every day and to think of how they can be made better. In the past,...
bobrien1
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Amesbury Downtown and Lower Millyard Plans
It won’t come as a surprise to people from Amesbury that there exists a plan to expand the downtown and include the lower millyard area...
bobrien1
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Amesbury Farmer’s Market in April
I was thrilled to hear this week that a small group of energetic and creative young people will be bring a weekly farmer’s market to...
hunterhodge0
- Apr 13
- 2 min
Passiva PLT Locates at CI Works by Amesbury Native
Passiva is headed up by Zack Bolduc, who grew up and played sports in Amesbury, MA. In addition to Passiva, Zack is a technology advisor...
Kiley McElroy-Brown
- Mar 19
- 1 min
3D Printing and Prototyping at CI Works
Zack Bolduc from Passiva PLT has approached CI Works with the idea of offering 3D printing and prototyping services to other businesses –...
bobrien1
- Mar 16
- 2 min
BizFinder: An Update
CI Works has always been challenged with - how / where to find small business tenants for our facility in Amesbury? They do not tend to...
bobrien1
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Businesses Can Impact Our Environment
Many people think of only large scale home run mechanical changes as the only option to positively impact the environment – like solar...
bobrien1
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Amesbury – Where Businesses Help Other Businesses
I have found Amesbury businesses to be quite welcoming to other new businesses. The same holds true with the Chamber of Commerce. ...
bobrien1
- Jan 23
- 2 min
How to Find a Small Business?
Small businesses typically start as only a good idea or a hobby. To move beyond an idea, the founder’s heavy lifting begins. The...
bobrien1
- Jan 3
- 2 min
Banks, Banks…….won’t likely change in the New Year
Remember when banks were the ‘go to’ for start up businesses…..willing to make a bet on the success of companies and offer them a...