MaineCreates.com is an online networking community for the creative economy workers of Maine to build new relationships (connect) through people’s creative works, knowledge, and ideas. The web sites tools and features facilitate the development of new relationships and opportunities by connecting people through creative works and ideas.
We classify "creative economy workers" as individuals, businesses, and organizations that create, produce and sell products and or services with their hands or mind, including artists (all mediums), art organizations, engineers, scientists, non-profits, academia, entrepreneurs, small business owners, designers, architects, boat builders, software developers, technologists, advertisers, investors and many more.
Maine Creates facilitates:
- the exchange of ideas between creative people to form new relationships (networking).
- the development of new projects, products, services and companies (commercialization through networking).
- the marketing and sales of existing creative products and services both online (Internet) and offline (retail & wholesale).
Features:
- Connect online with people to build new relationships (networking).
- Search people in related or different fields of your work and request to form a new Relationship.
- Display your Works and Knowledge for the world to view.
- Promote what you are working on today (current projects). Develop ideas and collaborate virtually online.
- Publish an idea to help build new relationships and partnerships.
- Receive feedback and comments while providing collaboration.
Benefits:
- Develop contacts outside your current social framework.
- Promote your works and your knowledge (self-promotion).
- Find solutions to problems by submitting ideas to the marketplace.
- Create new sales, distribution, and marketing channels by networking with others.
- Form partnerships to develop a new product or service.
- Create a new project.
- Build a new company.