"Equally important as receiving feedback from our visitors is hearing from our business partners and advertisers. Contact Us or stop by the Welcome Center and experience the hospitality and informational resource yourself. We'd love to discuss how we can help promote your Maine business!" ~ Jim and Patti LeClair
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Jim and Patty, We have appreciated all the guests you have sent our way. We also enjoy having the foliage reports because our guests will be very interested in having that information. The calendar looks wonderful. Thank you very much.
Sincerely, Evelyn of Eagle's Lodge Motel, Ellsworth
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Thanks for everything you do! Dan Daigle, Innkeeper, CastleMaine, Bar Harbor
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Hi Jim& Patti,
Just want to thank you for your efforts in promoting our surrounding businesses and activities to those lucky enough to visit our region of Maine.
You keep in contact with your members in a way I have not seen since moving here to run the Yardarm Motel nine years ago.
Tourism and we who work in this industry do not often get the support or recognition that we serve thousands of tourists and keep them coming back. We know that all these guests help restaurants, department stores, specialty stores, gas stations.......well, they add to all our businesses summer, fall, winter, spring.
Glad you opened the Welcome Center, you do a good job.
Mac at the Yardarm Motel, Searsport
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Hi Patti and Jim, Thank you for all the hard work you do for Midcoast Maine. Diana Avella, Copper Heron B&B
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Hi there! Keep up the good work! Connie, North Country Wind Bells, Round Pond
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Thanks for all you do! 2Cats Bar Harbor
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Hi Jim & Patti, Thanks so much for all the referrals. Business has been up from last year and presently going strong. I'm looking forward to a busy fall.Thanks again to you and Patti for all your support! Gay of Good Kettle, Stockton Springs
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"Jim & Patti-Thanks for all the referrals! We're open year round. We concentrate on serving the locals and welcome the passers-by to join in on the experience of a true Maine breakfast and lunch."
Thanks,Codie, Sylvia's Cafe, Ellsworth
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"Thank you for all your referrals", Lynn of Harborview motel & cottages, SW Harbor
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"Dear Jim and Patti, Thank you for all your support this season. We have had a great season and look forwd to doing it again next year.
Thank You Your Friend," Kathleen of Poor Boy's Gourmet, Bar Harbor
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"Hey Jim & Patti. We Thank You also for the referrals this past summer. You guys rock. We are open all year long so keep sending guests our way if possible. Once again many thanks"
Eddie & Val, Bucksport Motor Inn
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Hi, Jim and Patty! Thanks for the publicity on the Maine Wienerfest 2011! I love the map on your website that shows area restaurants, lodging, etc and the Wienerfest site as well! It’s great! Thanks again for your support and outreach efforts for Wienerfest . . . and for all other happenings in the midcoast area! You two are the best ambassadors that the Midcoast has!
Debbie Hockensmith, Friends of Belast Parks
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We got a nice mention in FaceBook from our friends at the Eastland Motel: (Follow us: www.facebook.com/MaineCoastWelcomeCenter)
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Thanks Jim, you have a good thing going. We would like to be a part of it.
Sam Kaler of Kaler's Restaurant, Boothbay Harbor
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The Maine Coast Welcome Center is the BEST!!!!! Jim gave us the tour of the facility this past weekend and we have to say as far as marketing budgets go, this is THE BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK!!!!!! We've received numerous referrals from the Center and Jim has put in many hours helping us market our Lubec motel... THANKS!!!!!!!
Heather and Glenn of Eastland Motel, Lubec
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I think you are doing a terrific job organizing it all (events) all under a single banner.
Elaine of Waterfall Arts, Belfast
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I sold a necklace yesterday to a woman who had seen the Levis video at the Maine Coast Welcome Center. Thanks.
Tim of marlinEspike.com, Stonington
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Good info from our friends at the Maine Coast Welcome Center....Thanks Jim, as always, for your help...
Bill Hahn of the Country Inn Camden
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Thank you, Jim & Patti. The calendar is GREAT!!! I print it off for the guests and so far it is a hit. Danielle of the Quimby House in Bar Harbor
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Thank you so much for including us on the Ellsworth Bus map! What a great treasure to have in hand for travelers!
Codie of Sylvia's Cafe in Ellsworth
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"Hello Jim and Patti, The couple on their anniversary decided to stay for 4 nights and might extend to 5! They raved about the service that they got from you all! They also liked the fresh cookies and ice cream!"
Paul and Julie Mun, Woodland Park Cottages, Bar Harbor
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“The Midcoast Chamber Council (an alliance of 7 Chambers from Brunswick to Searsport) finds the Maine Coast Welcome Center’s location ideal for showcasing the communities they represent to southbound travelers throughout the season”
Dan Bookham, President of the Midcoast Chamber Council.
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As we checked in with partners for the upcoming 2011 year, here are some comments they were nice enough to share with us...
Thank you. You guys are on the ball as usual. We appreciate all you do.
Danielle & Tim, Quimby House, Bar Harbor
I love what you are doing.Keep up the good work!
Karen, Acadia Pines, Bar Harbor
Thanks for your help here.
Bill Hahn, Country Inn of Rockport
It was fun to see you yesterday. I really like your building. It is all that you said it is and then some!
Dave & Vicki, Seawall Motel
Thanks for inquiring and all you do.
Lori, Boothbay Resort
We are looking forward to the 2011 season and working with you folks again.
Kelly, High Seas
We appreciate all the business you send our way. We are thinking spring here.Thank you.
Tim & Danielle, Quimby House
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This (seminar) is fantastic! Amazing initiative on your part!
Erin Herbig, Maine State Representative for Belfast
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Cross links are great. Our Partner, Marian of Mira Monte noted us in her newsletter and sent her guests to our Website. Thanks, Marian!
"HI, Jim & Patti!
I wanted to know your opinion on the Belfast Harbor Fest itself. Can you give me some feedback on it? We obviously try to promote things in our area first, but if someone is interested in the towns to the west of us we always encourage them to stop in Belfast to see you at the Maine Coast Welcome Center !"
The “Ideas Exchange” (at the Maine Coast Welcome Center) on Route 1 in Belfast brings Wants and Haves together. Great idea, Jim. Thank you for such forward thinking.
Kurt Stoll, Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce
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Maine Coast Welcome Center is so much help to us at Admiral's Ocean Inn. Whenever a guest wants to know where to go or what to see or how to get there, we send them to the Welcome Center. Also, any activities in the area that are happening or seasonal events of interest, they know where & when. The Maine Coast Welcome Center is a great place to refer our guests because they're always treated like they're welcome and not an obligation. They really act like they enjoy the good job they're doing!
Richard, Manager, Admiral's Ocean Inn
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A nice card from Barret Boyce of Boyce's Motel in Stonington, celebrating 50 years family owned next season!
"From Seafood Ketch (Facebook) thanks. Had someone you sent down just the other day. Staying at the Moorings. Loving it!"
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"It has been a pleasure working with the folks at The Maine Coast Welcome center this year. They have done a great job of promoting our Restaurant and Campground. We look forward to many more seasons of partnering with them." Jim & Ekco Baker of Moorings Oceanfront RV Resort
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Recently I did a fall hours update, to see who is open this fall. Look at these kind comments I got along with the hours....thank you so much! Jim & Patti
Thank you for your help this year and all the recommendations. We look forward to working with you again next year
Paul & Catherine of the Spouter Inn, Lincolnville Thank you all for all of your diligence and hard work in helping to keep us busy this season. We truly appreciate you all!!! Danielle & Tim Ray of the Quimby House, Bar Harbor I wanted you guys to know that we're still benefiting from your hard work on our behalf. We really, really appreciated it!!!!! Leslie and Vincent Esposito, The Woodshop Cupolas, Inc., Bar Harbor We had a great summer! Les Garey, The Best Western Freeport Inn & Cafe Thanks for your help! Tony Bray, Fisherman's Friend Restaurant, Stonington .....thanks for sending us great people this summer! Brian Langeley, Union River Lobster Pot Restaurant, Ellsworth thanks for all of your help this season! Jane Liedtke, Bay Leaf Cottages, Lincolnville Thanks for your outstanding helpfulness to visitors! You get an A+ for marketing! Anne Beerits, Nervous Nelllies, Deer Isle (by Stonington) Thanks for sending customers this summer! Bill. Old Quarry Ocean Adventures Thanks for your continued support in sending campers our way. We really appreciate it. Debbie Ehrlenbach, Timberland Acres Campground, Ellsworth Thanks for all you help and information. Laura Honey, Manager Fisherman's Wharf, Boothbay Harbor Thank you for all your help this season, much appreciated. Regards, Michael and Patricia, Pine Grove Cottages, Lincolnville What a service, Jim! Many thanks. Kurt, Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce, Blue Hill Such a helpful item, Jim, thank you! Maryanne Shanahan, Hawthorn Inn, Camden
"Thanks Jim for a great summer and your hard work to help other Mid-coast businesses. I look forward to working with your Maine Coast Welcome Center again next season."
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Congrats on being TripAdvisor's #1 for SW Harbor. A significant part of TripAdvisor's reviews is "Customer Satisfaction" we qualify the guests we send to Seawall.
Hi Jim and Patti, Zander and I wanted to thank you for all your support this summer for our boat, the Guildive. Thanks again for sending so many people our way! It was such a pleasure working with you this season! We will certainly be in touch next season. Kate & Zander, on the Guildive
Jim & Patti; I won’t be able to make your business after hours tomorrow night due the CRL Chamber board meeting, but I did want to send along my congratulations on the tremendous growth the Maine Coast Welcome Center has experienced in the course of this past year. I credit it all to both you and Patti being such incredible community-minded business people, always supporting other businesses and organizations and always wonderfully curious about the great things going on around you.
Wishing you the best of success moving forward, and looking forward to seeing you soon,
Jim and Patti, owners of the Maine Coast Welcome Center have done it! Small business model, doing their homework and sticking to their plan ... proof that good ideas are what the market responds to. All locals hear this: send your visitors to this Welcome Center ... you'll be a hero. Lindquist, Gemini Canvas.
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I first learned of Jim and The Maine Coast Welcome Center in a newspaper article. Contacting him, we realized that we have a good relationship going back many years. I am impressed with how Jim and his wife, Patti have taken this dream of a private welcome center and expanded it to a flourishing business and service in a short period of time. We are looking to many positive payoffs in the coming months and years. Their creativity continues to impress me. I know the Center will be a thriving success. Charles Waite Maclin, Pastor Chuck Orchards February 11, 2010
Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative
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Barry of the Comfort Inn will tell you himself:
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"When I saw new customers in the parking lot taking pictures, I could tell they hadn't been here before. When they told me "Jim & Patti sent us to meet Laura", I was delighted. I wasn't sure the tourists returning from Bar Harbor would find the Red Barn in Augusta, now I KNOW they come from the Maine Coast Welcome Center! For next season I want to display a video of the Chowder Challenge."
"Thanks for the feedback on the Mother and teenage son you sent our way. The image of her enjoying her ocean view while he kayaked was priceless. I appreciate how you try to fit guests needs to our strengths."
"We're having a good season and I want to thank your for your referals. Advertising with the Maine Coast Welcome Center has been money well spent, and then some. Thank you for the many referrals of travelers looking for a quiet, peaceful nights sleep !"
"Hi Jim and Patti, I just want to say how very pleased I am with the outstanding efforts you've made to promote my "Funky Junk" business. The cards Patti designed for me are truly exceptional. Within a week of putting them in the Maine Coast Welcome Center, I heard several customers say how happy they were to learn about my business from you. Thank you again and again.
PS: I added a grapevine trellis to that backless chair and sold it yesterday!"
"Customers frequently come from the Welcome Center to my Belfast shop. The most interesting was a couple that wanted the earrings from my display case at the Center AND a matching necklace. So I met them at the Maine Coast Welcome Center and brought them back to my store!
The friendly folks at the Maine Coast Welcome Center work for me!"
"Hi Jim, My name is Cindy McIntire and I am the Resident Services Director here at The Residence. I’ve just gotten the opportunity to look at your website and I thought it was great!"
"Good to connect as well and to meet Patti. You obviously have and are doing your homework and it is paying off. I will also link the Welcome Center on my web site." ~ Charles Waite Maclin (aka Pastor Chuck) www.pastorchuckorchards.com
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"Hi Jim: thanks for the update. I'm due to pass through your area in mid-Sept. when I have vacation in SW Harbor. I'm especially pleased to see "private enterprise" fulfilling a need for the traveling public." ~ Carolyn
Carolyn Farkas-Noe Vice President Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber www.midcoastmaine.com
Business of the Week-Maine Coast Welcome Center-July 2009 The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce supports the Maine Coast Welcome Center efforts to bring economic vitality to the Heart of Coastal Maine. www.belfastmaine.org
"We got someone from your place - already. Great job." ~ Marian www.miramonte.com
