The Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce, pairing with the Yarmouth Chamber and Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber, hosted the 2014 3-C Business Expo Tuesday at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport.

Sande Updegraph, executive director of the Greater Freeport Chamber, said, “The purpose really is to bring not only businesses from the three areas together, but people also. It’s a nice hometown type of gathering.”

Updegraph said there had been a waiting list for exhibitors at this year’s expo. Each chamber selected 13 vendors to exhibit.

“We sent an announcement to all of our membership and we sold those booths in 15 minutes. It was phenomenal,” Updegraph said.

Among businesses exhibiting at the expo were Atlas Fireworks, the Cricket Hunt School, The Wishful Moon, as well as assorted banks and health care providers.

The Business Expo also featured workshop speakers Greg Glynn of Nancy Marshall Communications on “Writing Effective Media Releases,” Tracy O’Clair of TOCmedia on growing businesses through social media and Bob Bremm of AdviCoach on “Effective Networking.”

Approximately 847 people visited the last expo in 2012, Updegraph said. “We’ve already had around 300 today,” she said, only a couple hours into the expo, which ran from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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