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By: ERIN EDGEMON, Post Contributor
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Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010 4:35 am
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Murfreesboro now has a new online business directory that allows local small businesses to get their name out to the community.
The website also allows users of the site to find a locally owned businesses that provides the services or products they are looking for, said Rachel Albertson, owner of RelyLocal Murfreesboro. The website can found at www.buzzintheboro.com.
“It supports the local community,” she said of the site. “It hopefully will became a place where people can look to find the local businesses so they don’t have to go to the chains.”
RelyLocal Murfreesboro, a franchise site, also features job listings from Indeed.com and local coupons.
“It helps strengthen the community especially with the economy being so bad,” Albertson said, adding that it helps the mom-and-pop business get a bigger bang for their buck, since many don’t have the money to advertise much.
Being listed on the website allows businesses to strengthen their search engine optimization and increase traffic to their websites.
Albertson and her family moved to Murfreesboro from California about three years ago.
“We just wanted to move to a more community-based place that is safer for our children,” she said.
Albertson said she was greeted with a “big sense of community.” With that she felt a need to support the local community.
“When I found out about this (website), I thought it was a great way to give back to the community,” she said. “It is a low price. It becomes an option for everybody not just a few.”
The price for a business listing is $25 per month.
Albertson said the website is new for Murfreesboro, but similar sites are in 23 states across the country. She has joined the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, other small business networking groups and is getting ready to start newspaper and radio advertising campaigns to promote the website.
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Creative Learning Services has opened a new location at 610 Dill Lane at The Church at Cross Point.
“It is a tutorial that encompasses students with special needs and students that need remediation or extra help in school,” said owner Tiffany Anderson, adding that her service offers tutoring to home school students and students in the general school system as an after school program.
Services are offered from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday.
“We just keep growing, growing, growing as quickly as I can,” she said. “We are continuing to grow by word of mouth.”
Creative Learning Services helps students work on specific skills they may be having trouble with in school. Teachers work with students on reading, math, English and written language, foreign language and test preparation.
Teachers also work with students with dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, traumatic brain injury, visual tracking difficulties and giftedness.
Students work one-on-one with a teacher or work in school groups.
Other Creative Learning Services locations include Smyrna, near Lascassas and Providence Christian Academy.
For more information, call 653-6297.
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