Owners of local businesses packed The Alley On Main Restaurant Monday night (11/14/2016). They were there to learn about LOCALLY OWNED MURFREESBORO, a new organization designed to help small businesses.
When asked how the concept began, Founder and President Gretchen Bilbro told NewsRadio WGNS...
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So, LOCALLY OWNED MURFREESBORO is an organization that not only is designed to help small businesses, but it is made-up of small businesses.
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The three main focus areas of the organization are collective marketing, providing a voice to represent local businesses to the government and media, and networking and referrals.
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Economic studies show that when you shop at a locally owned business, for every dollar you spend, 70-cents stays in the community. The return is only 40-cents when it's a corporate business. And if you shop on-line, none of the money stays at home.
Bilbro stressed, "Each local business here is unique and different, and that's what makes them so very special."
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For more information about LOCALLY OWNED MURFREESBORO, visit their website: www.LocallyOwnedMurfreesboro.org.