{"id":1212,"date":"2009-03-03T20:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-03-03T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:40:33","slug":"repostvesess-the-second-age-of-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/repostvesess-the-second-age-of-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Vesess \u00bb The Second Age of SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 170px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8077795@N08\/1166229117\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"elissa-179-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1111\/1166229117_1d82b218f9_m.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"elissa-179-1\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8077795@N08\/1166229117\">EssoPics<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Explains why the authors think that the present <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Financial crisis\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financial_crisis\">financial crisis<\/a> is the start of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Second Age\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Age\">Second Age<\/a> of SME&#8217;s. Excellent read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Think small. Think efficient. Share the returns.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe point we\u2019re trying to make, however, is that in an economic climate like this, only a SME could afford to offer such discounts, and that it is precisely this ability that will enable such businesses to flourish despite the problems we face. For the first time in years, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Small business\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_business\">small businesses<\/a> have the ability to truly shine, and we\u2019d love to hear how some of our fellow players are using small and efficient <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Business\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business\">business<\/a> practices to attract customers and grow, despite everything going on around them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vesess.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/03\/the-second-age-of-smes\/\">Vesess \u00bb The Second Age of SMEs<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/4cb4e9b5-c501-40d2-8183-9793b7f1479e\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by EssoPics via Flickr Explains why the authors think that the present financial crisis is the start of the Second Age of SME&#8217;s. Excellent read. Think small. Think efficient. Share the returns. &#8230; The point we\u2019re trying to make, however, is that in an economic climate like this, only a SME could afford to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/repostvesess-the-second-age-of-smes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Vesess \u00bb The Second Age of SMEs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,94],"tags":[276,277,563,849,1010,1264,1292,1293],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-startups","tag-business","tag-business-and-economy","tag-finance","tag-london","tag-new-zealand","tag-second-age-of-sme","tag-small-and-medium-enterprises","tag-small-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}