{"id":7098,"date":"2008-07-24T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/smbs_optimistic_about_own_business.html"},"modified":"2008-07-24T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:02:05","slug":"smbs-optimistic-about-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/financial\/smbs-optimistic-about-own-business.html","title":{"rendered":"SMBs Optimistic About Own Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>65% of SMB professional rank their own business conditions as good as opposed to the overall economy where only 27% rated it as good.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a disconnect between small business and the economy. I wonder why. Is it because some of the people most affected by the slowing economy are in some of these non-SMB categories?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>construction workers<\/li>\n<li>factory workers<\/li>\n<li>financial executives<\/li>\n<li>mortgage brokers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it because so many people have SUVs and houses with leaking equity?<\/p>\n<p>I am unsure but these are the best ideas I can come with to support the research from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btobonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080724\/FREE\/125014386\/1078\/newsletter01\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65% of SMB professional rank their own business conditions as good as opposed to the overall economy where only 27% rated it as good. There seems to be a disconnect between small business and the economy. I wonder why. Is it because some of the people most affected by the slowing economy are in some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}