{"id":2127,"date":"2009-07-30T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:14:34","slug":"acting-bigger-than-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/acting-bigger-than-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Bigger Than You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"bigger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bigger2.jpg\" alt=\"bigger\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever say &#8216;we&#8217; when you are really just an &#8216;I&#8217;? Does your marketing portray a company much larger? Why are you acting bigger than you are?<\/p>\n<p>You worry that people won&#8217;t take you seriously if you show how small you truly are&#8230; but you&#8217;re wrong. The old rules of business emphasized size over substance&#8230; but the web has changed that. The internet has brought business full-circle and <a title=\"Burning Down Business-as-usual\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/07\/16\/burning-down-business-as-usual\/\">the foundations of commerce are once again about the craft and the connection between buyer and seller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The web embraces authentic human voice, so don&#8217;t be afraid to simply be you&#8230; be afraid if you are anything but.<\/p>\n<p>After all, you can&#8217;t name companies that you&#8217;ve built great realtionships with but I&#8217;m sure you can name people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"bigger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bigger2.jpg\" alt=\"bigger\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever say &#8216;we&#8217; when you are really just an &#8216;I&#8217;? Does your marketing portray a company much larger? Why are you acting bigger than you are?<\/p>\n<p>You worry that people won&#8217;t take you seriously if you show how small you truly are&#8230; but you&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}