{"id":987,"date":"2020-09-30T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:39:40","slug":"can-small-firms-survive-the-re-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/can-small-firms-survive-the-re-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Small Firms Survive the Re-opening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a very small business owner I would have to say throughout this pandemic journey that we did cut some corners here and there, stayed at home like good little soldiers. Managed to make it through pretty good. The Covid rules have relaxed, it kind of feels like it\u2019s sort of over, but not really. We now we can go to more places but we have to wear masks, keep distancing between people and avoid crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so back to business, I talked to a few customers, some say hey I\u2019m glad you called, we need you, but we\u2019ve suffered through the pandemic and so now we\u2019ve have to cut some corners. What can you do for us? Indeed what can we do? Others have said that they are now forced to review their processes to determine if there are savings to be had, certain items will be put on the back burner.<\/p>\n<p>So are you getting the picture I\u2019m painting?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely not over. It is time for businesses to become adaptive and ratchet up the creativity and do it now.<\/p>\n<p>Be alert and stay safe<br \/>\nJoe Harnest<br \/>\nCrane Training Canada Inc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a very small business owner I would have to say throughout this pandemic journey that we did cut some corners here and there, stayed at home like good little soldiers. Managed to make it through pretty good. The Covid rules have relaxed, it kind of feels like it\u2019s sort of over, but not really. [&hellip;]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranetraining.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}