{"id":178,"date":"2008-02-14T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:17:25","slug":"indy-brave-expectations-amid-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/indy-brave-expectations-amid-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"indy &#8211; brave expectations amid challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dealer-expo-2007_114.jpg\" title=\"warn selling goes the extra mile and delivers results\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dealer-expo-2007_114.thumbnail.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"warn selling goes the extra mile and delivers results\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re off to Indy tomorrow, where the forecast includes single-digit lows. Hmmmm, guess I&#8217;ll pack an extra sweater.<\/p>\n<p>News of White Brothers closing their doors  is just one of many news ripples we&#8217;re expecting in what&#8217;s shaping up to be a bellwether year. I&#8217;m anxious to find out how the Asian tsunami of anything other than full sized bikes is playing out. ATVs, SXSs, scooters, pit bikes  &#8211; all flooding our shores in record numbers, with identical undecipherable logo plays, ridiculous brand labels and a parts and service problem that paints all imports with the same brush.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing&#8217;s all about perception and regardless of how efficient the back end manufacturing processes, it&#8217;s the sell that wins the day. Will there be any interest in delivering messages that connect, or business as usual as defined by those who don&#8217;t shop trying to connect with those who do? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re off to Indy tomorrow, where the forecast includes single-digit lows. Hmmmm, guess I&#8217;ll pack an extra sweater. News of White Brothers closing their doors is just one of many news ripples we&#8217;re expecting in what&#8217;s shaping up to be a bellwether year. I&#8217;m anxious to find out how the Asian tsunami of anything other [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-2S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}