{"id":893,"date":"2009-09-02T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsiblog.potlikker.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2009-10-22T02:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T00:50:56","slug":"fighting-economic-slump-with-pro-bono-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Economic Slump with Pro Bono Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just as many laid-off workers are volunteering more to fill up their free time and enhance their resumes, small-business owners and their <img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-896\" title=\"helping hand\" src=\"http:\/\/tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/blog-charity1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"helping hand\" \/>employees are doing more pro bono services or volunteer work as marketing and customer-relations strategy&#8221;, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125176720925874609.html\">Wall Street Journal article<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;For a small business that has lost clients or seen revenue-generating projects dry up, performing free work is a way to keep employees engaged while cultivating new relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The notion of pro-bono work is certainly not a new one.\u00c2\u00a0 Many view such efforts as a charitable contribution, a way to give back to the community or perhaps a form of guerilla marketing that may yield some unexpected revenue.\u00c2\u00a0 Neither are unreasonable ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 Where does pro-bono work fit into your marketing plan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just as many laid-off workers are volunteering more to fill up their free time and enhance their resumes, small-business owners and their employees are doing more pro bono services or volunteer work as marketing and customer-relations strategy&#8221;, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;For a small business that has lost clients or seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[23,31,61,149,152,161,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}