{"id":1863,"date":"2020-07-02T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2023-05-12T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T01:34:12","slug":"our-dog-days-came-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/our-dog-days-came-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Our \u201cDog Days\u201d came early!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tom-Metsa-working-at-home-320x320x70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rh-image1 alignright size-full wp-image-1839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tom-Metsa-working-at-home-320x320x70.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Metsa working from home\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The July 4th holiday traditionally represents a bit of a slow down in the Independent Rep Industry&#8211;aka \u201cDog Days of Summer\u201d. Manufacturing pulls back a bit, retailers are busy closing out Spring\/Summer inventory before Fall shipments come in, families are taking vacations. That is in a traditional year.<\/p>\n<p>2020 has been far from traditional. Our \u201cDog Days\u201d just came a bit early this year. Since pretty much everyone was operating outside of normal protocols if operating at all up until now, this July\/August is looking more like a continued restart of the business community rather than a slow down. Both reps and principals are actively looking for strong additions to their business, seeing some partnerships and acquisitions taking place and more activity coming.<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone enjoys this 4th of July holiday weekend, because July and August are going to be much more than hammocks and flip flops.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! tom@rephunter.net<\/p>\n<p>Tom Metsa<!--a href=\"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tom_metsa_linkedin-155x158x70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tom_metsa_linkedin-155x158x70.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Metsa\" width=\"155\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a--><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:tom@rephunter.net\">tom@rephunter.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July 4th holiday traditionally represents a bit of a slow down in the Independent Rep Industry&#8211;aka \u201cDog Days of Summer\u201d. Manufacturing pulls back a bit, retailers are busy closing out Spring\/Summer inventory before Fall shipments come in, families are taking vacations. That is in a traditional year. 2020 has been far from traditional. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring-sales-reps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rephunter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}