{"id":1443,"date":"2009-03-20T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-06T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:44:02","slug":"marketing-strategy-77-credit-crunch-innovations-a-sweet-survival-guide-to-the-recession-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/marketing-strategy-77-credit-crunch-innovations-a-sweet-survival-guide-to-the-recession-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"[Marketing Strategy] 77 Credit Crunch Innovations &#8211; A Sweet Survival Guide to the Recession (CLUSTER)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>TrendHunter.com &#8211; Marketing Strategy<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendhunter.com\/slideshow\/recession-credit-crunch\" target=\"_blank\">77 Credit Crunch Innovations &#8211; A Sweet Survival Guide to the Recession (CLUSTER)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold;\">&#0147;<\/span> (TrendHunter.com) Diving deeper every day into the recession, people are coming up with new ideas to deal with this ruthless credit crunch and find their way to stay afloat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"> <\/em><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\">From clothes and housing to travel and gifts,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold;\">&#0148;<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  (TrendHunter.com) Diving deeper every day into the recession, people are coming up with new ideas to deal with this ruthless credit crunch and find their way to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p>From clothes and housing to travel and gifts,?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-the-web-burns","category-news-gossip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Marketing Strategy] 77 Credit Crunch Innovations - A Sweet Survival Guide to the Recession (CLUSTER) - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/marketing-strategy-77-credit-crunch-innovations-a-sweet-survival-guide-to-the-recession-cluster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Marketing Strategy] 77 Credit Crunch Innovations - A Sweet Survival Guide to the Recession (CLUSTER) - WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(TrendHunter.com) Diving deeper every day into the recession, people are coming up with new ideas to deal with this ruthless credit crunch and find their way to stay afloat.   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