{"id":4155,"date":"2019-07-18T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:35:20","slug":"dont-let-consolidation-scare-the-life-out-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let consolidation scare the life out of you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">When I travel to a stadium or a game, I\u2019m a beer snob and I will walk around to find a beer that isn\u2019t Bud, Coors, or Miller, or even Blue Moon. I always like to use beer as an example when it comes to the retirement plan business because there is a connection there, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">So when you think of the beer industry, the big did get bigger. InBev merged with Anheuser Busch and Miller merged with Coors and Molson. A company like Samuel Adams or Yuengling didn\u2019t decide that with these large beer manufacturers (not even considering the microbreweries that these major brewers own), that they should go out of business. Small craft brewers still had a place in the marketplace. There are still customers who want quality beer even if the masters want Bud Light and Coors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The same can be said of the retirement plan business. While a few third party administrators and plan providers are buying up the world. There is still space on the shelf for your services, it\u2019s all going to be about how you can differentiate yourself in the marketplace.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I travel to a stadium or a game, I\u2019m a beer snob and I will walk around to find a beer that isn\u2019t Bud, Coors, or Miller, or even Blue Moon. I always like to use beer as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}