Adam Schultz

Adam Schultz will speak about Social Media and Effective Online Marketing for Small Business at a webinar hosted by Capital One.

When: Wednesday, May 20 at 11 am ET
Where: Streamed live from Washington, D.C.
Sign up: Click Here To Register – It’s Free

The discussion will be moderated by Mary Kane of the National Chamber of Commerce

Other panelists include:
• Todd Kennedy, Managing Vice President, Capital One Small Business
• Richard Oyen, director of HR and Talent Development at SumTotal Systems

From http://www.bbb.org/us/article123/

The Capital One Connections webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 20 at 11 am ET and will be streamed live from Washington, D.C. on the heels of National Small Business Week. The webinar will feature expertise from Capital One Small Business, the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and other small business thought leaders, and will include an in-depth Q&A session to allow attendees to submit questions online.

“Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy, and right now, these businesses are suffering,” said Todd Kennedy, Managing Vice President, Capital One Small Business. “In these difficult times, there are a lot of questions and few places to turn for answers. We believe small business owners could utilize some guidance, support and recommendations on small changes that will affect big improvements in their business.”

During the Connections webinar, Todd Kennedy, along with Adam Schultz, web marketing expert at Bold Interactive and consultant for BBB; and Richard Oyen, director of HR and Talent Development at SumTotal Systems will address several topics of importance to small business owners including:

• Key Steps for Getting Your Credit House in Order
• Tips for Motivating and Retaining Employees in a Down Economy
• Leveraging Web Marketing and Social Media to Strengthen Your Brand
• How to Measure Website Effectiveness

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So you got this rock.

It’s a pretty big rock and your pushing it along.

You go up some hills and you follow it down some trenches.

Sometimes, It even feels like you are pushing more than one rock at the same time and that every inch forward you move one rock, a couple of the others go somewhere you didn’t want them to.

Maybe that’s because your actually pushing too many rocks or that some of them have started pushing you. Maybe you got a rock where it needed to go and someone else has taken up the task.

Regardless, the rocks and you are all shaping each other, the ground you roll over, the people you see, the people who see you, the people who help you and the people who you help along the way.

Now let’s add the fact that a good 75% of what happens is completely under your control.

What rocks you try to move, what rocks don’t, who helps you, who you help.

How do you make sure that with the time that you have and at for as much of that 75% as possible, you are pushing on the right rocks and to the right places with the right team?

Is it even about the rocks at all?

For right now it is.

Back to it.

Laugh, if you love it.

Share, if you live it.

And I find it completely useless.

Instead, I propose we all live by 3 simple rules that have been recently shared with me through my local Prophet.

1. Do Good

2. Be Nice

3. Have Fun

These are the threads of life fully filled.

That’s it. Throw everything else away and stay true to these 3 simple threads.

How would you live differently were you to follow the threads?

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If this is gods plan, there is nothing we can do about it.

If we can do something about it, we must.

Tough part is when, how, to what extent and at what cost.

Thoughts.

Have you even eaten a super hot chicken wing?

I don’t mean a regular hot chicken wing, I mean the one with the friggin mushroom cloud next to the name on the menu.

It’s normally the last one in a long list where the first one on the list is hot and then there are like 8 degrees of additional hottness with names like atomic, or braveheart.

You eat it almost as a dare if not actually because someone dared you to eat one. Friends tell you, it’s ok, it’s not that bad, I had one a few months ago. You smother it in ranch as if that’s going to somehow help you.

It starts off easy enough, gone in a minute or so.

It was kind of hot but not terrible. Then slowly and with increasing intensity, your lips start to tingle and your pulse speeds. You begin to feel like your mouth is actually melting and no amount of beer, celery or wings of lesser intensity are of help. Your friends laugh as you begin to sweat and your face turns red. Five minutes in, it has only gotten worse but you are pretty sure that you have finally plateaued. Finally, your taste buds numb, your blood pressure slows and over the next 30 minutes you begin to return to a less red faced, sweat saturated state.

About that time, when your you feel fully revived and have convinced your self that the worst is behind you, is when another other ultra-mega-super-suicidal wing starts calling your name. Maybe a friend (if you still consider them a friend) reminded you it was there. Maybe you had experienced some kind of masochistic high from the first one. Either way, you seem to be watching it like Tyrone Biggums to a crack rock.

Whatever the reason, you cave. You put the wing on your plate and pretend that it’s no big deal. You tell your friends, I have already been through this, it’s no big deal. You take a deep breath and eat the wing fully convinced that you are somehow better prepared to handle the sweat, the pressure and the pain.

Then the reality of the situation sets in.

The first wing was bad enough, but now you have eaten another one on top of the former. You couldn’t have known at the time, but now it’s like 10 times worse than the first one alone. The 2 have somehow exponentially compounded their individual impact like a payday loan with a couple of missed payments.

You wonder, as your mouth ignites like a biblical lake of fire . . . what the frick was I thinking.

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I would like to formally introduce my second chicken wing.

Hunter Lee Schultz
He is 3 weeks old now
Was 9lbs and 13oz when born

Heather and baby are happy and healthy and we are adjusting well to our newly intensified life. =]

Here are some more pics.

This is what happens when your camera starts to take video instead of setting your timer.

Here is the eventual end result.

Happy holidays!

For those of you who are not my wife and who do not work with me on a regular basis, the decision has been made and boy am I happy about it.

I have pulled back on one of the projects that was greatly contributing to the amazing ass whooping I had been taking over the past 4 months and man does it feel good to have a normal workload.

Not only will I have an easier time managing and growing Bold, but I have more time for family and I am getting back to those positive personal cycles.

Here is how I have been spending some of that new free time. Enjoy.

Clumsy Dance:

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