Quick-Start Shoreline on Tuesday May 12

Join the business community at Quick-Start on Tuesday May 12 and May 26, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Avenue N. for a two part series.

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. These workshops are designed to be helpful for start-up, existing or potential business owners. Sessions are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. 

Navigating the gap between responsible and practical business ownership: May 12th and May 26th Special Event!!!

We are excited to welcome Russ Shulman back to Quick Start Shoreline with a 2-part workshop.

Russ presented just a tad over a year ago and was very well received, we hope you can join us!  In 2011 after Russ closed his 6 year old company, one of the largest net branch mortgage brokerages in the area, he began to search for a new business opportunity. That search lead to the realization that the extensive sales and systems building technology he developed for the mortgage industry applied to dozens of other industries. Russ is an expert at creating strategic relationships as well as an author, columnist, and currently the lead blogger of UrbanSpending.com. For the past several years, he’s been working with attorneys as well as other business owners in Washington developing systems based approaches to solve the leading problems facing business owners today.

Small business owners worldwide struggle to create a business which not only makes enough money to be worth the effort, but which also makes one feel good about what they are doing with their life. We also struggle with many of the same problems business owners faced a thousand years ago. But between 1900 and today, many of those problems have been dissected, analyzed, solved, and documented. So why does running a small business or micro business often leave the owner feeling stressed, depressed, angry, and frustrated? After my very successful mortgage company imploded in 2009, I spent the next several years examining that question. Through a significant amount of effort, I have spoken to some of the greatest thought leaders in the world of small business today and what I found out is going to sound so simple that at first, you won't even believe what it is.

Drawing on my Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and more than 25 years of discipline through martial arts, I will explain how I:

• Generate new revenue inexpensively and quickly
• Celebrate the artist in me and still make money
• Have plenty of free time to enjoy life and traveling
• Hire quality people and fire poor performers with limited stress
• Remove unnecessary fear of a potential financial disaster, tax audit or lawsuit
• Set up a system that broadcasts to me exactly what I need to hear and at the right moment to keep me on target

Russ Shulman

In the past year, I've formed relationships with Michael Gerber, Seth Godin, Tim Braheem, Scott Fox, Bob Burg, and several other well known business gurus. My goal has been to build a system to bridge the gap between passion, predictability, and profits. I'm excited to be able to share what I've discovered with the good-hearted business owners in my community.