3 Pillars of a Solid Home Based Business
Posted by ckrishnek in Uncategorized on June 24th, 2010
three home based business pillars
In this day and age it is almost impossible to maintain a decent standard of living on one paycheck, but in a family where children are involved it is not always feasible for both dad and mom to have a job outside of the home. Daycare expenses, the need for a second car, and too much time away from the children are some common drawbacks. This however is the exact situation that a Home Based Business works to its greatest advantage.
Carrie Krishnek Announces CarbonCopyPRO Alliance
Posted by ckrishnek in CarbonCopyPro on March 9th, 2010
The former engineering technician and network marketing pro feels she has found the right mix of solid opportunity, training and support.
Carrie Krishnek, a former engineering tech and experienced network marketer, has joined forces with CarbonCopyPRO, the marketing arm for Wealth Masters International. The company was founded by Internet marketing legend and online marketing pioneer Jay Kubassek to automate the lead generation and customer service process for Wealth Masters International (WMI) consultants.
CarbonCopyPRO handles back office tasks such as website development and management, copywriting and content development, publicity and public relations, as well as call center operations, thereby freeing the consultant to focus on other, higher value activities such as building relationships and closing sales. The resulting stream of high quality, qualified leads helps WMI consultants to jump start their business and to realize explosive growth over time. “I previously had joined at least 5 different marketing programs that delivered little to no results,” said Krishnek. “Carbon Copy Pro blew me away with the high quality training it provides its members,” she said.
Wealth Masters International features a combination of world class education, services, and strategies along with proven consultants that have extensive, successful track records in their respective fields, who come together to help people effectively manage personal finances. The company’s mission is to create success and wealth in others one person at a time. The firm also offers a very lucrative network marketing opportunity for its consultants that provides the ability to generate an extraordinary income while helping people to improve their financial situation. The company was founded by Kip Herriage and Karl Bessey, and was incorporated in January of 2005.
“The Wealth Masters Course teaches business owners everything they need to know about money, investment, taxes, self improvement, and so forth,” said Krishnek. “With hard work, persistence, and a positive attitude my hopes and dreams of providing a future for my children will be fulfilled very soon,” she continued.
Like many people today, Krishnek, a single mom trying to raise two children, was working herself to the bone, routinely putting in 12 hour shifts at a semi-conductor plant. Apart from the fact that she had no job security, she was spending precious little time with her children. “I was rarely home to help my kids with their homework or kiss them goodnight,” said Krishnek, regretting the lost time. “After almost 14 years of living from paycheck to paycheck, I decided it was time to make a change.”
Kubassek has vowed to make 100 new millionaires by 2012, and Krishnek is pleased to be part of his mission. “It’s time to change my life,” she said. “And that’s exactly what I’m doing.”
Carrie Krishnek is a business coach and mentor based out Boise, ID, that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. Carrie and her team have assisted hundreds of people in generating profits that exceed $250K or more in their first year. For more information and to contact Carrie, visit:
http://www.TopNotchBusinessPro.com..
Are You Ready To Start Your Own Business? The 4 Key Questions You Must Ask
Posted by ckrishnek in Start a Home Based Business on March 8th, 2010
Every year millions of people answer “Yes” to that question and every year that answer costs many of them money, time, confidence, and heartbreak. The Small Business Administration estimates there are 580,900 new small businesses opening each year and that number does not include the small one-person entrepreneurships that pop up every day. However even if you are your business’s sole employee then there is still something to be learned from the SBA’s numbers.
According to the SBA, two-thirds of new businesses survive at least two years and 44 percent survive at least four years. Two of the key factors in the businesses survival and ability to thrive: the owner’s education level and the owner’s reason for starting the firm in the first place.
How can you make sure that you are among the winners rather than the losers in this high stakes game? The answer is inside of you. You must ask yourself four key questions to determine whether your own small business will survive and thrive.
1. Are You Ready
Have you mentally prepared yourself for the switch from employee (or student or whatever label fits you currently) to boss. You are going to be the one making decisions now about everything from office products to product line. This total control is one of the driving forces behind many people who take the plunge into starting their ownbusiness but it is also one of the elements that drives new entreprenurs crazy. When you start out there is an endless list of decisions that need to be made and new questions crop up every day.
Even more important you will need to remember that in a small business you will wear many hats. Even if you manage to start out with one or more employees you will each fulfill more than one role in your new business. And if you are running a one-man or one-woman show then you serve in every capacity from file clerk to maintenance crew to salesman to CEO. Can you handle switching from task to task and role to role like that? Are you willing to make those switches?
Similarly, have you prepared your family and friends for this switch in attitude. Your life is going to change — probably pretty drastically — and that change can have a positive or negative impact on your family life and social interactions. It will make things much easier if your friends and family are supportive going into the process.
2. Where Is Your Niche?
Have you identified your niche yet? One of the reasons many businesses fail is that they fail to focus on a target audience. Yes if you are a major discount chain then you can sell everything from peanuts to wallpaper but this type of business requires vast resources that just aren’t available to the small business. But small businesses dominate the marketplace (creating more than 50 percent of the private gross domestic product last year) by finding a different approach — a niche.
Knowing your niche means you are better able to find, target, and maintain your customers as well as provide the best possible goods and services to that customer base. That focus is one of your best chances to not only survive but to thrive in a very competitive marketplace.
3. What Is Your Plan Of Action?
Another key factor in the survival and ultimate success of your business is how much planning you do before you open your electronic or physical doors. You need to decide if your business will be based on the internet or include more traditional models. Are you going to work full-time or part-time at your new business? Are you going to hire help or go solo? Have you written (or at least outlined) your business plan? Dreaming, thinking and planning can save you much trouble and waste later when things are hectic and problems strike. Planning can also help keep you focused and to balance your spending and time.
4. Who Are You Going To Call?
At some point, no matter how experienced a business person you are, you will need help. You will need support, advice, tools, or information — or all of the above. One of the beautiful, and most frightening, aspects of growth is that it can lead you to places you never imagined. No matter how much planning and experience you bring to your new position as CEO the unexpected will arise. How will you cope with this? It is important to recognize that no business is an island. It is not failure to seek help. Failure is when your business shuts down because you didn’t get the help you needed.
The best way to get timely help is to work on your support system while you work on building your business. That way you will already have a ready list of resources available that you can quickly tap into when emergencies strike. In today’s world there are many marvelous resources available to you no matter what your business model may be. These include:
~ Publications (newsletters, magazines, books)
~ People (professional advisors, mentors, teachers, consultants)
~ Networks (organizations and forums in your niche as well as general business and marketing)
~ Education and training (tutorials, courses, and seminars)
After you have answered these four key questions you are now ready to ask yourself that one big question again — are you ready to start your own business?
32 Words That Can Change Your Life
Posted by ckrishnek in Motivation on January 22nd, 2010
We all have ways of testing opportunities that enter our lives. Some of us just dive right in based on feeling, others walk straight into what they know is right by a gut feeling or intuition. And if it’s not gut feelings or emotions that are the tests of opportunities, it is the logical mind persuading us to ignore those feelings and emotions and test it with our reality of reason.
Most of us do not have a predetermined strategy for testing opportunities, or even more generally to test the actions we take and the choices we make in our lives.
There is an easier way to determine if our choices we make and the opportunities we receive ‘pass the test’. This simple 32 word statement of business ethics was first created in the 1930s and used to turn around a failing company. These four questions were applied by each employee to each and to every minute detail of the company’s workings. This little list of four questions from Rotary International, a humanitarian business organization, is the most widely printed, translated and reproduced piece of business ethics today:
“Of the things we say, think or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
If we built businesses and our lives based on these very simple 4 questions we would be coming from a place completely the opposite of the competitive mind and the lack mentality. As you can see, these questions prompt you to choose what is true, fair, and good, making choices that can build friendships and goodwill. It helps us to see how the choices we make can be beneficial to all concerned.
Because of our societal influences, we most often are inclined to make choices and act based on a competitive mind. This comes from the perspective of lack, scarcity, and ultimately greed.
Any opportunity based on the model of competition and lack will simply not pass the test. Competition promotes strife. It embodies winning one spot, taking it away from all the other people who want it. It misleads people to believing there is only one chance for success, when in reality there is plenty for all.
The competitive model encourages people to rely on a source outside of themselves to give them what they need. This denies the power of their own ability to create what they want. This narrow focus shows they are choosing to ignore the possibility of creating this opportunity in their own lives, instead of trying to win the spot from millions of others.
This simple testing technique takes us completely out of the competitive mind of greed, scarcity and lack. It turns our thoughts and choices toward the positive, realizing there are opportunities we can take that can provide increase for all concerned.
I invite you to use these questions to test your actions and opportunities in your life. If you are seeking opportunity, these questions may help you see things in a different way. In doing this, perhaps you might find an opportunity in your life which truly allows you to benefit the world, while at the same time reaching whatever your dreams, goals, and desires are.
Benjamin Franklin’s List of 13 Virtues and What You Can Learn From Them
Posted by ckrishnek in Motivation on December 2nd, 2009
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, inventor, statesman, writer, publisher and economist relates in his autobiography that early in his life he decided to focus on arriving at moral perfection. He made a list of 13 virtues, assigning a page to each. Under each virtue he wrote a summary that gave it fuller meaning. Then he practiced each one for a certain length of time.
To make these virtues a habit, Franklin can up with a method to grade himself on his daily actions. In a journal he drew a table with a row for every virtue and a column for every day of the week. Every time he made a fault, he made a mark in the appropriate column. Each week he focused his attention on a different virtue. Over time, through repetition, he hoped to one day experience the pleasure of “viewing a clean Book.”
He says that he carried out this personal examination for years. In order to do the work thoroughly he decided to attempt each virtue and a quarter of its importance – one at a time. He began with temperance, which included the moderating of every pleasure or inclination to develop undesirable habits, because temperance “tends to procure that coolness and clearance and head that is so necessary where constant vigilance is to be kept up and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ancient habits and the force of perpetual temptations.”
The other virtues practice in succession by Franklin were silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, Justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility. For the summary order he followed a little scheme of employing his time each day. From five to seven each morning he spent in bodily personal attention, saying a short prayer, thinking over the day’s business and resolutions, studying and eating breakfast. From eight till twelve he worked at his trade. From twelve to one he read or overlooked his accounts and dined. From two to five he worked at his trade. The rest of the evening until 10 he spent in music, or diversion of some sort.
This time is used also to put things in their places. In the last thing before retiring was examination of the day. At the age of 79, he ascribed his health to temperance; the acquisition of misfortune to industry and frugality; the confidence of his country to sincerity and justice.
Franklin’s extraordinary success in life and politics can be attributed to his perseverance to overcome his personal liabilities, and his desire to constantly become better.
Next time you really want to achieve something, take time to focus on your own personal journal. What is your temptation that is standing in your way to greatness? What can you do to form the habit of becoming a success?
Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch!
Posted by ckrishnek in Motivation on December 2nd, 2009
Counting Chickens Before They Hatch?
Have you ever heard the expression, “Do not count your chickens before they hatch?” Maybe an older, wiser individual would tell you this to keep you from getting ahead of yourself. Like buying a new car before you actually got that new job. Well, when setting and obtaining your goals, you need to “Count your chicken before they hatch” in your mind. What I mean by this is you have to start seeing yourself completing or obtaining your goal. What you profess, you possess!
The first thing you need to do is sit down and set your goals. Diana Scharf Hunt said “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” A lot of times, people are thrown off by the idea of taking the time to set their goals. But when you take a trip, do you not come up with a plan and ultimate destination. Well, setting goals is the same process. I suggest that you first do a Must Have, Why, How analysis.
First, write down a list of must haves; bigger home, luxury trips, new cars, work from home, etc. Then decide why these must haves are important to you and prioritize them. Lastly, write down how you are going to get the must haves.
Also, ask yourself these questions:
Why do I not have what I want now?
What are the tools and resources do I need?
What past experiences are in the way?
Who can I talk to that has already succeeded?
How am I paying for this?
What are the tradeoffs?
What am I going to give up?
From this analysis, start writing down you goals. Remember, without a start, there cannot be an ending. Denis Watley stated “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they do not define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
Once finished writing your goals, next you need to start visualizing your dreams. Henry David Thoreau once said “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” You need image yourself accomplishing your goals and obtaining your treasures. Will yourself into succeeding. Never think that you cannot reach your desired results. Talk about the desires as if you have already obtained it. A good practice is to read your goals daily. If you are having a bad day, read them over and over.
Thirdly, you need to get the tools and resources to needed to accomplish your goals. Maybe you have decided to start a home-based business as a mechanism to consummate the acquiring of your dreams. Start gathering documentation on how to run your home-based business. Join service group that might help you. Take the step to start reaching your goals. Kathy Seligman said “You cannot hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You cannot catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You cannot reach your goals if you do not try.” Get started today!!
The fourth point is to surround yourself with like-minded people. In the Bible, Jesus told one of his disciples, “Get behind me Satan.” What he was saying was if you are not with me, you are against me. The same applies to you. Detach yourself from people who are negative towards you goals. If you are going to be rich, why not surround yourself with people who are already rich. David Joseph Schwartz once said “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”
Lastly, and most importantly, do not be afraid of success. This phobia is the main reason most people fail. They make no preparation for succeeding. When they succeed, they do not know how to act. People start questioning their success. They start telling themselves that they do not deserve to be successful. And eventually, obtain what they profess. When you are setting your goals, make a plan for being successful. Tell yourself that you deserve to be successful and that you should procure your desires. Catherine Pulsifer best sums this up, “The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, what would have happened if I had only done…”
In closing, the first thing you need to do is start planning and setting your goals. Then you need start visualizing yourself completing your dreams. Also, you will need to get some tools and resources that will help you achieve you goals. And surround yourself with people who are positive and have the same goals as you do. And most importantly, prepare yourself for success. When the time comes, do not be afraid to be successful. Think about this, in the Bible Jesus said, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You need to start seeing yourself as attaining your goals. Act and talk as if you already have obtained them. Now get started!
Your Mother Was Right, You Are Who You Associate With. In Order to Become Wealthy You Must…
Posted by ckrishnek in Marketing Tips and Strategies on May 27th, 2009
It is true. The type of people you hang out with reflects on who you are…
If you want to be successful and wealthy then it is very important to surround yourself with successful and wealthy people. Successful people often talk about taking actions towards their dreams and then they do it! This is not only motivating for you but it teaches you the mindset and skills you will need and use for the rest of your life. Some people are natural born leaders and some are not. By surrounding yourself with leaders you will find that you begin to pick up leadership skills that you never knew you had. Remember, people will follow people whom are confident and believe in themselves. It is human nature to follow leaders or become leaders. You must decide which one you will be.
Stay away from the dream killers. You know who they are. The people that scoff at you when you tell them your dreams or you get excited over a new business idea. They see the negative in everything and believe that your MLM or internet marketing business opportunity is a scam or a pipe dream. Whatever you do, do not let them bring you down. Use the dream killer’s negativity as a leverage to pull yourself away from their influence and make it a goal to prove them wrong! Believe in yourself and success will happen.
Blogging Tips and Tricks for Online Marketing
Posted by ckrishnek in Marketing Tips and Strategies on May 25th, 2009
Blogging Platforms:
There are many. The most popular are Wordpress and Blogger. For driving traffic. I personally recommend using Wordpress due to its flexibility. You can open a Wordpress account at www.wordpress.com however, I recommend you host your own Wordpress blog. The reason for this is that your account on www.wordpress.com can be disabled without any warning due to any content that you might have accidentally entered which goes against their policies. If you host your own blog then you have complete control over your account and content.
I have created a video on how to do this.
I like to use Hostgator as my hosting service.
Benefits of Blogging:
-Terrific way to make your presence known on the web.
-You can go viral
-Links, links, links (enough said) 
Ping Your Blog!:
Be sure to use www.pingomatic.com whenever you add content to your blog.
Link to Other Blogs:
Go to other blogs with similar content and ideas then use a link to their blog on one of your posts. This will send a message to that blogger that you linked to their blog. They will check out your blog.
Posting Ideas:
-Write down a list of things your learned for the day and post it. It doesn’t have to be a lot, maybe 5-7 things.
-Did you just do something fun or are you planning to? Post it to your blog.
-Any videos you make, post them!
-Are you opinionated? Post your opinions.
-Everyone has pictures. Post them!
-If you write articles or press releases make sure you post a link to them on your blog.
-Posts about how to do something or resolve a problem are huge hits for people searching the net.
As you can see, blogging isn’t very hard and it can be a lot of fun. So get to it. Start you blog today. If you have any questions on starting a blog or need help please feel free to contact me.
Wishing you all the best of success,
Carrie Krishnek
How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything FAST. Why Do It Slow?
Posted by ckrishnek in Marketing Tips and Strategies on May 25th, 2009
Something very dramatic happened to me a few months ago…
upside down (in a good way) like it did mine…
Fast” (possibly the cheesiest title EVER for a book) by Stuart Lichtman.
Adopting the principles in this book has made the single largest impact on my personal business to date. I have
literally made “thousands of dollars” as a direct result of using Stuart’s techniques.
All of these accomplishments are an indirect result of learning how to focus my “energy” and “eliminate doubt” using the exact techniques I learned from Stuart. You can too…
whole new level, along with countless, countless others.
Details here –>Stuart Lichtman’s How to Get Lots of Money for Anything Fast
You Must Have A System. Here’s The Secret Behind It.
Posted by ckrishnek in Marketing Tips and Strategies on May 25th, 2009
Hi this is Carrie Krishnek, nice to meet you!
And I do mean secret…
Most people don’t know this, but the most successful and
profitable business empires in ALL of the world are all built
around “Systems” otherwise they fail…Miserably.
McDonalds – System
Starbucks – System
Subway – System
(800) Flowers – System
Dominos Pizza – System
CarbonCopyPRO – The 1st Ever “System” in the Direct
Marketing industry providing regular people like you and
me the exact tools used by the Pro’s to make multiple six
figures from home.
Here’s the secret code:
S – Save
Y – Your
S – Self
T – Time
E – Energy and…
M – Money
Makes perfect sense, huh?
Most just don’t know it and have never seen it laid out this way which is why 98% fail and spend WAY more money
than they make. BUT that’s not going to be the case for you when you get started with us.
At CarbonCopyPRO we know “the secret code” real well. In fact, we live by it….
And its the never before seen CarbonCopyPRO “professional” turn key sales and marketing “System” that has folks who have never made a dime in this industry having five figure months ($10k or more), going full time, and taking their lives back once and for all. Imagine that feeling.
No System = No profit. Remember, “Systems” work. People fail.
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