CELEBRATING YOUR STAMPIN' UP! ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM ...
CELEBRATING YOUR STAMPIN' UP! ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM ...
CELEBRATING YOUR STAMPIN' UP! ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM ...
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inthelimelight<br />
setting goals for<br />
a better future<br />
beckie kareck<br />
senior executive<br />
Antioch, Tennessee<br />
Tailoring Tips<br />
If you’re aiming to increase<br />
your number of recruits this<br />
year, Beckie offers the following<br />
advice. “Don’t exclude<br />
anyone. You never know who<br />
needs Stampin’ Up! You may<br />
look at someone and think,<br />
‘She wouldn’t want to be a<br />
demonstrator; I won’t even<br />
bother asking.’ Ask anyway! You<br />
may find that she has already<br />
been considering it and just<br />
needs some extra motivation. It<br />
doesn’t matter if she joins as a<br />
hobbyist or a businesswoman,<br />
either way you’ve helped her<br />
start something new. You never<br />
know what people need, so<br />
explore all your recruiting<br />
options and achieve your<br />
goals this year!”<br />
Beckie Kareck had never heard<br />
of rubber stamps before she<br />
started receiving hand-stamped<br />
cards from a friend each month<br />
of her first pregnancy. She loved<br />
the images and colors, and soon,<br />
her fascination led her to find a<br />
demonstrator in her area. After<br />
attending a workshop and<br />
putting rubber to paper for the<br />
first time, Beckie stayed up all<br />
night looking through the<br />
catalog. After that one night,<br />
Beckie knew she wanted to join<br />
the Stampin’ Up! family.<br />
As a new mother, being a<br />
demonstrator first appealed to<br />
Beckie because she was able to<br />
stay home with her son while<br />
earning a little extra money for<br />
her family. But mostly she wanted<br />
to be a part of something. As a<br />
demonstrator she had a reason to<br />
get out of the house, to meet new<br />
people, and to do something fun.<br />
Beckie never expected her new<br />
hobby to grow into such a<br />
successful business.<br />
Now, eight years later, with an<br />
average of five workshops a<br />
month, Beckie says, “I eat, sleep,<br />
breathe, and shower Stampin’<br />
Up!” Being a demonstrator has<br />
become much more than a hobby,<br />
and Beckie’s family is very<br />
supportive of her business goals.<br />
“Even the boys love to help when<br />
they can,” she says proudly.<br />
Family: Husband John; sons Josiah (7) and Colton (3)<br />
At the beginning of every year,<br />
Beckie sets new goals for her<br />
business. She believes in her work<br />
and knows she can achieve<br />
anything she puts her mind to.<br />
Whether her goal is to recruit<br />
twenty new demonstrators or to<br />
help her downline achieve<br />
promotions, Beckie always has<br />
something to strive for. “Stampin’<br />
Up! is flexible but not optional,”<br />
she says. “Even if it’s only ten or<br />
fifteen minutes, you have to work<br />
every single day if you want to<br />
reach your goals.” And that is<br />
exactly what she does.<br />
Last July, Beckie decided to<br />
increase sales and take her<br />
business to the next level. By<br />
January, she had already tripled<br />
her customer base and sold as<br />
much in six months as she had<br />
the entire previous year. “I set<br />
my goals, and then I go out and<br />
meet them,” she says. Every<br />
time she looks at her family, her<br />
motivation to achieve those goals<br />
is strengthened. Her desires to<br />
put her children through college<br />
and to help her husband retire<br />
early inspire Beckie to attain each<br />
goal she sets.<br />
If you want to achieve your<br />
goals, you must be honest with<br />
your customers, your downline,<br />
and especially yourself. While<br />
her husband was serving in Iraq<br />
for a year, Beckie realized her<br />
family was going to need more<br />
attention. She took the time to let<br />
her customers know that she was<br />
still there for them, but while her<br />
husband was gone, she needed to<br />
focus solely on her children. It was<br />
a challenge for her business and<br />
her family, but because she was<br />
honest with her customers, they<br />
were loyal. Many even brought<br />
meals and offered to watch her<br />
two children if she ever needed a<br />
break. “My business didn’t grow a<br />
lot that year,” she says, “but I felt<br />
very blessed by the relationships<br />
that were strengthened.”<br />
Setting goals and having the<br />
confidence to go forward and<br />
meet them can be difficult,<br />
but it is also one of the most<br />
important responsibilities of<br />
every business owner. Start small<br />
if you feel you’re not ready to<br />
meet your larger goals. Take a<br />
close look at your business, and<br />
decide what areas need the most<br />
improvement. Then get started! ■<br />
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