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The Barefoot Executive:
The Ultimate Guide for Being Your Own Boss & Achieving Financial Freedom
by Carrie Wilkerson
“Carrie Wilkerson has done a great job with this book, and she’s personally helped me make tons of money with my business. I highly recommend this book!”
– Chris Brogan, president, Human Business Works, and publisher of chrisbrogan.com
“There has never been a better time to turn your passions into income. But just having an idea doesn’t mean you’re ready to order business cards just yet. Carrie Wilkerson’s The Barefoot Executive walks you through the process of developing your idea, finding your audience, and setting yourself up for a lifetime of success doing the work you love for the hardest boss you’ll ever have… yourself!”
-Dave Ramsey, host of The Dave Ramsey Show and best-selling author of The Total Money Makeover
About the Book:
Don’t Think You Have What It Takes to Run a Business? It’s Time to Reconsider.
For the person who longs to run their business from home, author and highly successful entrepreneur Carrie Wilkerson says it is possible (she doesn’t just say it though, she shows you how). In her new book, The Barefoot Executive, Carrie helps readers of all types understand the necessary ingredients in starting and running a lucrative home-based business. You’ll learn how to reclaim your time, determine your income, and change your lifestyle-all while keeping personal priorities intact.
Successful at running her own seven-figure business from home and being an active speaker on the subject, Carrie demonstrates business models with tables and charts in an easy-to-understand format. Chapters within the book include such subjects as finding a target markets, developing marketing strategies, and brand development. Especially important are the common pitfalls listed to avoid in starting a business from home.
The Barefoot Executive offers the opportunity to live life on your terms with the financial freedom to do it. Want to start your workday with e-mail and coffee on the back patio? Want the flexibility of joining your fourth grader on an all-day field trip? Are you ready to take that vacation you’ve been planning for years? Then you have a choice to make, and The Barefoot Executive will help jumpstart your transition.
You’ll learn:
- Your “why.” The most important question. Why do you want to work for yourself?
- What type of business best suits your experience and talents.
- How to stay focused on your goal and avoid distractions.
- Where to find the support that will accelerate your success.
- How to link your business to the right market.
Whether it’s a service, a product, or your insight or expertise, you already have the raw materials necessary to transform your life. Carrie will walk you through the process of building the business you need to achieve the life you want. Her guidance is practical. No philosophical silliness, no theoretical abstractions—just concrete action steps alongside insights from fellow entrepreneurs, interactive exercises, and links to Carrie’s online video coaching segments. It’s the next best thing to working one-on-one with her. The Barefoot Executive will have you energized by the possibilities and embracing the extraordinary life that is well within your reach.
About Carrie:
From corporate life to teaching high school to sales, to information marketing, consulting, and even virtual service provider, Carrie Wilkerson has been there and done that professionally and personally. As “The Barefoot Executive,” she has quickly become the definitive resource for helping others achieve extra income and career goals while working from home and keeping their priorities intact. She is a mentor/coach/advisor to more than one hundred thousand men and women as The Barefoot Executive through videos, podcasts, masterminding, mentoring, and live speaking. Not only a business expert but also an expert in business, Carrie’s work-at home methods have inspired thousands and have earned many awards, online and off. Her passion is in teaching others to “Fill their Stadium” with fans so that marketing is easy and business is abundant. She lives in Texas, with her family.
What Others Are Saying:
A lot of books can fire up an entrepreneur. But a lot of those books leave readers high and dry when it comes to practical application. Enthusiasm isn’t enough. You need a plan and the tools to build with. Carrie Wilkerson’s guidance provides just that. Combine that with her enthusiasm, warmth and core values, and you have someone very real to learn from. As my Dad says, ‘a great book needs to cover the Why and the How.’ This is a great book. I know that when Carrie advises Ziglar, Inc. on marketing ideas, we get results.
-Tom Ziglar, CEO and Proud Son of Zig Ziglar
One of the best ways to achieve success is to learn from someone who has already done it. If you are looking to build a viable, sustainable, and lucrative business from home—or anywhere else—Carrie Wilkerson is your example, and her new book will show you the way.
-Tim Sanders, author of Today We Are Rich and former CSO at Yahoo!
Packed with real-world case-studies, action items, business models and links to free coaching videos, The Barefoot Executive isn’t just a book, it’s a multimedia roadmap that takes you by the hand and walks you down the road to earning a living on your terms and reclaiming ownership of your life.
-Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade
The powerful connection Carrie makes with her audience members from stage is duplicated in this terrific book. You feel like your sitting one-on-one with your trusted friend and mentor, and she is simply sharing with you everything she knows about building a hugely successful business. The cool thing is, not only has she done it…she will show you how to do the same!
– Bob Burg, coauthor of The Go-Giver and Endless Referrals
Carrie Wilkerson knows what it takes to start and grow a successful business, and she generously shares it ALL in this book. As important, she focuses helping entrepreneurs craft a plan that supports their values – the secret to meaningful success. You can do it and Carrie will show you how!
– Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone
Carrie’s brilliant entrepreneurial strategies will teach you how to identify and develop your ideas– and how to promote those ideas to their greatest potential success.
-Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate: 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation
The Barefoot Executive is the kind of book every entrepreneur or hopeful small business owner should read, regardless of their gender or age. It’s packed with practical wisdom and advice to help you turn ideas into actions and actions into results.
-Jon Gordon, International Bestselling author of The Energy Bus
If you’re dreaming of a life beyond the nine-to-five grind, if you want real financial security, if you want to be the CEO of your own life, read The Barefoot Executive. Author Carrie Wilkerson offers real-life advice finding or creating a profitable business model that works for you.
-Erin K. Casey, Books Editor, SUCCESS magazine
If you’re dreaming of building a business on your terms, then you’ll absolutely love Carrie Wilkerson.
-Tory Johnson, CEO, Women For Hire and New York Times bestselling author
If you read nothing but Part 2 of The Barefoot Executive you will save yourself years of frustration and countless dollars.”
-John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine
In a world of questionable work-from-home advice, Carrie Wilkerson brings a breath of fresh air, integrity, solid tools and valuable business savvy. She has created enormous personal and financial success by following her own advice. If you want to step off the corporate treadmill, be present for your family and earn a great living, you need to read this book.”
-Pamela Slim, Author Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
At a time when pseudo-experts are overwhelming us with unproven theories and regurgitated ideas, Carrie Wilkerson shines like a beacon in the night. Not only has she built a successful business of her own, but she’s proven that she can teach others to do the same. In The Barefoot Executive Carrie offers a clear roadmap to defining and building an amazing life on your own terms. I particularly like the practical exercises throughout the book! Read it… and then go do it.
– Paul Keetch, Amazon #1 Bestselling Author of Make My Marketing Work: How to Win Customers & Make More Money
This book is really strong! Provides the why and how to be your own boss. The tips and the case studies give actionable steps and examples of how it has worked for others.
-Michael Bowers, Ohio Small Business Development Center
Once in a while we meet those amazing people who not only reach great heights in their own lives, but who also inspire others to achieve greatness. Carrie Wilkerson is one of those people. Barefoot Executive is the ultimate how-to for anybody trying to write their own success story. It gives the tools, the insights, the wisdom and the HEART to have it all – but mostly the tools!! THAT is what we need. Carrie Wilkerson lays out a roadmap and literally guides the reader through the woods and weeds and out into the sunlight of success. THIS is what it looks like to create, and live, business and personal freedom. This is how you get from here to there!
-Mary Agnes Antonopoulos, Social Media Strategist
Starting a business can be intimidating and even a bit frightening. Among other things, Carrie provides 4 proven (and realistic) online models to get you going. Plus with her stern, but loving, style you’ll get the confidence you need at the right time to create a vision for what’s really possible.
-Yanik Silver, author Moonlighting on the Internet
The Barefoot Executive is a must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs or established business owners who want to take their business to the next level. Carrie shares the proven strategies she has used for years to create several six-figure businesses. If you’re serious about creating and growing a business, you need this book.
-Lisa Kanarek, author and founder of WorkingNaked.com
In true Carrie Wilerson style she explains the importance of the “how?” and the steps of the “how?” through the filter of your “WHY?.” I believe this is what sets Carrie apart from all others and why she is number 1. I was in the middle of a 3.5 million dollar product launch and got stuck…..I knew exactly who to call for the answers, Carrie Wilkerson. Asked, answered, success!
-PaulMartinelli.net
Few people in the world would I consider True Leaders, and ever fewer would I consider to have a genius for what they do. Carrie Wilkerson does. Her new book The Barefoot Executive is one amazing work, and if you are in the marketplace working, you need to read this amazing book. It is so powerful they are going to have to issue WARNING labels with it as it is deadly to your mediocrity. Brilliant. Powerful. Genius.
-Doug Firebaugh
Forget getting a job – go out and make one! That’s right, your best chance for long-standing life security lies in running your own business-one where your unique strengths meet the needs of the marketplace. The Barefoot Executive shows you how to make that happen.
-Frank McKinney, 5x bestselling author, including The Tap www.The-Tap.com