Vicki Wiederkehr of Southern Indiana began Cardinal Selling Services, LLC in 2006 with advertising, marketing and selling classic cars for local clients. She knew that local people had great classic cars, and the web would allow many of those cars to sell best. She develop a strategy to list those vehicles that would allow for a mix of information to ensure confidence for buyers who would be coming in from a distance, or having the vehicle shipped. Buyer confidence she soon realized was the key to selling big ticket items using e-commerce methods.
Her education and past experiences paved the path for the Cardinal success she has found. Ms. Wiederkehr attended a private college in Owensboro, KY where a business administration degree was obtained in 1994. Many courses from Harvard School of Business were channeled into her curriculum as a test for the new Master’s program at Brescia College.
Her corporate career was in the accounting/credit/finance area as well as Data Processing. She purchased her first retail store in 2000 and began teaching entrepreneurship and Business Law courses at a local community college while running her small business.
After leaving the retail business behind, Ms. Wiederkehr became an author educating students about personal finance, time management, goal setting and income creation through small business start-up. Those books were used in adult education, high schools and prison ministry training sessions throughout the US within months of being written from 2003-2006.
Her passion for helping the public has been a mission of all of her adulthood and will continue with the franchise entity being formed to help business owners across the globe run their own Cardinal Selling Services business. The business fills a void in the community, it grows each year and evolves with needs of business. It is a business with little inventory that allows for challenge each day, as well as a change of routine and travel! The franchise is a perfect fit for those who network well in their community with business owners, or who are professionals that want to relocated but don’t have a career they want to take with them. Click on our Franchise tab for more information.
Vicki’s Websites:
Cardinalsellingservices.biz
Since 2006, selling assets for clients of the SW Indiana. Commission based. Over time, the natural evolution was to also offer a shopping website. Shopcardinal.com was born in 2016.
Shopcardinal.com
Showcases items we offer to our business buyers. Some are sourced from local clients, others we have chosen just for our Cardinal community. We offer a way for business owners to connect with assets they have to sell, and use marketing techniques to find qualified buyers.
Cardinalknct.com
This website, born in 2022 is the umbrella over the other websites. We truly have rebirthed our mission in 2022 to focus on supporting small businesses with many much needed B2B support services.
Cardinalfinancialb2b.com
The Cardinal Way involves supporting business owners with the biggest investment they make, their own business. It also asks each business owner to review their business from an investment perspective and to evaluate their next year from the perspective of personal gain, public gain and long term strategy to maximize their own investment. Time is all we have, we work with that concept to be sure the journey we walk in with small business growth brings us to the destination it is meant to.
Shoplavictoria.com
New website, birthed in 2022 to support the mansion and boutique quality items not a fit for our B2B marketplace, shopcardinal.com. This website offers high end ladies items for sale, which are sourced from affluent means and sold to savvy shoppers wanting magnificent quality as well as fine decor pieces.
Vickiwiederkehr.com
Vicki’s personal site for coaching entrepreneurship and working entrepreneurs, both young and old..
Optrepreneur.com
Blog site for our cardinal followers, to allow business owners to share their success stories with blog articles. Any submitted blog must have 3 lessons they learned in each blog, and define those in a 1,2,3 outline and then explain each from the perspective of how the business owner faced the challenge and grew through the challenge or pivoted completely. Also, each blog must outline how they saw opportunities others maybe did not.
Blazenspirit.com
This is the owner and founders biggest soul dive attempt to change the look and feel of lady motorcycle wear. It is meant to be a shopping site to inspire ladies to ride, to look their best yet also be safe on the road. Trendy wear with flair and a hint of freedom.