Hi there and thanks for visiting! You want to create a second or third income (or perhaps even a primary income). You just plain old need to make more money! I have some great news for you…I can help you! Let me tell you a little about my background so you’ll see why I’m qualified to guide you to the additional income that you want.
I have been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. I was one of those kids that went door to door selling greeting cards that I bought in the back of Boy’s Life magazine to make money when I was 8 years old. Even at that early age, the idea that you could create your own little business and make as much as you wanted depending on how hard you were willing to work appealed to me. That idea has ALWAYS appealed to me. The idea that I could be in charge. I could determine my destiny. I think that’s one of the things that is so attractive to entrepreneurs…the ability to have control and create whatever it is they want to create…to not rely on someone else to determine what you’ll do or what you’ll have…to make it on your own terms!
Two industries that allow you to create your own lifestyle that I’m in love with are Network Marketing and Internet Marketing. Both of these industries give you the chance to create whatever lifestyle it is that you desire. I think my main attraction to Network Marketing, besides the tremendous money of course, is the ability to work so closely with others. See, I’m sort of a rare bird. Most, not all, people who love technology like I do are not real people-oriented. Well, after my first real exposure to Network Marketing back in 1994, I discovered that I also have a love for working with people and helping them achieve their dreams. I never knew how fulfilling that could be, but trust me, it is! So having these two sides of me is why I’m so passionate about both of these industries. I’ll tell you first a little about my network marketing experience and then give you my background in technology that will explain one of the many reasons why I love internet marketing so much.
My Network Marketing Background
I’ve been an active Network Marketer for 15 years now. It’s hard to believe that the time has passed so quickly but I’m so grateful for being in this industry. It has taught me more than I could have ever imagined about Self-Development, Social Skills, Confidence, Salesmanship, Relationship-Building, Mentoring, Unlimited Potential, Coaching and Pursuing your Dreams. The industry has enabled my wife to not have to go to a job since our son has been 2 years old. He’s 16 now! To me that is a blessing that’s too valuable to even be able to put a number on. To know she was here every day to put him on the bus and she was here every day when he got off the bus is a fantastic situation to have. That might not be important to everyone, but that was very important to us.
And things just keep getting better. Now I am home full-time as well. It’s been a dream of mine for a long time to be able to work totally for myself from home and in 2008 I took the plunge. The opportunities today for anyone willing to work hard are absolutely amazing. In this industry, putting the same effort that a person puts into their job could make them a millionaire in a few short years. How many people have that kind of opportunity where they work? Some, but not very many.
I’ve reached the upper pay levels (top 3% of money earners) in 2 different companies and my wife is currently in the top 2% of money earners in her company as well. So I have a lot of success experience that I can share with you that will help me guide you to the right opportunities.
My Internet Marketing background
I’ve been following the Internet Marketing industry for over 10 years now. I remember the first I.M. list I got on was Allen Says’ sometime back in 1998. I know there are others out there like me. I invite you to read on, and find out what makes me tick.
To truly understand me, I’d like to take you back. Back to where this passion really came from. My story is long and detailed, but I will do my best to condense it as much as possible…
It all started in 1979. That’s the year I had my first exposure to a personal computer. One day my Dad, who owned a grocery store at the time, brought home a pile of big heavy cardboard boxes and set them in the middle of the living room floor. They all said “Radio Shack” on them. I still remember him saying “I have no idea how this thing works but they tell me it will automate our payroll, accounts payable/receivable and general ledger”. My Dad was a very mechanically talented guy and could build, plumb, brick and wire anything from top to bottom, but now owning a computer, had absolutely no clue where to start even putting it together.
This is where I enter the frame. “Dad, can I see if I can figure it out?”. He said “Sure, have at it”.
Something you should know about me is I always have been a gadget head and a technology lover. If it’s new, high-tech, shiny, cool-looking or has lots of buttons, knobs or lights on it, I’m all over it! Now remember, this is 1979. The highest-tech I had been exposed to at that point was an electric type-writer and a CB radio.
That day, I looked at that pile of boxes and developed something that I still hold dear…the attitude of “I must conquer this machine”.
I tore into those boxes and found the manuals and started skimming them for the basics of how to put this monstrous erector set together. (I know reading manuals is not manly by today’s standards but keep in mind I was in 9th grade and had never seen a computer before so I had no prior experience to draw on) I got it all setup on a new desk that my Dad had also bought that day and I flipped the power switch on. I heard fans start to whir and the screen started to flicker…It came to life! All 14″ of the monochrome green on black screen, all 8k of ram. Yes! The TRS-80 Model-1 lived!
The next day, my Dad & I bought a book at Radio Shack, I think it was called “30 BASIC Programs”. It was actually BASIC source code that you could type into the computer and run. We chose a biorhythm program and I began to enter the 200-300 lines of source code character by character around 8pm at night. We got the program running but we decided that it needed a modification so the screen would be cleared at a certain point. We tried and tried to figure out how to do it. Finally, as the birds outside started to chirp and the sun started to come up, we entered a simple line of code that was “CLS”. The screen cleared exactly where we wanted it to. That was it. At that moment, I had conquered the machine. At that moment, I realized the possibilities were endless. At that moment, my life changed forever.
Being blessed to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, my automatic thought pattern was “How can I make money with this?”. I took a 2-day programming class at Radio Shack and I found not only was it one of the most fun things I’d ever done, I also had a bit of a knack for it. Programming became a passion. My Dad had friends who owned businesses. He started asking them if they’d be interested in knowing how a computer could help their business. He got me my first client, a poultry farm, when I was in 10th grade. From their I launched a consulting business that I grew all through college.
Going back to a few weeks after I got the computer setup…I was reading in a magazine about these things called “Modems”. It was a way to connect your computer to the phone so you could send and receive data. I also read about BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). I thought how cool it would be to be able to communicate with other computers and participate in discussions, download stock quotes, etc. My first modem was 300 baud. It was the fastest available at the time. When you were receiving data, the characters would get painted on the screen one at a time, about 2 per second. By today’s standards, you would put a gun to your head and pull the trigger after watching that for 30 seconds, but back then it was the fastest available so I didn’t know better and didn’t mind.
Over the next few years I kept getting faster and faster computers and faster and faster modems. I went from the 300 baud to a 1200, then a 2400, then a 9600. Then I got a 56k modem. Whew!, that was flyin’! I was active on bulletin boards and used services like CompuServe and Down Jones News Service like crazy.
My insatiable passion for computers and programming led me to Penn State University where I got a Computer Science degree and Robert Morris University where I got a Business Information Systems degree. I got a job, 2 weeks after I graduated college in 1986, at the largest bank in Pittsburgh, who at the time had just about the largest computing shop on the east coast. Life was good!
In early 1995, I had a buddy at work start bugging me about this thing he’d been playing with called The Internet. He actually had connected into some computers in Russia and looked at documents stored there. He even found an online list of all of the lawyers in Pittsburgh. Back then, stuff like that was absolutely amazing. He was adamant for me to “try it”. I resisted and actually stayed away from it and there was a good reason. Besides working full-time, I was building a very fast-growing Network Marketing business on the side and I knew if I “tried” this new technology, I would be hooked and it would distract me from building my business. So for one whole year, I didn’t touch it.
Then I heard about this thing called the World Wide Web and you could use this other thing called a Browser to navigate around different places on the net. I got a copy of Mosaic from my friend and installed it on my computer. Clicking links to go from place to place…how cool was that?
As I thought I might, I became completely infatuated with the possibilities of this new communications medium. I learned about email and how I could actually send a message to my friend in Florida and he’d have it within seconds. It was wild! I was one of the first 10,000 people to ever join America Online. It was like the wild wild west back then.
Not long after I became a regular web user, I started seeing people selling things online. Classified ads, lists of things you could buy, etc. Then a new term popped up that I had never heard before, an “ebook”. People would actually pay for a book that you’d have to download and read on your screen or print off on your printer. That amazed me. Could people actually make money doing this?
I started getting on some lists of people like Allen Says, Mark Joyner, Terry Dean, Jonathan Mizel, etc. I read the emails that these guys put out. They were selling all kinds of information products. One of the guys that I really respected was Mark Joyner. He just seemed extremely creative and intelligent to me and I always paid attention to what he had to say.
Then in April of 2003, Mark did something that blew my mind, he announced his retirement from Internet Marketing and the sale of something he was calling his “Farewell Package”. He had an amazingly powerful sales letter written with simple black text on a white background without any fancy pictures or anything. I read the letter and was mesmerized. For $1,000 I could by the source code to all of the brilliant systems that Mark and his company Aseop had created. Besides the source code, it also included bonus: a large series of audio cd’s containing interviews that Mark had done with people like Joel Christopher, Joe Vitale, Chayden Bates, etc. I pondered it for a day and decided to buy the package.
I started listening to the CD’s in my car during my commute back and forth to work. I used my cassette recorder to record notes that I would dictate as I was driving. I found out that some people were doing free tele-seminars where they would actually deliver great usable content and teach IM concepts. Armand Morin was holding preview calls for something called the Big Seminar. I listened to almost every preview call that he had for 3 or 4 Big Seminars. I absolutely couldn’t get enough information about Internet Marketing.
You can utilize me and I’ll I’ve learned to help guide you to success in this industry. For a newbie, it can be a little overwhelming, so it’s a good idea for you to have someone helping you along. That’s where I come in. I’ll be introducing you to the best products, services and most profitable opportunities that Internet Marketing has to offer.
So go ahead and dip your toe in the water. You’re going to love it in here! Thanks again for stopping by. I hope to get to know and work with you personally!
Yours in Success,
Dave
