About Me
Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.
I'm David Peterie and this is my story.
I am 50 years old. I’m married to a wonderful woman, Anne, for 26 going on 27 years. We have 8 children – 5 boys and 3 girls. Their ages range from 26 to 12. The later being twin boys.
I met my wife while serving 10 and half years in the US Air Force. During that time we had 6 children. I took college classes at different bases and completed 2 BS degrees.
I spent the last 2 and half years of my military service being separated from my family, seeing them for a week every 6 months. At the end of my service I joined my family again and we settled on a small farm in West Virginia.
I went to work as an engineer for an injection molder of automotive parts. I became a Boy Scout leader and a Sunday school teacher. We had goats, chickens, rabbits, cats and a dog on the farm. Oh yea I can’t forget twin boys were bestowed on us.
I worked as a manufacturing engineer, an engineering manager, a project engineer and then a customer liaison. I went through downsizings, acquisitions, buyouts, and rightsizings not to mention promotions and position changes. I was assigned to three plants in Virginia and then as an in plant representative to three automotive assembly plants in Delaware and New Jersey.
I lived on the road for 7 years helping suppliers, sister plants and customers manage a variety of problems, receiving accolades for my work; and not to mention only seeing my family on weekends. I was let go during a reduction of personnel as part of cost cutting measures. The plant was closed shortly after.
I did not see this as a negative but as an opportunity to grow and develop in a new opportunity.
While I was looking for a new job I was working as a temp driver for FedEx to keep up with bills. Then my wife’s mother became ill with cancer and it made more since for my wife to work a couple of extra days during the week in addition to her weekend schedule. With her job, she could make more in two days than I did all week. So we decided I would stay home get the kids off to school, make dinner and help with taking care of her mother until see unfortunately passed away.
The week following her mothers passing I was called and later received a job offer to go to work for a printing company as an engineering–maintenance manager that was a 50% increase over what I was making in the automotive world. This job came with new challenges and a completely different way of not addressing issues. Then there was the joy of working 60 to 80 hours a week and being in the plant 6 to 7 days a week.
I was still missing out on important events in my children’s lives. Have you Have you noticed a pattern forming here? This lasted about two years before a restructuring plan was put into place, and there I was looking for work again.
This got me thinking that corporate working sucks. I was 47 years old; some of my kids were grown at collage or in the military so much of their lives I missed out on while trading my life for money so my wife and I could keep them in shoes, clothes, car repairs, private schools, and the latest gotta haves.
This was a turning point in my life.
I spent the next year trying ways to earn money from home. I started with selling health insurance. This was very time consuming, calling all day and evening, driving 1 to 3 hours to meet with people. Who knew they would not qualify in the end, or wanted to see if their employer was ripping them off!
Well with my wife working more hours and my doing the home schooling of one of our children who has some learning difficulties and needs one on one instruction. This was not working out well. I could not make the sales volume necessary to stay under contract.
Well this led to joining a MLM. Well over the next 9 months I spent way too much money on leads, products and marketing aids and was loosing money and quickly draining my savings account. I kept telling myself it will turn around any day. I just have to keep going. I don’t blame my sponsor or the company. My sponsor was not trained because her sponsor left. And our team manager; lets just say her focus was not in the right place. The company had a great product that I still use and it works as advertised. The company was growing, expanding its product line and they had great customer service.
So you ask, what went wrong? Well I know that there was something that I was doing wrong with my presentations but there was no one to get help from. My sponsor and I were in the same boat.
I left the MLM thing and went into internet marketing. This has been a real eye opener. It is vast, changing, and full of great people. Not to mention some less than honest individuals.
I joined and evaluated several different home business opportunities and immersed myself into learning how to market on the internet.
Note: I’m still learning and will forever be.
There are things that you need to know to be successful if you are going to join one of the advertised opportunities.
I’m going to share 7 key points that I have learned.
1. It has to be a solid company. Research it. Don’t know how? Ask someone. Ask me. A company doesn't’t have to be around for years to be solid. Find who the owners are and research them. Does the company have a good training program? Are there regular team and/or info calls that you can get on and ask questions before joining?
2. It must have a real product(s) that is/are to be marketed. Not just an opportunity marketing the opportunity to market the opportunity. Ask yourself, "If I quit this business what am I left with and is it worth the cost to join." If not, stay away.
3. You need a good sponsor and a good team. They go hand in hand. A good sponsor is not a babysitter. They don’t do the work for you. They don’t work for you and they are not an excuse if you fail. That’s on you. A good sponsor will show you the ropes, encourage you, be there when you need them, and mentor you to be a good sponsor as well as a good marketer. A good team can fill in the voids and provide for a broader range of knowledge. If something should happen to your sponsor, a good team is still there to assist and train.
4. If you start a home business. It’s a business not a job. You can kick back and fake it through a day here and there and you will still get a pay check at a job. Treat your business that way and you will go broke. Once you’re established and your income is stable you can take a day, a weekend or a week off and still be making money.
5. Always, always be honest. You can get a bad reputation in a hurry on the internet that can kill your business. It can take a long time to earn trust again.
6. Learn how to brand yourself and your business. It would take me to long to explain this here. Trust me, it’s important.
7. The secret. Put people first. Learn to care more about people than money. The people will come. If you care more about money than people, they will stay away.
There you have it, my 7 points and I’m sure more could be added. But I don’t want to be doing a novel here.
So at this point in my life I’m a micro business developer. I am currently sponsoring and coaching eligible candidates on how to develop their own micro business from home through attraction marketing and promotion of MOR Vacations' opportunity .
Jon and Chris King are the founders and owners of M.O.R. Vacations, LLC. Johnny Bolton who is the voice behind this company does all the opportunity calls with Live Q & A. As leaders we share what works for us and what we've learned not to do. We also respond to our emails and are accessible by phone. This is something that is not always true in this industry.
I’m proud to be a work at home dad. I have my most important degree. A Sh.D., that stands for Stay Home Dad. I get to spend time with my children, home schooling my one son and getting his brother, who has high functioning autism through his homework, which can be a challenge; but he has progressed a lot this year and that has been a real blessing.
My wife is perusing her career as a nurse practitioner in an emergency department and is thinking of going back to school for her Ph.D.
Life is a challenge, but Network Marketing has taught me how to have a life
outside of the corporate world. Life’s road can be tough, but I thank God that he knows what’s best for me and being where I have arrived now, I would not change the path that has brought me here. I am home.
If you would like to learn more about my MOR Vacations business then I invite you to go to: www.showmemor.com
I can also be contacted toll free at 866-579-6273 between 2 and 10 pm EST. Who knows maybe you’ll be the next one to DO More, See More and Be More with MOR Vacations.
Thank you for Visiting and God Bless,
David N. Peterie Sh.D. (Stay home Dad)
I'm David Peterie and this is my story. I am 50 years old. I’m married to a wonderful woman, Anne, for 26 going on 27 years. We have 8 children – 5 boys and 3 girls. Their ages range from 26 to 12. The later being twin boys.
I met my wife while serving 10 and half years in the US Air Force. During that time we had 6 children. I took college classes at different bases and completed 2 BS degrees.
I spent the last 2 and half years of my military service being separated from my family, seeing them for a week every 6 months. At the end of my service I joined my family again and we settled on a small farm in West Virginia.
I went to work as an engineer for an injection molder of automotive parts. I became a Boy Scout leader and a Sunday school teacher. We had goats, chickens, rabbits, cats and a dog on the farm. Oh yea I can’t forget twin boys were bestowed on us. I worked as a manufacturing engineer, an engineering manager, a project engineer and then a customer liaison. I went through downsizings, acquisitions, buyouts, and rightsizings not to mention promotions and position changes. I was assigned to three plants in Virginia and then as an in plant representative to three automotive assembly plants in Delaware and New Jersey.
I lived on the road for 7 years helping suppliers, sister plants and customers manage a variety of problems, receiving accolades for my work; and not to mention only seeing my family on weekends. I was let go during a reduction of personnel as part of cost cutting measures. The plant was closed shortly after.
I did not see this as a negative but as an opportunity to grow and develop in a new opportunity.
While I was looking for a new job I was working as a temp driver for FedEx to keep up with bills. Then my wife’s mother became ill with cancer and it made more since for my wife to work a couple of extra days during the week in addition to her weekend schedule. With her job, she could make more in two days than I did all week. So we decided I would stay home get the kids off to school, make dinner and help with taking care of her mother until see unfortunately passed away.
The week following her mothers passing I was called and later received a job offer to go to work for a printing company as an engineering–maintenance manager that was a 50% increase over what I was making in the automotive world. This job came with new challenges and a completely different way of not addressing issues. Then there was the joy of working 60 to 80 hours a week and being in the plant 6 to 7 days a week.
I was still missing out on important events in my children’s lives. Have you Have you noticed a pattern forming here? This lasted about two years before a restructuring plan was put into place, and there I was looking for work again. This got me thinking that corporate working sucks. I was 47 years old; some of my kids were grown at collage or in the military so much of their lives I missed out on while trading my life for money so my wife and I could keep them in shoes, clothes, car repairs, private schools, and the latest gotta haves.
This was a turning point in my life.
I spent the next year trying ways to earn money from home. I started with selling health insurance. This was very time consuming, calling all day and evening, driving 1 to 3 hours to meet with people. Who knew they would not qualify in the end, or wanted to see if their employer was ripping them off!
Well with my wife working more hours and my doing the home schooling of one of our children who has some learning difficulties and needs one on one instruction. This was not working out well. I could not make the sales volume necessary to stay under contract.
Well this led to joining a MLM. Well over the next 9 months I spent way too much money on leads, products and marketing aids and was loosing money and quickly draining my savings account. I kept telling myself it will turn around any day. I just have to keep going. I don’t blame my sponsor or the company. My sponsor was not trained because her sponsor left. And our team manager; lets just say her focus was not in the right place. The company had a great product that I still use and it works as advertised. The company was growing, expanding its product line and they had great customer service.
So you ask, what went wrong? Well I know that there was something that I was doing wrong with my presentations but there was no one to get help from. My sponsor and I were in the same boat.
I left the MLM thing and went into internet marketing. This has been a real eye opener. It is vast, changing, and full of great people. Not to mention some less than honest individuals.
I joined and evaluated several different home business opportunities and immersed myself into learning how to market on the internet.
Note: I’m still learning and will forever be.
There are things that you need to know to be successful if you are going to join one of the advertised opportunities.
I’m going to share 7 key points that I have learned.
1. It has to be a solid company. Research it. Don’t know how? Ask someone. Ask me. A company doesn't’t have to be around for years to be solid. Find who the owners are and research them. Does the company have a good training program? Are there regular team and/or info calls that you can get on and ask questions before joining?
2. It must have a real product(s) that is/are to be marketed. Not just an opportunity marketing the opportunity to market the opportunity. Ask yourself, "If I quit this business what am I left with and is it worth the cost to join." If not, stay away.
3. You need a good sponsor and a good team. They go hand in hand. A good sponsor is not a babysitter. They don’t do the work for you. They don’t work for you and they are not an excuse if you fail. That’s on you. A good sponsor will show you the ropes, encourage you, be there when you need them, and mentor you to be a good sponsor as well as a good marketer. A good team can fill in the voids and provide for a broader range of knowledge. If something should happen to your sponsor, a good team is still there to assist and train.
4. If you start a home business. It’s a business not a job. You can kick back and fake it through a day here and there and you will still get a pay check at a job. Treat your business that way and you will go broke. Once you’re established and your income is stable you can take a day, a weekend or a week off and still be making money.
5. Always, always be honest. You can get a bad reputation in a hurry on the internet that can kill your business. It can take a long time to earn trust again.
6. Learn how to brand yourself and your business. It would take me to long to explain this here. Trust me, it’s important.
7. The secret. Put people first. Learn to care more about people than money. The people will come. If you care more about money than people, they will stay away.
There you have it, my 7 points and I’m sure more could be added. But I don’t want to be doing a novel here.
So at this point in my life I’m a micro business developer. I am currently sponsoring and coaching eligible candidates on how to develop their own micro business from home through attraction marketing and promotion of MOR Vacations' opportunity .
Jon and Chris King are the founders and owners of M.O.R. Vacations, LLC. Johnny Bolton who is the voice behind this company does all the opportunity calls with Live Q & A. As leaders we share what works for us and what we've learned not to do. We also respond to our emails and are accessible by phone. This is something that is not always true in this industry.
I’m proud to be a work at home dad. I have my most important degree. A Sh.D., that stands for Stay Home Dad. I get to spend time with my children, home schooling my one son and getting his brother, who has high functioning autism through his homework, which can be a challenge; but he has progressed a lot this year and that has been a real blessing.
My wife is perusing her career as a nurse practitioner in an emergency department and is thinking of going back to school for her Ph.D.
Life is a challenge, but Network Marketing has taught me how to have a life
outside of the corporate world. Life’s road can be tough, but I thank God that he knows what’s best for me and being where I have arrived now, I would not change the path that has brought me here. I am home. If you would like to learn more about my MOR Vacations business then I invite you to go to: www.showmemor.com
I can also be contacted toll free at 866-579-6273 between 2 and 10 pm EST. Who knows maybe you’ll be the next one to DO More, See More and Be More with MOR Vacations.
Thank you for Visiting and God Bless,
David N. Peterie Sh.D. (Stay home Dad)
