Hi! I'm Dave Cottrell.
I live in
Gibsons, on the beautiful Sunshine Coast
in southern British Columbia, Canada
along with my beautiful wife, Kathy, our
youngest (grownup) child, three dogs and
two cats.
Presently,
I am the pastor of Sunshine Community
Baptist Church, a small, Independent
Baptist church started about fifteen
years ago. I have been the pastor,m here,
for about five years.
My wife
and I were married in 1978, and were
introduced to our first experience in
network marketing shortly after we were
married. I was the one in the group who
was very quickly recruited to draw the
circles and present the plan. Some of
you might guess what company that was
with! One of the highlights was the
seminar we went to in Hawaii at the
Hilton Village. My, were we young, then!
We had great fun, but got caught in the
"buy-your-upline-up-to-the-next-level"
trap that so many network marketers got
caught in, something that unfortunately
seems to be ongoing in many companies
and startups, today. So many people had
horror stories of garages filled with
product! We never had that problem,
because the products were great, so we
just sold them all! Why would anyone get
into something that doesn't have a great
product??
Things
have changed since then. New rules to
protect those who get caught up in
illegal pyramid and pump-and-dump
schemes were legislated, and regulations
were tightened up. However, a quantum
leap in communication, via the Internet,
has been the biggest change! Who would
ever have imagined! Thanks to the
instant, inexpensive, world wide
capabilities of communication via the
internet, it's now possible to
communicate with someone on the other
side of the world in real time, even
face to face via applications like Skype.
Unfortunately, along with this great
increase in cheap communication has come
a massive increase in scammers. The
internet gold rush has become an endless
supply of naive prospectors looking for
instant wealth. Many are being fleeced
by unscrupulous criminals with promises
of overnight riches.
There does
not seem to be any end in sight to this
problem. With the rise of social media,
such sites have become absolute gold
mines for crooks. The bottom line is:
-
everyone MUST do their due diligence
and
-
if it
looks too good to be true, it
probably is.
Today,although I am just beginning to
recover from almost five years of Lyme
disease, I'm still very much involved in
network marketing, with a LOT more
experience than I had thirty years ago.
Recently, I have opened a new business
called Classified Ad Land (http://www.classifiedadland.com
), and am looking forward to meeting and
helping many more friends in this very
exciting networking world.
God bless,
Dave
