After meeting his wife over in England, David Brown married and moved to South Carolina. With the move came a career change from his position with the ministry of defense. “I was in quality control over there,” David says. “Right now, I’m fixing photo copy machines.”

The lifestyle change was bearable at first, but David quickly became disinterested in his job. “When I
started, I found it quite interesting because I got to go to the different offices,” David says. “But it’s a ‘get your hands dirty’ job, crawling around dirty floors to the back of machines, because nobody ever cleans behind them. So you have to pull them out and crawl around these dirty floors, and it’s killing my knees now and I’m tired of doing it, basically.”

David spent quite a bit of time looking for other sources of income. “I just looked at different things online, and it says go online and make all this money, but I didn’t really believe them,” David says. David’s brother-in-law convinced him to try a network marketing program, but that showed no results either, as David explains. “Went to meetings. Sounded good. Messed with it for a couple of years, and didn’t find anyone else to get involved in it and lost interest.”

David now understands why network marketing didn’t work for him. “I’m not a very outgoing person, and so I found it very difficult to meet people that way,” he says. “Over a couple of years, quite a bit of money and time went into it.”

When David received an invitation to a 90-minute presentation from StoresOnline he was slightly skeptical, but he decided to attend anyway. What he heard at the presentation encouraged him. “I’m not very good at going out and meeting people,” David says, “but if…somebody can go to the website and then if they have to contact me, well, fair enough, they contacted me. I’m not having to go out and do it. So it was something I felt that I could do."

David signed up for the all-day workshop, and liked what he heard. One presenter confided that he didn’t know what product he was going to sell at first, something David had worried about. David had researched StoresOnline’s reputation, and felt comfortable with their long-term program. “I realized this wasn’t going to happen overnight, because it’s going to take work,” he says. “But it’s just to have a dream out there that I can go after. That’s what I was looking for.”

David had other reasons to try the StoresOnline solution, such as job security. For years, his copier repair company had been locally owned and operated. “Then,” he says, “a holdings-type company came in. They bought a whole bunch of little companies and made one big one out of it.” Under the new management, David felt that his employer was more interested in figures than in giving quality service. Also, large amounts of layoffs put more pressure on his performance. “Of the branch that I’m working on, there’s only about half of the technicians now from when I started working there,” David says. “They keep deciding they can push more onto us and give us bigger territories so they can…pay one less tech.” David is candid about his risk of being laid off. “There’s always that risk, because they just look at the numbers,” David says. “If you have one bad month, it can throw you way off.”

StoresOnline has given David a sense of security, despite his chances of being laid off. “I’m ignoring the politics now and just going through the day doing my job,” David says, “knowing that I have something else. If something does happen, I know that I have something to fall back on.”

David bought six website licenses, giving him room for growth. He set up his first website, www.thetapestryshop.com. “I published it, and then my company sent me out on a training course for a week, so I was out of touch. My wife called me and said, ‘We got a sale. What do I do?’” David says. “It was kind of exciting to get one so quick.”

David’s business has expanded. “We’ve been averaging one or two orders a day,” David explains, noting that each tapestry. “My supplier is pretty happy with the amount of sales I’m giving them, bringing to them through the website,” he continues. “Every time they pull up my account, they always seem to be surprised at the amount of sales I’m doing.”

While David still works his copier repair job, he has a goal to make his StoresOnline site his primary income by the end of 2007.

Visit David’s website at

www.thetapestryshop.com

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