Age: 43

Family: Susana (wife), 36; Children: Alex, 18; Steven, 15; Rene, 13; Ashley, 13; Ariel, 12; Gabriel, 11

Education: Three years at San Jose State University

Year Started Business: 1998

Type Of Business: "We build multiple streams of income and, therefore, have several businesses—primarily network marketing—and are actively consulting for ProSTEP and Life Force International, while still receiving residual income from businesses in which we are passive. We are primarily home-business coaches, helping people to pick the right businesses and showing them how to successfully build it to a six-figure income."

Market: People looking for help deciding on the best home business for them and those already working a home business who need help succeeding with it

Number Of Employees: None

Best Month (Gross Revenues): $25,000

Hours Worked Per Week During Start-Up: All waking hours, about 60 to 80–"We lived, ate, and breathed our opportunity."

Hours Worked Per Week Now: Six to eight hours a day, five days per week

Favorite Business Magazines: Network Marketing Lifestyles, Success, Inc.

Favorite Business Books Or Authors: Multiple Streams of Income – Robert G. Allen; Being The Solution – Darel Rutherford; Your First Year In Network Marketing – Mark Yarnell and Rene Reid Yarnell

Relaxes By: "I meditate, exercise, watch a good comedy, go on a date with my wife—anything to get out of my head."

Keeps In Shape By: "I walk three miles a day with my yellow Labrador, Buddy; eat right; and take nutritional supplements."

Favorite Part Of The Job: "Watching my friends achieve the kind of success they’ve dreamed of. The more people I help to get what they want, the more I get what I want. I can’t move forward unless they come too. No competition, only teamwork."

Least Favorite Part Of The Job: Bookkeeping and the organizational part

Admired Companies: Amway, who cleared a path for the rest of us, and ProSTEP for providing the tools, training, and leads to build any network-marketing business

Favorite Quotes: If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford; Success is not in getting on top; it’s how you bounce on the bottom. – George Patton; I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the luckier I am. – Thomas Jefferson

The Person Who Most Influenced His Life: "My Dad. He was every bit the entrepreneur and a very hard worker. My ideals and work ethic come from him. I am in network marketing today because of the entrepreneurial spirit he instilled in me.”

Heroes: “Bill Gates, who started out undaunted as a nobody in the face of the Mighty IBM and stuck to his vision to win big.”

Special Accomplishments: Numerous recruiting contest awards with one company; inducted into the Recruiting Hall Of Fame for Pre-Paid Legal Services; Team Builder Of The Quarter with ProSTEP

Months Before Achieving A Profit: Nine

Any Books, Tapes, Or Reports Authored: Free reports: How To Get The Government To Fund Your Home-Based Business and Marketing Like An MLM Powerhouse, both at www.DavidAndSusana.com

Contact David At: (925) 431-1155 or David@DavidAndSusana.com.