About MeAbout me by David McCarthy To write about myself is a very difficult task because it defies my upbringing to care more for others than I do for myself. However my readers have demanded an about me page so I’ll do my best: Thirty six of the first sixty hours of my life were spent trapped inside a bombed house during the German blitz of London which started on December 29, 1940. Fortunately rescuers eventually rescued my mother and I. A couple of years later I survived another bomb blast when a V2 rocket (missile) bomb landed in the grounds outside the apartment we lived in. It sucked everything from the side of the block where my bedroom was located and I was saved when my bed jammed across the window frame. I guess if ever anybody was born lucky it was me. Another gift I have always had is the ability to sniff out a buck when others don’t see it. At age 13 I was able to earn more per week during school holidays than both my parents who worked full time. In fact I have been financially self-sufficient since aged 10. This is amajor thing you should know about me - in my mind profit is sacred for without it how can we help others? The one thing I always wanted to do as a young man was to travel. This was no different to any boy of my age other than I was able to deduce that although every boy wanted to travel they were too busy building a career to actually take action. I started travelling at age 16 in the sure knowledge that I’d be able to build a career when the travel bug left me. As a result I’ve visited 113 different countries and worked in 32 of them. In fact I’d set foot on all five major continents before reaching age 17. By the time I was 20 it was time to start thinking about a career and some further education and I chose the British Army as the provider and signed on for six years which was the minimum time to qualify for trade training. I qualified as an auto mechanic and electrician reaching a first class grading in each trade. I also repaid the Army by serving actively in Aden (South Yemen), Cyprus and the jungles of Borneo. This highlights another thing about me and that is I believe that we must all repay every kindness ever shown to us. By the time I left the army I had already decided that although it was handy to have a trades background life had far more to offer and it was probably better for me to get involved in business because I was through with taking orders for the rest of my life. The first step was to learn how to sell; business is all about either selling yourself or selling a product. Next I started a small business selling cars from my home and on a good week could sell 3 or 4 cars. It was at this time that I met a man who was trying to promote ethical selling and became very impressed with his logic. Until this time it was accepted that salesmen would tell lies to achieve whatever they wished to achieve. I could immediately see that by being ethical and telling prospective clients the truth as opposed to lies that I built a local reputation and people sent their friends. Ethics in business has remained with me since these early days. Another thing you should know about me is that I'm open minded enough to take advice from anybody. I worked in the oil industry for some years both for a major corporations and a smaller service company. This came to an end in 1982 after I suffered a severe accident which made me do a lot of rethinking. In fact I decide that what I needed was a total change so I left the UK and settled in Sydney, Australia where I reside today. It was at this time when the idea of forming Otec Pty Limited came to me. The company was registered in Sydney in early 1983 and has traded continuously ever since. In 2001 we decided to change the major focus of the company to wealth training and public seminars. In 2007 it seemed a natural step to take the company into internet marketing because this market was growing at a great rate and offered opportunities which ran parallel to wealth training. At a public seminar in March 2002 I not only forecast the 2007 Global Economic Downturn but I also gave 2007 as the most likely date it would take place. This statement was based on research not surmise and for that reason I published it in the seminar notes so now I have many witnesses to the accuracy of this forecast. Because of my belief in this assessment that I also started aiming at internet marketing as a cash flow vehicle to help carry my business through the bad times I sawahead. Another person has had a profound effect on my life and that is Australian trainer Philippa Bond who taught me how to train people to bring out the best in them. At the time I met her I was already a director of a public company as well as running my own Otec Pty Limited private business and she is the first person that has ever made me take a serious look at myself and discover what makes my mind work and why I think the way I do. Ms Bond taught me one, of many, very important lessons in life and that was: “Knowledge that isn’t shared is wasted.” It is because of this that I dropped all secrecy from my systems and the way that I make them work. Now we come to matching our internet entrepreneurial skills and training prowess and we are preparing to release all of the tools that have helped us succeed to the public. Not only the tools but the insights on how to use them properly. This will be launched in July 2010 under the banner of Otec Performance Marketing. The website isn’t up yet but my staff are working toward that deadline. Because we are believers that you never make it big doing what others have done we plan a unique entry to the market which will be released when we start the launch. Who knows it may even get me back to the public speaking market which I gave up in 2006 simply because it takes 10 hours to prepare what you plan to say in one hour so a 12 hour talking stint took 120 of my precious hours to prepare. So if I do return it will be for a limited time only. Preparation is everything in every aspect of business and you never know about me if you don't understand the need for laying foundations before jumping into anything feet first. When you consider the way my life started and how it has developed I return to the lucky tag that has always been with me and suggest that it may just be that I was put onto this earth to help people become what they can. Now you know about me. I promise this all you'll find about me on this website, the remainder is about you.
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