David Perdew

As the now-retired founder and chief architect of NAMS, Inc. (the Novice to Advanced Marketing System), I'm taking advantage of my many lives to deliver what I've learned over the past several decades for business owners—past, current, and future. The NAMS community is one of the most dedicated and thriving communities online today. Before I retired in January 2023, I sold the NAMS business to my daughter who had been running the business for several years. We became one of the first online businesses in the digital age to build and pass on the business from one generation to the next. In the more than 15 years of NAMS existence, we've helped 1000s of students create better businesses that deliver great solutions to more customers in dozens of niches. The Insiders Club is our primary home for serious entrepreneurs, but we have a ton of free training available as well at https://NAMS.ws/freestuff. We focus on step-by-step tutorial systems for people who need help with their online business at all experience levels. After almost 20 years in the newspaper business as a journalist, editor, and publisher, I created and sold a successful stock photo agency with more than 150 photographers and 300,000 images to a British company. I followed that adventure with a 20-year consulting stint that led to implementing some of the biggest acquisition and system integration projects in the telecom world. Then, without any experience, I took a year off in 2003 before starting NAMS, Inc. to personally build a 2200 square foot log cabin in north Alabama in the middle of a 95-acre forest with a 60-foot waterfall, 4 streams, and a 4-acre lake stocked with bass and bream. It was a little bit of paradise where I lived with my beautiful wife, two dogs and a cat. On days, when I was not working at home, you'd find me in a red canoe fishing on my quiet lake.