I think that’s a good idea, but don’t believe that is a power that we have; at least, can’t find the option. WCI?
First post of the thread, click on “Close”.
Since WCI was responding, I wasn’t going to do it. Figured he’d close it up if he felt it passed the personal attack threshold.
I think that’s a good idea, but don’t believe that is a power that we have; at least, can’t find the option. WCI?
(If I were the moderator, I would be closing the thread about now ).
Passive income md is not involved in MLM? News to me seeing as his wife does it per his own blog posts.
You talking about the person or the business? I was referring to the business. The PIMD business isn’t MLM. His wife owns an MLM business.
Criticizing me based on that is like criticizing me because a forum poster sells whole life insurance. “How can you let him post here!? He’s a whole life agent!”
If you don’t like MLM, criticize MLM. But don’t criticize me because I have a joint venture with someone whose wife has an MLM business. Sheesh!
But here’s the thing, right? Apparently this MLM business provides 43% of their passive income (I’m just quoting you, I haven’t verified that) which is enough that they’re free of their need to practice medicine. That sounds like someone that is actually pretty successful with an MLM. Knowing that most people in an MLM and most MLMs don’t make much money, I’m kind of curious to learn more about someone/something that a physician finds more attractive than practicing medicine full-time and who earns a significant income from it. Apparently I’m the only one though. Nobody else even wants to hear about it. Heck, they don’t even want a guest post done on it. In fact, they think there should be an MLM registry and an ankle monitor or something.
Not at all, my disappointment comes from the fact that the PIMD blog is so vague about what their MLM business entails
Is there a way to do this without being a sleazy salesperson?
If it makes up such a large portion of their passive income stream, why aren’t there more posts about this touting MLM or R&F as the best thing since sliced bread?
Is there shame or uneasiness over being a physician so heavily linked with MLM? If not, why not share more details?
These are questions I would love to hear answers to either in the blog or as a guest post.
I think the vagueness of PIMD’s blog in association with something as controversial as MLM is what concerns me and as others have pointed out, “cheapens” the otherwise high quality blogging / forums / websites we’ve come to expect from the WCI network.
Serious?
You are better than this WCI
I am criticizing PIMD on not proving much info regarding MLM and then saying that’s the major passiv eincome. I mean how does that make sense ???? I don’t buy for a second your argument that content takes time or his argument that he was too busy posting about family life etc.
I can care less about MLM but I have issue with premise of not saying much about it and having that as the flag bearer for passive income.
In fact I am now closely considering starting a blog where I will actually post how I do RE investment instead of saying “guys invest in RE” for example. I can assure you it’ll have excel sheets and hard data Or some numbers
"You're better than this WCI"
Serious?
You are better than this WCI
I am criticizing PIMD on not proving much info regarding MLM and then saying that’s the major passiv eincome. I mean how does that make sense ???? I don’t buy for a second your argument that content takes time or his argument that he was too busy posting about family life etc.
I can care less about MLM but I have issue with premise of not saying much about it and having that as the flag bearer for passive income.
In fact I am now closely considering starting a blog where I will actually post how I do RE investment instead of saying “guys invest in RE” for example. I can assure you it’ll have excel sheets and hard data Or some numbers
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Passive income md is not involved in MLM? News to me seeing as his wife does it per his own blog posts.
You talking about the person or the business? I was referring to the business. The PIMD business isn’t MLM. His wife owns an MLM business.
Criticizing me based on that is like criticizing me because a forum poster sells whole life insurance. “How can you let him post here!? He’s a whole life agent!”
If you don’t like MLM, criticize MLM. But don’t criticize me because I have a joint venture with someone whose wife has an MLM business. Sheesh!
But here’s the thing, right? Apparently this MLM business provides 43% of their passive income (I’m just quoting you, I haven’t verified that) which is enough that they’re free of their need to practice medicine. That sounds like someone that is actually pretty successful with an MLM. Knowing that most people in an MLM and most MLMs don’t make much money, I’m kind of curious to learn more about someone/something that a physician finds more attractive than practicing medicine full-time and who earns a significant income from it. Apparently I’m the only one though. Nobody else even wants to hear about it. Heck, they don’t even want a guest post done on it. In fact, they think there should be an MLM registry and an ankle monitor or something.
It would be even better as a Pro/Con though.
As far as “learning about this right along side you,” I’m sorry, but I don’t buy it. There’s tons written about MLM out there, you don’t need to have first-hand experience to know it doesn’t work like the fairy-tale version you laid out. You seem to have a keen sense of bad products when it comes to whole life insurance, for example, so I still don’t get why you approach MLM (and hiring, or partnering, or whatever your arrangment may be with PIMD is tacitly supporting MLM as he writes about it) with such wide-eyed enthusiasm. You’re motto is preventing “doctors from doing stupid things with there money,” and MLM seems pretty clearly to be a stupid thing to do with your money.
You know the business I bought part of, Passive Income MD, LLC ,isn’t involved in MLM, right?
You know the other owners of the business aren’t involved in MLM, right?
One of the other owners is related to someone who is involved in a MLM company whose name I don’t even know. That relative also happens to be a doctor. And apparently does pretty well with it. I thought that was kind of interesting and was looking forward to learning more about it.
That’s literally all I know about it. You can bet I regret putting those three letters in that announcement post now though. Because now a half dozen people are hyper-focused on those three letters rather than all the more important stuff. Totally missing the forest not just for the trees, but for some dandelion growing at the base of one of the trees.
My only other experience with MLM is I have two relatives who do it as a very minor side hustle. One with Mary Kay and one with some essential oil company. It doesn’t produce any significant income for either of them currently, but I know the Mary Kay was providing significant support to her family doing it for a while. She just cut back when her husband’s income went up and she eventually got a better job. Neither of them feel scammed. Neither has ever tried to sell me anything. My wife has bought products she likes from both of them.
And I don’t really care if you buy any of that or not.
At any rate, it sounds like you’ve done lots of research on MLM. How about a guest post on it? Guidelines are here:
https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/contact/guest-post-policy/
“Passive Income MD, LLC ,isn’t involved in MLM”
What? He has used his blog to detail his involvement with MLM:
http://passiveincomemd.com/making-passive-income-as-doctor-mom/
http://passiveincomemd.com/really-want-know-multi-level-marketing/
Sure, it is wife writing the posts, but she makes it very clear it is something they both are involved in. He even posted that it accounts for 43% of his passive income stream:
http://passiveincomemd.com/pimd-income-report-july-2017/
So, I’m not sure how you conclude he’s not involved.
As far as writing a guest post: frankly, I haven’t done a ton of research. There’s not much need to; info on MLM is fairly easy to find. So, I’m not sure writing a guest post would fulfil your requirement of “The information you submit should not be readily available elsewhere with a ten-second google search.” If, however, you think a summary of MLM would still be a good blog post, I would consider writing one.
As far as chrisCD’s caution on publishing a post on MLM, that’s something you would have to consider. I don’t have a blog, and would publish under a pseudonym, so I don’t care if I get flaming comments in support of or against MLM.
Passive income md is not involved in MLM? News to me seeing as his wife does it per his own blog posts.
As far as “learning about this right along side you,” I’m sorry, but I don’t buy it. There’s tons written about MLM out there, you don’t need to have first-hand experience to know it doesn’t work like the fairy-tale version you laid out. You seem to have a keen sense of bad products when it comes to whole life insurance, for example, so I still don’t get why you approach MLM (and hiring, or partnering, or whatever your arrangment may be with PIMD is tacitly supporting MLM as he writes about it) with such wide-eyed enthusiasm. You’re motto is preventing “doctors from doing stupid things with there money,” and MLM seems pretty clearly to be a stupid thing to do with your money.
You know the business I bought part of, Passive Income MD, LLC ,isn’t involved in MLM, right?
You know the other owners of the business aren’t involved in MLM, right?
One of the other owners is related to someone who is involved in a MLM company whose name I don’t even know. That relative also happens to be a doctor. And apparently does pretty well with it. I thought that was kind of interesting and was looking forward to learning more about it.
That’s literally all I know about it. You can bet I regret putting those three letters in that announcement post now though. Because now a half dozen people are hyper-focused on those three letters rather than all the more important stuff. Totally missing the forest not just for the trees, but for some dandelion growing at the base of one of the trees.
My only other experience with MLM is I have two relatives who do it as a very minor side hustle. One with Mary Kay and one with some essential oil company. It doesn’t produce any significant income for either of them currently, but I know the Mary Kay was providing significant support to her family doing it for a while. She just cut back when her husband’s income went up and she eventually got a better job. Neither of them feel scammed. Neither has ever tried to sell me anything. My wife has bought products she likes from both of them.
And I don’t really care if you buy any of that or not.
At any rate, it sounds like you’ve done lots of research on MLM. How about a guest post on it? Guidelines are here:
https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/contact/guest-post-policy/
Passive income md is not involved in MLM? News to me seeing as his wife does it per his own blog posts.
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