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May 26, 2019
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Busiturtle
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If they make a good effort to develop the business they will learn
Far more than they would in the classroom.
You can always go back to school.
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Need Advice: My BIL and SIL dropped out of BYUI to start an Amway "business"
Gorgias
5/26/19 4:29pm
Go ahead and call them idiots. It's the only way.
kccougar
5/26/19 4:30pm
Anything less is more or less enabling
cajuncoug
5/26/19 4:44pm
I wish I would have been called an idiot before I married my ex!
Natedog916
5/26/19 5:33pm
If they make a good effort to develop the business they will learn
Busiturtle
5/26/19 4:33pm
They will learn all the important lessons taught by failure.
PortlandBlue
5/26/19 4:49pm
Selling Amway isn't developing a business. Your advice is sound for entrepreneurship, not so much for MLMs.
mik3
5/26/19 5:11pm
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve worked on the corporate side
TarCoug
5/26/19 5:43pm
Wait two months then talk to them.
Dwight Schr-UTE
5/26/19 6:00pm
Oh wow.
flavordave
5/26/19 10:46pm
The problem is the MLM predators pump their heads so full of crap, they prepare
NWCoug
5/26/19 4:50pm
if your friends don't buy from you they aren't your friends. Same with family
Mayor of Cougartown
5/26/19 5:42pm
Stay out of it, school isn’t for everyone
USMCdad
5/26/19 4:53pm
Sure. But MLMs are for nobody.
TCuz
5/26/19 5:08pm
The point of the pyramid isn't bad I bet.
777
5/26/19 5:21pm
True, but stay out of other adults choices as they will either learn this
USMCdad
5/26/19 10:45pm
i'd tell them that this type of business is an mlm and that ittypcally requires
Cougarclaw
5/26/19 5:01pm
Relax. It's not like they dropped out of BYU-P.
byubyu
5/26/19 5:06pm
Help and be supportive. Keep that door open so you can help them get back on
BYUtka
5/26/19 5:14pm
I think you can be nice and still not be supportive of an MLM.
TCuz
5/26/19 5:25pm
I like this a lot.
Gorgias
5/26/19 10:25pm
Let them succeed or fail. Either way it's a great education.
777
5/26/19 5:22pm
As life goes on I realize I have enough to worry about
cougfanz
5/26/19 5:28pm
To bad. Time to disown
Idahofallsblue
5/26/19 5:53pm
MLMs mean hustling family about “business opps” at every holiday/fam gathering
Sexytaxman
5/26/19 6:17pm
Just give them a few months they’ll realize it soon enough
TunaNoCrust
5/26/19 6:26pm
I would be happy to tell them about our year with Amway
Florwood
5/26/19 9:48pm
The funny thing is his Dad spent some time with Amway and failed spectacularly
Gorgias
5/26/19 10:24pm
RE: Need Advice: My BIL and SIL dropped out of BYUI to start an Amway "business"
Incentivize
5/26/19 10:03pm
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