{"id":9062,"date":"2010-10-06T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2010-10-08T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T06:25:37","slug":"carlsbad-multi-level-marketing-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9062","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad: Multi-Level Marketing Heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/citylights1_tease_t245.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/citylights1_tease_t245.jpg','popup','width=245,height=129,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/citylights1_tease_t245-tm.jpg\" height=\"105\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Citylights1 Tease T245\" \/><\/a>In a story for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/06\/city-light-pyramid-scheme-actis\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo Reader<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Don Bauder<\/strong> does a very thorough round-up of all the &#8220;network marketing&#8221; companies founded in <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> in recent years. Names like <strong>Who&#8217;s Your Daddy<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giawellness.com\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gia Wellness<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong>Cal Nutrisciences<\/strong>, are all covered, but the story hinges mostly on <strong>Actis Global Ventures<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Roy Grimm<\/strong> and the slew of companies he has started, closed, and\/or sold all based right here in <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Makes us wonder why <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> is such a hot-bed of MLM? Is it the weather? The cheap office space? Or, do people love living her so much that they&#8217;ll do almost anything to get paid?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/06\/city-light-pyramid-scheme-actis\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Reader<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story for the San Deigo Reader writer Don Bauder does a very thorough round-up of all the &#8220;network marketing&#8221; companies founded in Carlsbadistan in recent years. Names like Who&#8217;s Your Daddy, Gia Wellness, and Cal Nutrisciences, are all covered, but the story hinges mostly on Actis Global Ventures&#8216; Roy Grimm and the slew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9141,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions\/9141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}