Talk:Ramit Sethi

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Vandalism? The stuff is not referenced —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.129.251.17 (talk) 20:44, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another free publicity 'article'?

Surely Wikipedia can do a better job of policing articles that could be summarised as: Not many people have heard of me. I want lots of publicity for my book / film / product. Wikipedia can give me a big bundle of it, and it's all free.

Yawn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.219.91 (talk) 22:29, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have a valid point, but being a NYT #1 author is notable. (Heroeswithmetaphors) talk 21:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to me that this person is pretty famous already as an author and through his blog, as the sources given attest. I think we can erase the warning about sources. Tainanfish (talk) 14:32, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The NYT claim looks to be bogus, there is no citation. 198.208.47.87 (talk) 16:17, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Income from teaching vs Income from practicing what he teaches?

Is there any way we can get information about how much he makes from selling books and courses to people wanting to be rich versus how much he actually makes by putting into practice the stuff taught in his courses/book? Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 22:53, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Track Record of Success

As another poster fairly questioned, it would be interesting to have information around what he's actually done to in relation to what he teaches.

As far as I can tell, Ramit hasn't had a successful business outside of a business that tells other people how to create successful businesses. In other words, it appears that he jumped straight into teaching something that he never himself actually did. This seems to be the trend with famous, wealthy internet marketers, and it feels very fraudulent.

They all sell internet marketing success, but none seem to have internet marketing success outside of selling the concept of success to wannabe internet marketers.

This is a worthy question to be asked in this forum. At minimum, the article should show the progression of his businesses. If his very first business was a business telling others how to succeed with businesses (before he did so himself), then that is important information that allows for a lot of deduction as to his business, and him as a businessman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.88.69.91 (talk) 10:33, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

From the first edit onward, this was an advertisment

First edit was in 2005 most likely by Ramit himself.

The page is written to advertise and the person is a marketer under the guise of personal finance.

I dont think this page should be deleted, but this page should be more objective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TangleUSB (talk • contribs) 20:38, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No source of New York times Best seller

Link to the claim was invalid and a follow up article with the New York Times did not mention this 'achievement'.

This entire article should be under review for the claims made. 198.208.47.87 (talk) 16:18, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Entrepreneur"

Sethi has not run a business other than selling books and speeches. By the same qualification, J.K. Rowling and Dale Carnegie are "entrepreneurs". DenverCoder9 (talk) 23:03, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Poorly-source, self-published sources, and close connection with the author

After all unsourced material is removed, the only claims remaining in this article are:

There is a man named Ramit Sethi, who married someone named Cassandra Sethi, and wrote a book and website called growthlab.com.

Claims not verified by sources:

- NYT Bestselling author

- Ran PBWorks

- Stanford Master's degree DenverCoder9 (talk) 23:26, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]