Web MD

[Thomas Meade]

I got a call from Web MD, and based on my good reviews, they want to do an interview to see if I’m a good fit for being recommended on there website. Sounds fishy. Anyone hear anything about this? Thanks

 

[Alan David]

I got a call from Web MD, and based on my good reviews, they want to do an interview to see if I’m a good fit for being recommended on there website. Sounds fishy. Anyone hear anything about this? Thanks

It's a hard-sell pitch to pay for a "premium" listing.
Almost like an Amway salesman, they refuse to say what they're selling until the end.

Be careful, they'll bully your staff into giving up your cell number.
It must really be commission driven.

 

[Laurence Craig Thomas]

No - sounds fishy

 

[William R. Hall]

Haven't heard of them.

 

[Michael Barris]

It's a hard-sell pitch to pay for a "premium" listing.
Almost like an Amway salesman, they refuse to say what they're selling until the end.

Marquis Who's Who has similar programs and procedures targetted to retired professionals.

 

[Ronald Bodman]

I've had two of these calls. Really pushy and won't take no for an answer. I've had to hang up on them in the middle of their sentence both times

 

[Dr. Stanley Hallock]

Same as the local publication that tells me I've been selected to be their feature Doctor in their next edition of "The best eye doc in town" ........only $1,000 for the ad that takes up half a page at the end of their page and a half 'article' featuring me....and a nice picture of me too. For an extra $1,500 dollars I can be the guy on the cover of about 12 copies of their magazine I get that I can leave laying around in Office or give to a few people. For an extra $1,500 on top of all the rest, I can be on the cover of every copy they mail out that month to everyone on their mailing list.
For that I could get my own billboard instead I guess....if the local ambulance chaser hasn't got first dibs on the billboard

 

[Thomas Meade]

Told them at the meeting that I'm not spending any money, and wouldn't do the survey if money was discussed. Within 5 minutes they asked for $1299.00 for DearDoc. Very pushy.

 

[Michael Gallap OD JD]

I got a call from Web MD, and based on my good reviews, they want to do an interview to see if I’m a good fit for being recommended on there website. Sounds fishy. Anyone hear anything about this? Thanks

Block their number, its a sales pitch.

 

[Mike Alvarez]

 

[Allan Panzer]

It's sad that WebMd stoops so low.
During the Pandemic I got a call from Houstonia Magazine. They said I was "voted top doc in Houston". I immediately asked..are you selling me an ad in your magazine? BTW a real magazine at Grocery Store check outs.
Nope.
Out of hundreds of these calls this was the only real one I've ever gotten.
I wish I had advertised. It was just me and Bridgette Shin Lee as best O.D.s
About six months later I found a flier where they offered to sell me a plaque...$89..I bought two.

Am I being suckered in for $89? Maybe, but it looks great on the wall.

Later the Top Doc idiots called...with the $1500 pitch. I said..nope. Put me in or don't...not getting $1500. Well, how about silver..maybe you can go for the aluminum foil level..NOPE..
Put me in or don't..I am not buying what you are selling.

Got a plaque?
Well, yes...$189.
Great, I'll take two!

LOL

 

[William R. Hall]

Block their number, its a sales pitch.

I would

 

[Dr. Stanley Hallock]

If you hold the two plaques side by side but apart by their width......and then cross your eyes for an image overlap in the center....your plaque will look 3D !!!

 

[Allan Panzer]

Sometimes I wonder about you?
No make that often..
Here they are...up and down. Can you fuse them?

 

[William R. Hall]

If you hold the two plaques side by side but apart by their width......and then cross your eyes for an image overlap in the center....your plaque will look 3D !!!

Sweet! No R/G glasses needed.

 

[Paul Farkas]

I got a call from Web MD, and based on my good reviews, they want to do an interview to see if I’m a good fit for being recommended on there website. Sounds fishy. Anyone hear anything about this? Thanks

By posting on the the ODwire.org General topics it is picked up by the internet for public distribution. Your name is now making the rounds on the Internet at no cost to you.

And you are not even an ODwire.org supporting member.

 

[Michael Gallap OD JD]

Sometimes I wonder about you?
No make that often..
Here they are...up and down. Can you fuse them?

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I once visited the office of Stuart Grant, OD, one of the inventors of Ortho-K. In his Los Angeles office, he had taken photocopies of all of the awards and certificates he had ever gotten, and papered the walls and ceiling of the hall with them. There must have been several hundred. He thought it was a great joke. I have heard other docs refer to plaques and certificates as "eyewash". All I ever displayed was my OD degree and my state license.

 

[Steven E. Nelson]

Sometimes I wonder about you?
No make that often..
Here they are...up and down. Can you fuse them?

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You can just make those plaques for WAY less than $1000.

 

[Allan Panzer]

Surely you read my post?
About six months later I found a flier where they offered to sell me a plaque...$89..

 

[William R. Hall]

Maybe a gig for a retiree.

 

[Steven E. Nelson]

Surely you read my post?
About six months later I found a flier where they offered to sell me a plaque...$89..

I missed that. Seems like a great deal