Monthly Archives: January 2015

cosmeticdesign.com reports:
The direct sales beauty brand recognizes and trains its top consultants at an annual event, and this year the company has business gains to celebrate as well. Mary Kay brands itself as a venture that benefits women in and beyond its ranks. Beyond tallying sales and educating consultants, the company has environmental initiatives, recycling strategies, uses its foundation to connect with shelters to end domestic violence and more.

Aging gracefully In 2013 the company celebrated 50 years in business. Among the milestones feted by those gathered in Dallas, Texas, for the event were the over 800 Mary Kay patents—issued and pending—covering products, technologies and designs. “Our 50th anniversary has been a recordsetting year for our company,” said David Holl, president and chief executive officer said in a press release describing the occasion. “Women of all backgrounds and ages continue to turn to Mary Kay for the products they love and trust as well as the unparalleled opportunity.”

Well begun Mary Kay Ash founded the directsales beauty brand in 1963. And her son Richard Rogers continues to be involved with the brand, acting now as Executive Chairman. To date Mary Kay (headquarters in Addison, Texas) comprises over 3 million independent

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Avon Hires New CFO; Former J. Crew COO

by Tina Williams • January 30, 2015 • 0 Comments

Avon Products Inc. said Wednesday it hired James Scully away from J. Crew Group Inc. to be its new chief financial officer.
Mr. Scully has been J. Crew’s chief operating officer for nearly two years and with the retailer for a decade. His exit follows the departure of Stuart Haselden, its chief financial officer, earlier this month. Mr. Haselden left to join Lululemon Athletica Inc. as its CFO.
J. Crew is contending with falling shopper traffic at its stores and the retailer recently wrote down the value of its stores by more than half a billion dollars, while leaving its online operations unscathed, an indication of the toll that e-commerce is taking on brick-and-mortar retailing.

“Jim’s departure comes at a time when we are looking at the way our team and business is structured,” a company spokeswoman said in a statement. “Retail has been evolving quickly and we want to ensure we are set up for ’the new world’ as we move forward.”

The spokeswoman said J. Crew had already hired an executive search firm to look for Mr. Scully’s successor. Joan Durkin, its chief accounting officer, will temporarily fill the role of CFO, while it looks for a permanent replacement.
Avon said Mr. Scully, 49, will join the beauty products

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NY wage board to discuss raising tipped wage to $7

by Successful IBO • January 30, 2015 • 0 Comments

A state board is poised to vote on whether to raise the hourly wage made by restaurant servers and other tipped workers.

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4Life Baltic Region Celebrates 10th Anniversary

by Nicole Dunkley • January 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

After a decade of enhancing lives through science, success, and service in the Baltic region, hundreds of business builders gathered at the Maritim Park Hotel in Riga, Latvia to celebrate 4Life’s 10th anniversary in the market.
Celebrations lasted for two days. Highlights included presentations from local distributor leaders, special awards, distributor recognition, product and science training, and even a classical music performance.
The event also included a Foundation 4Life Solidarity auction to help fund community projects in the region. Auction items included portraits and handicrafts made by children from the Ziemeli orphanage in Riga. The auction raised €1,680 ($1,900) which will be used to benefit the children at the orphanage.
VIPs in attendance included Gold International Diamonds Maris Dreimanis of Latvia, Tatiana Yachnaya of Bulgaria, and Lyubov Alimova of Russia, and 4Life Vice President of Europe Rafael Fernández. The event hosted distributors from across the region including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, and Ukraine.
Rafael Fernández: “The Baltic region has grown significantly over the past 10 years. I believe we have great potential for continued growth here in Latvia and throughout the Baltic Region. We will continue to support distributors with innovative products and programs to propel their businesses.”
About 4Life
In 1998, 4Life Founders David and

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Facebook Expands Conversion Lift Measurement Capabilities

by Successful IBO • January 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

To help advertisers better understand the full impact of their Facebook advertising campaigns, the social networking company is expanding its measurement tools.

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Avon Taps J. Crew Executive as New CFO

by mbeeman@directsellingnews.com • January 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

Four months after the resignation of its CFO, Avon Products Inc. has announced James S. Scully as the company’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

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Talk Fusion Updates Join Site With Video And Success Stories

by Nicole Dunkley • January 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

Giving Associates the ability to make a perfect presentation every time, Talk Fusion has relaunched their recruiting site at JoinTalkFusion.com with a brand-new site design and opportunity video. Like their redesigned corporate site (TalkFusion.com), the new join site has been translated into 11 languages to make it available to Prospects around the world.
JoinTalkFusion.com showcases the Talk Fusion business opportunity at-a-glance, with immediate insight into the timing, the recognition and rewards, and Talk Fusion’s global Instant Pay Compensation Plan – an industry first that remains unchallenged as the fastest income payment plan in the business.
The highlight of JoinTalkFusion.com is the sleek, professional presentation video that greets Prospects when they view the site. In just over seven minutes, the video host outlines Talk Fusion’s timely business opportunity, gives an overview of the compensation plan and incentives, and demonstrates the scope of Talk Fusion CONNECT, the company’s suite of innovative video communication products.
The video is currently translated in five languages (Bahasa, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, and French) with the additional six language translations already underway.
Visitors to the join site get to watch video success stories from several of Talk Fusion’s Top Leaders and hear firsthand how the Talk Fusion opportunity not only transformed

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Wake Up Now Looking For A New Investor ?

by Ted Nuyten • January 29, 2015 • 0 Comments

Wake Up Now leaders would be not pleased with this article, however many former insiders and field leaders are informing Business For Home, and after validating their information, the company seems to be not stable at all.
According to a Wake Up Now Corporate statement:
“We are still recovering from damage done by gamers and scammers. Prepaid cards and chargebacks along with the need to support international growth led us to international merchant processing which is higher fees, delayed processing, and a multi-million dollar rolling reserve”.
It seems Wake Up Now’s deficit is around $15 million and according to macroaxis.com the company has a 96% chance of Bankruptcy within 2 year which states the following:

“Based on latest financial disclosure Wake Up Now Inc has Probability Of Bankruptcy of 96%.
This is much higher than that of the sector, and significantly higher than that of Probability Of Bankruptcy industry, The Probability Of Bankruptcy for all stocks is over 1000% lower than the firm”.

As of today, Wake Up Now stock has been around $1.02, more than ten times less than when it was at $10.70 less than a year ago.
The Wake Up Now market capitalization went down in a year from approx. $200 million to