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Beat Your Seat: Tips to Avoid a Sedentary Workplace

by Carrie Schmitz • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

Research shows sitting may be the most dangerous thing you do all day.

The Most Memorable Ad Campaigns Share These 3 Elements

by Jennifer Connelly • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

Marketing that resonates and sticks in our memories despite the media cacophony tends to share certain characteristics.

What Is Your Company's Kentucky Derby?

by Beth Miller • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

Establish company traditions to help you jockey for the best talent out there.

Want to Compete with Big Brands? Get Social

by Successful IBO • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

The rise in the popularity of social media has changed the way consumers learn about businesses and products by giving them the opportunity to discover more from one another.

Direct Selling Association Announces 2015 ETHOS Award Finalists

by mallen@directsellingnews.com • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

The Direct Selling Association (DSA) has revealed this year’s ETHOS Award sub-category winners, now in the running for industry-wide recognition at the DSA’s 2015 Annual Meeting next month.

Medifast Finalises Board Members After Activist Investor Shakeup

by Ramya Chandrasekaran • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

Medifast Inc. will complete its board overhaul by nominating as directors a former Avon executive and the president of alternative medicine supplement company Healthy Directions.
The moves come to satisfy activist investor Glenn Welling, who pushed Owings Mills-based weight-loss company Medifast (NYSE: MED) at the beginning of April to revamp its board. Welling owns 6% of Medifast through his California-based company, Engaged Capital LLC, and used his influence to shrink the company’s board of directors to nine people while removing eight existing directors.
In April, Welling and Medifast agreed to keep four directors and add three new directors. But they still had to agree on two more new directors. Those directors will be Scott Schlackman and Connie Hallquist, the company said Thursday.
Schlackman has experience in the direct-selling industry that makes up much of Medifast’s business. He held several executive roles for

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JAFRA Cosmetics Names New President of Brazil & S.America

by Ramya Chandrasekaran • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

Lasaro do Carmo Jr. has joined JAFRA Cosmetics International as President of JAFRA Brazil and South America. He will lead JAFRA Brazil’s growth as well as help JAFRA expand further within South America. He will report to Mauro Schnaidman, President and CEO of JAFRA Worldwide.
Do Carmo brings with him a wealth of experience in both the cosmetics and the direct selling arenas. His career began in the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis. In his most recent role as acting CEO of a Brazil-based direct seller, his leadership and strategic management led the company towards significant growth in sales and revenue. In various senior positions at another direct seller in Brazil and Argentina, do Carmo also played a major role in areas such as commercial sales, marketing, operations and training.
His experience, coupled with strategic

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Police chief at busiest US port indicted in alleged app scam

by Successful IBO • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments

A federal grand jury indicted the veteran police chief for the Port of Los Angeles in an alleged kickback and bribery scheme involving the development of a smartphone app that was supposed to help reduce crime at the nation’s busiest seaport.