Monthly Archives: February 2015

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Nu Skin Q4 Revenue Down From $1.06 Billion To $609 Million

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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced fourth-quarter results with revenue of $609.6 million, the top end of the company’s guidance, compared to $1.06 billion in the prior-year period.
Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2013 was augmented by $350 million in limited-time offer sales of the ageLOC TR90 weight management system. Revenue for the quarter was negatively impacted 4 percent by foreign currency fluctuations.
Earnings per share for the quarter were at the top end of guidance at $0.77, versus $2.02 in the prior-year period. Earnings per share for the quarter were negatively impacted $0.08 by prepayment fees associated with the refinancing of the company’s debt, and $0.06 by foreign currency translation expense.
The company reported full-year 2014 revenue of $2.57 billion, a 19 percent year-over-year decline.  Annual revenue was negatively impacted 3 percent by foreign currency fluctuations. Earnings per share for the year were $3.11 compared to $5.94 in 2013.

“Our business performed as we expected for the quarter, and we look forward to a solid 2015,” said Truman Hunt, president and chief executive officer.

“As we review the year, three factors impacted our results. First, our year-over-year comparisons were especially challenging considering that we were lapping a $550 million

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We Are Upgrading Our Servers – 340,000 + Visitors In January

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As part of our dedication to continually improving our Direct Selling news service, we are upgrading our servers shortly. We do not expect downtime, but its a science, we can not guarantee it.
In January we received over 340,000 unique visitors and much more (est. 420,000) as our google analytics went down for 3 days. Concurrent users 700+ at times, which mean that number of people are on our website at the same time at which point our system performance begins to degrade.
Therefore we are upgrading to faster and scable webservers having to best exerts hired to do the job.
Per year, our wordpress based website receives an estimated 3.5 – 4 million unique visitors from all over the world with the majority being Network Marketing professionals with approximately 25% visiting the website looking for a new or additional opportunities.
Top Countries in January are the USA, Philippines, Canada, UK and Colombia.
 

Top Countries January

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Younique Will Open Germany and Mexico

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Cosmetics powerhouse Younique, is the first direct sales company to market and sell almost exclusively through the use of social media and will open Germany and Mexico according to an announcement on the companies facebook.
In the autumn Younique opened the United Kingdom and several distributors, reached the highest level. In October 2014, Younique,  reached and surpassed the 100,000 Presenter (independent sales representative) milestone , which also happened to be the company’s two year anniversary of welcoming its first Presenter.
In November 2014, Top Industry leader Princess Fizz joined Younique.
Since its inception in September 2012, Younique has earned increasing recognition for its bestselling product the original Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lashes.
The company’s product philosophy of Nature. Love. Science. ensures that its line of cosmetics and skin care products are always found at the intersection of the best that science and nature has to offer. Founded by a brother-sister team—Derek Maxfield and Melanie Huscroft—Younique’s mission is to Uplift, Empower and Validate women.
Amber Voight lives in Elk River, Minosota, USA and reached $33,000 per month with 9,000 team members and $1,200,000 in sales in May 2014 as Younique Top Earner.
She is one of the companies top earners, an interview with Amber can be found here

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Young Industry Leaders Join Modere

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Modere welcomes young entrepreneurs, Nathaniel Vincent-Nelson, Kyle Lee Weber and Nick Gomez into its global network of distributors.
 Nick, Kyle & Nathan are well known for being ambitious young networkers, speakers and trainers after each reaching top ranks in their previous company in record time. 
Together, they created ‘The Success Entourage’ to provide a ‘one for all, all for one’ type of culture for people and leaders of all types to be included in.
When asked about their decision to join Modere, all three founders of ‘The Success Entourage’ had this to say:
What initially attracted us to this company was the brand itself, it is clean, stylish and modern, but there was so much more.

What solidified the decision for us was that not only is Modere a modern brand with the right look and feel, but it is the transformation of one of the true legacy companies in the industry, a 27 year old, 300 million dollar per year company (Neways).

Joining Modere is going to allow our team to accomplish things they have never yet been able to. Because of the infrastructure and dependability we can focus on long term success.
There is honest opportunity here regardless of background or pedigree: the

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LifeVantage Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2015 Results

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LifeVantage Corporation recently reported financial results for its second quarter and six months ended December 31, 2014.
Second Quarter Fiscal 2015 Highlights:

Revenue was $48 million compared to $52 million in the prior year period;
Revenue, excluding Japan, increased by 1.6% compared to the prior year period;
Operating income was $3.1 million, compared to $5.2 million in the prior year period;
Repurchased $4.6 million or 3.5 million shares; and
Opened corporate office in Hong Kong.

Dave S. Manovich, Executive Vice Chairman of LifeVantage stated, “We do not believe the overall second quarter results reflect the strength of our distribution network or our expanded, scientifically-validated product line. In order to improve upon these results and return to meaningful top line growth and reignite growth and enthusiasm in our Company we recently implemented executive changes within our management team.”
“During the second quarter, we achieved growth in several markets, including our core Americas market, but this was offset by lower sales primarily in Japan. We are disappointed that pressures in the Japan market continue to impact our overall performance and know we can do better in this market as proven by previous results. We are intensely focused on identifying and implementing corrective actions designed to stabilize our efforts in Japan

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