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Monthly Archives: March 2015
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Brent And Ann Palmer Surpass $1 Million In Earnings At LIMU
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The LIMU Millionaires Club just added more new members, celebrating Brent and Ann Palmer from Florence, Alabama for recently surpassing $1 Million in LIMU earnings.
The Palmers are only the second Promoters to reach the company’s 750K rank, and are among LIMU’s most successful Promoters after only a very short period of time.
“Brent and Ann are exactly the kind of people this industry attracts, a hard-working couple with outstanding values and a daily commitment to helping people,” says Gary J. Raser, Founder, President and CEO of LIMU. “They saw in LIMU a new way to work, a way to get away from the stress of 80-hour weeks and of living paycheck to paycheck. The speed at which they’ve reached one of our highest ranks is impressive, but the fact that their huge success
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Herbalife Makes It Into Guiness Book of World Records
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Herbalife, (HLF), a global nutrition company, joined with its members around the world this weekend to create a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® achievement for most participants in a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout in 24-hours. As part of the event, Herbalife and its members also created a new world record for number of people in a High Intensity Interval Training Workout in one location, with nearly 4,000 people filling the LA Live Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles.
Tens of thousands of independent Herbalife members—along with their customers, friends and family—hosted workouts at local Herbalife nutrition clubs, parks and public meeting spaces across more than 80 countries.
The workout began on Saturday, March 7, at 9:00 a.m. local time in Auckland, New Zealand. Throughout the next 24 hours, workout events were being held in
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4Life Welcomes New Brand Ambassadors
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4Life executives announced Major League Baseball (MLB) players Donovan and Jhonatan Solano as the newest members of Team 4Life, a group of internationally renowned athletes who represent 4Life distributors as company brand ambassadors and product advocates.
Donovan and Jhonatan are brothers who grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia, with their parents and 4Life distributors Luis Solano and Myriam Preciado.
As children, they received a lot of encouragement from their father, who was a pitcher, and they played baseball at the Rentería Academy with Edgar Rentería’s nephew. Edgar Rentería, also a Team 4Life member, was the 2010 World Series MVP.
Foundation 4Life, the company’s distributor-driven service arm, has been a long-time partner of the Rentería Baseball Academy in Barranquilla.
In 2005, Donovan was drafted to play for the St. Louis Cardinals as an international free agent.
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Reliv Down 19.8% In Q4 – 2014 To $14.1Million
by Nicole Dunkley • • 0 Comments
Reliv International, Inc, a maker of nutritional supplements that promote optimal health, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2014.
Reliv reported net sales of $14.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with sales of $17.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2013. U.S. sales decreased by 19.8 percent for the quarter compared with the same quarter in 2013.
A significant portion of the decline in U.S. net sales was due to a promotion launched in fall 2013 that lowered the sales volume level needed to qualify as a Master Affiliate in the United States.
This resulted in a shifting of and reduction in requalification orders that would normally be received in January 2014 to the fourth quarter of 2013. International sales for the quarter decreased 16.0
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Sandi Watkins Finds New Home At Zija
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Top leaders from across the direct sales industry are flocking to Zija International and finding success because of the company’s strong product base, amazing business opportunity, and ‘Life Unlimited’ company culture and message.
The Zija opportunity piqued the interest of Sandi Watkins, who has quickly become a high-ranking Distributor within the company’s lucrative compensation plan.
As a successful network marketing veteran, Watkins was looking for a company with which to finish her rewarding career. With 27 years of experience in the industry, Watkins explains how she has found, and continues to find, so much success in network marketing. She also talks about why, as a strong leading woman, she decided to join the Zija opportunity after being a top earner at her previous company:
“For the last 27 years I have been involved in
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Talk Fusion Highlights New Video Release
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Leading a wave of expanded and extended business opportunity presentations, Talk Fusion has released their new “Now is the Time: Video Chat” marketing video.
The “Now is the Time” video heralds the upcoming full-feature beta launch of Talk Fusion’s new CONNECT Video Chat communication product, which allows instant face-to-face communication with up to 8 people across multiple devices and platforms.
Built upon cutting-edge WebRTC protocols, patent-pending Video Chat offers unmatched video quality, and includes text chat and file share.
The promotional video also ties Video Chat directly into the company’s powerful business opportunity with a simple message: the time is now to join Talk Fusion. In conjunction with the “Now is the Time” release, Talk Fusion has substantially increased the schedule of live business opportunity presentations, all made using the company’s proprietary Live
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Organo Gold Appoints RVP For Southeast Asia
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Organo Gold, the global gourmet coffee company that caters to consumers’ active lifestyles, announced that Dave Almarinez has joined Organo Gold as the Regional Vice President for Organo Gold Asia.
Dave will oversee all facets of OG’s Asian business, which currently includes Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong.
“Dave is an important addition to the Organo Gold team,” said Bernardo Chua, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Organo Gold. “His network marketing experience in Asia and political acumen will be critical as we continue to build our regional presence.”
Mr. Almarinez has over 18 years of experience in the direct selling industry, and has held a number of leadership positions in the industry including Nature’s Sunshine, Agel Enterprises, and Jeunesse Global. Most recently, Dave served as Managing Director for the Pacific Region
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Nature’s Sunshine 2014 Sales $366.4 million
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Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:NATR), a leading natural health and wellness company engaged in the manufacture and direct selling of nutritional and personal care products, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014, and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share.
“Throughout 2014, we made progress against our strategy to address mega-trend health problems through science-based innovation and to drive distributor adoption, leadership and engagement,” commented Gregory L. Probert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
“However, fourth quarter revenues and operating income were adversely affected by significant sales declines in NSP Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, due to heightened political unrest, armed conflict and local currency devaluations. Operating income from our international businesses was also reduced by the strong dollar.”
“Positive contributions in the fourth quarter
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mynt Opens Japan In April
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Isa Takahashi and Darren Olayan have partnered with Purple Diamond Executive Rob Sperry to launch mynt Japan.
The buzz is alive, and mynt is quickly building momentum in Japan. The onslaught of leaders coming to mynt is proof positive that the message of a different kind of company is resonating everywhere.
Rob Sperry has been a key founding leader and partner of the mynt initiative since its inception. He is a seasoned, successful leader in the industry and has teamed with Isa Takahashi and Darren Olayan, both former master distributors, to help lead the charge in Japan.
Darren has tremendous experience launching winning teams in multiple international markets that have reached 20,000 plus distributors in less than a year. These three exceptional industry experts, working closely with other important global mynt leaders, have been at