Monthly Archives: September 2015

DSA President Responds To Seeking Alpha Post

 
American Direct Selling Association (DSA) President Joseph Mariano responds to a post by Bill Keep on stock market insights and analysis site Seeking Alpha. 
As a platform for investment research, the opinions presented via Seeking Alpha inform countless decisions, large and small, taken by corporations, government and the public.  It is therefore important that contributors act in good faith to get the facts right.
I am concerned that Bill Keep, one of your frequent contributors, has chosen to co-opt Seeking Alpha into a mouthpiece for attacks against direct selling, one of the oldest ways that Americans choose to work independently, typically on a part-time basis.  By showing blatant disregard for the facts about DSA and direct selling with little to no accountability for his mis-statements, Keep diminishes Seeking Alpha’s credibility and jeopardizes the ability

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Laguna Blends Promises To Change Direct Selling Perception

 
He knows network marketing, aka bugging everyone you know to buy the stuff you represent, has a major negative stigma.
So Stuart Gray, the CEO of Kelowna-based hemp beverage company Laguna Blends, vows to make his direct selling company different. “We’re facing the negativity up front,” said Gray.

“We have what we believe to be the game changer in the direct selling game. It’s the cool technology at LagunaWorld.com with the kind of virtual community where members can train and recruit other members and customers an not be embarrassed.”

The virtual world is impressive.
The Laguna Blends campus is on the ocean in beautiful, palm-treed Laguna Beach, Calif. and has potential customers via email for slick presentations ranging from 90 seconds to several minutes.
Laguna has two main products: an instant coffee with hemp protein and PRO369, a hemp protein

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Your Inspiration At Home Wins 92 Gourmet Medals

 
Your Inspiration At Home continued its winning streak in international food competitions by collecting another round of prestigious gourmet food awards, further adding to the company’s growing list of honors.
Your Inspiration At Home was recently presented with three Champion & Reserve Champion Awards at the recent 2015 Royal Agriculture Society of Tasmania Fine Food Awards. The prestigious gourmet food awards in Australia judged Your Inspiration At Home’s Pumpkin Fiesta-Taste of Mexico as the overall Herb & Spice Category Champion.  A total of 92 Fine Food Medals were awarded to Your Inspiration At Home. 
These latest awards follow three medals recently presented at the 2015 Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards, also in Australia.
Your Inspiration At Home is a member of the CVSL Inc. family of direct-to-consumer companies. 
Since 2011, Your Inspiration At Home has been honored with 370 Fine Food Awards, including a

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