Monthly Archives: January 2016

How to Start & Run a Successful Subscription Business From Home

Sponsored by Cratejoy Subscription boxes have been growing in popularity over the last year, with both consumers and small or home business owners, for a while now. The end of 2015 saw a rapid increase in overall interest: Individuals starting, buying and talking about subscription commerce as a new and exciting way of doing business. […]

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Conference: Direct Selling Education For Companies

 
The wisest direct selling executives never stop being students.  They are always open to learning more.  They encourage their field leaders to seek out opportunities to learn, and they practice what they preach.
Owners and employees of new and established direct selling companies attend the two-day Direct Selling Edge Conference to learn more about compensation plan design and improvement, how to build your field force, legal regulations, social media best practices for direct selling companies, tax obligations, compliance, merchant accounts, how to create a great company culture, what to do before you obtain or replace your software, and much more.
MLM attorney Kevin Thompson of ThompsonBurton and MLM compensation plan consultant Jay Leisner of Sylvina Consulting developed their two-day school for network marketing and party plan companies in 2011.  Held three times yearly, their 13th conference will

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WorldVentures And Nxt-ID Form Strategic Alliance To Create Next Generation Smart Card

 
WorldVentures, a privately held leading direct seller of vacation and entertainment club memberships and Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Connecticut-based Nxt-ID, Inc., a company focused on the growing m-commerce market.
The agreement calls for WorldVentures to make a strategic investment of $2 million in Nxt-ID to develop a proprietary new wireless smart card for its members-numbering in the several hundreds of thousands worldwide-based on Nxt-ID’s Wocket®, a unique smart wallet that serves to securely store all credit cards.
The smart card will be customized with additional technologies and wireless features, such as the ability to seamlessly integrate with WorldVentures’s DreamTrips App to wirelessly check in and earn loyalty points towards free DreamTrips vacations at select restaurants. DreamTrips is a travel club and entertainment community where

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Rodan + Fields Appoints Diane Dietz As President And CEO

 
Rodan & Fields, LLC (“Rodan + Fields”), a leading premium skincare brand and unique technology-driven social enterprise platform, today announced that its Board of Directors has chosen Diane Dietz as the Company’s next President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.
 
Ms. Dietz, who most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President at Safeway, Inc., succeeds Lori Bush. Ms. Bush recently announced her intention to retire and will remain a member of Rodan + Fields’ Board of Directors.
 
Ms. Dietz has more than 25 years of experience running large and complex businesses and brands. While at Safeway, a leading food and drug retailer, Ms. Dietz was responsible for the multi billion dollar P&L of the business units and all functions related to marketing, merchandising, loyalty/digital strategy and the award-winning private

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DSA Enhances Consumer Protection Standards

 
The Direct Selling Association (DSA) announced that new consumer and salesforce protection standards approved by its Board of Directors in 2015 have gone into effect as of January 1.
The most recent amendments to the DSA Code of Ethics expand upon the previous requirement that all earnings representations be based upon documented facts by setting forth the specific types of substantiation that is required and clarifying exactly what constitutes an earnings representation.  Similarly, more specific requirements for substantiation of product representations now go into full force and effect.
“For more than 40 years, DSA’s Code of Ethics has challenged every direct selling company and its sales consultants to put ethics at the center of their businesses,” said DSA President Joseph N. Mariano.
“Our Code will continue to meet or exceed stakeholder expectations for consumer protection

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Avon Appoints New General Manager In China

 
Avon Products Inc, the world’s largest direct seller of cosmetics, has appointed a new head of its Chinese operation – its fourth in five years – in the hope of turning around the declining business.
The move comes just days after the company was forced to dismiss rumors that it is exiting the country after a prolonged slump in sales, the result of what experts said was a lack of product innovation.
“China has been an important market for us for more than 25 years and we are proud to serve our loyal customers who know and trust the Avon brand, our strong network of beauty boutiques and our market-leading range of products,” the company said in a statement on Friday.
The company recently appointed Asson Chang as new general manager in China who will

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