The leadership shift that turns six-figure earners into seven-figure builders.
By Bob Snyder
Two farmers owned adjoining fields of corn. The first farmer was known as Boss farmer. His fields were flawless. The rows were straight, the spacing perfect, the irrigation exact. Every inch of his farm reflected discipline and control. Workers followed his instructions carefully, and he inspected everything they did. Nothing escaped his eye. If his workers made mistakes, they were fired and replaced.
Next door lived another farmer. His fields looked… different. The rows wandered a bit. Some patches were overwatered while others looked slightly dry. From a distance, you could tell the field lacked the precision of Boss farmer’s corn fields.
Boss farmer eventually walked over to visit his neighbor, Dad Farmer. He pointed out the crooked rows. The uneven spacing. The imperfections in the crop. When he finished listing the problems, he shook his head and said, “You’d have a much better harvest if you ran this place properly.” The Dad farmer listened patiently. Then he smiled and said something the Boss farmer had never considered.
“Oh, I see the problem,” he said. “You think I’m growing corn.” He gestured toward the field where his five teenage sons were working.
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Top 500+ Largest Direct Sales Companies in the World 2026 (Based on 2025 Revenue)
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Business For Home Updates the Top 500 Global Direct Selling Companies’ Revenues for 2026: How to Submit 2025 Revenue Data.
Each year, Business For Home updates its global company revenues rankings to reflect the most current picture of company size, momentum, and market position across the direct selling profession.
Business For Home’s global company revenue list is always published in U.S. dollars (USD) and updated in real time. This means that when we validate, add, or adjust a company’s revenue, the information is updated immediately, while the momentum rankings list updates once daily.
The figures currently shown below reflect what we know at this time, based on reported 2025 revenue, current trends, and industry insight, and the list will continue to be updated regularly as additional information is received and verified.
We receive revenue information directly from CEOs, CFOs, and other senior corporate executives, as well as research from other reliable industry sources, including public filings, disclosures and recognized trade publications. For some privately held companies, revenue may be estimated, based on available public information and input from knowledgeable industry sources. In these cases, it is estimated conservatively.
*NOTE: When a company does not provide updated revenue information for 2025, we may temporarily continue to display
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Why ‘my business is my retirement’ could be the riskiest plan of all
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By Kevin Harrington on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Around one third of SME owners in the UK are now over 55, with an estimated 1.3 to 1.5 million businesses owned by people approaching retirement age.
Research by Prudential found that 27 per cent of UK business owners prioritise investing money into their businesses over saving into pensions, and 19 per cent openly describe their business as their pension fund.
Many business owners don’t just lack a pension, they also overestimate what their business is worth.
Now is the time to pressure-test your business. Get a realistic valuation. Understand the gap between what your business is worth today and what you actually need to retire comfortably. Then start closing that gap, whether by building business value, topping up personal pension savings, or ideally both.
In the UK, there are three types of pensions: defined contribution, defined benefit, and the state pension. But walk into any room of SME owners and you’ll quickly discover there’s an unofficial fourth option – the belief that ‘my business is my pension’.
It’s a seductive idea. You’ve spent decades building something from nothing. The logic feels sound: when you’re ready to stop, you
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MONAT Announces Integration With Meta, Expanding Its Social Commerce Ecosystem
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According to a recent press release:
MIAMI, FL – MONAT Global, the world’s #1 direct seller of premium haircare, announced its groundbreaking integration with Meta platforms at their Leadership Circle Conference this past weekend on Miami Beach. This announcement marks another defining moment in the evolution of social commerce within the direct sales industry.
Following its historic success as the first direct sales company to fully integrate and scale on TikTok Shop, MONAT is once again setting the pace—this time by being the first to expand its proprietary social commerce model across Meta’s ecosystem, including Facebook and Instagram.
While others in the industry are still exploring social commerce, MONAT has already built it, proven it, and scaled it.
What began as a bold experiment with TikTok Shop quickly became a defining transformation. MONAT’s early adoption of TikTok Shop reshaped how products are discovered, shared, and sold—activating thousands of affiliates, generating millions in sales, and unlocking a scalable new path for growth. MONAT quickly became a top 5 haircare brand on the platform in the U.S., the U.K. and in Mexico. That success validated a powerful hybrid model blending community-driven direct sales with modern affiliate commerce—and now, MONAT is expanding it even further. With its new integration across
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International Women’s Day: The Power of SHE at Mary Kay, 13 Women Leading, Lifting, and Inspiring
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According to a recent press release:
At Mary Kay Inc., International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month are more than moments on the calendar, they are a year-long celebration and a reminder of what’s possible when women are championed, heard, and supported. Mary Kay Ash founded her company based on the belief that “a woman can do anything she is given the opportunity to do.”
This year at Mary Kay, we’re celebrating the power of “She” by shining a light on 13 women who lead with heart and drive with purpose across key roles or functions in the organization, spanning from C-Suite to Supply Chain, Legal or Digital, each with her own perspective, and her own way of making an impact. Together, their voices capture Mary Kay’s mission of enriching women’s lives and demonstrating that empowering women is more than a legacy, it’s the guiding light shaping what comes next.
Consider this your front-row seat to 13 inspiring voices, and an invitation to celebrate the women who make our world and our workplace stronger every day.
Lucy Gildea, Chief Brand and Scientific Officer at Mary Kay
Dr. Lucy Gildea, Chief Brand and Scientific Officer at Mary Kay
ROOTED IN PURPOSE:
“Mary Kay is more than a brand—it’s a movement.
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Houston Brokerage Leader Miriam Valencia Moves 50-Agent Brokerage to eXp Realty
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Founder of Alumbra International partners with global brokerage after $107M production year while continuing MBA studies and preparing for law school.
BELLINGHAM, WA — eXp Realty®, “the most agent-centric™ real estate brokerage on the planet” and the core subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI), today announced real estate leader Miriam Valencia, founder and CEO of Alumbra International, has officially joined eXp Realty, bringing 50 agents with her in a strategic move designed to support the continued growth of her Houston-based and international-growing brokerage.
“Miriam is the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit we champion at eXp,”
said Leo Pareja, CEO of eXp Realty.
“With Alumbra, Miriam’s already proven she can build something deeply meaningful. By joining forces with our global platform, she’s not just preserving that identity, she’s supercharging it to create limitless opportunities for her agents and their clients.”
Valencia spent significant time evaluating brokerage models before making the decision.
“I built Alumbra as an independent brokerage and grew a strong brand and culture in Houston,”
Valencia said.
“At the same time I started thinking about how to scale bigger without losing what we had built. As a broker I cannot make rash decisions because it affects a lot of people,” she said. “I spent time
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Natura Completes Corporate Streamlining, Reports R$ 6.2 Billion Revenues in Q4 2025
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Natura (B3: NATU3) today presented its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results. In a year marked by the final steps of its corporate streamlining process, the Company sharpened its focus on Latin America and achieved strong profitability growth. The recurring EBITDA margin in the region reached 16.1% in 4Q-25. For the full year 2025, recurring profitability was 14.6%, an increase of 130 basis points compared to the previous year.
Highlights
Divestments of Avon International and Avon Russia mark the conclusion of the corporate streamlining process
Completion of the Natura–Avon brand unification (Wave 2) in Mexico and Argentina brings transformation costs to a close, coming in below 2024 levels
Annual recurring EBITDA margin reaches 14.6% (+130 bps increase), driven by the 16.1% growth in 4Q-25 in Latin America
Solid cash generation, despite revenue challenges, leads to leverage within the optimal range by the end of 2025
Continuing operations delivering net income of nearly R$ 1 billion
The completion of the sales of Avon International and Avon Russia marked the final milestone in Natura’s corporate streamlining and capital structure reorganization. The Company ended the year with financial leverage at 1.31x, within the optimal capital structure range.
With the integration of Mexico and Argentina, the operational unification of
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Do Heon Jeong: From Collapse to Blue Diamond with MWR Life
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Do Heon was born in a poor rural area, where life demanded resilience long before it offered opportunity.
From an early age, discipline became his language. In middle school, he found boxing and what began as training quickly transformed into identity.
From middle school through university, sport defined every stage of his life. That discipline carried into his military service with the Armed Forces Athletic Corps, where structure, endurance and repetition governed each day. Yet even as physical strength and mental resilience deepened, an unspoken unease began to take shape. While training shaped his character, it did not show him a future.
Unable to see where that path would lead, Do Heon made a decisive break. He left sports and entered the corporate world, taking a job at a medical device company. It was not passion that guided him then, but necessity.
At 27, he took another risk and started his own company. This time, the outcome was clear. The business succeeded, and financially, he reached a level he had never known before.
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During this period, his personal life also blossomed. He married and welcomed two daughters. While his life seemed complete on the surface, he soon discovered network marketing
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Global payment services for small businesses: how to avoid higher fees
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By Henry Williams on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
No matter how small your business, it’s never been easier to reach a global marketplace of customers.
But there are hidden costs to making and taking international payments that can unnecessarily dent your margins.
You can’t avoid these fees completely, but there are a variety of global payment services that can help you cut costs without cutting your reach.
Whether you’re an importer or exporter, or have overseas customers or employees, This page will explain the best international payment solutions for small businesses that allow you to avoid higher fees when trading globally.
Why do international payments cost so much?
Traditionally, small businesses have relied on their banks to make international payments. This is expensive because the bank passes on the hidden cost of currency conversion – the difference between the exchange rate they bought the currency for and the final exchange rate – to you, on top of a host of other fees.
Indeed, banks have taken advantage of this lack of transparency to charge small businesses over the odds for international payments.
But it doesn’t have to be so expensive. Here are some ways you can avoid unnecessary charges.
Use
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LivePURE Celebrates Leader-Sponsored Events and Reaffirms Commitment to Network Marketing
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PLANO, Texas — LivePURE, a Texas-based network marketing and whole health company, recently celebrated two national events designed, promoted, and led by two of the company’s top field leaders.
Founder and CEO Dae Geun Jung, President Rick Redford, and members of the corporate team were in attendance.
The agendas for both events included leadership training, success stories from field leaders, and discussions about LivePURE’s vision for continued growth.
At both events, field leaders Jared Burnett and Rachel Garcia underscored their confidence in LivePURE’s momentum and long-term vision for brand partners.
Rachel Garcia shared,
“I am beyond proud to be a part of this company, not only because of the lives we have changed over the last 18 years, but because our owner has made it clear that our brand partners are safe building their family’s legacy income here,”
Jared Burnett added,
“Heather and I have never been more excited about the future of LivePURE. 2026 is already proving to be a major growth year for us. The foundation has been set, and people are responding to the unique message of Whole Health: Health, Strength, Confidence, and Fulfillment. The world is hungry for a community like this, and we are on a mission to help as many people