Twenty Years to Pay Dirt in the MLM Business. This stay-at-home mom has never given up. Can you imagine showing up to work every single day for twenty years and never earning a real paycheck? Well that’s been the story of self-employed networker Pam McCray.
For the past 20 years, she has joined business after business, gone to meeting after meeting, attended conference after conference and wore the badge of honor for every company she’s been connected to, but never found any consistent success.
“I have to admit, I’ve had a difficult time earning income and getting any acknowledgement of being a leader in the MLM industry. But I always had this belief that I would eventually win. I was one of those network-marketing babies who grew up with parents who believed in the
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RetailMeNot Uses Free Speech In Lawsuit With Mary Kay
by Tina Williams • • 0 Comments
Austin-based RetailMeNot Inc. is using a free speech defense in a lawsuit filed by cosmetics maker Mary Kay Inc.
The digital coupon site filed its response Thursday saying Mary Kay attacked its free speech and its right to the use of publicly available information on the Internet.
Addison-based Mary Kay filed a lawsuit in March asking the court to bar RetailMeNot from using the Mary Kay name.
Mary Kay claimed in U.S. District Court in Dallas that it does not provide digital deals, offers and coupons for publication on RetailMeNot and hasn’t authorized or permitted the site to list deals, sales or codes using its name or likeness.
RetailMeNot said in a statement that it “rejects Mary Kay’s attack on the rights of Americans using its websites to freely exchange publicly available information over the Internet.”
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Arbonne Sued By Customer for Causing Liver Failure
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
Arbonne International is being sued by a woman in Indiana who claims in a lawsuit that the company’s products caused her acute kidney failure.
In a complaint filed in the Allen County Superior Court on May 13, Vicki Swanson says she began using Arbonne’s “30-Day Feeling Fit Kit” in March 2013. The kit consists of protein shakes, a “Daily Fiber Boost,” “Fit Chews,” “Energy Fizz Sticks” and an herbal detox tea.
According to the complaint, Arbonne claimed in its marketing material that using the kit would “take the guesswork out of getting fit” and “give you the right combination of essential nutrients to set you on the road to success”.
But Swanson says six weeks after she began using the product as directed, she started to suffer from lethargy and jaundice, and was admitted to
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Zhulian Myanmar Operations To Kick off Next Month
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
Malaysia-based multi-level marketing firm, Zhulian Corporation Bhd, is set to begin its Myanmar operations next month, Malaysian media reported. Group Managing Director Teoh Meng Keat said the firm has obtained an import licence from the Myanmar government for its consumer goods to enter the country.
Teoh Meng Keat said Myanmar is touted as the new frontier market amongst emerging countries in terms of the consumer segment and has appointed a local master agent to oversee the business there.
He said due to local laws limiting company ownership, the group will export its products directly to the master agent, who will then sell it to locals.
“We will continue to expand our overseas market to overcome escalating raw material prices, increasing operating costs, stiff market competition and reduced consumer confidence in spending,”
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Tiens to Celebrate 20th Anniversary with 60,000 Distributors in China
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
Tiens Global, the Chinese direct selling giant made headlines earlier this month for taking some 6,400 distributors worldwide on what turned out to be a luxurious vacation in France.
Abdulkadir Abdulahi, operations staff member of Tiens Ethiopia Business PLC, a branch of Tiens Global and registered as a local importer and distributor firm, told The Reporter in Ethiopia that the number of Ethiopians who were eligible to attend events in France are about 300. However, 17 of them were unable to make it to France for failing to meet requirements set by the French Embassy. However, according to Abdulkadir, the head office of Tiens in China is arranging compensatory trips to take the remaining distributors to China.
The vacation to France according to Abdulkadir is related to the upcoming 20th anniversary celebration of Tiens
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Stampin’ Up! CEO Steps Down To Serve LDS Mission
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
Utah-based crafts direct sales company Stampin’ Up! CEO and co-founder Shelli Gardner has stepped down as CEO from the company. Shelli and her husband, Sterling Garnder, are planning to step away from their business to serve on a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The couple are currently serving on the Hawaii Honolulu Mission for a period of 12 months — an experience that they are hoping will inspire others to think more deeply about their faith.
While the public might be surprised by the couple’s choice to vacate their role in the company, they said that the plan was always for them to eventually leave the business, though the timeline was never solidified — until a recent stake conference during which they felt compelled to go on a mission; a
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Philippines Task force Uncovers 43 Suspected Ponzi firms
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The Philippines Anti-Investment Scam Task Force, a multi-agency body composed of representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Trade and Industry, National Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, has discovered that at least 43 companies in the Cordillera region have used Ponzi schemes in luring victims to invest millions of pesos over the past several years.
SEC director for Baguio lawyer Annie Gonzales Tesoro said that 12 of the companies were registered with the commission as engaged in trading. The rest are listed with the Department of Trade and Industry; the rest are not registered at all.
The task force has filed 19 multiple estafa charges against Three Angels General Merchandise manager Sukil-ap Pagaduan following complaints that the company collected P2 million from its investors and then closed
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Stream Energy Launches Mobile Services
by Nicole Dunkley • • 0 Comments
Mobile Services by Stream (Stream Energy), the only mobile service provider that allows you to choose from two major networks and earn free mobile services (coming soon) when you refer your friends, is now offering coverage under one of the newest CDMA 4G LTE networks in America.
With the new coverage come major enhancements including HD voice quality and incredibly fast data speeds. Stream’s mobile branch now also includes impressive new mobile apps and tools, giving customers the best mobile experience possible.
“There’s a new player in the mobile market – Stream. Over the past several months we’ve been in soft launch, listening to our Associates and using their feedback to improve Stream’s mobile experience,” said Mark “Bouncer” Schiro, president and CEO, Stream. “Our mobile offering is competitive, technologically advanced and tailored to each
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Vector Marketing Professional Sells $1 Million In 5.5 Years
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In just five and half years, Vector Marketing Sales Professional Seth Kinzer sold $1 million and qualified for the company hall of fame. He is the third fastest in Cutco history to reach this milestone, and he did so while finishing his college degree.
Kinzer is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he works at Vector Marketing as a Cutco Sales Professional and a Fair and Show Coordinator for its Northstar Division. Vector Marketing recruits representatives to sell Cutco kitchen cutlery, kitchen accessories, and sporting knives.
Kinzer started his career with Vector in 2009. For the first year and a half, he was a full-time college student at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He graduated in December 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He has sold an average of some $200,000 a year,
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Talk Fusion Expands Into Central Africa
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Talk Fusion continues to demonstrate international success in countries throughout the world. In the sovereign state of Gabon, Africa, Associate Judicael Obame was hard at work as a full time PhD student in biological sciences. In an effort to overcome mounting debt and help earn financial freedom for his family, he tried several personal business endeavors.
Unfortunately, each of them took up so much of his time that he had to abandon them. It appeared he would have to make a terrible choice: his higher education and the career of his dreams OR making enough money to get out of debt and help his family.
Fortunately Judicael was introduced to Talk Fusion by a friend before he had to make that critical decision. He didn’t need his PhD to realize he had found