In a press release dated September 12th, Avon stated they were withdrawing from the DSA because of their dissatisfaction with the organizations direction. They sent a letter, addressed to “U.S. direct selling colleagues”, which shares their decision was driven by two key issues:
1. They believe the DSA’s agenda in the U.S. is overly focused on issues of a few specific brands rather than industry-wide challenges.
2. They believe that the U.S. DSA Code of Ethics requires updating to better reflect the current state of the industry in the U.S.
Avon is not exiting the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations, local market DSAs, or other direct selling trade organization outside of the United States (many of which they are founding members of). They believe these associations play an important role for Avon. Avon continued to share that there are three major aspects of their business model that they believe further safeguards their representatives and consumers.
1. The Avon business model does not rely on nor does it encourage sales of inventory, training or business support materials between representatives. The core of their model is retailing.
2. Avon has reasonable return policies and representatives are not left holding excess inventory.
3. Avon limits earnings to three generations. They do
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Nominate Your Top Direct Selling Company!
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Next month we will launch the largest Direct Selling poll ever.
The Top Direct Selling Companies In The World In 2015 – Poll.
We have added approx. 100 companies to the poll compared to last year.
We might have overlooked your great opportunity, please comment below if your company is NOT in the list
We have nominated around 600 companies.
Last year the poll received over 800,0000 pageviews and 52,000 people “liked” the poll on facebook.
The results from last year can be found are here, 40,000+ MLM professionals voted – 1,100+ Tweets – 495+ Google plus shares and 338 Linkedin shares.
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Visalus 2 Star Ambassador’s, Dallas And Wendy Gareau, Earn 500k In Lifetime Earnings
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Dallas and Wendy Gareau accepted the PROJECT 10™ Challenge in 2011 because they wanted to lose weight and feel better—but what resulted was much more than a health transformation.
In 2014, the couple broke more than $500K in lifetime earnings. It’s a milestone that marks an impressive achievement, as they’re driven by more than monetary rewards.
“We never started promoting The Challenge for money or to build a business,” says Dallas. “We only started because we wanted to see if our 90-day Challenge and drinking the Vi-Shape® Shake would work for us.”
Dallas has dropped 46 lbs. and Wendy has shed 30 lbs.* since starting their Challenge. This incredible transformation inspired them to share their story with every person they could.
“With zero to minimal experience, we built an entirely organic business,” stated Wendy. “We have been blessed so abundantly, and we want to pay it forward.”
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“The biggest reward promoting Vi is working with others and knowing our own success is revealed through helping those we care about,” says Wendy.
In fact, she has helped her sister and uncle lose more than 200 lbs. collectively* and gain financial freedom by introducing them to the same PROJECT 10 Challenge that changed her own life.
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LifeVantage Launches Training For Young Millenial Entrepreneurs
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LifeVantage Corporation LFVN, is hosting its first-ever exclusive 3-day Rules of Engagement seminar designed to teach, train and mentor their young entrepreneur Distributors. The most important purpose of this historic seminar is to welcome the young members of the millennial generation as they embrace the business opportunity, products and positioning of LifeVantage in unprecedented numbers.
These young entrepreneurs are laying a foundation of success and this seminar is designed to give them the necessary tools to establish a strong business career. The event is currently taking place at The Flamingo Hotel and Casino on the famous Las Vegas strip. The educational mentoring sessions are being hosted by some of the most successful young entrepreneurs already within the Elite Ranks of LifeVantage Distributors.
“Our main objective for hosting this event is to have our Distributors gain insights into the energy, passion and drive that fuel these incredible young men and women,” said Dave Phelps, Chief Sales Officer at LifeVantage. “Millennials have vast networks of friends that are connected and driven to achieve their dreams in unconventional ways and LifeVantage is the perfect vehicle where they can learn significant business skills to help them achieve life-long Freedom.”
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The Trévo recognition program, which is directly tied to its generous compensation program, is a driving factor in the company’s skyrocketing growth and success around the globe. “Recognizing the achievements of our Life and Health Coaches is something that we love to do,” CEO Mark Stevens said. “Each achievement is an important milestone in their journey toward the greatness for which they were created and we celebrate that.”
Stevens goes on to say, “It is truly a joy to be a part of empowering the lives of Trévo’s global family. For each person whose life Trévo changes there is an opportunity to create a legacy of prosperity, purpose and wellness within their family, their community and their country. That legacy of making the world a
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After the crash of 2001, many people felt they missed their chance to be part of the boom of the 1990s. Yet, in the four years following 9/11, U.S. household wealth has increased by an incredible $8 trillion to $48 trillion—an additional 20 percent! As of this writing, census figures are not yet compiled to verify this figure, but I would project conservatively that in the same period, we added at least another one million new millionaires.
And that millionaire population explosion is still happening.
Today, the U.S. and the world economy look almost identical to how they looked in 1991, except that there are more opportunities for entrepreneurs due to recent changes in taxation and technology. Based on this history and current conditions, I forecast that U.S. household wealth will again double to $100 trillion by 2016—and that over the same ten years, the exploding U.S. economy will create at least ten million new millionaires.
For those of you in the direct selling industry, this is incredibly good news. Why? Because a significant, good number of those new ten million millionaires are the people who are entering your businesses at this very moment.
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In the Top MLM Networker Poll 2013 he ended on the first place together with his son Kenny Nordlund with 20,000+ votes.
Sitetalk management stated in 2012:
“During the past years we have had enormous help from Kenny and Thomas Nordlund in their roles as Network Directors.
This has, however, come at the expense of other areas, and we are now pleased to announce that these areas will again be the focus of the company.
The amount of hours Kenny and Thomas have put into their roles as network directors cannot be calculated, but we do know that very few people would have been able to do it.
Thomas and Kenny will both take a step back from the management of the company in order to truly focus on the building of the network. They have requested this change for a while, and we have now agreed that they will do more in the next phase of the company in their new roles. It is very important that everyone understands how relevant they are for the company
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Avon Continues To Struggle After CFO Resigns
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Avon’s stock is falling Tuesday after its chief financial officer resigned to take a CFO job in another industry.
Late Monday Avon Products Inc., which has struggled to turn around its business, said that Kimberly Ross’ resignation is effective on Oct. 2. Avon’s vice president and corporate controller, Robert Loughran, will be interim CFO while the New York company searches for a permanent replacement.
Avon is the world’s biggest direct seller of cosmetics, but its sales have been steadily declining. The company has reduced costs, cut thousands of jobs and left unprofitable markets to try to improve its business.
Ross, who joined Avon in 2011, leaves big shoes to fill, said Wendy Nicholson of Citi Investment Research in a client note. Ross helped sell jewelry company Silpada, exit weak markets and refinance the balance sheet, Nicholson said. But Avon still has a lot of work to do in its turnaround plan, she said, and that’s a problem as it may take a while to hire a new CFO.
“Avon’s overhead costs seem still way too high, its internal controls/systems are still weak, its cash flow is still depressed and too many markets are still in disarray,” she wrote.
The analyst cut Avon’s rating to “Neutral”
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