AdvoCare International, L.P. today announced the promotion of Brett Blake to Chief Executive Officer, replacing industry-veteran Brian Connolly who served as interim-CEO during the extensive executive search.
Connolly will continue to work closely with Brett serving as Executive Chairman of the Board.
Blake, who was hired in October to serve as President of Global Sales and Strategic Planning has demonstrated his commitment to the AdvoCare Brand and the 600,000 Independent Distributors and Preferred Customers.
Brett will continue to serve those functions in addition to the added responsibility of CEO. When asked to comment, Blake said
“I am grateful for the confidence the Ragus family, Brian Connolly and the Board of Directors has in me.
I am so impressed with the caliber of people associated with AdvoCare and am looking forward to leading this company to even greater success as we look to secure our business in the U.S. and expand globally.”
Blake will continue to oversee global sales and strategic planning in his new role as CEO. Prior to joining AdvoCare Blake served as CEO of Origami Owl Family of Brands, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Beachbody – where he also sat on the Board – and other management roles at Melaleuca, USANA
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Mannatech Celebrates Growth In Hong Kong Market and China E-Commerce
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Mannatech, Incorporated (NASDAQ: MTEX) a global health and wellness company committed to transforming lives to make a better world, is celebrating its strong growth in the Hong Kong market and China e-commerce with an incentive trip for its highest performers in Asia.
“We’re incredibly excited about this region,” said Mannatech CEO Al Bala.
“Momentum is accelerating in Hong Kong and our ecommerce efforts in China, and it’s time to reward our Associates who are really growing their businesses.”
Bala will be accompanying Mannatech’s highest-performing Associates on a multi-day incentive trip on Australia’s Gold Coast.
“Sales in Hong Kong and China are growing very quickly,”
said Tim Chang, General Manager, Greater China Region, who will join Bala for the event.
“Business is very strong, and our business leaders are doing a wonderful job communicating the desirability of our products and are attracting customers at a very rapid pace.”
The Gold Coast Incentive Trip begins March 11 and runs eight days. Nearly 200 Mannatech Associates & guests will be participating in the reward celebration.
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About Mannatech
Mannatech, Incorporated, offers a profound wellness experience that makes a difference in the lives of people across the world. Through its innovative Glyconutrition products, Mannatech changes lives, providing an
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OneCoin $8 Billion In Combined Sales And Still In Business
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Disclaimer: This article should not be taken as, and is not intended to provide, investment advice. Please conduct your own thorough research before investing in any opportunity.
In January 2018 the Bulgaria’s Special Prosecutor’s Office raided the head office of OneCoin and OneLife in Bulgaria and seized several computers. The company has done an estimated $8 Billion in revenue since the start.
According to the brother of Ruja Ignatova founder and CEO, Konstantin Ignatov who is now in charge of the daily operations, all equipment seized is giving back and no arrests were made. Both websites www.onecoin.eu and www.onelife.eu are operational.
Ruja Ignatova is well, however got death threats and therefore will not be seen in public.
The next communication OneCoin send to their members, most likely with the involvement of consultant Frank Ricketts:
“OneLife Office Raided and Computers Seized”
Those two words, “raided” and “seized,” they sure cause some goose bumps to occur and make you wonder what is going on and it is not on the positive side of life. Of course these words were used by websites like CoinDesk and CoinTelegraph, which are both biased websites and cannot be trusted as truthful since people pay them to post articles on their websites.
The haters continue to
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2,500 Attendees At ESSENS Kick Off Tour
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ESSENS, a young dynamic company based in the Czech Republic, focused on high quality perfumes and food supplements in Europe and Russia, held in February a company tour around its biggest countries.
In total more than 2,500 people attended 5 big events in Rome, Madrid, Brno, Maribor and Rostov-on-Don.
Its CEO, Michal Kovar, shared from the stage his vision and mission for the company.
It was for the first time that the company’s vision was formulated because the need for a clear vision grew significantly with the recent growth of the company and a clear goal must had been settled.
We want to make people’s lives better in all the different ways – through improving quality of health, financial situation and self-development,
Kovar said.
In addition, CEO Michal Kovar has set as one of the company missions to improve the general view on the MLM.
We want to change how the public sees our industry.
We want to build a good image to network marketing and to show that if you work correctly and follow the rules, the network marketing is a fair business model and can become a longlife love,
he said.
To 3 of its biggest events in Italy, Russia and Czech Republic, the company invited a
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Ron Sacka Appointed Director Of Corporate Operations Vida Divina
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Vida Divina, a global direct marketer of nutritional and healthy lifestyle products, announced today that Ron Sacka has been appointed as Director of Corporate Operations.
With the massive growth Vida Divina has endured with over 500,000 affiliates in 2017, Armand Puyolt, CEO of Vida Divina, is seeking out to bring in a great, well-known corporate team to strengthen Vida Divina’s position growth in 2018.
Ron Sacka is only the first of many to be drafted into the Vida Divina Corporate Team.
Ron Sacka brings 20 years of direct sales, network marketing and executive operations experience to Vida Divina. Ron has extensive experience as a network marketer where he has built teams of over 50,000 distributors and was a documented seven figure earner with Morinda.
Over the last five years, Ron has switched his focus to executive and consulting side of the Direct Sales Industry with much success.
Mr. Sacka is known as “a numbers guy” in network marketing, priding himself on truly understanding the industry from a strategic financial prospective. However, it wasn’t until he was the CEO of a Network Marketing company that he understood the importance of a great corporate management side of the industry.
Ron states,
“After working with Direct Sales Attorney Kevin Thompson on
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Young Living Names Ben Riley Chief Sales Officer
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After helping guide Young Living Essential Oils, the world leader in essential oils, to continued record-breaking sales each of the last two years, Ben Riley has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer, the company announced today.
“Since joining Young Living, Ben has demonstrated his leadership through successful and consistent sales and direct selling strategies for the company,”
said Jared Turner, Young Living President and Chief Operating Officer.
“Ben has an extraordinary ability to build strong relationships with our members and find innovative ways to continue to expand and grow Young Living’s business worldwide.”
He has played a key role in helping Young Living expand on a global level, overseeing the business grow by over 30 percent with significant increases in every region. The company has also seen a 30-percent increase in new customers over the last year.
Riley joined Young Living in 2016 to oversee global sales and immediately began making a significant impact. As Regional President of North America, Riley developed and integrated sales strategies, oversaw field leadership support, and ensured the success of Young Living’s field leaders across the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Young Living, Riley held several positions including Vice President of Leadership at Cloudberry Nutritionals and Vice President
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Youngevity Completes Acquisition Of Viaviente
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Youngevity International, Inc., a leading omni-direct lifestyle company, today announced the acquisition of ViaViente, distributors of The ViaViente Miracle, a highly-concentrated, energizing whole fruit puree blend that is rich in Anti-Oxidants and naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals.
ViaViente, was introduced to the public in 2003 following years of research that included studies of mineral rich waters whose source is found in the Andes Mountains and flow thru Vilcabamba, Ecuador, a region known for its high concentration of centenarians. In 2007 ViaViente became the first product in the market to receive the coveted Brunswick Labs ORAC Seal of Certification for its Anti-Oxidant content.
“ViaViente is a welcome addition to Youngevity’s family of products and embodies our philosophy that nutrition can change the way a person ages.”
Stated Dave Briskie, President and CFO of Youngevity International, Inc. “
Over the last two quarters, as our international footprint has begun to take hold, we sought to acquire companies whose distribution would be accretive to the integration of this international expansion.
Similar to our recent acquisition of Nature Direct in Australia, ViaViente certainly checked these and other boxes, since more than seventy-five per cent of their recent distribution is to Japan We feel very fortunate to be able
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World Global Network Announces Key Organisational Changes
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Wor(l)d Global Network (WGN) today announces a reorganization within its Global Sales & Marketing operations.
Douglas C. Robinson has been hired as WGNs Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Robinson joins WGN from Mednua Corp, where he was CEO.
Coincident with this new appointment, Antonio De Rosa will move to World Technology Corp as its Senior Vice President of Design & Branding, allowing him to dedicate his focus and efforts on the design of Wor(l)d’s amazing product line as well as managing Wor(l)d branding worldwide.
Mr. Robinson’s 30+ year career has been spent almost entirely in the healthcare sector. He has held senior strategic healthcare consulting and practice management roles with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Consulting, as well as senior operational roles within United Health Group.
More recently, over the course of the last 12 years, he has been CEO of three different companies, WorkWell Systems, Inc., LifeVantage Corporation and Mednua Corp.
Mr. Robinson is a seasoned executive who has sat on numerous public and private corporate Boards, and has served on a number of different industry related Boards, including the Direct Selling Association in the US, and the World Federation Direct Selling Association, internationally. He is currently the Chair of the Healthcare Committee
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LegalShield Expects 8,000 Attendees At Annual International Convention
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LegalShield, one of North America’s leading providers of affordable legal plans and the IDShield identity theft solution for individuals, families and small businesses, announced today that it will hold its annual We Are LegalShield Convention, March 14 through 18, at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.
At this year’s five-day event, LegalShield’s new and experienced Independent Sales Associates will come together from all 50 states and Canada to engage with leading expert speakers, receive specialized professional development training and find crucial networking opportunities.
Among the keynote speakers is Jack Canfield, award-winning author of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series and a leader in personal development and peak performance strategies. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge will speak of her crusade for equal access to justice.
LegalShield’s top executives, including CEO Jeff Bell, will also deliver remarks to the crowd, expected to exceed 8,000.
The 2018 We Are LegalShield Convention will also include professional training sessions organized into four tracks of four courses each, covering the fundamentals of business to business sales, network marketing, technology/product and personal development. Recognition plays a key role as well. LegalShield will honor the dedication and hard work of its associates with awards for best achievement in eight categories,
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ARIIX And NuCerity Merge
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On March 5, 2018, ARIIX, an international opportunity company that promotes healthy, toxin-free living announced its merger with NuCerity, a Houston, Texas-based network marketing company.
This partnership formed due to different market strengths and the opportunity those strengths presented for the representatives, along with strong projected sales figures.
ARIIX’s 2017 year-end sales were $178 million USD, an 18% increase over the previous year.
NuCerity’s 2017 year-end sales were $35 million. Thirty-thousand NuCerity representatives will be unified with the current ARIIX representative base through this merger.
With the combined revenue and sales efforts from this partnership, the healthy and stable projected sales for 2018 year-end are $300 million USD.
“This is a strong union for both ARIIX and NuCerity,”
says Fred Cooper, ARIIX CEO and Founder.
“Both companies have incredibly strong markets where the other does not, as well as high-quality products which complement each other seamlessly.
Our representatives and employees will undoubtedly be able to grow with and learn from each other, and I can already see strong teams forming which include both NuCerity and ARIIX entrepreneurs.”
NuCerity creates clinically tested and dermatologist recommended skin care products, which aligns with the six brands ARIIX currently produces.
The NuCerity products will be brought under the ARIIX House of Brands and