Lindsey Duncan and the companies he controlled have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceptively touted the supposed weight-loss benefits of green coffee bean extract through a campaign that included appearances on The Dr. Oz Show, The View, and other television programs.
Under the FTC settlement, the defendants are barred from making deceptive claims about the health benefits or efficacy of any dietary supplement or drug product, and will pay $9 million for consumer redress.
“Lindsey Duncan and his companies made millions by falsely claiming that green coffee bean supplements cause significant and rapid weight loss,” said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “This case shows that the Federal Trade Commission will continue to fight deceptive marketers’ attempts to prey on consumers trying to improve their health.”
The FTC charged that Duncan and his companies, Pure Health LLC and Genesis Today, Inc., deceptively claimed that the supplement could cause consumers to lose 17 pounds and 16 percent of their body fat in just 12 weeks without diet or exercise, and that the claim was backed up by a clinical study. In September 2014, the FTC settled charges against the company that sponsored the severely flawed study
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Jamie At Home Out Of Business
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
TV cook Jamie Oliver’s direct sales/network marketing organisation – Jamie At Home, seems to have ceased operations a couple of weeks ago.
So far, there seems to be no official announcement, leaving a couple of thousand distributors to speculate.
The only message appearing when accessing the website www.jamieathome.com is
“Unfortunately we have sold through on all products lines”.
Basically as a distributor that puts you out of business. Seems Jamie Oliver ceased operations without any communication to the field.
The business expanded opening up in the USA, about a year ago after being establish in the UK.
Jamie Oliver appointed a husband and wife team, as CEO’s.
According to the website: “Jamie At Home is an eclectic collection of products inspired by Jamie’s relaxed approach to eating, entertaining and enjoying life available primarily through Jamie at Home self employed consultants”.
The USA website is still live, however signing up as a consultant triggers an server error.
Seems like Jamie Oliver left the reps in the dust…
About Jamie At Home (USA):
Jamie Oliver At Home is a direct sales business offering self-employed Consultants the chance to work in partnership with Jamie to sell the gorgeous Jme product range. We give anyone the opportunity to earn some extra
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Talk Fusion Updates Join Site With Video And Success Stories
by Nicole Dunkley • • 0 Comments
Giving Associates the ability to make a perfect presentation every time, Talk Fusion has relaunched their recruiting site at JoinTalkFusion.com with a brand-new site design and opportunity video. Like their redesigned corporate site (TalkFusion.com), the new join site has been translated into 11 languages to make it available to Prospects around the world.
JoinTalkFusion.com showcases the Talk Fusion business opportunity at-a-glance, with immediate insight into the timing, the recognition and rewards, and Talk Fusion’s global Instant Pay Compensation Plan – an industry first that remains unchallenged as the fastest income payment plan in the business.
The highlight of JoinTalkFusion.com is the sleek, professional presentation video that greets Prospects when they view the site. In just over seven minutes, the video host outlines Talk Fusion’s timely business opportunity, gives an overview of the compensation plan and incentives, and demonstrates the scope of Talk Fusion CONNECT, the company’s suite of innovative video communication products.
The video is currently translated in five languages (Bahasa, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, and French) with the additional six language translations already underway.
Visitors to the join site get to watch video success stories from several of Talk Fusion’s Top Leaders and hear firsthand how the Talk Fusion opportunity not only transformed
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Wake Up Now Looking For A New Investor ?
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Wake Up Now leaders would be not pleased with this article, however many former insiders and field leaders are informing Business For Home, and after validating their information, the company seems to be not stable at all.
According to a Wake Up Now Corporate statement:
“We are still recovering from damage done by gamers and scammers. Prepaid cards and chargebacks along with the need to support international growth led us to international merchant processing which is higher fees, delayed processing, and a multi-million dollar rolling reserve”.
It seems Wake Up Now’s deficit is around $15 million and according to macroaxis.com the company has a 96% chance of Bankruptcy within 2 year which states the following:
“Based on latest financial disclosure Wake Up Now Inc has Probability Of Bankruptcy of 96%.
This is much higher than that of the sector, and significantly higher than that of Probability Of Bankruptcy industry, The Probability Of Bankruptcy for all stocks is over 1000% lower than the firm”.
As of today, Wake Up Now stock has been around $1.02, more than ten times less than when it was at $10.70 less than a year ago.
The Wake Up Now market capitalization went down in a year from approx. $200 million to
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Mega Holding Achieves 400% Growth In Sales, Convention Has 15,000 Attendees
by Tina Williams • • 0 Comments
Mega Holdings announced their 2014 achievments of 400% growth in sales with major improvements of their product as well as 7 new Mega Stars. Mega Holdings is an international Direct Selling company providing online web hosting services.
Mega Holdings held 4 conventions last month with a total of 15,000 attendants. Three of those conventions were held in Turkey and one in Germany.
Diyarbekir, Turkey was the host city for the first convention with 4,000 representatives attending. The second convention was held in Istanbul with 7,000 represenatives and the Adana convention with 3,000.
During these conventions Wiesbaden, Germany also hosted 1,000 representatives from the Mega Holdings World team in Germany.
Dr. Hedi Khezrzadeh, international ambassador and the first Member of Million dollar club, addressed the corporate message to costumers and their visions for 2015. Mesut Opengin and Enes Olgun the top million dollar club members and Mega Stars of the company shared their vision and their plans of 2015 as well.
Mahmut Inan, Fatih Yazizci, Selim Doruk, Hasan Acer, Selman Olgun Mahmut Yaman and Hamit Dogan the Mega Stars of Mega Holdings toured all the conventions in Turkey.
The convention in Germany was held by Mega Holdings world team. Kerim Kakmaci, with one of the largest organizations, addressed the visions of the team for Europe in 2015.
Mega Holdings Convention
About Mega Holdings
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Drink Wine, Make Money? The Latest House Party Trend
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
According to an article in the BBC Blog, the latest trend in Home parties is Wine selling, and a number of direct selling companies are jumping in.
Count me in as a customer
The BBC reports:
Out of the way Avon and Pampered Chef. Wine is the newest excuse to throw a party, sell things to your friends and neighbours — and make a little money.
“I tried selling cosmetics and nutritional products, but couldn’t make a go of it,” said Diane Nozik, a 35-year-old mother of two married to an active-duty sailor in the US Navy. Then Nozik had a flash of inspiration after her husband took her to a number of wine tastings “and I really enjoyed them.”
Since she had wanted to make a little extra money, without the hassle of storing boxes of goods, Nozik had found the perfect solution.
“What I wanted at the beginning was just a product. I didn’t want to have to have an inventory. I didn’t want to have to deliver it. I didn’t want to have to deal with bounced checks,” said Nozik, who now earns more than six figures from her work for WineShop at Home. “I just wanted something that people would like.
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Business For Home Is Looking For A Reporter For The Asian MLM Market
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
The Business For Home website is looking for a Direct Selling News Reporter to join the editorial team and to cover news from Asia.
Specific large network marketing countries such as India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Hong Kong and Macau.
Business For Home delivers original reporting and sharp opinion in the arenas of Direct Selling, Network Marketing and Multi Level Marketing.
Per year, the website receives an estimated 3.5 – 4 million unique visitors from all over the world with the majority being Network Marketing professionals with approximately 25% visiting the website looking for a new or additional opportunities.
As a Business For Home reporter you need to understand the Direct Selling market, experience as a distributor for a Direct Selling company is there fore a big plus.
RESPONSIBILITIES
– Write and report original stories, for the website
– Cultivate sources, conduct interviews as needed or directed by editor
– Maintain an active presence on social media in covering Direct Selling News in Asia
– Write display copy, captions for own stories
– Examine copy for accuracy, checking all factual information, quotes and statistics
– Wrangle publicists, transcribe interviews, cover events as needed
– Other responsibilities, as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
– Experience at a blogging or a news organization
– Have a
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Preiscoin Names Alberto Conconi As Country Manager For Italy
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Swiss based Preiscoin announced today the appointment of Alberto Conconi as their new country manager for Italy.
Alberto Conconi, 32 years old, was born and raised in Como near Milan. He studied Conservation of Cultural Assets at Università degli Studi in Milan and Agronomy at Università Marconi in Rome.
He became a salesman at his father’s garden shop at the age of 18 and soon was selling pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides to gardeners, golf courses and sports fields in Italy. Several years later he got involved in network marketing with a health and wellness company and direct selling soon became his new passion.
Over the years he has built downlines first in Herbalife and then in Organo Gold.
Jacek Dudzic, CEO Preiscoin stated:
“Alberto Conconi has extensive experience in sales and his list of the achievements includes also buidling a large MLM organisation in a very short time.
We are thrilled to bring his success to our team and look forward to expand our company in Italy fast”.
About Preiscoin
Preiscoin Group AG is based out of Switzerland that offers the Preiscoin (PRS), an alternative digital currency based on the Bitcoin protocol. Preiscoin offers 4% residual commissions on every sale down to 7 levels in
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Buying Facebook Votes Does Not Help To Win A Poll
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
We consider it a compliment when people try to manipulate our polls by “buying” Facebook votes from scam artists, it shows how important those polls are for the field.
We have had a couple of attempts to bring in fake facebook votes, and those fake votes are removed.
We understand, it is very important for companies to end up high in a poll however we want the competition to be fair and will do every thing possible to keep it that way.
There are mercenaries who have created thousands of fake Facebook profiles. Often they are from Bangladesh, India or East Europe. They sell their “voting services”
However we know the Direct Selling industry and as we are logging the IP address and facebook link, both our security systems, as regular manual checks will reveal fake facebook votes.
In that case we will place the company, CEO or Rep temporarily out of competition, as we do not know if that company is buying to votes, or if it is an attempt from other people to comprise a company.
To give a small example what we log:
IP
Facebook account
Date
109.92.10.127 / 109-92-10-127.dynamic.isp.telekom.rs
https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=(removed)
January 25, 2015 @ 4:40 am
Keep poll voting clean, scam artists can maybe bring in temporarily fake
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InfoTrax Deploys Compensation Engine and Distributor Tools for Vemma
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
InfoTrax, the leading provider of software for the direct selling industry, announced today that it has implemented its newest generation of software for Vemma Nutrition Company.
Vemma, a premium liquid wellness company, has experienced its second consecutive year of exceeding $200M+ in revenue in 2014 after reaching 100M+ for the first time in 2012. Vemma was recently recognized for its success by Direct Selling News and The American Business Awards.
Vemma chose to implement InfoTrax’ compensation engine and distributor web tools to provide real-time business management and commissions calculations for their Affiliates.
“We continue to grow at a rapid rate, and we required a technology platform that can support our growth and make it easy for our Affiliates to expand their Vemma businesses,” said BK Boreyko, Vemma Founder and CEO.
“Calculating and paying commissions quickly and accurately is vital for our business, but equally important is providing timely and relevant information to our Affiliates. Our launch with InfoTrax was excellent, which is what we expected from InfoTrax with 30 years of MLM expertise. We welcome the confidence that InfoTrax gives us as our technology partner.”
The InfoTrax Compensation Engine integrates fully with Vemma’s existing CRM order entry systems and includes real-time reporting to Vemma’s