After exceeding its goal to double attendance from their June Dream Getaway incentive trip, Talk Fusion has extended the qualification period another week. Now even more excited Associates can attend the next corporate-sponsored trip to Hawaii in December.
As the clock ticked down to the final hours of qualification, the response was overwhelming, breaking previous records. Countless Associates from around the world dedicated themselves to achieving the rank of Diamond so they could receive the highly anticipated notification that they, too, were going to Maui.
“It’s not just the tropical paradise, it’s the people. It’s being here with leaders from all over the world,” says Blue Diamond Associate Leslie Brown. “I can’t say enough about doing what it takes to qualify and make it to Hawaii. Once you come here the first time, you’ll never miss it again.”
Set to take place at the Grand Wailea Resort in Maui from December 4 – 8, Dream Getaway is a bi-annual vacation incentive offered to all Talk Fusion Associates who achieve the rank of Diamond or above during a qualification period. Talk Fusion pays for qualified Associates to fly from around the world to attend.
“This will be my fourth Dream Getaway. People from
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Indian Court Allows QNET Distributors To Continue Using Space At Café Coffee Day
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Asian direct selling company, QNET which is among companies facing a very hostile environment in India, gained a victory recently when the High Court of Karnataka ordered Café Coffee Day to remove the signage preventing QNET distributors and employees from using its premises.
Café Coffee Day, India’s pioneer and largest retail chain of coffee cafés, is a popular meeting point for many QNET distributors to meet with their teams and with prospects.
The Mumbai Police Economic Offence Wing (EOW) had instructed the Café Coffee Day chain of coffee shops in India to prevent distributors and employees of QNET and its Indian franchisee, Vihaan Direct Selling from entering its premises. EOW has been investigating QNET and Vihaan since Aug 2013 and has continued to find new ways to pursue the company and its distributors through unfair and unfounded means.
QNET’s franchisee in India filed a petition in the High Court of Karnataka against the Coffee Day order and the High Court ordered the EOW to submit its counter reasons and the instructions given to Coffee Day. In the interim period, the High Court has ordered that Café Coffee Day cannot prevent QNET distributors and its staff from entering its premises.
Such punitive measure taken by
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LifeVantage President & CEO To Present At WFDSA World Congress
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LifeVantage Corporation, announced that Douglas C. Robinson will be presenting at The World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA) World Congress in the city of Rio De Janeiro.
Mr. Robinson is participating as a member of a three-person panel representing fast growing direct selling companies from different geographical regions and cultures that will present their most successful strategies and results within their respective organizations.
The World Federation of Direct Selling Associations is a non-governmental organization representing the direct selling sector globally, bringing together over 60 Direct Selling Associations around the world as members.
“The WFDSA is bringing direct selling organizations from around the world under one roof to share best practices,” explained LifeVantage President and Chief Executive Officer Douglas C. Robinson. ” I am excited to be selected as a presenter for such a prestigious and a monumental event. It is truly an honor.”
About LifeVantage Corporation
LifeVantage Corporation, is a science based network marketing company that is dedicated to visionary science that looks to transform health, wellness and anti-aging internally and externally at the cellular level. The company is the maker of Protandim®, the Nrf2 Synergizer® patented dietary supplement, the TrueScience™ Anti-Aging Skin Care Regimen, Canine Health, and the AXIO™ energy product line.
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Nature’s Sunshine Products Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results
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Nature’s Sunshine Products, a leading natural health and wellness company engaged in the manufacture and direct selling of nutritional and personal care products, reported its financial results for the third quarter and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share.
“The third quarter reflected continued positive momentum in several key areas of our business which was offset by continued declines our NSP Russia, Central and Eastern Europe business,” commented Gregory L. Probert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Importantly, Synergy posted its fifth consecutive record setting sales quarter driven by strength in South Korea, Japan, and a return to growth in Europe.”
“Strong distributor leadership in these key markets combined with sustained momentum since last year’s global summit and launch of the SLMsmart weight management program continue to be strong contributors of growth. Sales in NSP North America have begun to improve with NSP United States and NSP Canada posting net sales growth for the first time since the second quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, respectively.”
“We remain cautiously optimistic about the future of this core market as our new products and sales programs continue to gain traction. We are confident in our ability to leverage science-based innovation
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LegalShield Founder And Industry Pioneer, Harland Stonecipher, Dies
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Harland C. Stonecipher, a life-long southeast Oklahoma resident, business giant and the founder of Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (now LegalShield), passed away on Monday afternoon. He was 76 years of age.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; oldest son, Allen, and his wife, Karen; and two grandsons, Greg and Zane. He was preceded in death by his parents as well as his youngest son, Brent, daughter-in-law Tina, and granddaughter, Nikki.
Stonecipher grew up in Centrahoma and attended Tupelo Schools before being the first in his family to attend college. He graduated from East Central State College in Ada in 1959 and became a teacher and debate coach at Chandler and Okmulgee high schools. He soon left his teaching career and became an insurance sales. In 1969, he was involved in an automobile accident while making a sales trip. Legal bills from that accident led him to create Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. in 1972
Stonecipher often commented he “would’ve given up on the company if he had known how broke he was” but, with the help of his wife, Shirley, saw his idea grow from a single-room operation to being listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company sold for more than
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PartyLite Named Best Direct-Selling Company In Europe 2014
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European direct sales association Seldia has selected PartyLite as the best European direct selling company in 2014. During the association’s annual conference in Brussels/Belgium in early October, Martin Köhler, PartyLite President Europe, accepted the prestigious ASTRA award from Seldia’s chairman & CEO of Swedish company Oriflame, Magnus Brännström.
In paying tribute to the winner, Brännström highlighted the strong similarities between the PartyLite business model and the goals Seldia works hard to achieve: primarily the promotion and further development of the direct sales model across Europe including the social welfare and economic aspects for direct sales professionals, especially the active support of career opportunities for women. In addition, the chairman also praised the enormous support of Seldia itself by PartyLite Europe with regard to the growing digitalisation.
Aside from the big win for PartyLite, Spanish member of the European Parliament, Teresa Jimenez, was also recognised with an ASTRA (Personality of the Year) for her active support of Seldia’s platform for female entrepreneurs, as well as the UK DSA which received the Best Direct Selling Association of the Year Astra Award.
Headquartered in Brussels, Seldia represents the direct sales industry within the European Union and counts 28 European direct selling associations (DSAs), out of which
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Melaleuca Rewards 150 Employees With $1.6 Million In Loyalty Bonuses
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Celebrating your anniversary with Melaleuca is extremely rewarding. At least, that’s what 150 Melaleuca employees have to say now that their wallets are heavier.
They received $1,677,734.26 million in longevity bonuses at Tuesday’s annual employee meeting for having passed landmark anniversaries with the company.
Melaleuca’s loyalty and longevity bonus is available to all full- and part-time employees, regardless of position or pay level, and is simply based on length of service. The company pays $5,000 for a five-year anniversary, $10,000 for 10 years, $15,000 for 15 years, $33,361.55 ($20,000 net) for 20 years, $25,000 for 25 years and $30,000 for 30 years.
Jolene Hill, a product development operations manager, and Dauphne Lords, Idaho Falls store manager, each received $25,000 checks from Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot at the event. Additionally, 14 employees walked away with $20,000 net checks, and 16 employees picked up $15,000 checks. Melaleuca also presented$10,000 checks to 72 employees and $5,000 checks to 46 employees.
“This check is a ‘thank you’ bonus for your hard work over the last five, 10, 15, 20, or 25 years,” Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot told recipients. “Our recognition meeting also allows every person in the company to honor these employees’ valuable contributions and years of service toward Melaleuca’s
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Jeunesse Hits Record-Breaking 50 Million Dollar Month
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Jeunesse closed the month of October with a record-breaking 50 million dollars in sales revenue. Over 42,000 new distributors were enrolled during the month, after the celebration of Jeunesse’s 2014 EXPO5.
Jeunesse distributors have also experienced a tremendous amount of personal growth in recent weeks, as the company announced the promotion of 14 new Diamond Directors and 5 new Double Diamond Directors elevating their ranks in October alone, marking another breaking achievement for the company.
Jeunesse’s exponential growth has kept it on track to reach record numbers in sales revenue by the end of 2014. The company has already been recognized by INC. 500 as the fastest growing DSA company in the nation. With the new product launches of weight loss system, ZEN BODI™, and anti-aging microcream, Instantly Ageless™, these numbers are expected to rise before the year ends.
About Jeunesse
Jeunesse is a leading direct selling company devoted to encouraging healthy living. Company research focuses on adult stem cell science, telomere support, DNA repair, fat loss technology, and nutrigenomics. Products are made in the USA and are exclusively formulated for Jeunesse.
With a multi-lingual customer service, back office support team, global enrollment system, and in-house programming already in place, the company is fully operational in 32
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Forbes Believes In Avon
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Jack Adamo, writer for Forbes.com has a positive outlook for Avon, as shared in an articles today:
There are few stocks that the market thinks is uglier right now than Avon Products . But this unloved company could turn into a beautiful swan in the next couple of years, and its transformation could start showing up much sooner.
Avon’s third quarter earnings report was very encouraging in some aspects, but left a lot of questions unanswered. While revenues were down 8%, that was entirely due to the change in exchange rates caused by the very strong U.S. dollar. The company has a large South American presence. While that’s still not good news, it is at least not indicative of operational or marketing problems, though perhaps a new CFO would hedge currencies better. The search for one is currently in progress.
Elsewhere on the income statement, operating margins improved dramatically from 2.9% last year to 8.8% this year, although there’s still plenty of room for improvement there. Another positive is that third-quarter net income from continuing operations was $0.21 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $0.01 last year.
Analysts expect operating or adjusted earnings for full-year 2014 to come in at $0.83 and look
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Lyoness Starts Multi Brand Strategy
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Lyoness has implemented the previously announced multi-brand strategy in all markets. Since 8th November the group of companies has differentiated between the brand “Lyoness” and the new network marketing brand “Lyconet”.
Since 8th November the globally active Lyoness group of companies officially has comprised two brands. From now on the brand “Lyoness” encompasses two of the company’s three business areas: the sector- and country spanning shopping community for consumers, who save money when shopping with Lyoness, and the loyalty program for loyalty merchants, which gain loyal customers with the help of Lyoness.
The new brand “Lyconet” encompasses all of the company’s network marketing activities. The new brand world enables the company to develop target-group specific communication strategies and services.
Special program
“Xcite” From 8th November everyone interested can watch the special program “Xcite” at the company-owned web channel Lyoness.TV. The company presents all the news concerning Lyoness and Lyconet in an one and a half hour show.
Change process
With the world-wide implementation of the multi-brand strategy the company finished an important part of restructuring, which had been announced in autumn 2013.
About Lyoness
The Lyoness Group divides its three business areas into two brands: The Lyoness brand encompasses the shopping community and the loyalty program. Their