Unicorns, confetti — and three-quarters of a billion dollars in sales in the past year.
Columbus-based direct-sales powerhouse Thirty-One Gifts brought 15,000 members of its independent sales force together yesterday at Nationwide Arena with the fervor of a rock concert to celebrate a banner year and introduce products.
It served as the opening session of the company’s national conference that continues through Sunday.
Cindy Monroe, the company’s founder, president and CEO, fed the frenzy, strolling onto the stage and declaring “We’re all really passionate — and we love to hug,” drawing a roar.
Clearly, the sales force is likewise enthusiastic about its products: personalized bags and home decor, mostly sold through in-home parties. Thirty-One Gifts sales consultants held 1 million parties, served 8 million customers and reported $740 million in sales, senior staff member Anthony McIntosh told the crowd.
While the top sales consultant averaged $11,664 per month and the company’s top sales team sold $2.4 million of merchandise, the typical house party sells $600 worth of merchandise, and the average item sells for $25, “which means we sell a lot of bags,” spokeswoman Sara West said.
The numbers made Thirty-One Gifts the 17th-largest direct-sales company in the world, according to Direct Sales magazine. Sales during the past four
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Visalus’ Peter Bunting Talks About Mentorship
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In 2005 Vi 2-Star Ambassador Peter Bunting was at the wrong place at the right time.
Wrong place because bankruptcy was looming over his shoulder, and right time because Vi was taking its first steps as a company.
“I was coaching soccer in San Diego,” Peter says. “I would take any job so I could make some money and still have time to train and play.”
But reality set in. “I had a lot of credit card debt and was three months away from filing for bankruptcy,” he says. Peter needed to act fast to get back on his feet, and Vi was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
“I had never seen anything like Vi. I was an elite-level athlete and knew what it took to be successful,” he says.
But achieving his goals required strategy, discipline and sacrifices. “I wouldn’t be successful Challenging others without my soccer experience. It was training for Vi.”
It Started with Mentorship
“I tried going back into the corporate world, but I knew that I would reach a ceiling and somebody else was going to benefit more than me,” he says. “And I didn’t want that.”
Peter’s good friend mentioned The Challenge and put him in touch with Vi Co-Founder and
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Isagenix Building New Home Office
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Gilbert’s vision for an enormous employment center along the Santan Freeway is gaining steam with the announcement of a corporate headquarters and about 400 jobs in a relocation of health-product company Isagenix International from Chandler.
Isagenix, a network-marketing company with a presence in 11 countries, will be the first major tenant in the Rivulon mixed-use center near Gilbert Road and Loop 202.
Nationwide Realty Investors, a development arm of the well-known insurance company, will complete a three-story, 150,000-square-foot office building for the company by late 2015.
Isagenix is a privately-held business that reported more than $500 million in revenue from April 2013 to April 2014. Founded in 2002, the company has done more than $2 billion in sales with products in weight-loss, energy and anti-aging.
As part of a multi-level direct sales company, Isagenix associates earn money by selling the company’s health products, enrolling other associates and receiving commissions from teams they assemble beneath them. Amway is one of the best-known multi-level marketing companies.
The company has operations in the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Columbia, Puerto Rico and soon Vietnam.
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Anna Woodward Shifts Focus from Music To MLM And Empowers Women To Succeed
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Anna Woodward’s life once centered around music—more precisely, classical flute—leading a private music studio and teaching as an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University in the U.S. But professional careers in the arts seldom add up to executive level incomes, so this classical flautist stepped into the world of direct selling eight years ago to earn her financial success. But Woodward found far more.
“I was attracted to the idea of working with others and empowering women with a solid business opportunity that they could use to succeed by giving a consistent part-time effort and by following a simple, duplicatible system for success,” Woodward says.
The way Woodward looks at it, she gives people real choices and long-term opportunities just like the many female direct selling leaders did before her. They too were mothers and wives.
“They led the way for others like myself to build a lifestyle and a career where women can truly have it all! I am grateful for the privilege of mentoring others, changing lives and building relationships with an amazing company like Nerium International,” she says.
As a 5 Star National Marketing Director, Woodward remains impressed with the unprecedented value Nerium offers Brand Partners with the free, Nerium
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LegalShield Associate Charged With Murder
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Detectives wearing hazmat suits removed bags of evidence and a refrigerator from the suburban Milwaukee apartment of a man arrested in connection with two suitcases found stuffed with the remains of two women.
Prosecutors have not yet charged the 52-year-old security officer, identified by theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel as Steven M. Zelich. Investigators searched his West Allis home Wednesday.
Highway workers discovered the suitcases June 5 on a rural highway in the Town of Geneva, about 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee.
Police have identified one of the women found in the suitcases as 37-year-old Laura Simonson who was reported missing in November. Her father, Richard Wierson, tells the Sentinel that the Farmington, Minn., woman struggled with mental illness and that he has cared for her seven children since 2010.
The paper reports Zelich is an independent LegalShield, which offers legal advice. He is also a licensed private security officer.
After Simonson was reported missing, an ad was placed on a site called SecondCityClassifieds.com that claimed she was mentally disabled and had been abused, tortured and enslaved by Zelich, according to the Sentinel. The ad provided a cellphone number for Zelich which matched the contact number on the LegalShield website, and an email address for him that appears on an
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Ted Nuyten and Dini Noorlander Coming To America
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We will be touring 6 weeks through the USA in November, interviewing Network Marketing top earners, CEO’s and corporate executives.
If you want to meet us, we will be attending 3 generic MLM events:
Art Jonak’s Direct Selling Mastermind event in Orlando, Florida from 31 October – 2 November. We will stay in the The Renaissance Hotel, 6677 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida.
Eric Worre’s Go Pro event in Las Vegas, Nevada from 20-23 November. We will stay in the Wynn, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas.
MLM Cruise 2014 sailing out from Tampa, Florida from 30 November – 7 December to Costa Maya, Belize, Roatan, and Grand Cayman.
It is our goal to shake hands with 1,000+ MLM professionals
Let’s meet?
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Ted is a happy user of several outstanding Direct Selling products such as: Cosmetics, Liquid vitamins, Shakes, Jewelry, Internet Marketing courses and Health related stuff
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Talk Fusion Begins Beta Test of “VOICE” Video Blogging Site
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Video-infused online social media platform enters final stages of testing before fall release.
Florida-based video communication and relationship marketing company Talk Fusion officially began the beta-testing phase of VOICE, its proprietary online social media community that integrates personal and business weblogs with the power of video.
As a new web platform, VOICE will give Talk Fusion Associates and customers a web outlet for sharing their videos, thoughts, and opinions in an interactive format.
Web analysis indicates that 77% of internet users read blogs. Combined with the staggering fact that 100 million Internet users watch online video every day, VOICE is perfectly positioned to be a major online focal point for opinions and information.
“For technology to be useful, it must help solving real world needs, and must be used by real people,” said Talk Fusion Director of Information Technology Dr. Jonathan Chen.
“Whether it’s video email, video newsletters, or our upcoming social media platform, the VOICE, it has always been a conscious effort that the product fills a void and is simple and intuitive for the users.”
Beta testing on VOICE will continue for the next several weeks. When launched, users will be able to share their videos and thoughts on business, entertainment, sports,
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Youngevity Green Coffee Sales Division Showing Strong Sales Potential
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Chula Vista-based Youngevity International Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, CLR Roasters, has procured several contracts for its strictly high-grown washed Arabica coffee, totaling $3 million dollars for its recently launched green coffee distribution division, the parent company said.
“This new $3 million dollar green coffee contract comes on the heels of our previously announced $3.5 million green coffee contract upon the launch of this program,” said Ernesto Aguila, president of CLR Roasters. “The newly started green coffee sales division is showing strong sales potential, and it has been a great addition to CLR thus far.”
The coffee is grown in Nicaragua, where CLR Roasters recently acquired a green coffee processing plant in Matagalpa, according to Youngevity.
Since acquiring the coffee plantation and processing plant, the company has invested more than $700,000 in new equipment, plant upgrades and improvements on the plantation, giving it the capacity to process 30 million pounds of coffee per year, said Dave Briskie, Youngevity’s chief financial officer and president of commercial development.
“We are proud of the strategic investments we have made to grow our coffee division and excited about the revenue generation potential,” he said.
About Youngevity International
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Herbalife Appoints Alan Hoffman Executive Vice President Of Global Corporate Affairs
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Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) today announced that it has appointed Alan L. Hoffman to the newly established role of Executive Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs reporting to Michael O. Johnson, Herbalife’s chairman and CEO. Hoffman will lead public policy, corporate communications, government affairs, community relations and philanthropy, effective August 25, 2014.
Hoffman brings over 20 years of public policy, communications and government affairs experience to the corporate affairs role. Presently, he serves as the Senior Vice President for Global Public Policy at PepsiCo, where he oversees policy development, external relations and government relations.
Hoffman has helped PepsiCo proactively develop and implement initiatives to support the company’s wide-ranging portfolio of products and drive value for its consumers, shareholders and communities. Before joining PepsiCo, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Joseph Biden and Deputy Assistant to President Barack Obama.
Herbalife also today announced that Barbara Henderson will be retiring as its Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Communications. In 2013, she informed the company that she would like to retire at age 67, which prompted the search for a new executive. Henderson will assist with the transition and will remain President of the Herbalife Family Foundation.
“We are thrilled to welcome Alan to the Herbalife team,” said Johnson. “He
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Visalus’ Celebrates Its 2 Newest 500k Lifetime Earners
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Visalus celebrates its newest $500K Lifetime Earners, 2-Star Ambassadors Raylene Bruder and Tyler & Mimi Ford (who also happen to be Active Challenge Champions!). VIsalus asked them what this milestone meant to them, how it’s impacted their Vi business, and their advice to others looking to achieve the same success and beyond.
What does it mean to you to be a $500K Lifetime Earner with Vi?
RAYLENE: Honestly unreal! NEVER did it even cross my mind that this was POSSIBLE. It’s so humbling to know that each dollar of that $500,000 is a representation of another life—that I have had the opportunity to even be a small part of changing it in one way or another. I’m feeling blessed!!
TYLER & MIMI: We feel blessed to have such a great team. If it wasn’t for our team, we would not be where we are today with ViSalus. Being $500K Lifetime Earners has allowed us the time and freedom to be able to train and compete in the races that we like to do, which also allowed us to become Couple Active Challenge Champions.
Who or what has been the biggest inspiration to you in helping you achieve so much success?
RAYLENE: My parents (Rick and Elaine