Tag: JG Factor

Jeff Stroud, former CEO at Private Quarters, DSA Board Member and Chairman of the DSA Strategic Planning Committee, has posted a fantastic feature article to his blog about the future of direct selling. His message of progressive and transparent thinking is spot on and should be required reading for any direct selling executive.

Amway reports that Russia is now fastest-growing market for direct selling entrepreneurs. The former communist country is one of the Ada-based company's biggest and most promising markets. Learn more in this article from mLIVE.

There are few better representations of the power of direct selling than burgeoning Africa. In fact, Momentum Factor just signed its first client on the African continent. You can imagine how delighted our firm was to catch this great opinion piece from The New York Times about how direct selling could be the one business model that works in Africa. 

The New York Times reports that Andrea Jung is stepping down as Executive Chairwoman of Avon Products at the end of 2012.

Exactly how committed to technology is Gen Y? Learn more by checking out this video clip of Momentum Factor Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam's presentation at the 2012 DSA Conference in June.

Beachbody Chief Legal Officer & Senior Vice President of Business Development Jonathan Gelfand was recently on the CBS Evening News in a story about counterfeiting - a big problem for the direct selling industry.

Last week, Google tweaked its algorithm and up ended the online reputation world. This article from Business Insider outlines the changes and what can be done to protect your reputation in terms of search rankings.

A direct selling start-up founded by six well-known industry veterans, Minerva Worldwide, fuses online marketing and word-of-mouth while aiming to create a premier online destination for diet, health and beauty.

Trivani CEO Bob Steed reports Ariix was the front runner after an exhaustive search to find a new home for Trivani's 70,000 distributors.

On August 18, the DSA released its long-anticipated industry survey figures, showing a slight increase in sales numbers coupled with a slight decrease in number of distributors over 2009.