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Amway Co-Founder Richard DeVos passed away on Thursday, Sept. 6. His death, at age 92, was announced by his grandson Rick. He died at his home in Ada, Michigan, near Amway's headquarters.

Reputation has now become the key to evaluating the vast amount of information at our disposal. Check out this article from Aeon to learn more.

Multi-level marketing is a diverse and varied industry, employing many different structures and methods of selling. Although there may be significant differences in how multi-level marketers sell their products or services, core consumer protection principles are applicable to every member of the industry. The FTC staff offers this non-binding guidance to assist direct sellers and MLMs in applying those core principles to their business practices

Check out this great article from SearchEngineLand.com on the amount of time it can take for reputation repair to be successful. Considering how important an asset your reputation is, the investment in improvement is worth the wait.

The US FDA on Tuesday announced sending 14 warning letters and four online advisory letters to companies selling dozens of products that claim to cure, diagnose, treat or prevent cancer.

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said in an interview with The Washington Post that she will soon step down as head of the country's most powerful consumer watchdog, after serving more than three years in the role and another three years before that as a commissioner.

Global nutrition company Herbalife Ltd. announced it has reached a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) resolving the FTC’s multi-year investigation of the company.

Wikipedia results are shifting slightly downward, from the top half of page 1 to the bottom half. This is generally good news for direct sellers, as Wikipedia entries often have a negative bias towards the direct sales industry.

Move over, Trending Topics, and make way for "Moments" from Twitter. For now, this new feature is all being curated by Twitter and a few media partners, but in the future will be available for anyone to create, including direct sellers.

In the wake of recent FTC actions, a new pattern of consumer protection action has emerged: companies who go too far in their marketing or give the appearance of an anti-consumer bias may be putting their companies at great risk.