Category: Feature Articles

Go ahead, type in the name of any notable person, place or thing in the search engines. In nearly every case you will find a Wikipedia article in the top results. Wikipedia is the search result king. Nothing comes close in scope or consistency when it comes to scoring top spots in the search engines. What does this mean for your company? A lot more than you may think.

Momentum Factor's Scott Allen has created the ultimate guide to getting your company's YouTube videos ranked on Google. Highly ranked videos not only help your marketing but are excellent for reputation protection purposes.

Ask a direct selling executive what frustrates him or her about social media, they’re likely to tell you that social media doesn’t seem to generate a “Return on Investment.” For centuries, the business world has relied on this key metric. If you put money in, you should get more money out, right? It’s standard business practice. But traditional metrics don’t always work well in the world of social media. If you are measuring the ROI of social, you’re measuring the wrong thing.

Facebook Groups can be a good way to connect and build relationships between people already in the Group. Groups by nature are chattier, posts are more viewable than on a Page and are read more often because members are notified of updates. But there are very good reasons not to sponsor or encourage Groups.

Overnight, the world's largest email provider - Gmail- changed the game for marketers with the introduction of Gmail Tabs.

Wonder why your company's Facebook page isn't performing as well as it could be? Hard to know. Direct selling companies all have different ideas about what will "work" on Facebook and misconceptions abound. Here are six myths you should be aware of as you post to your Facebook account.

As part of the ongoing Herbalife short seller saga, Herbalife recently released its 2012 income disclosure statement. The first paragraph immediately highlights one of the common misconceptions about direct selling.

One metaphor I've been using recently is the idea of social marketing as agriculture. When farming, we wait for a season, we sow, we nurture and ultimately if all goes well, we harvest. I view social media marketing as planting seeds of a direct selling community.

If you're going to create social media content for the field, make sure it's so good they want to share it. Here are 12 tips to do just that.

Corporate raider William Ackman has attacked a venerable direct selling company in Herbalife. Is this a threat to the entire direct sales industry?