Category: Compliance Monitoring

Following is a guest post from attorney Spencer Reese with an early analysis of the FTC settlement with Herbalife.

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.

The following is an informative guest post from Attorney Kevin Thompson about the tough balance skin care companies must address in distributor marketing and compliance. 

Direct Selling Association (DSA) to utilize FieldWatch, the industry's leading Compliance Monitoring & Management Solution, to enhance member enforcement activities.

Anyone who has worked in legal or compliance for a direct selling company understands the incredible challenges presented online.  As networkers increasingly use the Internet to promote their businesses, companies are at more risk every day from uncontrolled or unmonitored claims by the field, often to disastrous effect.

FieldWatch, the world’s premier solution for direct sales compliance, now offers a unique approach for group monitoring and enforcement in its latest release.

All of us at Momentum Factor are excited to announce the 20th major customer for FieldWatch and that more platform enhancements are scheduled to release soon.

Momentum Factor Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam to speak at the Direct Selling Academy's Vemma Injunction Event being held at the Zermatt Conference Center in Midway, Utah, on Tuesday, January 12.

Momentum Factor's FieldWatch™ platform was recently featured in yet another Forrester Report: TechRadar™: Risk Management, 2015.

Every time a direct seller has an issue with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), critics of the industry are quick to jump on it, hailing it as a step in the right direction towards shutting down multi-level marketing completely. They’ll say that it is finally being outed as an unsustainable business practice — that they’re all just pyramid schemes in disguise.