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Esquire delves into moves made against retailers that sell CBD-infused products in New York City, Ohio, and Maine.

Last August, Social Selling News reported on the U.S. Direct Selling Association’s (DSA) announcement of the formation of a new self-regulatory body that would monitor and act upon all companies identified as direct sellers and multi-level marketers, whether or not they are members of the industry association. The entity is now live and has a name: the Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC).

One of the most challenging issues facing direct sellers today is the advent of the unauthorized Amazon seller. From former distributors who post their products for sale to larger aggregators who deliberately buy up product and offer them at a discount in their own “Amazon stores”, many direct selling companies struggle daily with this competitive menace.

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.

Momentum Factor, the leading global provider of compliance monitoring and reputation management services to the direct selling industry, has announced an ambitious new program designed to further protect members of its industry from regulatory and brand risks. The new program, FWCore, is an enhancement to its flagship offering FieldWatch™.

As we approach the deadline for putting GDPR compliance in place, our team at Momentum Factor is receiving more questions about our interpretation of the regs, what we’re doing about it, and what our clientele can do to protect against regulatory risk in the EU.

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

Google is the front door to your business.  Are you keeping it safe from intruders? Go ahead, Google the name of your company now. I’ll wait. With direct sales continuing to move toward more of an online model, it’s never been more important to protect your company’s reputation online. However, before even looking at the results page, what words follow your brand name in the auto-suggested results? Do the words “scam” or “pyramid” or “lawsuit” appear anywhere?

BK Boreyko to keynote Direct Selling Legal & Compliance Summit (DSLC), which focuses on risk reduction for direct selling companies. To be held at the Austin W Hotel from January 18-19, 2018

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.