About DSN

Direct Selling News serves executives in the direct selling industry and is designed to help top decision makers grow and manage their businesses.

Each issue of Direct Selling News offers content on topics that shape the dynamics of our industry. Industry News features headlines from around the globe including the latest legal and regulatory issues. Working Smart< covers the tactics and strategies that enable companies to meet industry challenges, improve efficiencies and achieve business objectives. New Perspectives offers original content and insightful commentary from respected direct selling executives and industry consultants on contemporary issues impacting business.

Other regular features include Financial Report, created to keep busy executives up-to-date on the latest financial trends in direct selling, and our exclusive Stock Watch, a monthly analysis of direct selling stocks. Also in every issue, Industry with Heart profiles companies' charitable giving efforts and corporate philanthropy, and Young Company Focus recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit of the industry.

Direct Selling News is the only publication dedicated to serving direct selling and network marketing executives. It is a controlled circulation, monthly magazine with an audience of over 6,500 subscribers.

Subscriptions to Direct Selling News are free to direct selling and network marketing executives; paid subscriptions are also available to anyone else interested in receiving Direct Selling News. Subscriptions mailed to a US or Canada address are $50. Overseas subscriptions are $75. All subscriptions must be paid in U.S. dollars.

If you are a management-level executive at a direct selling company (i.e., based out of the corporate office) or a supplier to the direct selling industry, visit our registration page here to sign up for your free subscription. To purchase a paid subscription, visit our e-commerce site here.

We invite you to share your opinions and ideas with us at editor@directsellingnews.com. We also welcome press releases from direct selling companies in an effort to highlight the latest and greatest direct selling has to offer. To have a press release considered, contact pr@directsellingnews.com. No statement in this publication is to be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell securities or to provide investment advice.

About the Publisher

John Fleming brings nearly 40 years of experience in the direct selling/network marketing industry to the readership of Direct Selling News and directsellingnews.com. He has owned and operated his own direct selling company and has held various executive positions, most recently at Avon Products as Vice President U.S. Sales Strategies and Training. During his fifteen-year tenure at Avon, Fleming held a number of positions, including Vice President, Sales Contemporization and Region Vice President. Under his leadership, Avon’s Western Region led the country in sales performance for a record six years in a row during a very robust period of growth for Avon.

Fleming has always been actively involved with the efforts of both the Direct Selling Association and the Direct Selling Education Foundation and has been a board member of both organizations. He is currently a board member of the Direct Selling Education Foundation. In 1997 the Direct Selling Education Foundation recognized Fleming’s contributions to the work of the foundation with its highest honor, The Circle of Honor Award.