Archives for January 2013
“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
—Zig Ziglar
—Zig Ziglar
The Direct Selling Association helped kick off the 19th Annual TODAY Show Holiday Toy and Gift Drive recently by presenting the direct selling industry’s donation live in Rockefeller Plaza.
What would it take to grow your company to 10 times its size? That’s the challenge British direct seller Kleeneze has given itself. And it aims to do it in the next 10 years.
From the presidential election to the now famous “fiscal cliff,” the last quarter of 2012 brought with it plenty of political positioning and fancy rhetoric. Amidst all of it, though, one thing remained certain: Small businesses, often seen as the “backbone” of the U.S. economy, would play an important role in a post-recession America.
On balance, it appears that the direct selling business model continues to hold up well despite the continued difficult global macroeconomic conditions. In a period where nominal GDP growth is stuck in the low- to mid-single digits in the U.S. and in the mid- to high-single digits globally, many of the larger, publicly traded direct sellers are continuing to post strong organic sales growth.