Archives for August 2016
Bags, accessories and home décor company Thirty-One Gifts is partnering with Nationwide Children’s Hospital to launch Girls Take Flight, an initiative to support girls facing mental illness and behavioral health illnesses.
Since 2003, the Owings Mill, Maryland company Take Shape For Life (TSFL) has been battling American obesity through the support and encouragement offered by its Health Coaches to Clients utilizing weight-loss plans and products provided by the parent company, Medifast.
Joni Rogers-Kante lives an intentional life. Her resolve to do so happened upon her by accident—literally.
Jean-Charles Boisset talks about wine the way most people talk about love.
Over the past decade, rapid developments in technology have fundamentally changed how direct selling organizations operate.
At the U.S. Direct Selling Association’s hugely successful 2016 Annual Meeting this June, I reported on some of the thoughts and observations shared with me throughout the year from direct selling executives, industry suppliers, members of the field, international peers and colleagues, investors, the press, policy makers and regulators.
Direct selling generated 183.7 billion in global retail sales in 2015, a new record for the channel, according to the newest estimates from the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.
LegalShield held its annual convention last month in Oklahoma City, and if there was one key message CEO Jeff Bell hoped to convey to Associates, it was that LegalShield is a company whose time has come.
The story of direct selling is one of sustained growth that keeps breaking records.
Over the past few decades, we’ve seen an increasing number of C-level titles. Traditionally, companies have had a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Financial Officer and a Chief Operating Officer.