HELLO! It is nice to have this opportunity to speak to all of you again from the publisher’s chair. I was invited to be a guest contributor for this month’s issue to share an announcement on the leadership of the magazine as well as some thoughts on DSN’s mission as a trusted news source. Todd […]

Giving women the tools to create an inspired future. BEAUTY BRANDS HAVE long laid claim to empowering women through their products because great skin and flawless makeup can make us feel confident and powerful. But it takes much more than a bright lip and a bold brow to truly empower a woman. A BEAUTY LEGACY […]

Mark Pentecost is living proof that a coach will always be a coach, whether he’s on the court or leading an industry. His tenacious, “whole ’notha level” approach to leadership has already driven nearly 20 years of success at It Works!, the direct sales business he dreamed up with his wife Cindy in 2001. Today, […]

ON JULY 15, 2020, Katherine Chiglinsky splashed the news on Bloomberg; Thirty- One Gifts, founded by Cindy and Scott Monroe in 2003, a direct selling company, now had a new partner. Kanbrick, the new investment firm founded by Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey, had taken a stake in Thirty-One Gifts. Kanbrick, recently founded in […]

This year has landed us all amid events larger than any of us as individuals, community members, and businesspeople might have imagined, not the least of which is the galvanized awareness of inclusive diversity and equity issues across the country. Years ago, thoughtful industry leaders established the DSA Diversity and Empowerment Committee as a permanent […]

Metrics Global has announced the appointment of Lenny Crotty as President. Crotty will be assuming responsibility for overall business growth, go to market strategy and day-to-day operations for one of the leading global payments and fintech companies serving the direct selling industry. He brings 20+ years of worldwide direct selling experience to Metrics, and he […]

Standing up to Customer Expectations, Regulatory Scrutiny and Sustainability Goals History circles back on itself. The commonplace gets modified over time with newer methodologies, but transformation—even in the world of direct selling—meanders through trial and error and sometimes re-emerges closer to the beginning than we expected. Door-to-door sellers of the late 1800s introduced innovative, useful […]

4Life recently announced that professional boxer Jonathan (Polvo) Oquendo has joined Team 4Life. Oquendo fights in the super featherweight division. He has 31 wins—including 19 knockouts—and has held numerous belts throughout his career, including the WBO (World Boxing Organization) Latino junior featherweight title and the WBO-NABO (North American Boxing Organization) junior featherweight title On Saturday, […]

Total Life Changes recently donated over $20,000 to Focus: HOPE, the Detroit-based charity dedicated to using education and training to combat the effects of poverty and racism. The donation came as a result of the company’s “Virtual 5K” event held on August 22. Employees, customers and Life Changer independent business partners from around the world […]

Most workers believe the COVID-19 crisis marks the end of full-time work in the office and are looking for a hybrid model that blends work and home. That is the finding from new research from ManpowerGroup. After health concerns for themselves and their family, workers are most worried about returning to an old way of […]

Isagenix International announced a $35 million investment from Co-Founders Jim and Kathy Coover and Chief Visionary Officer Erik Coover, the controlling shareholders, alongside minority shareholders Jim and Tammy Pierce. This investment, combined with some additional funds from Isagenix, enabled the company to retire over $60 million of the principal amount of the company’s debt and […]

(This article was written by Ashira Prossack and appeared on forbes.com.) Remote work is here to stay for the foreseeable future. With many companies announcing the extension of their work from home policies through at least the end of the year, it’s clear that this isn’t just a trend. To succeed and thrive in a […]