Together with caucus co-chairs Reps. Richard Hudson (R-NC) and Marc Veasey (D-TX), Direct Selling Association (DSA) President Joseph N. Mariano participated in a virtual briefing titled “Growth of the Micro-Entrepreneur & Legislative Update.” Highlighted in this discussion was the importance of protecting independent contractor status for all Americans, consumer protection and industry self-regulation.  There are […]

In a statement this week, the Direct Selling Association (DSA) expressed its continued support of the efforts made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop false product claims connected to the COVID-19 virus. 

I know that who we are as direct sellers has not changed: our community’s resilience has given us even greater strength, and together we look toward the horizon of what is yet to come.

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that school has been in session for more than a month. DSA, too, has been in back-to-school mode as we continue our webinar series that has reached 5,000+ executives during the past year.

The U.S. Direct Selling Association (DSA), in its 2021 Growth & Outlook Study, reported a predicted growth between 4%-7% for the channel in 2021. With this forecast, direct selling retail sales are expected to reach between $41.7 billion and $42.9 billion, a record high for the industry.

The Direct Selling Association (DSA), the national trade association for direct selling companies, held its annual Capitol Hill Initiative virtually this year, allowing independent direct sellers to attend congressional meetings through video calls.

The association emphasized its commitment to business ethics, consumer and salesperson protection, as well as self-regulation for the entire direct selling channel. The DSA also reinforced that it requires all DSA members to adhere to its stringent DSA Code of Ethics, which prohibits pyramid schemes and false or misleading income claims. 

AS DIRECT SELLERS and other businesses begin the careful process of emerging from the limits of the last eighteen months, the Direct Selling Association (DSA) is also starting to cautiously shift toward a more in-person world after 18-months of virtual advocacy and education interaction.

At DSA, our focus over the last year and a half has been to ensure member companies have the information they need to move through the chaos brought on by the pandemic.

The Direct Selling Association (DSA) announced its support of the Preserving Direct Seller Independence Act of 2021 H.R. 5038. The legislation introduced by Representatives Tim Walberg and Henry Cuellar would “clearly define direct sellers as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) consistent with the Internal Revenue Service Code.”

Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC) has referred ByDzyne, a direct selling company that sells products in the health and wellness, technology, beauty and travel categories, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for possible enforcement action.

Crazy, tumultuous, unpredictable, challenging and in some cases accelerating—all these describe 2020. For the global direct selling industry, it was a year of phases unfolding differently in regions and countries around the world, depending upon a number of factors associated with the severity of COVID, governmental response to it, market readiness and the infrastructure capability of the global supply chain.