In September 2014, multi-level marketing company Avon left the Direct Selling Association (DS) with a flourish: NEW YORK, September 12, 2014 – Avon has made the decision to withdraw from the U.S. Direct Selling Association (DSA) based on our belief Read more…
The Direct Selling Association (DSA) promotes itself as a trade association that ensures ethics and integrity among the multi-level marketing companies that are members. The real truth about the DSA is in this clip of my appearance on HuffPost Live:
The Salt Lake Tribune published a wonderful article by Steven Oberbeck, Average Multilevel Networkers Never See Idealized Gains. The article gets it right about multi-level marketing… most aren’t making any money.Tell that to a pro-MLM zealot, however, and you’ll get Read more…
A December 2006 seminar by the Direct Selling Association included this breakout session on bloggers who oppose multi-level marketing:
Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert, recently brought attention to the real political agenda of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). The DSA is a organization to which multi-level marketing (MLM) companies like Mary Kay belong. Mary Kay cites their membership Read more…
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I take it those amounts are pre-tax. Granted I'm in a VHCOL area, but I really thought with all the…
I wouldn't say they are dead but a nearly 40% drop in sales over the past 10 years instead of…
I'm wondering that too. $10K commission check, but the director paid $8K to keep the status. PLUS shipping..PLUS discounts on…
Don't NSDs have to pay their expenses from those commission checks? I imagine they have LOTS of expenses.
At least he seems to want to switch to an affiliate and retail model. Keeping directors in jackets is costing…