Archive for October, 2008

The Morung Express:
It’s just been a year that Mary Kay got launched in India and the products have started winning awards.

In a recently held beauty award “Elle beauty Awards” by Elle Magazine where many big cosmetics brands like Shiseido, Clinique. L’oreal, Biotherm, Vichy etc participated, Mary Kay was also there to have won the awards [...]

AmeriPlan USA, a business which specializes in discount healthcare, has been helping members all over the US save on healthcare since 1992. What makes them really unique is how they sell their memberships. Rather than handling them on their own, their discount memberships are sold through representatives.
Although she has only been with AmeriPlan [...]

CNNMoney.com:
Workers losing jobs in the economic downturn may be finding the door open to a new line of work.

Direct sellers, companies that market products directly to consumers, say more people want to join their sales forces.
Connie Tang, president of beauty and skin care products marketer Jafra U.S.A, said recruiting seminars in 22 cities this month [...]

Business Wire:
Ron Poelman, member of the board of directors for USANA Health Sciences, Inc., has been selected as a 2008 Outstanding Director by Utah Business magazine, in association with the National Association of Corporate Directors, Utah Chapter.

Utah Business stated that the Outstanding Director Award honors those directors who have demonstrated the necessary leadership and business [...]

Market Watch:
This holiday season, Passion Parties International wants to help adults take their minds off stressful times with the gift of passion. Whether you have been good or bad, you can enjoy the holidays with sensual products designed to enhance romance.
Passion Parties, North America’s premier in-home party plan company specializing in sensual products and romance [...]

The MidWeek News:
Eileen Fricke doesn’t sell Mary Kay because she needs the money, or because she enjoys the new Cadillacs the company gives her every two years. Though those perks are nice, of course, Fricke does it because she truly believes in what the company stands for, including the work the Mary Kay Ash Charitable [...]

Market Watch:
Protandim(R), the only product clinically proven to slow the progressive rate of aging, announced today that it is entering the multi-billion dollar network marketing industry via independent distributorships offered by the product’s maker, LifeVantage Corporation. The company will continue to have a retail presence, in addition to the independent distributorships.
David Brown, LifeVantage President and [...]

nebusiness.co.uk:
Two South Tyneside mums have added a modern twist to the Tupperware party by setting up their own jewellery party business in time for Christmas. Joanne Usher decided to set up All Dressed in Love with business partner Faye Heron as a way of balancing her work and family life once her maternity leave at [...]

TheEdgeDaily:
Hai-O Enterprise Bhd’s multi-level marketing (MLM) division is planning to open another five to eight new stockists in FY09 in Peninsular Malaysia, especially in the southern and East Coast parts of the country, said its managing director Tan Kai Hee (pic).

The division, which has 43 outlets including 30 stockists and 13 branches, is also aiming [...]

NBC13:
Tough times call for Tupperware?
It’s one of the many direct sales industries now seeing more interest as stay-at-home moms and working women look for side jobs to help boost the family check book.

The DOWs ups and downs, failing banks, foreclosures in full swing.
“I started getting afraid of what was happening. I said I have to [...]