Posts by tonyaa
2016’s Direct Sales Contact Management Apps
Effective contact management can make a huge difference in your ability to recruit new distributors to your business opportunity. I’ve taken some time to look through some of this year’s top apps for managing your contacts. Keep reading to see details about my picks for iPhone and Android, and for Party Plan specific contact management…
Read MoreRecruiting Direct Sales and MLM Salespeople
The lesson of the Vemma case appears to be that recruiting customers and calling them distributors is not a good idea. Under the old model, companies encouraged distributors to recruit everyone as a distributor and then see who turns into a sales person. We may see the focus of the industry return to the days…
Read MoreVemma Back in Business
Vemma’s website is back up. They are once again taking orders. No doubt several of our readers have been holding their breath, waiting for this moment. The brief asset freeze and TRO ended a few weeks ago, but it’s taken them some time to get operations back up after the court appointed Receiver closed their…
Read MoreWhat the Vemma case means for the network marketing industry
The FTC’s lawsuit against Vemma continues. With the FTC insinuating that binaries are illegal, going after practices as common as personal volume requirements, and, so far at least, having their arguments upheld, there’s plenty of reason for unease in the industry. As I wrote in a recent article for the Direct Selling News, this case…
Read MoreNew rules, big questions
We, as an industry, don’t yet know the repercussions of FTC v. Vemma. We can’t know which, if any, of the new restrictions placed on Vemma will become industry standards, or if this case is even about industry standards. Most of the new restrictions influence Vemma’s compensation options; however, compensation itself wasn’t the impetus for…
Read MoreBreaking News: Vemma Court Case
For the first time in 16 cases, the FTC did not succeed, at least for now. Remember I am not a lawyer. This article is another one of my opinions about the Vemma case. The case seems encouraging. The most recent court order on the Vemma case is temporary. This means that the court could…
Read MoreIs Social Media Just Facebook, or Is There Something Else Out There?
While we’ve all heard about the social media giant, Facebook, and have been told countless times in recent years that it’s social media (Facebook) we want to turn to for our marketing, there are alternatives. In fact, it would make sense to market your business on a platform which best suits your purposes…
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