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3 weeks ago | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
At the ten-year milestone, many companies are looking for a way to reinvent themselves. This is where Prüvit found itself, ten years old, with $336 million in sales (2023). The company had significant positive momentum in its international markets, particularly Italy, Germany and Portugal, but domestically, sales had plateaued.
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1 month ago | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
Rawpixel/shutterstock.com Direct selling—like many other industries—has had to quickly adapt to a new normal these past five years. A global pandemic, skyrocketing inflation and a work-from-home movement have created disruption in the economy. Factor in the recent exits of brands like Beachbody, Seint, Color Street, Rodan + Fields and Beautycounter, and it would be natural to assume that the industry is experiencing unprecedented pressure.
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2 months ago | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
Launched | 2023Headquarters | CanadaProducts | Health & WellnessTop Executive | Jay Dhaliwal / Founder & CEOThe Super Patch Company Founder Jay Dhaliwal only greenlights products he knows the market wants. A career running sales operations for powerhouse corporations within the software space taught him how to identify these golden opportunities.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
success.com | Sarah Paulk
Chatting with David Paul Kirkpatrick is similar to being captivated by a bingeable Netflix series. It doesn’t matter if you’re sipping cappuccino across from him in a café or perched in a tiny virtual Zoom square, the entertainment value is always bubbling under the surface, waiting for an opportunity to deliver a laugh or make a connection.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
By recent census numbers, the Latino population now encompasses 19 percent of the total US population and 26 percent of all children living in the US. By 2030, this number is expected to increase, representing one in five workers in the US. The Latin American (LATAM) market is a dynamic and growing category of consumers and entrepreneurs who are now one of the strongest growth drivers for companies both domestically and internationally.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
NO DIRECT SELLER can survive without a strong compensation plan. Complex and often confusing, rewards systems have hefty influence on company culture, product reach and even what type of distributor or customer a company can attract. The right compensation structure can help a company thrive, expand across markets and build powerful brand loyalty. An ill-fitting comp plan, however, can create exactly the opposite—tanking distributor morale and limiting who and how many people a company can reach.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
Resilience was the overarching theme of direct selling around the world in 2023. Following jarring supply chain disruptions in 2020, 2021 and 2022 that sent companies scrambling to keep inventory stable and source raw ingredients and packaging components, 2023 delivered elevated global inflation of 7 percent and ongoing conflicts that impacted a number of markets.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
In 1984, the US Supreme Court established a precedent: when faced with ambiguity, courts should defer to the government agency with the most expertise. The original lawsuit Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, known simply as the Chevron deference doctrine or the Chevron doctrine, has been a template followed by the courts for more than four decades.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
Before Beautycounter’s billion‑dollar valuation, a partnership was forming behind the scenes that was expected to launch the company into even higher stratospheres. The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, was courting the clean beauty brand’s founder Gregg Renfrew with promises of increasing brand awareness and bolstering its omnichannel business model.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
directsellingnews.com | Sarah Paulk
While most of the direct selling channel battled decline, a majority of the industry’s service companies enjoyed a pattern of steady, stable growth. DSN takes a deep dive into what’s behind this sector’s success story. Over the last five years, the direct selling industry has experienced some startling revelations. Chief among them was how quickly the world would adapt to a virtual lifestyle. Party plans and in-person product demonstrations became relics.
