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MLMLegal.com presents highlights of MLM headlines from June, July and August 2013:

Troy-based ViSalus hopes to prove staying power in multilevel marketing (6/2/13)

Nerium International Leads the Way in Social Media (6/10/13)

U.S. Direct Selling Association Releases 2012 Sales and Salesforce Figures (6/11/13)

Entrepreneurs Get Creative With Loyalty Rewards (6/12/13)

AL International (YGYI) Corporate Name Changing to Youngevity International, Inc. (6/12/13)

Herbalife Report Shows Has About 8 Million U.S. Consumers (6/12/13)

LifeVantage Corporation Expands International Operations in Canada (6/14/13)

Direct selling schemes that can boost your income (6/23/13)

Stream Energy Launches Largest Northeast Expansion (6/24/13)

FTC may reclimb pyramid scheme (6/25/13)

Direct Selling Association Launches Diversity & Empowerment Council (6/26/13)

Beyond Herbalife: Compliance Is This Industry’s Growth Engine (7/2/13)

Nu Skin’s Multi-Level Marketing Thrives In Asia (7/2/13)

Silpada Designs founders: Company will stay in KC for good (7/8/13)

Lia Sophia: selling jewelry one party at a time (7/11/13)

New Moms Turn Side Project Into Nationwide Company (7/12/13)

Real Life: Ding dong! My Avon empire saved me from £33k of debts (7/17/13)

J.Hilburn Leads the Revolution in Custom Menswear (7/18/13)

Jeunesse targets teenagers (7/22/13)

USANA Health Sciences Announces Record Second Quarter Financial Results (7/23/13)

Shareholder Alert: Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Announces Investigation of Usana Health Sciences
Inc. (7/24/13)

Herbalife fight hits Washington (7/24/13)

Silpada’s new (old) leadership lends different feel to national meeting (7/29/13)

Amway ready to adapt as consumers delay buying (7/29/13)

Avon Says U.S. Rejects $12 Million Offer to Settle Probes (8/1/13)

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People often ask me “Are you a typical lawyer?” Most lawyers are viewed as people who sit in an office, draft contracts and argue cases in the courtroom all day. The answer is NO, we are not typical lawyers. We probably know more about multilevel marketing than most of our major clients that have been in the industry for years. We bring that knowledge to bear as we work with our clients and as they develop their business models. More than half of the discussions we have with our clients are about the MLM business itself as opposed to just purely legal issues. This gives us the opportunity to be challenged, which we welcome and we enjoy.

It is true that the hat we wear is “legal advisor” to many of the leading direct selling companies and startup mom and pop companies. Formally, we are their legal advisor; however, we are also a vital part of their business team. We greatly enjoy the many hats we wear in the direct selling industry.

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Hi, I’m Jeff Babener of MLMLegal.com and I would like to talk to you today about MLM business experience. Do you possess it already or should you buy it?

Multilevel marketing is not just any business. It is not retailing, franchising, e-commerce, the internet, or .com selling.

Multilevel marketing, under all its names: direct selling, network marketing, direct sales, party plan, and multilevel marketing, is a unique beast. To launch this business you must have a substantial background in direct selling and be well grounded.

There are written and unwritten principles. If you know your product and you have a passion to bring it to the public, but you lack industry experience, then you must buy that experience. You may hire key employees in such positions as CEO, COO, sales, marketing, customer service, and distributor relations, etc. The payroll will add up fast, and unless your capitalization can sustain the ongoing cost, you should seriously consider outsourcing the solutions for this type of expertise.

The first suggestion that I would make is for you to consult with you MLM attorney, who is familiar with the best resources in the business. Such established industry experts in areas of MLM startup implementation, compensation plan design and software selection are often invaluable assets to your business team. Above all, don’t launch your company without in-house or outsourced MLM business experience.

Wishing you the best in your MLM business, I’m Jeff Babener.

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Why You Should Trademark Your MLM Company Name

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Learn What is Needed to Recruit Top-Selling Distributors for Your MLM Company

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In explaining itself to the public, press and regulators, every direct selling/network marketing company (and its distributors) should aim to describe the Company and its marketing program in the tradition of legitimacy.

If asked, the public explanation of the Company would preferably (and truthfully) be as follows:

1. The Company finds itself as a member of a well-established industry or channel of distribution, direct selling/network marketing… an industry with millions of individuals involved, selling billions and billions of consumer products.
2. The Company has scrupulously avoided all of the abusive elements of pyramid schemes, such as: phony, over-priced product, front-loading of inventory, big cash investments, earnings misrepresentations, headhunting fees, leaving distributors stranded with large amounts of inventory, etc.
3. Instead the Company finds itself in the mainstream of the long-established direct selling/network marketing industry by offering a legitimate business opportunity with many recognized salutary features:
1. Highest quality life-changing products which stand on their own in the marketplace.
2. Pricing that is clearly competitive in the skincare industry.
3. The only distributor entry requirement is the purchase of an “at cost” sales kit.
4. Distributors purchase product as it is needed. There is no mandate of purchases and there certainly is no front-end loading of inventory.
5. Company product does not sit in closets or garages. It is effective and it gets used by consumers and they buy more because it is highly valued.
6. The Company has adopted an industry-recognized standard policy to repurchase inventory from distributors who wish to leave the business.
7. All of the emphasis of the Company marketing program is to establish a substantial base of retail customers, including a specific distributor award program for acquisition of retail customers who commit to recurring monthly purchase of products.
8. The Company has produced, what is arguably the finest product, packaging and marketing materials in the direct selling/network marketing industry.
9. The Company only pays commissions on product sales… nothing else.
10. The Company prohibits “pie in the sky” earnings claims and hypothetical potential earnings representations.
11. The Company’s training materials, online and offline, as well as its live training, are at the forefront of the direct selling/network marketing industry.

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