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Former distributor Nicole Gubin, said to be a top 10 earner at Ambit Energy, filed a $1B lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court accusing the Texas-based company of federal racketeering, fraud and unfair business practices.

Here's a revolutionary thought: the direct selling industry invented social marketing. Even so, here are the top 10 social media mistakes made by direct sellers.

The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story regarding Avon's recent struggles complying with a tough federal law intended to prevent bribes of foreign officials. Several Avon executives have already been fired and more shakeups are likely on the way.

Are you excited and working hard every day to build a great direct selling company? If so, this post is not for you. This article is for those who seem to have a death wish when it comes to making their company a success. For those in this category, I present the following tips certain to destroy all you've worked for and shorten your direct selling career.

So, you've spent a good hour perfecting a funny post that may just go viral. You polish it up one last time, hit "share" and then ... nothing. No comments or shares or even likes. Don't worry, it's not you (well, not all you.) Posting something to your peeps doesn’t guarantee they'll ever see it, even if they would have loved it. This is because Facebook's software establishes relevancy, person by person, to each and everything you do.

Momentum Factor Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam just returned from his presentation at the ANMP Convention in Las Vegas where he and his co-presenter Mel Atwood shook up the industry, just a bit - calling for an end to hype and over-promising with a presentation titled "No More Bullsh*t" and for a new industry movement toward authenticity in everything direct sellers do.

Smart companies know the future of marketing includes "social selling", tapping individual social networks with a great product and story. Direct selling is an optimal way to do this, only most companies who see promise in the model do not necessarily need the infrastructure of a full-fledged direct selling company. Recently, demand for a deeper social selling has attracted to our industry a new kind of company, the "Tweener."

We're excited to announce Momentum Factor's latest web development project, Organo Gold's primary replicated distributor sites, to be launched soon.

With all the upline and downline messages, event flyers, congrats, alerts, news and promotions your distributors receive, it's a wonder there's time for anyone to sell. Most email gets scanned and trashed, with only a few select messages worthy of reading. Your email needs to be one that shines through the clutter.

Last week. a friend's Facebook account was hijacked. While he was traveling, the criminals who overtook his account immediately launched a well-known money scam in an attempt to extract money from his friends. Fortunately, his friends alerted him, and it was quickly reported it to Facebook, who disabled his account the next day.