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The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story about a multivitamin study that torpedoed the efficacy of multivitamins, saying they offer "no benefit in preventing chronic disease" and should be avoided.

Go ahead, type in the name of any notable person, place or thing in the search engines. In nearly every case you will find a Wikipedia article in the top results. Wikipedia is the search result king. Nothing comes close in scope or consistency when it comes to scoring top spots in the search engines. What does this mean for your company? A lot more than you may think.

Momentum Factor's Scott Allen has created the ultimate guide to getting your company's YouTube videos ranked on Google. Highly ranked videos not only help your marketing but are excellent for reputation protection purposes.

Ask a direct selling executive what frustrates him or her about social media, they’re likely to tell you that social media doesn’t seem to generate a “Return on Investment.” For centuries, the business world has relied on this key metric. If you put money in, you should get more money out, right? It’s standard business practice. But traditional metrics don’t always work well in the world of social media. If you are measuring the ROI of social, you’re measuring the wrong thing.

Facebook eases up on promotions and contest restrictions.

Facebook Groups can be a good way to connect and build relationships between people already in the Group. Groups by nature are chattier, posts are more viewable than on a Page and are read more often because members are notified of updates. But there are very good reasons not to sponsor or encourage Groups.

A recent story from Wired Magazine highlights direct selling and elevates it to its rightful place as innovative retail channel.

Check out this great article from Fortune Magazine about whether or not teens are abandoning Facebook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg says no — and the data suggests they are still well-engaged.

Overnight, the world's largest email provider - Gmail- changed the game for marketers with the introduction of Gmail Tabs.

Seventy-six percent of smaller direct selling companies saw growth in 2012, with an average retail sales increase of about 22 percent, according to findings from the recent DSA 2012 Growth & Outlook survey.