The FTC has issued warning letters to a pair of trade associations and at least a dozen influencers regarding improper social media posts. Notably, each letter also included the FTC’s notice of penalty offenses concerning misleading endorsements and indicated that the recipient could face civil penalties of up to $50,120 per violation.

Although you've seen it on the front page of our website and you've heard our team talk about it, are you still wondering what exactly is Lifecycle Compliance? We thought you might be. To clear up any confusion and clarify how Lifecycle Compliance can benefit your company, our team put together the following explainer video.

If you missed the Future of Compliance in Direct Selling webinar on Sept. 8 between DirectScale CEO Rodger Smith and Momentum Factor CEO Jonathan Gilliam, don't worry - a recording of this important conversation is now available.

Momentum Factor CEO Jonathan Gilliam will be joining DirectScale CEO Rodger Smith on a webinar to discuss the future of compliance in direct selling and compliance automation on Wednesday, September 8 at 2 pm Central.

Reputation has now become the key to evaluating the vast amount of information at our disposal. Check out this article from Aeon to learn more.

Google is the front door to your business.  Are you keeping it safe from intruders? Go ahead, Google the name of your company now. I’ll wait. With direct sales continuing to move toward more of an online model, it’s never been more important to protect your company’s reputation online. However, before even looking at the results page, what words follow your brand name in the auto-suggested results? Do the words “scam” or “pyramid” or “lawsuit” appear anywhere?

Check out this great article from SearchEngineLand.com on the amount of time it can take for reputation repair to be successful. Considering how important an asset your reputation is, the investment in improvement is worth the wait.

Many businesses and professionals are being harmed by negative information that has been published on the internet. Unfortunately, it is now very easy for someone to harm a business by anonymously or pseudonymously publishing damaging content online. Learn how to protect and defend your brand online in today's search engine environment during this upcoming webcast.

We are proud to announce our upcoming presentation at the Direct Selling Association 2017 Annual Meeting. As usual, Momentum Factor will deliver the latest cutting-edge content to the world's greatest direct sellers.

Momentum Factor CEO Jonathan Gilliam was recently featured in a MLM.com podcast to provide his thoughts about compliance challenges, reputation issues, and what direct selling companies can do to train their distributors, shape their culture, prevent illegal claims and avoid damage to their online reputations.