The Momentum Factor team, including Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam, is excited to be back at this year's Direct Selling Association (DSA) Sales & Marketing Conference: Focus on the Field in Las Vegas from Dec. 9-11!

Move over, Trending Topics, and make way for "Moments" from Twitter. For now, this new feature is all being curated by Twitter and a few media partners, but in the future will be available for anyone to create, including direct sellers.

Mark Zuckerberg just announced in a public Q&A that Facebook is working on adding a new button to its commenting features. Though some have jumped to the conclusion that this will be equivalent to a “dislike” button, Zuckerberg left room for interpretation about what exactly the buttons will do.

Our social and online reputation teams have noticed a recent rise in what we affectionately refer to here as "Insta-Spam." That is, spam bots leaving fake comments from fake profiles, or hashtag hijackers posting dozens if not hundreds of often inappropriate photos, directly tagged to client brand names.

The following is an excerpt discussing the importance of social media from Momentum Factor Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam's book for direct selling executives, Blastoff! Creating Growth in the Modern Direct Selling Company. 

Mark your calendars and plan to join the Momentum Factor team at this year's DSA BeConnected Conference in Plano, Texas on December 4-5, 2014 - where Founder & CEO Jonathan Gilliam will be speaking!

One of the ongoing debates we social media types have is about is the best length of a post or update to encourage performance. Our instincts have always erred toward concise updates in as few words as possible (though I personally am not known for my economy of prose ...)

Is your Facebook page a hunting ground for disgruntled reps or competitors? Here's our simple fix.

Advances in email software can help you learn more of what works, so you can do less of what doesn't.

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.