With the May deadline now passed for major new privacy regulations in the European Union (EU), many direct selling executives are asking themselves how far the restrictions will extend into their EU field operations. Direct sellers may be particularly vulnerable to the new rules, as most not only utilize end
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) positioning over the last several years has made one point clear: the agency does not view compensation plan participants as “real” customers, and takes issue with products being sold to independent distributors who resell the product to end consumers.
We were selling to Amazon for a while, but stopped that in 2012. That process wasn’t a relationship; it was just so transactional and soul-destroying. —Nancy Traversy SSN: Describe how Barefoot Books has been involved in social selling over the past 25 years. From the very beginning, we had to