Time Inc. decided to leave MLM and sold Southern Living At Home is a stock deal. At this time, the plans are to finalize the combination of the two companies to Birmingham by late 2010. The new company will have a combined sales force of 30,000 reps. With the combined strengths of both companies now under one umbrella, the 2009 holiday season should be a great year for the field.

USANA Receives the Stevie Award

Direct selling companies and their leaders are starting to receive more and more awards outside the MLM niche, which is positive for all of us. USANA earned the 2009 Stevie award for creating the best “Live Event” in 2008. The USANA annual convention focused on energizing, educating, and entertaining their distributors, and gained the eyes of the American Business Awards organization. They were also finalist for Management Team of the year, and Marketing Campaign of the year.

Scentsy Celebrates Their Five Year Anniversary By Giving Back

Orville and Heidi Thompson, Co-owners, love their community, and instead of taking their employees on a cruise or vacation to exotic islands, they gave their employees $100,000.00 to spend in the local community. There was one catch… The money had to be spent at local family owned businesses. This one act alone brought an increase of $2500.00 into 40 locally owned businesses in their community.

Southwestern Company Rock By Receiving The National Award for Consumer Blog

Southwestern Company earned this award for their consumer safety focused blog articles. Southwestern difference.info focuses on educating consumers about door-to-door safety. These blog articles teach how to distinguish between legitimate and illegal traveling door-to-door sales teams. Southwestern Company is the oldest active direct selling company in the nation. They opened their doors in 1855 selling door-to-door. Today they use college students to drive volume and team building.

Shaklee Still Leading The Charge For Green Living

Shaklee was “Green” before “green” was cool. In 2000 Shaklee was the first company in history to be awarded the “Climate Neutral Award,” certifying a total offset of greenhouse emissions, saying, “Shaklee has a neutral impact on their environment.” From the top down, Shaklee walks their Green talk. They were the first company in the nation to be classified a green company. Their advanced research and focus on environmental stewardship has once again earned them two highly coveted awards. Breath California awarded Shaklee with the “Clean Air for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction” award. And Acterra awards Shaklee the 2009 Business Award for Environmental Sustainability. Shaklee has a 50 year record for pioneering the elimination of greenhouse emissions.

ACN and Their Distributors Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is

ACN at their annual training event in Charlotte N.C. gives $124,870 dollars to support the Ronald McDonald House. And in his last public appearance for CAN, Donald Trump gives $10,000 of his own money above and beyond what ACN donated.

Reliv Foundation Gives To Children In Haiti

In every training or consulting conversation I have ever been involved in, I share “you must find a company you can believe in. A company where the financial success is driven by an underlying crusade/cause greater than just a temporary lifestyle change. It is this kind of environment at Reliv which has allowed this Midwestern publicly traded MLM company to have such a great reputation, and a lower than average attrition rate within our great profession.

Daily through the Reliv Kalogris Foundation 6600 malnourished children in Haiti are fed from 22 locations. Now, the foundation had built a new feeding and scooling center to support children in Bois Lance de Limonade, Haiti. This new feeding center will serve 500 children daily. Since 1995 the foundation has donated over $17 million dollars worldwide through 270 feeding programs. Summing this up, over 42,000 children and adults receive food on a daily basis.

Herbalife Enters Fives New Provinces in China

The China Ministry of Commerce has granted Herbalife five new licenses in the provinces of Fujian, Shan’ Xi, Sichuan, Hubei and Shanghai. Herbalife currently operates 80 retail stores in 30 provinces in China.

What makes this so cool, is in the 1980s people thought this company was a goner. Bad publicity, congressional hearings, and purported customer deaths, all but stopped the monumental growth Mark Hughes and Herbalife were enjoying. Yet, today some 8 or 9 years after Mark’s sudden death, this company is still growing worldwide. Taken public, back private, and then public again Herbilife has 1.9 million distributors’ 70 countries earning $2.4 billion annually.

Blake Roney, Founder & Chairman Of Nu Skin International Businessman Of The Year

Blake Roney was awarded the Stevie International Top Businessman Award. This comes during a time when we have seen several mergers, bankruptcies, and closures on great MLM companies. Yet, Nu Skin has enjoyed continual growth, breaking all their previous earn records. There is no doubt, Mr. Roney is a living, breathing example of the Nu Skin mission – Be A Force For Good!”

Arbonne Supports The US troops

Arbonne is not worried about political correctness, or how political factions may perceive them. Through Operation gratitude, Arbonne donated 30,000 skincare products to the U.S. Military. This donation has a retail value of $642,000.00. Sr. V.P. of Marketing, Brad Wayment put it this way “Our military men and women are willingly serve the country and put their lives on the line every day. These products are a small token of our appreciation and recognition of what they do.”

Mannatech Opens in Four Additional European Countries

Mannatech, is rolling into Austria, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. This new expansion will allow their current field force to market Mannatech products to an additional 193 million people. Now think about this for a second. We hear the economy is down in the USA, and people are out of work. Why don’t you go find these folks and share with them, the massive opportunity they have to grow a worldwide marketing and distribution organization?

Max International Focused On Google Searches In Their Latest Expansion

When asked “why did Max International focus on the Philippines for their latest expansion, peter Norberg, CEO of Max International stated “more Google searches for Glutathione are done in the Philippines than anywhere else in the world.” Max International focuses on Glutathione, and by focusing on where there is a need or desire for more information, they were able to tap a new market with lower barriers of enter. All leaders should take a long hard look at how Max determined their expansion. Instead of creating a need, they are filling the need. Talk about tapping the power of the Internet.

Tastefully Simple Raise Funds To Fight Child Hunger In the USA

Tastefully Simple and their distributors donated 450 hours and over $135,000.00 to “Share Our Strength.” Share Our Strength is the nation’s largest non-profit focused on stomping out child hunger in the USA. Tastefully Simple donates $1.00 from every sale of its “For The Love Of Cookies Chocolate Chip Toffee Almond Cookie Mix;” which by the way is one of its top selling products.
To put this in perspective; there are currently 12.4 million children in the USA who are at risk of going hungry for an extended period of time. I challenge you to find a Tastefully Simple rep and buy some cookies. Or find a local outreach and help a child!

A special thanks to Direct Selling News, for supplying the basic information for this articles.

Living An Epic Adventure,

Troy

This last weekend time stood still as we learned that Dr. Keller’s fight with a serious illness had ended when he peacefully passed away late Friday evening.

Words cannot express the mix of emotions that we all feel as a result of this news—disbelief, shock, emptiness, sadness, love, appreciation, renewed dedication, and reflection. As we come to terms with this news, one thing stands out: all of us are extremely appreciative of Dr. Keller’s profound legacy.

We are grateful for his friendship, his partnership, and for the thousands of hours of sacrifice he made in and out of the lab which resulted in the creation of MaxGXL™. Countless Associates in the field have told us their incredible stories of improved health and renewed hope that were the direct result of his education and formulations. These stories are moving tributes to his work.

Dr. Keller will be remembered by the world as a brilliant scientist, compassionate physician, consummate educator, and a dedicated friend. To all of us at Max, he has been even more—an amazing partner, mentor, teacher and a father?figure to our Max family.

It is important for all of us to remember that Dr. Keller never felt that his discoveries were an end in themselves, but rather only the beginning of what we could ultimately take to the world. In fact, on conference calls and in private meetings, Dr. Keller repeatedly stated his commitment to continually perfect the Max product line. He truly loved the work Max Associates were doing and always wanted them to have the best possible product.

It is unfortunate that Dr. Keller will no longer be with us to see all of his work come to fruition, but Max is committed to carrying out his vision. In the near future all of you will see the demonstration of our commitment to Dr. Keller when we complete a project that we started with his involvement eight months ago.

With Dr. Keller’s enthusiastic support, we have been working with a specialized group of scientists who are considered to be among the world’s best in glutathione research and its vital role in cellular function. This collaboration resulted in a breakthrough discovery that put us all in awe. Dr. Keller was extremely excited about this discovery and how it would further his mission and passion of increasing the health of millions across the globe. As a tribute to Dr. Keller, we are honored to finish this endeavor and help further his legacy.

Dr. Keller has been a teacher, a friend, and a business partner to all of us at Max for more than three years. We will miss him terribly. We will miss his talks, his conference calls, his smile, his never?ending optimism and his phenomenal knowledge, wisdom and direction.
On behalf of all of us at Max, we promise you that we will not let him down. We cordially ask each of you to work with us in unwavering commitment to advance his vision and all of its benefits to as many people as possible, as fast as possible. His vision went far beyond North America. He longed to see this work bless the entire world, including those in Third World countries who suffer the most. With his passing we are more determined than ever to diligently pursue the fulfillment of his vision, hopes and dreams. On behalf of the Max corporate team, we want to express our gratitude for Dr. Keller and to thank each of you for all you have done and are doing to help us fulfill his mission.

With sad—yet grateful—hearts,

The Max International Corporate Team

Memorial Service: We thank you for joining us in praying on behalf of Dr. Keller’s family at this time of need. While this news has deeply saddened all of us at Max, we can tell you with confidence that Dr. Keller loved God and gave Him all of the credit for everything he had. His fight may have ended but his legacy is just beginning. Dr. Keller’s memorial service will be on Monday, June 15th, from 2 to 4 p.m., with a prayer service at 3:30 p.m.

Emails of appreciation to Dr. Keller can be sent to: drkeller@maxgxl.com

Letters of appreciation can be sent to:

Dr. Robert Keller
6965 South Union Park Center,
Suite 100
Midvale, Utah 84047

Memorial Location:
TM Ralph Funeral Parlor
N.W. 136th Ave. at N.W. 2nd Street
371 N. W. 136 Ave.
Sunrise, Florida 33325
Telephone: (954) 587-6888