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March 20, 2017
Do the Vemma and Herbalife cases impact party plans?
An interview with Karen Tobin and Bob Hipple
What insights can Party Plan companies learn from the Vemma and Herbalife court cases? One of the findings seems to be problems with use of autoship? Bob: In a call with DSA, I learned that it wasn’t so much a problem with autoship as it is a problem with who are the retail customers, and how much are th... Read more ›
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December 20, 2016
Vemma settles with the FTC
On December 15th 2016, Vemma and the FTC reached a settlement. The settlement contains no admission of fault or any finding that Vemma operated unlawfully or operated as a pyramid scheme and it “imposes a $238 million judgement that will be partially suspended upon payment of $470,136 and the surrender of c... Read more ›
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August 13, 2016
The Case for a Chief Compensation Officer
In the August issue of Direct Selling News, InfoTrax Systems Vice President of Commissions Operations, Kenny Rawlins, makes a compelling argument for the inclusion of a chief compensation officer (CCO) on the executive team of every direct selling company. Last year’s Vemma injunction and the recent Herb... Read more ›
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January 7, 2016
Vemma Back in Business
Vemma’s website is back up. They are once again taking orders. No doubt several of our readers have been holding their breath, waiting for this moment. The brief asset freeze and TRO ended a few weeks ago, but it’s taken them some time to get operations back up after the court appointed Receiver closed th... Read more ›
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January 6, 2016
What the Vemma case means for the network marketing industry
The FTC’s lawsuit against Vemma continues. With the FTC insinuating that binaries are illegal, going after practices as common as personal volume requirements, and, so far at least, having their arguments upheld, there’s plenty of reason for unease in the industry. As I wrote in a recent article for the D... Read more ›
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January 5, 2016
New rules, big questions
We, as an industry, don’t yet know the repercussions of FTC v. Vemma. We can’t know which, if any, of the new restrictions placed on Vemma will become industry standards, or if this case is even about industry standards. Most of the new restrictions influence Vemma’s compensation options; however, co... Read more ›
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January 4, 2016
Breaking News: Vemma Court Case
For the first time in 16 cases, the FTC did not succeed, at least for now. Remember I am not a lawyer. This article is another one of my opinions about the Vemma case. The case seems encouraging. The most recent court order on the Vemma case is temporary. This means that the court could still rule in the FTCâ... Read more ›
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