2009 Women of Power - The POWER 30

Hi. I’m Keeper, Founder and CEO of DirectSellingLive.com

Welcome to the 1st Annual DirectSellingLive.com Women of Power – The POWER 30.

For over 100 years network marketing/direct selling has touched the lives of 100’s of millions of people around the world through the sale of products or service, offering a way for individuals to better their lives financially through global business partnerships.

Over the past 100+ years direct selling has also seen 10’s of millions of distributors come and go. The majority of these distributors have been women. In fact today almost 80% of all distributors around the world are women. If we look back through our history I believe the numbers will show it has always been this way.

The Direct Selling industry, especially us men, owe a “HUGE” debt of gratitude to women who have made our industry possible, for direct selling has been built on the strong beautiful shoulders of women. From the United States to Japan, Australia to Mexico, Brazil to India, Russia to South Korea, Germany to Malaysia, and China it has been women who have bought more products, sold more products, used more products and built more businesses. However, when you look around the executive boardrooms in direct selling, it is men who are most often at the helm of direct selling companies and because of this it has been men who received most of the recognition.

DirectSellingLive.com’s 1st Annual Women of Power – The POWER 30 looks to recognize and say Thank You to the millions of women who over the past 100+ years are responsible for bringing direct selling to where we are today and to those who are in a position to lead us into the future.

Women like #1 Andrea Jung (DirectSellingLive’s Direct Selling Power Player of the Decade) who leads to largest direct selling company in the world – AVON. #2 Nicki Keohohou and # 4 Grace Keohohou (Direct Selling Women’s Alliance - DSWA) who are both building the fastest growing association in direct selling. #8 Nadine Thompson (Soul Purpose Lifestyle Company) and #27Traci Lynn (Traci Lynn Jewelry), two black women who have founded their own successful direct selling company’s - a sight not often seen in direct selling. Like #10 Doris Wood (Multi-Level Marketing International Association - MLMIA) who celebrated her 52nd year in direct selling in 2009 and is still going strong. # 16 Niousha Ehsan of the Direct Selling Education Institute in Dubai who is helping to increase awareness of direct selling in Asia. # 21 Miriam Muléy (85% Niche), a Latina, the premier industry consultant educating direct selling to the buying power of the minority communities.

DirectSellingLive recognizes that network marketing/direct selling is made up of both men and women from all walks of life. We are an industry with an all inclusive attitude which says, “You are welcome as long as you are willing to bring positive energy and are willing to uplift others.”

The DirectSellingLive’s Women of POWER – The POWER 30 does not discriminate in any way for the shear beauty of direct selling is we are an industry that attracts every race, nationality, color, religion, age, economic standing, educational background, political view and sexual orientation. In DirectSellingLive’s Women of Power – The POWER 30 we look to celebrate all these differences that help to make us the largest business community in the world.

We recognize that direct selling is a living, breathing, emotional entity full of all the ebbs and flows that life has to offer. With that said, DirectSellingLive.com not only looks to highlight our differences, we look to celebrate them so that we may better understand who we are as a people - as a community. We believe that once we begin to celebrate our differences we will be in a better position to be the guiding example to the world of what can be.

In the direct selling there is one central theme that runs through all of us…”look to improve ours lives as we look first to improve the lives those we come in contact with every day.”

Ladies it is with profound gratitude and thanks that I say…”We celebrate you!”

And now the Women of Power – The POWER 30!


Keeper
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