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Neways - a global leader in all natural home cleaning and health and wellness products, has just announced the launch of Neways TV.  The Neways branded online “TV” station will include information about products, short films about the company, and tips on how distributors can build and grow their business.

Eric Larsen, CEO of Neways, is excited about the launch, and eager for distributors around the world to check it out, “In many ways, Neways TV is like YouTube for Neways distributors and for those who are interested in quickly getting a feel for what we do. We’re excited about this, and we invite people everywhere to check it out.”

The company is hoping that this will not only be a great tool for existing distributors, but will provide those interested in becoming distributors with the company learn more about it. Special features including the videos, “Neways Healthy Homes” will introduce those new to the company to its two decade long mission of creating safe all natural household and personal care products.

The site will be continuously updated with Neways news and information, upcoming events as well as regular special features about Neways products and new technology.

This is not exactly a new idea, XanGo was the first network marketing company to introduce a company branded online “TV” station, but it’s nice to see another company embrace the power of online technology. While not as flashy as XanGo TV, Neways TV looks great, is loaded with tons of information on the company and its products. It is a great tool for new and current distributors.

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MLMRankings.com has just posted the latest monthly update on top gainers as far as popularity among MLM and Home Based Business Opportunities. MLMRankings updates the list every month. Here at OpTree, we haven’t updated you in a while, so here is the current lists of both top gainers in the industry.

Current list of top gainers-

Tahitian Noni International - 28.22% Gain
Discovery Toys - 25.93% Gain
Jafra Cosmetics International - 25.61% Gain
Zija International - 22.78% Gain
BEAUTICONTROL - 21.83% Gain
Oxyfresh Worldwide - 21.02% Gain
XanGo (OpTree Profile) - 20.60% Gain
Shaperite Concepts - 20.00% Gain
Elysee Cosmetics - 20.00% Gain
Natural Air Products - 20.00% Gain

MLMRankings also provides list of Top MLM companies and has tools to compare companies against each other. While the site doesn’t give any specific info on each company, it could be a useful tool in determining the popularity of a company you might be interested in.

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While the summer has been settling down a bit since the Weekenders carnage, there still seem to be some hot topics that just seem to re-shape themselves. USANA started off the summer with a push by its Chairman and then CEO, Dr. Myron Wentz and his holdings Co, Gull Holdings, to the company private. After two and half attempts a “low-ball bids”, Wentz and Co appeared to put their tail between their legs and move on. Not so fast. As we reported this week, USANA’s stock (USNA) had a truly amazing run up 38% giving Wentz and Co a $160m gain on paper. The strategy of low-balling an offer only to have an independent counsel say it was way too low was brilliant. It also helped that USANA settled its difference with Barry Minkow who seems to have agreed to just disappear and leave USANA alone - although terms of the “settlement” were never released.

We had the chance to sit down with legendary network marketer, Dwayne Dyer of XanGo. His story of success is truly one of mythical proportions having a network of over 1 million people around the world! He gave us some pretty good insight into how he built his organization and the power of XanGo which has put Mangosteen on the map.

There were also some interesting deals announced this week. Nu Skin announced a research partnership with Toyo Bio-Pharma. On paper, this is a very strong deal for both companies given Nu Skin’s distribution breadth and Toyo’s global dominance of the process of fermentation and culturing all natural ingredients into cosmetics products.

Another deal was announced which partnered EcoQuest with the American Lung Association. The new relationship stems from Eqcoquest’s unveiling of its new air purification system called “Gemini” - which is the company’s first indoor filtration product that has gotten some pretty rave reviews. If you have any issues with allergies in your home, this is one product yous hould seriously consider.

In keeping with this weeks deals, Pureworks merged with Youngevity which while it was a bit of a surprise to us, does seem to make sense. The value to Pureworks is the expansion of their health and wellness products to now include a complete line of hand, body and home sanitizers. The deal definitely makes sense and can only be good news for the distributors of both companies which now have more products to sell with a larger number of people selling them.

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XanGo recently celebrated the one year anniversary of their operations in Malaysia. More than 1,000 people turned out for a party to celebrate the event at the MegaView Kuala Lumpur Tower.

Many of the guests who attended the party dressed up in “XanGo Orange” to honor the company. Along with distributors other distinguished guests included Tai Tolman, the manager of XanGo Southeast Asia, XanGo founders Gordon Morton and Bryan Davis and world renowned Mangosteen expert Dr. Frederic Templeman.

Since XanGo was launched a year ago, they have far exceeded all expectations. Today there are over 20,000 distributors and consumers of the Mangosteen drink.

Along with the anniversary celebration, XanGo used the event as a chance to introduce the new one ounce single serving XanGo juice, the XanGo Single which is an easy to carry, travel size version of the drink.

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