Successful Direct Sales Women-Power 30 Awards

Powerful Direct Sales Women

The Direct Selling Live, Women of Power Awards are the first annual awards designed specifically to recognize the successful women in the industry who have achieved so much.

For more than 100 years direct selling has had millions of distributors come and go. The majority of these distributors have been women. Today almost 80% of all consultants in direct sales are women.  Around the world it has been women who have bought more products, sold more products, used more products and built more businesses in the direct sales industry. Yet frequently it is the men who receive the most recognition.

Successful Women Of Power

The direct selling industry attracts every race, nationality, color, religion, age, economic standing, educational background, political view and sexual orientation.  The POWER 30 celebrates and honors all the differences of successful women in all walks of life.  The awards highlight the women’s success stories that have shaped direct sales and network marketing into the massive community and industry that it is today.

Power 30 Direct Sales Awards

The Power 30 direct sales awards honored 31 influential women in direct sales.

The 31st honoree is Madame CJ Walker – The Mother of Network Marketing & The Worlds First Female Self-Made Millionaire.  Madame CJ Walker was the daughter of former slaves and started her own business selling hair care products.  She quickly started recruiting sales consultants to sell her products. At a time when direct selling companies were using door-to-door sales techniques, Madam C.J. Walker taught her “Walker Agents” how to recruit and how to train others to do the same.  They used a demonstration to sell their products to customers, most of which could not read, thus introducing the basic network marketing business model.

Women Of Power

Other successful women recognized in the Women of Power includes:

• #29 Kara Kowalski – Openly Gay Distributor, Pre-Paid Legal
• #27 Dr. Traci Lynn – Founder and President, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry
• #26 Tami Longaberger – Chair of the Board and CEO, Longaberger
• #24 Deb Bixler – Direct Sales Speaker, Coach and Trainer
• #23 Linda Lucas – Director of DSWA International Area Chapter Program
• #20 British Ford-Hill Founder, MLM Black Woman, Author & Entrepreneur
• #18 Doris Christopher – Founder, Pampered Chef
• #17 Nicole Walker – Voted 2008 Worlds Greatest Direct Selling Leader
• #15 Lisa Nichols – Life Coach, Author and Speaker
• #9 Marcia Wieder – Life Coach, Speaker and Author
• #8 Nadine Thompson – Founder and CEO, Soul Purpose Lifestyle Company
• #7 Cookie Lee – Founder, Chairwoman and Chief Designer
• #4 Grace Lee Keohohou – Co-Founder, Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA)
• #2 Nicki Keohohou, Co-Founder Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA)

Most Powerful Women In Direct Sales

#1 Andrea Jung – Chairman and CEO of AVON

The DirectSellingLive.com’s Power Person of the Decade 2000 – 2009 is the number one recipient of the Women Of Power Award Andrea Jung.  Andrea has placed as the number 1 most powerful direct sales professional in the Direct Sales Power 50, which recognized influential professionals in the industry (men and women) two years in a row and is now being honored in the Women of Power as well.  Avon is truly a global influence in the direct sales industry with the largest worldwide organization with millions of sales reps.