Industry News

Analysis of the Direct Selling News February 2026 poll results regarding company performance and how modern technology supports industry stability.

ShopIQ CEO Rodger Smith previews the April 2026 DSU Event and DSN Global Celebration. Discover why the direct selling industry is at a turning point with Shopify and how to future-proof your ecommerce model.

Frictionless checkout improves conversion. In direct selling, it also raises the bar for attribution, subscriptions, and compensation integrity as complexity increases.

Social commerce drives 20% of retail sales. Learn how ShopIQ makes Shopify for Direct Selling stable for the field while protecting compensation integrity.

Evaluating Shopify for Direct Selling? Understand the structural shift behind ecommerce modernization and what clean implementation requires.

ShopIQ introduces a modern commerce solution built on Shopify, purpose-built to support MLM and direct selling companies at scale.

ShopIQ, the Shopify-integrated commerce platform built for direct selling and community-driven commerce models, today announced that Rodger Smith has joined the company as President and CEO.

Rodger Smith shares why he joined ShopIQ after years working in direct selling, MLM software, and ecommerce. He explains how infrastructure, not products or people, often limits growth, why Shopify has become the ecommerce standard, and why thoughtful architecture is essential for modernizing direct selling without sacrificing trust or scale.