This is the story of a new director who felt a lack of support and training, and who was topping off production to meet the $4,500 wholesale minimum. Lest you should think that is unusual and not the “Mary Kay way” …. think again. Many, many directors buy production every …
You would think the Mary Kay lovers could come up with new talking points? No. I guess I should have tried harder! Seriously. You women who have felt this way maybe Mary Kay wasn’t for you. But you can’t speak for everyone. The products are awesome and they are backed …
Written by SuzyQ You get into Mary Kay, and Mary Kay gets into you. Yesterday I talked about the culture of Mary Kay and how it becomes an obsession. I got out of Mary Kay, so why did I still feel so bad? As directors, even if we weren’t wildly …
Written by SuzyQ Have you heard the saying that you get into Mary Kay and Mary Kay gets into you? It describes how immersed women get in the Mary Kay culture. It’s meant to be a fun phrase to throw around, but it just shows how hard-core women become about …
A funny video about multi-level marketing. But it’s sad how true it is. It covers all the talking points used with distributors, as well as the truth behind those catch phrases and platitudes. All the claims about how it’s simple to start with family and friends, how you can get …
Written by Amy Are you a hypocrite? That is the same question I recently had to ask myself. Since resigning my sales director position and returning all my products, I have had to do quite a bit of soul searching. I believe it takes time to fully POP your pink …
From a reader named Sandy: You all suck the life right out of dreams. You don’t have to work Mary Kay, you don’t even have to like Mary Kay but there are plenty of us who do. If you put the effort in, you profit, if you put no effort …
In Mary Kay, the pyramid-toppers want you to believe that you control your own income. That you don’t depend on others. If you want a raise, you just go out and get it for yourself. You, as a director, can control your income with the amount of activity you do. …
Written by Raisinberry I’ll have to admit I bought into this hook line and sinker. Anybody with a Sales Training background is conditioned to believe that sales is a numbers game and so it requires more calls, more leads, more effort to make the numbers work. Striving is success. Never …
Mary Kay runs promotion after promotion. Nearly all of them are designed to recruit more women, get larger inventory orders from them, and order more products yourself (reasons for you to order: almost on target and just need to order a little more, order X sets and you get a …
