How to Make $10,000 a Month After Only 6 Months in Mary Kay
Yet another bunch of “false claims” coming from Mary Kay Inc. national sales director Tammy Crayk. She calls this a “tried and proven” plan, and I would love for someone to show me ONE person who did this. I bet she can’t.
And even if she could, you’d be talking about one out of millions. Oh, I know. That just shows it’s possible. It’s not Mary Kay’s fault if all of you are too lazy to do it. You could if you really wanted to.
Well, of course, I disagree with that premise. Even if a plan like this is theoretically possible, everyone needs to know that it’s not even remotely probable. The chances of a consultant being able to pull this off are so slim, yet no one in Mary Kay will tell them that.
So here’s Tammy’s claim: Hold just 3 skincare classes per week and you will be making $10,000 per month after six months . Seriously? Yep. This is what she claims, according to this document:
Use this tried and proven plan originally shared by Tammy Crayk, Million Dollar Director, hold classes per week and you will be:
- Driving a company car in three months
- Looking lovely in a Director's Suit in four months
- Fabulous 50's Elite Director in six months
How This Plan Works:
- The average skin care class has four guests.
- At twelve classes per month x 4 guests you will see 48 new faces a month!
- One in two ladies will buy a skin care set.
- The national average production for a skin care class is $200.
- Twelve classes per month x $200 in sales = $2400 in retail sales per month.
- One in five will hear about Mary Kay as a career and become a consultant.
If just one of the five women you share Mary Kay with each month adopts this plan right behind it will work almost effortlessly! Remember, you are probably going to get approximately 4 no’s for every yes you receive. If you don't have four guests at each class re-examine your hostess program. If one in five interviewed recruit prospects don't sign up, you may need to re-evaluate the type people you are trying to recruit.
And this is where the fiction gets really interesting. You can follow Tammy’s whole document with the link above, but here’s the gist of it.
Every month you’re holding 12 classes with 4 guests who each spend $50 (48 women total), from which you recruit 5 team members and pretend that they each order $1,000 wholesale (which makes them all seminar qualified and you get bonuses). (Now this doesn’t take into consideration all the classes that don’t hold, all the classes at which you sell very little, all the recruits who never order $1,000, but who cares, right?)
Month 1 = $960 profit from sales + $650 commission + 100 bonus = $1,710 and 5 recruits
Month 2 = same as month 1 but $150 more bonus = $1,860 and 5 more recruits
Now you go into DIQ (director-in-qualification) for Month 3.
Month 3 = same as month 2 but $156 more commission because month 1 team members order again = $2,016 and 5 more recruits
Here she says you’ve finished car, but that’s not correct. She forgot that Month 1 is the month you need to get your recruits to “go on target” and then Month 2 is really your first month of car production. Oops. At this point you’ve got 15 recruits and your team members have recruited 5. Add all that productdion together because everyone orders, and you’ve got $12,400 done for DIQ production. (Are you laughing yet?)
Month 4 = same as month 3 but $299 more commission because of reorders again = $2,315 and 5 more recruits
Now this is fantastic. Everyone, everywhere is still active. AND your team members have now recruited 10 more people. Your pyramid is well on its way with 35 consultants plus you. Did I mention that everyone is active?
This is where it gets even funnier. You’re a sales director and your production and recruiting are off the charts so you make mega-commissions and mega-bonuses.
Month 5 = $960 profit from sales + $1,495 commission from your recruits + $3,601 unit commission + $300 recruit bonus + $2,100 production bonus = $8,465
See how easy this is? Unless you’re lazy, of course!
Month 6 = $960 profit from sales + $1,820 commission from your recruits + $4,576 unit commission + $300 recruit bonus + $3,100 production bonus = $10,756
And then Tammy lists keys to success. But I can sum it up for you. FRONTLOAD. BIGTIME.
Now… gosh… If you use Mary Kay Math, you know that these three classes a week take you about 2 minutes total. But seriously, if this was “all” it took. Just the magic 3 classes a week and all the rest of it falls into place… wouldn’t everyone do it?
What a nice piece of fiction.
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Lazy Gardens
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At twelve classes per month … So who can consistently book 12 classes a month? Month after month?
Her whole plan for how to accomplish this income is based on the fiction that it is possible to book classes.
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Freefrmpink
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**One in five will hear about Mary Kay as a career and become a consultant.
Perhaps one in five will become a consultant. But what’s also true one in five will order. Dream plan is a fantacy. I use to teach this garbage. “Lord please forgive me. ”
Easier said than done.
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anon
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If you got out of it, you are forgiven. I know someone who’s in it now, and her family is suffering because of it. Lord, please help her get out also.
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JOB4me
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Not only is this pure Mary Kay fiction, she's got her excuses all lined up as to why it's YOUR fault if you're not hitting her ridiculous numbers. You have to "re-examine your hostess program", and "re-evaluate the type of people you're trying to recruit". How convenient. No word on how most women at a skin care class are usually only there to "help out" their friend and that they usually only purchase a lipstick or mascara.
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raisinberry
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HA ha ha ha ha …hee hee…HOO HOO! Oh Boy…HA!!!!!!!!! HA ha ha hee hee..hoo hoo..ok, breath..ok..ok..I'm calm now…hee….ok..hee. ok. Uh HA ! HA ! HA H! HA! hee hee hoo ! Oh Boy..HA! HA! HA! Hee hee hoo . giggle. Okay.
Wow. Thanks for that Tracy. That was truly hilarious!
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Goodness
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raisinberry , I just have to say that I will be laughing for the rest of the night. Oh My, at first after reading I was historical, but after reading the post and then reading the comments, I have truly laughed until I couldn’t laugh anymore.
Oh my Goodness!
your response brighten my day.
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Freefrmpink
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Come to think about it, several of the current nationals should use this plan. Especially since their commissions are less than $10,000 a month. In doing so that they may get their names printed in the Applause magazine. Since corpse decided to hide national's commissions of less than$10,000 more a month. So sad. Numbers don't lie.
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stinkinpinkthinkin
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What a riot!!! The sad thing about this "plan" is that women when they first sign up and hear this garbage, they actually think it's doable. It's not until you start to attempt to make any of those numbers at any level, a reality, you realize it just not possible.
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MLM Radar Detector
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If you don't have four guests at each class re-examine your hostess program. If one in five interviewed recruit prospects don't sign up, you may need to re-evaluate the type people you are trying to recruit.
Re-evaluate the TYPE OF PEOPLE you are trying to recruit??? As if the typical IBC/DIQ/Director had a choice… And what would that "type" be? Pretty much everyone who walks through the door. Of course, if you want to narrow it down, in MK parlance the correct "type" is any woman with a pulse, a credit card, and an ego that overrides her ability to understand basic math.
Just like any MLM, most MK consultants/DIQs/directors are perpetually and desperately trying to recruit everyone, just to replace drop-out recruits and keep their downlines from collapsing. You'd think the "best" prospective IBC would be someone with a large circle of friends and a gift for selling. But when a DIQ is trying to meet her quota, the definition of "best" becomes "anyone who can be talked into buying a $600 kit."
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didpinkawhileago
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One in five will hear about Mary Kay as a career and become a consultant.
and then come to pink truth and add to the return total
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Deflated Pink Bubble
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**looking down, shaking head and laughing**
I call BS on her "plan". In a "perfect world" maybe… Truth be told, the IBC has no influence on who the hostess invites to her party. Truth be told, once an IBC signs up her first order is more on the 200 dollar end IF she orders at all. Truth be told, this is more Mary Kay smoke and mirrors again.
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tigger
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I was pretty good at holding skin care classes and facials. I sucked at recruiting. Every time I tried to recruit, I would vomit a little in my mouth when I tried to tell them that 'in just a few hours a week' you can be slammin' like me!
As a Christian, I could not lie about how 'easy' it was, and how everyone wants to be me!! Of course, this did not go over well at meetings or anywhere else. But I refused to do it. When I was approached (yes, I was approached occasionally…………very occasionally) I would tell them the truth. You could hear them screaming a mile away as they ran for the hills. I couldn't blame them.
I would have loved to have recruited everyone. Instead, I would do the class, sell the Miracle Sets, collect the money (PRAY THE CHECKS WOULDN'T BOUNCE), book new shows, and go home. I then spent hours and hours and hours re-organizing all my stuff again, and again, and again.
I kept hostess packettes made up and available in my car. I did the give-a-ways at the post office (only in the parking lot, of course) Safeway, Libraray, everywhere. I had the fish bowls and boxes, you name it. I had at least three of every product on my shelves at all times; but I refused to go into debt. When the product piled up, I went on a selling frenzy, and refused to re-order 'till it was gone.
Got sick of the returns (it breaks me out with the jabba jabba gooby gooby disease.) Yeah, whatever.
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PinkSurvivor
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The only way to book and hold that many "parties" is to buy thousands of leads posing as a "vendor" that has partnreed with an actual company that women have already shopped with. Then you lie to every single woman on the list by telling them they won a free prize and lure them into a pretty hotel meeting space where you try to braniwash them. That is, if they show up. That was the ONLY way I held that many parties. Sales were good, but out of hundreds of women I "pampered" while I rented rooms at hotels not one would even do the marketing interview. NOT even for free product. What does hat tell ya? Julie Kresback said to expect 100 no's. And KEEP SHARING. ??? Were did this braud get 4 no's out of 5? If this opportunity was sooo great, shouldn't it be only 1 out of 5 saying no?
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Mlank64
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Pure fantasy. I've had classes in which all the guest did not show. Of course my director would say I didn't f/u with the hostess to secure that the guest were coming. But, I did, and you know my response to her was that I don't have control over the actions of other people. That's why that whole premise is pure fantasy. You'd have to buy into the notion that you can control the type of woman you want on your team. But we all know that any woman who shows an interest will be heavily bounced on to be on your team because you have only a certain amt of time to recruit for the quarter and be on target for xyz. You'd have to control the women that put in a 1800 dollar order….every quarter. You'd have to control how many women she recruites and coerce those recruits into frontloading large orders. You'd have to control bad weather since those situations tend to cause skincare class cancellations. You'd have to control sickness, pregnancy, marriage, personal loss or tragedy that may effect you or your downline. You'd have to control the mind and actions of women and all the people around them to pull this off. That's why its a hampster wheel to keep churning out woman as fast as they leave or stop due to all those situations that may occur. You all know the song,….Big wheels keep on turning and proud Mary Kay keeps on burning …..a hole in your pocketbook.
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nutmeg
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Ohhhhhhh, that's what I should have done!!
Pure fantasy is right! What a joke.
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pinkmonkey
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she forgot to educate on how bad the toxicity levels are on these products i was glancing at http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com omg! i never knew it caused all those things listed
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TRACY
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You never knew makeup caused all those things because it doesn't!!!! That site is absolute crap, and it's just meant to scare you with fake science.
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Anonabot
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My SD trotted this out at last weeks “success” meeting as a viable plan. I had to literally bite the inside of my cheek not to ask ‘negative’ questions like – what if no one shows to the class, what if the participants only buy a lipstick or blush, etc. I wanted to scream.
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Phoebe
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Okay, this is my last post. You all are comical. When I see a Cover girl commercial, I don’t really think my life will model the marketing message. “It is call marketing and the marketing plan” Could you tell me were in the world would a consultant purchase the product from if not Mary Kay. Yes, it is difficult for those that believe it is and it is easy for those that are successful. If you wanted to just watch the checks flow in then maybe you should look into revenue vehicles and not start a business.
Ugh, God help these confused women.
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Aubrey
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Phoebe – you ask where in the world would women purchase this product if not from Mary Kay? That is easy. They will purchase it from the thousands of IBC who are trying to sell their excessive inventory on ebay.
If they do not want to deal with IBC they can buy similar product from a myriad of companies such as Clinique and Estee Lauder. You can try before you buy there, too, and the sales lady will not try to recruit you to go work for her company. She will not lie to you and make you believe she makes $50,000 a year. And she will not call all your guests and pester them for reorders and make them silently curse your name for inviting them to your house for a “pampering session”. LOL!
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