Mary Kay Dreams That Will Not Come True
I can’t help but feel sorry for this Mary Kay consultant. She is somewhere below Red Jacket level, but appears to really believe she’s going to be a national sales director in 5 years. She’s decided that she will have commission checks of $7,500 a month starting six months from now.
All of our former directors on Pink Truth… I know your heart aches for a woman like this who really believes this is going to happen to her.
Leap of faith…when you think of that phrase, what scares you about your life? What’s your BIG DREAM? What is it that you’ve never had? What are you willing to do to get it?
Well, I’ve received and cashed, and spent a $6000 check with MY name on it. I know what it feels like to open an envelope and see my name with money that is MINE. I know what it’s like to open an envelope and see $9000 with my name on it.
I can do it again. I know I can. But I have never had a Mary Kay commission check with more than $100 on it. I want a consistent commission check of $7,500 a month for a yearly commission income of $90,000 at the least beginning six months from today. That will be February, so let’s say that my Valentine’s Day gift in February, from me to me, will be reaching my goal of that commission level. What will be your gift to yourself next Valentine’s Day?
So let’s play it backwards from then to today. It will take approximately $60000 in unit wholesale at 13% to have a check that size. Divided by 45 consultants that equals approximately $1335 dollars in wholesale a month per consultant.
That’s a very small number. It comes out to about $1068 take home per month, which is only $246 a week. Now that’s not bad if it’s in addition to what one takes home from one’s day job.
Let’s break that down some more. It equals 20 hours of sales at $133.50 per hour. 20 Hours a month! 5 hours a week extra work per month. $53.40 per hour take home for each of the Hope Builders who works her plan!?!
Hope Builders, don’t let anyone limit your dreams! Do you want more? Ask your Director to mentor you to the top! Don’t wait for any one’s opinion but God’s.
Picture me bopping myself on the head. God I thank you that you grant me the grace to find and add to my personal sales team with Mary Kay Cosmetics the creative, harmonious, loving, spirit-filled type D, excited women who will be so empowered by this opportunity that they take it and run with it. Amen.
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raisinberry
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These “scenario’s” are hand crafted by the Sales Directors above the IBC’s. The average IBC wouldn’t even construct one…don’t even know how to. They “learn” how to when a SD extrapolates out what she WOULD have made had she had more people on her team. One month end I was working with my SD getting last minute orders, and she figured out my commission for me IF I had been a Director. Of course I did the same thing at meetings.
These are pie in the sky examples. You’ll notice NSD’s do exactly the same “vision casting”- they called it.
Goal setting in any endeavor of life is great. Having goals is healthy. I wonder if anyone has ever taken the time to assess what damage is done, to people who are encouraged to set goals for themselves that require the abuse of other people, to achieve.
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Scrib
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“Ask your Director to mentor you to the top! Don’t wait for any one’s opinion but God’s.”
Is it even possible to “ask your director to mentor you to the top” when she hasn’t even made it there? Also, if God’s opinion and an NSD’s opinion were placed on a table at Seminar, which one do you think Mary Kay women would reach for first, especially if God’s opinion involved the phrase, “If you’re lying and teaching others how to lie (cough cough NSD Dacia Wiegandt), this is not something I endorse. Separate yourself from such.” God, you so NEGATIVE!!
Ah, it’s not like God is taken seriously in Mary Kay, anyway. If you really want to get thrown against the back wall, check out this snippet from the March 2004 article in D Magazine, Not So Pretty in Pink, by Joseph Guinto:
“[Former MK CEO John Rochon] says that after Mary Kay’s illness took her away from the company, he did for her what he believes the disciples did for Jesus—created the perfect persona for the rest ofthe world to identify with.
“The idealization of the person was completely in my control,” Rochon says. “I could create it. Mary Kay never made a mistake after she left the company. She only said powerful things, because we could be very thoughtful about creating imagery that was sustaining.”
Read that until two points sink into your brain: Mary Kay’s then CEO – whose company motto begins with the words “God First” – told the press that Jesus was nothing more than a CRAFTED PERSONA. No truly godly company would make such an appalling claim. But you can see why they did, right? They gave the same treatment to dear, sweet, all-loving, all-seeing Mary Kay Ash after she died.
Isn’t is nauseating to think that the blonde-wigged woman everyone stands up and worships at Seminar is nothing more than a carefully-crafted MASCOT? That’s like General Mills having a yearly convention where everyone stands up and subsequently crumbles into weepy applause the moment Betty Crocker flashes across the monitors.
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Mi Ki
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Mary Kay was creepy and plastic and ugly whether she was slapped together by others or came up with all that herself. It might be better if it *were* all others’ fault, but I don’t see any evidence for her having really once been anything admirable.
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gotheart
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In this Disneyland production,
the ibc would be selling 2225. in product a month.
That comes to @ 556. a week in sales.
Ms. living in La La land forgot to mention that this HAAAAAS to be done every month. LOL!
Shoot I never heard of anyone actually selling, selling, ordering yes, this amount of product ever in my 27 years of hell.
“That’s a very small number. It comes out to about $1068 take home per month, which is only $246 a week. Now that’s not bad if it’s in addition to what one takes home from one’s day job.”
Whoa! Ya forgot to take out for expenses.
So you are not even able to mentor anyone!
“Picture me bopping myself on the head.”
I am with a baseball bat!
Sincerely,
gotheart
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Briansmama
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“It will take approximately $60000 in unit wholesale at 13% to have a check that size. Divided by 45 consultants that equals approximately $1335 dollars in wholesale a month per consultant.”
BIG assumptions – all 45 consultants stay active, all 45 consultants order that much every single month… EVERY one of those 45 consultants makes $133+ per hour, 20 hours per month, every month…
And, the quick translation to the consultant’s “take home” – making the magic assumptions that everything is sold at full retail and there aren’t any expenses.
This truly makes me dizzy.
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MLM Radar Detector
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This MK consultant reminds me of an overgrown, bloated ant queen, served by a whole anthill of tireless worker ants, whose only purpose in life is to feed the queen and raise her offspring.
Did you ever wonder why all the ants in an anthill were female?
“Picture me bopping myself on the head.” Now THAT’S a visual image I have NO trouble seeing.
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Lazy Gardens
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So she expects her “Hope Builders” to work for peanuts so she can open an envelope with her name on it ans see $9,000?
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