Another Victim of Mary Kay Propaganda
Check out this blog post from a new-ish Mary Kay consultant, who is parroting all the lies that have been fed to her. She is reciting the typical list of “Mary Kay goals,” and no doubt she is telling everyone about this at the advice of her upline. You have to “name it to claim it,” right? I can only hope that she does a little Pink Truth Research and figures out the truth before she has sunk too much time and money into this losing proposition.
Dear Family and Friends,
I want to let you all know about something huge that is about to happen. As most of you know, I started as a Mary Kay Consultant back in August. I have enjoyed it so much, and business has been great. I have added 8 wonderful women to my team and I’m ready to progress in this business! So I have decided to launch into Mary Kay as a career. I am planning to be a Independent Sales Director! This will allow me to quit my job and just do Mary Kay, which will be awesome as Dustin and I start thinking about having a family
. I am very excited.
What happens next is a DIQ (Director in Qualification) period. I will have to work really hard to make this happen. I will have some huge goals ahead of me (with time limits) on team production and number of team members. I have to say that I’m nervous, but I believe that this is where God wants me to be, and HE is able to make this happen. I will have four months to complete the goals, but I can finish earlier if everything happens quickly.
I am writing to let you know about this so you will know what’s going on with us! I am going to be working Mary Kay full-time during DIQ, and I’ll still be working my part-time bank job, so things will be a little crazy. Dustin and I have decided that these four months (or less!) will be worth the long-term gain.
I am also writing to ask you all to help me. Here are some ways that you can do that, if you are willing.
1. Please pray for me. This is known in the MK world to be a tiring and stressful time if you don’t do it right. I am hoping that I can do it right! But I will need every prayer as I push to meet my goals. Thank you!!
2. Please hold a Skincare Class/Party for me! Even if you have held one before, think of some other girlfriends and let’s do it again! The way I’m going to finish DIQ is to meet ALOT of women. Please help me with this. Send me an e-mail or give me a call and let’s plan a girlfriend party!! These are so fun, they are FREE, you’ll get great hostess credit (free products and gifts), and you’ll be doing me an enormous favor. Seriously, second to prayer this is my biggest need. Would any of you be willing to help me [again] with this?
3. Please send me referrals! If you know someone who would be an awesome MK Consultant, give me her name and number. I’ll call and give her a free gift and do an interview with her, and if she becomes part of my team YOU will get $100 in free MK products. And if you know someone who needs products, you know where to send her!
4. Please allow me to interview you! I will be doing a large number of interviews during the next four months. They will consist of telling you a little about the business and finding out what you think. There is no obligation, and there are no strings attached. Even if you can never see yourself doing MK, you can still count as an interview for me! AND you’ll get a gift from me
So what do you think? Would you be willing to help me in at least 3 of these ways?? I will be so grateful!
PS: When I make Directorship, I will also be driving around in my FREE Mary Kay Silver Pontiac G-6. Help me get there! I can’t do it without you! YES, I AM BEGGING!!
Thank you so much… Remember, if everyone says “I don’t have time,” no one will write me back. Think about what you can do and how you can make it happen. I will be forever grateful.
And for those thinking about doing what this consultant is doing, here are a few articles that are critical to your learning process…
The Real Cost of Mary Kay Directorship
Backstage Reality of a Mary Kay Director
The Perspective of a Director With 900 in Her Downline
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FormerDirector
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Correction, becoming a director will NOT allow her to quit her job… it will force her to quit her job. But, it will not make any money for her family. But, she will feel the need to quit her job because she won’t have time for it and to make it look like she is doing so well and keep up the illusion in hopes that it will actually some day payoff. Meanwhile her family will never see her while she runs on that pink treadmill going no where for 60 hours a week or more and they will be drowning in debt for all the costs associated with being a director.
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exIBC78
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Please don’t beg…it is not becoming and turns people off. Good luck with everything and I hope you come out of this even and don’t quit the bank job…in fact I would recommend trying to get more hours there and quitting the MK. That is how you will save up for a baby.
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enorth
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OK, I’ll be picky.
“a Independent Sales Director” … should be “an”
“meet ALOT of women” … “alot” is not a word. Look it up.
“I’ll call and give her a free gift…YOU will get $100 in free MK products… You’ll get great hostess credit (free products and gifts)… you’ll get a gift from me” “Help me get there! I can’t do it without you! YES, I AM BEGGING!!”
Giveaways, guilt and and begging. What a great future she has.
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CK
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Hear me out on this…
The letter sounds good on the surface. But once you read between the lines… You see…
Desperation, Confusion, A willingness to beg, borrow and definitely to steal and once she reaches Directorship… I can just see the sign
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE…
Directorship equals HELL
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MLM Radar
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Oookkaayyy, let’s do a reality check. Yes, yes, I know that’s negative thinking. Do it anyway. You may not want to do the math, but your credit card company will.
Hostess credit at party: $25 wholesale x 8 parties with (soon to be ex-) friends = $200 cost. 2 sign up (1 personal use $26 commission, 1 $600 order $78 commission) , entire neighborhood shuns you.
Free gift for interviewing: $15 wholesale x 8 (soon to be ex-) friends = $120 cost. 1 signs up personal use ($26 commission), 7 take product and shun you.
Free gift for interviewing referral: $15 x 8 = $120 cost. (no commission)
$100 (retail) free product to referrer if signed: $50 x 6 = $300 cost (3 personal use $78 commission, 3 $600 orders $234 commission)
Not counting ex-friends now shunning you, here’s the tally:
Product costs: $740
Commissions: $442
Gasoline, phone, Look Books, business cards, website, party decorations, yadayada: $???
Net loss to date, not counting ALL the other expenses: -$298. The only ones making the profit on this deal are the credit card company and your upline Director.
Yes, I’d better pray for you. But not the prayer you’re asking from me.
Do yourself a favor. Keep your day job.
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Lazy Gardens
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That blog post is from January 28, 2009. the whole blog died in September of that year, her next blog is also dead.
She’s now selling her ebook about the paleo diet and has this to say: “as I mentioned in an earlier post, I used to be a Mary Kay Sales Director… I sold skincare for a living, and I even earned a free car and had over 40 women on my team (I quit for a number of reasons that I won’t go into here).”
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Lazy Gardens
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Adding to the story … she and her husband are BIG fans of Dave Ramsay’s financial advice for getting out of debt.
I wonder how they ended up in debt, when being a Mary Kay director is supposed to be lucrative.
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A Reader
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“Please hold a Skincare Class/Party for me! Even if you have held one before, think of some other girlfriends and let’s do it again! …you’ll be doing me an enormous favor. Seriously, second to prayer this is my biggest need.”
So much for the product “selling itself”.
This is just sad. She sounds like a very nice lady whose only fault was not doing the homework before she got in over her head.
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Deflated Pink Bubble
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On an up note, she got out. I wonder if she’s here with us?
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Patricia
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I never understood why someone has to “go into” DIQ and work a whole bunch of hours to get some names on paper as your team members, have them order bogus orders, only to have them stop ordering, and possibly leave MK all so you can be a Director for 3 months. Why not work a year and get some women who actually want to sell Mary Kay, then go into DIQ with all the women you need? This process just SCREAMS scam!!!!
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DaisyB's
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I caught on pretty fast when I signed up. There was a regional meeting very shortly after I signed up and I was paraded up on stage for my “sales” totals! I hadn’t “sold” a single thing yet. All I did was place my first inventory order – but was singled out for my great “sales totals”! I knew right away something wasn’t right here.
I was also singled out verbally from my director in a meeting about not having on a skirt. I had on nice slacks, but this was a no-no and I had to be humiliated during the meeting about it. I was also always told I didn’t have enough make-up on or my lipstick was gone. When I finally said ENOUGH, I was coming home from meetings in tears because I never seemed to measure up. What a waste of my time! That was 20 years ago and I just last year threw away the last of my inventory….errrr I mean “sales”.
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BMW
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Pretending MK actually works, why don’t people in MK ever build a huge team first and THEN submit for directorship when they already have a regular selling unit?
I would never commit to a deadline like this. If I wanted to be a director, I would build a sturdy, consistent unit that showed me outcomes for several months, and then submit to DIQ with the 30+ women already in the unit and the income already steady.
I really don’t understand why anyone would commit to grinding themselves into the ground when they could slowly build a productive unit and then submit with no stress.
Wouldn’t it be smarter for Mary Kay to give women 6 months to build a unit? Or, even better, simply not have a time limit at all? You promote when your production is X and your unit number is Y.
Of course, this is all based on MK not being BS.
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TRACY
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Because they CAN’T get a huge working team before DIQ. And almost no one can get a huge working team while in DIQ. It’s just an unsustainable “business” model. Sure, there are a handful of sales directors who have 100+ people in their units, but that is the exception. Most directors struggle to keep enough people to make production every month.
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Lazy Gardens
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why don’t people in MK ever build a huge team first and THEN submit for directorship when they already have a regular selling unit?
Because their upline (their SD and the SD’s SD all the way to the NSD, can’t get promoted unless they can get women below them to become directors. So they don’t let it happen.
If you tried that method, you would find the SD bypassing you and encouraging your team to go for DIQ because you are “holding them back”.
And I don’t know what happens if your team member becomes a director before you.
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Angela
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I get your point, and it sounds reasonable. But “allowing” consultants to build their teams slow and steady wouldnt create the sense of urgency needed to prompt the orders and consultant agreements. The deadlines cause people to make hasty decisions that arent in their best interest. Month four, all bodys accounted for (real or not), but lacking $1000 in production, who’d want to start over? So she puts it in herself. Not in the best interest of the consultant but MK corp couldnt care less of course. The system is designed to flow as much money down their pipeline. Consultants and directors are just pawns on the losing end of “this business”.
In 2002 when I wanted this dream of directorship, but had little to no contacts in my new town, my director suggested I recruit my mom or sisters or cousins or ANYBODY under the guise of gaining momentum. So I bought my mom a starter kit, lol. Not sure who the momentum was for but it certainly wasnt building any momentum for me, or my two other legit team members! Might have helper director dear out though…
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BMW
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To build a real, strong, selling team would take a long time. You’d really “interview” people instead of just bringing on any warm body. You’d make sure that they were qualified, that they had selling experience. You’d be picky and you would let people go who underperformed. They would have to be informed about the product and always up on the latest trends and changes.
But you can’t do it this way in MK. You’re just a resaler, and a crappy one at that because your wholesale cost is more expensive than it should be. Like paying $4 for $2 socks (really worth a $1 for the manufacturer) and then being forced to then mark those up to $8 to clear a profit after time and expenses. (General you.)
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sonotpink
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My recruiter went through DIQ at an unbelievable rate of speed. She also lost her unit very quickly. At one point, there were usually only two of us attending the weekly meetings. There is something inherently flawed in the whole system.
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Carol Stogner
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I’m an ex-IBC. Thanks to Pink Truth I got out with my hat in my hand. Keep up the good work PT. love you
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