Written by Lorraine I have been a consultant for about 6 months now. I’d like to start from the beginning. A good friend of mine starting selling. I came to one of her first parties. Her recruiter was supposed to be the one to run the show but she showed …
Written by Suzanne I read everything that is written on your site and I know how true it all is. So here I am still a Sr. Director in MK after over 35 years and today I just wanted to scream. Recently I sent a note to my Sr. Dir. …
Written by Carolyn A former director’s story of her work never being good enough for success, and her realization that she is a lazy loser who just gives up. I started Mary Kay as a stay at home mom with two babies, aged 18 months and 2 weeks. My husband …
Written by SuzyQ Sometimes at the unit meeting when the scorecard segment is announced… “Mary had a $300 week! Okay, we make 50% of everything we sell, so, that’s $150 profit. Let’s see, that’s $75 per hour! Not bad for two hours of work, eh, Mary? And I’ll bet Mary …
Written by Sad In Pink Many who read Pink Truth are lurkers or naysayers. They believe that MLMs really do work and that most of the people writing and commenting here are losers or whiners who just didn’t work hard enough. Maybe the naysayers just don’t understand that those of …
Jon Taylor was a well-known researcher of multi-level marketing. One of his studies involved a telephone survey of over 200 tax preparers in Idaho and Utah. He wrote about his experience: A manager of H&R Block in northern Utah, told me that during his 25 years of doing over 12,000 …
Written by Rachel I recently read a quote from a site promoting an MLM: To recoup your initial $570 costs, focus on enrolling two distributors into your downline and then help them also enroll two people each. This is the problem. Right here. It’s the exponential growth caused by unlimited …
Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert has conducted extensive research on multi-level marketing companies (MLMs). The research can be difficult with companies like Mary Kay, which are privately owned and therefore don’t release hardly any information about the dismal earnings of the sales force. (Who would want to admit the …
Written by ThinkPinkThinkAgain The SD who wrote this letter says all the same things my director has for my five years as a consultant, and all the things I parroted and believed. And there is definitely truth to the idea that consultants who do not work do not see earnings. …
This story comes from a reader of Pink Truth whose mother has been in Mary Kay for 25 years. For all those former Mary Kay consultants who lost money and were told they didn’t try hard enough or weren’t in long enough…. I just need a place to rant. I …
