Written by Fembot67

I have 3 kids, and I’m going through a divorce.  Last summer I was dragged to a Mary Kat party.  I had been looking for a job at the time.  I fell in love with the products and was very interested in the opportunity.  The woman doing the party didn’t actively try to recruit me at all, but I went home thinking about it.  It looked so easy!  I called her a few days later and said “sign me up!”  She sent me the link and I got going.

I got the call the next day from my sales director and she instructed me to listen to Lisa Allison’s boot camp and her pod casts.  I ate the stuff up.  I was so excited!  Next came the inventory talk.  I was floored that I was being asked to buy so much product, but you can’t sell from an empty wagon, RIGHT??  I totally agreed.  Unfortunately, I had no savings, terrible credit and don’t use credit cards.  My sales director asked me to try to borrow the money, which I did, but no one would give it to me.  I ended up selling my third car to pay for it and came in at a Sapphire level.

Written by SuzyQ

Welcome home from Seminar!!! It was wonderful wasn’t it? The best one ever! AND you received the gift of hearing exactly what you needed to hear, exactly when you needed to hear it. If you had lots of consultants attend from your Unit, well, then… You go girl! Not so many? One maybe? Well, that’s okay. She caught what was taught, and off you go on the new Seminar year adventure!

The classes were awesome! Such great unit building ideas! Different ways of doing consistency clubs—recognizing sales—wow, you needed to hear that! And off you go! Been to the negative site, yet? Whew, glad that is out of your system, now you can set your course, and there will be NO negativity permitted this year. I am so glad you were able to buy books and the CDs at the vendors, (not to mention the unit prizes)… saves the shipping charges! And they will turn it all around for you! This is truly your year! Munich, here you come!

Written by Raisinberry

Years of postings on Pink Truth from consultants and Directors have yet to produce an honest response from the company or the Nationals concerning the abuses suffered from starting a Mary Kay distributorship. I say distributorship because it certainly is not a “business”.

Hundreds of women have posted here about their years of working it, multiple earned cars, status on the career path, and still they have come away with the realization that they can rarely be truthful about the internal workings of Mary Kay because women wouldn’t join if they knew! Telling the TRUTH would definitely curtail all the enthusiasm!

Note from Pink Truth: If you’ve never been to Mary Kay’s Seminar before, you have got to believe me when I say this is exactly how all the speeches sound. For those of you who have been there, please don’t fall off your chairs laughing.

Written by SuzyQ

Hello! And thank you all so much! Wow, I never thought I would be on this fantastic Seminar Stage with all my sister Sales Directors and Consultants in this wonderful arena! Where do I start?

I would like you to meet my incredible unit! If you would all stand please. These women are the best in Mary Kay! What an awesome year we had and how proud of you I am! I am so blessed to be your director! It is such an honor to represent you on this stage! Thank you all so much.

Written by Raisinberry

If you are being pressured and manipulated into attending Seminar this year, and your Director is telling you that in 3 days, you will have a college degree equivalent, this is your lucky day! In just 5 short minutes, you will learn here, what you will be taught in Dallas at the cost of pennies on the dollar! Do you have a quick 5 minutes? Sure you do!

Mary Kay Cosmetics wishes for you to attend Seminar so that you can feel rewarded and special, and catch the “dream”with the hopes of motivating you to reach the next career level. They haven’t really ever wanted you to excel at sales, since they don’t track sales. (We all know that we are supposed to “inspect what we expect” and the fact that no one inspects your retail sales should be a big eye opener.) What they do track is recruits and wholesale orders.

Written by Raisinberry

I was digging in my closet and found a beaded gown wrapped in plastic. Just south of the hanger was a pair of sparkly shoes with a 3 inch heel. Memories flooded my mind of that magical night in Dallas, when the Arena was dark and we raced to our seats… running up the ramp into Section 21, passing the food stand and being greeted at the door with our official program of all of tonight’s winners.

At one Awards night, we got a slender penlight with fiber optic fringe shooting out of it, reminiscent of the flaming bic ” give us another song” lighter days. Once we got a mini hand clapper that saved our bruised and reddened palms from non-stop clapping. But tonight we were going to have to rely on our own sweaty palms and get ready for the “greatest night of our lives.”

Mary Kay brags that they recruited 165,000 new consultants in April 2011, and that March 2011 was the month with highest sales ever in the history of Mary Kay. But how engaged are all these orderers? If seminar attendance is any indication, not much!

This year, Mary Kay will have 30,000 women attending Seminar at the Dallas Convention Center. That’s the lowest figure in at least a decade, and probably much longer. Thank goodness women are finally figuring out what a waste of money that fake pep rally is. Fake training, fake awards (based on how much you can order, not how much you can sell) and an all around fake feel-good atmosphere for thousands of women who are losing money in Mary Kay.

Check out attendance for prior years:

Thanks to wazpink for providing us with this picture of Mary Kay sales director debuts at Emerald Seminar. I have included pictures for prior years too, so you can compare the numbers. If anyone gets their hands on similar pictures from other seminars, please send them our way!