It’s easy for us to forget that other MLMs suck just as bad as Mary Kay. I haven’t yet found one that isn’t a basic recruiting scheme, with the “real” money given out for recruiting (since the companies can’t stay Read more…
Written by Blessed (A Mary Kay Husband) Leaning against my car, waiting for my gas tank to fill, I took a moment to appreciate the October sky. It was the “golden hour” when the sun is low and the colors Read more…
Another piece written by a Mary Kay sales director promotes the Mary Kay “opportunity” to be the real secret to financial security, now and in the future. She doesn’t come right out and say it, but you know by the Read more…
Who knew it was so easy to make money in Mary Kay. (Never mind the cold hard facts that prove almost all women who get invovled in MLMs lose money.) Well, the truth is that it’s not easy to make Read more…
As we all know, the market for Mary Kay with actual retail customers is pretty small. Mary Kay depends on inventory orders from consultants and directors. Corporate has little regard for whether the products are actually sold to bona fide Read more…
The last week of May 2008, Pink Truth passed the $2 million retail milestone for total products returned to Mary Kay Inc. under the product repurchase agreement. And besides it just being a beautiful number, it says so much more Read more…
One of our members was so intent on getting the word out about Mary Kay in her community, that she contacted the newspaper of a college campus, and they printed her opinion piece. You have to see the actual Read more…
Whenever a new Mary Kay national sales director is appointed, the company hounds the local newspaper to run a story. They make the stories appealing: only 500 worldwide, millions of dollars of products “sold,” huge accomplishment, etc. But this article Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Recently I shared how Mary Kay recruiter claims of “Can you get excited about making $80 for a two-hour class?” weren’t quite as fantastic as they sounded. I also shared a bit about a garage sale Read more…
Written by The Artist As I stepped away from Mary Kay, I remember thinking of all that I could have done if circumstances in my family had been different… shoulda… woulda… coulda. I felt that I did the best I Read more…
@FrostyRose, great thoughts. Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies. 😁
Thanks Tracy. Wow, that could surely boost the daughter up the Mary Kay ladder. I have a feeling we will…
@DataJunkie, I witnessed this first hand. An NSD retired, and her Sales Director daughter (in my city) inherited all of…
Excellent comment. “MK always pressed upon us that Corporate benevolently paid for commissions from their profit. WHERE DOES THE COMPANY…
MK always pressed upon us that Corporate benevolently paid for commissions from their profit. The downline never had to pay…