Go To Seminar or Stay Home?
The Mary Kay sales directors and national sales directors will twist your arm to attend all the events….
Prior to joining Mary Kay, you’re told about all the money you’ll make, and how you’ll be able to stay home with your family.
Then you start working, and it’s not happening. You’re not making money. And the little that you were making on some product sales is turned into even less because you’re encouraged to recruit your customers and earn 4% from them instead of 40-50%.
You find yourself gone all the time. Every time you turn around, there is another meeting or event you’re expected to attend. Oh sure, they’re “optional”. But if you don’t attend and bring guests, you’re just a loser. But after a while, conforming to this behavior becomes old.
You want to make money and stay home, just like they told you. So the lies have to get more elaborate in order to convince you to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on events which really do nothing for your business. Events like the Mary Kay seminar in Dallas, TX or Mary Kay Career Conference in a city near you.
Here’s one way to convince you to waste your time and money on these events:
Myth: I just need to stay home and work.
When evaluating the BIG 4 (Seminar, Career Conference, Fall Retreat and Leadership (for directors only). The biggest MYTH OF ALL is: I don’t need to attend I just need to stay home and work.
People who say that need more money or have a lack of money. That is a result not from lack of work but from thoughts about their work. They have had plenty of opportunities to work but their work has not produced results. Everything begins with thoughts.Thoughts then create action and action creates income, not work.
I remember vividly the turning point day in my leadership when I came to this realization. I actually said out loud to my NSD “I know I could do what you do if I knew what you knew.” I understood that day I couldn’t be a NSD until I thought like a NSD. I knew that above all else I needed to attend every thing I could so I could learn to think differently.
Even if the funds came from my family or I had to do without something personally, events took priority over everything else. Staying home, driving the same roads, eating the same foods, listening to the same people, looking at your life through the same eyes does not create more income.
No one in the history of my national area has ever stayed home and made more money. In fact time and time again those who believe this isn’t a MYTH move further and further down scoreboards and provide less and less income to their family. That is a fact not myth.
Myth Busted: Staying home costs your family money.
She’s probably right. Those who stay home don’t get wrapped up in the rah rah of the business and start recruiting and frontloading like crazy.
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I knew that above all else I needed to attend every thing (sic) I could so I could learn to think differently.
The myth that all it takes to succeed is the correct mindset came out of books that far pre-date The Secret or even The Power of Positive Thinking. Napoleon Hill first got that particular ball rolling with Think and Grow Rich in 1937. Hill claimed to have interviewed many successful industry titans to see what the secret (there’s that word again) to their success was. The dominant thread Hill saw was a bold confidence in them that they would succeed, and concluded that their mindset got them where they were.
What Hill failed to realize was that there is a difference between necessary and sufficient. Sure, confidence helps, but a mindset is not a skill set, and confidence without skills can lead to frustration and financial ruin.
But many can be seduced by the notion of a shortcut to success, and thus lay themselves open to the brainwashing that goes on at these MLM conventions. Even the most cynical among us can get caught up in the rah-rah energy of a room filled with True Believers, and miss the illogic of a thought-stopping cliché like:
Thoughts then create action and action creates income, not work.
Because what does it even mean? What is “action,” if not work?
This entire essay is propaganda to convince its readership to submit themselves to multiple brainwashing sessions each and every year.
So well said! Also, if you look at very successful entrepreneurs, it comes down to the value they bring to others. Steve Jobs didn’t have to beg people to participate in his vision. He didn’t need a team of sales reps to meet with his prospective customers in person to share the value proposition. Folks were willing to use his products because they have intrinsic value. His iPhone form factor and interface design transformed the way the world uses computing devices as well as how people communicate. As a result, he and his company were very richly rewarded. The consumer wins, getting a product they feel is worth the price, and the company wins, through sales revenue.
Mary Kay, meanwhile, brings nothing of value to the market-place. The role of the down-line is to provide money to the up-line…simple as that. The product as a consumable does not really even come into play in the business model. It is a placeholder for something of value, without any real intrinsic value. Proof? What percent of Mary Kay product ends up unused and then either donated or sent to the landfill? 80%? More?
The fact that no one can answer that question tells you all you need to know about the intrinsic value of Mary Kay products, and the fraudulent role the “product” plays in the whole Mary Kay “scheme”.
“Even if the funds came from my family…”?????? Is she kidding? I thought MK was supposed to GIVE $ to your family, not take it!
I made the choice to not attend seminar despite my directors constant urging and telling me how life changing it is. I was in the pink bubble for over two years. Earned the car, was a director, had the big girl paychecks, bought in to the illusion, lost a ton if money, mislead a lot of people. I basically just stay active now trying to get rid of inventory and meet the needs of my few customers. Most of my customers having been turned into team members and now they purchase nothing!! What kills me us that seminar is so expensive and complicated. It is also very elitist. The wanna 🐝 want to be with the big girls. I just saw from my nsd that she wants more money to attend our area awards night as well. So, seminar + travel + hotel + meals + tips + new clothes (who wears black pumps, hose, or slips?!?) + after five wear + area awards fee + vendor purchases. . . . It just goes on and on. If all that isn’t enricing enough, you should see the suggested packing list. The dress code is strict and archaic. No thank you MaryKay
I like your user name, Diz. It works on multiple levels!
Yeah Seminar is a money pit. And it’s in Dallas, TX in the dead of summer. Whose idea was that. WHO DO I NEED TO SMACK.
I think I read here on Pink Truth that they hold it in Dallas because: 1. That’s where MK HQ is located, and 2. Thanks to the heat and humidity in Texas that time of year, very few other conventions or conferences want to meet there during July or August. So MK HQ probably gets some kind of price break to hold their conference then.
Seminar sucked. I’ve never paid so much money to applaud for hours for people I didn’t know, had never met, never seen and never would see again. I don’t remember the “entertainment” being anything very good. It should have been free or they should have paid us in the audience to provide the applause for the phony awards. I feel like such a SUCKER to have paid to attend that thing. And yes, Dallas in July is akin to Minnesota in December. It has to be purposeful. The heat must assist with the brainwashing.
I am so glad I wasn’t sucked into seminar. The sharing of rooms and the “glitz” was enough to keep me away.