People Say They Want to Make Money
This comment by Natasha was left on a recent Pink Truth post. I am super curious about her because she’s such a successful entreprenuer outside of Mary Kay and doesn’t need to be a director in MK, yet she became a director. I think she buries her main point in the middle of her comment: She thinks we “weren’t willing to do the work.”
I was a Director 12 months after I joined. I also had the Mary Kay car last year. I still sell the products but I don’t have a team anymore. I already had a thriving business prior to Mary Kay but the products worked so well on my perimenopause break outs. I decided to join.
It was some work to be a director and with you having to always meet new people daily, it was very time consuming for me. People say they want to make money but most often they are not willing to do the excessive work required.
I actually love the products. I almost exclusively use Mary Kay. I have many customers so I refill orders quite frequently. I consider it just another one of my businesses.
I would tell people that you don’t quit a job to join Mary Kay or refinance a house. There are plenty businesses you can start with a little bit of money. I have been a successful entrepreneur for many years and I already had everything that I desired such as time freedom, an house, new cars, and travel. No need to be a director in Mary Kay.
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I was a Director 12 months after I joined. I also had the Mary Kay car last year.
As usual, claims without documentation backing it up.
I still sell the products but I don’t have a team anymore.
Why are you now an IBC and not a director? Could it be that the “Churn” was too much to keep up with?
I already had a thriving business prior to Mary Kay
Now we understand just how you got your directorship. External monies.
but the products worked so well on my perimenopause break outs. I decided to join.
Right!
It was some work to be a director and with you having to always meet new people daily, it was very time consuming for me.
Yes, it’s meant to be otherwise you’d realise how little money you are actually making.
People say they want to make money but most often they are not willing to do the excessive work required.
But but but, how can this be? I’ve always been told “it’s executive pay for part-time work” or “work in small pockets of your time” or “if you can spend time scrolling on an evening then you can use that time to make extra money”. This makes you sound like Schrodinger’s Mary KayBot.
I actually love the products. I almost exclusively use Mary Kay. I have many customers so I refill orders quite frequently. I consider it just another one of my businesses.
So you have a built-in customer base from your other business. I wonder what it is since you never speak about what else you do?
I would tell people that you don’t quit a job to join Mary Kay or refinance a house.
And yet, SDs and NSDs routinely and earnestly say that you can do both of those things alongside retiring your husband.
There are plenty businesses you can start with a little bit of money.
This is true, though I’m surprised that Ms. Successful Entrepreneur tm never named any.
I have been a successful entrepreneur for many years and I already had everything that I desired such as time freedom, an house, new cars, and travel.
So robbing Peter to pay Paul was how you got to be a director. Then your house of cards came a-tumbling down.
No need to be a director in Mary Kay.
Not for the average person, no. But SDs and NSDs desperately need a never-ending pool of hopeful DIQs to keep the pyramid stable under them.
I am so tired of these people saying we didn’t do the work, didn’t work Mary Kay as a business. Well guess what, being a consultant is not a business-you didn’t buy a franchise. You are simply a piece of a pyramid building your own pyramid. Unfortunately, many of us DID do the work, used the scripts, bought the inventory to stock our “stores”. What happened was we figured out the lies we were living. Did some of us make some money? Yes. But we also saw a lot of women losing money and going into debt. Women WE recruited. We couldn’t continue on that path and now we sharing the truth about how the “business” operates. If you are comfortable living the lies then by all means order that starter kit today.
*we are sharing…
“I was a Director 12 months after I joined. I also had the Mary Kay car last year. I still sell the products but I don’t have a team anymore. I already had a thriving business prior to Mary Kay but the products worked so well on my perimenopause break outs. I decided to join.”
Reading betweent the lines, I figure we have a serial MLMer (“thriving small business” owner…NOT) who got suckered in and rushed through DIQ by a greedy director. Once her bank account was sucked dry, the director dropped her like a hot potato, she missed production, lost the car and unit, and is looking to make it like it was her choice and not being fuffed over by the system.
I highly doubt that she and her “many customers” (how many, exactly?) buy enough stuff to qualify for the $250 quarterly minimum, or whatever it is now.
“…with you having to always meet new people daily…”
Churn is the name of the game in MLM. If MK was a viable retail business, you would have a relatively stable customer base, and you could rely on traditional advertising and word-of-mouth to gain new, loyal customers. The fact that you have to work so hard to grow and sustain a customer base shows how little real demand there is for MK products. MLM products are simply not a good “value.” They are grossly overpriced for the quality.
Sorry to break it to you OP, but the reason you have to work so much harder in MK than any normal business is the nature of the customer. In MK, you have to recruit your customers, fooling them into believing they are business owners so they order way more overpriced inventory than they can ever hope to sell or use personally, and then convince them to recruit others to do the same, ad infinitum, before they inevitably quit (and hopefully they don’t return their product!)
Over-ordering is not sustainable for the sales rep, which is why churn rates are so high in Mary Kay, and why you need to “always meet new people.”
I know someone who got a mary kay car and then lost a mary kay car back in the 90s. Now how do you suppose that happens? Maybe she did something wrong or maybe the mary kay job is broken system.
Mary kay company never changed their system but expect their mary kay girls to keep producing better results every month.
“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” is often associated with the definition of insanity.”