Maggie’s Apple Corps
Written by Parsons Green
Maggie Butcher is a Mary Kay sales director who has driven a Pink Cadillac for 40 years. She is also one of the few remaining directors who publishes a monthly newsletter to share her unit’s results.
For June, she had 57 consultants placing an order – for a wholesale total of $30919! She achieved the $400,000 Circle of Achievement by having $435,000 retail ($217,500 wholesale). She was focused on earning her 21st Cadillac, and luckily she did. Her consultants also had a great year. Her top five court of sales consultants had between $26,000 and $15,000 retail! (Or $13,000 and $7,500 wholesale). Her queen of sharing had 2 new consultants and there was a 3 way tie for second place. Those consultants each signed up 1 new consultant.
She had 19 consultants order more than $700 wholesale in June.
Even though Maggie states she is a senior sales director, she has no offspring sales directors. I wonder how long ago she lost that one offspring sales director?
Several of Maggie’s team has been with her for over 25 years. I wonder why none of them have promoted themselves to Director or NSD?
Maggie also celebrates consultants who have a grand day. In Mary Kay, this means they’ve had a party with more than $100 in sales. If she has more than 13 consultants who do this in a month, she’ll have a drawing to award two of them $25. Maggie is excited to mention that this month they actually do have more than 13. They had 14. There were 52 grand days in June.
Maggie also helpfully shares each consultants commission total for that month. Maggie received $1133 in recruiter commissions and $9900 in director commissions. Sylvia Frisch had the next highest commission total coming in at $110.
Maggie then updated us on July results. She was able to attend seminar with two of her consultants and her downline gave her a pink gift bag and a glass bird. Sadly, she was not able to see Alysen Dirks receive her Princess Court of Sales Prize and stage walk because she had to catch the plane.
21 of her consultants are participating in the PCP program. At only 95 cents per customer they are providing great customer service by getting a copy of the Look Book in to their customer’s mailbox.
July is always a slow month for consultants and her Working with Accountability section shows that. Martha Helms sold over 30 products for a retail total of $1504. Her top 13 consultants only saw a combined total of 9 new customers. Maggie shares that she serviced 28 customers.
Only 3 consultants ordered over $600 wholesale in July.
Maggie has a new “Bucks for Building Year Long Promotion” this year. She will either mail you or bank your winnings to use at a Mary Kay career event. These prizes are so generous!
Maggie and her teams’s results show that it’s very very hard to make any serious money in Mary Kay. Maggie is able to achieve her results because she has a team below her who have been with the company a long long time and are consistently ordering small amounts. Bit by bit this adds up but how do you as a brand new consultant ever hope to do this? What would you think of this newsletter if it were shown to you at a party?
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Helen Kennedy-Baldwin invested $50 “in inventory” in June and $14 in July, and was highlighted as one of the 32 highest “investors”. Meanwhile Maggie sold to 28 customers with 12 spending over $100 and 17 of them getting products from her stockpile.
Some-one want to explain to me how these women are making “executive pay” from “part-time work”????
Maggie seems to be part of a dying breed. I’d need to see love checks for a month other than June to see if she’s really that close to six figure territory (I doubt it). But having stable team members for over 25 years? Selling old-lady make-up? Wow.
I have to admit I am surprised. Seems like a unicorn to me. I can’t imagine there are many left like Maggie. And as you suggest, the door is likely long since closed on anyone new getting to Maggie’s position.
The fact that no one on her team makes any money hints that she has some really good friends, motivated by love and loyalty more than personal drive. Or maybe the simple need to keep busy in that empty nest!
This is so embarrassing. I can’t believe she’d post those checks. Like, is this supposed to be motivating?! Or is she shaming them by making them want higher checks because they’ll be posted? All that time selling and you get $19?! And in June! Hahaha oh my. Let me guess.. that’s all you want to do.. ok. Hey Mags, show us your July check. And August. Also, how much of that 9k went to savings and how much went to pay the layers of debt you’re in? I got checks like that too and it went to pay off the mess I got myself into that year because you know “it’ll be worth it.”
We all know that June is the highest “paid” month of the year because of the “stretching” for goals. She got her team to buy so much inventtory that she got 11K. If she made that amount for every month, that would be something to marvel, but she doesn’t. You’ll notice she didn’t post the July check amounts. There’s a good reason why. Remember that Maggie also gets a commission off of her own ordering. Her IBCs don’t get that bonus.
What she doesn’t share is how much was taken out of her check for returned product from consultants who decided that the scam was not for them, taxes, prizes for consultants, buzz kits, section 2, rental of meeting space, travel and all of the events she has to go to, and so on. She has expenses that others in her unit don’t have.
The problem with planting apples from seed is that they don’t come back true to the variety, so you’re liable to get scraggly, disease-prone trees that have small, hard, sour, just about inedible fruit full of wormholes. Which, now I think about it, is a pretty good metaphor for Mary Kay and MLM in general.
I cannot get over what has baffled me from the start, WHY SHOULD ANYONE WORK TO GET ***YOU*** INTO A STATUS CAR??? What benefit does this “status” car bring to the team? I see it brings needless stress to the lives of many pink-drinking victims and lots of bennies to the Car Queen (ugghhh), but are there any benefits to the team members over the year cause they are in a Status Car Team?
I am praying that this shifting to enforced shipment from the warehouse does signal the coming end of INVENTORY. When that is eliminated, the consultant will truly be irrelevant and mkcorpse can be the low level purveyor of crappy cosmetics they so richly should be, WITHOUT THE VICTIMS. Maybe being thrust into the truly competitive open market will cause them to become current with trends and legitimately a quality brand. 60+ years of victimization hasn’t been inspiration enough, clearly.
Gross pay then taxes, expenses , health insurance come out of the check .
This woman has spent DECADES in Mary Kay and is still stuck at Director level.
And when she finally leaves, she’ll get no pension and no retirement benefits from the Company. She will also have to surrender the “free” Cadillac because it’s a leased vehicle.
There’s no light at the end of the Pink Tunnel.
It’s all so sad, isn’t it?
Oh but many of these directors are on their spouses’ health insurance so they conveniently disregard that cost for their unmarried downline members. That part always aggravates me, as I was single for my entire professional career and thus responsible for my own healthcare. FWIW, as a “victim” of corporate entities working a loser j.o.b., I got a great base salary, commissions, bonuses, and full benefits. Plus my sales territories were protected; I didn’t have to worry about asking potential customers (who were retail store owners as I was a wholesale manufacturer rep) if they already had “an MK girlie” like the bots do.
I can’t help but compare my career of 25 years to the directors/NSDs featured here.
How many hours does she spend a day hustling, making calls, sending texts, posting on SM to “help with our goals”, thinking of new ways to get her downline to spend more money so they can get some sort of rinkydink prize or help get “our” car?
I usually work a little more than 8 hours a day, but when I’m done, I’m DONE. None of this hustling every day for hours a day and begging people to spend more money so WE can get OUR Cadillac.
Why can’t her downline see that when they read this newsletter and realize that they aren’t getting anything out of it?
Holy moly, I used to know of this director and I recognize some of her consultants’ names. This unlocked a memory for me – unitnet! Can’t believe I used to aspire to this.
Ah yes, Unitnet. How I used to go there and “study.” Print stuff out, work hard, certain that ***this*** was the key to unlock the door to Leveling Up.
Maggie’s Apple Corps. Sounds like a 1980s children’s TV program.
I see Maggie can’t even spell “independent.”
Yes, above all, I grieve for all the women who have plunged heart, soul and futures into MK, and men and women across all con jobs that have received nothing but grief and suffering through dreams. I cannot help but think of Jim Jones. He started with what I believe were genuine intentions of a rainbow world of love and acceptance embracing all races. His own family was diverse through adoption and his church was a sanctuary many times. And it went so wrong. These horrific scams don’t start with good intentions and evidently last so much longer, to die with whimpers after devastating lives for decades [if they die]. Not with the blatant horror of Jonestown, but a long, drawn-out horror. I truly do pray for the healing and discernment needed to free the ones chained to these nightmares. With MK specifically in mind – such lovely women who only want to help their homes and other women flourish. I know how real the heartbreak is cause my heart is broken over the futility of it all. My heart gets healing from the stories of victory flowing through Pink Truth. xooxxoxoxoxo
“Investors” – always with the word games with these people. They’re not investing anything, they’re the real customers that are just buying products that will sit in closets for years. Maybe they can sell some to end customers, but often not.
Gurl! You need some make up on! Are you really a director? All your wrinkles are showing :0. I dont see you wearing any glamor…are you sure you sell cosmetics or Applecorn?