Who Benefits From Inventory Orders?
Written by Parsons Green
Jessica Martin took to Facebook to share her thoughts in a group for consultants. When you signed up for Mary Kay, and were advised to place a large inventory order, was that for your benefit or your upline? Clearly, Jessica realizes now that it’s the upline who benefits, not the consultant who places the big order.
Various consultants weighed in. Emaly Welty said you should not go into debt for Mary Kay.
Jane Beck Edel placed a large order when she started, but that worked for her. And Chanda McGuffin-Tucker has her recruits do a debut party. You can offer pre-sales on your website and then combine those sales with what you collect in person at your debut. Do not order product if you have not sold out of what you already have.
Not Yet NSD Teri Willingham Shearer compares Mary Kay to WalMart. She is glad when she shops at WalMart, that they have a fully stocked inventory. Chanda reminds her that products do expire, and you don’t want to have to toss expired product. Teri claps back that Mary Kay products have a 3 year shelf life. You should not have expired product if you are actively working your business and if you do, it’s a tax write off. Angie Toccket adds that she just received a Miracle Set that has product expiring in less than 5 months. If Mary Kay products fly off the shelf, why does the warehouse have such old product?
Cindy Morrison loves having inventory. It gives her the motivation to get appointments booked! I wonder how many cancellations Cindy gets after she books?
Liliana Smith helpfully shares that Jessica is being negative. You have to put in work to get results. She’s had a 22 year career in Mary Kay with several returning customers. I wonder how many consultants have such a track record?
Andriesha Burley is mad that Jessica was speaking negatively about Mary Kay. If you sign up for Mary Kay, you become a business owner. Any inventory purchase is your decision as the business owner. She reminds Jessica that every company has an upline. Mary Kay has one of the most generous commission rates in the MLM business. Andriesha then slams Jessica for stating that she sold her samples. She reminds everyone that Mary Kay products sell themselves and lets everyone know that Jessica also sells for Farmasi and AVON!
Jessica did a follow up post where she assures everyone it is okay to sell for multiple businesses. Some businesses will be more active than others. You just have to go with the flow. She lets everyone know that in addition to Mary Kay and Avon, she also sells DoTerra and Legal Shield.
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Andriesha then responded to that post and was appalled that Jessica would promote her other business in a Mary Kay group!
And finally, Jessica shared this picture in July of some of the inventory she had sitting on her shelf. I wonder how much she has for the other companies she sells for.
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The fact that there is a policy in these MLMs that you can’t sell for more than one MLM at a time is revealing. Where is the curiousity? In reality, these MLM companies know you can only afford to lose so much per month on your MLM activity. If you are involved in more than one MLM, your “capacity for financial loss” gets divided across more than one MLM. Meanwhile each MLM wants this full capacity for themselves.
If you were a true retail business owner, you and your customers would benefit from you offering a wide range of products. But when you “pay to play” in more than one MLM playground, you are going to lose money all the faster.
Wake up folks. These pay-to-play endless-chain recruiting schemes are designed to benefit the corporation and the upline at your expense…regardless of the “product” on offer.
No, baby girl, legit companies have a hierarchy, not an upline. A company like Walmart has millions of employees, from the CEO down to the poor souls manning the registers and one person could never manage them all. So under the CEO is the rest of the C-suite, under them are the heads of buying, advertising, etc who manage smaller teams who actually get the work done, on down to the store managers and shift supervisors. It’s roughly pyramid shaped, true, but that’s because as you go down the qualifications become less exclusive so there are more people available to work on those levels.
Another major difference: Walmart buys goods directly from merchants USING COMPANY FUNDS, makes commercials, plans sales campaigns, has the goods distributed to its distribution centers, stores, and put on display by workers PAID BY THE COMPANY. These workers’ wages are determined by the nature of the position. The warehouse manager gets the same salary no matter how many pallets the forklift drivers move in a shift. The forklift driver gets the same hourly rate whether they work 6 hours or 16 hours (barring overtime and shift differentials and stuff like that… another thing MLM doesn’t have no matter how hard and how long you bust your hump trying to chase customers and hold parties).
Yet another major difference: Walmart chooses what to put in its stores based on sales patterns and demographics. They don’t just load up on stuff willy-nilly and wind up in situations like having a ton of foundation for POC in a majority white area, or a boatload of $300 Timewise sets in a low-income area. If you walked into a Miami Walmart today, you wouldn’t see snowblowers and boots. In Buffalo, you wouldn’t see patio furniture and swimsuits.
Oh, and let’s not forget that Walmart is busy from opening until closing, because it’s full of stuff that people want at prices they’re willing to pay, and they can get it in a simple transaction without being hassled to open up a Walmart of their own. Every day of your life, right, Ms Business Owner Chile?
MLM=crap. Just to get that behind us.
But IFFF we want to be somewhat “fair” with this inventory talk, here’s how it should be.
Judge the person sitting in front of you who just signed their agreement. If you know they have wealthy friends and you know they have a supportive family and you know just by looking at her that she’ll sell the stuff then let her order a big store. It benefits the director the most, and the girl will at least get rid of the stuff rather than being in debt. Everybody “wins”.
Now when you have a girl sitting in front of you and you know good and well she struggles to put food on the table every day and you let this girl get inventory… well, something is wrong with you and if you let that girl get anything above 600 you are a selfish disgusting person. Help her get active and let people order from the website until she’s able to save up cash to spend on inventory. What will likely happen is she’ll save up cash from other places (not from sales) and she’ll decide she wants to keep that cash, as she should. She’ll see she can make money for her family in other ways. Getting trapped in quotas is bad for everyone, but is only somewhat maintainable for one in a high socioeconomic status. Today, that’s very few people.
Don’t be a selfish jerk just so you can get a prize.