You Just Didn’t Put in the Effort
Oh, please. Another sad little group whining because you “couldn’t make it work.” Maybe if you spent half as much time holding skincare classes as you do complaining on this site, you’d actually have some customers.
But sure! Blame the company, blame your upline, blame the “system.” Anything to avoid admitting you just didn’t want to put in the effort.
Success takes guts. Something you clearly wouldn’t recognize if it showed up in a pink Cadillac.
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Oh, please. Another sad little group whining because you “couldn’t make it work.”
It doesn’t work because it’s designed not to work.
https://imgur.com/a/mary-kay-canadian-income-disclosure-2024-hPNN90o
Maybe if you spent half as much time holding skincare classes as you do complaining on this site, you’d actually have some customers.
No-one here is complaining about Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Louis Miller Hallenbeck Ash’s fauxpotunity. Those screen shots are from IBCs and SDs and NSDs. No-one here is looking for customers!
But sure! Blame the company, blame your upline, blame the “system.”
As I said the “system” is rigged. The company flourishes while the IBCs and SDs struggle and burn-out.
Anything to avoid admitting you just didn’t want to put in the effort.
I remarked on another post, how I sometimes think that our PTCs read the screen shots posted and think that it is us complaining and not their own side so to speak. This looks like one of those PTCs mis-reading the conversations.
Success takes guts.
Not in Mary Kaylandia. It requires you to pester women up to twelve times in order to get them to capitulate. It requires you to lie and cheat, to steal people’s time, energy and money in order to succeed.
Something you clearly wouldn’t recognize if it showed up in a pink Cadillac.
If you had actually spent time reading any of our ex-Mary Kaybots, you would have seen they WERE successful. Cars and bars, bees, rings and bling, the stage-walks, these women had it all.
They realised that the debt and disillusion wasn’t what they had signed up for.
“Maybe if you spent half as much time holding skincare classes as you do complaining on this site, you’d actually have some customers.”
If every Mary Kay participant doubled their efforts, the loss rates would not change. And why is this so, PTC? Because it is the very nature of pay-to-play endless-chain recruiting schemes to create a bunch of losers for every winner. This loss rate is literally built right into each MLM model. Blaming the losers won’t change this. Why do you think the scant few big moneymakers in MLMs like Mary Kay are not doing so through product sales? Who do the SDs lean on most to make production? Their customers? More likely their downlines.
While you are choosing to side with the tiny sliver of MK participants up top who manage to turn a true business profit, we stand up for the exploited masses in the downline…who must lose money so the few at the top can turn a profit.
There is simply no way to blame your way out of this reality.
I challenge anyone to try to put together a skincare class of likely prospects – women who are interested in the product, and have the money to spend on the products themselves, in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile to make the effort it takes to hold the class.
Based on what I’ve seen in photos here, there are plenty of “classes” being held at nursing/assisted living homes, or with people who do not appear to have the wherewithal to spend on the relatively expensive products. They might by a pity product such as a lip gloss or something small at the most.
Plus how much do most consultants actually KNOW about skin care other than reading MK promo materials? Certainly women with money to spend would rather go to Sephora, Ulta, or a department store with a larger selection, knowledgable staff, and a hassle free return policy – on their own time.
There is simply no market for overpriced inferior products. Everyone shops online. Why bother with a Hun when you can get better products for less online without the annoyance of an obnoxious sales pitch?
Did you put any effort into calculating your true outside sales vs expenditures this year?
Did you put any effort into reading this site to learn why MLM’s are set up to fail?
Did you put any effort into talking to your downline and make sure they are actually making real money that they can support themselves on?
Did you put any effort into tracking outside sales you and your downline actually made?
Did you put any effort into finding out if the “successful” consultants, directors et al are not part of the “bad apples” problem?
Most importantly, did you put in any effort to help a fellow human being get out of a bad situation with real solutions not tied to making you more money in your MLM?(like this website actually does)?
Honest answers only please
If you ask me, the people who have guts are the ones who were able to step away. Walking away from something you’ve dedicated your life to for years or decades is never easy, and with the added pressure to conform and never be negative found in MLM, it makes it so much harder.
This! Once I decided to quit, I called the ladies I recruited to share the information I had learned and why I was quitting. It wasn’t a large number of women, but I was so scared to do it and unsure what they would think. Those calls were so well received and they were grateful that I did it. It’s easy to sit complacent than to admit and own up to what you’ve done. I had to own that I introduced them to a business model that wasn’t sustainable and set up for us all to lose.
I look at some of the “leaders” sometimes and just think, man, if the tenacity and energy you put into this business (minus the deceit) would be used out in the world for meaningful causes and true businesses, amazing things might happen.
This sound like something Ellen might write to us. I wonder if she finally bit the bullet and looked behind the pink curtain here.
I wonder how all of the changes with Amazon and the new ordering process is going to affect her bottom line? She won’t be able to use the old phrase, “You can’t sell from an empty wagon,” anymore since MK is setting them up for an affiliate model. Mary Kay will be sending customers their product rather than the IBC mailing it from personal stash if they order online.
“Skin care classes”
You can watch skin care classes (real ones!) you youtube-tik tok.
MK is outdated, much like the Fuller Brush man, and Encylopedia salesmen.