Eileen’s Friends and Family Don’t Support Her
Written by Parsons Green
Former Sales Director Eileen Collins is back to offer her guidance to fellow flailing consultants. Her friends and family do not support her so she is constantly on the lookout for new customers. Make sure you’re always looking your best and that you just keep going.
Emily Custer shares that her family loves Mary Kay Products. However, they do not buy from her! She is a single mom living in low income apartments and they have hundreds of dollars in products in their hopen. They will not help her. Ellen Becker suggests that Emily’s family may just be trying to buy that consultant’s friendship. Emily should focus on meeting her children’s friend’s families and fellow church goers. Warm chat anyone you meet. And yes, make sure you’re consistently using facial boxes to get new leads. Donnie Woepel Williams thinks that Emily’s family may not know she needs their purchases to support her family. Dunia Phillips adds that her sister in law purchases full price products from another consultant to give to her mother in law.
Sara Wilkenfeld Moore jumps in to gloat that 47 successful years in Mary Kay is the best revenge for anyone who wanted to see her fail. Sara, are you an NSD? (She is not)
Suzanne Verh was trying to max out her double credit offered in the last week in October as well as achieving $600 in wholesale orders for the month. She texted everyone and heard back from no one. Eileen thinks she should take out a sample basket and approach any stranger she comes across.
Carolyn Javick says that when people noticed how her skin looked, they became curious about the product. She gives family a 10% discount. That’s all she can afford to give.
Judy Harvey shares that when she started in Mary Kay, she was told to quickly pivot away from expecting purchases from friends and family and to find customers who will love the product. In her 35 years of Mary Kay, one of her customers joined her team and earned not one but TWO cars. That consultant has left the business. At her last family reunion, several family members asked her how she kept her skin looking so flawless.
Roni Higgins adds that your business truly doesn’t begin until you have exhausted your friends and family connections.
Kathy Powels has been in Mary Kay 16 years. When someone asks her when she’ll be in Cadillac, she’ll clap back that she will when they join her team. Screenshot
Tonya Vice’s friends and family wanted the discounts. She eventually signed up her mom so she could get a discount. She’s been a director now for 16 years and has met so many great people.
Mary Kay consultants like to sell the sizzle of the opportunity by saying the products sell themselves. Eileen and her fellow consultants are sharing stories about how hard it is to find people to even try the product.
Customers today do not want to buy MLM product. They don’t want to be pressured to be one more face. They don’t want to be bothered to join a team or to buy just one more lipstick. What will Eileen do when Mary Kay eventually turns to an affiliate business model?
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Oh, lord, so much cringe. The MK rocket ship is plunging headfirst into a black hole and they’re all telling each other it’ll be fine because the rocket has a nice paint job.
Family and friends often don’t like to do business with F&F. It’s too easy to wind up with hurt fee-fees on both sides over money and poor service, perceived or real. With someone outside your circle it’s easier to keep it strictly business… and much easier and better for family harmony to ignore her when she starts getting on your nerves.
Besides, that, it’s not anybody’s duty to pay your way to whatever pointless goal you’ve given yourself. Why should they buy stuff they don’t need or want? The economy sucks rocks. They’re allowed to set their own priorities when it comes to money.
These women who have been in for decades who still talk about warm chat and facial boxes are either delusional or pretending. They know how poor the return is with those techniques. And going around dressed to the nines, and overly made up to boot, sticks out like a sore thumb in today’s very casual world. All you’re doing is making yourself look out of touch and being annoying.
And if you wander up to me at random with a basket and start pestering me, you’re going to find out exacly how fast a fat woman can vanish into thin air.
For a while, I thought I was going crazy, because I was doing all the prospecting ideas that people suggested no matter how cringy they were….and for a while, I mean 20 years. I should have listened to my gut instead of trying to tell myself that these types of tactics are completely normal…meeting new friends…ugh! They were creepy and weird! The deal braker was when I collected 300 “leads” from 30 facia boxes I paid someone else to put out. 2 bookings. Nothing held. I wasn’t going crazy, I was being lied to about what worked in today’s marketplace.