Global Social Squad: Lindsay Dickerhoof
Written by Parsons Green
Lindsay Dickerhoof is yet another member of Mary Kay’s Global Social Squad! She is full of Mary Kay Go Give Spirit and loves to speak at Mary Kay adjacent events such as one of Britani Jenks’s monthly sales director meetings.
Lindsay is really smart because she thinks she can explain all about how Mary Kay can’t possibly be a pyramid scheme. Except she confuses a corporate management structure which has more front line employees than executives (thus a pyramid visual) with the concept of a pyramid scheme.
And she thinks that recruiting employees, who get paid, is the same thing as recruiting people to put money into your scam and pass money up the pyramid to the directors and nsds.
But Mary Kay is really the opposite and what they really do is have the consultant at the top and the company is at the bottom, serving the consultants. You see, directors and nationals serve the consultants, and that’s the difference between a pyramid scheme and MK!
As part of the Global Social Squad, Lindsay shared how being a teacher is a perfect gateway to a side hustle in Mary Kay. She has three teachers on her team, and they sold ALMOST $4,000 in product to 30 customers in one weekend. Teachers trust teachers. Parents trust teachers. Teachers share strategies with each other, and that carries over to makeup and skin care. As a teacher, you are already selling to children and their parents. Use their trust to sell them products. Lindsay realizes teaching is HARD. Use Mary Kay as a vessel where someone can pour into YOU.
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(I think Lindsay needs help with both grammar and spell check. Her social media posts are full of glaring errors!)
Lindsay is on track to earn the use of her first Pink Cadillac by the end of March. She’s made a bet with her husband. If she succeeds, he will get MK Daddy tattooed on his body. I hope she shares the pic when he gets inked! That will inspire all Mary Kay husbands!
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Well, it’s the middle of April and I haven’t seen any hoopla about her earning the Caddy.
Hubby’s willingness to get that tattoo, on his bum apparently, shows how much faith he doesn’t have in her.
Oh, and the ubiquitous POV: thing on social annoys the everloving poo out of me. Of course it’s your POV; you’re the one freaking posting it! And get off my lawn, too.
Lindsay is really smart because she thinks she can explain all about how Mary Kay can’t possibly be a pyramid scheme. Except she confuses a corporate management structure which has more front line employees than executives (thus a pyramid visual) with the concept of a pyramid scheme.
All the huns love to make this false equivalence fallacy while conveniently forgetting about Ryan Rogers et alia who they work earning a pittance for unlike those making a respectable wage at HQ.
But… but… but… she drew triangles on paper! With a pink marker!!!
The whole “corporate and nationals support YOU” is a crock. The company keeps taking away the few benefits it offers the IBC (consultant cars for one) and making random product changes that ensure they’ll be stuck with a lot of unsellable inventory while having to buy up a boatload of unsellable inventory to stay current. LIke the upcoming all-new foundation line, in 2 different finishes and 947 different shades (and it separates so you have to knead the tube before using it!)
The Nashies only care about keeping the money flowing upwards by whatever means, be it envy baiting prizes (Beach weekend in January!!!), shame (Jamie is tired of Chelsea not doing million!), or junk prizes (like those bling beanies Somer Fortenberry must have a whole Gaylord box of).
Meanwhile, in a normal company, the hierarchy is roughly pyramid shaped because as you go up, there are fewer people on each level because it requires more specialized skills, experience, education, connections, what have you. The important difference is that everyone, from the CEO to the worker bees, is paid by the company. The money for those salaries comes from the sale of products or services to an end user. The money flows downhill. And no one has to buy up a heap of those products/services and try to sell them on their own, and no one has to recruit anyone else to get a cut of their sales in order to keep their job. (Corporate recruiters are different; their company’s saleable service is placing job-seekers with employers. They don’t get a cut of the recruitee’s salary going forward and the recruitee doesn’t work for them.)
The reason why MK is a pyramid scheme has nothing to do with geometry. Real companies are an open system where goods and services are sold directly to end users. MLM is a closed loop where products are not sold to end users; they are sold to the IBCs and the company is basically done at that point. They don’t care what happens to the stuff once it’s sold to a consultant. The IBCs sell very little, so the only way to make money is through recruitment and frontloading, and here the recruiter DOES get a cut of the recruitee’s sales and recruitments, the recruitee DOES work for the recruiter and her upline, and meanwhile she gets no support from above.
I know everyone here already knows this; it’s for the sake of the huns hate-reading this site who I hope will come to realize it’s a little more than pink triangles and POV butt tats.
And the BIG difference between an MLM pyramid and a corporate structure is the source and direction of the cash flow. In MLMs, the money comes primarily from the individuals in the sales force, and flows upward into the pyramid and to corporate. It only flows “up”:
– Sales Rep->Upline Commissions (multiple layers)
– Sales Rep->Personal Commissions
– Downline->Sales Rep Commissions
– Sales Rep->MLM Corporate Coffers->Corporate Employees (payroll)
In traditional companies, cash flow comes from outside customers, and flows into corporate coffers, from which the company pays all of it bills, including payroll. Cash does not flow through the corporate hierarchy. It flows sideways:
Customer->Corporate Coffers->Corporate Employee (payroll)
Normal companies are not “pay to play”. Employees do not need to be customers of the company to get paid.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qdSqhJKB4JU?si=NH_igaGfj6-_5gX1
Towards the end of March, she posted this update to show they weren’t close to finishing Cadillac. The kids are too young to realize the seriousness of the topic, so they’re fussing and trying to play with the board. One of them also breaks the handle off a makeup mirror.
Well, my stars and garters. I hope she disinherited and disowned the disrespectful little rodents AND made them take baths even though they didn’t wanna!!!
Just shows how flimsy those mirrors are if a pre-schooler can accidentally break one.
Parents trust teachers. Teachers share strategies with each other, and that carries over to makeup and skin care. As a teacher, you are already selling to children and their parents.
I would stop trusting any teacher who is trying to force our professional relationship into a business one.. While my children DID go to private schools, the school was selling their collective experience and facilities, not the induvial teachers.
Enviorment. Three times in one post. The first time, I thought it was a typo. By the third, it was obvious that’s how she thinks it is spelled.
Not to mention how completely wrong she is on the basic premise. Teaching a child to read is in no way the “same thing” as selling to the student and parent that the child can read.
This reminds me of the push to recruit nurses because their patients trust them.
Gah.
Spellchecker isn’t a real thing to these women. Or should it be a reel thing?
Notices mis-spelled word in one of her earlier comments!😳
The misspelling could be engagement bait like the upside down name tag, but either way it’s unprofessional and makes teachers look bad. She’s a terrible teacher and I wouldn’t trust her with my kids.
Lindsay Hare Dickerhoof.
Her mom, Tammy Hare, is a Cadillac SSD (per her FB profile.)
“enviorment” I wouldn’t hire a teacher or a social media guide that failed elementary school spelling. I would also fire a teacher that abused their position by pushing products onto students and parents. I weep for any students that has this moron for a teacher.
Asking this idiot to be in an instructing position is another sign that MK Corporate is in trouble. They don’t have any quality people available in their ranks.
Imma need a few minutes for my rage to stop seething after reading this. How dare she minimize an educator’s role, reducing our degrees, certifications, dedication to a mere gateway for a stupid pyramid scheme? If I’ve done my job, you bet students and their parents trust me. But that’s because I’ve proven over and over that I am investing in them, not expecting something in return. I’d like to think that the vast majority of us prefer not to use the relationships we have built to manipulate others.
Also, if I want an extra $4000, I can teach summer school. Or tutor. Or sell on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Oh, also, if you don’t mind a little profanity, please enjoy! 😂
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOfLfnnkU2B/?igsh=dTc4bWk3dnpobWx0
Instead of the pyramid, I often see other MLM reps using a tree diagram. Same thing, just turned on its side. No border drawn around it.
At least it looks more :cough: “scientific.” LOL