Another Look at Maggie’s Apple Corps
Written by Parsons Green
I recently checked in with Maggie Butcher and her Apple Corp Unit. 40 years as a Cadillac director, but never a national sales director, and not even close. That means no retirement and continuing the grind of monthly production as long as possible.
In February, 45 of Maggie’s consultants ordered, for a total of $16,450 wholesale. (Note: Cadillac required production averages to $19,000 wholesale per month, so Maggie has sadly fallen short!)
9 consultants ordered at least $600 in wholesale and earned a fabulous wallet (with zipper AND chain). The March prize is a combination mirror and comb.
Maggie had a special contest for the March Double Credit prize. If the unit as a whole gets $10,000 in wholesale orders, Maggie will offer cash back on wholesale orders – between $10 and $30!
Maggie loves to share her team wins. Five of her consultants had weeks where they sold more than $300! Five. FIVE. We celebrate five whole women selling more than $300. 
One of her consultants met with 6 new customers, sold 4 sets and did 10 Income Producing Activities. (Where’s the income though?)
Maggie sold to 16 customers, and 10 of those sales were over $100.
Maggie also recognizes National and Princess Courts. Because none of her consultants are yet in those courts, she also celebrates a special Maggie’s Court. Five of her consultants are in that court.
Maggie then gives a breakdown of everyone’s wholesale orders.
Maggie’s has no offspring directors and no DIQs. She does have a Team Leader though!
Maggie gives recognition for those consultants who joined Mary Kay that month and have 25 years or more of ordering. This month she had 7.
Maggie also gives a prize if she has 13 or more consultants who have a party with $100 or more sales that month. There were 45 parties that qualified. and two winners who each won $100. 
Maggie also rewards consultants who are working their business. Look at all the ways you can earn money (“bucks for building”) just by selling products that allegedly fly off the shelves.
She also includes a helpful tally of where everyone is with their bonus cash. Martha Helms has almost $350!
All of this hustle earned Maggie a personal recruiter check of $409 and a directors check of $4,208. This is in addition to her cash from retail sales. These checks then pay for all of Maggie’s prizes and payouts to her team. After she pays her business expenses, Maggie *might* be netting $40k out of her business. Wow!
Maggie has been in Mary Kay for more than 40 years. As a brand new consultant, will you ever be able to duplicate her “success”?
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OMG!!!! A virtual tour of Mary Kay alphabet of surnames’ office!!!! Be still my beating heart. What a prize!!!!
Such reward much prize. Because it’s perfectly normal to pay a pilgrimage to your dead boss’s shrine, sorry office, who went to the great lipstick factory in the sky a quarter of a century ago and not cultic at all…
Exactly my thoughts! What the heck? A virtual tour????
Not even your dead boss because you are INDEPENDENT. And heck we do not treat our founding fathers with that level of worship and they founded something that has lasted 249 years and 9 months (I’ve got the under for lasting to 250 years).
My salary isn’t great, but I get it for showing up for 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. The health benefits and PTO are fantastic. I get a pension. I do my specific job plus a few extra tasks that aren’t particularly onerous, and I leave it behind at 4:30 pm every day. Weekends are my own.
It paid for my car. I can have the clothes and shoes and food that I like, can heat and cool the house, pursue my hobbies. I can afford vet care for the cats. An expensive emergency is aggravating but not an unbearable financial hit.
Maggie has to spend 24/7/365 hustling, exhorting, hurrying, begging, worrying, lying, celebrating, hoping, motivating, fussing, and basically making me tired just reading about it. No benefits, no time off, no promise of a car next month, no pension.
All that for less than I make for a hell of a lot less stress.
Oh, and her underlings get to do all that, too, and earn peanuts for the privilege.
No thank you.
Maggie also recognizes National and Princess Courts. Because none of her consultants are yet in those courts, she also celebrates a special Maggie’s Court. Five of her consultants are in that court.
You must be truly desperate..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M22Kct61Co
Maggie has seven consultomers with over two hundred and fifty years worth of experience as a consultant between them and yet the highest honour any of them is currently achieving is ” Star Team Builder”.
If some-one offered me those figures as an opportunity for vast, uncapped wealth I’d be side-eyeing them so hard.
On another note, with the massive aviation strikes by Lufthansa/Swiss Air pilots and cabin crew, any news about the Switzerland trip?
I heard that some directors are having 12-hour delays and lost luggage. Is this true?
Lufthansa aren’t known as Losthansa in the industry for nothing! I can imagine a few Dacia LV style rants on social media (Dacia had her fake LV stolen and blew up Delta on Facebook – I’m sure they were quaking in their boots and called an EGM to discuss this major crisis…). Having said that I can’t imagine any handling agent wanting free MK makeup. There’s a hilarious post on r/AntiMLM where a porch bandit opened an MK box and didn’t take anything. Not even thieves want Mary Kay! If you sell anything on eBay and have any leftover MK boxes it’ll make them theftproof although probably scare your buyer into thinking you’ve just signed them up as a mediocre makeup pusher so there is that downside.
This is just actually really sad and pathetic. Self inflicted tho. Altho I did LOL when I got to the purple double credit section. IF they do $10K in wholesale, and you buy $225 worth of stuff you don’t need on your shelf (MyShop) then you could win “almost shipping cost” back at $10. WTF???
Woohoo! We’re rolling in it! Almost free shipping. Be still my heart! I bought a bottle of acne cream on Amazon. Free shipping and set me back just under £10 for a bottle. Amazon always have sales on Garnier so I never pay full price and get free next day delivery.
“As a brand new consultant, will you ever be able to duplicate her ‘success’?”
Put another way…
How many new downline consultants did Maggie recruit over 40 years to achieve and maintain this level of success? How much money did those recruits lose, individually and in the aggregate, as they washed out?
How many, if any, went on to eventually turn a true business profit?
These numbers would be shocking to prospective recruits, and should make them question whether Maggie’s terrible downline financial track record is worth their time/money investment.
But…but if you spend $225 you *almost* get free shipping! Bump that up to $600 in unneeded crap and you get a FREE MIRROR Y’ALL!!! Such profit much income many rewards!
I count 15 inactive or terminated consultomers here in one month so the churn is very real. Using industry information averages on MLMs 0.01% would have broken even or made a $1 profit. The other 99.9% lost money.
Might give that a pass thanks. It’s literally more profitable hunting under the sofa for lost change and that doesn’t clog your garage with debt, sorry, inventory that you can never sell in a month of Sundays.
The real test…how much has she paid in co-pays for her car and how much inventory does she have????
So it looks like only 9 paid over $600 which pushes the average purchase of the rest of the purchasers to around $300. And I’m sure it’s actually lower. So who has got a successful business going? Besides MKult.