Checking In On Chelsea!
Written by Parsons Green
Chelsea Adkins took a break from finishing up her first million dollar year (haha, just kidding!) to share a magical moment in her Mary Kay business. Shortly after stopping by her studio, The Cadillac Lounge, two women knocked on her door. They’ve been looking for a Mary Kay consultant!
In just ten minutes, she had sold them $345.56 in products! Based on the handwritten sales slips, it looks like she got them to pay full price! Jesus got a shout out for the sale.
One of her consultants was awed. She wants this type of success. Chelsea shares that this was possible because she has put in the work to become a director. Today’s visit was a form of passive income.
Chelsea shares one of her favorite Bible verses. Don’t give up!
Chelsea certainly isn’t giving up. She then reminds everyone that April 24th would be the last day to shop her birthday month specials! Rumor is Chelsea was giving 40% items purchased from her inventory (and not MyShop) each Friday in April! Did she meet her goals?
With momentum like this, I suspect Chelsea will end this seminar year strong! (You caught my sarcasm, right?)
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After 12 years of this, for the first time, she sees actual customer demand. To the tune of a one-time purchase of ~$345. This translates to less than a $30 average per year from demand-driven sales.
The things these ladies choose to brag about reveal such a lack of business acumen.
It seems success depends on lucky flukes although I doubt MK customers are raining down out of the sky like fish in a hurricane. Hence the warm stalking, begging and being tens of thousands in debt.
So she’s still paying rent on a space she never uses? (“By appointment only” makes me think she’s just using it as storage for all the boxes of crap she orders.)
I’m deeply skeptical that this happened at all.
It’s theoretically possible it happened by a lucky fluke but it does seem improbable. MK customers don’t tend to just drop out of the sky like that. There’s no real customer demand but you never know. If it did happen I doubt it happened the way it was told but you never know.
That, Jesus. Truly, he’s “da man” as she pointed out to us. Not only is His eye on the sparrow, but on MK consultants as well. Hallelujah!
Agggghh; That Bible verse!!! I’m no Bible expert but I’m 99% sure Paul’s letter to the Galatians was referring to doing good deeds of charity: loving your neighbor, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, being kind to the outcast, etc. NOT selling over-priced make-up to women. Certainly not recruiting them into your pyramid scheme to line your pockets. This kind of thing drove me bananas when I was in.
Acting like hawking MK was is calling from God; Get out of here with that! (One of big reasons seminar opened my eyes to the scam.)
“Super Executive Spaghetti Director” your name is too fabulous!!
I love referring to it also as “when I was in.” As in the state penitentiary?? No, just my time in the MK scam.
“I’ve been in…” our “blue blood” directors would chastise us for using this line. Haha!
If you work hard enough (accrue enough debt) you can become senior super national rigatoni team leader otherwise you’re stuck at basic independent capellini bossbabe. The next level is senior independent future tortellini ravioli queen.
I “stole” that name from someone on this site who referred to SDs as that in a comment. 🙂 I think it was Dave; it was a male user name of someone who hasn’t been posting here long. I waited a long time after the comment was made before using it as a user name, to see if anyone else wanted it.
Funny your directors scolded you for that phrase! It’s something I hear a lot of.
’twas me that started the pasta theme.
How do you know those sales were real?
Claire, you couldn’t possibly be suggesting that Chelsea, that pillar of integrity and honesty (not to mention modesty and good sense), would LIE for social media hits? Someone pass the smelling salts!!
Business must be going very poorly if $345 in sales is exciting.
There’s also an old article where Chels prayed for an MK miracle to the Big Guy. He obliged with a $215 skincare set. She got notified on the way to church and gushed about this “miracle.” If a $215 Repair set is worthy of raptures of joy and praising the Good Lord what must her sales be like?
It seems that even those at the top of the pyramid need divine intervention for a paltry sale. To put that into perspective, a department store MUA does that an hour, not in 12 years. And best of all a Dior artist doesn’t have to beg, cajole, pray and hope for crumbs. The counter is flocked with endless customers chasing them down, not ‘tother way around. No warm stalking, begging and pestering. And gets paid a basic salary regardless.
And doesn’t get charged for returns. The latest returns debacle at MK is if someone orders and returns on MyShop the consultant has money taken out of their account and gets paid back in the form of product and not money. Product that you can’t sell because the few MK customers are buying online. More debt and more unsellable mascara to clog up the garage with. One return could put you into overdraft or even into bankruptcy, imagine if someone returned $500 worth of Timewise and a Repair set because of chemical burns and a melted face and that $500 comes straight out of your bank. MK gets the money as does the customer but the MK rep is left with debt and unneeded products that in all likelihood will remain unsold until the Second Coming. Not that inventory went sold before MyShop of course.
I bought a BB cream that made me look like a Minion with liver failure, I returned it and got my £5 back in store credit so I could get another BB cream with my points card (which so far has £100 on it, MK doesn’t offer points when you buy things). As it’s a Boots card I can buy anything except medication for free as it’s a chemist. They even sell sandwiches so I can grab a free lunch. So far I have had 6 months of free acne cleanser, a Korean charcoal mask, tea tree toner, a free Wahl shaver, lunch, and a lip exfoliator as I get VERY chapped and sore lips in winter and I still have mucho spendy left over. The sales clerk wasn’t penalised and it took 2 minutes to go to the counter, return it and get points back and get a new non-Minion on deathbed tinted moisturiser (SPF 30 so don’t need to get sun cream) to cover up my face invaders and absorb the oil. My acne yeeter potions and lotions come in at about £15-£20 depending on sales and coupons for 2 months supply. MK’s Clearproof is £65 and are very harsh and all contain too much benzoyl peroxide and high levels of BHA which can make it worse. And I’m happy using Garnier charcoal mask as an engine oil and diesel remover for my hands when I run out of Swarfega.
Queen Chels has made $265 from these 3 sales assuming she’s sold at full price and not offered a discount, GWP or other bribes like a free cock straw with every order to make the sale. I’m being overly optimistic and giving her the benefit of the doubt here. $265, she’s really rolling in the dough. Move over Elon Musk there’s a new kid on the block…