I Made $1,200 Last Quarter
I’m sorry but you guys are totally missing the point. I made over $1,200 last quarter just doing Mary Kay part time. That’s not even including the reorder I just got this morning. Maybe you didn’t know how to sell or build relationships. Maybe your attitude was the problem.
Just because you failed, doesn’t mean the company is bad. It just wasn’t for you. Plenty of us are making money and having fun and building confidence while we’re at it. You don’t speak for all of us so maybe stop acting like you do. It’s not Mary Kay’s fault you didn’t make it work.
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After reading Frosty Rose’s excellent article yesterday, I wonder how much Ms Blamenshame here had to spend to “earn” that $1200.
My question, especially on the heels of yesterday’s article, is how she’s defining “make.” Did you earn $1200 on an actual P&L? Is that the mythical 50% that you have to pretend you earned in front of the weekly meeting? Did you sell $1200? Follow up question, how many hours did you have to work to “make” that much?
In any case, $1200 in a whole quarter isn’t the flex she thinks it is. I could snag a job at my local grocery store making $15/hour and earn that much in less than 7 hours/week. And not have to think about it any other hours of my week.
“I made over $1,200 last quarter…”
You keep using that word…”made”. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
(Thanks to Inigo Montoya)
PTC must now order her next bunch of cosmetics to keep the 50% discount-
How much minimum does she need to order?
Wow! $100-ish a week. That’s impressive! LOL
PTC, who ever said none of the contributors here made money? That is not the primary claim, although some did lose money. The concern is more “how” money is made in MK, for the scant few who actually turn a true business profit.
No MLM downline can be profitable as a whole. For every person turning a true profit, many others in the same downline must be losing money. This reality is baked right into these pay-to-play endless-chain recruiting schemes like Mary Kay. There is no way around it.
Making money in MLMs like Mary Kay is nothing to brag about, given the harm required to others.
PTC doesn’t read the Monday-Thursday postings that would prove MK is nothing but smoke,mirrors and false friendships.
Does she think a quarter is four weeks? If that’s the case, I make $1,400 a quarter for part time work (a regular job). She might need to start hustling smarter.
Making money and making a profit are two different things.
Good answer!!!!
The Buc-ee’s near my parents is hiring coffee bar attendants at $22 per hour. Two, 8-hour shifts a week there would mean $352 per week gross ($4224 for the same quarter).
Your $1,200 in a quarter isn’t the flex you think it is.
And it’s Buccees!
I’m sorry but you guys are totally missing the point.
What point are we missing?
I made over $1,200 last quarter just doing Mary Kay part time.
So, just over $100 a week so less than $15 a day. Not fortune making money is it? And how many hours a week were you investing your time making less than minimum wage?
That’s not even including the reorder I just got this morning.
Which I notice you never mentioned how much that was either retail or wholesale.
Maybe you didn’t know how to sell or build relationships.
The ladies who posted here over the years have proven that assertion wrong countless times.
Maybe your attitude was the problem.
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Just because you failed, doesn’t mean the company is bad.
Failure is built into the company structure. In order for one woman to profit 249 must fail per the FTC.
It just wasn’t for you.
Then why the refrain of “Any-one can make it in Mary Kay”?
Plenty of us are making money
And yet, Mary Kay Corp’s own figures prove otherwise.
https://www.marykay.ca/-/media/images/mk/united-states/canada/esuite/footer/canadian-statement-of-typical-participant-earnings-2025.pdf
and having fun and building confidence while we’re at it.
Those are subjective experiences although many of the commentariat report similar experiences.
You don’t speak for all of us so maybe stop acting like you do.
No-one is claiming to “speak for all of us”. Many women here have written positively about different aspects that they enjoyed at the time. But they also acknowledge they have harmed other people, women and men, in the scramble to make money for Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Miller Hallenbeck Ash’s company .
Another thing for you to consider is that some of our content comes from the social media of both directors at all levels and director’s groups. That’s where you are seeing women struggling to “book, sell, book, recruit”.
It’s not Mary Kay’s fault you didn’t make it work.
Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Miller Hallenbeck Ash’s company thrives on other people’s failure.
So, was that gross receipts or true profit after all expenses were paid?
Add up ALL the money you spent on Mary Kay – product, meeting fees, credit card interest, payment processor fees, hostess gifts, the cute packing material, the gas, the website fees … ALL OF IT.
Subtract that from your $1,200
Because that is your actual spendable income.
And time. How much time was spent doing all of these things? After subtracting the expenses, divide up what’s left by the hours spent doing everything – driving, calling people, licking stamps, etc., and that’s the per hour rate.
I too am curious if the $1200 is before or after.
And then it’s the next quarter, time to reactivate with a $450 retail product order. So subtract $260. (average) from that profit.
The writer didn’t say how long she’s been with Mary Kay. If this was her first quarter, she may be enjoying the flurry of “pity purchases” that her friends and family made to help her get started. These will dry up fairly quickly, so she’d be smart not to count on selling this amount (modest though it is) forever.