Foundation Contest
Written by Parsons Green
Mary Kay is holding a foundation contest that ends on June 30th, the last day of the seminar year. The “True-to-Me Challenge” is promoting sales of the new Timewise 3D foundations. Any consultant who orders 10 or more foundations will receive a special “bling button” on their seminar badge as well as STANDING recognition.
In addition, the top 3 units from each division based on sales will receive a special invite to a virtual workshop. Ryan Rogers will also send each director a special SIGNED letter!!!! To make things fair for the smaller units, each division will recognize the top unit based on sales average compared to unit size.
This contest surely must be firing up the sales force. The company sent our a reminder on June 15th that there were only 15 days left in the contest and shared results for the top three teams.
Linda Burns is leading the pack with unit sales of 1,004 foundations. (Oops! Not really sales. Actually just orders by consultants.) Christy Bigham is close behind with 914 and Shelly Palen can easily close the gap with 880. All three directors are part of the Mary Kay National Area and do not have a national sales director. A
t the end of May, Shelly was the #3 director in Diamond with $878,607 unit sales. Christy was the third in Sapphire with $673,862 and Linda, also in Diamond, only had $357,768.
Where are your sales Emerald??
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These contests are ridiculous. Anyone who believes these units actually sold these totals are seeing planes and living on fantasy island. These totals simply reflect how many inventory orders there were of the new foundations. Show me the retail sales slips or MyShop printout that show 1004 SALES of foundation. Just like every contest, star consultant, queens court or any other ridiculous contest they come up with, it’s all about inventory orders from consultants, not actual retail sales.
“We won’t be fooled again”- The Who
Companies normally provide incentives to their customers to purchase their products.
Oh wait…
Notice the wording — “…beauty consultant who sells…” and “unit quantity sold.”
In the past, these challenges have used words like ordering and production.
By the way, I received a really nice freebie from Laura Mercier for ordering my tinted moisturizer and translucent powder. I didn’t even have to interact with a real live human!
When I was a director, I told my consultants to only order what they sold. Perhaps order a full size for themselves or one to demo. Needless to say we never got any of the company’s contests. But I never had a guilty conscious either.
A 4th grader could recognize that these are crappy prizes. That’s a ton of money to spend only to be insulted with that crap.
“Earn an invitation to a virtual class on flawless foundation education”
A real cosmetics company would want its ENTIRE sales force to be educated.
That jumped out at me, too!
Yes!!!!!!! Why not offer this to everyone?
What lies!
Looks like Emerald is nominating themselves to be the next Seminar area to go
As a director I was told to order 3 of everything new. One to wear, one to sample* from and one to sell.
* samples were available then to use with customers.
Ah, the good old shitty days. We did have good samples and decent prizes and the mashed potato bar at seminar.
If there’s ever a Pink Truth Meetup, we must have a mashed potato bar.
With REAL mashed potatoes, with loads of butter and cream in them. Make mine slightly lumpy.
We could do it potluck style! Full disclosure: I make mine with butter and sour cream (not milk).
Even better!
If I’m on my own , I use half butter and half garlic butter.
I’ll bring the pasta for the super executive spaghetti directors.
ETA: sample from the sample tube was used at mtgs with brushes at meetings.
Not even Sephora has 1,000+ tubes of face spackle in stock. She’s really garage qualified, no hope of flogging all 1000 tubes to customers. That’s near £30k tied up.