Oh Naomi!
Written by Parsons Green
Naomi State is a Mary Kay sales director who has been featured on the front page before. She asked for help getting leads and admitted she wasn’t getting many sales from her Facebook parties. Somehow, she’s still able to book parties. But, she’s having trouble booking follow up or referral parties from those guests.
Lynn Huckels gives her guests a 50% discount on their products if they book a second party with three or more guests. If they cancel the party, she takes back the discount and charges the other 50% from the original order.
Johanna Giese will thank her hostess by mentioning how much she’s saved on her purchases.She also shares that Auri Hathaway will give an oil free eye makeup remover if you give her 20 referrals. You must hold the second party to get that gift.
Emily Schuette doesn’t offer hostess credit. She offers guests a customized experience based on their needs. Emily recently talked about having to bribe her consultants with a purse giveaway to set up their My Shop accounts. She also believes anyone can earn a Cadillac but not everyone wants to do the WORK.
In the Cadillac post, Emily takes time away from her income producing activities to bicker at Tracy in the comments!
Pamela Gard used to give away a skinvigorate brush if a hostess brought five new faces to the second party. (This brush is now discontinued but had a retail price of $75.)
Sadly for Lisa and Sharon, there weren’t many tips that were offered to help them and their consultants jazz up their appointment strategy.
Directors and consultants are desperately looking for any magic trick or tip that will help their business. If this opportunity was so great, why would they need help?
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Aren’t these consultants getting it? People don’t want to be bothered and offering free is just bribery. They can talk all they want about free or discounted products, but isn’t it sinking in that offering this is THE ONLY WAY TO GET PEOPLE TO HAVE A SO CALLED PARTY?
And the hounding after the party. People have enough to deal with and then to have someone texting or calling, or holding their products hostage.
When will they get it? People don’t want the products (there are better things out for less cost) and they don’t wanted to be hunted down after a purchase (Sephora and Ulta doesn’t offer an ultimatum to get me to come back in there).
Yeah it’s too much hassle. I want to just order my pimple preventer, have the Garnier (Amazon) fairy drop it off at my door and disappear out of my life until it’s time to reorder it. Sephora, Ulta, drugstores don’t need to bribe customers or use guilt tripping to have people come into the store. Customers constantly come in, some buy some don’t, clerks don’t harass and pester them or hold products hostage once they are bought. I’m happy with getting emailed with special offers and newsletters a few times a month from various online stores. Some I read some I don’t. I can unsubscribe if I want without having Karen McHun Senior Executive Ravioli Queen get around a phone or email block because it’s June 30th and unit production is needed ASAP and the truck is coming for the Escalade.
I love Tracy’s response to Emily. That says it all!
Emily recently had a “beef” with Sam Dee in her comment section over Sam’s YouTube video which Emily then tried to have copy-right struck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntOFKTEWz0
And Emily found out all about the Streisand effect! It’s never a good idea to try this as it has a very nasty habit of biting you on your pink sequined tooshie as many YouTubers found out the hard way.
I bet threatening to charge full price or withhold a gift unless you book another party is a threat that only works once, tops.
I’d be majorly pissed if I spent a fortune on product and it was held hostage. If I paid for it I want it.
Wait, how is charging them the other 50% legal?!
“Directors and consultants are desperately looking for any magic trick or tip that will help their business.”
There is no shortage of resources available to small businesses. But these resources only apply to real businesses. Peddling MLM products is closer to charity fund-raising than it is to running a real retail business. But few folks beyond F+F are interested in supporting your “charity”. F+F might consider a one time pity purchase, but that’s about it. After that they want you to find a way to support yourself without depending on their generosity.
Once your warm market has their pity purchases they aren’t inclined to buy again and then it’s warm stalking in the grocery store, facial boxes in the womens’ bathrooms and dragging a temptation basket around Starbies. The returns for cold markets are something like if you contact 50 people you get an average of 1 party booked with no guarantee it’ll hold. For my sins I worked briefly for a telecoms company cold calling B2B and the return rate was about 1 in 50-75 who were interested and that’s a product that businesses want and need.
People in this day and age just don’t want to wash their face at a stranger’s sink with 8 other equally bamboozled and annoyed women. MK isn’t a trending product, it’s overpriced and under par. Why pay Fenty prices when you can get Queen Rhirhi quality from Sephora in the latest colours that everyone on Instagram is talking about? Rhianna won’t blow up your phone either. Another problem is the bribes and discounts required to get a few pity parties eat into the already elusive 50% profit. Sephora can afford discounts and GWPs – and reward points. I got a free concealer with my foundation for my girlfriend. And best of all no partaay needed, no pressure selling, no recruitment and Sephora has a YUUUUGE range of products at a massive range of price points.
Everyone buys online as it’s convenient. Free next day shipping, rewards, special offers, high quality products. You can buy 24/7 without roping your friends into a pressure selling recruitment spiel, no guilt tripping other party attendees for Helen Hostess getting a free eyeshadow if you buy a $300 skincare line. You can honestly recommend products that you like without the ulterior motive of selling to friends and family.
Emily is a bad joke- just like her “business opportunity”.
All this BS just for lipstick. What a headache. As Dave said there are easier ways to find better products for less money. There are easier ways to get Mary Kay products if you want them – as a guest on MyShop, on Amazon, and eBay is loaded with products at a fraction of the price. No need to have a hostage negotiation… er… party.
“They pass a hand cream at the table (the last person gets to keep it).” I don’t want used hand cream where a bunch of other unsterilized hands have touched the opening. Gross. 🤮
If the products “fly off the shelves” then they would… fly off the shelves. There would be no need for parties and pressure tactics. In some markets Hermes doesn’t pay their sales force commissions for Kelly and Birkin bags because there’s such a high demand for them. (This is disgusting though, the salesperson still has to put out effort before the sale is made even though the sale is virtually guaranteed.)