April Jean Jacket Winners
Written by Parsons Green
Mary Kay held a sales contest for March and April based on website orders through MyShop. The top ten directors and consultants in each division would win a bedazzled jean jacket! The March winners were discussed here.
These are the April winners. Unfortunately, you could not win the jacket twice.
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In the Emerald Division, Cindy Sheppa was so excited to win one of the jean jackets. She was close to getting in the top five!
Cindy had a disappointing finish for the 2025 Seminar year. She failed to earn the top directors trip. It would have been her 8th consecutive trip. She was going to refocus and rebuild for 2026.
She posted about the contest on April 20th. She will double her deals in April.
On April 22, she was only 13 orders away from her goal. Mary Kay consultants are always using the word “orders,” but they never ever define the dollar amount they’re using for each of those orders.
By April 27th, she had reached #9! She has 4 days and 10 orders left to go.
By month end, she left a comment stating that she had beaten her goal.
Cindy finished in third place for her division with My Shop sales of $2,519. (Think about this when you wonder how little women are selling. This is third place out of thousands upon thousands of consultants. $2,500 at suggested retail. Remember this when you hear us say that you can’t making a living selling products in Mary Kay.)
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I’ve been selling Mary Kay for 31 years and had the numbers game figured out after about 5 years of never reaching what was told to me as ‘work hard and fake it till you make it’. I did earn 5 rings in those years, one bankruptcy because of the faking and never making it and could probably say a divorce, too, but I like to think it was because he was nuts!
Anyway – This story supports what I’ve known all along, there is NO 50% profit!! Ever!!
Here’s my math on Cindy’s Jacket: She sold $2500 retail
Cindy maybe keeps $1093 maximum after all the shipping fees (I used 13 orders for the $5.95 shipping MKC charges). Cindy probably paid this out of her profit for with a FREE Shipping offer, plus credit card processing (consultants pay MKC’s portion so the total processing fee the consultant picks up is approx 6.3%). Also subtract all her incentives for drawing, prizes and follow-up gifts for online ordering… MKC keeps $1250.
I have a couple of jean jackets that I bought from QVC at some point in the distant past. It was a heck of a lot easier than going through this rigmarole.