Mary Kay’s director in qualification (DIQ) process is one of the worst things you can go through as a consultant. It involves scrambling for 1 to 4 months to get enough recruits who order enough products so you can “qualify” to be a sales director. You need to get 30 …
I can’t help but feel sorry for this Mary Kay consultant. She is somewhere below Red Jacket level, but appears to really believe she’s going to be a national sales director in 5 years. She’s decided that she will have commission checks of $7,500 a month starting six months from …
Written by Frosty Rose I spent a long time, both during and after my Mary Kay career, being angry with my director. You see, I was a high driver, high achieving, high D (for those who know the DISC behavior profile). That’s what drew me to Mary Kay in the …
Written by Frosty Rose and Parsonsgreen We spend a lot of time here talking about Jamie Taylor and her national area. Why? Is it because she’s unique? No. Does she stand out? Only in her wide-open social media presence. Jamie Taylor is the living, breathing embodiment of the impossibility of …
Written by Frosty Rose and Parsonsgreen Well, folks, Leadership 2023 has come and gone, in all its wannabe-Nashville-cowgirl glory. Conspicuous consumption, dress code violations (more on that entertaining topic to come), and, of course, the opportunity for directors to increase their “bee-lieve level.” To set new goals, or recommit to …
Let’s take a look back to the 2012 Harper’s Magazine cover story, The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Desperate Housewives. Mary Kay Inc. immediately responded to the article, but with almost no substance. There have been two primary arguments corporate representatives use to “prove” that Mary …
One of the many sales directors Jamie Taylor has lost since finishing her national area in Mary Kay is MaryLei Applegate. (If you don’t want to read the linked article, the summary is that since finishing the requirements for NSD on March 31, 2021, Jamie has lost 4 first line …
Poor Nancy S. North, Mary Kay sales director. She has been on the MK hamster wheel as a director since 1983. Yes, that’s 39 years. And her goal according to her website is to become a national sales director in 2016. It looks like Nancy has never even gone on …
Did you wonder why you were failing in Mary Kay? They don’t want you to think that it’s because of the system. 99% of people fail in MLM because it’s simply a pyramid scheme. You can’t retail enough products to make a living and recruiting is almost always a losing …
We talk a lot about the 99% failure rate in multi-level marketing. (Yes, Mary Kay is an MLM.) Where does that failure rate come from? Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert has conducted extensive research despite the difficulties. Companies like Mary Kay, which are privately owned, release little to no …
