In Mary Kay, there is great shame in not meeting a goal. So much so, that women are routinely encouraged to use their own credit cards to “top off” production and get that last little bit in. This year (the seminar year that ended June 30), Chelsea Adkins was going …
Mary Kay nsd Lily Gauthreaux spent some time discussing the “99% of people lose money in MLM” statistic this weekend. Her conclusion: She knows it’s true, but she doesn’t care. Because in all of her years in MK, she has never known ANYONE who has treated MK as a business …
Written by Raisinberry I remember lying in bed looking at the ceiling, sick inside, because 4 credit cards were maxed out… How did I get here??? At an area event, I was teaching the DIQs, and I opened my mouth and these words came out: ”How many of you are …
Written by SuzyQ Sometimes at the unit meeting when the scorecard segment is announced… “Mary had a $300 week! Okay, we make 50% of everything we sell, so, that’s $150 profit. Let’s see, that’s $75 per hour! Not bad for two hours of work, eh, Mary? And I’ll bet Mary …
Written by Carolyn A former director’s story of her work never being good enough for success. After devoting 10 years to MK and doing “whatever it took” to keep the unit afloat and move up, she had nothing to show for it. Not even the “friends” she made in Mary …
At Pink Truth, we know that 99% of all participants in multi-level marketing lose money. Nonetheless, recruiters for Mary Kay and other MLMs tell recruits that they can make money just selling the product! They will tell you this while knowing that they have lost money, with hundreds or thousands …
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Sean Key used to be Mary Kay royalty. He went from VP Sales Force Motivation & Field Support at MK to unemployed in March 2020. He went from a 31 year career doing things like this: …. to being a peon at the bottom …
A reader of Pink Truth shares this story of her mother, who has been in Mary Kay for 25 years. For all those former Mary Kay consultants who lost money and were told they didn’t try hard enough or weren’t in long enough…. I just need a place to rant. …
Former Cadillac sales director (more recently a Premier Club director) Kimberly Perkins has quit Mary Kay. And she’s done it with a flourish! Let’s back it up. Kimberly started MK in 2008. In 2012, she got her first pink Cadillac. She requalified several times, but failed to qualify the last …
Written by A Mary Kay Husband As much as I love my wife, I truly resented the magnitude of the pressure she was under to perform the Mary Kay marketing plan. To do her sales job with this cosmetics company, certain aspects of our “normal” life were set aside. That …
