It’s just good business to maximize your Mary Kay commission check, right? We’ve all heard the upline talk about not “leaving money on the table.” In general, I don’t mind the concept of making the most money possible. Yet when Read more…
The following are notes taken by a Mary Kay sales director on Chief Marketing Officer Rhonda Shasteen’s presentation at a recent “Power Up” in Minnesota. I’ll let the notes speak for themselves, but be sure to pay close attention to Read more…
Mary Kay sales directors are having problems recruiting Generation Y women into the pink cult. The reasons are obvious. Sure, they’re going to recruit some younger women who admire the Dacias and the Allisons and want to “have it all” Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Okay, I wholeheartedly admit it, I’m a bibliophile. There are books in every room of my home. (Yes, THAT room, too.) As of late I am simultaneously reading four tomes: James Lileks’s Gastroanomilies, Glenn Beck’s An Read more…
Written by Raisinberry How a sinking company makes a sinking consultant. You may not have noticed that your journey in Mary Kay was littered with multiple prize promotions. “Sure I did,” you say, “That was one of the selling points.” Read more…
An email from a new reader: Today I spent my lunch hour at the local mall where a young woman approached me on my way out to tell me that “I look just like the type of girl Mary Kay Read more…
Written by SuzyQ It seems that we have more than a few new readers on Pink Truth in the last couple of days. We are crediting the director suit picture in the email that “should not have been forwarded” for Read more…
Pink Truth is definitely accomplishing its goal each day! I was excited last night after meeting with a friend of mine who was convincing me to become a Mary Kay consultant. She needed just one more person to meet her Read more…
Written by SuzyQ They are sending out newsletters and emails celebrating the fact that the USA is facing (or in the words of one, is IN) an economic recession! Oh, happy day. And it is because the sales of vices Read more…
That’s a funny title, right? But I’m just saying “dead horses” to make a point, right? I mean, a Mary Kay sales director would never refer to her consultants as dead horses. Would she? Of course she would. Just like Read more…
Ironically, or not, tungsten is notoriously brittle in it's pure form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten
It’s her ENTIRE identity. She does not know herself without it and that’s so sad.
I had a job at a university that I LOVED. My husband took a job in another state near my…
I am proud of myself for living by my principle of NEVER GIVE UP, many times. But life has shown…
I think of Heather and Cleta both and how they'd handle it if Mary Kay were to decide to go…