I love keeping track of the attendance at Mary Kay’s annual seminar in Dallas. We’re relying on the honesty of MK Inc. (big stretch, I know) in reporting the numbers. It’s interesting to see the numbers fluctuate over the years. Read more…

This was left as a comment on my business blog on the article Can You Make Money With Mary Kay: As a Mary Kay consultant of a year, I would have to say I completely agree with this article! After Read more…

It’s been a long time since we’ve looked at star consultant prizes and exactly what you’re getting for your money. Mary Kay rewards ordering with prizes. Those in the MK cult will tell you that this is just the “extra” Read more…

Written by CoralRose I wanted to share an email that was sent to me by my former director at the end of June (the end of the seminar year). It’s been over a year since I ordered MK so I’m Read more…

About 10 years ago, Jon Taylor, PhD (a well-known researcher on MLM schemes) wrote a piece about MLM products and their quality and pricing. While the pricing may have changed a bit, the overall conclusions are still valid. I hope Read more…

Everything in Mary Kay is centered around a contest. There is so little profit (usually none!) to be made, that you have to get consultants ordering products somehow. Who is going to keep selling products at no profit? But if Read more…

I always complain about how Mary Kay rewards ordering over selling… paying commissions and giving prizes based on wholesale orders by consultants. They don’t give a darn if anyone ever sells those products, so long as MK has their money Read more…

Written by BestDecision What is Mary Kay Inc thinking?! Right now, Consultants everywhere are buying stock of the new 3D Miracle Set. There’s 2 glaring issues I see as a hindrance to this being a big seller for these same Read more…

An article from late last year provides some interesting insight into how multi-level marketing companies (and their recruiters) are exploiting the “gig economy” to recruit new victims. It’s entitled “MLMs Take the Worst Parts of the Gig Economy, Then Make Read more…

Almost everyone loses money in multi-level marketing. Sure, you hear people say “I know several people who have made a lot of money in MLM.” This is nonsense for three reasons: 1. People rarely see proof for this “making a Read more…