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  • Welcome
    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
    • Mary Kay Truths
  • Mary Kay Facts
    • Top 10 Reasons to NOT Do Mary Kay
    • The Mary Kay Pyramid
    • Information for Mary Kay DIQs
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    • Mary Kay National Sales Director Agreement
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    • Business Opportunity Rule
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Pink Truth

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Culture & Manipulation

A Mary Kay Conference Call Recapped

Posted on February 18, 2009

Written by PinkPeace Recently I received the following e-mail recapping a conference call with NSD Karen Piro.  I’m not going to criticize the grammar/typos/etc., because obviously these were off-the-cuff notes put together for quick distribution. But, oh my goodness, the Read more…

Career Conference

Get Ready For Mary Kay’s “S.E.E.”

Posted on February 14, 2009

Written by Raisinberry SEE = Suckering Excellence for Everyone Directors will remember that training we got from Leadership a few years back about the fact that new Mary Kay recruits experience “fall out” around the 6 to 7 week mark. Read more…

Prizes

Hypnoprized: Pink Truth’s Star Prize Breakdown!

Posted on February 11, 2009

Written by The Scribbler Titled, “Go Me: How I’ll power up my best year ever,” beauty consultants will enjoy the updated recipe used to cook up this quarter’s star prize brochure:  Combine one part ham and fourteen parts cheese; sprinkle Read more…

Lawsuits

Latest on the Touch of Pink Lawsuit

Posted on February 9, 2009

The lawsuit Mary Kay Inc. filed against Touch of Pink Cosmetics and Amy  and Scott Weber carries on. Depositions are being taken and both sides are looking for evidence in discovery. This was the first lawsuit to be filed by Read more…

Business Basics

Maggots or Mary Kay Makeup? (The answer will make your skin crawl!)

Posted on February 5, 2009

Written by The Scribbler Some of you may have seen the Dirty Jobs episode in which host Mike Rowe visits the Forked Tree Ranch and meets maggot farm owners Dennis and Pam Ponsness.  Of particular interest is Pam’s past life, Read more…

Sales Directors

A $30,000 Mary Kay Raise???

Posted on February 2, 2009

This is the latest email being circulated in Mary Kay… a sales director claiming a $30,000 “raise” in 2008 from Mary Kay. That sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Take a look at the email this director sent, and then read my Read more…

Career ConferenceCareer Ladder

Don’t Tell Mary Kay Consultants About the New Red Jackets!

Posted on January 28, 2009

Check out this director communication…. Mary Kay Inc. doesn’t want consultants to know about the new Red Jackets and the promotion associated with.  The key here? They don’t want to risk having consultants hold orders. That’s right… the Mary Kay Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

Fifteen Former Mary Kay Friends

Posted on January 27, 2009

Written by Raisinberry I guess I did a bad thing. I dug up an email from late in 2007 and compared it to one from now. The 2007 email contained the list of all the Directors in my former National Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Mary Kay Flimflam

Posted on January 23, 2009

Written by BlessedOne The awe inspiring spectacle of this polished flimflam scheme is the amazing camouflage it employs. The Mary Kay Cosmetics sham is truly elegant. Like an injurious social disease, the MK plight is spread from one woman to Read more…

Failure in MLMSales Directors

Where Are They Now? Women From Mary Kay Seminar 2006

Posted on January 21, 2009

Written by The Scribbler It’s interesting to me to go through old Mary Kay Applause magazines, choose a couple of feel-good propaganda pieces, and look up some of the I-story tellers. The piece I combed through tonight involves 10 women Read more…

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    Everytime (sic) I read Pink Truth I wonder if any of you ever actually enjoyed Mary Kay. I'm not sure…

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    Clearly you are not in any director groups or you'd understand. You are using MK as a hobby. Perhaps you…

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    Here is a summary of MKC's business plan: "Fool customers into thiking they are business owners so they order way…

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    From the director level all the way up to corporate, it is painfully obvious which directors are buying minimum production…

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    You are absolutely right about the educational opportunity. But notice, I mentioned this is for strangers. Educating strangers is likely…

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