Written by Frosty Rose Since the beginning of time in Mary Kay, sales directors have “sold the sizzle” of “success” with monthly newsletters. These fluff pieces serve the dual purposes of recognizing top “producers” (read: orderers) and shaming the lazy Read more…
Written by Rachel I recently read a quote from a site promoting an MLM: To recoup your initial $570 costs, focus on enrolling two distributors into your downline and then help them also enroll two people each. This is the Read more…
Written by SuzyQ “If it was that easy, everybody would be a director.” I heard this so many times from my upline and my sister directors. Being a sales director in MK is many things, and the “fake it ‘til Read more…
There are lots of reasons why women don’t want to become involved in Mary Kay Cosmetics. The recruiter’s job is to overcome those objections. She is given standard lines, like the below, to use to convince you to join. If Read more…
A friendly note from a Pink Truth critic: To whom ever, Its sad to see former Directors and consultant bring down am oppurtunity like a job. No one put a gun to your head to sign an agreement. We sign Read more…
Probably the most frequent challenge I hear to our real-life experiences with Mary Kay Cosmetics (other than “no one held a gun to your head!”) is “Oh, there’s always one bad apple in the bunch. Don’t judge the entire company Read more…
Written by PinkPeace Who still thinks that directorship is the way to real money in Mary Kay? There are lots of beauty consultants who think that if they just can make it to the “elite 2% of all those in Read more…
Written by SuzyQ I was going to write an open letter to Mary Kay NSDs and sales directors, and I know they read here, but it seemed to be a futile gesture. I wanted to ask them to think, to Read more…
Written by Francine I was a Mary Kay consultant for two years and it financially devastated our family. We literally declared bankruptcy and I humbly and ashamedly want to express that we NEVER, not in ten million years, thought we Read more…
TLDR: no one can make you do what you don’t want to do as an adult be an adult and use your words. I’m still in MK. I know that there are IBC’s who are horrible people and do force Read more…
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I believe mkash knew exactly what she was engineering, she never intended it to be a program where women would…
If one could make it on sales alone and not recruiting, they would still offer the car incentive to non-directors.
"I thought I was helping out the 'team'” -- There is no team. You only helped out your up-line and…
There is absolutely NO part-time work for executive pay in this racket. None. When I was a director, I easily…
Yikes! This is the same strategy that other MLMs used right before they switched their biz models all together. I…