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    • For New Mary Kay Consultants
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    • Mary Kay Truths
  • About Pink Truth
    • Site Guidelines and Rules
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    • Contact Pink Truth
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    • The Mary Kay Pyramid
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    • 99% Lose Money in MLM
    • Not Taught at Harvard
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Inventory & Selling

Sales Strategies in a Real Business

Posted on April 11, 2024

A reader offers this discussion of how companies analyze a market (and the territories) to decide where to place distributors/retailers. Of course, Mary Kay does no such thing, telling consultants to ignore the concept of saturation and that countless reps Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

What I Don’t Miss About Directorship

Posted on April 10, 2024

Written by PinkPeace Our friends. I have made/re-ignited real friendships in the real world, once I didn’t have to worry about hanging out only with “positive” people and trying to recruit every new person I met. Make-up stashes. Mine consisted Read more…

Culture & Manipulation

Mary Kay Predator and Prey

Posted on April 9, 2024

Written by Blackbird Every successful predator knows how to hunt its prey, right? Some predators use speed, agility, or ambush to accomplish their goals. Really intelligent predators though, don’t bother wasting time and their own energy chasing or stalking things. Read more…

Failure in MLM

Consultants Can’t Sell Mary Kay Products

Posted on April 8, 2024

Written by Parsonsgreen Lacey Bradford is a Mary Kay sales director who submitted for DIQ ten years ago. On one of her anniversaries, she posted about how Mary Kay had changed her life.  She was able to quadruple her yearly Read more…

Pink Truth Critics

Why is Pink Truth So Negative?

Posted on April 5, 2024

Why does the Pink Truth go on and on with such negativity? If you don’t like Mary Kay that is your choice but your raging ragging is over the top!! Why not take all that negative energy and try to Read more…

Failure in MLM

More Than Meets the Eye

Posted on April 4, 2024

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, Read more…

Videos

Mary Kay’s Deceptive Pinky Promises

Posted on April 3, 2024

This video is a few years old, but it’s a good one. Truth in Advertising went through the Mary Kay lies that are so common. Their list included: 1. Earn career-level income 2. Say goodbye to car payments 3. Go Read more…

Cults and MLM

Podcasts About MLM and Mary Kay

Posted on April 2, 2024

I have two recent podcasts that are wonderful for women coming out of multi-level marketing (MLM) and women looking to learn more about MLM.  I was on the Divorce Survival Guide podcast with Kate Anthony, in an episode entitled The Read more…

Quitting Mary Kay

Reaching the Tipping Point

Posted on April 1, 2024

Written by SuzyQ The process of deciding to leave Mary Kay is daunting. There are so many unanswered questions, a lot of fear, guilt, anger and grief. We get into Mary Kay and Mary Kay gets into us. At one Read more…

Caption This PhotoCareer Conference

Caption This Photo

Posted on March 30, 2024

We haven’t done this in a long time! This is a photo from Career Conference 2024. It’s sales director Sherrie Purvis and a pair of giant pink panties. I presume this is a “put on your big girl panties” talk Read more…

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Pink Truth Discussion Board

Visit the Pink Truth Discussion Board to discuss any topic you like. No praise or promotion of MLM is allowed. Please read the site rules carefully before signing up.
  1. PurpleH on Help Meet Somer’s GoalsJuly 16, 2025

    Somer is diabolical, for sure. But I wonder if she had career plans that didn’t involve taking over her MIL’s…

  2. RiaJaize on Help Meet Somer’s GoalsJuly 16, 2025

    That fact was pretty eye-opening to me as I understood more about MLMs years ago. You, the "team member," throw…

  3. Frosty Rose on Help Meet Somer’s GoalsJuly 16, 2025

    NSD is an interesting position, in that it's the only one where annual commissions are actually public knowledge. They tie…

  4. CoralBliss on Help Meet Somer’s GoalsJuly 16, 2025

    I would think by the time they hit NSD, they could look around and see that all the effort is…

  5. Popinki on Help Meet Somer’s GoalsJuly 16, 2025

    Dear lurkers, Remember, as much as they carry on like they're hot stuff, everything the NSDs have comes from you.…

 

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