Jon Taylor was a well-known researcher of multi-level marketing. One of his studies involved a telephone survey of over 200 tax preparers in Idaho and Utah. His findings were discussed in his 2012 book The Case (For and) Against Multi-Level Read more…

Written by Raisinberry When I quit Mary Kay, it was mostly due to reading Pink Truth, and a validation of finally seeing in print, what I thought I alone suspected, all along. The words we were never able to utter, Read more…

Written by Parsons Green Every week in the Facebook groups, it’s the same old story. A consultant can’t find customers. If you can’t find customers, you can’t sell product. Here’s a recent example of the valuable advice the Mary Kay Read more…

From a Mary Kay sales director to other sales directors: Hey Ladies, I’m not sure if everyone realizes this, but every single time we go to a negative MK site “just to see” what is going on there we increase Read more…

Written by SuzyQ The backstage reality is what the audience does not see. When the actors are on the stage and the play has begun, you are seeing what you paid to see – a great performance that is designed Read more…

Written by Sad In Pink During the course of my time in Mary Kay, I never missed being a star consultant. I believed that I deserved those nice gifts they were giving away each quarter, and I managed to accumulate Read more…

Mary Kay director Casie Hembree messed up. She left her uniform in a public hotel bathroom in San Antonio when she went to Leadership Conference in January. The director’s jacket was left at the Marriott Riverwalk San Antonio. But Casie Read more…

Written by Parsons Green Former sales director Lacey Bradford has been bragging for years about her Mary Kay success! That’s the image in public most of the time. (But behind the scenes it’s a different story when she’s being honest Read more…

There are some half-truths and a lot of mistruths and misinformation all rolled into one big convuluted mess on this site. Yes, sales is hard. Contacting your network of people is hard. Investing money you don’t have into a business Read more…

Written by David My wife was a generous, beautiful, hardworking registered nurse when she joined Mary Kay five years ago. We lived frugally but happily with two small children as I worked as a medical resident. Her sister called one Read more…