We’ve heard these things before. A million and one ways to justify recruiting another Mary Kay consultant’s customer. Is it technically stealing? Probably not. After all, the NSDs will teach you how to bend the rules far enough that you Read more…

Written by SuzyQ Let’s talk about the prizes. Oh, the prizes. When Mary Kay directors and NSDs offer a major prize there are a couple of contingencies working here… First and foremost, your director can’t afford much, so the prizes Read more…

Even those in the upper ranks of Mary Kay can’t see what complete failures they are in this “business model” (not really a business!) that sets you up to fail. Last year, Cindy Machado, a long-time Mary Kay sales director Read more…

Check out this recruiting script. It has all of the manipulative tactics you have come to expect from Mary Kay recruiters. (Really, recruiters for any MLM will use these.) There is the body language and the false flattery. Then you Read more…

Mary Kay sales director Amie Kelly left the below comment on an article on my business website. The article is 14 years old. One wonders what kind of “income-producing activity” Amie was engaged in that led her to finding a Read more…

I just wanted to take a minute to say thanks! I just became a consultant. I was about to get really involved when another consultant actually gave me a link to your website. I went to a men’s expo and Read more…

Written by SuzyQ Sales directors are continually taught that their job is to bring in new recruits. New recruits mean new inventory purchases and more production means a higher monthly commission check. For those of you who are laboring under Read more…

I’ve been watching the life and business of former Mary Kay “top director” Kelly Brock for a couple of years now. She left MK in late 2019 to start her coaching business. At first I was mostly excited for her. Read more…

This is a piece submitted by a woman who worked in MLM that was not Mary Kay. But she was selling products to women, and the numbers are really no different than MK. Take a look at how dismal the Read more…

Last month at the “9 Losers on a Beach” event hosted by nsd Jamie Taylor, they created a whole bunch of social media content meant to fire up the downline. Our friend Chelsea Adkins (well, legally Chelsea Claytor, since she’s Read more…