Here’s a post from a private Facebook group. The poor Mary Kay consultant has started and stopped her “business” over and over for the last 11 years. She keeps failing. She wants to make MK be her full-time gig, but Read more…
Mary Kay Ash gives some words of wisdom at a 1991 conference. She tells us how everyone has the same 24 hours per day, and it’s all about how you use those hours. Also: Create a 6 most important things Read more…
A sales director shows us how easy it is to fall into debt in Mary Kay. Even though she wasn’t making money, she has stayed in for years and tries to live the dream. I started MK about 8 years Read more…
A comment left for us by a Mary Kay consultant: I have a feeling that whoever this woman is — writing in Pink Truth… probably putting down NSDs and making stuff up about Gloria Mayfield Banks — must’ve been pretty Read more…
Written by Amy Are you a hypocrite? That is the same question I recently had to ask myself. Since resigning my sales director position and returning all my products, I have had to do quite a bit of soul searching. Read more…
Written by SuzyQ This is a favorite line from directors to new consultants. I love this line. It’s used so frequently, and it has sort of moved from myth status to urban legend. Gee, it even appears on some top Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Someone once said that there is a little bit of “BS” is in every sales presentation, and they weren’t talking about better service. Perhaps some time ago, Mary Kay’s sales environment and recruiting system might have been Read more…
They tell us that multi-level marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme. When I say that it’s endless chain recruiting, they tell me that’s nonsense. But it IS all about recruiting. They pretend it’s about the products, but we’re bombarded by requests Read more…
Written by Raisinberry You may have not realized how sorry your life was before you met your Mary Kay consultant. In fact, you stupidly may have thought things were just kind of alright. You may have even been happy and Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose By this point, almost all of us on this site are familiar with government-mandated income disclosures that many direct sales companies (MLMs) are required to publish. Canada, in particular, is a reasonably comparable market to the US Read more…
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What's truly in it for me as a consultant to have a lot of inventory vs just encouraging customers to…
I'm sure you're right, DJ. It's really quite sickening to think how systems like this massively overproduce physical goods, completely…
That's right, directors, your downline aren't people with tight finances and priorities other than ordering hundreds of dollars worth of…
Outside of MyShop, Mary Kay's compensation plan rewards ordering, but only for folks with a downline. This inherently promotes recruiting…
Half the time the products are already sold out by the time a lowly, non pcp consultant gets the chance…