Every year at Mary Kay’s annual seminar in Dallas, TX, debuting sales directors get a chance to be on stage together. We’ve compared 2006 and 2007 directors on stage at seminar, and notice a significant drop in 2007 in each Read more…
Mary Kay Inc. attempts to cover itself on the issue of earnings… often inflated during recruiting pitches and guest events. One of my many complaints with this product-based pyramid scheme is the pervasiveness of false earnings claims. Mary Kay sales Read more…
On January 16, 2007, Pink Truth announced that Mary Kay was changing its entire color cosmetic line, to include lipsticks, compacts, eyeshadows, blushes, and eyeliners. Mary Kay Inc. intended to make the announcement in July 2007, and in fact the Read more…
Milwaukee, WI November 22, 2006 — Pyramid Scheme Alert announces that Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, MBA, CFE has been named to the organization’s Board of Advisors. Her consumer education website, PinkTruth.com, which exposes and analyzes the business and recruiting practices Read more…
They look kinda cool, but that doesn’t stop all the inventory-carrying consultants from being screwed. I know, I know. You have plenty of time to sell those old compacts. And who in good conscience can sell a compact today, knowing Read more…
Written by Raisinberry One of the devices used to achieve mind-numbing compliance with all things Mary Kay was the use of the slogan. We were led down a path of little to no resistance because no matter what ugly objection Read more…
Milwaukee, WI November 20 2006 — Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, MBA, CFE, a nationally-recognized fraud examiner and expert witness, has developed a website to educate and inform the public about the Mary Kay Cosmetics business opportunity. Pink Truth (www.pinktruth.com) has Read more…
Mary Kay Cosmetics is always helping its independent sales directors to recruit and retain beauty consultants. Most important, of course, is getting them to purchase inventory and not send it back under the product repurchase option! Here’s a script to Read more…
If you thought $3,600 wholesale was a lot of inventory in Mary Kay, wait until you see this! For many years, Mary Kay Cosmetics had inventory “levels” or packages that started at $600 wholesale and went up to $3,600 wholesale. Read more…
Decisions, decisions. Pay $2400 for some unsellable cosmetics, and get a $50 vacuum cleaner for free, or else use your…
And don’t forget, they tax these “prizes” on your 1099. They are reported as income after a certain level.
Big time using FOMO against the sales force! I was my biggest motivator ... and my SD MIL used that…
The first 1800 star points each quarter are a 1-1 equivalent to wholesale dollars. $1,800 wholesale (consultant cost) order =…
They use Fear of Missing Out to the worse degree