Irritate Your Sales Director
Written by PinkPeace
Many of you have been subjected to the craziness of the sales director in your life. She has called and e-mailed you nonstop to get you to “be a team player” this month. She has offered you cheap jewelry for thousand-dollar orders. She has refused to listen to your negative questions about Mary Kay. She insists that you wear skirts when it’s 20 below.
Wouldn’t you like to turn the tables on your sales director and give her fits for once? Here’s a checklist of some things you can do that are guaranteed to make your director go crazy – and provide you with hours of amusement.
Let her know how much you enjoy life outside of Mary Kay. Your director is forced to focus on Mary Kay 24/7. Even if she wants to forget about it, she can’t. She’s always having to concentrate on her goals and find that next big superstar for her unit. So when you talk about your relaxing vacation with your family where you just enjoyed each others’ company and didn’t pick up a phone all week, watch her twitch.
Tell her how much you love your new car. You may think that directors looooooooooove their “free” cars in Mary Kay. They certainly talk a big story like they do. But really – Chevrolet Malibu? Please. Gush to your SD about how you really couldn’t decide between the luxury of a Lexus or the great mileage of a Prius. So many choices! You’re so glad you got to test-drive them all, then pick the one you really wanted.
Share your excitement about your job, especially your benefits. Open enrollment is always a great season for employees, but not for independent contractors, such as your director. Which health care plan are you going to choose this time? Maybe the family needs glasses, so you’re going to opt into the vision plan. And retiree/pension benefits – which one will you go with? I hope your SD is picking up benefits through her husband, because she’s sure not getting them through Mary Kay.
And let her know how much fun you’re having on your job, and how much you like your co-workers. Are you working on an interesting project right now? Have you picked up a new client? Share the excitement, because your director is doing the same-old, same-old in Mary Kay, and it will never change. Book, sell, recruit. Book, sell, recruit. Book, sell, recruit.
Fill her in on all the new things you’re doing in life with your free time. Normal jobs let you leave the office at the office. When you’re home, your time is yours. Mary Kay? Not so much. If a director is doing something non-Mary Kay related, she is either trolling for prospects or feeling guilty. So make sure she knows about the fun class you’re taking at the community college. Fill her in on the romantic walks you take with your husband in the evening. Send her an invitation to the exciting fundraising event you’re working on for an important cause. These are things she’s not doing, but wishes she could.
Let her know what you’re doing with your extra money. A sales director has no extra money, and she’s maxing out her credit cards to make ends meet. So tell her about the home improvements you’ve made or let her know that you’ve paid your child’s tuition without having to take a student loan. And it doesn’t have to be big. Show her the new cute purse you bought. She may have one also, but hers went on a credit card. You can tell her you had $100 bucks left over at the end of the week and just couldn’t resist. Although she’ll plaster a smile on her face and act excited for you, this will put her in a foul mood.
Let her know how much better your spiritual life is these days. You don’t have to be any specific religion for this to be effective. Frankly, any time you begin living a life of honesty and integrity (which is not ultimately possible in Mary Kay), your spiritual life will improve. Your SD is looking at God to “bless her business” and make her successful – not to become truly humble and to serve others. She is at a standstill in her spiritual life, and can’t quite figure out why. When you tell her how grateful you are for where God has placed you and how He is drawing you closer to Him, she will be confused. Yea, verily.
Tell her about all the fun things you’re doing with non-MK girlfriends. Are you in a bunco or bingo group? Tell her how much fun you had Friday night getting together with the girls! Did you have a girls’ night out recently? Tell her about that great restaurant you all went to and how you ate, drank and laughed the night away. Better yet – invite her for a girls’ weekend away, but make sure it’s on the 30th of the month. In June.
These are only a few ideas for your entertainment. Have fun in the comments with ideas of your own!
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Gush about how the new skincare product you found at the drugstore for $25 (before coupons!) is doing wonders for your complexion and this other brand’s foundation is the best you’ve ever used.
He he. When she responds that she prefers Mary Kay products, offer to send your leftover Mary Kay inventory to her for her personal use.
The joy of family dinners. Getting home from work at a decent hour, taking off my bra and not having to get back out again. Tucking my kids into bed every night. Knowing what my paycheck will be and being able to budget around it. The ability to negotiate my pay rate with my place of employment. The simplicity of tax time with a W2. Purging all the paper, notebooks, old datebooks, EVERYTHING from my home. The ability to truly be present where I am, whether at work, with family, or taking care of myself. Less stressed mama=less stressed hubby and kids.
I saw a post from an NSD that she missed her son’s first day of school because of seminar but that they “checked in” with them (their child). I’m not a parent, but I love seeing my nephew off to his first day. Missing family time isn’t something I can live with.
Well, I’m sure her son appreciates her “checking in” from many miles away.
That is so, so sad. So much for “God first, Family second, Career third”
I saw that post too. It was by Kristin Sharpe. I too found it sad.
Or putting their kids in daycare. Isn’t that the ploy they’ve used for years to recruit people?
I have company paid health insurance. My sales goals are realistic and there is no double credit.
Along the same idea of this article, I was recently thinking someone could author a list of annoying yet legitimate questions to ask. Example ideas:
(raises hand in a cult meeting)
– But if I try to recruit my friend, won’t I lose her as a retail customer? And then won’t she be targeting many of the same people I know as customers since were are in the same circles? I mean, why would I want more retailers in my own church where I find prey?
– (To Director) If I resell my previously ordered $3600 inventory, do you make any further money? No? So, you only make additional money on my new orders? Are you saying it benefits you more if I place new orders vs reselling? This is how you make your money to stay qualified, and why you’re always pushing orders?
And so on. Has this already been posted on PT? Probably. Hopefully a seasoned ex-consultant/Director can word the questions just right – with no way out by upline but squirming. You could also give the canned response given by upline, and then let us know what the follow up question should be – to really make her sweat.
Thoughts on this article idea?
I love the idea Char. Here is my favorite question:
“How much money would my downline need to lose collectively, and per person on average, for me to make $1000/month in net profit? How about $5000/month? $10,000?”
No one turns a true profit in MLM without even greater losses down-line.
Spend some quality time with your kids. Take them to an amusement park, or a playground. Take them to a movie, or have a movie night at home. Make sure your director knows how much you don’t want to waste a moment of these precious years with your children.
Seriously though, when my director picked up her Malibu, one of her kids said “this is why we had to be quiet all the time when you were on the phone.” How sad!
My sister’s Director used a photo of her son pointing at an Equinox and a Pink Cadillac, because she said he wanted her to get one so he could ride in it. Using a six-year old as your pawn. Pathetic. This photo is still set as the Group’s profile photo on Facebook despite Group Members voicing concern and opposition. She doesn’t care.