Why Attend Your Unit Meetings
Mary Kay unit meetings are the weekly chance to indoctrinate you with the Mary Kay Way. The way they keep you in is by constantly reinforcing the manipulation. If you step away, you start to get clarity about what a losing proposition MLM is. If you keep coming back to the weekly meetings, they can get you excited about the bogus opportunity all over again.
Mary Kay national sales director Tammy Crayk wrote this “training aid” to help convince consultants to come to meetings every week.
Why Do I Need to Attend My Weekly Unit Meetings?
What does YOUR EMPTY SEAT at SUCCESS EVENTS say? You have heard it said since you attended training that success events are very important. Have you ever really thought why? When you do not come, you’re saying…
To Yourself and your family: This is only a hobby. (Hobbies do not make money) I really don’t want to make money. My MK is only social. My business is not important and not a priority.
To Your Customers: You are not important enough for me to keep informed. I do not plan to increase my knowledge. You don’t deserve the best service I can give. Your needs are not important to me.
To Your Sister Consultants: I don’t need your encouragement and inspiration, and I assume you don’t need mine. (Remember…. if you had a great week, we need YOU ….. if you had a challenging week, you need US!)
To a Guest: The things your consultant told you about this opportunity are not really true. This is not a ‘Real Business’. If it were truly a good deal, wouldn’t there be more people here?
To Your Director: Your help is not needed. You don’t need to take time with me on the phone because it isn’t fair to those who make an effort to attend meetings consistently, support Unit functions, and truly strive to make this business a success. Special classes, recruiting help, special promotions and contests are not important to me. Have you missed someone at a Unit meeting lately? Why not give her a call today and encourage her to join you at our very next Success Event!
Wherever you live, there is a meeting for you almost every week! It is a proven fact that those consultants who SHOW UP, GO UP!!! In fact, I truly believe that my personal success as I
advanced to directorship came from NEVER MISSING A MEETING!
Top ten reasons to attend weekly meetings:
- TO INSPIRE AND BE INSPIRED BY OTHERS!
- RECOGNITION OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS!
- ENCOURAGEMENT & SUPPORT FROM OTHERS LIKE YOU!
- RECEIVE SPECIAL TRAINING TO AID YOUR BUSINESS!
- NEW IDEAS FOR BOOKING, SELLING, CLASSES, ETC.
- TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN LEADERSHIP QUALITIES THROUGH SHARING!
- TO EXPERIENCE THE ‘TEAM SPIRIT’ FROM HAVING A GOAL TO REACH!
- COMPANY NEWS & INFORMATION ON ‘NEW PRODUCTS’ AND QUARTERLY CONTESTS!
- USE YOUR MEETINGS TO INTRODUCE PROSPECTS TO THE ‘WONDERFUL WORLD OF MARY KAY’. IT’S A GREAT WAY TO START BUILDING YOUR TEAM!
- BEING A PRODUCTIVE PART OF YOUR GROUP BY BEING ACTIVE, SHARING POSITIVE IDEAS AND OFFERING YOUR SUPPORT!
MISS 1 WEEK = YOU’RE SICK
MISS 2 WEEKS = YOU’RE DYING
MISS 3 WEEKS = SEND FLOWERS FOR THE DEMISE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
BESIDES…YOUR DIRECTOR NEEDS TO SEE YOUR BRIGHT AND SHINING FACE WEEKLY… SHE IS THERE WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE!
If you don’t keep showing up to these meetings, you might start coming out of the pink fog and we won’t be getting any more inventory orders from you.
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A) What’s wrong with hobbies, or doing activities to meet people and have fun?
B) Come on, we all know “customer service” in MK is giving your few repeat customers discounts and freebies so they won’t take their business to someone else or go to Amazon. You don’t learn anything about the products themselves and you can’t even put them on your customers yourself because you’re not licensed.
C) Yes, your sister consultants, who will be used to shame you when you have a bad week, and who will be shamed in their turn when they have a bad week.
D) Ummm… if you’re not there, your guest won’t be, either. If it’s someone else’s guest, she’s not going to care if you’re there or not. Besides, it’s not a real business and there’s a reason why more people aren’t in it.
E) Definitely don’t deprive your director of a chance to shame, guilt-trip, nag, browbeat, and lecture you for not ordering enough product to keep her commissions coming. Or use you to do all that to others who didn’t buy enough product that week, and maybe give you a junky trinket. While you’re at it, go order some more product so you don’t wind up on the wrong side of the shame game next week.
Gosh, who wouldn’t want to give up an evening for all that.
“You have heard it said since you attended training that success events are very important”: wait, what? There was training?
“I do not plan to increase my knowledge”: if you do want to increase your knowledge about the product, you’re not going to learn anything at a unit meeting.
“The things your consultant told you about this opportunity are not really true. This is not a ‘Real Business’. If it were truly a good deal, wouldn’t there be more people here?”: BINGO! If women really were making executive income for part time work in MK, there would be no endless recruiting. Instead, women would be lining up for the chance to sign up.
“Your help is not needed”: That’s good, because you’re not getting any help at unit meetings, just scripts.
“Special classes, recruiting help, special promotions and contests are not important to me”: Nope, I don’t need more scripts and I can buy costume jewelry and trinkets on Amazon.
Oh those weekly meetings. Remember working at a hotel where a Mary Kay unit held its weekly meetings (maybe they were bi-weekly, I don’t recall). The person running them rented a conference room and had the bare minimum – ice water and those cheap red and white swirly breath mints you see in restaurants. No coffee or tea, that would have been extra. The room was arranged so it could easily hold 30 people but I don’t think I ever saw more than 10 people at any of those meetings. At some point late in the summer, the hotel’s general manager was speaking to the banquet manager (my boss) and said the lady running those meetings was effectively banned from the property until she settled her bill with the hotel, as she had many weeks of conference room rentals for which she had never paid. Maybe she expected God to pay the bill – after all, it’s God first in Mary Kay, right?
But Mary Kay products sell themselves so she must have had the money. All the checks must have just gotten lost in the mail./s
She was probably charging her underlings a room rental fee in order to attend the meeting, so I’ll bet you a nickel she was pocketing their money and stiffing the hotel on top of it. So much for Thou Shalt Not Steal.
What’s with the ALL CAPS, Tammy? Shouting every point just makes you look desperate.
This is only a hobby. (Hobbies do not make money)
looks at several of my family and friends who made enough money from their hobby to .. well make money, go on holiday and in more than one case, leave their job and still contribute to the family’s income in excess of their previous employment.
It’s finding a niche market which is big enough to support you. There’s too many people trying to sell Mk and the like but not enough people really understanding what people want to buy or trade for.
Don’t forget to show up in a skirt. Professional Mary Kay attire is required, business owners!!!