Myth of Stability in Mary Kay
A favorite pass time of many Mary Kay sales directors is bashing “Corporate America.” They refer to jobs as “J.O.B. – Journey of the Broke” and generally criticize the lack of flexibility surrounding traditional jobs.What they forget to mention is the steady paycheck, the benefits, the paid vacation, and all sorts of nice things.
One of the big fallacies they promote is that Mary Kay offers stability, while Corporate America does not. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, things in Corporate America can change quickly, and jobs can be lost. But Mary Kay is really the height of instability.employers offer to their employees.
Ask any sales director or former sales director. “Dialing for dollars” is a monthly ritual. Your earnings are based upon whether your unit has had a good recruiting month. You depend upon orders by consultants (usually for unneeded products) in order to earn your living.
When you can’t stand another moment on the hamster wheel and you step back to evaluate your life and your future in Mary Kay, your earnings quickly begin to dwindle. How stable is that?
Here’s an email sent out by a director who criticizes Corporate America, while singing the praises of Mary Kay:
I was on my treadmill this morning when my friend called to inform me that she could not go to my sisters 40th Birthday in California she had been planning to attend (they are best friends). She is in the mortgage and title business and with one of not only the Fortune 500 Company’s but the top 250. She is in charge of her region and she was informed that she will have to lay off even more people. She was making “great” money, as you could imagine, in the industry and now her income has dropped quite a bit… not to mention her job is on the line with “re-organization”.
I told her I thought she was calling to tell me she was ready to be a Director with Mary Kay. She said that she may be calling me.
I think you are getting the picture (I hope since I am not great at writing my thoughts). I hung up with her and immediately gave thanks to Mary Kay who put so much on the line herself so that people like us have such a great opportunity to not only make a living but a life.
That’s right “an opportunity” is what I said, not a job because an opportunity is what you make of it and we have a choice. My friend and her co-workers gave their ALL and it still does not matter as to whether they will have a job or not. Are you giving your business your ALL?? Have I worked hard in my business?
Absolutely, it is a privilege to work. I have seen my friend outwork me under the table in her industry and she may have to change careers with much less pay and she does not have her own business like I have. MY income is based on my attitude and consistent work habits. Only I can fire myself by not working.
There are so many women right now that don’t even know if they will have a job in two weeks not only in that industry but in others that are also affected because of it and we can make a difference. Are you out of your house meeting people that God may want to put in your path? Are you willing to get out of your box and problems to talk to a woman, pamper her and maybe change her life?
I know my life was changed because I chose to work my business when I did NOT want to and I was a tough boss on myself so I would not have to have a boss. This is a great opportunity and you know that YOU have the power to get what you want out of it by what you do every day, big or little. Believe it deep down in your core and you can take people with you to the top by your example.
I share this with you not because I do not think that you do not appreciate what we have but so you can share this example with other prospects and show them how there are other options and most importantly HOPE!!
You are women on a mission, making a difference and I believe in you. I believe that you can have all you want for yourselves from this business financially and with intangibles. I DO BELIEVE THAT IN MY CORE!!!!!
Success is not for the chosen few but the few that choose!!!
I am glad I chose Success with no other options, no back doors.
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Ask the Mary Kay people in Australia and New Zealand how stable this “opportunity” is.
Even if everyone in MLMs like Mary Kay “chooses”, and everyone puts in their “all”, more than 99% will still lose money. It is mathematically impossible for the Mary Kay business model to improve on that terrible number, since the system has downline losses built into the model.
Get rid of endless-chain recruiting, and limit the bonuses to only the the individual making the sale, and Mary Kay could produce a profitable sales force. As it stands, no MLM downline can be profitable as a whole, since the sales force is the primary customer in every MLM business plan.
The losses simply can’t be avoided when they are built into the model.
Mk has zero interest in profitability for anyone other than corporate. That’s the main inherent flaw
I told her I thought she was calling to tell me she was ready to be a Director with Mary Kay. She said that she may be calling me.
I think you are getting the picture (I hope since I am not great at writing my thoughts). I hung up with her and immediately gave thanks to Mary Kay who put so much on the line herself so that people like us have such a great opportunity to not only make a living but a life.
So this lady’s friend was looking for some sympathy and this good, kind-hearted, pure-minded, hard-working dedicated Christian woman delivered by hanging up once it was revealed that her friend wasn’t planning on being another MK cog.
That reveals far more about the mind-set those Pink Predators have than the repetitive bleatings of our usual Friday Critic minions does.
And note that this good, kind-hearted, pure-minded, hard-working dedicated Christian woman gave thanks to their real god, Mary Kay, instead of, you know, god himself.
The biggest disconnect here is that Ms Real Estate probably was/is making a real executive salary. I’ll bet she has savings and investments and received a severance package if she was let go so she will be able to get by if she loses her job or has to take a pay cut. She also has lots of experience, a professional network, and transferrable skills that will be a great help in finding another job at the same level. The thought of losing your job is always scary but she knows she’ll be OK in the end. And the Kbot pities her.
Meanwhile, Ms MK Sales Director is making a pittance and constantly worrying about chargebacks and low production months that would make her lose her title. Most likely she’s got a wallet full of maxed credit cards and nothing in the bank. The only “professional” network she has is other Kbots, who are useless in a crisis. No hiring manager is going to take on someone with MLM on their resume because nothing in MLM is even remotely useful in the real world. And the Kbot thinks she’s got it made.
The sales director is either delusional or lying to everyone, including herself.
MKbot dreamily sighs as she imagines the commissions that she’d get from that sweet, sweet severance packet money being invested in “her own business”.
Ms Real Estate has a real job working for a real company in a real industry with real customer demand. Her KBot friend has a pretend job in a pretend business in a faux industry with near-zero outside customer demand.
Once again, a lack of curiosity on the part of MLMers like Mary Kay reps. Question: “Why doesn’t anyone (other than the sales force) buy MLM products from strangers, when those same people buy nearly everything else they consume from strangers?”
This phenomenon is pervasive in MLM. Doesn’t anyone in MLM wonder why? And what does this say about the real market demand for these products? What does it say about potential scalability of a single rep’s business? What does it say about the need for such a huge, expensive sales force when so few non-sales folks are actually ordering and using the product?
But wait! What if product sales are not necessary to make money in MLM? Oops! Did I say that out loud?
“Ms Real Estate has a real job working for a real company in a real industry with real customer demand. Her KBot friend has a pretend job in a pretend business in a faux industry with near-zero outside customer demand.”
And that’s something that bugs me when the Kbots go on about how “a franchise is a pyramid scheme too!!!!!!” People WANT hamburgers and coffee and hotels and car insurance. The product is the point of the business and it gets sold to outside people. No one wants Mary Kay stuff except for those who are allegedly supposed to be selling it.
“MY income is based on my attitude and consistent work habits.” It was based on your ability to get people to sign up and order product – consistently lying about the “opportunity” for your own profit is not an admirable trait.
All Praise The Almighty Mary Kay, to whom we give all thanks for everything.
TELL ME AGAIN HOW YOU ARE NOT IN A CULT. 🤦♀️
I always felt a bit of shame because I never moved up in the company when I was in MK as ‘just” a consultant. How dare I not ‘share” this opportunity. I am thankful now that I never sucked anyone else in. All your friends that you thought you made in MK will disappear the moment you leave and they were never your true friends. And NO ONE makes much money at all…but they are sure good at pretending they do and that this is such a stable business. Just another lie.
“And NO ONE makes much money at all”
Mary Kay makes loads of money off of millions of people just like you.
So a friend in the mortgage and title industry depends on what???? Sales..
Mary Kay depends on how much your unit BUYS and not sells.
The irony of this Kaybot.
Yes you are blessed as long as your downlines BUYS.