Is MK All That Bad?
Seriously, is MK all that bad? I stumbled across your website and am surprised at all the negativity. I am a firm believer in being in business for yourself and avoiding working at a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke).
Its hard to believe that MK is evil. By all means bad people do bad things but would being a Beauty Consultant really be a bad thing.
I am in a business that is challenged everyday ethically, morally and legally. Some people decide to do the wrong thing but convincing a woman to clean her face with MK as opposed to Clinique, is that bad?
Some people are to scared to do what is necessary to succeed in a business that is constantly forcing them out of their comfort zones. MK is a business and needs to be treated as one. Manage your time, money and inventory. Work it like a job and be intentional.
Reviewing how much in commission you make by recruiting other people into MK does not convince me that it is better to recruit than it is to sell. True MLM or pyramid schemes typically make it better to recruit than to sell. In MK you make more by selling than by recruiting. And the love checks are nice but don’t start rolling in until your recruits start selling. So I don’t see a scheme here.
Nothing in life comes easy especially when it comes to convining people you have just met to book an appointment to have some one try and sell you cleansers and make up you didn’t know you needed. I feel that some women go into it with their eyes closed and with unrealistic expectations. I think women need to study a little about business in general before going into one with MK. “Everyone should go into the grocery business first before doing anything else, because if you don’t sell what you have the stinking rotten inventory reminds you very quickly that you bought too much.” I don’t know who said that quote but it is a favorite of mine.
The number one mistake with small business is that they over buy their inventory when they first get started. This is true with Mary Kay. That is the only bad thing I have ever seen from MK is convincing new people to buy upwards of $3000 of inventory to start with. Start small and grow your business as it needs to.
Back to the negativity, I believe negative people tend to attract negative people and positive people attract other positive people. Your blog sure has its negative attractant on. Be positive and positive things happen. I am sure there are horror stories about every door-to-door sales company, work at home business, franchise and network marketing company out there, but I know there are also positive ones. Business is business, the market takes it toll everyday on those who don’t work their businesses. 9 out of 10 small businesses fail, so why do people think that their first one will be a success. Plan to start 10 then the odds will favor you.
Just so you know two of my sister-in-laws and my sister joined MK one bought $800 in start up inventory and has been selling $100-$200 a month in product. The other bought close to $5000 in start up inventory and with in 3 months called it quits. My sister only got the $200 starter kit. None of them really should have joined because they are not business minded people but that was their choice. My wife recruited all of them into MK. My wife is planning to go into DIQ. I am not biased either way on Mary Kay, I am a business man and can see opportunity in most things.
Mary Kay works when the consultants work and like wise it fails when they don’t. That’s business. I hope you can use your website to help people get over being a MK consultant and get back to working for someone else. Everybody needs to find their role in life and for some its working for others. Its not a bad thing, its just who they are.
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Wash and repeat
*yawn*
Waiting for one these kaybots to say something convincing. With proof.
Is it me, or is this the same letter that was posted a couple of weeks ago? The one with the alleged husband defending his almost-DIQ wife?
So it seems .. I literally started reading it and was like did my page not refresh to the newest post…
Nope it’s just a repeat, because if you say/write something enough times it’s going to come true….
They stumbled over the same website twice. Clumsy, clumsy…
I know from personal experience that “foot drop”, which leads to repeated tripping and falls, is an important symptom of possible neurological disorders. He should get checked out.
Right?! I thought the same.
LOL all these letters sound alike.
They all call this sitte negative
Then how stupid everyone is for not taking MK serious like a job ans how they are smart entrepreneurs.. I could go on LOL
Plan to start 10 then the odds will favor you.
Say what
That’s Mary Kay maths for ya.
Please review April 28, 2023
Copy Pasta.
meh.
Why is reading just what YOU don’t want to hear “negative.” Maybe it is just because it’s the truth. “Waaaah you all are picking on Jamie”s area and yooo are sooo negative!!”. Ummmm she lost very many directors, please prove that this isn’t the truth. (we’ll wait)
In MK you make more by selling than by recruiting. How many discounts are you giving to sell everything piling up? I wonder if you just count sales and don’t consider profit. Are you in the “free”(bwahaha) car? oh no, you can’t be because you are not recruiting
oh, I also see people are still stumbling
Ok Carol
“In MK you make more by selling than by recruiting. And the love checks are nice but don’t start rolling in until your recruits start selling. So I don’t see a scheme here.”—
Are we talking about the recruits you recruited instead of you yourself selling them products?
Did the person who recruited you expect you to start selling….as her recruit? But instead, now you’re a recruit promoting a love-check from your own recruits….who start selling?
Are you saying your recruits won’t want to recruit for a love-check too, unlike yourself?
Tell me, was the person who recruited you recruited? Was she expected to sell too….. by her recruiter?
But she recruited you, and now you’re recruiting too, and neither of you are selling. Why? Don’t you “make more selling than by recruiting”?
Nope, no scheme here.🤪
“In MK you make more by selling than by recruiting.”
No, no you don’t make more by selling. The ONLY people who make money selling are the ones in the C suites at the corporate office. The ONLY way to get ahead in this company/scheme is to recruit.
Exactly. You can have loads of customers and sell thousands of dollars of MK products each month, but you won’t move up, get use of a car, or go on one of those fancy trips unless you turn those customers into team members.
Did a bot write this? 😂
We need Pink Truth critic bingo cards! 🤣
Chat GTP maybe….
Seriously, is MK all that bad?
YES
“ That is the only bad thing I have ever seen from MK is convincing new people to buy upwards of $3000 of inventory to start with.”
How do you say this as if it were something small and irrelevant? This is manipulating women out of hard earned money for their personal gain. It’s not something small.
“Nothing in life comes easy especially when it comes to convining people you have just met to book an appointment to have some one try and sell you cleansers and make up you didn’t know you needed. I feel that some women go into it with their eyes closed and with unrealistic expectations. I think women need to study a little about business in general before going into one with MK. ”
If women studied business, they would realize 99% of people lose money in a MLM. They would also see the large amount of MK products on online selling sites for much less than retail and realize selling at full retail would be hard. I would say going into MK with the unrealistic expectations may be true, but the MK scripts are put out there to get people to sign on as consultants and buy inventory. They have scripts to overcome people’s objections and good sales people who peddle these lies can be very convincing. They are told they don’t have to be the ‘sales type’, be pushy, the products fly off the shelf, you don’t need a lot of time, they will teach you what you need to know, products are top notch, you can return inventory if you can’t sell it – anything to get them to sign up. Women are pursued by excited, persistent MK recruiters whose goal is to get them to sign on before they can research or think through this ‘opportunity’. When you say they have to convince a stranger to use MK instead of their regular product, my question is how do they do that? It would be hard to do that successfully on a regular basis and make money. Even if you book a couple appointments here and there and make a few sales (probably mostly pity purchases), there would be a lot of effort harassing family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and strangers with nothing to show for it except a lot of people avoiding you. Besides an occasional pity purchase, the only thing that would keep people coming back to MK and buying at their high retail price would be a superior product (and even then people will probably find the same thing on ebay for a lot less).