You Need to Attend Seminar!
Written by Raisinberry
They want you at SEMINAR SO BADLY that they are willing to SHAME you if you work YOUR BUSINESS!
In-person events are back in full effect and there is all sorts of pressure to attend Seminar. Here are some of the common arguments the nsds use to guilt you into going…
Myth: I just need to stay home and work.
(Now this is labeled a MYTH by your Nationals because she is about to show you where your thinking is skewed – aren’t you lucky?. You thought you needed to make money instead of spending it, but you are wrong!)
When evaluating the BIG 4 (Seminar, Career Conference, Fall Retreat and Leadership), The biggest MYTH OF ALL is: I don’t need to attend, I just need to stay home and work. People who say that need more money or have a lack of money.
(Uh Yeah we have figured out that all the Power of the “Friends of Time” Dance and Singing Troop won’t change the fact that MK is an overpriced product that sells well on eBay but not from Aunt Agnes’s living room.)
That is a result not from lack of work but from thoughts about their work. (No, lack of work would be it. And thoughts about lack of work are verified every Monday night when whatever consultants show up for meeting have a grand total of $418 in sales between them!)
They have had plenty of opportunities to work but their work has not produced results. (Now we’re getting somewhere.) Everything begins with thoughts. Thoughts then create action and action creates income, not work. (Hmmm, like the Action of holding a facial, instead of the action of sitting on my beads in DALLAS with no one to book?)
I remember vividly the turning point day in my leadership when I came to this realization. I actually said out loud to NSD Sue Kirkpatrick ” I know I could do what you do if I knew what you knew. I understood that day I couldn’t be a NSD until I thought like a NSD. I knew that above all else I needed to attend every thing I could so I could learn to think differently. (Shoot girl.. I can tell you how a National thinks – you don’t have to go to DALLAS to learn that! Nationals think I gotta raise up more Directors by “BY-passing” My DEAD DIRECTORS, who are in too much debt to think abundantly, and get to their Movers and shakers! If I tie them to ME, I might have a chance of bonding better with them and encouraging them to get to the SUIT! After all..I need more hamsters on the wheel if I am ever gonna surpass the nsds!)
Even if the funds came from my family or I had to do without something personally, events took priority over everything else. (This is the part where we ignore the OTHER Mary Kay saying about God family career, right?)
Staying home, driving the same roads, eating the same foods, listening to the same people, looking at your life through the same eyes does not create more income. (No, but it sure doesn’t create more DEBT EITHER!)
No one in the history of my national area has ever stayed home and made more money. (And how would you know that? If their heads clear they may have quit for a real job and made a TON more)
In fact time and time again those who believe this isn’t a MYTH move further and further down scoreboards and provide less and less income to their family. That is a fact not myth. ( No doubt! Cause by the time you figure out that SEMINAR is for massive brain washing that you PAY FOR, you are less and less susceptible to the message and less and less willing to drag any other women down with you. Let’s just say, less income FROM MARY KAY. )
ANALYSIS: Mary Kay Sales Directors and Nationals are dependent on the recognition game and choose to pretend that those ribbons hanging from their name tags represent honest effort. Nothing could be further from the truth for the vast majority. Seminar is a Celebration of FRAUD. Please remember that ZERO RETAIL SALES RECORDS ARE RECORDED. In order to be able to perpetuate the fraud, you have to be sufficiently DAZED and Mind numbed by applause, beaded gowns, late night spiritual songs and cheap prizes. It is in fact a MYTH that you will gain anything of value at all from Seminar, except who not to room with next year.
The parade of consultants showing off their achievements while crying inside from the mountain of debt they are buried under is no cause for celebration. Manipulating women into lying to look good is a tragedy of epic proportions, and applauding Year End Awards for SALES Achievement is the biggest Myth of all!
Well said. Seminar also happens to be yet another moneymaker for Mary Kay Corp and the kingpins. All of it paid for by the attendees, who get nothing of value in return.
Keep in mind the sales force pays for everything in Mary Kay…including Seminar.
You want me to go? Pay my way!
If seminar is such a money making game changer, place a bet on me with your dime.
If Mary Kay’s revenue came from outside customers, they’d be able to pay the way for their sales team to attend company activities. That’s how it works in the real world. But since the IBC is Mary Kay’s target customer (and Mary Kay’s only real revenue source), the IBC has to pay for absolutely everything in Mary Kay…out of their own pocket!
You’re absolutely correct. Mary Kay Inc pays for employee expenses, salaries, benefits, 401k and profit sharing, etc. Sales force members are independent contractors who pay for everything because they have the “unlimited earnings opportunity.” This is the same for all MLMs.
Also, other MLMs have their own version of Seminar to keep the consultants brainwashed. My director pumped it up so much how great the company was to do this for us, and no other company would do this for their sales force. It was awkward when on the plane home from Seminar, I sat next to a consultant from a different MLM who was coming home from HER Seminar event. (I think hers was Party Lite candles) We both thought our Seminar & our company/ opportunity was the best. I cringe looking back at that.
Mary Kay isn’t special, despite what your director says.
When I was on my way out of the Pink Bubble, another consultant said to me, “I’ve heard that I should start saving up every spare penny for Seminar now.” (This was in autumn) I was honest with her, I told her yes. Seminar ticket, travel, lodging, food, transportation, hotel, banquets, new clothes because you want to look sharp…they will squeeze every last dime out of you.
“The parade of consultants showing off their achievements while crying inside from the mountain of debt they are buried under is no cause for celebration.” So very true. I had cried for about an hour while trying to get ready for what was supposed to be a huge achievement (Court of Sales). And I couldn’t even eat at the reception because I knew I was going to be sick. Then standing in line with hundreds of other women who had “achieved” the very same thing, I stood there wondering how many of them had paid their way to the stage, just like me. Just like one of my roommates.