My Unit Did Not Make Production
When your Mary Kay unit misses production, what do you do? Sales directors are required to have a minimum of $4,500 in wholesale orders from the unit each month. If your unit orders less than that, you’ve “missed production.”
Mary Kay Inc. gives you one month as a grace period. If you miss production that month, but make it the next month, you carry on with business as usual. But if you miss production two months in a row, your unit is taken away from you and you are not longer a sales director.
Marla McVay has been in Mary Kay for almost 20 years. And at the end of October she was in a panic because her unit had only ordered $3,000 wholesale, and they had already missed production in September. What happens!!!!???!?!?!?!?!
This article is less about Marla and more about the terrible advice that other sales directors like Carolyn Evans, Delores Hawk, Kristi Mimbela…. who are telling her to place a $1500 order!!! Yes, that’s right. They’re telling her to buy $1,500 wholesale on her own credit card.
Don’t you think that if she had actually sold $1500 wholesale/ $3000 retail of products, she would have already ordered? No. It’s encouraging the purchase of products she doesn’t need and isn’t selling, in order to keep a unit that isn’t work. Wake up, Marla. This is not a business, this is a pyramid scheme.
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Oh, sure, just charge it. It’s only $1500. Until next month, and the one after that… Heck, that’s “only” EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR in order to keep your title. That’s what you could MAKE working part time for a year.
Unless you follow Jeanette Turner’s advice and coerce your pet rockstar to spend her own 18 large so that it’s Not Your Problem. After all, you never held a gun to her head. It’s her own fault for buying stuff she couldn’t afford 🙄 x infinity
Silly, Popinki. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR makes sure that all of her up-line keep their trophy on wheels. It’s a small price to pay for their benefit /sarcasm.
Marla’s got a solid plan in place to make November the best yet. Adopt a grandparent!
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Hand cream and a lip balm…sign me up😍😍😍
Dollar store stuff and a tiny product sample and a candy cane. Costs nothing to appear charitable and they pocket the difference. They have no shame.
Do you think they actually deliver the product?
“Do you think they actually deliver the product?”
Yes, because it’s a great photo opportunity to show how they “give back.” The SD near me always had someone taking videos as she carried the pretty bags/boxes from her pink Caddy trunk into the nursing home.
And I like the way they list how many you can buy—no discount but you can buy 3 for $45 or 10 for $150… We can count, ladies!
Ellen Bowman Cox I have a former offspring director who used to go to them with sob stories and it really made me mad. She missed 2 in a row at least 3 times in one year.
Of course we are all going to be gracious and kind and thankful to the company but I would let them know that you DO know that they have made exceptions in the past and you know that they have made it multiple times for different director and if you need it PM me and I’ll give you her name so they can look it up.
I want everyone to do well, but I didn’t like the fact that she just kept getting away with it. (mind blown emoji)
Look, Ms Pink Truth Critic, Ellen’s not being “cheerful” she’s being ” evil, mean-spirited, venomous, whiney, hateful, etc.” or “foul-mouthed, hateful, catty, etc.”
I’ll give you her name!!!!!!!
Ellen’s upset about this because she WANTED that director to fail so that she could get her downline. That’s the shady secret that NSDs/SDs know and lowly IBCs don’t know. Here’s what happens for NSDs when a director fails https://www.pinktruth.com/2023/04/05/winning-when-your-downline-fails/ and I assume that the failed director’s SD also gets that same benefit.
Yes … in WoW it’s called “looting the corpses”. Whether they are in your raiding party or the opponent’s party, you get to take the goodies from the fallen. And, like WoW you can respawn with no resources and start the tedious grind again.
FFS – if this was the opportunity they claim it is, directors wouldn’t be coughing up any money to keep their titles, because their team and their team’s teams and the teams below them would ALL be selling enough product to easily make the production goals.
THIS!!!!! This is the real question. Why is there any concern about selling $1,500 worth of product? If MK sells itself, why the need for panic and discount prices?
Interest rates on credit cards are INSANE right now. It’s borderline criminal that these ladies are never taught how to create and use a Profit & Loss Statement but we all know if they were they would see the financial disaster that is MK.
This director’s product is clearly defective. It’s not selling itself or flying off the shelves as promised.
Because Mary Kay’s consultants aren’t supposed to care about Profit and Loss, the P&L in their world is “People and Love”. You can bet your last dollar Mary Kay corporate cares about Profit and Loss.
So do they have to carry it over?
$4,500 each month. 2 months on a row out. So if one does $3,500 does she have to then do $5,500 the next month?
No – they are given a pass for that month.
I had 9k wholesale months but god forbid I would be short a couple hundred dollars 2 in a row. They don’t average it out sadly.
Just ask 10 customer/consultants to sell 6 masks and give a gift or do a drawing.
Ask them to spend $125 for a chance to win or be gifted $1 trinkets 🤣
Then products fly off the shelf 🙄
Just ask 10 customer/consultants to sell 6 masks and give a gift or do a drawing.
Ask them to spend $125 for a chance to win or be gifted $1 trinkets 🤣
Then products fly off the shelf 🙄
Now is your chance…run away and don’t look back!
Exactly! Losing her unit could be the best financial thing to ever happen to her.
“Just sell $1,500 in 2 days.” It’s easy-peasy. If it was so easy, wouldn’t have it been already sold in the past 30 days?
“Call 10 of your friends and ask if they can sell 6 masks each for you for a free gift.” Excuse me?! I did not sign up to schill over-priced cosmetics. If a friend asked me that I’d say, will you do my job then from 3-5 this week? Working ’til 5 is such a bummer.
“I hated when I was a consultant and my director did not tell me what was going on in our unit.” Lol. Lol. See, I really didn’t care. For a few months I was excited about unit goals/ excited to feel like part of the team, but that goodwill dried up VERY quickly when I realized the unit goals only benefited the director and NO ONE else in our unit. And the goals the director set were not realistic anyway. The director is $1,500 away from missing production? Gosh, that’s too bad; I hope it works out for her. 🤷But knowing that is not gonna make me open my wallet & place a bigger order than I need. Sorry, not sorry. I’d love to a poll of MK consultants nationwide & see how many care what is going on in their unit.
Because Mary Kay’s consultants aren’t supposed to care about Profit and Loss, the P&L in their world is “People and Love”. You can bet your last dollar Mary Kay corporate cares about Profit and Loss.