Mary Kay Reality: Can’t Get Customers
Written by Parsons Green
Codie Nelson has been a Mary Kay consultant for two years and has lost her spark. She has spent thousands of dollars on inventory and trying to get leads and nothing is working. She cannot get returning customers. She’s using the scripts her director recommends. She asks in a consultants group on Facebook to see if there are others with the same struggle.
And there are others who have also found out that almost everyone loses with pyramid schemes like Mary Kay.
Consultant after consultant saying they have a similar experience. Blaming themselves for not selling. Confused as to what to do. Struggling. Reminding her though that she is not alone. They are feeling the same way.
Then there’s the advice from the Mary Kay lifers. First up is Pink Truth Fan Lynette Brazda Bickley who helpfully adds that her area has had 11 or 12 career cars.
Listen to the Million Dollar Messages.
Give discounts and try to get 30 faces in 30 days. (How can she get one face when she can’t get any replies?)
Tell your Facebook friends that you are in a challenge! Ellen jumps in to remind Codie that even though she is a small business owner, she is prohibited by Mary Kay rules from posting prices on her personal Facebook page.
Lona reminds Codie that everyone is given the tools to be successul. So, is it Codie’s fault then that she isn’t successful? You just need to work the business as a business. Follow up AGAIN with the leads who aren’t responding to you. Take gift baskets to businesses to offer as holiday gifts. You have to decide to WORK.
Dawn tells Codie not to quit. Focus on getting nos because eventually someone will say yes!! Have a grand reopening! Your director will help and do all the work! Listen to the teachings of Gloria Mayfield Banks and Linda Toupin. Make a vision board. No town will ever have too many consultants because all towns have more than one bank. Carry a full inventory so you can fulfill an order on the spot! Wear a Mary Kay T Shirt. Warm chatter everyone!
And finally the classic, unbeatable, guaranteed way to get fresh and lucrative new leads – Facial Boxes!
Codie only left the comments on this post open for a few hours before turning them off. Hopefully she will read through the responses and feel better that Mary Kay is not a money making opportunity. 99% of participants lose money. Those who don’t prey on people like her, making them blame themselves for their failure. Hopefully she will find her way here and see that she truly is not alone.
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More terrible, incoherent writing on display here. My main take away: those that aren’t successful suffer from some sort of flaw, they just must simply keep failing (read spending) until they discover it.
In other news, Mary KKKay Corporate and her upline have made money from her orders.
(Maury Povich voice) Codie, You ARE the customer!
“Dropping a line like ‘I mostly shop from my store.’”
Wait, Mary Kay also sells groceries, clothes, pet food, toilet paper, and laundry detergent? Who knew? 🙄
This is a case study in supply exceeding demand…and by a large margin, also known as market over-saturation.
And most importantly, no one is making real money in Mary Kay from selling product anyway. The big money makers are selling the opportunity, which just happens to include a large consultant order. Very little is sold outside the downline beyond initial pity purchases.
Recruiting is the name of the game in MLMs like Mary Kay. Meanwhile, promoting these MLMs gets tougher every year thanks to the strong and growing anti-MLM movement…coupled with the aforementioned market saturation.
If you are serious about making some extra money, consider a part time job, easy to come by this time of year, where every hour worked yields positive pay, without impacting your image and your relationships.
Yes … too many sellers for the possible number of buyers, YET the only way to advance in rank is to add to the number of sellers. Recruit your customers to be your competitors.
People aren’t responding because they aren’t interested. If they see her wearing a Mary Kay t-shirt, posting a contest online, asking for ‘help’ with her business, having a raffle, etc. they will avoid it because they know they will be hounded about Mary Kay even when they say they aren’t interested. In a town with many consultants, they know the drill. She has to realistically look at this, even if she gets one or two customers, the time put in and money spent aren’t worth it. She could work a real job and have been earning money without spending her own. The higher ups say work harder as if working harder will reduce the competition or make people interested in Mary Kay. It is like saying if I wish and dream hard, and flap my arms long enough, I can leap in the air and fly while denying gravity.
PTC ” Mary Kay isn’t a pyramid scheme.
Lona Holdridge publishes picture of many levels in an upside down triangle.
I hope Codie re-reads her comment and realizes she has already analyzed the problem. Sadly, she thinks “everyone else” is selling products and making money. More than likely, they’re all in the same situation but are lying about their success. Don’t forget, those prizes were “earned” by ordering products from the Company and by recruiting, not by selling.
Codie is pouring her money down the drain.
I follow some SDs and wannabe SDs on FB. I can attest that NO ONE responds to their posts. I even get tagged and yet, no one ‘likes’ or responds to all of the deals. This poor IBC is correct that she can’t sell even when following all of her SDs advice and scripts.
Mary Kay and all other mlms are an outdated system that no longer works in our Amazon delivery age. I gladly pay for Prime to get the next day or 2-day delivery with the streaming service on top of that. I am also ok with waiting a week or more when ordering from other companies or independent sellers on Amazon. What I don’t want? is all of the intrusive emails or texts from companies (or mlmers). Amazon never adds me to a customer list.
WTF is up with the gum analogy? I don’t chew gum. You can offer me a stick of gum every day for the next 10 years and I will always say, “No thanks.”
Dear Kaybots: Remember a little thing called #MeToo? You can talk to your sons until you’re blue (or pink) in the face about how “no means no,” but you are showing them by example that no will eventually mean yes if you persist. Which lesson do you want them to learn?