Finishing December
Written by Parsons Green
Even though the holiday season is coming to a close, directors and consultations still have monthly production requirements to maintain their units and to avoid car copays!
Sandra Husband asked for some tips on how to finish the month strong.
The responses?
Gift certificates. Discounts. Calling. Texting. Begging. Bribing. Just the thing I want to be doing before New Years. Do any of these consultants or directors ever make a full priced sale to anyone?
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A community of stressed out women focused on sales and orders when they should be focused on fun and family. That’s the Mary Kay Way.
Now I’ve got the MK song (rant?) blasting in my head…
Look on the bright side, Sandra. Whatever problems you’re having now, just think. In a few days it will be a brand new month. You’ll be starting from zero, everyone is either broke after the holidays or spending their 💸 on gym memberships and diet food, and they’re all sick of you bugging them to buy Christmas gifts. Not to mention April is coming and the IRS doesn’t consider charcoal mask as legal tender.
So it can and will get worse. Happy new year 🎉 🍾 🥂
Meanwhile, the consultants selling from “empty wagons” are not looking so foolish.
Half off, 15% off, clearance sales, hostess gifts… so many ways to cut into the consultants’ profits. It’s quite sad, actually, and also rather enraging when you recall that these women were promised, “The product sells itself.”
Sandra is a seasoned Sales Director, yet is asking for advice on how to clear her “overflowing pink shelves.”
She should do what MK directors have been doing for years: Donate it or send it to the landfill. It does not look good to your downline to have a house overflowing with unsold product.
I think it would shock Mary Kay consultants if they knew the percentage of MK product produced that ends up in the landfill. Most of the stuff that is gifted or donated likely ends up in the landfill as well.
There is simply not enough demand for these overpriced products of questionable quality, especially at the outrageous volume of over-ordering required to participate.
That’s where the bulk of my inventory went: the landfill. I’m curious how the taxes play out since I “closed my business” in 2024.
“There is simply not enough demand for these overpriced products of questionable quality”
Bingo. Economics 101.
I’m nearly 70 years old. I never used MK in my life. I don’t even know anyone who sells it or uses it. In fact, my ONLY knowledge of MK is from reading Pink Truth and following consultants’ attempts at “success.”
As an outsider, my conclusions about MK products would be:
-Some are quite good
– A few are really bad
– Most are mediocre
– All are overpriced
Enorth, I am fascinated that you never tried MK. I was somewhat pulled into it by my mother – she loved the products and her favorite perfume was Intrigue (my screen name here at PT). Of course I signed up to sell it when presented the “opportunity.” There are boatloads of consultants around our area (Great Plains), and I would always have to grapple with the “market is saturated” by potential recruits.
Anyway, it’s neat to know someone who dodged all the pink.