33 Things Jamie Taylor Has Learned in Mary Kay
Written by Parsons Green
Jamie Taylor finished her national area requirements in March 2021. Nearly four years later, she celebrated her 33rd birthday. (And only 32 more years to go for her expected NSD retirement date!).
On her weekly winner’s circle meeting, she shared 33 things she’s learned in Mary Kay.
- When I look better, I feel better.
- People won’t think something about you that are not. If you are not tacky or trashy, people can’t think of you that way. She has changed the way people think about Mary Kay
- Work for your next goal with all of your heart.
- You can sell more than you think. You can be a star consultant. It’s not as hard as you think.
- An event can change the trajectory of your business – if you let it. Go to your weekly meetings. Go to seminar. Go to the star events.
- If they do not text you back on the day of your appointment. They are not coming. Be better at following up. Use that missed time to book.
- Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
- Make yourself say the words you were trained to say.
- Tell the customers how the products (and the opportunity) will help them.
- Make sure to always remember people’s names.People love the sound of their name.
- Focus on being a good follower to be a good leader.
- Things always take longer than you think.
- You will feel more hopeful after you exercise.
- You will feel less anxiety after you express gratitude.
- You will feel more motivated after you win.
- You will feel more confident after you finish something you said you’d finish.
- Learn from yours and other’s mistakes.
- Take advice from people you would trade places with.
- Healthy things grow, and growing things change!
- Take the blame whenever you can.
- Get involved ! In the chats, in the zooms, in the meetings!!!
- Never be too important to take out the trash or set up the chairs.
- Winners come out of a winning environment.
- Learn, understand and use your strengths.
- Helping others is how you grow your business
- Save your receipts. (And your sales tickets and customer cards!)
- Strive for a wholesome life. (No drinking, cussing, or hanging out with toxic people. No sinning!)
- Failure is a prerequisite for success.
- What you think about you bring about.
- Never stop learning
- Put some of the color on
- People join the team of the girl that they believe is going places.
- Dream bigger.
These tips will surely help any Mary Kay Consultant achieve their Mary Kay Dreams!
Except… they won’t. Because her area continues to fail spectacularly.
Taylor McKnight (Still not an NSD)
Chelsea Adkins (Still not an NSD)
Rachel Ryan (Barely requalified for her Cadillac, and most likely done with her own credit card)
Anastasia Syzmkowski (Please come to her parties!)
Mary Lei Applegate (One of Jamie’s MANY failed directors)
When Jamie debuted in Mary Kay, she had 10 first line and 15 second line directors. She’s lost 18 of them. Let that sink in. In 4 years since Jamie became a national sales director, 72% of the directors in her original area lost their title of director!
Jamie requalified this seminar year for having more than $100,000 in commissions. (That’s the “gold circle” mentioned in the picture above.)
Will Jamie continue this for the next 32 years? Will Mary Kay even be around?
Jamie admitted in a Facebook post that her team ordered inventory to help her finish her NSD goal. Women giving up their money so Jamie gets a title. That is shameful. This video should be a must watch for ANYONE thinking of signing up in Jamie’s area. She only wants your product order so she can keep her NSD title.
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“2. People won’t think something about you that are not. If you are not tacky or trashy, people can’t think of you that way. She has changed the way people think about Mary Kay”
Well, that’s just not true. People think a lot of things about a lot of people whether or not they’re true. Additionally, Jamie is both tacky and trashy, so we think of her that way. If she has changed the way people think about Mary Kay, it’s for the worse. She is a living, breathing, trackable example of how much of a failure this business is, even for those at the top.
“18. Take advice from people you would trade places with.” K, well that’s not you, Jamie. A 72% attrition rate in 4 years? That’s not normal! If that happens anywhere outside of an MLM (or a restaurant), everyone’s doing culture studies to try to figure out what’s going wrong. Unless leadership (like all of MLM leadership) has their head so stuck in the sand or up their rears that they think the problem is ALWAYS with those who are leaving. 72% attrition is a massive problem.
Strive for a wholesome life. (No drinking, cussing, or hanging out with toxic people. No sinning!)
But beg your down-line for money so you and Priceless Chels can have expensive cocktails during her bachelorette.
No sinning? Good luck with that!😱
Arrrgh, two items in and I’m already fulminating.
“People won’t think something about you that are not. If you are not tacky or trashy, people can’t think of you that way.”
Ah, good to know that prejudice has vanished overnight, you anencephalic twit. I know plenty of tacky, trashy people (hell, I’m probably T&T myself. I’m related to a bunch) who are smart, kind, and generous. How they present themselves doesn’t affect their value as humans.
Meanwhile, I’ve seen you in action, and you are both tacky and trashy. From exhorting your downline to buy your position for you to whining online about people being meeeeaaan to you but lalala you don’t care (uh huh) to the way you insult your acolytes, congratulations, you’re trashy all the way through.
Man, gonna need caffeine and possibly a Bahama Mama to get through the rest…
Jamie admitted in a Facebook post that her team ordered inventory to help her finish her NSD goal.
Rather book-ends Ms. Hissy-Kitty’s assertion that “no-one has to buy inventory”.
Ok, Popinki, you can do this. You love mocking overinflated talking egos who think they have something wise, profound, or even sort of interesting to say. ::cracks knuckles:: Ow.
“You can sell more than you think. You can be a star consultant. It’s not as hard as you think.” Especially since you get a star for ORDERING, not actually SELLING.
“An event can change the trajectory of your business – if you let it. Go to your weekly meetings. Go to seminar. Go to the star events.” GIVE US ALL YOUR MONEY!
“If they do not text you back on the day of your appointment. They are not coming. Be better at following up. Use that missed time to book.” How the hell do you follow up if they won’t answer? Use that missed time to take a bleeping hint!
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable.” The hell with that. Sometimes you do have to go outside your comfort zone, but living in a perpetual state of discord wrecks your psyche.
“Make yourself say the words you were trained to say.” Dance like the trained monkey you are, slave!
“Make sure to always remember people’s names.People love the sound of their name.” No, Jamie. People don’t like hearing their name over and over, Jamie. In fact, Jamie, people find it annoying, fake, and off-putting, Jamie.
“Focus on being a good follower to be a good leader.
Things always take longer than you think.
You will feel more hopeful after you exercise.
You will feel less anxiety after you express gratitude.
You will feel more motivated after you win.” Ah, cribbing from the Big Book of Sort-of Motivational-Sounding Pablum, are we?
“Take advice from people you would trade places with.” Good thing I’d never trade places with you, then.
“Healthy things grow, and growing things change!” Like tumors! and tapeworms! and botflies!
“Take the blame whenever you can.” Owning up to your mistakes is part of maturity, but making yourself into a whipping boy helps no one.
“Never be too important to take out the trash or set up the chairs.” I’ll put you down for trash and chair duty next Monday, then.
“Save your receipts.” So you can return all that MK crap you were guilted into buying :p
“Strive for a wholesome life. (No drinking, cussing, or hanging out with toxic people. No sinning!)” Screw you, you whited sepulchre.
“Failure is a prerequisite for success.
What you think about you bring about.
Never stop learning
Put some of the color on
People join the team of the girl that they believe is going places.
Dream bigger.” Ok, now she’s just cribbing from the Big Book of MK Platitudes.
Jamie, may you look back on this in 10 years and cringe so hard you sprain something.
In Taylor’s pic, only two of the seven directors still have that title. (Carrie lost it and got it back). Only four of the sixteen people in Taylor’s downline pictured are still in Mary Kay.
Sounds like Jamie may not be a very good mentor.
I bet the women who left MK are lamenting the time, energy, and MONEY they spent chasing the suit, the ring, the car, the trip…
Clearly this article outlining the high turnover is the embodiment of: “It were easy, everyone would do it.” There literally can be NO OTHER explanation.
Such a big list, seemly all about image (self and public) but zero substance. And no tangible advice for building, running and growing a retail beauty products business.
No mention of competitive product analysis, and the benefits of specific MK products over the competition, and who the market leaders are and how to promote MK to those customers. No mention of price-point analysis, and a realistic view on what the public is paying/willing to pay for products of similar quality (for each MK product). No mention of the top 5 or 10 customer issues, and what is to be done to address them. No mention of territorial analysis revealing where sales opportunities are greater, and likewise, over-saturated areas to avoid. No mention of right-sizing the sales force to allow each rep a greater chance to succeed. No mention of YOY downward corporate sales trends, and what the company is doing about it. No mention of the dangers of continually growing your inventory faster than actual retail sales.
And certainly no mention of the reputational and relationship risks associated with trying to build a sustainable business off the generousity of your friends and family.
These are things that real retailers concern themselves with.
It’s almost as if this is really not at all about selling beauty products to outside customers. If true, what business, exactly, are these ladies in, anyway?