It’s All About Orders
Somer Fortenberry wants to be a Diamond Circle nsd this year, meaning that she would bring in $200,000 in commissions (before subtracting any business expenses). The only way to do that is for lowly consultants to spend their hard-earned money on products they don’t need.
This was her plea at the end of April: In the last 3 days of the month she needed the area to orders $100,000 of products at wholesale prices. Notice that she doesn’t reference selling anything. It’s not about “sell a bunch of products and order to replenish them.” Instead, it’s about some fabricated contest or goal, and ordering to meet that. And of course “share the opportunity with women” to help us meet the goal means we should recruit and sell large inventory packages.
Mary Kay national sales directors are vultures of the highest order. Gross.
(This is also a good time to remind you that Somer Fortenberry is the one who was exposed a couple of years ago as taking advantage of consultants and directors to get to nsd.)
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https://youtu.be/1h5Nali0xYM
Month end update from Somer direct from the NSD cruise. She ended April with $156k in commissions so the goal for May is $300k retail.
Her being on a cruise while telling her downline to spend themselves into the poorhouse so that SHE can achieve some pointless goal just makes it worse. It’s Kim Jong Un level entitled cluelessness.
She looks tired and doesn’t appear to be enjoying the cruise. She’s in her cabin giving updates and issuing challenges.
Asking everyone to pray every morning: “Pray for our area, for our country, and for our families.”
Area first, families last.
“Quantum Leap” … wasn’t that the show where Sam never knew where he would end up?
Leaving aside the fact that Mothers’ Day is a touchy subject for a lot of people for a lot of reasons, I don’t even have 100 people I could text about anything, let alone MD baskets.
Isn’t it great how modern cell phones let us permanently block calls and texts from annoying numbers? If I ended up as one of those unlucky 100+ numbers in a Kaybot’s contacts I would utilize this technology stat.
Seriously these NSD goals haven’t changed since I left over 18 years ago. It’s the same thing just repackaged for a different holiday/ goal. Please order more so I can get a bigger check! It’s sickening that these people can live with themselves and be OK with driving people into debt to buy makeup.
Sorry what is NSD?
Every MLM like Mary Kay has a corporate business plan built entirely around this one truth: “The rep is the customer!” In Mary Kay, that includes every rep from the NSDs at the top the lowly consultants at the very bottom. Has anyone noticed a complete lack of curiosity as to why else would everyone, including NSDs, have to purchase product every month?
Many managers of sales teams in real businesses don’t have to sell a single thing. Nor do they have to purchase or use any of the products sold by their sales teams. They get paid for their work without the need to ever personally buy or use any of the product they sell to others.
But in MLMs like Mary Kay, everyone must purchase product personally in order to qualify for commissions from down-line sales. This is such a stupid concept. It baffles me that no one inside these MLM pyramids seem to think this is odd.
“she would bring in $200,000 in commissions”
— She gets thousands of dollars.
— Consultants get a pair of cheap earrings.
— A real “win-win.”
Isn’t she related to retired NSD Pat Fortenberry? Pat was a top NSD way back in the day.
Yep! Her Mother-In-Law
Yet another example of how “everyone starts at the same level” doesn’t really apply to this company.