Mary Kay Seminar Attendance
In case you were interested in knowing how many women attend Mary Kay’s seminar in Dallas each year, here are the statistics by year, going back to 2001.
2016: 30,000
2015: 27,000
2014: 30,000
2013: 50,000 (allegedly, but I believe the figure was inflated substantially)
2012: 32,000
2011: 30,000
2010: More than 30,000
2009: 35,000
2008: 35,000
2007: 40,000
2006: 42,000
2005: 45,000
2003: 53,000
2001: 43,000
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Starting with 2016 they moved from the arena to folding chairs in Hall F, making it impossible to verify claimed attendance with photographs.
Please pardon me for not trusting the increase in 2016.
Folding chairs???!!! Really? You pay all that money and then have to sit on a folding chair? Sheesh!!!
Looks like the anniversary years get a bump. But I doubt that big a bump.
In the months leading up to the big anniversary blow-out, MKC cut starter kit prices in half so they could recruit everyone who could fog a mirror and their mothers. MKC got a bunch of them to attend Seminar too by over-promoting it as the Seminar to outdo all other Seminars.
Of course, nearly all of the cut-rate recruits quit within a few months.
Basically, a 39% drop in attendance over 15 years.
Yes, and how many from the previous years were there, and how many were freshly recruited victims? Typically, MLMs have an annual drop out rate of 60% or more.
WOW 30,000 people in debt up to their eyeballs in one spot! Excellent opportunity to introduce folks to Dave Ramsey! :o)
Every MBot I know follows Dave Ramsey (they always tout going to his seminars). Maybe they are trying to figure out how to get out!
Too bad picketing nearby would be frowned upon (letting the newbies know to run for the hills). Maybe some ads about mlm’s (I mean dual marketing lol) and their repercussions. How to return product sooner rather than later. How much directors actually make. Possibly on washroom doors in nearby restaurants or hotels etc. Some warm stalking role reversal.
You couldn’t pay me to go inside those smelly restrooms at Seminar. Just nasty.
Now I am having retro smell attack. I thought I was on the only one who noticed. If you are going, breathe through your mouth.
To MK corporate – ya’ll think you could ask the convention center to upgrade the cleaning supplies during the event.
Oh never mind, it falls on deaf ears – men are running MK corporate, they have no idea. Gawk-gaagg.
Sweaty women + 100 degree heat is not something I miss every summer. The heat in those restrooms + the nasty smell made me gag more than once.
Let’s not forget the blisters on our feet. Or being so hungry from a lack of edible food for breakfasts every morning. Or being overwhelmed by seeing 7,000 horribly dressed people everywhere. (Remember the bumble bee slippers?)
Remember giving a standing ovation to EVERYBODY who came on stage? Such ridiculousness!
Mk issaying there’s only 30,000 attending Seminar this year. That’s about 7,000 per division. There’s also only 185 NSDs now. And they’re promoting a “revolutionary” product to be launched, which is a vitamin C product.
Excuse me, MK, but vitamin C products are all over the place. Packaging is the only difference and the place you get trademark approval. Clinique has a powder-based product, and there’s dozens with airless packaging to deliver it effectively.
The only thing “new”, MK, is your lower numbers. Your ship is taking on water!
Vitamin C Activating Squares.
A complete joke of a product. Clinique has powders and about every other brand has a serum in packaging that’s protective of vitamin C. I remember being so scared of being seen at a competitor’s counter for doing research on what they had on the market. Yet, that’s the thing…
No one in MK is aware of what actually IS on the market, so they’re falling for the line that this is a revolutionary product to the beauty industry. No, it’s not! It’s that mindless following of whomever is walking in front of you, never asking questions that makes the entire sales force look bad.
Other than the flip flops being worn at Seminar.
And people with multiple diamond bees on their shoulder with no higher than $300,000 bar pins there, too. 24 people a year for 5 years doesn’t get you any farther along?
It all SCREAMS a failing business.
“makes the entire sales force look bad.”
Last year they were shaving cantaloupes.
Those new squares cost a customer $2 each. It’s a box of 12 for $24. Really expensive for a product that should be used daily and endlessly to get good, lasting results.
I found an official Mary Kay Seminar 2017 press release (read: paid advertisement) with attendance numbers:
“Nearly 30,000.” So it’s official. The numbers are still declining. I’d be willing to bet that it’s really several thousand less, and “nearly 30,000” is as much as they dare inflate the figure.
Mary Kay Launches Beauty Industry First As Thousands Convene For U.S. Seminar
http://www.fox8live.com/story/35940150/mary-kay-launches-beauty-industry-first-as-thousands-convene-for-us-seminar
Interesting … they also claim “To date, more than 1,300 Mary Kay patents have been granted and in 2016 another 130 patents were awarded. ”
Technically, a company cannot be awarded a patent – they go to individual inventors who then assign them to their employer if that’s how the contract reads.
The US Patent Office shows them as “assignee” (owner) for far fewer than that, so they must be counting patents for the same thing granted by different countries to get their totals.
Results of Search in US Patent Collection db for:
AN/”Mary Kay”: 208 patents.
Many of them are just applying for a patent on any plant extract they can find that hasn’t been already patented, which is hardly leading edge research.
Many patents are for bottles and packages … and then there is this one from 2010:
Inventors: Shasteen; Rhonda L. (Lucas, TX), Sajuns; Karola (Frisco, TX)
Customizable cosmetic containers, systems, and methods
Abstract: Customizable cosmetic containers, customization components, kits, and methods In one embodiment a kit is disclosed comprising a cosmetic container comprising a body, the body defining a cavity configured to receive a cosmetic product, and the body configured to be coupled to a lid in a closed position such that the body and the lid cooperate to substantially enclose the cavity and two or more customization components each configured to be connected to at least one of the body and a lid such that at least a portion of the customization component contours to the shape of a surface of the at least one of the body and lid.
WTF?
Oh, Rhonda Shasteen. What memories!
BAHAHAHAHA! WOW! Truly cutting edge there, MK! You got the patent on a BOTTLE! Now how does that equal innovative skin care? Vitamin C serums have been around a hot minute or two. MK way behind the times.
Mary kay already has a vitamin c serum. The squares are a separate product. The vitamin c squares keep the vitamin c more potent. I actually like the idea.