It pays big to have “Mary Kay cars” on the road. It costs Mary Kay Inc. NOTHING (because consultants and directors pay for their own cars via the inventory orders they place), and is essentially free advertising for the company. Read more…
Written by A Former Consultant You’ve heard them, you’ve been taught them, and you’ve even said them yourself. Now that you are out of the Pink Fog, here’s a translation of some of the favorite scripts in Mary Kay… what Read more…
So the real deal with Mary Kay is recruiting and frontloading . A small amount of product sales occur from time to time. But the real money is made in recruiting, and directors are usually pretty up front about it. Read more…
Written by The Scribbler The “Don’t give her too long to think about it” script featured on Mary Kay NSD Caterina Harris’s website. At the end of the recruiting interview, Prospect Pam is interested, but needs to “think about it” before Read more…
I’m not sure how a Kaybot can presume to know the details of everyone’s life and conclude that anyone and everyone can hold 2 Mary Kay classes a week… but that’s not stopping them! Below is another one of those Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Over a decade of postings on Pink Truth from consultants and Directors have yet to produce an honest response from the company or the Nationals concerning the abuses suffered from starting a Mary Kay distributorship. I say Read more…
Mary Kay Cosmetics is all about the initial inventory order. They know if they don’t get you to buy right away, you almost certainly will never by much. (Mainly because you will quickly see how hard it is to find Read more…
Written by Raisinberry We’ve heard stories before of Mary Kay sales directors being with the company for 20 or 25 years. They try to build to NSD, but never get there. They are left without any retirement plan, and most Read more…
Written by The Scribbler It’s proudly proclaimed on most Mary Kay recruiting scripts, leaflets, and packets, most of the time in capital letters: FREE training! But is “free” a description that’s dead-on or just another fabulous fib? Pull up your Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Contrary to popular belief, the abusive state of affairs in Mary Kay didn’t start with the record breakers in the last 10t to 15 years. These were ladies who figured out where to concentrate their time, and Read more…
I'm surprised any MLM stays in business! So many of them have already gone under or changed their business model.…
When you run the numbers on endless-chain recruiting schemes (as used in MLMs like Mary Kay), you will find that…
Nice catch! I had not noticed the evasion and assumption. === starting with “What if I told you..?”. It’s both…
Another beautifully written piece, Suz. You captured it all perfectly, as usual. The paragraph that starts "In a perfect MK…
But everyone can promote themselves whenever they want. Right?