Today we take a trip down memory lane. Almost three years ago, Harper’s Magazine did an expose on the Mary Kay “opportunity” that ruffled a lot of feathers. The story, The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Read more…
Written by Lazy Gardens Mary Kay Ash said, “A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.” She never told her age. She also never mentioned other details that might have interfered with her carefully crafted public image as Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Note: If you haven’t yet read the article, “8 Out of 10 Mary Kay NSDs Are Okay With Lying to Customers,” please do so now, as it will provide you with the necessary background information required Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Yesterday I introduced you to a Facebook community called The Million Dollar Message Listeners (M$M ), run by six top directors who are daughters, sisters, or nieces of National Sales Directors (Kristin Rogers, Jordan Helou Eicher, Read more…
Written by The Scribbler I’m a big fan of the TV show Kitchen Nightmares. It’s an entertaining spectacle where restaurant owners contact professional chef Gordon Ramsay for help in turning their sagging businesses around. One of the first things Chef Read more…
Written by The Scribbler False income claims are the primary recruiting tool used by multi-level marketing companies to lure in new recruits. Mary Kay sales director Roya Mattis loves to say “if she can do it, I can do it Read more…
UPDATE: From July 1, 2011 through January 31, 2012 (7 months), Shelby has ordered less than $11,838 retail ($5,919 wholesale) from Mary Kay. That means her sales per month are less than $1,700 retail, nowhere near what she’d need to Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Last year a book was released titled Ask ME About MARY KAY: The true story behind the bumper sticker on the pink Cadillac, authored by Jackie Brown. Jackie Brown is one of the original consultants who Read more…
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Mary Kay’s pride and joy, Allison LaMarr, continues to do the company proud. She was the fastest ever get to the position of National Sales Director, and now she claims she made $1 million faster than anyone in Mary Kay. Read more…
Here's another dirty director secret ... if you just go inactive, your director can (and many will) re-activate you with…
I thought I was in one of those “classic” units until it came time to push through my month end…
Nauseating, all of it. Please, if you’re just stopping by, stay a while and drink the pink antidote. Don’t stay…
Aight, bet. If you want to talk about “shit made up”, it’s the assumption that Amazon is a pyramid scheme.…
Actually, PTC, I was damn good at sales. I worked my tail off and sold a lot of products (most…