Perhaps my story will help other ladies out there. This is a true story in which I am still living but trying to put closure to a situation that has been absolutely terrible because of my hopefully soon ex-wife’s addiction Read more…
A woman who did Mary Kay twice tells us about her struggle through car, DIQ, and directorship. Let it be known that this woman is not the exception, she is the rule. Lots and lots of constant work, putting your Read more…
Mary Kay’s director in qualification (DIQ) process is one of the worst things you can go through as a consultant. It involves scrambling for 1 to 4 months to get enough recruits who order enough products so you can “qualify” Read more…
I can’t help but feel sorry for this Mary Kay consultant. She is somewhere below Red Jacket level, but appears to really believe she’s going to be a national sales director in 5 years. She’s decided that she will have Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose I spent a long time, both during and after my Mary Kay career, being angry with my director. You see, I was a high driver, high achieving, high D (for those who know the DISC behavior Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose and Parsonsgreen We spend a lot of time here talking about Jamie Taylor and her national area. Why? Is it because she’s unique? No. Does she stand out? Only in her wide-open social media presence. Jamie Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose and Parsonsgreen Well, folks, Leadership 2023 has come and gone, in all its wannabe-Nashville-cowgirl glory. Conspicuous consumption, dress code violations (more on that entertaining topic to come), and, of course, the opportunity for directors to increase Read more…
Let’s take a look back to the 2012 Harper’s Magazine cover story, The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Desperate Housewives. Mary Kay Inc. immediately responded to the article, but with almost no substance. There have been Read more…
One of the many sales directors Jamie Taylor has lost since finishing her national area in Mary Kay is MaryLei Applegate. (If you don’t want to read the linked article, the summary is that since finishing the requirements for NSD Read more…
Poor Nancy S. North, Mary Kay sales director. She has been on the MK hamster wheel as a director since 1983. Yes, that’s 39 years. And her goal according to her website is to become a national sales director in Read more…
About how much would a consultomer have paid for all that merch?
This is wild! To finish DIQ, I had 5 "fake" consultants. All but one (my mom, of course!) had signed…
Very good analogy.
Probably to convince the company that she was valuable to them.
Maybe she thought that if she placed a huge order, they wouldn't terminate her? Obviously, she was desperate not to…