One of the first things I was taught after I started Mary Kay was how to “reconnect” with old friends in order to sell the product. They get you to make a list of “everyone with skin” that you know, Read more…
Written by JTA The end of the month is always around the corner. For those not in the know, Mary Kay directors DO have quotas and must have total unit production of at least $4,500 per month. If they miss 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…
Mary Kay consultants are fond of looking for new customers and/or consultants to recruit with a technique called “warm chatter.” Basically, you approach women in public and start talking about Mary Kay and get them to agree to book an Read more…
Written by Frosty Rose One of the most common rebuttals offered by our Friday Critics when confronted with the abysmal earning reports for Mary Kay consultants is that those disclosures only show commissions on team building. Not everyone chooses to Read more…
At Pink Truth, we know that 99% of all participants in multi-level marketing lose money. Nonetheless, recruiters for Mary Kay and other MLMs tell recruits that they can make money just selling the product! They will tell you this while 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…
A former Mary Kay consultant comes clean about her interactions with her customers. The truth behind the pink… false compliments, recruiting and sales tactics, ulterior motives, false earnings claims… all the norm in Mary Kay when someone is trying to Read more…
The secret to getting Mary Kay consultants (especially new ones) to order lots of inventory is overcoming their objections. New consultants typically are skeptical about spending thousands of dollars on inventory that they’re not even sure they can sell. But Read more…
Written by Parsonsgreen For years, Mary Kay directors relied on a trick at month end regarding on hold orders. A large order could be placed and held for processing for a few days after the month ended. The director could 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?