Written by Suzy Q So, we taped hours and hours of painful, humiliating, humbling information about our experiences in Mary Kay, and ABC diluted it down to about 12 minutes. However, it made an impact and I was pleased to Read more…
Mary Kay Cosmetics was hoping that ABC’s 20/20 would share their version of the story: that lots of products are sold, lots of money is made, and Mary Kay enriches women’s lives. Unfortunately for them, Rebecca Jarvis dug into the Read more…
Tune in to 20/20 on ABC on Friday October 2 for a story on the truth behind Mary Kay’s multi-level marketing “opportunity.” MLM is not a business opportunity, it’s a clever scam that has been made to look like a Read more…
This week’s official release of Harper’s Magazine story “The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Desperate Housewives,” along with the NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook episode entitled Investigating Mary Kay has brought out the haters. I Read more…
Written by The Scribbler The pink veil of Mary Kay Cosmetics was ripped from top to bottom this month as freelance journalist Virginia Sole-Smith’s article, “The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Preys on Desperate Housewives” screamed the truth Read more…
Today the August issue of Harper’s Magazine officially went on sale, and the cover story features the pink pyramid scheme known as Mary Kay. The internet has been abuzz with this story, The Pink Pyramid Scheme: How Mary Kay Cosmetics Read more…
The Salt Lake Tribune published a wonderful article by Steven Oberbeck, Average Multilevel Networkers Never See Idealized Gains. The article gets it right about multi-level marketing… most aren’t making any money.Tell that to a pro-MLM zealot, however, and you’ll get Read more…
The CBS affiliate in Philadelphia ran a story yesterday about women doing direct selling in a recession to “supplement” their income. Of course, Rhonda Shasteen of Mary Kay got to have her say…. telling the world that women will spend Read more…
Pink Truth gets another big mention in the summer issue of Brain Child , the Magazine for Thinking Mothers. The author, Stacey Schultz, took a hard look at the multi-level marketing business model after seeing mothers who lost thousands of Read more…
Whenever a new Mary Kay national sales director is appointed, the company hounds the local newspaper to run a story. They make the stories appealing: only 500 worldwide, millions of dollars of products “sold,” huge accomplishment, etc. But this article Read more…
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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?