A few years back, it was a big deal to be a “brand ambassador” for a company. To get a big one like Lululemon (when they were in their heyday) or cosmetic name like Smashbox was HUGE. You’d be your Read more…

Our friend Jamie Taylor wants you to believe that multi-level marketing (MLM) and direct selling are different! You’re supposed to look at this real so you can understand the difference. No one has accused Jamie of being smart. The post Read more…

Here’s a great way to lose your friends: Recruit them into Mary Kay! But of course MK is asking you to leverage your friendships and “bring your besties” into the company. Recruit them as soon as you sign up, and Read more…

Chelsea Claytor Adkins wants to be a “million dollar director,” and she will exploit you to get there. A Mary Kay sales director gets to “million” through lots of recruiting and getting women to order inventory packages (we call that Read more…

A woman in a “sales director only” group on Facebook wants to know Jamie Taylor’s secret to getting to NSD. The responses do not disappoint. They give great insight into how it’s done. If you don’t want to have to Read more…

Written by Lazy Gardens Did Mary Kay Ash say, “Nothing happens until someone sells something”? Or did she say, “Nothing happens until someone recruits someone.”? She said nothing happens until you sell something. Yet the company focus for decades has Read more…

The tactics used by Mary Kay ladies to recruit women into the scam know no bounds. Here we have a MK director who is trying to recruit a newly widowed woman who is “having a hard time making ends meet.” Read more…

Mary Kay directors and consultants use all sorts of different tactics to recruit women into the scam. One of them is the “membership” idea. Remember, all we have to do is get them to sign up. Then we have a Read more…

Jamie Taylor is trying so hard to become a Mary Kay NSD. Currently she needs 20 total first and second line sales directors who each have at least 24 people in each unit. Later this year that changes to a 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…