I am the soon to be ex-husband of a beautiful senior sales director. Her Mary Kay career was to be the primary support for our family. Believing this, I quit my job to work part time and raise our daughter. Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Let’s welcome the new superstar who comes on board for the 2007-2008 Seminar year heading straight to the top. She is about to enter a land she has never experienced before… not even in Mrs. Turner’s Girl Read more…
You’ve heard how fabulous Mary Kay Cosmetics is because they have a wonderful product loved by many. You’ve been led to believe that tons and tons of Mary Kay products are being retailed to adoring customers around the world. But Read more…
I’ve continued to look at some of the “top” units in Mary Kay. These are units with some “top directors” held up as women to admire for “doing Mary Kay the right way” and helping women to better their lives. Read more…
It seems that Allison LaMarr isn’t teaching her consultants to sell Mary Kay products. And neither are these top units and areas in Mary Kay. I’m sure a longtime nsd like Gloria Mayfield Banks is teaching her consultants to sell. Read more…
How often do we hear from the pro-Mary Kay side that MK consultants sell lots of products??? Yes, we frequently hear that gobs and gobs of Mary Kay cosmetics are ending up in the hands of gleeful customers who slather Read more…
Written by The Scribbler Okay, I wholeheartedly admit it, I’m a bibliophile. There are books in every room of my home. (Yes, THAT room, too.) As of late I am simultaneously reading four tomes: James Lileks’s Gastroanomilies, Glenn Beck’s An Read more…
Welcome to our latest installment of “No One’s Making a Living Selling Mary Kay Products.” Remember: Mary Kay isn’t about selling a product, although that’s the front they use to suck you in. Mary Kay is really an endless chain Read more…
Here are the most recent statstics for Mary Kay Canada (2007): The vast majority of the independent sales force members’ primary source of profit is selling product. In addition, all Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants can earn income from commissions, Read more…
Mary Kay has apparently changed the rules of the product replacement system, but hasn’t bothered to tell anyone. In theory, Mary Kay has a 100% satisfaction guarantee… that means a customer can return a product at any time and get Read more…
My mother grew up during the Depression and only had a sixth-grade education. I bet even SHE could see through…
It has taken me a while to understand the mathematics of why MLMs can never work, but I think I…
"The fact that you *can* retail is insignificant. It’s that you don’t have to that matters." Bingo. If no one…
Thank you, Tracy for layering the process to destruction of self and family clearly. There is one and the same…
“ Mary Kay will tell you that the “right way” is by focusing on sales. A selling consultant is a…