Every single year in Mary Kay, you will hear the “new year, new you” concept promoted. What a great catch phrase! The idea is that you can do a makeover for yourself to kick off the new year. Or if Read more…
The concept of “dialing for dollars” is as old as MLM itself. These days, your sales director can email or text you, but we still call it dialing for dollars. The end of the month is coming. Commission checks have Read more…
A former Mary Kay sales director tells us how booking, selling, and recruiting the way she was taught still did not lead to success. I have been reading your site on and off for the past year. When I first Read more…
I was recently looking at a letter that Mary Kay Inc. wrote to the FTC in 2006. The FTC was coming up with a Business Opportunity Rule to protect consumers, and MLMs were scrambling to get themselves an exemption. (MLMs Read more…
Written by Raisinberry We here at Pink Truth are still human. We didn’t de-fog out of Mary Kay and suddenly become vicious negative sub-human life forms, contrary to the Pink spin about this website. It’s no wonder that NSDs really Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Heartbreak is the only word that comes to mind, as we who have de-pinked, watch the parade of our friends going over the cliff, pursuing the Mary Kay “dream.” For a long time, I actively cared about Read more…
its funny to me how everyone is on her wineing about marykay and what it didnt do for u but can i ask what did u do in mary kay did u follow the scripts set did u do ur Read more…
This is long but worth it. So many of the scripts and catch phrases are still the same, more than 40 years later. Mary Kay is a horrible, horrible scheme that has robbed women of billions of dollars with lies Read more…
Written by Raisinberry Many years back, I stepped through the doors of my first Mary Kay event, completely uncomfortable by what I saw. I thought it was me, since they appeared to be so close and having so much fun. Read more…
Written by Raisinberry It’s time to get off the soap box. Face reality. Hike up our “big girl panties”. Let’s just face it. We all didn’t do 3 classes a week. We didn’t even work more than an hour or 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?