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…
How many of you felt (or feel, if you’re still in) the sting of the holiday open house failure in Mary Kay? Your upline insisted that you order a ton of Christmas products. After all, they’re going to sell out Read more…
In response to our Friday “Pink Truth Critics” post, we got a fabulous little comment from someone named Ashley. Does anyone want to mention to her that she didn’t “win” $1100 in free products? She doesn’t realize she bought those. Read more…
The usual “blame the victim” mentality is alive and well. Yes, women who fail at MK (or any other MLM) are victims because they are lied to. They are recruited with representations that this is an actual business. No it’s Read more…
If I had to boil down my beef with Mary Kay Cosmetics into one word, it would be LIES. I can’t stand all the lies that consultants and directors tell. Corporate actively encourages telling the lies and blatantly misleading others, Read more…
Written by SuzyQ I’m just sayin’… that it would be incredibly difficult to be a director in Mary Kay during the winter holidays. Those who are “working their businesses” have scheduled open houses to show their holiday gift packages. Lots Read more…
A Mary Kay sales director talking to her sister directors about how blessed they are. How they should trust that God has put them there. Does this convince you that being a director is fabulous? Even though the vast majority Read more…
Written by SuzyQ The truth is that can’t stay at home with your children and make a living at Mary Kay. It takes lots and lots of time away, no matter what they tell you when they’re trying to recruit Read more…
Written by SuzyQ Many years ago, I was advised to send the third letter. Not the first or second one I wrote, but the third one I wrote, I could send. I have expanded that wisdom to include the third Read more…
Mary Kay ladies never pass up an opportunity to make up fake statistics. This one came from a Facebook thread on which the original poster was asking for strategies to do an “individual close” with each person who attends a Read more…
Many MK scripts are sugar-coated lies: - I’m in a challenge - my Director challenged me - this counts toward…
It's the same analogy I've heard about domestic violence relationships. If he punched you on the first date, there wouldn't…
The house is up to $19.8 mil. Someone's gotta pay the increase in property taxes.
Back in the day, my earth science teacher told us that the way a frog is wired, being a reptile…
The frog analogy is wonderful. There is a bit of "lemming" in this as well. "It must be okay because…