Written by Marcy We recently looked at some “information” from Mary Kay’s VP of Marketing and Product Development, Yvette Franco. She boasted that Mary Kay was a “prestige” brand that directly competed with Lancome, Estee Lauder, Clinique, and MAC. Other Read more…

Recruiting and frontloading usually become more difficult during the holiday season. So here is a list of reasons why women should sign up… You can take your business anywhere, any state! Tell everyone about your new business & write off Read more…

With a couple of threads about Primerica over on the Pink Truth Discussion board, the Primerica defenders have been sending me emails to sing the company’s praises. So here’s a little about the company and its multi-level marketing structure.

Religious abuse of the highest order, compliments of Mary Kay nsd Dacia Wiegandt. The pressure to order unneeded and unsold products is never higher than these last two weeks of June. All the Mary Kay sales directors and national sales Read more…

Details of the new sales director compensation plan, announced in July 2007. Sales directors in Mary Kay are raving about how much the company loves them and how there has never been a better time to be a sales director. Read more…

Allison LaMarr’s not-so-benevolent “Sharpen Your Edge” sessions that she calls “training” are really draining pocketbooks of Mary Kay sales directors and consultants. If Allison wants to go out and charge people money to be around her, and Mary Kay sales Read more…

Written by Saw the Light Every now and then I read how someone claims to have known Mary Kay, yet still calls her such names as a "greedy old hag" or worse. Now, I don't know everyone's definition of knowing Read more…

Written by ShabbyInPink In 2005, Mary Kay Cosmetics sales director Auri Hatheway had the #25 Unit in the Emerald Seminar. By Seminar 2006, she was #1 with over one million dollars in retail sales (well, really orders, but you get Read more…

Allison LaMarr now holds the title for “quickest to Mary Kay national sales director.” She did it in about 2 1/2 years. How? Here’s my opinion. Allison will tell you that the way she got to niq is through consistent Read more…

I am often asked, “Do you think Mary Kay (the company) is today what Mary Kay Ash envisioned it to be?” When you look at the era in which the company was established, the 1960’s, I think it’s clear that Read more…