Doing Mary Kay “your way.”
Written by L J on April 23, 2008 – 5:09 pm -Lots of times, we get visitors who have decided that they are going to reject a lot of the Mary Kay hype and hoopla and do Mary Kay “their way.”
Usually, what doing it “their way” means is not giving in to pressure to buy lots of inventory every time new products come out; not trying to recruit everyone they come in contact with; not pressuring people to hold appointments or classes.
But can you be successful if you do things your way, rather than following the prescribed Mary Kay business plan? After all, I was always told over and over that as Consultants we shouldn’t “reinvent the wheel:” Mary Kay Ash had outlined how the business should be “worked” and following that plan was your best route to success.
Of course, every individual defines success differently.
However, if your goal is moving up in the “ladder of success,” that means you need to recruit. And those recruits need to place some serious inventory orders.
So what do you think? Can you do Mary Kay your way? Is it worth the time? Does deviating from the Mary Kay plan make sense if you want to make any money doing it?
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June 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
IMO the only way to do MK your way is personal use only. Even with that, you’ll have to “work” it to get enough orders to keep your active status in the company, and NO you will NOT MAKE ANY MONEY.
Even if you let family/friends order at a discount and pro-rate shipping among all those ordering, you’ll still spend time trying to get everyone to place their order in your time frame and unless you get $$ first, then you’ll have to put that order on your cc, or pay for it out of your account, and then attempt to collect the money (more time) and deliver the product (more time) to the appropriate party.
With GA$ prices as they are, you’ll have more expenses too, labels, business cards, books, etc. Definitely won’t make $ at all!