Active Consultant Jennifer says “I don’t know what kind of units you people are in, but my unit rocks.”
Written by L J on June 22, 2008 – 1:33 pm -Your Name: Jennifer
Date Joined MK : 04/14/07
When Left MK or Still Active?: still active
Initial Inventory Purchased: 1200
How were you recruited?:
I signed up to get the discount, and then started the business part of it.
Memorable experience you had in MK:
Helping my recruiter debut as a director by working my business.
What did you learn from MK?:
Well, I don’t know what kind of units you people are in, but my unit rocks. Actually, when I started, I was part of an adopted unit. Our adopted director went above and beyond to train us.
What are you doing now? :
I declined a position at my son’s school in order to further my Mary Kay business. I want to be home with my youngest daughter, and Mary Kay offers that to me.
Additional Comments:
You have to be smart people. Realize that this IS a business, MK IS out to make money. But, Mary Kay Ash was pretty amazing, and the company compared to other ones out there is pretty cool too. You get out of things what you put into it. My adopted director always says when presenting to guests that this business is not easy, but that it is totally doable and rewarding if you work hard.
It seems that unfortunately many of you just got hooked up with the wrong kind of people. I have never felt pressured or any thing of the sort, only supported. I hope that you won’t think so badly of MK in general, but realize that there are crappy people out there. I hope you might be encouraged to just find the right unit and director, because the benefits can be awesome, if you realize that all the inventory, campy songs, and silly prizes don’t matter. Figure out why you need MK, and then find the people who will actually help you meet those goals. If someone who is not going to make any money from me was so willing to help me meet my goals, surely you can find someone who can help you.
Good luck!
Tags: Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Consultant Stories, mk
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June 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Jennifer,
I’m happy you are in a good unit and happy with your business. As you noted, that was not the case with most of us.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
Listen sweetheart….no disrespect….but you are sooo wrapped up in the pink bubble it isn’t funny! Most memorable moment “Helping my recruiter debut as a director by working my business” Excuse me while I go barf! Sorry sweetums….a lot too pink for me!
Glad you like your unit and that you feel they have your best interest in mind. Good Luck to you and you will always be welcome at the PLH when it all goes belly up and you need to get rid of your inventory!
June 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Jennifer. I’m also in a great unit and there are many out there. I don’t follow everything my Director says to do. I feel it’s my business and will do what I feel is fit of course in the guidelines of Mary Kay. I was very worried at first because my husband and I made the decision together to purchase the $1800.00 inventory from the beginning. After doing weeks of research I started sweating because I was worried I was going to be another one of those people who failed and had all of this inventory left. My Director and I ordered my inventory together and within one and a half months it was completely gone. I had no discontinued items or items on the list to be discontinued. I had read that a lot of consultants when they started ordered big inventory packages and their Directors ordered them a lot of things that they couldn’t get sold or found out in a few months it was being discontinued. I didn’t have that problem. I didn’t push anything and I didn’t push anything on anyone.
My husband is military and we had just moved to an area where I didn’t know a single sole. We bought a house and was having the roof replaced when my contractors wife came over one day and we spent the whole day together. We actually became very good friends. One day I asked her since her husband was a contractor had they met anyone who sold Mary Kay because I was starting to run low on my product and needed to find someone since my girlfriend decided to go back to work full time and got out of Mary Kay. She then told me she was a Mary Kay consultant and I could place an order with her. She also never pushed anything on me, didn’t ask me to throw a party or anything. But did ask me to go to a meeting. I did and I loved it. I came home and discussed the business opportunity with my husband and he thought it was a great thing. I signed my contracted the next day. And every day so far I’m happy I did. This has given me the opportunity to meet some wonderful people that I may not have met if it wasn’t for starting this business. It may not always be this way but for now it works. I’m not a pushy person and I don’t go hunting people down. Infact I don’t even talk Mary Kay unless someone ask me what I do. My customers have found me and I take care of them. I feel its not always about the money its about customer service and taking care of their needs. I get new orders every day and the nice thing about it is they are coming from customers I have already serviced and have appreciated what I have done for them. I have customers from all over the United States not just where I live. I just feel if sometimes people take a step back and not just look at the customer as a dollar sign and look at their customers as people and treat them how they would want to be treated then it will work. I know Im probably going to get some negative response or even put down for this but it’s okay because everyone has the right to their opinion. This doesn’t work for everyone and hey eventually it may not work for me. I don’t care about recruiting and probably will never have a recruit unless they find me. Its about the customer and their needs and you will never find me lying to a customer just to make a sale. I know I know to pink for some but pink has been my favorite my color since I was a little girl lol
Thanx for reading
June 29th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for your comments Jenni.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I LOVE THE PINK BUBBLE I’M IN!! I’m so wrapped up in it and I love every moment of it. Thanks for posting this Jennifer. I feel so sorry for those uneducated women who have had bad experiences with other Mary Kay women who do not represent Mary Kay Ash the way she wanted us to.
Where in Corporate America do they pat you on the back for a job well done? What happens if you want to replace your bosses position - will he/she allow you? Nope. I love having a home based business and it has been such a blessing in my life.
I consider myself a smart woman for not allowing negative thoughts/words/people like those who have posted to get to me. I remember a saying “never listen to anyone who you wouldn’t want to trade places with”. That’s right…misery loves company.
Oh and please….don’t feel sorry for us WE LOVE THE PINK BUBBLE AND WORLD WE’RE LIVING IN!!!
June 29th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
OK, while everyone under the sun is welcome to post here, I feel it unecessarily rude to call any other women (especially those you do not know) ”uneducated”, “negative”, and “miserable”. Go take a look in the mirror and see what your Mary Kay Ash would have to say to you about that.
There are members of this site who were Senior Directors and up, who were in MK for 15-20 years, who have master’s degrees. The people I interact with here do not fall under your generalization of us.
Yours for support when your pink bubble bursts,
Educated, Happy, and Positive!
June 30th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Jenni says she gets new orders EVERY DAY. How many here believe THAT? Not me! At least make your lie believeable, Jenni.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I should clarify that my comment (#6) was in response to Sara’s (#5) right above it.
As for the original post, Jennifer, how much time do you really get to spend focusing on your daughter at home? How much of that is actually split with MK, or spent with MK consuming your thoughts? A position at your son’s school could have likely been a position in which you could have brought your daughter to work with you, as most school positions are, unless you are *the* teacher (not just teacher’s assist.), nurse, or work in the cafeteria. This could have been possible especially in a part time position there. God first, family second, MK last?? Hmmmm.
I find it offensive that you believe everyone gets out of MK what they put into it. That says to me that you assume that people who end their MK flopportunity just didn’t work hard enough.
I hope you stick around and read more FACTS on how MK Inc. itself allows and perpetuates appalling unethical behaviour in NSD’s, and how NSD’s teach these tactics to their downlines.
Let me guess, someone at some point told you that you have a “whole year” after signing up w/ MK to decide if it’s right for you. If not, then within that year you can send it back for 90%. I don’t need/want your answer to this, but if this was what you were told, please know that lie is only the tip of the iceberg of lies you’re believing. This is a lie straight from the mouths of thousands of Sales Directors & NSD’s across the country. They teach you to say that, and they say it straight to customers in their pukey pink peddling parties. I’ve witnessed it. So have other women all over the U.S. So it’s not just a few bad eggs, as you so naively think. You can return inventory under MK’s 90% buyback at ANY TIME - after 5 years, after 8 years, after 1 and a half years, after 30 years. The finer details are available on this site’s “returning inventory” section for anyone sick of working so hard at trying to make it work, when it just won’t.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Jenni - I hope your MK business does well and that you are SELLING all that you order! Haven’t seen/heard of that happening much so I am very happy for you.
I do have to agree with rethinkingpink that the generalization of all on this site is unfounded!
“I feel so sorry for those uneducated women who have had bad experiences with other Mary Kay women who do not represent Mary Kay Ash the way she wanted us to”
If you knew HOW many Sales Directors, Pink Caddy drivers, etc., were on this site, plus the years of experience, well, I think it’s safe to say that they are extremely educated and anyone in MK (without the experience or knowledge of these ladies) would have willingly wanted to “trade places” with them.
What’s the other old saying, “the grass is always greener?”
June 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
This is in response to RETHINKINGPINK. I don’t know you and you don’t know me. Please do not ever think that a mother, any mother, would ever make a decision that they do not think is in the best interest of thier family. Maybe, just maybe, another mother would do that, but not me. I love my children more than anything in the whole entire world.
When I first started, I did let MK consume everything, even my thoughts during the day when I was spending time with my babies. But I took my TRAINING, yes, my training from a woman who makes NO MONEY from me, and learned how to separate my “work” time from my “family” time. I feel so great that I made that separation. I can focus on each when I am supposed to. I think that some of the bitterness from this website probably stems from that.
No, I couldn’t take my baby to work with me. They had said that they were going to open a toddler room when I applied, but that fell through. So yes it is actually FAMILY BEFORE CAREER. I could not let someone else raise my daughter.
And I’m sorry that you found what I said about “you get out of it what you put into it” offensive. Everyone get so offended these days! I didn’t mean it like it reads, because when I first signed up, I felt like I was working more than it was paying back too. What I meant was that you do have to work to get something back, and that you have to be smart about what you are doing. Do it for you, not for your director or your NSD. Do what you feel is going to benefit you most. It is YOUR business. I’m not going to Seminar this year because I don’t feel that I have earned enough money to go, and I just smile and nod at my unit member’s suggestions that I go. WHO CARES WHAT THEY ARE SAYING TO YOU??? Make your own decisions, do what’s right.
And yes, in response to SARAH, I also love the pink bubble I am in. I think that if more people were in the pink bubble, then the world would be a better place. I have been taught to encourage, serve, praise, and be happy- what in the world is wrong with that???
Wishing you all peace within yourselves-
Jennifer
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
Jennifer & Sarah,
I will speak for myself in saying that if you are selling what you are ordering and have $0 debt, and are not “working your business 24/7″ ignoring your family and friends, I think it is okay to be in a “Pink Bubble”. What I have found, and I beleive a lot of others as well, is that if you allow the “Pink Bubble” to cover your life, by thinking and working MK 24/7 and accumulating MK debt by ordering products that you are not selling or in order to maintain a “full store”, that bubble will burst all over you and your family!
Wishing both of you good luck and a friendly reminder not to let that bubble get too big!
July 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Good advice, Tam.
Unfortunately, many MK Consultants find it difficult to “turn it off” because they are trying to figure out how to find customers. They get all revved up by the Company and their Director about how much money they can make and the MK cars, and they become totally focused on finding customers and recruits.
It’s sales and it’s harder to put it aside than a traditional job. Plus, it’s difficult NOT to think of Mary Kay all the time when customers call with orders at any time of the day ; when there’s a MK event that you just “can’t miss;” when you’re taught to think of every person who comes within three feet of you as a potential customer or recruit.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Jennifer, my issue is not with you but with MK. What you say about how you do it and how you were taught is not the “MK way”. Which is why I was at first suspicious of your claims/motives. I hope anyone reading will heed this warning: don’t try this at home. Doing MK “your way”, that is. It’s not an easy task under usual conditions.
Here’s the MK way: First they hook you. Then comes the “empty wagon” and “higer sales when it’s on hand” inventory speech from women who claim to be making huge profits (all the pinked women surrounding you at this point appear to be doing quite well at it, but that’s because they’ve been taught to “fake it till you make it”, another MK teaching). Then you are left with a load of pink junk and no real training, just a bunch of rah rah, 3+3+3, Book Sell Recruit Order propoganda pumped into you constantly by your upline. They teach you to “think pink” all the time - they tell you to dream it, breathe it, obsess over it, live it. They tell you to chase down and warm stalk anyone with skin who smiles at you, is within 3 ft. of you, etc. They say this is how to “get your business up and running”, aka sell all that drek inventory you bought. Since they lie and won’t tell you that you can utilize the 90% buyback at any time, once your year is up you become desperate to make it work. After all, you’ve got shelves of “investment” that really need to move. The worst part is the recruiting. You have to pull other people into the mad cycle with you to get anywhere.
See why I don’t like MK? What you describe sounds nothing like what I have an issue with. I’m HAPPY for you and those around you that you didn’t get sucked into the way MK normally is.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
RTP - I agree. I had a NSD tell me to move my child’s birthday party so I could attend her event.
I should have asked “What happened to God First, FAMILY SECOND, MK third? ”
July 26th, 2008 at 3:00 am
rethinking pink - i guess you’ve been to every meeting, every mary kay event/function to make the statement “the way mk normally is?” what slays me is the defense of the former consultants/directors of not being generalized by all the pink bubble gals, yet when you read the postings, it’s usually the formers who do all the generalizing. “you’re gonna fail”, “we’ll be here when you see the ‘light’”, “mary kay is a scam”, “they’re only your friends while you’re ordering”, “mary kay is fake and deceptive” - these are some of the minor comments i’ve read from the different topics. i’ve moved children’s b-day parties around to accommodate different things and know several women, both mary kay consultants and not, who’ve done the same, especially when the b-day is in the middle of the week and relatives/friends can’t be there till the weekend. are you saying, rtp, that you’ve never done this?