In These Tough Economic Times, Mary Kay is NOT the Answer
L J
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Beware.
No doubt Mary Kay directors everywhere are training their consultants to recruit based on the economic situation.
I can just hear it now: “Mary Kay is an ideal source of extra income, especially today, when everyone is feeling the pinch from the economic situation. For just $100, you can have a part-time business making full-time income and help out your family.”
Please…don’t buy it.
First of all, we all know it doesn’t just cost $100 to join.
Second, you’ll most likely have MORE debt if you join Mary Kay, and if you’re like lots of Mary Kay consultants, more debt than you ever had in your life.
If you’re still intrigued by the Mary Kay shindig, at least do some reading here. You’ll more than likely thank us later.
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Well, I’ll attempt to answer this question.
I so often here this “responsibility” argument angrily aimed at women who signed up for Mary Kay. Somehow they didn’t do all their research.
Well, the directors and the consultants that recruited them DIDN’T WANT THEM TO! Even if a consultant DOES have a question, DOES manage to read fine print and find something they don’t understand, it is quickly dismissed.
And the “rah rah” and dollar signs are created by the recruiter! So THEY share the responsibility.
The fact of the matter is that these types of schemes RELY on emotion. Period. If they were all about being rational and researching something for months, no one would sign up.
So I get extremely sick of people coming here and blaming 100% the women who signed up and then found out they were going to be pressured to buy inventory and all that. Give me a break!
Very true LJ! Plus, all of the scripts MK has for every possible situation. The SD have these “objection” scripts memorized and can recite them word for word, at the drop of a hat! In addition to the DISC training, these people know exactly what to say to put your personality type at ease.
I so agree! I did join about a year ago, that was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made! It’s like joining a cult. With their fake smiles and outrageous compliments, it seems as if they brainwash you and you have no control over your actions and you end up signing up….stay away!
You people are PATHETIC. No other company out there will give you the Legacy Mary Kay Ash left for sorry women like you who don’t appreciate it. Not only did she lead the way for women to become their own employers – she was ahead of her time. We can still have the best of both worlds putting GOD first, FAMILY second and our CAREERS third – while retiring our husbands and putting our children through college. No other company is going to pay you 50% of everything penny you sell. No other company supports WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE and CANCERS that specifically plague women the way Mary Kay does. We donate MILLIONS each year not only in our own Country, but worldwide. I’m sorry some of you are too LAZY to work. Mary Kay is like any other J-O-B, requiring training, commitment and hard work, however instead of making your boss rich – we are a DUAL Marketing Company. When was the last time your boss, the head of your “corporate america” job came to you and said, “Here’s HALF of everything we earned this week. Even though I’m the owner and your just my receptionist (or pick any other position)you deserve HALF of everything because we are EQUAL.” LOL – When pigs Fly!! Yet with Mary Kay – 50% of everything is always yours for the taking. I’ve been in MK since October of 2008. I am not in debt – I am paying off my debt! I didn’t know hardly anyone, I service over 150 clients! Just for doing my job, I have already earned Pearl Jewelry, Luggage, A three tiered chocolate fountain, a Kareoke Machine among many other “perks”. Most people work their whole lives for a company for what? A plaque? A $5.00 paperweight engraved with the company’s name? How sad! You haters how there need to get a life. And when someone kicks your butt for whining too much or some life threatening cancer invades you, remember who has your back. Mary Kay. Uhhhhhh…. Avon who?
pardon my english grammer, since we know how some of you losers like to get on these forums and when you know someone is right, you have no leg to stand on so you attack spelling and grammer skills… that is “50% of every penny you sell”.
Anna, do the math! Unless you are charging your customers for their samples, shippimg, not giving any GWP, PCP mailings, hostess gifts , have no web site, no class supplies, no sales tickets, walk and don’t use gas, virtually have NO expenses, you are NOT making 50%. Add in unit dues, MK events, postage, printer paper!
Nobody does any business without expenses, take a look, do a balance sheet and then come back and tell us what percentage you are REALLY making!
I have a life, thank you very much! I took back my life after 8.5 years in MK and I have never felt better or more free. Now I can truly put God 1st, family 2nd and career 3rd. I love my life post MK.
I’m glad you are happy, but take a look at your business without those pink glasses on, please! MK would roll over in her grave if she saw what acts her SD”s and NSD’s are committing all in the name of making a buck!
Last but not least, how many of your bills has Mary Kay’s legacy paid for you?
How kind and “go give” of you.
I’d have to agree with Lipstick. Not if you pay shipping, purchase books, samples, bags, sales tickets, gas, etc.
Ugh, a regular weekly, bi-weekly paycheck, insurance, 401K? A J-O-B that has a start and a finish time and does not require you to leave your family on the weekends and/or nights? One that PAYS you to go to training events? That you don’t have to aggravate your family, friends, neighbors to “come to work” with you (for sales meetings and guests events).
your right… it is very go give of me. very honest of me. and i believe in honesty. it is not right to knock a company you know nothing about. and if someone fails at MK which is pretty fool proof – there’s a lot more wrong with them than what they are blaming. it’s called money managment people. stop charging and start living. be debt free with MK.
and btw… my customers LOVE me. i make women feel what they are – beautiful from the inside out. it feels wonderful to take a woman with low to no self esteem, show her how to shine and bring out her inner beauty and a smile. i have watched this business change lives and i see it in my clients every day. they are beautiful and very special to me regardless of age, color or status. MK has given me the freedom to be me – and I love that.
and do you people not watch the news? MK rocks this recession. i will list some websites. you go to them, listen to the newscasts and tell me MK doesn’t outshine the rest.
Anna says: your right… it is very go give of me. very honest of me. and i believe in honesty. it is not right to knock a company you know nothing about.
you must not be reading ….our experiences are REAL and TRUE so that means we do know something about this company..we lived those experiences and could never make up something so bad
Anna says: and do you people not watch the news? MK rocks this recession. i will list some websites. you go to them, listen to the newscasts and tell me MK doesn’t outshine the rest.
Come on now, you don’t believe every ad and every news interview you hear do you? These so called “interviews” are very one sided, they only present the views of a select few. How do you explain the high turnover rate in MK? The world can’t be that full of lazy losers and failures. To take a line from MK “numbers don’t lie”.
Let me say it slower this time around: The sales figures from MK do not represent sales to customers they represent sales to IBC’s, so those numbers prove nothing about MK being recession proof, it only proves they still have the ability to recruit, even though they can’t keep most of those recruits, becasue their business plan is stacked against the success of the IBC and in favor of MK.