In These Tough Economic Times, Mary Kay is NOT the Answer
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.
Lipstick on 
Ann on 
Brooke on 
Tam on 
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?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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