Anna Would Like Mary Kay to Be Decent Supplemental Income
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Filed under Mary Kay Consultant Stories
Your Name: Anna
Date Joined MK: 5/2005
When Left MK or Still Active?: active
Initial Inventory Purchased: can’t remember if it was $200 or $600
How were you recruited?: I actually tracked down my director. I worked with her daughter as a missionary and had used the products a year and a half prior to that and LOVED them. She told me her mom was a director and I decided I wanted to join before I even met with her.
Memorable experience you had in MK: My first great week. I worked my business hard and saw direct benefits from it.
What did you learn from MK?: That your attitude really does determine your altitude. I used to have a tendency to think negatively but now I am learning to think positively and believe in my own abilities.
What are you doing now?: First and foremost a young wife and homemaker. I am also working at building my Mary Kay business into the best I can make it.
Additional Comments: I started Mary Kay 4 years ago after returning from an 18 month mission in South America. Another young woman I worked with and grew close to was the daughter of a Mary Kay director and answered all my questions about the company. After returning home I knew I wanted to become a consultant at least to get my 50% discount. Life happened and I was almost constantly inactive. I barely ordered enough to stay in the company. After my wedding three and a half years after signing my agreement I had to re-evaluate my position in life including if I was going to work my business into it or not. I decided that I want to be a part of this company and that it will help me fulfill my life long dream of being a stay at home mother while still helping me meet my emotional needs (seeing other women instead of being stuck in home with the kids all day, and feeling like I have some of my own money). Part of the reason I’d never worked my business was because I was afraid that all my friends and acquaintances would start seeing me as somebody who was constantly harassing them to buy something from me. I have learned that this isn’t the case. Mary Kay has helped me become friends with more people. I treat people like people and if they want to buy product that’s great and if not I’ve still made a new friend. I love being able to use my creativity to it’s full extent for the first time since I was little. I love using my business as a reason for making people feel good by doing things such as giving guests a gift at parties, sending thank you cards in the mail telling them I appreciate them. These are all things I love to do and my Mary Kay business gives me a reason to do it. Even if all I ever do is break even in Mary Kay it’s worth it just for me to be able to express myself this way. However, I do plan on it making me a descent supplemental income. I would like to become a director one day because I know I would be such an awesome, non-pushy, inspiring, director and help women develop self confidence. It seems to me that most women who got burned by the company either made too great of an inventory investment, had a crummy director, or didn’t feel comfortable trying to do sells. Mary Kay isn’t for everyone, but I’m sure glad that I have it.
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That’s right Anna! I am proud of you and the decision that YOU made for yourself. Mary Kay is not for everyone and any one person would be naive to think differently. The person who does decide that it is for them and truly makes a honest effort to make something out of it will be immensely rewarded. Not necessarily financial but also internally. I have been a director for 11 months now and I make a conscious effort to be up front and honest with the ladies that I come in contact with. My unit is not made up of women who can purchase super amounts of inventory, my unit is made up of women who desire more out of life and they see me as their guide and mentor in this business. I do agree that the business is not bad, the company is not bad, however the people associated with the company, most times don’t operate under ethical standards and that is a really sad issue. I don’t thrive off of making commissions from my unit members, it doesn’t run me or make my business, however this is a business and I treat it like a business, therefore it pays me like a business. I love my MK business and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I have an awesome group of women whom I love and genuinely care for and one day we will make a difference in the lives of women all around us. Anna, never focus on the negative because it will drain you of your full potential, it’s a sub-conscious thing. Be in control of what you listen to, hear or even set your eyes upon because no one person can or should have that much power over you. Guard your ear gate, don’t let everything into your head, make decisions based on what is right for you and your family. As for me, Mary Kay is not the hand that feeds me, God’s hand feeds me and I know that I am in the place that I should be in as it relates to my business and as long as I continue to operate under morally and ethically related standards, I will be abundantly blessed by HIM through this business!