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Mary Kay Inc. claims that their business structure is based on a concept called “dual marketing.”

They define it as separating corporate management from independent contractors. That definition, however, is the basic definition of independent contractor. An independent contractor is not an employee of the company and doesn’t receive any of the benefits of a hired employee. Read more »

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Mary Kay Directors are fond of telling potential recruits that in Mary Kay, you make 50% of everything you sell.

While it’s true that the suggested retail of MK products is double what the Consultant buys the product for from the Company, before you get too excited about that 50% “profit,” you need to be aware of a few things: Read more »

FALSE.

This little falsehood was repeated often by Directors years ago. I don’t know if it is still repeated, but Mary Kay Inc. set the record straight on this one years ago.

FALSE!

First of all, you could sell $200,000 of Mary Kay this year and you wouldn’t earn a car.

Second…notice how I said “earn?”

Those cars aren’t free. And you don’t earn them by selling tons of products. Read more »

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A common misconception of new Consultants, and the public in general, is that Mary Kay Inc. gives out Pink Cadillacs to members of their sales force who sell lots and lots of products.

Wrong!

You don’t earn the use of a car because you have sold thousands of dollars of product to customers. The only way you earn a car, or indeed move up in the company, is to get enough of your new recruits and current team members to place orders for product with the company. Period.

So while those women driving those pink cars are good sales people, it isn’t because they sold a bunch of moisturizer.

It’s because they sold the “vision” of Mary Kay, the company. They persuaded the people they recruited into the company that the only way to be really successful is to have a “full wagon” of products, usually several thousands of dollars worth.