Hungry for Answers: One Mary Kay Consultant's Journey

After a spot of retooling and polishing, we're back after 15k views -thank you most kindly to all the folks who stopped by and took a peek!

Got questions about your Mary Kay business that your director or NSD keeps blowing off as "negative?" Join a Mary Kay consultant as she searches for answers and learns that it's NEVER a negative thing to want to know more!

Note: I have never been in Mary Kay. After a director friend tried to recruit me, I decided to dig deeper, comb through as many director and NSD websites as I could and study their training documents firsthand. This journey has convinced me that while the intent behind Mary Kay may be good, there's a lot of repulsive and manipulative filth being taught by high-level leaders that every IBC needs to be aware of - hopefully so those IBCs will turn their backs on those teachings and encourage their peers to do likewise.

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[msouice]

I have been a Mary Kay consultant for a month now and was never ever pressured to start with an inventory? I was told about how an inventoy would help my buisness and the things i could get for placing a inventory order but was never forced to do so.. My director even supplied me with inventory to help me reach my goals and in my first month I just put my mind to it set up my partys like she advised me to and pulled in 3600 in my first month? so 1800 in my pocket. Sorry to those whohave evilSD's

[TScribbler]

@msouice, do you realize that you were indeed pressured to start with inventory? While it's true that your director didn't put a gun to your head, she DID tell you that inventory would help your business and a big order could get you more free product. In reality, you don't need to carry inventory one bit. People have no issue with waiting for their purchases...look at Amazon and other internet retailers. Inventory orders help noone except those getting commission from them, like your SD.

[TScribbler]

@msouice, let's check the math, just for giggles! ;) For you to come away with 1800 in your pocket as profit, you would have had to sell EVERY LAST BIT of that inventory at FULL RETAIL...no 20% discounts and the like. But let's say you did. Now you have to figure your 60/40 split, which means $1080 (60%) goes back into replenishing inventory while $720 is yours. Now take ALL expenses out of that $720 and suddenly you realize you do NOT have 1800 in your pocket.

[TScribbler]

@msouice, it's also helpful to note that your first few classes may sport higher sales because you are going through your "warm market" of family and friends. Eventually you will have to warm-chat folks in Starbucks, Target, or other public venues. And the only way you can be promoted is not by selling product, but by recruiting endlessly. Forgive me for being lengthy, but it breaks my heart to see good-hearted women like yourself not be given the whole enchilada by their directors. :(

[TScribbler]

For those wondering what my motivation is (or why I do what I do), it is this: Women are being given skewed information and being emotionally manipulated to join Mary Kay. As a result (and often over time), these women are being hurt on levels from financial to spiritual. I'm calling out this "God First" racket and its leaders' teachings because I want to help keep women from being hurt.

[TScribbler]

@bellawhimsea, here's a few more top leaders who teach frontloading. NSD Dacia Wiegandt, advises her recruiters to "pull inventory as soon as [new recruits] sign," while NSD Rena Tarbet only explains the 3600 orders in her New Consultant Companion. Now I ask you, my friend, why aren't these leaders saying, "Look, you don't need to carry inventory, as it's not necessary for success?"

[h2opro5wife]

@xVixToriAx  You're lying.

[xVixToriAx]

Wow. I'm a MK consultant and I've never done any of that stuff. All I wanted to do was teach women how to take care of their skin and show them how to apply makeup. Am I the only one who thinks like this? Lol....

[DeeMarieGK]

OH! LOLS ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Maleficent was a great touch! SO TRUE!

[taragmk]

sorry never had this experience or even heard much of what's in this video & I've been with MK 14 years....

[DamianChang21]

@TScribbler, Thanks for putting up the video! I am a small business owner, I've built/achieved what I have due to hard work. Not by recruiting others to do the work for me. Of course I can't do everything which is why i'm lucky enough to have an unbelievably talented/loyal staff working for/with me. It's a shame & insulting when MK "employees" try to shine themselves as hard workers. I'm sorry, but trying to get others to do work for you isn't working hard...that's being a lazy manipulator.

[Sportica]

@TheRestorative it is common practice in MK recruiting pitches to wave around commission checks and claim how much MK pays them, but it's never mentioned that 1. it's a gross amount and 2. expenses haven't been factored in. If these checks are going to be used as a recruiting tool, then a failure to state that such check is gross and before expenses are factored in can be considered a false income claim. And nobody wants that. :)

[Sportica]

@TheRestorative now if only every women in Mary Kay realized what you just stated here, we'd be in business, except for the fact that MK IS indeed to blame. They know full well what they're doing, how they're set up, and who stands to profit in the end: them. Unfortunately, it's painted as some wonderful feel-good racket with kumbaya message stuck on it. And while personalities differ, all have to do the same thing in MK to move up. Not sell product, mind you, but recruit.

[TheRestorative]

@Sportica, they're all the same. One aim - To make money, and to make it sound good, by adding a finishing touch like, "Enriching women's lives." I feel that MK is not to blame, but every individual unit within the company. Some don't pressure, others do. Some discriminate against personal lifestyles and beliefs, while others do not.

[TheRestorative]

@Sportica, How many companies market high, but give you a cheesy product? Cmon, look at fast food commercials! Does your burger ever look as juicy and put together as it does on TV? No, it looks like a sloppy mess when you open the wrapper. Companies like Verizon Wireless who's mission statement swears by integrity, is training it's employees "not to protect the customers wallets." You're deceived if you feel MK is in a different category.

[TheRestorative]

@Sportica, it doesn't make sense to come down on MK because their millionaires don't take home full profits. Like ANY business, there are expenses and money is taxed before it is handed back to you as net pay. It's so funny to me how negative people are about a company that functions almost the exact same way as all the others. An objective, a corporate staff, an assembly of workers (who can potentially make as much as they'd like - no limited salaries), etc....