As with most multi-level-marketing companies, Mary Kay Cosmetics’ sales force “is compensated not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of the other salespeople that they recruit.” All-too-often, Mary Kaybots are loathe to admit that their pink pyramid is nothing more than a multi-level-marketing scheme. In …
Mary Kay Cosmetics’ predatory sales force has a host of scripts and other tools to help them recruit unsuspecting women into their pink pyramid. Among the many Mary Kay documents that use psychological manipulation is this jewel, called 5 Effective Recruiting Questions. In the opening paragraph, the tactic that makes …
One of the several ways Mary Kay Cosmetics rakes in billions of dollars year after year is by convincing newly-signed consultants to buy large quantities of inventory as they start their “businesses.” The tactic often used by Mary Kay’s predatory sales force is called front loading. One MLM attorney’s explanation …
One of the many deceptive recruiting tactics used by Mary Kay Cosmetics and its predatory sales force is the myth that Mary Kay Cosmetics’ marketing plan is “taught” at the Harvard School of Business. As in the document below, the common refrain is often expressed in the most exuberant of …
Those within Mary Kay Cosmetics often bristle when detractors compare Mary Kay and its zealous followers as cult-like. Often, they defensively counter that Mary Kay is not a cult but, rather, a “culture.” Notwithstanding the bizarre ritualistic ‘tradition’ of new Mary Kay directors being ‘baptized’ barefoot in the Mary Kay …
Here’s a bit of trivia* for you: What does comic book heroine Wonder Woman and Mary Kay Cosmetics have in common? In 1928, a polymoric Harvard psychologist and comic-book writer named William Moulton Marston came up with a theory about personality profiles. Unlike the heroine he later invented, Marston’s theory–known …
It is little wonder that there is such disdain for the manipulative sales tactics Mary Kay predators use on their prey when all across the internet, Mary Kay’s predators post evidence of their manipulative tactics for the world to see? Similar to the infamous Husband Unawareness Plan, Here is yet …
Most people have heard the fable that “if you stick a frog in a boiling pan of water, he’ll try to jump …
First Name: Gitana State: Michigan Experience With Mary Kay: I am thankful that I got out of MK. I do not regret …
In most multi-level-marketing companies, the vast majority of the so-called “top earners” are those who are rewarded when they harvest new recruits. …
