Despite its claims, Mary Kay Cosmetics is more than just a bunch lipstick-peddlers. It is a company that has only thrived by establishing multiple levels of women marketers who, more than anything, try to make money by recruiting other women into their cult-like “pyramid.” While the Company takes great pains …
According to the company’s website, Mary Kay Cosmetics has 2.4 million people worldwide who are “Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants.” That is an astounding number of recruits for a company that does little advertising. As 99% of people lose money in Multi-Level-Marketing companies, with the odds stacked against them, one …
My name is Kerri. I am from Massachusetts. I was a pink Cadillac driving, Triple Court, Senior Sales Director I was in Mary Kay for two and half years. Now in bankruptcy, my Mary Kay “Opportunity” cost my family over $40,000 in credit card debt. Kerri’s Story, Part One: How …
To many, that Mary Kay Cosmetics deploys manipulative and predatory sales tactics is a given. However, one must wonder where this comes from. Is it a culture fostered and nurtured by Mary Kay Cosmetics’ headquarters in Dallas? Or, is it a culture of a sales force that routinely attends Company …
While many Mary Kay husbands know this from first-hand experience, this post is for those men whose wives may be entering The Pink Fog as newly recruited targets. Guys, here’s the first thing you should know: As a Mary Kay husband, you’re expected to ‘go along to get along.’ Do …
Multi-Level-Marketing companies like Mary Kay and others are no strangers to politics. Typically, they donate to and lobby politicians to “buy protection” from laws and regulations that could harm their businesses–laws and regulations that are meant to protect consumers and their families from deception or fraud. The fact is, laws …
Mary Kay Cosmetics and its sales force often boasts about the number of Mary Kay consultants there are across the nation (or world) as something good. However, what is never talked about by those inside “The Pink Fog” is the mount of “churn” or attrition–that is, the amount of women …
“Prospects do not sign because we earn 50% profit. They make their final decision on the emotion that was gathered during someone’s …
“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” –attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi …
First name: Emily State: Wisconsin Cost of Mary Kay to Individual: $200 Experience With Mary Kay: I was a server at a …
