Realistic Pink, you know I respect you, as anyone else here, for their opinions.
And if I sound intense...well, I just lay it out on the line. My directness can be taken for intense, but it is simply straight-forward. I don't tend to mince words, but it has nothing to do with anger or any such thing.
Now about this statement...
In regard to the statement "I will make a bet that once you do that, you will NEVER hear from your director again"--isn't that what you all continually say you want?
That totally misses the point. And no, that's NOT what people here continually say.
What they DO say is that they wanted the Mary Kay "Opportunity" to be REAL. And it isn't.
I stand firm that the people who follow the marketing plan as it was designed do not need to frontload anybody. The ones that do not follow it or "frontload" as you call it, will not be successful long term.
I disagree. Strongly.
As the Mary Kay "marketing plan" is, which is a tiered, break-away MLM, the ONLY way one can be successful is to recruit. And the only way you can be successful by recruiting is if your recruits come in with a decent order that propels you forward on the "Mary Kay business path."
I'm defining success the way the Company does: Moving up the "ladder."
Now, there are indeed consultants who have large customer bases. I was one of them. My customer base was probably larger than that of 99% of consultants and directors.
However, even with hundreds of customers, you're STILL not going to make a whole lot of money in Mary Kay. It doesn't happen. And even if you DID, you'd be working a lot more than 40 hours a week, which is a full-time job to most people, not some little business on the side, in your free time.
If you had a $1000 week every week for the entire year, that would mean you sold $52,000 for the year. That's RETAIL. Which means you made, at most, $26,000 for the year. At most, because hardly any consultant sells every product for 50% above wholesale.
The Mary Kay "marketing plan" WAS designed to frontload. It has been that way for well over 20 years now. I know because I was there. The same thing happened 20 years ago as happens now: You sign up and suddenly you've got a NSD calling you, convincing you that the only way you can be successful is to order $2000 worth of product. Don't have $2000? Then you'd be wise to get a loan. Blah, blah, blah.
Let me just conclude by saying that anyone who participates in this forum, from the very beginning, knows that I am an educated, fair person. I gather information and look at details and facts. There will ALWAYS be exceptions to every situation or rule...but citing exceptions doesn't mean a thing.
The rule, rather than the exception, is that you won't make anything in Mary Kay CLOSE to what you could with a regular part-time job. It's not your business at all. And the only people getting rich are the people who run MK.
