| Dear Mary Director, | | | | you will learn on your way. But the methods they |
| You have been told "Do not offer to use your own | | | | taught to get business only got me hurt by mean |
| inventory to help her start because it will make her | | | | people and disrespected. So I just only sold to my |
| weak, and she may never order, if she can use you | | | | Co-workers.Now that I'm laid off I can't sell to my |
| for her warehouse. That is not fair to you." | | | | co-workers because they too is with out a job. All I |
| It is becoming increasingly clear that Mary kay | | | | want from my business is everything that they have |
| "training" means how to SELL Inventory to | | | | to offer. I want to be a Director and my team to be |
| Consultants, and not product to customers. | | | | a two million dollar unit. I want to own that pink |
| Following is a letter that I received from a lovely, | | | | Cadillac, and I want to own properties. But I don't |
| heart broken mary kay consultant. | | | | have a clue how to get my business and dreams off |
| As you read this, don't be angry. I am not the | | | | the ground. Every thing Mary Kay teaches only leads |
| enemy. Instead realize if something doesn't change, | | | | to a dead end, too mix emotion, and broken dreams. |
| then you will be out of business and/or your | | | | Help I'm in a pink hell. |
| consultants will turn to those like me who will show | | | | Thanks |
| them how to build a successful business! | | | | J.P |
| Hello | | | | Mary Kay Consultant |
| My name is J. P. and I'm a Mary Kay Beauty | | | | The good news is that J.P. has learned how: |
| Consultant. I have been In business in 3 years. I | | | | - to acquire customers |
| found out about Mary Kay Inc in my senior year in | | | | - to sell product, |
| high school. I was very young at the time but I saw | | | | - to get re-orders and qualify for team commissions |
| the opportunity of the company and the products. I | | | | - to brand herself so that she stands out and above |
| join in head first and I got no help from my Recruiter | | | | the hundreds of thousands of Mary Kay Consultants |
| or Director. But I was still giving $500 every couple of | | | | She has discovered her Unique Selling Proposition. She |
| months for inventory. I was told by my Recuiter to | | | | has realised that she is a brand. And just like Mary |
| give the money to her to make my order. Then one | | | | Kay is adamant about protecting its brand and |
| day I decided to call the corporate office to get | | | | making sure it markets and advertises its brand that |
| information to do my taxes. The operator told me | | | | she must do the same. |
| that I never made any order. Thats when I found | | | | J.P has discovered how to be a consitent star |
| out the money that I was giving her, she was | | | | consulant EVERY quarter! She no longer has to worry |
| putting it in her own name. So I never got credit for | | | | about being a team player, she doesn't need to rack |
| it only her, so I quit. Then Five Years later I started | | | | up debt and ruin her credit. |
| to see more Mary Kay vehicles out on the road and | | | | She had discovered how to build a solid customer |
| they had more to offer. So I rejoined again and now | | | | base, and she is well on the way to build an |
| Even though things are diffrent now but its hard. My | | | | unstoppable UNIT! |
| new Director will not speack to me because I have | | | | Don't you deserve the same? |
| not gotten any inventory since I joined. I had | | | | The Best news for J.P. is that everything she is doing |
| recuited two people and they both quit because the | | | | keeps you true and LOYAL to her Mary Kay |
| treatment that they recieve from my Director and | | | | Contract, Mary Kay Terms & Conditions & |
| others in Mary Kay. I stop going to the meeting or | | | | Mary Kay Policies & Procedures. |
| conference call. When I did go to Unit meetings, I | | | | If you don't learn how, then I will put you out of |
| told my Director I wanted to learn my business first | | | | business as your frustrated consultants turn to me |
| before I started to sell it. She told me to just sell and | | | | for help! |