You say you jumped on the band wagon- well that is never a good way to get started in anything especially when it involves investing money. The Mary Kay cosmetics company even puts out published literature advising you to think long and hard before signing up. And Mary Kay Cosmetics and Mary Kay Ash herself never "tried to talk every girl/woman into buying as much product to stock on their shelves as they could possibly squeeze".
If you lost sight of the point of the go/give attitude then you are responsible for that. You can place smaller orders to the company if you choose to. Business is based on supply and demand, not overestimating your business way before it gets going. If you got excited about the incentives and overordered then that is exactly that- YOU got excited- not Mary Kay Cosmetics.
If you are so unhappy with Mary Kay Cosmetics why are you still selling to your select customers? You obviously are happy with just doing a small amount of business, why do you feel the need to publicly bash a company that does positive things for so many? It was your own overzealousness and unrealistic expectations that got you overstocked and undersold.
Perhaps taking responsibility for you actions might be in order. Keep your negative attitude to yourself- especially if you are still doing business with the company. If they are that terrible and greedy then you should disassociate yourself from them and not be a hypocrite.
I cant believe you would still call yourself a beauty consultant or do business as one and then publicly put down your own company. After all as a beauty consultant you are their employee indirectly. If you don't like your job find a new one
... A very satisfied long time Mary Kay customer and family member of a long time Beauty Consultant
Ronnie - 29 Mar 2005
Ronnie: It's great that you use MK products and have a committed consultant - but before YOU put down other's and their opinions and experiences, you should consider that many Mary Kay Directors and the Nationals teach to squeeze out all the inventory (aka:production) they can from consultants. I was taught to call my unit at the end of the month when I needed 'production' and see if they could do 'just a little bit more to help the unit' - I call that squeezing inventory out. The directors tie into the women with the emotional strings, so of course the consultants want to jump thru hoops for their directors. They flatter them to motivate them, but in the end, if you ever leave MK, you find out differently about the 'love' they share. Your money is gone, your status and car may be gone, but they still kick on to the 'next one'. Understand that because it's what happens. In as much as anyone has a responsibility for their own decisions - so do the representatives of Mary Kay to the general public (potential recruits). They have a responsibility to tell the truth, not half-truths and to present a viable business opportunity.
We could also talk about the viability of this business opportunity. Besides a few copies of commission checks, where is the data for one to consider, when, as you say, MK says to consider this opportunity long and hard. Answer: there is no data to share about the viability of this business. It's undisclosed. Now, who's responsibility is that?
I'm not sure who you were responding to in your post - but I can surely understand someone publicly putting down a company which seems to condone 'doing it quick' in terms of moving up - that also means moving thru numbers faster - oh, and those 'numbers' are real people, and still selling to a few. There are many women who love the products, who truly wish the company would repent of what it is doing, or at least the women who represent it. Orders are pushed, not real sales. The company gives prizes based on the retail value of wholesale orders. If your consultant ordered $18000 in product this year, but didn't sell it all - she'd still be eligible for a QUEEN OF SALES title based on the retail value of what she ordered. Do you think that is responsible? I don't. I think it promotes front-loading.
I know many women who are happy to be consultants, but don't like the company and how it's reps push, dictate and lie. Very irresponsible in my book.
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