I am in graduate school right now, and started my own mary kay business a year ago. doing this part time, i have just earned the grand am and I keep in contact with my team to make sure they are being as successful as they want to be (some are in this for finacial freedom and some are just doing it hobby-time). I truly hope you consider what you wrote, as I have a large customer base and provide consultation and service to many women.
I was really scared to start this, and it has been one of the best 'leaps of faith' that I have ever taken...I guess I just wanted to write you b/c it's so difficult to hear these negative things when it has been such as positive force in my family, my friends, my customers, and my personal live as of recently,
Thank you for letting me share my thoughts,
Mary Kay has morphed into a do it quick business and many manipulations take place. Women do not like to be manipulated. There is alot going on that is downright criminal and that's what women refer to. Perhaps a letter to Mary Kay Inc would be more appropriate asking them to crack down on women who rob others of their family finances and family time and cause division and divorce in too many families today due to this business rather than ask someone who's been hurt to 'consider what she wrote'.
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Dear reader:
You said, "While it is commendable you are 'succeeding' in this business and are servicing many women, this is not true for everyone."
Your placing the word succeeding in quotes indicates that you, also, have had a bad experience with Mary Kay and are doubtful of Melissa's claims of success. You are obviously a compassionate and caring person and it is unfortunate if you have had a bad experience with direct sales. It is not for everyone by any means.
You said, "You have circumstances which put you in place to encounter many women, hence, graduate school."
While your presented logic is fallible, (being in a place to encounter many women does not, as your statement suggests, lead to graduate school. Rather, the reverse is more likely true, that graduate school would lead to encountering more women, or people in general, and this is undoubtedly what you meant to say.) I understand that what you meant to suggest is that, being in graduate school has presented Melissa with the opportunity to encounter many women. Perhaps this is true but I do not believe this makes her any different from any other woman in any life situation who goes shopping or to club meetings or who takes her kids to athletic practice or who has any encounters with the public at large. Opportunities are not knocking on your door, but they are waiting outside for you if you take advantage of them. But you do have to keep your eyes open to see them.
You said, "Your mother obviously has been around MK for some 20 plus years maybe?, so that also has helped her succeed as she got in early on. Most women who make the big money get in early on."
This same argument was used twenty years ago to explain the success of some consultants over and above the rest. It was no more valid then than it is now.
You said, "Your mother probably taught you the 'right way' to do MK, so you have been pretty lucky with this endeavor."
While I won't say that luck has nothing to do with success, it is far more important to be willing to work smart, have imagination, and the willingness to overcome your fears. Bill Gates didn't become the paragon of high tech because he got in early. He did, indeed, do that, but so did dozens if not hundreds of others. He became a multi-millionaire because he believed in himself and his product and he was not afraid to work hard. For him, failure was not an option. He put his whole world in hock to bankroll his faith in what he had to offer. Granted, he was also a single young man at the time and had no one depending on him for survival. It is not so easy for a single mother of three to put her whole world on the line for anything. But, if a person wants to succeed at anything, they must have that kind of unflinching faith that they CAN succeed. And then they have to be willing to go out and prove it.
You said, "Mary Kay has morphed into a do it quick business and many manipulations take place. Women do not like to be manipulated. There is alot going on that is downright criminal and that's what women refer to. Perhaps a letter to Mary Kay Inc would be more appropriate asking them to crack down on women who rob others of their family finances and family time and cause division and divorce in too many families today due to this business rather than ask someone who's been hurt to 'consider what she wrote'."
It is an unfortunate truth that the "unsatisfied customer" is the one who screams the loudest, therefore, the world tends to hear more negative about things. The fact is, however, that Mary Kay is not a 'do it quick business'. There are, of course, women who come off as high pressure salesmen. For some perhaps it is the salesman's mentality that makes some women blind to the fact that not everybody is well-suited to sales. For others it is merely a case of the religious zealot believing so fervently in his Saviour that he cannot accept that everyone would not believe as he does.
Most of the women who go into such an endeavor and are not successful go into the project blind. They may not realize just what is involved in direct sales such as Mary Kay. Some are just too young and innocent. In some cases they are unable to manage the money effectively. They wind up spending not only their own profit but the company's as well and sooner or later they find themselves deeply in debt. Still others simply do not have the business acumen to follow through with such a business. The Mary Kay advisors cannot be faulted for this. Neither should the novice consultant be blamed. Like some marriages, some things are just not meant to be.
Today, Mary Kay consultant advisors are trained to look for and weed out those women who do not appear to be predisposed to a successful career with Mary Kay. The advisors find more profit for themselves if the consultants under their guidance are successful. And they see more profit in one consultant being highly successful instead of manipulating dozens of women into buying things they cannot afford only to have them bow out somewhere down the road. That is a dead-end road, as is the approach of selling through a 'party' to one's family and friends. (There is, after all, only so much your close circle of acquaintances can buy!)
Finally, I am not a Mary Kay consultant, nor have I ever been. It can be a highly lucrative investment for the right person. For the wrong person, it can be disastrous.
It works. But not for everyone.
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