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How can I find a good unit director to adopt me?
I signed up to become a MK consultant only a month ago, so far I don't have any positive experience with my unit, neither do my husband. I have my own business, I saw the potential of the business, after all MK does hold very high quality products! The day I signed up to become a consultant with my director, she insisted us to purchase over 1800 of inventories, even though my husband tried to explain to her that we are moving very soon, so this is not the best time to start anything until we finished moving in march. Needless to say she totally ignore the fact and said "but I want you to get start early, is for your own good". She said it the UNIT POLICY to get inventories and be serious about the business before she can submit my consultant form. We finally complied and bought 1800 of inventories. She often stressed about we HAVE TO attend unit meetings and we HAVE TO wear dresses and put on make up and put on a MK face at all times.
Since then, I have received a lot of pressure from my director on the way we made sales and recruit people with right out LIES. We are assigned to do one thing a day for three weeks. The first day is to hand out Look books with free samples to complete strangers, the second day is to do the same except this time we need to approach the stranger and tell her " I want you to be a model, you are so beautiful, will you be interested? " Then force her to give us her contact number so we can call her and get an appointment with her later. The worse thing is that I need to "report" to her everyday on my daily assignment.
With one of my potential recruit (one of my good friend), she did not tell me she has scheduled an interview with her until I found out from my friend, then I confronted my director for not telling me and with my confusion on how the recruiting process works. Not until then, she asked me if I want to tuck along for "training" purpose but it is not necessary.
My husband is very supportive on my decision, but dishonest is totally not a thing I can stand. I am so close to decide to quit.
I would like to give it one more try with another unit. Before I do that, I would like to know if there is a way I can find a "good and honest" unit director to work with?
Please help...
CeciliaLeung - 13 Feb 2005
Hi Cecilia,
I'm so sorry to hear about your poor experience at this point. You can find a director in your area by looking in the yellow pages. Only directors can be in the phone book. Other than that, I would suggest you go to www.marykay.com and search for a consultant by zip code. You can then ask the consultant who their director is and make contact that way. If all else false, you can call the company and ask for suggestions (the phone numbers are listed in your datebook.)
That's awesome that you're willing to stick with the company still. Your determination will get you far! And remember, you don't need your director to succeed. All the training materials you need are in your kit and online.
Thanks Amy. I also believe that I don't need a director to succeed, but when I recruit someone, don't I need to get the director signature and also the director needs submit my recruit's inventory orders?
CeciliaLeung - 14 Feb 2005
Directors do not need to sign the agreements, it's not a must and the director does NOT need to submit your recruit's inventory orders. Actually, when someone new signs up, such as yourself, it's best YOU become familiar with the products and your potential customer base BEFORE you make an inventory decision rather than having someone order for you. Most women are disappointed when they become familiar with the products after the director has insisted she order the initial inventory order. The directors want those inventory orders FAST, that's why THEY do them. When a recruit signs up, she has the month in which she signs and the following month to put her first order in. That gives her plenty of time to become familiar with the product line & to do some faces, rarely, do any directors give them that opportunity because they are so desperate to get that 'production' (inventory) Learn to do it yourself and YOU teach your recruits, it's part of your responsibility as their recruiter, it's not that big of a deal. Your recruit can submit her own orders from her own computer once you teach her and get the things she really needs.
There's a nifty group called MK-Off-Beat over on Yahoo Groups... user MK-Off-Beat at domain yahoogroups.com which is very supportive, very honest about the biz and gives better training than any rah rah session you'd go to if you are NOT into that kind of thing. That group can be really helpful and they might have some names of good directors...also, Eli, the owner of this site, has listed some good links to units on this site.
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