What should I do about my Mary Kay business?

Question

I just started trying to sell Mary Kay and frankly I feel like a fool. I do not live in a large area and I noticed that there seems to be quite a few consultants already. I tried to research as best as I could but unfortunately I didn't come across all of them until after I bought the start-up kit, the web site and a few other items (but no inventory) to try and get going. At this point I feel like I would like to just make my money back and call it a day. I do have a debut scheduled but I am not sure if I really even want to go though with that. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Think of this for a minute: When you tell yourself you're a fool, what were you thinking, all those negative things, you'll never succeed in life because you're always dragging yourself down. If you don't have the self-confidence to believe in yourself in whatever you do in life, you'll never get any further than 2-steps behind yourself. I learned this the hard way.

I had to change my way of thinking. I had to stop telling myself I couldn't do this or that, or I wasn't smart enough and on and on. YOU can do anything you allow yourself to do! It doesn't matter if it's Mary Kay or not. You obviously have a dream that you wanted to come true. Whether it's make extra money to pay for diapers, rent, gas...you saw a need. Since the subject is about Mary Kay, what you put in to it is what you get out of it. If you don't work it...you don't get paid. You work it...you get paid.

We are NOT a multi-level company. We are dual-marketing which means WE buy directly from the company for $1.00 and sell for $2.00. Multi means you don't buy from the company, you buy from your upline and they buy from their upline. We cannot sell on the internet or by any other means (fairs, etc.) other than we selling directly from our MK website
or through people we contact. This is all laid out in the contract you signed.

Here's something else to keep in mind. You may live in a small town and there are consultants but I can guarantee you that only a small handful are actually out there holding classes and making the money they need. The rest of them are "closet" consultants. Which means you don't know they are out there until you run into them. They only sell to their families and close friends or only buy from the company to get their product half off.

Just in Canada and US alone there are over 1 million consultants. 80% of them do very little (friends, family, themself) while 20% of them are actually holding classes.

Mary Kay Ash, herself, would respond to women who were concerned about the market being heavily saturated by saying if you don't see a pink cadillac at every house in the neighborhood, you have nothing to worry about.

So as your sister consultant in Mary Kay, I believe you can do this if you tell yourself you can. We, MK Consultants, can support you, teach you, help you to succeed and will be estactic when you achieve your dreams but we will feel sad for you when you decide to give up. Only you are responsible for you and your dreams.

I believe in you!

"You can do it." - Mary Kay Ash

Answer 2

Sell Mary Kay Online

Answer 3

I think if you give it all you got and still dont feel like its the right business for you, it may be time to try something else.
When you work in a people business like Mary Kay, people will sense your emotions!!! So if you are trying to build a business you arent happy with, people will notice that and probably move on to the next salesperson or business....

Why do you feel like a fool?
Living in smaller areas could just mean you need to network a little more. Try getting to bigger areas! Mary Kay is a huge community, so its very competitive!

Have you looked at any other home based businesses that might fit what your looking for?

Answer 4

Well it sounds like you have already made up your mind to quit without trying so if you will wonder what if you might want to give it a try. Life is about choices you decide you are going to make it work you can this comes from personal experience I have been doing Mary Kay for 3 years now and was able to quit my full time job after one year. I am currently in the process of earning my first career car and all this from a girl who couldn't even sell girl scout cookies.

Answer 5

That is the problem with MLM businesses that sell products, you have to go out and sell, but after a sale then you have to keep on selling to the same people, you need to build up a large loyal customer base which is not easy.
What I would suggest is try something different a MLM business where there is no selling, just acquiring a few customers from friends and family by asking them to do you a favour and getting them to try your service, which incidentally they will be using through another supplier anyway, saving them some money but most importantly helping you get your new business going.
If you would like to know more about what I do then get in touch through my 360 profile and I will give you 2 web addresses one which will give you an overview of the business and the other an idea of the integrity of the parent company.

Answer 6

As a professional dog trainer for over 16 years, I have to tell you my strong opinion that you need these group classes for obedience training. http://OnlineDogTraining.enle.info/?OePL

Other pet warehouses are there to get you to buy their products and hang around their strore. And their trainers are their employees...never forget they have an agenda. Most of the trainers have very little education--if they had actual training and skills they wouldn't be there making just over minimum wage--trust me on this. But even if they did have experience and talent...a group setting is a terrible place for learning to take place. It's distraction training and it is the LAST phase of training not the first. You wouldn't have your child try to do their homework in a toy store, would you? Of course not...the level of distraction would be too high! It's the same with dogs. Having said that, these classes can be an excellent way to socialize dogs...but not to train them. And while they appear to be cheaper than a professional trainer...you have to attend many more sessions to get the same results because of the poor learning environment--so you wind up spending MORE money for less training than you would with a professional. Save your money and go to someone who actually knows how to train dogs. OR, read books and try to train your dog yourself. There is nothing they train at a Petsmart or Petco that you can't do yourself with a couple of hours of reading.

Answer 7

Do you have friends or family who don't live in your area? If so, you could sell to them online!
Take your business cards (with website address) EVERYWHERE you go - out of town, to the market, to the park... remember that you are always selling, wherever you go, whatever you do!

Remember what they said or what you felt that made you decide to do this in the first place, and let that make you strong.
No one can stop you from succeeding but you!!

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Answer 8

My advice is to quite now before you put more $$ into the business..the company is dog eat dog...not very nice to its distributors...all they want you to do is sell sell sell..and have thousands of $$ in inventory at home....to me that is crazy!!!

there are plenty of other direct sales companies that offer better incentives and can actually make $$ of it much easier than Mary Kay

Answer 9

It takes a special kind of person to make it in any multi-level business. You must be thick skinned, hard driving, never take no for the final answer etc. It simply is not for everyone. If you know it is not going to be for you, you should just write it off as a life lesson learned and move on.

Answer 10

mary kay is such a competitive product line...dont you want to sell it online? I have here a resource I used as a guide while starting up my online business...all the best to you, you can make it dear!