Monday, February 20, 2012

Pink Truth: How to Recruit the Customers of Other Mary Kay Consultants

Pink Truth
Facts, opinions, and the real story behind Mary Kay Cosmetics.
How to Recruit the Customers of Other Mary Kay Consultants
Feb 20th 2012, 12:00
Anita Garrett-Roe, national sales director with Mary Kay Cosmetics, calls this "Golden Rule Thinking Regarding Recruiting". I think it is more appropriately titled "Do It Before I Steal Her From You". Once again, Anita shows us how you can technically follow the company's rules, but be really slimy about it. Here's her methodology for stealing [...]
I love it when Pink Truth posts stuff like this because it reinforces my belief (and I think exposes the same to anyone reading their site) that Pink Truth is so tainted by their personal hate for all things Mary Kay, that they see everything as bad, evil or slimy.

Here again, the piece posted is suggesting being as charitable as possible in your attempt to recruit if the women in question has ever had any contact with someone else from Mary Kay.

Essentially, this is saying that the only time you should recruit someone that has had contact with someone else in Mary Kay is if they have no intention of doing it themselves.

Two objections that could be construed from this, but should not be:

1. The two week situation.  Granted, two weeks is not an extremely long time.  However, when you consider that all that is being asked of said consultant is to make a phone call, two weeks is almost ridiculously too long.

2. Pink Truth's only point. The consultant wants to keep this person as a customer and you are stealing her customer.  This objection is only credible if the customer in question is not interested in being a consultant.  This is clearly NOT the case in the situation being addressed.  It appears that Pink Truth would prefer the would be recruiter to get back in touch with the customer and say, "I'm sorry, you are not allowed to work for Mary Kay because the first person that told you about Mary Kay wants to keep you as a customer and does not want you to be competition."

Way to go Pink Truth, you really thought this one through.

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