Pink Truth: How Mary Kay Sales Directors Can Get Consultants to Order More

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How Mary Kay Sales Directors Can Get Consultants to Order More Mar 22nd 2012, 11:00 Let's not kid ourselves. Getting consultants to order more inventory is the heart of the pyramid scheme: recruit and frontload. Notice that this email has absolutely NOTHING to do with selling the product. It is pure recruiting and scamming orders out of newbies. All of this ordering is encouraged without regard to any consultant's personal [...]

I am a little 50/50 on this article.  At face value, it would appear that this is encouraging directors to focus only on the orders of their team and none whatsoever on retail sales.  However, that could be taking things WAY out of context. Knowing how Pink Truth operates, this could be one document that focuses only on ordering while 9 other documents focus on teaching your consultant selling techniques.  That could be overly optimistic on my part, but because of Pink Truth's pattern of ignoring and hiding the whole truth and only presenting information that benefits their opinions, I am dubious to say the least.