Pink Truth: Getting Mo’ Money: Why Recruiting Mary Kay Customers Is Good (Well, Not Really.)

Pink Truth Facts, opinions, and the real story behind Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Getting Mo' Money: Why Recruiting Mary Kay Customers Is Good (Well, Not Really.) Feb 23rd 2012, 12:00 Written by Lazy Gardens Did Mary Kay Ash say, "Nothing happens until someone sells something"? Or did she say, "Nothing happens until someone recruits someone."? Here’s a slick explanation of why it’s a good idea to turn your customers into your competitors. This is on several UnitNet sites as “training material”. Misconceptions of Team Building [...]

This whole thing makes my head spin.  The Mary Kay training material.  Pink Truth's response to it.  It brings to mind the phrase "flash in the pan". I will only comment on one thing that the Mary Kay document says that I feel bears examination.  Item number 3 says, "You are not too new".  Clearly, you don't need to know anything about Mary Kay to bring someone in.  But if you want to 'pitch' them Mary Kay with any level of integrity, isn't it a good idea to have been in long enough to know for yourself that it is what you are saying it it? Once again, the Mary Kay document is pretty ridiculous, but Pink Truth elects to throw themselves against 'ridiculous' with their own brand of ridiculous, making this article utterly useless.