Pink Truth: How to Recruit Another Mary Kay Consultant’s Customer

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How to Recruit Another Mary Kay Consultant's Customer Feb 6th 2012, 12:00 We’ve heard these things before. A million and one ways to justify recruiting another Mary Kay consultant’s customer. Is it technically stealing? Probably not. After all, the nsd’s will teach you how to bend the rules far enough that you can still say you played by the rules. This one comes from an nsd who [...]

Are you kidding me? Does Tracy even read these before she writes them off? This piece, that Tracy typically posted verbatim, is the opposite of what she claims it is.  Tracy says, in her pathetically short 'intro' that this is all about justifying, stealing and "slimy" tactics. As I started reading, and the further in I got, the more worried I became. This retired NSD was talking very heavily about taking the high road and the importance of integrity and ethics.  So if this piece turned out to be about being sneaky it was going to be a double whammy. But it's not.  It never goes there.  Unless I am missing something, her conclusion is that there is almost no situation where it is okay to "steal" a customer or recruit from someone else and even when there is a gray area, it ought to be left up to the recruit to pursue the different option.