Mary Kay Cosmetics - is it worth losing your friends and family over???????

A member of my family sells Mary Kay. She's constantly calling on friends, neighbors, etc... to sell the product and annoys a lot of them in the process. She's even had people tell her to ';LAY OFF'; or else they will never speak to her again. She's even gone to friends' homes to visit, then walks down the street in her friend's neighborhood to meet their neighbors to sell Mary Kay (not carrying product with her). She can't go anywhere without talking about Mary Kay. She had a birthday party for a friend just to advertise her Mary Kay business and wore her Mary Kay pin to a very formal dinner. She practically worships her upline rep and makes her more important than her own family. It breaks my heart to sit here and watch this.





Is Mary Kay worth losing your friends and family over???? Do you know of any stories????Mary Kay Cosmetics - is it worth losing your friends and family over???????
That's a sad statement. I don't know of any stories personally, but it sounds like she's a very lonely, insecure person and she's made this job an extension of who she feels she is as a person. That means she's probably unable to mentally separate the two.





Unfortunately most friends and family members have probably been too nice in an effort to keep the peace, and thus have enabled this behavior.





If she even has the ability to stop at this point, it will probably take major action on the part of her close friends and family.





Such as:





1. stop inviting her to functions. If she finds out about it and asks why, be very direct.





2. if you can't do number 1, be very clear when inviting her, that this is a non-work function, and he sales pitches and samples are not welcome.





3. if she violates the agreement in #2, ask her to leave the function.





Only by taking a very hard line, which does risk losing her, at least temporarily, to you have a chance to really show her how annoying she's become.Mary Kay Cosmetics - is it worth losing your friends and family over???????
well if you really like this family member then do whats best.. ask her to lay off it.. it annoys you and other people. then ask her why she likes it so much and challenge to go a day with say mary kay. tell her how you really feel it helps.. in fact i got saved by telling the truth to a friend
No, it definitely is not worth it. And thankfully, no, I don't know of any stories.





Tell her there are more important things in life than pimping out Mary-Kay.
I have to agree with you. A little goes a long way!





I left a church over a minister that had to give a invitation at each type of service he was holding and it had to be about 1/3 of the time on the clock.





I got up and walked out after 15 verses of the same song and still no one of the 32 people in attendance felt the need to walk forward. I walked out and haven't been back. A teacher not a preacher is what I want.





If your friend like the product and sells it that great she is working and has a income, but not ever where you go and not all of the time.
I don't know too many people that participate in selling Mary Kay, but I think the way the woman that you described is obsessed is kind of unhealthy and she is losing lots of friends over this.


I know that you can get a car, a pink Cadillac, if you sell enough Mary Kay, maybe she is trying to work up to that or something?


Anyway, someone you know, or you even, should try to confront her and tell her how stupid this whole thing is, and if she wants to be accepted into social circles again she should ditch the Mary Kay. She can still sell it if she promises not to be so incredibly extreme about it.
Unfortunately, there are many people in the world that don't know when enough if enough, doesn't matter what it's regarding. In this case, it happens to be Mary Kay and it sets a bad image for the rest of the MK consultants out there who are kind and respectful to others wishes.





Shunning this person out of your life isn't the way to go. Simply telling her that family and family friends is not the place for it. Advise her that she should try and separate family/family friends from her business. It has been proven that family/family friends don't turn out to be a good customer database. Therefore, she should spread her wings to find other customers that the family doesn't know and build off that. The family will respect her more when she learns this.
She is just doing what she is told to do.


She will make some mistakes and probably run a few people off but nothing lasts forever.
Mary Kay Cosmetics is a cult.





They pump you up at those meetings and tell you it's the most important thing in the world.





She won't stop until she realizes she is losing her friends and family members hide when they see her coming.





Sorry I don't have better news.
Well it is definitely not worth losing friends and family!! Sounds like your relative is being overly-pushy. And while I think Mary Kay has good products, a non-stop salesperson will turn anyone off and make them run!! The problem is that they have to make their $$ on getting existing customers to buy more products, and they also have to constantly be on the lookout for new customers. I've known a couple MK salespeople and a few of them were extremely ';talkative'; about their products....it was just too much! On the other hand, there are some normal salespeople too, who don't have to use every opportunity...like a birthday party...to sell, sell, sell!!! I';ve had MK reps start conversations with me....only to find out they were trying to sell me something.





Someone..hopefully you...can just be honest with her and tell her it's just becoming annoying and is putting people off. If she can tone it down, and unless someone asks what she does for a living, she shouldn't bring it up.
I will say this. I use to be a MK consultant. It is almost like a cult with this business. Women mostly who are moms or the likes. You have a quota to sell and if you don't make the $ you don't get discount or the money. It's a hard sale. Most MK products are over priced and just a microdermabrasion kit runs $50. You can buy something very comprable them at Rite Aid for $20.00.





My MK leader was a friend of mine. She called me all the time to try to motivate me to sell, sell, sell. Honestly? I worked it and it was not worth the time, effort or having people telling me no. I am a RN by trade and make enough money that MK couldn't compare to it... and frankly I hate pink cars.. cadillacs are ugly and MK colors are not meant for the younger person.





MK is a cult... period. Most people can't afford their items and the insanity of wearing pin is insane.. People do not want to be invitied to a facial party where you are hit up to buy expensive over price crapola.
I went to a MK party once and I could not believe how the Rep could not take no for an answer, I finally told her enough was enough and got my coat and left.
Unfortunately in the business world, you move up by stepping on other people's toes.

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