My Story

I started out selling Lia Sophia jewelry. I loved the jewelry, it's absolutely beautiful. However, I
found that now that we are in a recession people don't spend money on jewelry. It is considered a want instead of a need.

Women will buy makeup in a recession though.

A friend of mine had talked to me about Mary Kay many times over. I usually just listened politely and then put it out of my mind. She had a contest one time from her director to make 100 sales over a period of a month. I am a sucker to help out my friends and placed 3 separate orders. Turns out I didn't need to because she had well over 100 orders, but I got some great products from her.

She had a raffle for everyone who purchased items. My name only went in once, despite the three orders, but I won the raffle! She pulled my name, then a few new orders came in so she decided to re-do the raffle. This time her husband pulled the name and again it was mine!!! So I won a $150 shopping spree from Mary Kay! I never win anything so I was excited!

My friend (Christina) told me I won and we talked a bit more about the opportunity. I made a deal with her. Instead of spending $150 in Mary Kay products, I would let her buy me the $100 starter kit. I figured that I didn't have to pay for it, so I had nothing to lose!

I got my starter kit and got so excited! There were some great products in the kit and a lot of literature that got me motivated to actually sell this product. So I talked more and more to Christina and we came upon a number that I would spend on my first amount of product inventory. I wanted to come in as a Star Consultant so that helped me pick my number. Christina helped me pick out what I needed in my inventory and I waited excitedly until my products arrived.

Holy crap. My products arrived. There were about 7 boxes full of nothing but fantastic Mary Kay products! It set my head spinning. How was I going to sell all of this? Had I made a huge mistake? My mom and I went through everything and made sure that it was all there, plus I found a few sweet blessings (extra items) that had accidentally made their way into my boxes. Now I just needed to find some way to organize this!

I went to Target and bought a few plastic storage containers and separated all of my products. Each area of the face had its own drawer and then skincare had their own drawers. I was officially in business!

I decided that since Christina's raffle worked so well I would do the same thing. I wrote an email to all my friends and made a Facebook note and sent it to everyone I knew. I waited and waited. And waited and waited. No orders came. Finally, I convinced a friend to order something for his wife. That was just the beginning. After that orders came piling in. I got orders from people I met online playing games, I got orders from people whom I hadn't spoken to since high school and I got orders from people I didn't know! I got referrals from other people and got orders that way, I got orders from leaving my business cards out and around town! I was pleasantly surprised at my success.

The main thing I heard over and over, was that so and so used to wear Mary Kay but they hated their Mary Kay consultant for whatever reason, or their consultant had moved away. I gained about 6 new customers who would become repeat customers this way!

So that is when I recruited my first consultant. My mother. She had been enjoying coming into my makeshift office and picking out stuff which I would only charge her what I paid. Finally I told her that in essence she wasn't helping me out by eating up my inventory. So she signed up to be a Mary Kay consultant herself! I then got into contact with an old friend who used to sell Mary Kay and wanted to get back into it. So I got her signed up under me.

In Mary Kay if you did a certain amount of informative phone calls, you get a pair of pearl earrings and I wanted my earrings. I had already received a Bluetooth Speaker Set for my car so I figured earrings would be a nice addition! My friend in South Carolina agreed to listen into the call and told me "there is no way that I am going to do this, but I will help you get your earrings."

Well after the call she was sold. She signed up to sell Mary Kay as well!

I was on my way to becoming on target for a car! The consultant car is the Chevy Malibu and I wanted one. I needed to get 2 more consultants though by the end of the month and I only had a few days to do so. I contacted everyone I knew and although I had a lot of people say they were interested, no one was able to sign up and become active (purchase $200 wholesale) by the end of the month. At the very last second, I got my 2 consultants by re-activated two old consultants! I was finally on target for my car!

After the month ended I had three more people contact me saying they were interested in maybe becoming a part of Mary Kay. I haven't signed them up yet, but we've talked. I want them to listen into the phone call for my own training and also so I get my earrings :) I need a total of 12 consultants by the end of the 4 month qualification period for the car. I know I will get them. I have a total of 5 people who are interested, 3 who are more interested than the others. I know that in 4 months I will be driving a new Chevy Malibu around.

We are up to now in my Mary Kay life. I have to thank Christina, my new bff, my soul sista, for getting me involved and thank Alty, Kelly and my Mom for being so supportive. I want Mary Kay to be my full-time job because not only is it lucrative, it is FUN! If anyone finds this blog and is interested in learning more about the opportunity, please contact me and let me know! You could end up with your own fabulous story like my own!