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Mary Kay has been around a long time. Best of luck in starting this new business venture.
Selling is always fun and the key to success is a MARKETING PLAN. Do you have a business NAME??
Mary Kay will help you succeed. They have a community Web site of Independent Beauty Consultants
who provides 24-hour access to
information and services of your Mary Kay business.
Talk to everybody you know, Have Mary Kay parties, Have samples and give a ways.
Identify your market and advertise. Maybe a local newspaper will do an article about Mary Kay and you.
Hope this helps, LUCKIEST

I'm a guy, but I've been around women who bought Mary Kay since the company was founded. Based on that, the most successful Mary Kay salespeople I've met seemed to have four things in common:
1) They loved the products.
2) They loved making sales calls.
3) They always made their customers (at least, the women I knew) feel really good about themselves.
4) They provided very personal service (consultations/delivers at the customer's convenience, help with gift selections for friends or neighbors, keeping track of ingredients/allergies, etc.).

Your post indicates that you have #1 and #2. I'm sure you know that with those two elements in place, it's partly math -- the more calls you make, the more sales you make. Building your business means getting larger sales, repeat sales, and referrals. Those come from #3 and #4, and with those, you're not really marketing Mary Kay as much as you're marketing YOU. What can you do to make each person you contact feel better about herself? What can you do for your customers that no one else is doing?

I hate to answer your question with two questions, but I think if you can find the answers to those two questions, you'll discover the competitive advantage you can use. I hope so.

Best wishes!

thank you so much for your information! I will try your suggestions!!! Thanks again

Hi Kati,

I am with a company that can help you in your Mary Kay business. It sounds like you love the product and are more than willing to talk to people about it. One of the biggest things you can do is to speak to everyone within "arms length" about Mary Kay.

Let me put a scenario in front of you to look at. When you have a party or get to speak to someone about Mary Kay and find out they have an interest in one of your products, say a certain blush, and they really like it but need to think about it, will call you later or any of the other stalls that people use.

Just make sure that you get their email address and just say you want to send them something about the product as in; it may go on sale, two for one or any other marketing ideas you may have.

When you get home or after the party immediately send them a video email thanking them for attending your party or telling them it was a pleasure meeting them. Just go to: www.talkfusion.com/1252791 and you can see what I am talking about. You can take a cheap video camera and video your products, ie; the blush, and put it in the back office of Talk Fusion. Right after you do your short video thanking them, then simply merge the product video right in behind it.

You can do this on autopilot and send them out whenever you want to without re-recording your video or the product video. There is nothing that will have a bigger impact than your customer seeing your face and the product they were interested in and they WILL NOT forget you! They will be very impressed and will remember you when they think of that blush and also when they speak to their friends and family about it, or if someone brings up the subject of makeup or Mary Kay.

You can either call or email me and I will send more information with a video email to show you what I am talking about. Anything you do in today's world is very competitive and you need all of the tools in your arsenal you can think of. This product will let you know when they looked at your video email, how many times, if they sent it to someone else and if they clicked through to your website! This information is invaluable in today's market, no matter what you are doing.

Best Regards,
Don Egnor
813-842-6131
www.talkfusion.com/1252791