Mom wants to sell Mary Kay.

it is a good, straight-forward company & business plan if she has the right personality

I flirted with doing Mary Kay (oh dear) for a very brief time, but it definitely wasn't a good fit for me. But it is a good, straight-forward company & business plan if she has the right personality for selling stuff, though.

It's supposed to be the best return you can make on any kind of thing like that -- you pay half price and what you sell it for is your profit, simple as that. So there's no weird percentage things to deal with or anything like that, like Shaklee or Avon or what-have-you has... that part is good. And the products really are good.

Is she outgoing and does she have a pretty big circle of acquaintance to draw on?

I think it would be good for her, it will allow her to get out and about, associate with new people and put her skills to a good use.

A long long time ago, I used to go with a lady I was aquaintances with to be her model. She sold Mary Kay, and that lady had it going on.

She had moved up through the ranks by sales, and acquired a burgandy vehicle (don't remember the make/model) from the company for free. You work hard enough and you get to the pink cadillac.....


That was probably 15 years ago........and I think it would be great....

There is the whole selling to friends and acquaintance thing. Personally, I don't want to mix those. But.... selling to acquaintances probably does make part of the world go round.

I've had a couple of friends who sold Mary Kay over the years. None of them were serious enough about it to make full-time careers from it, but they enjoyed it and did earn decent extra money.

I liked it when they were selling, as I thought the products were quite good.

Well, you do have to be at least somewhat outgoing, because you just gotta strike up conversations out of the blue. You can't really get by with just selling to people you know; as osso pointed out, no one wants a friend bugging them about buying stuff! besides, you'd run out of friends one way or the other

If she isn't at all outgoing, it could be hard for her. It was for me. I could force myself to approach people about it, and got results when I did, but it was too exhausting for me to keep it up.

But getting started and just seeing if it works for her isn't too expensive. You get the starter kit for $100 plus shipping (and I think tax too). You don't have to order inventory to start with if you don't want to, you can get by with just what's in the starter kit for your first appointments with people. There are also really good deals on samples on ebay -- you're not supposed to buy stuff from there, so she'd have to not tell her recruiter person about it if she did, but it's a much, much cheaper way to get samples, and that's a big help. Way easier to make the stuff look good if you can let people try as much as possible...

I very much resented it when someone tried to get me to buy any of that stuff, be it mary kay or any other deal like that.

I very much resented it when someone tried to get me to buy any of that stuff, be it mary kay or any other deal like that.

but, that's me.

if I want something, I'll go out buy it.

a mary kay party is not my idea of how to spend an evening.

then again, I don't think I know your mother amigo, so good luck to her.