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Bonnye's Story |
First I want to say thank you to all of you who have bared
your souls here regarding your MK experience. It has been
very healing to me.
Just yesterday, my husband helped me box up and take my product
to UPS for shipping back to MK. Not an incredible amount,
however quite a bit for our struggling family…approx
$5,000 retail. The hardest part was telling my husband what
I had done. Since I pay all the bills, he never saw the credit
card statements. He was very gracious about the whole thing
and chalked it up to a learning experience. I think he figured
I had been hard enough on myself for the past few months,
struggling to make this thing fly and beating myself up for
not being able to do all the things that seemed to come so
easy for other reps.
Just what was my malfunction anyway that I just couldn’t
even give this stuff away? No matter how hard I tried, I just
could not “warm chatter” anyone. My Sales Director
offered to take me to the mall with the idea that we would
offer those stupid green foot fizzies to tired sales clerks
and they would be so grateful, they would become customers
for life. How embarrassing is that? Luckily, I never made
the time to do this with her. I am not sure exactly when the
pink fog began to clear. It may have been when I caught her
in a couple of lies. Like, for instance, when she shared with
me that she was “on target” to make $5,000 in
commissions from the company. Well, I never did see her name
listed in the back of the Applause magazine, and she came
back from Seminar last summer wearing a $500 Club ribbon.
That’s when I realized that “on target”
was just one of many terms used to manipulate people.
Another really weird thing is that no matter how many people
attended her weekly sales meetings (usually only 2 or 3),
she would behave as if the room was full. She even made us
stand up in front of each other and tell of our successes.
It was all so corny and strange. Well, I am so glad that this
experience is over. All I am left with is enough samples to
cleanse, tone and moisturize. |
