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So, I decided on Saturday that as soon as I got back from my Mary Kay convention, I was going to get out there and get bookings and recruit! I woke up on Sunday unable to speak. No voice. Whatsoever. So I conducted two interviews through text messages and got three bookings through texts. YAY! Then I went to Wal-Mart that night, and got another booking by telling the check out girl that I did Mary Kay and was wondering if she'd like a free party?
I spent the next few days just sleeping and trying to get better. Today, I worked on more of my Mary Kay door hangers (because Squirreltail and I are going to hang them up around the neighborhood tomorrow), and went to Bible Study. At Bible Study, I got another booking, and got home and one of my interviews from Sunday decided to join!
The ironic part is, when I first joined Mary Kay, I tried to recruit Monkeybutter through excitement, and she basically told me, "It's okay for you, but there is no way in hell I will ever do Mary Kay." So on Sunday, I sent her a text saying, "I know you don't want to do Mary Kay, and that's totally okay, but I'm trying to earn my red jacket by the end of April. If you could just listen to my recruit pitch and tell me how to fix it, that would be uber helpful." So she said okay. I started off with, "What would you say if I told you there's a job for you where you can decide how much, how hard, and how often you're going to work? One that if you decide to work hard enough and often enough, you can earn a brand new, fully paid car inside of six months? That if you keep working hard, you can be a millionaire within five years?" Her response was that it sounded good. I told her I needed her to give me some arguements. "It sounds like it's completely self motivated. What if I'm just not good at motivating myself?" "Well, what I did was I got a friend involved, and she and I are competive enough that even though we're crappy at motivating ourselves, we're really good at motivating each other. Also, Mary Kay offers some great rewards. For instance, because I joined in February and qualified, my friend that recruited me and I both got GORGEOUS pearl bracelets. If I'd gotten two girls qualified, I would have gotten a free 5 star luncheon. There's always a reward for a challenge." "What if my family and friends aren't interested in buying anything?" "Well, I like to ask them for references. If someone can give me ten referrences, I give them a free lip gloss or eyeliner. Most of the time, people don't want to give out friends names and numbers, but if you offer them free stuff? Boy, howdy, you get all kinds of information!" "What if I'm busy?" "Busy people get things done. They know how to manage their time. If you decide to just work two hours a week- one hour for classes, one hour for setting it up, then you can realistically expect over $16,000 by the end of the year, through the parties themselves, and contacts, and re-orders. How awesome is that?" And on and on and on. At the end, I said, "So, knowing what you know now, does anything about Mary Kay interest you?" "YEAH! But are you sure it's not a pyramid scheme?" "Yeah, I'm sure. If it were a pyramid scheme, you sell $100, you get $25, I get $25, and Mary Kay company gets $50. The way it works now is you sell $100, you get $50, Mary Kay gets $50, and I get a bonus of $4." I let her sit on it for a few days, texted her today saying, "If you had the $100, would you do Mary Kay?" "Yeah, I would." "Listen, I think you're going to do AWESOME at it, and I want you on my team RIGHT NOW. So here's what I'm going to do. I have a party next Friday, and when I sell $200, so I make a profit of $100, I am going to buy your starter kit for you, and you can pay me back after YOUR first party, when you make that hundred back and then some. How does that sound to you?" "That sounds GREAT! Thank you so much!"
I have a recruit!
I spent the next few days just sleeping and trying to get better. Today, I worked on more of my Mary Kay door hangers (because Squirreltail and I are going to hang them up around the neighborhood tomorrow), and went to Bible Study. At Bible Study, I got another booking, and got home and one of my interviews from Sunday decided to join!
The ironic part is, when I first joined Mary Kay, I tried to recruit Monkeybutter through excitement, and she basically told me, "It's okay for you, but there is no way in hell I will ever do Mary Kay." So on Sunday, I sent her a text saying, "I know you don't want to do Mary Kay, and that's totally okay, but I'm trying to earn my red jacket by the end of April. If you could just listen to my recruit pitch and tell me how to fix it, that would be uber helpful." So she said okay. I started off with, "What would you say if I told you there's a job for you where you can decide how much, how hard, and how often you're going to work? One that if you decide to work hard enough and often enough, you can earn a brand new, fully paid car inside of six months? That if you keep working hard, you can be a millionaire within five years?" Her response was that it sounded good. I told her I needed her to give me some arguements. "It sounds like it's completely self motivated. What if I'm just not good at motivating myself?" "Well, what I did was I got a friend involved, and she and I are competive enough that even though we're crappy at motivating ourselves, we're really good at motivating each other. Also, Mary Kay offers some great rewards. For instance, because I joined in February and qualified, my friend that recruited me and I both got GORGEOUS pearl bracelets. If I'd gotten two girls qualified, I would have gotten a free 5 star luncheon. There's always a reward for a challenge." "What if my family and friends aren't interested in buying anything?" "Well, I like to ask them for references. If someone can give me ten referrences, I give them a free lip gloss or eyeliner. Most of the time, people don't want to give out friends names and numbers, but if you offer them free stuff? Boy, howdy, you get all kinds of information!" "What if I'm busy?" "Busy people get things done. They know how to manage their time. If you decide to just work two hours a week- one hour for classes, one hour for setting it up, then you can realistically expect over $16,000 by the end of the year, through the parties themselves, and contacts, and re-orders. How awesome is that?" And on and on and on. At the end, I said, "So, knowing what you know now, does anything about Mary Kay interest you?" "YEAH! But are you sure it's not a pyramid scheme?" "Yeah, I'm sure. If it were a pyramid scheme, you sell $100, you get $25, I get $25, and Mary Kay company gets $50. The way it works now is you sell $100, you get $50, Mary Kay gets $50, and I get a bonus of $4." I let her sit on it for a few days, texted her today saying, "If you had the $100, would you do Mary Kay?" "Yeah, I would." "Listen, I think you're going to do AWESOME at it, and I want you on my team RIGHT NOW. So here's what I'm going to do. I have a party next Friday, and when I sell $200, so I make a profit of $100, I am going to buy your starter kit for you, and you can pay me back after YOUR first party, when you make that hundred back and then some. How does that sound to you?" "That sounds GREAT! Thank you so much!"
I have a recruit!
