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I'm thinking of buying the all about eye cream, all about eye concelar, and the stay matte from Clinique for my eyes, but does Mary Kay have a similar product and also whats the difference between the two brands?

In my opinion, Mary Kay is overpriced. I used to use Clinique when I was younger, but their products starting making me breakout.

I have found a line that I absolutely LOVE now and that is mark. (Avon's daughter brand).

They have a new skincare line that has a great eye product. It's called Light Bright hook-up - lighten & depuff eye gel would be perfect for your concern. The ingredients include cucumber, kiwi & lotus flower which are all great at targeting that problem area. The reviews so far have been very good. And it is very affordable ($8).

As far as concealers go, I like Speedway "Do Everything Makeup" for covering up imperfections. It is a cream-to-powder stick foundation that is perfect to even skin tone. It will help you cover up some of what you don't like, but also leave a natural looking finish.

They also have Invisible Touch concealer ($5) that I've used. But the Speedway is great because it serves many purposes.

You can check it out at:
www.mymarkstore.com/dpupo

I would love to hear ideas from other MLMers in other companys as well as Arbonne. I think we can all share ideas no matter the company and products.

Please don't try and get me to change to another company. We all have our reasons for choosing the company we are with. I love Arbonne and in it for life. Thanks in advance for all of your ideas!!!!

I too use SiteSell and the SiteBuildIt program to build my sites. http://networkmarketing.sitesell.com/UnstoppableDreams.html
I would be happy to share my experience doing this. You can also see an example through my profile. It is great to have an independent website. Duplicated sites do not generate traffic without spending a lot on advertising. Even with advertising, they don't do any justice. The conversion rates are horrible with a duplicated website.

I hope this has helped.

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Multilevel marketing is all the same. It doesn't really matter the product… the product is just a cover up for a legalized pyramid scheme in my opinion

Multilevel marketing only works for the guys with huge marketing campaigns and budgets who know how to use it, for the rest of us, MLM is only really a website with a car, hot chick, mansion and a bunch of empty promises

I am planning to try a new products to take care of my skin (cleanser, toner, and moisturizer) maybe the Microdermabrasion but i would like to know if anyone has tried it and did you get good results. Does mary kay have any products for acne or clearing acne? I have dry skin!
Mary Kay Acne Treatment set
Does this work?

I myself am an Independent Beauty Consultant for Mary Kay and all our products are amazing. Our microdermabrasion is great, it really leaves your skin very soft and is a lot less expensive than going to a dermatologist. We have what is called a miracle set which includes you 3in1 cleanser that gently exfoliates, cleanses, and freshens your skin, the moisturizer, a day solution which includes a 25spf, which is the minimum amount of sun protection your skin needs on a daily basis and a night solution that repairs your skin from all the stuff that happens to it during the day. It also comes with a tube of foundation. The whole thing comes out to $104.00 plus tax. It makes your skin feel really good and combined with some of our acne products would really improve you skin. Our miracle set comes in both dry-normal, and combination-oily for both skin types.

I am not interested in an aggressive sales program. I would like to start slowly and I don't expect a Benz or giant check right away, or ever, really. I just want to start with the basic $29 for the wholesale buyer discount, and if it turns into something more, great; if not, that's fine. I've seen it stressed again and again that Arbonne in no way requires you to purchase a certain amount to start selling. So, how does it work for someone who is not actively recruiting people, but is still sharing the product and referring others to sign up? I love the product and have been telling family and friends already. Do you get referral points or a percentage of what your sign-up buys? I'd imagine most people would want to sign up for the discount, or if they don't, they'd still get the discount from the family member or friend they are buying from - so, how are you earning money? I've also seen it stressed that this is not a pyramid scam; how does it work if you're not front-loading?
Also, what are some of the discount perks, all sales aside? I read that you receive the standard 35% as well as other items for 50%-80% off. It sounds like a great deal and I'd like to know a little more.

I may have answered this question for you via my website, but I thought I'd respond here as well.

You can sign up as a wholesale buyer with Arbonne for $29. This entitles you to 35% off every order you place for the year. There are no minimum requirements to buy and you do not have to sell anything. You simply get the discount when you want or need something.
If you sell to others you make a 35% profit off every order they place when they pay retail. If they decide to become a wholesale buyer, you will then get 4% of their overall sales.

There are additional discounts as well.
For every $50 in retail volume spent you can receive a Not-So-Basic body lotion, or a cleansing gel, or a hand cream, or a foot cream for only $6 each. They retail between 14-19.50.

Forevery $150 in retail volume spent you can get the Re9 anti-aging body lotion and body serum for $20 in a gold bag, which retails for $85.

For every $250 in retail volume spent you receive $100 worth of products for only $20. You can also receive the travel sizes of the RE9 line in a tote for $45.

Your first month signed up as a wholesale buyer, if you spend $100 in retail, you receive a product worth up to $100 for free.

The extras give you a chance to try other Arbonne products to see what all works for you and your family.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to visit my website and send me an email. I'd be happy to help out.

You can also click on this link for Arbonne's presentation on this.
http://www.arbonne.com/company/presentations/successplan.asp

I am a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant and need ideas of effective ways of advertising on the Internet.
I have a website that I can lead people to.
I do not need to make a website. I already have a great one. I just want to know how I can either get people to the website I already have or how I can get leads over the Internet of people that would like facials.

Your first step should be getting into the Google and Yahoo search engines. This is easy and free. You want people to be able to search “Mary Kay” and “Your Town” and have your website come up. Secondly, I would make weekly posts on Craigslists.com. Doing this is also easy and free it a great way to promote your website and announce Mary Kay makeover parties and whatnot. Lastly, if you sell product from your website, I would suggest using Google AdWords. This places little advertisements about your website directly in front of the demographic you would want to be advertising to. AdWords can really narrow down your target audience for you with this pay-per-click program. But I would only recommend this if you are actually selling product from your website so you have the best chance of seeing a return from your investment. Hope this helps a bit. Good luck with your venture!

Cannot get a straight answer on why. When you purchase something on sale you pay tax on sale amount not the price on pre-sale amount. Arbonne charges you retail tax on bonus products or if the products are discounted. So if you are a wholesale member you will pay tax on retail prices.

You have two choices:

If Arbonne has agreements with each state government, which they should, you can make your claim to Arbonne for any overpaid taxes. I'm sure that you sell wholesale to your downline and then they end-up collecting taxes at the point-of-sale. In this case, you should charge your downline the same taxes you pay, and let them deal with it.

If you sell products at retail for less than the amount that Arbonne computes, then you can make a claim to Arbonne for the difference. This would also apply to items that you consume for personal use or product demonstrations.

If Arbonne requires you to be set-up as a Resale Vendor with your state (I highly doubt that this is the case), then you can claim your refund (if any) with them.

Good luck.

My understanding is that Arbonne is a great company with good potential. I have no ties to them, but I wanted to express this, in case you thought that I might have a bias in either direction.

I'm a chinese and my english is poor. I'm also a distributor of nu skin. One of my product is NaPCA Moisturizer. But I have no idea to speak it. May I call it N-a-P-C-A Moisturizer? Or NaP-CA Moisturizer? Should I speak it separate or liaison?

You could say it like N-a-P-C-A or simply call it "Sodium PCA" which is it's formal name. Becasue "Na" is an element and elements are not pronounced, just spoken as the letters "N" and "A". But to sound more formal and educated about your product I would speak it: Sodium PCA.

Sodium PCA—binds water to the skin to help maintain an optimal moisture level.

I wasted over $1,000 buying their products for hair, facial and other treatments, because of a co-worker’s sweet talk. The products are really pricey, and I found them to be useless. Anyone has similar experience?

Two words: Run Away!

NuSkin is huge where I live (Utah), and I think it may have been started by people here. I know their corporate headquarters are here, anyway. And yes, it is a pyramid company, which makes Utah a great place for it, since we have the highest national rate of people falling for pyramid and other investment schemes.

My cousin’s ex (thank goodness!) wife was completely into NuSkin, and literally hounded me for several years to try the products. She got into it from a lady at her church, and she had huge dollar signs in her eyes. Every week it was a pain to see her, because she’d go to church and get filled full of NuSkin crapola, and start thinking about how all their money troubles were going to go away and they were going to be rich because of the great products. She would just nag and nag and nag and explain that the prices were justified by the “high quality”, the “extensive testing” and the “amazing results” of the products. Well, the truth is that I had already tried NuSkin stuff.

Years and years ago, a friend of mine was given an entire sales kit of NuSkin stuff by someone who figured out it was all garbage. They had already paid for their kit (their start on their lucrative new future!), and NuSkin wouldn’t give them back the money, so in disgust they gave it to my friend, and told her to try stuff out and spread the word to her friends. We were really close, and she bought all these tiny little bottles and put stuff in them for me and labeled them so I would know what they were.

At the time, both of us happened to be using a mix of Avon products and drugstore brands (like Clearasil or Ponds), and we both came to the same conclusion: the stuff we were already using was as good or better, and was a lot less expensive. Plus, we didn’t get pressured to buy more and more or to sell the stuff we were using.

NuSkin is not attractive because of the products–it’s attractive because people can make money at it if they can talk other people into buying the products, or better yet, coming in as sellers below them in the company. To that end, the products are packaged attractively, and the doctors who develop it all have the proper degrees, but it’s really just snake oil. And super expensive snake oil, at that.

So what I said first still stands. Run away from NuSkin.

Oh, one more thing. I read an article in a dermatology magazine while sitting in my doctor’s office about a year ago. The doctors who write for the magazine don’t promote any brand of products, and the magazine doesn’t take ads from companies which sell those types of products. They did an independent panel review of 12 different brands, from super expensive private labels to ordinary drug store brands. And you know what they found out? Unless you have a medical condition which requires the use of a prescription product or certain special product for a specific problem (like a special facial wash for acne, or a special shampoo for extra oily hair), all products perform pretty much the same. The base active ingredients don’t vary much, and the results have more to do with the way you use them than they do with the brand. For instance, you need to wash your face every day and use a moisturizer. If you don’t rinse well enough to get all the residue off, you need a toner, too. But what you wash with and moisturize and tone with don’t have nearly as much importance as the fact that you do it regularly, and use products appropriate for your skin (so if you have dry skin, you need to use a gentle cleanser which won’t further strip it of natural moisture and oils). Their conclusions were that you can get everything you need for all your hair and skin and even cosmetic needs at a place like Walgreens or another drug store. The most expensive line of products they tested was about $600 for the products they bought, and the cheapest was about $40 for the products they bought (they tried to get the same types of things from each company, so a cleanser for combination skin was matched with another cleanser for combination skin, and a shampoo for color-treated hair was matched with another shampoo for color-treated hair). The difference, mainly, was the packaging and the “prestige” of the products, meaning the label. That’s pretty telling, if you ask me.

I hope that helps.