![]() Several times in my Paparazzi years, I told myself I was going to give it one more year and then I was going to quit. Why should it be any different when you quit an MLM? Again – a red flag – but I didn’t think about it at the time. Writing this now – how weird is that? In a regular job, if your friend starts working with you – you never worry about your friendship being ruined when one of you decides to quit. We were friends before Paparazzi and I wanted to remain friends afterwards. If they decided to quit Paparazzi, I never wanted it to be an issue between us. If my actual friends joined, it made me so nervous. Work part-time hours for full-time pay, right? I didn’t want anyone to add to their financial distress – the point was to get out of debt. ![]() When girls would join and then quit Paparazzi without ever selling a thing, or they would join and go into debt and then not sell anything. I didn’t want to be that annoying Mary Kay lady in the grocery aisle, right? But as friends and customers saw me being successful, they naturally wanted to join.Īs my team grew, I felt a lot of pressure and anxiety over helping my team to also be successful. When I started with Paparazzi, I had no intention of building a team. I found it interesting, though, that the “elites” did not receive these selling awards – which meant us peons were the ones doing all the work and elites were living off their teams.įor those of you familiar with MLMs, you’re screaming right now – YES! That’s how MLM works!īut at the time I didn’t realize what a huge red flag that was. I received an award, and I had been hustling and selling a LOT. At that convention, Paparazzi announced their Life of the Party program to reward consultants who were selling. ![]() It was small and intimate and everyone was so supportive.īut, even then, there were cracks beginning to show. At the first convention I attended there were only 600 consultants in attendance. When I joined Paparazzi, it was a rather new company – groundfloor as they say in the biz. I was able to pay some bills, though, so it was enough.Īt the time, I was okay with it, because it was flexible and I could be home with my babies. I tracked my expenses and understood full well I was trading my time for money. You buy the jewelry at a wholesale cost and resell it for the $5. But Did I Actually Make a Profit?įrom the beginning, I was hyper aware of the low profit margin with Paparazzi jewelry. I was in the profit zone within a few weeks and just kept going. I had never done direct sales seriously before and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but I was NOT going to lose money, so I researched, tried new things, made a lot of mistakes, and learned a completely new skillset. One gal called me back and I got signed up that very day. So I googled some consultants and emailed 3 of them. Could I make enough money selling $5 jewelry to buy my kids an ice cream cone or pay for swim lessons? It seemed like the answer was obvious. I was a stay at home mom with 4 kids under the age of 5. I thought about it nonstop for a few months. I found one person in the town where I lived so I messaged her and asked if I could go shopping, host a party, or what did I need to do? She totally blew me off.Īnd that set the wheels in motion for me to become a consultant. It turns out it was a direct sales company – Paparazzi Accessories. Mom told me they were only $5 and I quickly Googled trying to find where I could buy this brand of jewelry. I loved them! As a mom of 4 small babies, I was quickly losing any sense of style I had once possessed. How It All Startedįor Christmas in 2013, my mom gave me 2 necklaces. If you want other ideas for homeschool moms or work at home opportunities, check out this post. I hope it gives you some things to think about and clarity for your next steps. If you are a current consultant wondering if it is time to quit Paparazzi jewelry, I hope this post is helpful for you. Getting to know people I would have never met otherwise was truly the best part of my time with Paparazzi Accessories. If you are a previous customer or follower of mine reading this post, I want you to know from the bottom of my heart how much I loved serving you these past years. My customers, teammates and followers were mostly perplexed – I was “successful” – what happened? After answering these questions for a few months now, I thought I’d just write a post and get all the complicated reasons for why I quit Paparazzi Accessories out in the open. In 2022 I pulled the plug on a nearly 8 year MLM journey.
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