and Sydney Painter and my other eight grandchildren Thanks to Kelly and Steven for their help. Illustrations by Lucas Franco Email : lucasamaralf@gmail.com My mommy is having a baby By Kay Holden Today is a very special day my dad told me my mom is going to have a baby. “Where she going to get it I asked?” “It will grow in mommy’s tummy just like you did said dad.” “I grew in mommy’s tummy asked Ethan?” “You sure did dad‚ replied”
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Background A. Industry and Distribution Channel Mary Kay was a direct seller of cosmetics and toiletries. This direct sales force consisted mainly of women who sell full-time or part-time through home demonstrations. The company’s product line included items such as skin creams‚ cosmetics‚ fragrances and other personal care products. From 1963 through the 1990s‚ this direct sales force primarily made up the distribution channel. In the case of Mary Kay‚ the direct sales force was the distributors and
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KAY’S EC SYSTEMS Founded in 1962‚ Mary Kay (marykay.com) has about 1.8 million consultants selling its cosmetics and fragrance in 34 countries. In 2008‚ the company had about $2.4 billion in wholesale sales. As a company that has based its reputation on personal contacts in door-to-door visits and home gatherings‚ one might think that Mary Kay would not benefit from EC. Actually‚ the opposite is true. Currently‚ more than 95 percent of Mary Kay’s independent salespeople place orders via the internet
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leads to high employee motivation. * Mary Kay ’s automobile reward program is highly valued by employees (high outcome valences in Expectancy Theory) and has spurred many consultants to perform at very high levels. Automobile reward is contingent on the meeting of minimum monthly sales targets. * Consultants ’ need for belonging and esteem (Need Hierarchy Theory) is cost effectively leveraged by the various recognition programs. * Mary Kay Cosmetics has training systems to improve performance (improve
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Mary Kay vs. Maybelline Mary Kay has been one of America’s most trusted global names in skin care‚ makeup & body care for many years‚ as well as Maybelline cosmetics. Both provide America and the rest of the world with astonishing beauty products like make up‚ lip stick‚ and lip gloss. When American women and teenagers go out to buy their cosmetics‚ they are bombarded with different ads and different products saying that what they make is the best thing out there. Mary Kay and Maybelline cosmetics
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Founded in 1962‚ Mary Kay (marykay.com) has about 1.8 million consultants selling its cosmetics and fragrances in 34 countries. In 2008‚ the company had about $2.4 billion in wholesale sales. As a company that has based its reputation on personal contacts through door-to-door visits and home gatherings‚ one might think that Mary Kay would not benefit from EC. Actually‚ the opposite is true. Currently‚ more than 95 percent of Mary Kay’s independent salespeople place orders via the Internet.
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Abstract Kathryn Ann “Kay” Bailey Hutchison became elected in 1993 by Texans to the United States Senate in a special election‚ making her the first and‚ to date‚ the only woman elected to represent the state in the Senate. She is now the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of a republican party. In‚ 2001 She was named one of “The 30 most powerful women in America” by Ladies Home Journal. Hutchison serves on the following Senate committees: Appropriations‚ Commerce‚ Science
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Mary Kay is a cosmetics business which faced the problem that every company wished they had. They were growing so quickly that the system they have in place was no longer a viable option to process the orders they had coming in‚ which ranged from 25-30‚000 per day. At the outset of the company‚ they had a decentralized system. This meant that the orders were scattered across 4 different mediums: web‚ phone‚ mail‚ and desktop computers‚ and many mistakes were made as a result. With over 850‚000 IBCs
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Nowhere is this more evident then in the poem Hands. When Kay personifies hands she conveys how they can be used for peace or war‚ but that they were not meant to be symbols of evil and were instead created for love; the main theme of her poem. Kay portrays the theme of love through symbolically holding her own hands‚ "Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh" (Hands) or "a zipper of prayer" (Hands). In the poem Forest Fires‚ Kay uses various examples of personification and metaphors
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his controversial documentary is about our first amendment rights. Although‚ we as Americans are guaranteed the right to have freedom of speech‚ Kay Anderson and his allies would like to limit who or what message the town of Orem‚ Utah is exposed to. Simply because Mister Anderson does not agree with the political views of Michael Moore‚ he wants to censor what the whole town is allowed to hear. Utah Valley State College (UVSC) is located in Orem where Michael Moore was scheduled to speak. Since
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