Avon Hints and Tips (Part 3)

poppet

MarsdenCuckoo wrote: »

I started off doing very dramatic notes but gradually over time they've got smaller and smaller......

Lol mine too.

Aesop

Hi Gemma, you should still be able to pay tomorrow night and submit your order. You might see it is held for a couple of hours until they see you have made a payment but it will be released to be delivered on time.

lozza1985

GemmaC25 wrote: »

Question, I hope someone can answer!

My order is due in tomorrow night, now I usually pay by Giro as I prefer to keep my money seperate from my bank account (weird like that) but this time a customer paid late so I'm paying by card.
I would usually have to pay tonight so it clears for tomorrow's order right? Just I have £26's worth of credit which hasn't come off my balance yet and I didn't want to pay until this had come off! If I pay by debit card tomorrow night can I still submit my order or will it not let me? Hope you can help!

Don't worry - I only ever pay minutes before submitting mine & oh's orders, and ours always turn up fine.

For the credits - underpay your account by the amount avon is crediting you with (not the customer price), once you are changed onto the next campaign (ie the day after order deadline) then credits are added on and your account will be clear. Saves you having to pay out more than you need to, so that you'll get your earnings straight away.

lozza1985

poppet wrote: »

Lol mine too.

Lol mine are the same size (size of the back cover) - but yes mine have less written on them each time, in bigger font lol so my customers can't help but read them:D I still do them as I put on them the approx date I'll be delivering, so that I don't have to write anything onto the order forms. Saves me a lot of time, and means the order forms can be reused until they've had an order written on them lol:p

MarsdenCuckoo

lozza1985 wrote: »

Lol mine are the same size (size of the back cover) - but yes mine have less written on them each time, in bigger font lol so my customers can't help but read them:D I still do them as I put on them the approx date I'll be delivering, so that I don't have to write anything onto the order forms. Saves me a lot of time, and means the order forms can be reused until they've had an order written on them lol:p

Thanks for the tip; just printed off a load of labels for the front of my books (I staple to the front of every book when I'll be collecting them and a reminder to leave outside if they won't be in). When I've used them up I'll incorporate the delivery date too - will save me writing it on the order forms. Got to admit I do waste a lot of order forms because my SL recommended I personally address each one as it was a 'nice touch'. Think I'll still keep doing that because it saves me checking that I don't end up with an order without a delivery address (didn't believe anyone would do that but the other week it did happen to me re. Betterware) and it's helped me get to know/remember where each of my customers lives.

lozza1985

Bizarrely I have one customer who NEVER writes her address on, and yet remembers to sign & date her orders lol. I even have a polite sticker on my order forms saying "please remember to complete your address and provide an email address/phone number, thank you" - obviously falls on deaf ears, have several customers who will not put a phone number and yet I've been delivering to them for a year now, they all have my address, home & mobile phone numbers & an email address. I mean what am I going to do with their phone numbers...ring them up in the middle of the night and try to sell them a lipstick pmsl:rotfl:

MarsdenCuckoo

lozza1985 wrote: »

Bizarrely I have one customer who NEVER writes her address on, and yet remembers to sign & date her orders lol. I even have a polite sticker on my order forms saying "please remember to complete your address and provide an email address/phone number, thank you" - obviously falls on deaf ears, have several customers who will not put a phone number and yet I've been delivering to them for a year now, they all have my address, home & mobile phone numbers & an email address. I mean what am I going to do with their phone numbers...ring them up in the middle of the night and try to sell them a lipstick pmsl:rotfl:

Sounds like you should start addressing your order forms yourself!?

Think some people are very nervous about disclosing their personal address details (certainly Betterware sell some shredding scissors, which are very popular) and I have one customer, who flatly refuses to leave her order form in the book. She will leave the book outside but then prefers to ring her order through. All comes down to the fear of ID theft I guess.....

lozza1985

MarsdenCuckoo wrote: »

Sounds like you should start addressing your order forms yourself!?

Think some people are very nervous about disclosing their personal address details (certainly Betterware sell some shredding scissors, which are very popular) and I have one customer, who flatly refuses to leave her order form in the book. She will leave the book outside but then prefers to ring her order through. All comes down to the fear of ID theft I guess.....

Nah that would ruin my system lol and no doubt between me and oh we'd end up delivering the order forms to the wrong houses anyway lol. I know who is even from just her hand writing, makes me laugh how she never fills her address in. She did the first couple of times she ordered but hasn't since! No doubt when I collect the books tomorrow she won't have filled it in lol.

rjhammond91

Just had a visit from my sales leader - she was soooo lovely fair play. Shes given me some territory, some books, calling book etc.. and i'm going to hit the street tomorrow gotta buy some resealable bags first though can't wait to start earning moneyyyyyy

poppet

lozza1985 wrote: »

I put on them the approx date I'll be delivering, so that I don't have to write anything onto the order forms. Saves me a lot of time, and means the order forms can be reused until they've had an order written on them lol:p

I do that too I hate filing all those order forms with delivery dates and book numbers and circling the date when i will be going back - only to have to throw so many away because they can be reused once written on. The only thing I hand write on the order form itself is "please see newsletter for relevent dates and special offers"
and very occasionally I might write something in the "message" box at the top of the order form ...something like .....

"Dont forget Mothers Day on 22nd March" .......

(I got the date wrong on 110 books , Mothers day is 14th March, not 22nd) Didnt realise until it was too late and they had all been delviered and collected back again