Avon Hints and Tips (Part 3)

Aesop

piglet25 wrote: »

Just looked at my order online, theres a couple of spots, mostly ticks but one item has no symbol at all - what does that mean?

I wouldn't worry about the item with no symbol piglet. It is one of those things, you will probably find tomorrow it has updated.

yummymummy85

Arghhh have just found out that one of my friends has just started doing Avon and unfortunately we have friends in common who have known her longer so am expecting to lose a few customer this time. Best get my butt into gear to get some more customers from my territory! Hopefully the clearance flyer will entice a few more people!!

Just had a thought, I'm off to baby clinic in the morning to get my chunky monkey weighed, how would I go about getting customers from there? Obviously the mums don't really have time to sit down and look through a brochure there and then as they're busy dressing/undressing children (and if like me they have more than one child chasing the other one round the clinic!). Do you think flyers with my contact details on would work? Saying something like if you'd like to see the latest Avon brochure please contact blah blah blah?? Do you think leaving flyers like that at places like the doctors would work as well? With a 3 month old and a 2 year plus I'm giving up smoking I'm constantly at the doctors surgery at the moment!!!

MarsdenCuckoo

Not much time to organise YM but if you can take a few notes with your contact details and just chat to the other mums about how great Avon is and that you've become a new agent then hopefully they'll contact you if they're interested. Leave a few flyers (if OK with the clinic) with details of the latest offers and/or make reference to how special offers are better quality and better value than available on the High St.

Might also be an idea to invite a few new mums (& babes) 'round to yours' for coffee so you can sneek in a bit more info then?

Good luck

On_an_Avon_Mission

MarsdenCuckoo wrote: »

Haven't done it as yet but have been asked to do one at a local licensed club next month. A bit different as they don't want any games, etc. and they'll be doing their own raffle on the night. So, as far as I know, it's just a matter of taking loads of stuff and giving the club 10% of the takiings on the night. Hadn't realised how long it would take to price everything up though..... I'm going to have to pay for certain stuff up front (mainly because I had a clearance catalogue, which seemed to have some good offers) but anticipate ordering LOADS in the next campaign and sending back whatever I can't sell. It's all to do with timing!

Hi. I'm in a similar situation (fundraiser for local school). I've ordered an extra £300 of products:eek: just for this from a mixture of current / back brochures / HT. Just hope it sells! Found it very hard to know what to order though, or how much. If this is a success I may be able to do a few a year which would certainly boost my sales figures.
After lots of deliberating I tried to order a bit of most things to try to reflect Avon's range and lots of the suncream moneymaker because I don't have to pay for it now! I know what you mean about timing because I will have to pay for it all before I even do the event. We should compare notes, see if it's worth it! Good luck.:)

MarsdenCuckoo

On_an_Avon_Mission wrote: »

Hi. I'm in a similar situation (fundraiser for local school). I've ordered an extra £300 of products:eek: just for this from a mixture of current / back brochures / HT. Just hope it sells! Found it very hard to know what to order though, or how much. If this is a success I may be able to do a few a year which would certainly boost my sales figures.
After lots of deliberating I tried to order a bit of most things to try to reflect Avon's range and lots of the suncream moneymaker because I don't have to pay for it now! I know what you mean about timing because I will have to pay for it all before I even do the event. We should compare notes, see if it's worth it! Good luck.:)

Yes, good idea about comparing notes. I've done invitations to all my Avon customers - did it as a folded card and put a voucher on the back i.e. Free Gift if you present this voucher on the night and spend over £10. Thought it might help boost sales but the first person I mentioned the invite to (the actual lady responsible for asking me to do the event in the first place) told me she'd read it and thrown it away! She dug it out of the bin pdq when I mentioned the voucher though!

Haven't even gone anywhere near the sunscreen products - there are just soooooo many goodies that Avon do; hadn't really realised. They want me to specialise in jewellry so am trawling through back catalogues to find photo's i.e. to show the items off to their best. I did buy some little labels to price everything up but then also decided to make use of my old books by cutting out the coloured circles with prices in. Think it looks more professional but no wonder it's taking me sooooo long to prep everything.

sophisoph

Question to all you lovely people....one of my reps wants to quit. its a shame as she got over £300 in her first order, has delivered everything no probs but suddenly wants to stop. She was a bit of a hit and miss rep anyway but she asked me if she could do it so i thought why not...

ANYWAY... what happens with the second half of her admin fee? will she still have to pay it?

Luckily her friend 2 doors down wants to take over so shes pretty much paved the way for her. still means more training for someone i dont have much faith in. oh well. you win some you lose some

Aesop

sophisoph, commiserations, Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question. I have had to email Avon about the latest one who has resigned, that makes 3 now, and had to tell them she refused to pay for her books or her bags and had given the whole lot back to me to return. And I can't afford to pay for them either! So am hoping they will let me return them for credit.

sophisoph

Oh dear aureol, that was going to be my second question about returns etc but luckily she said she wants to buy them as she likes them so saves me going back to show her what to do. let us know how that works out for ya lol

Well mine is my OHs sister so im trying to keep it as civil as possible (though thats not always easy when it comes to her lol)...ahem anyway...its just annoying isnt it. i dont see why you would give away £300+ worth of orders. I wsh i could get back up to that amount just from sales. She hasnt given me a reason really but i feel like pointing and saying I TOLD YOU YOU WOULDNT GIVE IT A CHANCE! lol. some you just KNOW wont like it dont you.

xx

lozza1985

sophisoph wrote: »

Question to all you lovely people....one of my reps wants to quit. its a shame as she got over £300 in her first order, has delivered everything no probs but suddenly wants to stop. She was a bit of a hit and miss rep anyway but she asked me if she could do it so i thought why not...

ANYWAY... what happens with the second half of her admin fee? will she still have to pay it?

Luckily her friend 2 doors down wants to take over so shes pretty much paved the way for her. still means more training for someone i dont have much faith in. oh well. you win some you lose some

No she won't have to pay it - she'll only pay the second £7.50 if she puts another order in. If anyone gives up after their first campaign, they only get charged the first £7.50. Some people are just a law unto themselves lol, I can understand it when people struggle getting orders...but getting £300 in a first camp, then giving up? Obviously she just doesn't like being an avon lady!!! I wouldn't give it up for anything now, oh would call that sad lol, but its nice getting to know your customers, and getting deliveries is like a christmas every 3 weeks lol

riabie123

Signed up with avon last avon friday with the intent to get started in my area and the plan was to move in the summer and take avon with me. Anyway I was very excited went out out got my freezer bags, wrote a little note introducing myself, gave contact details, and some details of offers inside. Spent most of Saturday afternoon delivering round my area also took into work. Collected this evening and really dissapointed, all my orders have come from work and my mum. £40 from work, and £10 from my mum, not even hit what I was expected to. Nothing from my door to door round. It's a funny area, very well to do and status is everything, maybe it's the wrong kind of area ( I dont live there and certainly not well to do). Now the question of what to do. I'm not one to easily give up, but... I've found out my job contract is unlikely to be renewed after easter plus I'm going away in September to university (moving location to be with long term OH) . Now the sensible thing to me would be to move after easter in with him and find work up there for 4 months before uni starts, thus saves me having to find new work for a limited time and forking out for a house and bills that at the moment I'm struggling to afford. But what about Avon? Can I just stop and pay out any admin cost or whatever left? Really don't know what to do, I was so excited last friday but the overall response was really poor.. it was like I was some harrassing woman that was interupting their dinner.