Avon Hints and Tips (Part 3)

Aesop

lozza1985 wrote: »

you'll just always get people cancel at the last minute or not be in for when you arrange etc etc- better to just move on than stress over it, and help the people who actually want your help.

Thank you for your lovely words of wisdom Lozza.

I think though, MC and ss are both upset as probably like me, they are relying on this income to help make ends meet and it is really frustrating when you are trying so hard to recruit reps and they sign up and go to ground, or like mine, are lazy, take the money and spend it at xmas, don't tell you they no longer want to do avon, etc.

bitter? Not me :rotfl: For me Avon is my only source of income, with tax credits and using MSE for daily clicks, scratchies, etc.

My DH has not been paid by his employers regularly for a long time, the last cheque we were given on Friday has now bounced :mad: and that's it. That is why I registered with the Dole yesterday, am still waiting to hear from them if I qualify, this is going to be interesting explaining my situation and how DH isn't getting paid.

Unfortunately as much as I enjoy doing avon and having the time with my son, I can't live on fresh air, which is what I am doing at the moment.

You just feel like saying to people, "listen! Don't sign up for Avon, if you don't like a bit of hard work, don't mess me around, if you want to stop, that's fine, tell me, don't just stop. If you change your mind, text me and tell me you are no longer interested, don't waste my time and money."

I was thinking this morning, how hard did Debbie and Gail have to work to get where they are today and how many times were they let down the same way as we were, and yet they kept going, to be the successful women they are today. But I can't live on fresh air and if maybe I can get a job that pays a regular income, I will keep doing Avon on the side, and then won't be so reliant on it. Then if people let me down, hey ho and onto the next one.

Everything these days seems to rely on you having a car, and a lot of us just cannot financially afford it. I can only work a certain distance from my childminder so as to be able to collect my son if he is ill within an hour, and to be able to drop him off and get to a job and collect him at a reasonable time, which really limits me. Now if I could afford a car, I could work a little further away.

You know what would be really nice? If Avon said ok, people who have been with Avon for so many months, you now get your books free, financially that would be a help.

I can understand in the beginning with the amount of new take up we have, and people just stopping it, they would lose financially, but if they said after 6 months, you are obviously a keeper, you can now have your books free, that would be a big help.

I'm sorry for the essay just having a really stressful time at the moment and feeling a bit disillusioned with life.

minigirl762003

Aureol212 - Really dont have any suggestions but just want to say chin up. I know how hard it is trying to muddle through and hopeful you will have some good news from the Job Centre. You rant however much as you want!!

Aesop

~_SKY_~ wrote: »

I share this account with my sister sometimes. And i think that she might have said something about me on here a while ago. but my story is:


Might be just rambling but some of you do so well at it. Wish that it would have worked out for me. Really need the money.

Hi Sky

I remember reading your story, didn't realise it was your sister telling us about it. I remember your Upliner being very unprofessional.

If you left at the end of last year, and I know Lozza knows the right answer, you can join up with a new SL after xx weeks, I think it is 8, but can't find the last time I posted it, and what it is. So As we are now in March, you may be able to join up to Avon under a new SL.

If you are still interested, post the first half of your postcode on here and there may be an SL in your area who posts on this board.

Aesop

Thank you Minigirl I need some big fat bonus to fall in my lap right now! Just from nowhere, a big wad of cash that doesn't have to be paid back to anyone, so I can pay my bills, maybe pay for my son to go to the childminder for a day for a couple of weeks, he needs other kids to play with. I took him to a playgroup last week but he just wouldn't play with the other kids, he just played on his own and yesterday we went to the park and there was noone there! I mean no one it was deserted! I was hoping to meet a mum I had met there last week, who my son had been playing with. Even my poor DS was shocked, went on everything once and then left the playground!

I am just really struggling. If I look on netmums for other mums to meet and interact with, I don't want to start building a relationship and then let them down by saying now I am going to be working full time, I can't see you anymore. But my son needs to play with other children, he needs the interaction and to build relationships, he had that at the childminders, but I can't afford to send him there anymore.

There are playgroups within walking distance but I can't always commit to the same day every week, as I do mystery shops whenever I get the chance. Oh I don't know. Goes off to bang head against a wall.

Aesop

yummymummy85 wrote: »

Hi, I've just emailed my ASM about getting some more territory and also the other rep dropping (or more like collecting my books!) books on my road. How many times do you canvass the territory completely before just giving books to those that order?

ym85, I dropped my whole territory 3 times before whittling down to just dropping at doors that wanted the books, then only dropping at doors who actually ordered. Then every other month, I would drop to those who had not said they didn't want a book or would drop the back brochure to those houses, so I didn't mind losing those books.

Does that help a bit?

claregre

melvis wrote: »

My sales this campaign are almost as high as my Christmas order :j:j don't know where all these sales are coming from :rotfl: xx

I know ... I originally set my target sales for C6 at £220 which I told my ASM was my target (I work in sales so this sort of madness kind of helps me), but I told myself i was going to do £250.

I am now at £289! Biggest campaign yet by far, and still potentially 4 orders to come in.

Feel a bit dizzy!

Aesop

Well done Claregre!!

MissyTheCat

Aureol do you have SureStart in your area? They run loads of free groups for 0 - 5 year olds (you have to stay with your child though), such as rhyme time, craft groups, stay and plays etc etc and you don't have to book so you wouldn't be letting anyone down if you couldn't make it. I have found them absolutely invaluable, I have been taking my little boy from a couple of months old (he is now 16 months) and it has done wonders for his social skills, and I have made friends with loads of the Mums and the staff, and plan to hit them all with an Avon book when I finally get started! xxxxx

Aesop

Hi MissyTheCat, yes we do have a SureStart, I found about them through the council. I do take my son there for one of the playgroups, it was the first time I had seen him painting, made me cry! The playgroup was hard work for us though, the mums didn't seem to want to interact even though I tried, and my DS needs to learn to sit at the table and have a snack with everyone else! The problem was he likes banana and likes to hold it by the peel in his hand, we got snacks of cut up banana, and he cried and cried, so I had to leave early with him!

I have heard really good things about SureStart centres, which is why I took my DS, but one of the mums I know, she is a stalker, which is why we aren't friends, has her son in nursery there, and she has been having problems with the nursery and the lady who runs it.

I asked about Avon! LOL, the first time I went and they already have someone dropping a book and they have had "loads of people coming in and asking if we want a book"....lol.

Mine doesn't seem to have as many activities as yours though. There are only 3 things we can go to, playgroup, where we don't have to book, the toy library and a time for mums on a tuesday, where there is a creche, so I can meet other mums. I would go today but have a mystery shop in another area this afternoon, so hoping to have DS asleep by the time we get there.

I might go up there again and see what other activities they have. There must be more, or maybe mine is just too small?

Thank you for that though xxx

Aesop

Well, just got a call from the Dole office, and as DH works, and I haven't paid any contributions in the last 2 years, I don't qualify for jsa contributions based or jsa the other one, due to his hours and the system doesn't allow for the fact he isn't getting paid, we still don't qualify.

Lol, so someone who has never contributed to this country, qualifies for a 3 bed house, but I can't even get JSA to help me! LOL. I don't pay NI because my earnings for Avon have been so low and the year before, when DS was born, I was made redundant when he was 7 months old, so my contributions were only paid for 7 months. Damn, should have remembered that and told her, but she might still say I don't qualify.

As people would say, make DH leave me and then I would be entitled to everything!