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~Avon Hints and Tips~(Part 5)
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Still don't feel very excited about it!!
(Blimey I really am Mrs Miserable today!)
Even the arrival of my Vistaprint stamps and pen today didn't cheer me up! My business cards are on the way as well apparently.
I expect I'll be excited about it when I see how much time its going to save me!0 -
hiya!!
im a new rep just waiting for me campaign 12 order to arrive and put first lot of campaign 13 books out....
but campaign 12 was rubbish orders and i didnt do all me territory as i have bout 300 houses and 20books..
so i guess i cud put my campaign 12 books out on the other houses i didnt do and the new ones with 13?
and can i ask how long u leave ur books b4 collecting them ? as i dont no how long ... i need em bac cs have so many houses as was told to drop thru the door of every house in territory but then need to leave em long enough to b looked at as well ....any advice appreciated:j0 -
avon suggest you leave them 2-3 nights only. seems to work for me when its people who havent ordered. my regular customers get the book 5-7 days.And yeah you can put your 12 books to the people who didnt see it and the 13 to people who did.
I need to go collect all my regulars books today and just CBA! its 100 books across a 3 mile territory and now my replacements have turned up this morning so i have 7 deliveries to do too!!!I'm fed up of missing items too!! specially cos u have to make an extra trip and tell customers it was missing etc and always seems to be same ones!!
Got a doctors appointment at 3:30 so gonna have to stop to go to that too! luckily DD is with her dad today so i dont have a toddler screaming she doesnt like avon everywhere!! BUT i coulda done with the buggy to lean on.. :rotfl:0 -
hiya!!
im a new rep just waiting for me campaign 12 order to arrive and put first lot of campaign 13 books out....
but campaign 12 was rubbish orders and i didnt do all me territory as i have bout 300 houses and 20books..
so i guess i cud put my campaign 12 books out on the other houses i didnt do and the new ones with 13?
and can i ask how long u leave ur books b4 collecting them ? as i dont no how long ... i need em bac cs have so many houses as was told to drop thru the door of every house in territory but then need to leave em long enough to b looked at as well ....any advice appreciated:jM May11 55886.810 -
2-3 days is fine - and if they haven't had chance to have a look but want to, they'll let you know. That's a great sign that at least they are interested.
I usually leave books for a week (just my circumstances and how I organise my Avon life) but recently left them for 3 days and I still picked up new customers and orders.0 -
Thanks everyone for your replies ... I've had 3 orders from my drop and 1 from my mum, total so far is £65.75, not including my HT stuff or the other lady's who has to ring me (I asked her to by tomorrow eve), so I think I should just about make MOV.
I've also got 3/4 of a road to start dropping at for C13, and may get a little cul de sac off it as well, so we'll see how that goes.
I'm going to ask my mum and sister to take books into their work - they both work in very small businesses but with a mainly female staff, so might pick up the odd order there, and I'll possibly put something on my Facebook page too. I have a friend who runs a monthly baby info group which I help out at so I might see if I can put some books out there, maybe highlight the children's stuff ...0 -
see knew camp 13 was gonna be cr*p!! picked up my first "area" which is 41 books and have got 5 orders!! 2 orders to follow.. . and 9 people out. Thats best case scenario 16 orders... i usually have 23-27 on average from here totalling £200-250 usually.. so far ive got £48!
Oh dear....
oh well off to collect the next area..lets see how many orders out of 25 i can get there!!0 -
Hiya,
I'm worried my second campaign is not going to go well - it seems too soon for anyone to order again after the last campaign.
Anyway, I was thinking of a refer a friend offer to try and get some new customers. Has anyone had experience of this and what kind of offer did you do that worked well? I was thinking 15% off their next order (but if there's nothing they want because they just ordered then maybe this is a bad idea?)
I've also considered a free gift (do customers really go for this?)
Finally when they 'refer a friend', do you pick the friends order up from your customers house too?
Confused!!0 -
hiya!!
im a new rep just waiting for me campaign 12 order to arrive and put first lot of campaign 13 books out....
but campaign 12 was rubbish orders and i didnt do all me territory as i have bout 300 houses and 20books..
so i guess i cud put my campaign 12 books out on the other houses i didnt do and the new ones with 13?
and can i ask how long u leave ur books b4 collecting them ? as i dont no how long ... i need em bac cs have so many houses as was told to drop thru the door of every house in territory but then need to leave em long enough to b looked at as well ....any advice appreciated:j
Hi Yoyogirl :wave:
I think that 2-3 days is long enough to leave the book. Personally, I find that if I leave them any longer then people just forget about them - you know what it's like; if you have ages to do something then you keep putting it off and never get round to itSome of my better customers just keep their books and email or phone their order, but that only works when you've got a bit more established and can afford to buy plenty of books.
'Better to ask a silly question than to make a silly mistake' Elliebee's Mum
Avon Lady 2007-20100 -
Went to get the books people didnt leave out yesterday. Only 1 order for £3, not hopefull for hov now. Have left out 27 more though. so fingers crossed I get a bit closer.0
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