~Avon Hints & Tips (Part 7) ~

newbeginning_2

Claree__x wrote: »

Hi all!

I only signed up to be an Avon rep on Tuesday and finding it a little difficult! There's a girl in my work who already does it apparently (not that she's ever offered me!) so I left some brochures in the canteen with a nice little note...and no one's taken any!

One of my friends also does it (again, I didn't know!) so that's taken some potential customers as well.

I've tried to be pro-active today, posting adverts online, ordered business cards and canvassing facebook for new customers and I know some of my family will order. My boyfriend has taken some to work as well but there's only 1 woman in his office!

Feeling a bit beat before I've even started unfortunately. I'm quite interested in doing territory as I'm pretty sure no one in this is doing it (although going by prior experience I could be wrong!) but I'm not sure how to go about it?

Any tips or even motivation would be great!

Hello and welcome

Don't get too down about things yet, if you didn't know your friend/work colleague was doing Avon chances are a lot of other people didn't either.

As for the territory you need to get in touch with whoever signed you up and ask to have some allocated to you.

Hope this helps x

DON79

newbeginning wrote: »

Depends when you requested the refund, If it was after your last invoice then you can pay the £181.95 minus the £8 and it will adjust itself or if you pay it all it will adjust itself and take it off your next invoice.

Thanks, do i deduct the £8 the customer was meant to pay or the £6 i should pay? I think it is the £6 but want to check....

newbeginning_2

You got it ... £6

loopytig

Hi you deduct the cost of the bag from your balance but remember to only deduct the cost of the item tou you not what the customer would of paid. Hope this helps

missminx

Claree__x wrote: »

Hi all!

I only signed up to be an Avon rep on Tuesday and finding it a little difficult! There's a girl in my work who already does it apparently (not that she's ever offered me!) so I left some brochures in the canteen with a nice little note...and no one's taken any!

One of my friends also does it (again, I didn't know!) so that's taken some potential customers as well.

I've tried to be pro-active today, posting adverts online, ordered business cards and canvassing facebook for new customers and I know some of my family will order. My boyfriend has taken some to work as well but there's only 1 woman in his office!

Feeling a bit beat before I've even started unfortunately. I'm quite interested in doing territory as I'm pretty sure no one in this is doing it (although going by prior experience I could be wrong!) but I'm not sure how to go about it?

Any tips or even motivation would be great!

Ok, welcome to avon! lol this thread, and the previous one will be invaluable to you. So I would thoroughly recommend setting aside the time to wade through them. The people who are already doing avon can't be doing it very well otherwise you would know they did it So take heart from that. It takes time to built up a customer base, particularly with strangers and people you don't know very well. Just be reliable and friendly and take tips from here and you will be fine

lozza1985

Yes but an office full of men will mean some of them have wives/girlfriends, or at least sisters/mothers - see if your oh can talk them into taking a book for the missus!

DON79

lozza1985 wrote: »

Yes but an office full of men will mean some of them have wives/girlfriends, or at least sisters/mothers - see if your oh can talk them into taking a book for the missus!

Also, if they take time to look through it, it is a good place for them to get their missus a present for anniversary or birthday or xmas etc.... good for blokes who haven't a clue what to get their OH...

I,_Geek

I've just posted a thread on Connects asking TPTB on Avon where we stand with canvassing. Should get an answer next week, hopefully tomorrow.

It came about from the question: can you go outside your allocated streets and knock on doors to ask people if they'd like a book?

The answer I got when I asked my ASM back in October was no.

A lot of us have been told the same, but some posts on Connects have people saying their ASMs have told them this is okay.

Personally I don't want to see this happen because we may as well not have territory at all if it's allowed. I explained the problems it would cause for the wandering rep, the existing rep, or any new rep who gets the street allocated to them later. But some reps will still argue it's harmless.

So watch this space over the next few days and hopefully we'll get a straight answer.

What have any of you been told about knocking on doors outside allocated areas? The people being told it's okay are in the minority - but the fact it comes from an ASM (and my opposing view also did) means we've reached a stalemate - hence why I asked higher up.

newbeginning_2

When I started up I was only given one road of around 100 houses that I could canvass, when I asked for more I was told by my SL that I could door knock anywhere and if I found a street where no one appeared to be getting a book she would see if she could get it allocated to me.

I think she or the ASM wanted to see how I did with the 1st street first as once I'd been going a few campaigns more territory became available.

I've never done door knocking - don't think I've the confidence, but I know from my customers that there's a lot of people around my area have never seen a book, or at least not for a long time. I get a lot of orders from friends and relatives of my customers simply because they never get a book where they live.

nicki_2

I can't believe I've done 16 hours this weekend :eek: It took me 4 hours to prep all my books (granted I've prepared book 9's they just need the flyers in them, I'm only on C8) then I had to go through all the orders that my daughter sorted the other day so they were done properly (she'd bagged them up, and put the full order forms in, I needed to write the amount/address on them and remove my copy of the order, & write the calling cards to let customers know when I'm delivering), then I did all the flyers to go in the books (except book 9s). I usually do this over the space of a couple of days so didn't realise how long it took!

Now I just need to sort out my accounts to put in to the council tomorrow so I'll still get my benefits paid!