~Avon Hints & Tips (Part 8) ~ Please read first post :)

Money_maker

I,_Geek wrote: »

And even though I'm in bronze PC and will get in again this year, my sales and customer totals aren't what's expected - nowhere near.

I'm pretty sure you've mentioned this before, I Geek as you are our statistics whizz. When I first started, I was given an estimate of customer numbers per street but have had no update since. Presumably I can add up my houses and divide by 3 or 4 to get estimated customer numbers according to Avon. I have one small street (bout 20 houses) where I have canvassed and recanvassed but only had one house for a short time (although I have followed my customer through 2 more local addresses!). These figures they come up with are rubbish.

Onto brighter things, I was accosted by a lady as I battled my way home in the rain the other day. She was from an adjacent road and asked if I was a rep and if she could have a brochure. Have no idea how she knew what I was as she couldn't have seen me delivering brochures. Still, all new customers very welcome. I was actually eyeing up a couple of houses which had sold recently as I will recanvass next week.

I,_Geek

Sales levels

In general on Connects people are reporting a drop. Even if the spending levels on the system were accurate a year or two ago, they've got to have dipped by now. Lots of reps reported a poor C12 and I was one but things got back to normal for C13 and C14.

But when I look at the figures they don't reflect that my area's tripled since I started. My customer base has more than tripled, too, so it's not as if I took over terrible streets. People seem to be spending less, and spending it less often. It's still well worth me doing, but the economic situation seems to have sunk in even more (because when I started in 2010 things were hardly rosy!).

leannemarie18

Has anybody started campaign 15 yet with the city rush perfume? How are people finding it?

leanne x

leannemarie18

Also can anybody tell me what i get in the £10 starter kit thing?

thanks, leanne x

lozza1985

leannemarie18 wrote: »

Also can anybody tell me what i get in the £10 starter kit thing?

thanks, leanne x

What I usually say is that unless you want the bag, it's not really worth it. If the bag would useful to you, then it's worth the money as its good quality and you get some samples too

avocetgirl

I've got my first invoice online. It says I've earn £56 ish pounds but it does take off the expenses of brochures or my £7.50 start up so I've only earnt £40 which isn't bad but not what it says on the invoice! Confusing! So basically I only count the 40 when I do my tax return I guess? Or say £56 with £15.80 expenses?

lozza1985

Usually for your invoice, it deducts that amount of your costs from avon (so your brochures), so the figure it says you earn should be pretty much correct. The best way to check this, is to add up all your orders, then take 20% or 25% of that total (depending on how much you sold), then deduct the cost of the brochures & your admin fee. You should find it's roughly similar to the amount that avon say.

avocetgirl

lozza1985 wrote: »

Usually for your invoice, it deducts that amount of your costs from avon (so your brochures), so the figure it says you earn should be pretty much correct. The best way to check this, is to add up all your orders, then take 20% or 25% of that total (depending on how much you sold), then deduct the cost of the brochures & your admin fee. You should find it's roughly similar to the amount that avon say.

That what it thought but it doesn't work out that way? Just worked out that I think I put my admin stuff, books etc under the customer order not under the other section! Will do it properly next time.

lozza1985

I tend to just enter all my orders as one big order, rather than splitting it into different customers orders on the website, If you do it that way it should adjust properly for anything out of Ht & your books

leannemarie18

£48.50 orders so far for c15 and dont recieve c14's orders for 2 days,

hope im not jinxing myself but yay

leanne x