Avon - Hints and Tips?

Tired_Mummy

I was thinking more a long the lines of a free raffle if people spend say £15 or more they get a free ticket but I would be really interested to know how you get on with yours as I might try that instead

**dancingbutterfly**

evening guys,

what a BRILL thread!:T
i have tried to read through it all but theres too much! i took up Avon again today. i have just been doing it for myself and my mum for the past 18months so no money making going on!!
(before that i used to do a few streets in my area and some friends and family and get about £180-£200 orders every 3 wks)
and i need a bit of extra cash and i LOVE Avon so i thought id get up and running again!
ive been given my old territory back plus 2 more streets, only 180 houses but i doubt i'll get loads of orders from them! whats annoyed me a bit though is that theres another rep who does streets by me (including my own!!) and shes phoned me with a list of houses in MY territory that are hers! so any orders i was going to get are gonna be hers!!:mad:
surely she cant be allowed to do it?!

anyway sorry for the rant but im dead excited about it really!!:o

good luck everyone!!:D

x x x

gemia

Tired_Mummy wrote: »

I was thinking more a long the lines of a free raffle if people spend say £15 or more they get a free ticket but I would be really interested to know how you get on with yours as I might try that instead

With my raffle they will get one ticket for each £5 spent

the winner will get a goody bag and it will be delivered with their order and im gonna publish the winners name when i send out the next lot of brochures so people know its genuine and hopefully will want to enter next time.

i'm also doing loyalty cards, so every order of £15 gets a box ticked off and once they have ten they get £10 off their order.

gemia

My Raffle prize is going to be one of the Beauty bonus bags from C11 filled with a few extra bits and bobs that i've picked up as free gifts and also a few items that people wanted to return. i couldnt be botheres with the hassle of returning so i thought i'd make use of them myself

Lissa77

Just wondering how you are planning on covering the costs of the goods for the hampers? Are you doing large hampers or small hampers? Have you done these previously and how have they worked for you? It is the first one I have done and would like to know how it has been done in the past.

ccastley

Hi all,

I'm doing a Planet Spa hamper and making up the hamper myself. I did Christmas hampers last year so had a lot of practice lol. Getting a basket from wherever, lining with a flannel (about 60P) and putting in stuff that cost about £8 from the back page of HT 13 in with a body puff. Wrapping in cellophane and putting a pull bow on it (see ebay).

I will post a pic if I can work out how to do it in the next cpl weeks.

I'm doing mine if you spend over £5 you get a free entry but I love some of the other ideas. I will run a different promotion every month so people don't get bored I think. I will just allocate a number (1 to whatever) which I will put on the corner of every order that comes back and then use a random number generator (Internet) to enter the range of numbers I have and pick one.

I will keep you posted on how I get on.

Lissa and other newcomers - welcome to the thread and thanks for sharing your great ideas

gemia

I'm just using free gifts etc in mine, and i bought a pack of raffle tickets from asda - about 74p and i can use them twice cos when i get the orders back and work out how many each one gets i will write their name on each of their earned tickets and pick one when i get all the orders in. as there are always two of the same number in a pack i can use the next lot for the next raffle. plus there are well over 500 so i doubt i'll even use them all in the first one. could last ages, not bad for 74p although thinking about it i could've doen if for free by just writing names on bits of paper and drawing them. never mind!

Lissa77

I was thinking about the tickets. Do you give these out to the customers? Do they ask for them? I was going to print some out especially, but if they don't ask then I might just do as you have and place cheap raffle tickets in a hat to pull.

Please can anyone suggest somewhere that you can buy reasonably priced hamper baskets? Have had a look on ebay and Amazon but they look quite expensive.

gemia

if you have a wilkinsons near you they do the rectangle wicker boxes with the linen lining they are about £2 each. one of them might be nice. they dont necessarily have to be the baskets with the handles.

Lissa77

Thanks for the info, but no such luck...

The one on Amazon is £5 so might have to go for that instead.