DAY 1 & 2 - Getting Started

Well, This is DAY 2 of being a representative for a "well known" beauty product... I will have to check if I can indeed mention their name in my blog but until I know that I won't be going against the rules and mentioning A**N to anyone! In fact that is it.. we shall call them A**N until then!

So, I have been unemployed for a while and even when I get a job it is unlikely to pay as much as I would like, so, like many others I decided to DO something. After seeing an advert for A**N Reps on TV, I decided to follow it up and join. I joined online and the very next morning a Sales Rep called me to make a meeting and set me up.

We met on Friday (yesterday), she came over to me, we had a nice coffee and a bit of a chat, she dropped off a heap of catalogues and gave me a few tips to get started. All quite straight forward and she will visit me again next week.

Late that day, after reading some of the info on their webside, I went ahead and put my own personalised website up:
You can View it Here

Apparently with the site, people can order their stuff and the orders will be listed as mine. I got on and printed out a short note to introduce myself, bought a pack of zip sandwich bags with the intention of getting started the next day....

I set up a free email address that coincides with the name Beauty Shop Today, and redirected all that mail to my regular email address, so I shouldn't miss any orders etc.

So, TODAY, Saturday, I got my Mum to assist in putting the catalogues in bags, with order forms, my note, a slip saying which day I will be back for the catalogues... and then proceeded to drop them through peoples letter boxes.

I will go back Tuesday to see how it's getting on....

Though in the meantime I do have quite a large area, so I still have 190 houses that I haven't got enough brochures to send out to and I might use one of their free online flyers, tailor it up with my details and my website address, and then put that through those doors.

I made sure to keep one catalogue and order form for myself to help me deal with any enquiries that come in by email or phone or when I knock back around.

I hope they will put the books outside their houses, but I may knock on a few doors if they don't.

Quite excited to have got started doing SOMETHING! I want to reach my target (that has to be surpassed to make any money at all)... then I will start earning 25% of sales. I expect it to take a while to build up regular and reliable customers - but if I stick with it I think it will be ok!