Day 35 - Brochure Blitz brings Orders

FAB Result from the 100 brochure blitz on Tuesday - a great boost to orders and new customers - very happy! Exceeded my top target of £150 of orders by nearly £100...

So it really is true that what you put in you will get out. It didn't take that long to put the brochures round on Tuesday. And when the rain stopped this morning I got out there to pick them up. I got super-organized and took with me:

- my wheeley shopping trolley bag thing so I didnt have to carry too much;
- a pen and paper with list of addresses I had dropped to (as I didnt want my calling book to get soggy);
- a tea-towel (with the intention of drying any wet ones before reposting them);
- new calling slips to change the existing ones and say I would collect Friday (actually I will collect Saturday, but I find if I put Saturday and went at say midday most people would not have put them out by that time, so if I say Friday it works better;
- And some other slips of paper that said "AVON CALLING - I came by to collect your book today, while you were out.... etc etc" (which I put through all the doors of the houses who didnt give the books back);


I had a right result with lots of orders and actually lots of people had put their books out for me. I went back to the car and set myself up leaning into the boot to dry off the books, change the pick up slips, carefully taking out any orders and replacing those with fresh new order forms, repacked the trolley-bag - this took about 10 minutes.
Then, I went off and posted into the rest of the new area with the collected-revamped books. I nearly got round all of those houses before running out.

So I will now go back on Saturday to the original area, then the ones I put out today and hopefully do another car boot repacking and finish the area at the weekend.

Any orders after this Saturday for me will have to be collected the following weekend as I have a few days off planned, no problem though, I can just add them to my next order.

Got back and felt so enthusiastic that I put my order online on the AVON website (without actually sending it), made a spreadsheet of my customers so far and updated another sheet with the houses I need to call back to etc etc.

All that and I was finished sitting down eating my cheese sandwich with my salt and vinegar crisps by 12:45 JOB WELL DONE! :)