Day 52 - Get Stickers for Brochures

Get stickers for brochures and then there's no more endless hours of pen-pushing to fill out the order forms.

I found a company on Ebay who charged just £5.80 (including delivery) for 3000 YES THREE THOUSAND stickers. And thats 1000 x three different varieties...

I had my name and phone number with "Order by Text if you Like" on one.
And two different messages about joining my team and the URL or Phone number on the others - job done, the time it takes to prepare my brochures and order forms has been cut by about 10! Thought I would pass it on!

Day 52 - Just "doing" AVON can be fun

Just a nice normal sunny day. On the way back from the school run, decided to spend 5 minutes picking up books from one area (got two orders), then picked them up from my own street (got another two orders and had a lovely chat with a customer about the senior school that my daughter will start in September). Home for coffee and a few phone calls.

Then, while the sun was shining, 10 minutes in another area putting out books again - this is in one of my new areas.

A lovely day - the warmest so far this year I am sure - nice to be out doing AVON, meeting people, chatting and enjoying a bit of exercise :)

Day 52 - Birthday Time Out!!!

AVON means I can do what I want, when I want and seeing as it's my birthday - I'm thinking to have a bit of a ME ME ME day! Pampering and Relaxation is in order!

Day 51 - Canvas a New Area

I have just canvassed a new area with brochures... I get quite excited as it is unknown territory, the surprise order facter... I like not knowing what you will get out of it - I expect nothing and then when I get any orders I will be pleasantly surprised!

Day 49 - Loyalty Cards for Customers

I have just been to an area meeting and got TONS of fabulous ideas from some really successful AVON Ladies. I would advise all REPS to go along to any AVON Events that they possibly can, as it was such a motivating experience. What inspiration!!

One of the tips I have picked up this evening was the idea of offering my customers a Loyalty Card. I give them the card and they earn points for all the orders that they make - (I will be setting the actual cost and points figure up and will post about it again when I have done so) - but probably, I will give them 1 point for every order they make over £10 and when they have earned 20 points I will give them a £10 VOUCHER to spend with me on AVON products.

Day 49 - More Text Orders

My customers seem to be liking the idea that they can text their orders through as another one came in today - I texted back thanking her for the order and asking if she would be able to pass the brochure on to a friend who might like AVON - so a possible new customer also :)

Day 48 - WOW AVON TV from AVON Connects

Just added the AVON TV Widget to my blog - see it here - the products reviewed and the miracle of AVON products explained - I quite like it...

This is just one of the great marketting tools that I've discovered on AVON Connects - there is a whole world of information on there and some brilliant sales tools and advice too.

Click here for the page where I set up my AVON TV from



PS - I think the auto-play feature could have been disabled - personally I dont like music and videos to auto load when I am on the internet - in fact that is why I have removed it from my right hand navigation and put it into a post instead - I would prefer to click play myself - but all in all it's a nice marketting tool.

Day 47 - Campaign 6 Brochures Out and About

I've got the brochures for Campaign 6, and put them all out to my existing customers - this time I've included the TWO Order forms (as suggested on AVON Connects) - one for the customer and one marked up as "For a Friend".

I also wrote under my mobile number "If you prefer, you can TEXT me your order" - and within 10 minutes of posting the brochures out, I had a text and an order - KA-CHING!

I've also decided to lose one of my areas that was proving to be a pain - keeping the two customers I have managed to acquire but not bothering now to waste all that time with many many houses who don't order and don't put their books out - and this means that my Area Manager has 'officially' assigned me one of the other areas that I had been targetting and have actually GOT some good customers in... :)

Day 46 - Campaign 6 Brochures In the House

Phew - thank goodness for my Area Manager - she has brought me round some Campaign 6 brochures for me and I will be distributing them out to my existing customers first, then redistributing them out to the rest of my territory (and of course my MUM!).

Day 45 - Get More Orders from Existing Customers

Just saw a fantastic post in the AVON CONNECTS and read a line that gave me a good idea to share as a rep...

Put two order forms in with the brochures and write "FOR A FRIEND" on the second form.

Another idea was to offer the incentive of a free gift on orders over a certain sum (say £20 or £30)

Thanks for the tips

Day 44 - All the Money Collected

Well, that's been quite easy really.

I took the orders around to everyone, some were at home on the first visit and paid there and then, one said come back Tuesday please. The others who were not home, I left a slip saying I would be back on Saturday and how much their total was and that it was payable in cash on delivery - and I popped back - THEY WERE ALL HOME AND PAID!

So, I've collected in all the funds, will pay it into my bank early in the week and then make a payment direct to AVON. All DONE :)

My ASL will be bringing me a few Campaign 6 books, after my mess up with the brochure ordering I will need to put them out to my existing customers and then see how many other houses I can get them round to and just do my best.

Day 43 - uh-oh wrong Campaign Brochures

OH BANANAS!!!!

It's all I can say really - I'd ordered 120 brochures, to give some to my new REP and the couple of REPS I'm hoping to recruit and so that I would have a nice big fat amount of brochures to get on and sweep around my territories...

I am half way through bagging them up in preparation for sending them out next week, when I realise that they are in fact CAMPAIGN 7 brochures not CAMPAIGN 6 - aaaaagggghhh!

I can honestly say I hadn't noticed when I did the order that it gave any option of which Campaign we were ordering the brochures for, so I must be a lot more careful in future orders.

I rang my Area Sales Leader to see what can be done about it, if anything, and she was kind enough to say she will bring me 20 on Monday... with only 20 though my area will take me ages... I mean I have more than 20 customers who have orderd on this Campaign, if I leave the book with just those ones how on earth am I going to get the rest of the territory covered??

I was wondering if I could order some more books from AVON, but she said that I probably would have to make the payment for my order (for which I am still collecting money) before I could do that - and as it was a huge order I still have well over £200 still to collect before I could do that, and even then if I do it quickly, they may not send out the books to me for a few days, possibly a week, by which time it will be nearly the end of Campaign 6.

Looks like I may have made a potentially BIG mistake - UH-OH!!! :(

Day 43 - Territory Dispute . . . nearly!

Had a phone call from another REP who had been out posting her Campaign 6 brochures, just after I had been round picking up my late Campaign 5 brochures AND delivering orders. (TO THE SAME HOUSES!)

She wondered who was meant to be doing the AVON for that street, as she thought it was her territory - and clearly I thought it was mine!

We had a nice conversation, no uppety business, it turns out that she had mis-read her own territory and had crossed over into mine as she did not have the whole street, just numbers 32 upwards and I had the area from 1-31 - a strange divide by AVON territories, but fine once we had spoken. She has already put Campaign 6 brochures through the doors of my customers this time. She said she will give me any orders from them (though we shall have to wait and see if that happens). I am just glad that we have spoken and sorted it out.

There was another street that we seem to have a split on also, where she has No's 1-21 and I have the rest.... all a bit odd, but fine once we had worked it out.

She is also new, we've swapped numbers and will probably keep in touch from time to time. ALL OK :)

Day 43 - Orders Arrive

The delivery guy comes to me early with the goods - like 8.30am. Which is a great time to get started. With over 20 customers who had ordered on this campaign, my daughter (on her half term holidays) and I got cracking straight away...

We sorted out all the products into their separate orders and bagged them up accordingly, separating the orders into road-piles around the living room!

We headed out to deliver the orders and pick up some late Campaign 5 brochures I had put out last Saturday to a remaining group of houses. I picked up just one late order and delivered 6 of the customers' goods.

We posted a slip through the doors of the customers who we had deliveries for but they were out, stating that I would be back tomorrow pm sometime, filled out their Christian name at the top and how much they owed, reminding them it's cash on delivery, so I hope to catch some more tomorrow.

Came back, unbatched the Campaign 5 brochures, keeping the bags and order forms for re-use (where appropriate - one smelt of cat-wee - grossssss! that went in the bin LOL).

Looked at the big pile of brochures ready to get prepared for delivery next week... (see the next post for what happened next!)...

Day 42 - Ready for the Rush

I've had a few days off - as you can choose your days and choose your hours.

I am fully refreshed and ready for the products to arrive with me tomorrow and of course the Campaign 6 brochures. I feel quite excited as it is my biggest order so far (I'm only on my second campaign). I have a box for returns waiting by the front door ready to give to the delivery driver when he arrives.

All set and READY FOR THE RUSH :)