Avon - checklist for success

You have either started your Avon business, or are ready to Start or you just need a shot in the Arm of Avon Vitamins.  That is what I am here for.  

The key is accomplishing repetitive tasks over and over, and only repeating those things that work.

If you aren't getting the customers you want, ask yourself, "How's this technique going for me?" If the answer is "I'm broke and my phone is turned off", then you need a new plan.

Just Stick With IT!

Here are a few things that I do that might help you - no they will help you, but will YOU take the time to make it happen?  Anything worth having in life takes time to inncubate.  Successful people take the time to do the right things that will make them a success.  They do the things unsuccessful people won't do.

 If someone says, "NO", don't give up.  If you don't try, you never know what could have been.  Trying is not sitting on the couch waiting for someone to call you.  It won't happen.  You need to set up a schedule and stick to it.  This is tough love lesson #1.....
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Download the Square to your phone - get the money for the products up front - pay your bill on time - deliver the products - ba da bing ba da bong.  Just do it - you won't regret it.  No orders on hold. No late orders submitted or paid.

EVERY MORNING - Get up early, get DRESSED as if you are going to work.

No one will ever TELL you how to dress - you need to be Business Casual - I tend to over dress because my customers like it and feel like I dressed up just for them.  Here's an article I wrote on Business Casual

http://meyer2consult.blogspot.com/2013/10/what-is-considered-professional-dress.html

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  Today....work from your list of 50 People that you coded are
 1) loving Avon and will help you with an order
 2) Love bling and accessories
3) need money.

Send them the texts that go with the personality attributes.  Send me a text if you don't have these.   Oh and just for tomorrow, repeat what you did today.

Opportunities to get customers/reps for your team.  

Attend Events:

Go to Sales Meetings - the next one is: NOVEMBER 28 2016 - DENNEYS IN SCOTTSDALE AT 6:30 PM

Develop a ritual of calling your customers the Tuesday before your orders are due.  Let them know you need the orders and money before Friday (if your order goes in on Sunday).  

Before you hang up, ask for the number of three friends.  She might not give you three but she will give at least one.

"Sue can you think of anyone else who could benefit from having someone deliver their personal care products for free?"

"Sue what friend would you like me to give 20% off on her first order?"

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Consider inputting your orders on Friday instead of Sunday so if you have any technical difficulties, you can call customer service.

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Get up, stay up, be smart and dress the part! You may wonder if you've got what it takes to take it but just smile and fake it til you make it!!!

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The more you learn the more you earn~ Frank Clark

#1 - login and do your training!  Go to Avon University and take all the classes.

Doing so will make you more effective and give you more credibility.

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Make Flyers - you can get some on the Avon site and personalize them, or you can create your own.  Just DO IT.  Then take them and put them up anywhere you know women will congregate.  Laundrymats, Beauty Parlors, Bulletin boards everywhere - stores, apartment buildings.

Use OLD books to drop in mass.  If you don't have any old books, call me or your District Sales Manager.

Use stickers that are cute but will get them to call you.   If you use NEW books, people who don't want Avon will just throw them away.  If the people do 

Here's one:

LOST AND FOUND: You've found your new Avon lady if you lost yours!

Check out my website to order ASAP and check out speciales only available

online at my website: youravon.com/yourname

I did not want to waste this book so I thought I'd let you take a look!

If you'd like a current book (it's free!) then please don't hesitate to call me!

youravon.com/your name   your phone

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Nextdoor.com - This company is free and great!  Click here on my code and 

if you are the first person in your area to start a neighborhood on Nextdoor.com, then you and I will receive a 25.00 Amazon gift card.  Here is the link to click on:

https://nextdoor.com/invite/asxdycbscjjnbayzqex

You can view your entire neighborhood, keep in touch, put out classifieds about what products you have for sale, yard sales, Avon Mother's Day Sale, etc., They will even let you create flyers and postcards on their site.  And...they will send postcards out to people you want to get to know in your neighborhood.

I love it and have gotten some amazing new friends and clients.

Save fuel-sell to your neighbors

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Set these reminders in your phone:

Tuesdays - Call Customers

Wednesdays, text Karen with progress

Wednesday's go recruiting with Denise

Friday - get orders and enter

Sundays Process

Set recurring every other week

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Use the sheet that lets you know what book we are on and what campaign

I call it , "Who's on first".

ask me for a current sheet or a new one for 2017

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SAVE MONEY

Be organized - when you turn your order in late you lose 4.95 - that is 120.00 in a year.

Train your customers to turn in their money and orders early so you don't feel pressured to place additional orders after your order has already gone in - that is a savings of 9.95 per extra order or 400.00 in a year

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Have Goals - What do you want? Decide on a dollar amount

I want 300 in my pocket - that means I have to get 750.00 in orders of mostly AVON products, not the items we just get 20% on - like shoes, clothes, purses, etc.,

Do NOT stop until you get the amount of orders you need for your goal.  Don't sit down, go to the movies, hang out at the mall - you are a busy person - go get your orders and achieve your goal!

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SEE YOURAVON.COM FOR THE NEW WAY YOU ARE GETTING PAID, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A NEW REP!

Don't be your own best customer

Many reps make the mistake of ordering a LOT of demos then they can't pay for them.

Don't jeapordize your business - treat your self when you deserve it.

Work to deserve it.

When you get enough orders - your customers are paying for your shipping from Pasadena because you charge each one .75.  If you don't have enough customers, that 5.95 comes out of your commission instead of you enjoying all of your commission.

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Order books everytime.   The one time you don't have books is when that customer will ask for one.

Dress and look like a beauty consultant even at Albertsons. Every time you meet someone there interviewing you as their future boss or their future beauty consultant. Don't let that first meeting be without make up and torn jeans and a sweatshirt without a bra.  I call that the walk of shame down aisle 6.

The day after we submit an order, I start immediately stamping books and dressing them.

I get these little bags on ebay or amazon - 4 x 5 favor bags

I put a business card and a lipstick in them.

When you are prospecting, no one can refuse them.

Write thank you notes - I send them to you, my customers, my DSMs

If you want to come over and make some just call me.  Just plain productive creative fun and better for your business that kicking back and watching a video...

Be that person!!!

Have a raffle at an office building or event - give a basket of Avon products

Collect dozens of new customers.

Come over some time to make a sign or ask me how to earn one for free.

You can make a lot of money by working hard in this business or working smart.

The answer is asking people to be on your team and

never forgetting the Avon Motto

Anytime, Anywhere, Always Ask

ADD TO YOUR TEAM!!!!

Ask your friend.....

What would YOU do with an extra 100.00?

By inviting someone to share your business, you reap new benefits under Avon's September 16 plan  Watch this movie on my youtube.com/kdaymayday

Call me today to help you bring someone aboard!

I do the work, you get the $ and glory!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FAMILY IN AND OUT OF AVON!!!

This is the hour....

Everyone has two basic opinions about the New Year, either it's:

1) "I never keep my resolutions, so why bother?"

or

2) "I am so excited to start fresh with a New Year on my career".

Resolutions are important because they motivate you, keep you going, and help you become accountable to someone....You!

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The history of Celebrating New Years and Resolutions was The earliest recorded festivities in honor of a new year’s arrival date back some 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. (history.com)  Sometimes there is traditional food involved, or promises to do better at something.  The most common one is diet.  It is also the most broken resolution!  It takes 21 days to create a habit, so I want you to give this a try.  Just do the things I have asked you to do every day for 21 days and prove to me that it doesn't work.  You won't be able to - you will become a success in spite of your trying not to be!!

The question I need to ask myself, is, "Am I doing my best?  Could I do better?"

These are some tips for success

Upside to selling Avon:1. Low start up cost: immediate signup online for only $15.00 to start. Just go to www.youravon.com/kmeyer2352 and look for the Believe box - click it and you will see that it lists me as your resource code.  Voila! You will be on my team!2. No minimum sales requirements for each campaign. A campaign is a 2 week period. However, you want to try for a minimum of 8 orders so that your commission isn't consumed by the 5.95 handling and  tax on your orders.3. Avon is a recognized name throughout the world. This means you don't have to convince people about the quality of the products or the 100% product guarantee.
4. You can utilize the aid of square.com, paypal.com, or intuit.com who will all give you a free credit card slider device.  When you take your customer's order, the money is put into your business checking account so you can pay for all the products in advance - no orders will ever be on hold.
5. No required inventory - Instead, concentrate on selling and sharing Avon s opportunity with others for faster success.
6. Make your own hours - Be there when the kids get home from school, or launch a full-time business, it's up to you.
7. There are orphaned customers; they no longer have an Avon rep to order from, and believe me, there are lots of them!
8.  When you focus on giving service to others, you will be really rewarded emotionally, that you were able to deliver products to someone without a car, who is too sick to go to the store, or who works all day and is exhausted.
9. It's fun to receive your order from Avon and share it with your customers!  I always feel like Santa Claus when I open the boxes.10.  You can enjoy the many deductions afforded to those who employ a home based business. (Please talk to your tax person to see how many you qualify for).

One of my District Sales Managers did a very wise thing.  Last year on December 30, she had us all write down what or who we wanted to become exactly a year from then.  As I was writing this, I was hearing negative self talk, "Yeah - like you could go that high! Good luck!"

So here goes - here is my list

1) Make President's club - short season goal was 7,000

I made that goal by June.

2) Make Honor Society - short season goal was 14,500

I made that goal while I was in Orlando, FL on a 100% paid trip. 

3) Earn a trip to Florida

All I had to do was have 10 new reps, and 4 candidates.

I over shot the goal - 17 new Reps and 6 new candidates

4)  Make Rose Circle - before campaign 26

During Campaign 25, I went up to 28,000+

5) Travel more with my husband

We flew to California 3 times this year and recruited/trained reps.

6) Give back and Serve my representatives more and others.

I taught the Skin Care class to 7041 in California and prepared a powerpoint to help my new Reps get up to speed on the new skin care products.

Am I bragging?  Absolutely not.  I am actually shocked that the experiment worked.  From the list, we were supposed to make a dream board, showing where we have been, where we are and what we want to accomplish.

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 Starting from 1 left to 2 down lower left then  3 upper right and 4 lower right.  

7 years ago, I came from an abusive marriage and found my high school sweetheart.  We married and I moved to Arizona.  I didn't know anyone and was still too traumatized to make a lot of friends.  I decided to focus on my music and scrapbooking, and crocheting.  When I was bored with that, I rejoined Avon.

Within 2 years, I had recruited over 170 people, of course, not all are active now, as Avon is the perfect company to drift in and out of based on timing.  It works best when you focus on becoming a leader - so I did!  Knowing that all my kids are safe now, is a blessing.  I feel happy and free from burdens.  I try to win every challenge - just to see if I can.  I absolutely love it when some of my reps really put forth the effort and I can sit back and watch their pride grow from winning prizes.  I rewarded some of those with a gift basket and a raffle sign so that they could get more customers, holding raffles

Those scrapbooking supplies came in handy!!!

So what if you didn't make your goal last year.  Try again.  Begin again.  Call me and make an appointment to come over and make some Avon signs or train with me.  I am here for you.  80% of success is measured in just showing up!

So call me and show up!  480 262 3525