Create your own beYOUtiful business. Work from home, part time or full time. Market beauty products to friends, family, neighbors, your community and online!
There is no doubt that one of the most appealing things about an Avon catalog are the fragrance scratch and sniffs! Avon long ago mastered the technology to put a sample of fragrance on a bit of paper and entice us to buy those luxurious scents.
Not only does the brochure have fragrance circles, Avon representatives also have the opportunity to purchase fragrance sample cards to include with brochures and to share with customers.
In the What's New for Campaign 12, reps have a fragrance sample package available.
Avon has an incredible history, a wonderful product line, and an
amazing sisterhood of representatives. Benefits of joining in to the
Avon opportunity include flexibility, relationship building, helping
women find beauty, and learning valuable business skills such as
interpersonal communication, time management, planning and making goals,
innovation, customer service, and tracking financials.
Joining Avon is more than selling products. Avon is a way to connect with people, create lasting relationships, empowering others and yourself, and working toward financial independence. You don't need a high school diploma, a college degree, or any special training to be an Avon representative. (Though you do have to be 18).
Campaigns
There are 26 campaigns every year, or a new campaign every two weeks. Each campaign has a dedicated brochure with the current products and pricing. Brochures and products are divided into the following categories:
Makeup
Fragrance
Skin Care
Jewelry
Fashion
Home
Kids
Body
Brochures cost 65¢ *or less* depending on how many you order. You will receive one automatically with your order, and they can be purchased in bundles of 10. They become cheaper the more you buy; for example 10 brochures costs $6.49 (64.9¢ per brochure), and 100 brochures costs $21.49 (21.5¢ per brochure). Brochures in Spanish, mark. magalogs, and Avon Living magalogs can also be purchased. Campaigns run on a two week Representative Processing Schedule, or RPS. Depending on a few factors, including your location, you will be assigned an RPS. Key campaign dates will run for you based on your RPS.
Sales
You work hard to make sales, but you have options on how you make those sales: personal sales and online sales.
Personal sales are those sales that you make in person. These sales can be to anyone in your social network, including family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances,
Online sales are sales that are made when a customer orders from your estore. The customer receives that order directly from Avon, so these orders are called Direct Delivery, or DD.
Orders
Orders are placed online through the youravon.com portal. The ordering process allows reps to setup customer information, create invoices to give to customers along with their order delivery, and track orders after they are placed. In order to stay "active" as a rep, you do have to place at least one order every four campaigns; however, you should at least be ordering brochures every campaign. Any order has One Simple Fee (OSF), which is the shipping and handling fee Avon charges. The order size will determine your OSF and you do not have to pay shipping and handling if you order *only* brochures. It is important to place orders on time, as there are late charges applied to late orders, and it will affect when your order ships and arrives.
Demos
Official Avon representatives can order advanced products at a discount. One of the perks of being with Avon is receiving the What's New brochure, and being allowed to order discounted demo products from the What's New. The discount is typically 20% and the limit is usually one, but there are opportunities where reps can stock up on products so you can have product on hand!
Earnings
The percentage you earn from personal sales depends on your order size. The more you sell, the more you earn! There is a minimum $50 order before earnings percentages start, but $50 is a very achievable sales goal for every campaign. Earnings for orders over $50 start at 20% and step up to reach 50% once your sales levels are over $1,575 in a campaign. Online sales earn 20%. Demos, samples, sales tools and brochures all contribute to your sales earnings total, and online sales count toward your campaign total order also!
Promotion
How you promote your Avon beauty business is completely up to you. Promote a little, or a lot! There are so many things you can do to promote your beYOUtiful business; here are 10 promotion ideas:
Give brochures to anyone and everyone you meet.
Use and wear Avon products, and promote when you receive compliments.
Make labels for your brochures.
Invest in business cards.
Leave brochures on neighbor's doors.
Participate in an event with a table, brochures and a small amount of product inventory.
Learn about the products then share your knowledge with people you talk to.
Are you
ready to build your beYOUtiful business? Do you have optimism? Passion?
Are you ready to work hard to achieve success? Are you a problem solver?
Do you love beauty, makeup, body spa products or fashion? Are you
social? Are you flexible? Can you adapt when situations change? Are you
dedicated and ready to commit a specific amount of time every day to
working your beauty business? Are you organized? Can you keep track of
the calendar, clients, orders and finances? Are you tech savvy?
Read
more about Avon, and the Avon opportunity. Learn about what it takes to
build a successful business. When you are ready, sign up is easy! Go to http://cheriefrid.avonrepresentative.com/opportunity/start
Enter your information, invest $15, and start the Avon representative
adventure right away. What you will receive immediately: online access
at youravon.com, a Starter Kit in the mail, personal guidance from me to
launch your business, and a community that works together to make
beauty happen!
You can start your own beauty business for $15, and you are never required to purchase inventory.
Flexible Hours
Create your beauty estore, talk with new customers and manage sales on your own schedule from the comfort of your own home.
Direct Sales
Avon offers a gorgeous catalog of quality products that can be sold through network marketing strategies.
Powerful Brand
The Avon brand has a rich, successful history, and products can be marketed online through beautiful photography and excellent copy.
Online Marketing
Leverage the internet through marketing and social media to expand and grow your beauty business.
Tools, Training and Support
Avon offers a huge variety of sales tools, business and product training and selling support to help your beauty business soar!
Rewards and Recognition
As you grow your beauty business, Avon provides amazing levels of recognition and rewards to inspire you.
Supplement Your Income
Even if you have a full time career, you can easily supplement your income and create an additional income stream.
New Representatives will get individual support, including new representative tips, assistance navigating youravon.com, sales support, social media networking, business programs and marketing help.
All Representatives will continue to get personal support from me, updates, and assistance to boost their beauty business.
You Make The Rules. Full time, part time, from home, online or in person. You decide how far you want to take your beauty business. You decide your personal success.
You Don't Have To Carry Inventory. This was a huge point for me when I started. There are many direct selling companies that want you to purchase inventory to resell to customers. To me, that just didn't make good business sense, unless I was stocking that inventory in a retail store. I cannot predict what customers will want, the inventory changes frequently, and I didn't want to invest that much of my personal money to start. The startup for AVON is only $15, which provides resources, samples and an initial batch of brochures to get you started. Each campaign, the only thing you need to invest in is the current brochures.
Excellent Brand. AVON is a well known brand, has a long history of being an American beauty company and the product catalog is amazing in depth and breadth.
When I wanted to start direct selling beauty products and create my own beauty business, I Googled things like "start home business" and "sell makeup". Unfortunately, I wasn't able to join a team. When I self appointed, I didn't know the person I signed up underneath. I still have not communicated with that person at all.* I want to make sure that does not happen to anyone who is interested in selling AVON or making their own beauty business! I want to make sure you have someone that will support you, help you grow your business, and give you the tools and resources you need to be successful. *However, I earned 3 out of 4 Just For Us rewards in my first 4
campaigns, started my social media marketing, developed my blog and
began making sales all on my own. Part of my success is due to the fact
that I have a Masters degree in Marketing. I want to share my marketing knowledge with my AVON team!
It's strange... a few years ago I never would have considered direct selling. I *love* makeup and skin care and bath & body products. I *love* shopping Ulta and Sally Beauty. I have loved pouring through fashion magazines since I was a tween. So, selling AVON has sort of been a natural progression of all the beauty things I've loved for so long.
I'm taking it slow. So many new AVON representatives want things to happen immediately. They want to see success NOW! Me, I'm working it slowly, building a little bit at a time. But, just like a house cannot be built overnight, neither can a successful home based direct selling business. You have to create a strong foundation before you decorate the interior. ;)
I have dreams... don't get me wrong. I want to build a nationwide customer base because I love knowing people everywhere in the country. (my customers shop my estore) I want to have a mobile inventory because I want to be able to sell a product on the spot. (I sell face to face in my community) I want to be able to help domestic violence victims because I've been there. (through the AVON Foundation) I want to continue to develop online tutorials and Pinterent infographics, because I enjoy that marketing aspect. (my AVON Pinterest page) The best plan for me is to build my AVON business slowly and methodically.
Your AVON business is *your* AVON business, and you can build it anyway you want to!
