My Readers' BEST Avon Sales Advice!

My Readers Give the BEST Avon Sales Advice! I'm always grateful to receive your best sales ideas and thoughts.

A couple of years ago Beauty Dish readers sent in some great Rev Up Your Sales ideas during a little blog contest I held. The readers' ideas are posted in comments and not in the body of this blog, so I thought I would take a few moments and post them... even the one meant as a joke!

Happy Holidays, Y'all!

From Poppy:
Contact your local Welcome Wagon representative and ask if you can leave a brochure (and a sample) in each Welcome basket. Leave brochures at the local RV Park and the local car wash. Have Birdie's Bonus Draw each month for all your customers - winner gets a small Avon prize package. (Or you could have a draw for all your new customers. Or for customers who order more than $xx.xx worth of product each month.)

From Gwen:
Order with in the next 48 hours and receive a free gift.
Tell 3 friends about me, if they order, you all pay NO TAX with this current order.

Ask someone you know to take the book to work, the more orders they get you, they pay NO TAXES on their personal order.

From Margie:
How about dropping off brochures in doctors (OB/GYN)and dentist waiting rooms - that's when I've ordered Avon a couple of times.

From Jacqueline:
Birdie, sign up "Helpers". Here's how I'm doing it: Get some neon labels and print them up to read: Ask me how to get 20% OFF all your future Avon orders! Birdie XXX-XXX-XXXX

When they call, ask them if they will sign up to be an Avon Helper. They collect orders from their friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, church members, kids' friends' parents, etc. and input them on your eRep site every two weeks. As long as their order totals $50 or more, you give them 20% off, so they get a discount on their own order and a small commission on the orders of their friends. They're responsible for collecting payments and making deliveries to their customers. All you do every week is deliver their order and books/supplies for the next campaign and collect payment from them.

If you decide to start leadership, your helpers are a great recruiting pool for future reps.

Also, do you read the message boards or sales tips on the YourAvon website? I've already gotten a gazillion good ideas.

You could also do a fundraiser -- that won't make you much money since you'll probably have to share most of your commission, but it will help you boost your sales volume to increase your commission rate on your other orders, and help get you into President's Club (or higher) for next year.

From Dave:
This is guaranteed. You buy some teevee time, and you and your best friend go on to push the products. You call yourself Birdie Margaret McMertz and she can be an average housewife you picked at random...

Wait... it's been done. That was salad dressing, though.

From Connie:
No clue how expensive this is - buy ad space on the back of church bulletins. Also take advantage of free community bulletin boards at the grocery store, the Y locker room, etc., put up as big a posting as they'll let you, do it in color to stand out, perhaps stating to contact you for free samples and put on tear-away tabs with your name and number.

From Kelly:
I know our hospital has gift baskets for all the new moms, filled with little gifts and information from local businesses. You could put in a lotion sample and a flyer. Something for their feet, since they haven't seen them in a few months.

From Heather:
Go to any large retail store like Walmart, Kmart, or Target and browse the beauty supply isles, handing out avon brochures to beauty shoppers. Go to the nearest beach and give brochures to all of the bathing beauties along with any sun proctection or beachy type samples you have. Throw an Saturday Avon Calling Party in your front yard! Print up flyers advertising your party, post them on telephone poles around the neighborhoods. Have FREE samples, merchandise giveaways with any order over $30, snacks and refreshments. Set up a card table or two and ask a best friend to keep you company and decorate the yard with some balloons to make it festive. Maybe your youngest son can set up a lemonade stand as well.

From Pam:
I saw a great suggestion one time that should work for ya! Go around to the service entrances at hotels / resorts in your area and leave catalogs for the staff... I have a cyber Avon friend who picked up several hundred in sales each campaign with this approach! She'd usually make one of the staff members a "helper" making her job that much easier.

From Julie:
Here's a good one! E-mail everyone in your address book with a special offer - good for this campaign only. If customer purchases $15 or more via your Avon website they will receive a free lipstick or mascara (whatever is on sale for you) with their order. Also, ask everyone to forward your special offer to anyone they know who might be interested.