working for avon?

marystar

hey has anyone ever been or know anyone that was a avon lady ?? i fancy earning a bit more cash & i have a big interest in make up & beauty .. i think id be good at it,,, there website isnt full of info ,, so i was wondering how does it work .. do u have to buy a whole load of stuff and then sell it off with a profit ?if so whats the minimum amount of money u have to spend to start ? & has anyone ever made a good profit .. if anyone or their ma/sister / auntie has .. let me know !! thanks:)

Moonbeam

you sell from the catalouge and order the stuff from Avon then.

You are running your own business selling their products.

Madge

Yeah I was wondering about Avon myself. How much profit do you make on the goods? I know with that other catalogue business Kleeneze you get 20% on everthing you sell. Doesn't really seem like much for the work you would have to put in!
Anyway, the Avon woman who I order the stuff from often doesn't deliver the goods 'till a good few weeks after I order- so unreliable!

C_A

I'm currently working for Avon at the moment. I met the rep from my area and she supplied me with the catalogues and order forms that you need. Your job is to then hand out the catalogue with an order form to neighbours, friends, colleagues, etc and collect it from them a couple of days later. You then fill out the overall order form and send it away. The items will arrive about a week later and you then deliver the products to the people who ordered from you and collect payment.

As for the financial side to it, you have to place an order of at least €100 with every brochure, and you earn 21% of whatever you sell. So for example if your order is €100 you get to keep €21.

I know this is long but if you've anymore questions or want me to clarify anything please don't hesitate to ask!

Madge

Thanks C_A

Do you mean 100 Euro collectively from your customer base for a specific Avon catalogue?
May I ask how many customers do you have and did you go around cold calling?

C_A

The catalogue usually runs for 3 weeks so you can place orders three times (once a week). There has to be at least one order of €100. For example, you can't place €30 one week, €50 the next week and €20 the next. If you have €100 in the first week then you can put through smaller amounts in the next two weeks.

To answer your other question I don't cold-call, just for the reason that I don't have much time and I'm not really confident enough to do it! My customers are mainly work colleagues, friends, family, etc. If you're confident enough to cold-call (which it sounds like you are) it is definitely a relatively easy way to earn a bit of money. There is a bit of paper work though so just be aware of that. I'm considering taking a break from it at the mo because I'm just finishin college, I've a job and I'm starting to build a house so I don't have as much free time as I did before!

Madge

Thanks for answering my questions

Do you mind me asking are you a young or mature student?
You would need alot of contacts to sell 100 euro+ worth of goods though?

C_A

I'm a young student (22). It's not too hard to sell the €100 (especially with my mother as one of my customers! ) If you don't have the €100 in the first week, you can wait until the 2nd week to put thru the order. I suppose it depends on the people, I've people at work who were interested in Avon before I started doing it so they were customers that were easy to get.

Habibi

Hi,

I'm looking for a contact AVON consultant in Waterford.

redbolls

marystar wrote: »

hey has anyone ever been or know anyone that was a avon lady ?? i fancy earning a bit more cash & i have a big interest in make up & beauty .. i think id be good at it,,, there website isnt full of info ,, so i was wondering how does it work .. do u have to buy a whole load of stuff and then sell it off with a profit ?if so whats the minimum amount of money u have to spend to start ? & has anyone ever made a good profit .. if anyone or their ma/sister / auntie has .. let me know !! thanks:)

you get 21 euros for every 100 euro order .you do not buy any stuff

Bluetonic

Presuming you know you've to declare your earnings and pay tax if relative?

eth0_

Bluetonic wrote: »

Presuming you know you've to declare your earnings and pay tax if relative?

I would seriously doubt most people who try Avon or Kleeneze are making so much money it has to be declared to the Revenue.

AARRRGH

The thing I don't like about Avon etc. is that it's based on selling to your family and friends, i.e. people who will find it hard to say no. They don't actually want the goods; they just feel obliged to buy.

Not a very nice business model IMO.

eth0_

Avon actually has a really good reputation these days, door to door sales should generate business without having to make your family feel obliged to buy something.

SerialComplaint

eth0_ wrote: »

I would seriously doubt most people who try Avon or Kleeneze are making so much money it has to be declared to the Revenue.

If they are making any clear profit (i.e. any income), it needs to be declared. There is no threshold.

AARRRGH

Let me guess: Excel.

I went to one of their meetings to see what it was all about. In summary: guilt your extended family into switching their phone calls to Excel.

Don't forget the nice big joining fee.

Sparklejars

Im plannin to start workin with kleneze, but I need to get a bit more info b4 my dad will give me the money to start!

Anyone worked with Kleenze b4? Does it work on pretty much the same basis? Any hints or tips to make it the most worthwhile?

I just need to hear a success story or two that I can believe so I can get going, Im not trusting the storys on the site!

Any info would be really helpful!!! Thanx!

Varkov

Not Kleeneze, but my mam did work for Betterware on/off for about three years, working her way up to some sort of area head, so same principle.

The footwork you have to put in is immense if you want to see any real profit. Generally one in 20-30 houses buy something, and that could only be 5-10 euro. So you have to deliver catalogues to basicly an entire town.
Hardly anyone ever leaves the catalogue out as requested on the cover, so you also have to call around to each house to collect it! The returns on this endever really isnt enough to warrent such a huge investment in time.

As for Avon, my mam is also currently doing this in her spare time and is finding it much more enjoyable. She puts out relativly few catalogues, but gets much more orders due to the more reputable brand. As it is now, after about a year she has a good stream of regular customers, many of who have become agents working under her adding to her profit. they simply give a few catalogues to friends or leave around work.

So Betterware / Kleeneze? Two thumbs down.

Avon? Two thumbs up.

MILF

Who said it was based on selling to your family and friends??
I think anyone who was approached by someone to part with their cash, be it family friends or otherwise, wouldn't unless they actually wanted what was on offer in exchange for their hard earned cash!!! That's a very narrow minded and uneducated statment to make IMO.

I am a successful Avon rep for the last 6 years. I dont sell to my family much as when they want something, they order, when they dont, they dont. they still get a brochure every week regardless and I dont mind whether they order or not.

The actual thing about Avon is that if you order, you are not obliged to take any product that you order. You could order a heap of stuff just to see what they look like in the flesh but you dont have to take a single thing.

AARRRGH wrote: »

The thing I don't like about Avon etc. is that it's based on selling to your family and friends, i.e. people who will find it hard to say no. They don't actually want the goods; they just feel obliged to buy.

Not a very nice business model IMO.

Chinafoot

AARRRGH wrote: »

The thing I don't like about Avon etc. is that it's based on selling to your family and friends, i.e. people who will find it hard to say no. They don't actually want the goods; they just feel obliged to buy.

Not a very nice business model IMO.

You clearly don't know a lot about Avon.

Avon is a very reputable company thats been going for a very long time. The cost of cosmetics in this country is extortionate and Avon offer great products at much lower prices. My sister has started doing it recently and she has had a great response, beyond the family. I mentioned in work that she was doing it and had requests from 4 different people to bring the catalogue in so they could order some stuff as they don't have an Avon rep in their area. She already has a large number of "regulars" in her estate and a neighbouring estate. She does what most Avon reps do, and she drops the catalogues around to people houses directly. There's no obligation and if people don't want to take one they don't have to.

To the OP, I'd definitely do it. You'll get a fair amount of business particularly with the run-up to Christmas as there's some gorgeous sets in the latest catalogues.