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Selling Success and Your Attitude

Avon Selling Success

Your Attitude Can Make a Big Difference

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;

an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

 ~ Sir Winston Churchill

There are many factors that contribute to a successful direct selling business such as Avon. One crucial element is a representative's attitude and where he or she falls on the optimism/pessimism scale. Of course, most of us know that it is not always easy to be optimistic all of the time but putting it into practice can truly make a difference in your business as well as other aspects of your life. They say optimistic people tend to be healthier people in general. I believe It's worth the effort to change those negative thoughts for that reason alone. Following are some examples of how an optimist and pessimist Avon seller may handle certain situations. For each example, ask yourself "Which one do I tend to be?"

A Rep hands out 10 catalogs and gets two orders...

Your Attitude Can Make a Big Difference

Avon Selling Success - Your Attitude Can Make a Big Difference

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

There are many factors that contribute to a successful direct selling business such as Avon. One crucial element is a representative's attitude and where he or she falls on the optimism/pessimism scale. Of course, most of us know that it is not always easy to be optimistic all of the time but putting it into practice can truly make a difference in your business as well as other aspects of your life. They say optimistic people tend to be healthier people in general. I believe it's worth the effort to change those negative thoughts for that reason alone. Following are some examples of how an optimist and pessimist Avon seller may handle certain situations. For each example, ask yourself "Which one do I tend to be?"

Sell the Sizzle - Not the Steak

Sell the Sizzle - not the Steak!

I’m sure you’ve heard this saying. People don’t just buy product. They buy the benefits that fulfill their needs, which are derived from the products.

In today's market, your potential prospects have one thing in mind. "What's in it for them", and in our sales business, you must realize this. While the "nuts and bolts" of our product or offer are important, that is not normally what gets someone's initial interest and makes the sale.

If you are in the market for a raincoat, what is the primary thing you want? While the fact that it is double stitched and made out of high-grade material is great, what you really want is to keep dry when it rains.

The best sales people in the world understand human nature almost intuitively. Think of how much more you can sell if you see their needs or wants from the Customer’s perspective and not from yours. You must sell your product because that’s your business. They will only buy if it satisfies THEIR needs. So, once you ask open-ended questions and find out what your customer’s real needs and wants are, you can adapt your sales approach to fit exactly what they want to buy.

If you are to succeed, you have to figure out what other people are looking for. While they are really looking for a "steak", it will be the "sizzle" that will sell them.

10 Tips for Balancing Work & Motherhood

10 Tips for Balancing Work and Motherhood

I found this article that may help you balance work and motherhood . . . especially if you are a WAHM.

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There's no magic formula for making sure you have enough time for both, but these 10 smart tactics can help.   By Lisa Druxman

Although there's no secret recipe to balancing work and motherhood, there are thousands of women out there who have learned to do it successfully, women who've taken on this challenge before us and have come out on top.

I've been fortunate to have the opportunity to interview many, many entrepreneurial moms. And without fail, at some point during our conversation, they all say the same thing: "When I'm working, I feel like I should be with my kids. But when I'm with my kids, I feel like I should be working." But that guilt doesn't stop us from striving for success in both work and as a mother--we want to be able to do them both and do them both well. And if you ask any mom entrepreneur, they'll probably tell you what they're doing now is the most rewarding thing they've ever done. It's certainly not easy, but it's worth it.

I know for a fact that any one solution won't work for everyone. But I've found some common themes among the successful working moms that I know, and here are their 10 tips for being both a terrific mom and business owner.

How do you Create Repeat Customer Sales?

As you know, we have regular earnings products and fixed earning products (that have the little 4 diamond pattern before the description). So HOW do we create repeat customer sales?

Let’s say a customer purchases a watch. The watch is a fixed earnings product and not a product they are going to consume (use up) in a month and want to replenish 4-6 times a year. However it is a sale we certainly wouldn’t turn down. Fixed earnings products don’t maximize your sales and earnings.

Therefore, if the focus of your business sales are on our core Beauty products (regular earnings), MAKEUP, SKIN CARE, JEWELRY, FRAGRANCE, BATH & BODY, HAIR CARE & FOOT CARE, and find the products that fit the customers needs, you will “create repeat sales”.

Skin Care is a perfect example. Using your Skin Care Conversational Card, you ask your customer the 5 questions to determine which Anew line will give them the most benefit. Let’s say the first customer you use the questionnaire with has more answers in the Anew Ultimate line than any other. That means the Ultimate line has the solutions to her concerns or problems. If she’s using the right solution to her concerns, she’ll be a happy customer and with follow-up by you she will purchase more of the same products as she uses them. A very simple concept. Each customer replenishes her skin care line approximately 6 times a year.

 

Let’s look at a customer replacing her skin care regimen 6 X a year, & see your sales & earnings on those products at regular prices.

Create a Schedule and Stick to it

Top Avon Representatives will tell you that they work when they want to, and fill their work calendar around their life calendar. One calendar with everything on it, that you can carry with you at all times. This is a critical component for any successful Representative. You need to know WHEN you want to (and are able) to work. Mark it on your calendar. By scheduling and utilizing time that is set aside to work, you'll be way ahead.

When you know your next two or three available work dates at a moment's notice, people take you and your business more seriously.

Schedule time on your calendar to practice your demo, take a course or two on Avon’s Beauty of Knowledge training site, download a DSWA tele-class to your mp3, read up on product knowledge or network. Do SOMETHING to G-r-o-w your business.

Grow your business means doing any of the following:

Your Path to Creating Success

My question to you is…

"What are You going to do TODAY to grow your business & create income? "

Touch your business daily. Touch your business in SOME way - every day. To generate income & develop & create customer loyalty, you must make contact with your business on a daily basis. Your store is essentially "closed" any day you're not working.

Working means doing any of the following:

Ways to Advertise your Business

As a direct sales rep. there are many ways to advertise your direct sales business besides online and one of them is to advertise a business on your car! Read more tips for offline advertising below:

Importance of Offline Marketing
by Kara Kelso
http://www.directsaleshelpers.com/

The internet is a wonderful source of information and millions of people that could be your customer. Although we need to keep in mind that there are millions of others just like you fighting for that business. This is why it's important to tap into the offline world - people that you would never meet online. Starting with your local community, let's talk about a few things that you could do to market offline.

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Let me show you how you can earn $200-500 a month (or more).  To open your own Avon business is very simple and VERY inexpensive. . .  only $10.00*.  That's right . . . $10.00* to open a business with unlimited income possibilties.

 

If you have the desire to change your life and make your dreams come true and have desire to work harder for yourself than you work for someone else yet have the freedom to spend more time with your family, then email me today for more details.  whitneykt@sbcglobal.net   Put "C-20 FREE product incentive" in the subject line.

If you join my team in C-20 (before Sept 16th), you will receive a FREE full-sized Avon product that you can either use for yourself or sell to get your $10.00 back. 

• NO Experience Needed  . . . No high school diploma, no college degree needed and you get FREE online training and personal one-on-one training is available  You could be the next multi-million dollar top producer and earn a 6 figure income.**
• NO Inventory to keep . . . unless you choose to
• LOW overhead . . . brochures sold in bundles of 10 for $5.95 (cheaper as you buy more); bags for your orders (starting at 50/.75); One-Simple-Fee based on order size ($5.95 - $14.95 each campaign).  I will show you how you can get these for FREE!!
• 40% Guaranteed Earnings . . . during your first 4 campaigns (2 months) then you earn between 20%- 50% (based on order size)
• Unlimited Earning Potential . . . get into leadership and you can earn up to $150.00 for each person you add to your team
• NO Minimum orders . . . you don't have to have a minimum to place an order.*** 

Do you have friends and family that do not live in your town?  Once we get your started in your Avon business, you need to enroll as an e-Representative and have the ability to sell to ANYONE, ANYWHERE in the United States with your own personal Avon website that is now FREE all the time . . . even if no one orders on it.  Most people spend more online when they pay with their credit cards! They will get FREE shipping for $30+ orders and it's only $3 if under $30 and it will be shipped directly to them.

 

JOIN ME TODAY!! As you can see, I will not lie to you.  If you are successful, then I'm successful!!!

 

* Local only!!

** Results will vary.   

*** However, in order to earn at the lowest tier of 20%, your order needs to be at least $50.  To start earning and pay for ALL of your supplies, you need to sell at least $125.00.  That is easy to do!  Most customers spend an average of $20-$25 per order.  All you need is 5-6 customers each campaign to be ahead of the game.  If you get more, then you start making your profit.  I will show you how to get those customers.

Revenue Producing Activities

Do you have trouble getting things done? Each night, before you go to bed, write down 10 things that you need to do to move your business forward. Put this where you'll see it first thing in the morning. Then, do those things BEFORE you do anything else. (Except, get your coffee of course, LOL!) These are your Revenue Producing Activities - RPAs - You'll soon be having much greater success as you focus on what matters most!

#19 - Expecting to Succeed

Day #19 - Expecting to Succeed

By Bob Oros

Knowing exactly what you want, expecting to get it and visualizing the outcome is effectively managing your attitude. When you spend time planning your strategies you are creating a situation you desire. You have control over the outcome.

If you are not advancing towards your goal with the expectation of success, it is not the goal that is out of reach.   It is the daily activities that need attention. The common denominator of all successful professional people is the same. THEY ALL EXPECT TO SUCCEED.

Believe in Success!!!

Believe in Your Success!

Believe in yourself

Believe in the opportunity

Believe in Avon United States

Earn up to $150.00

on EVERY new recruit!

This is

Avon's

New Leadership incentive

for 2011!

click on link below to read more about it

http://www.youravon.com/REPSuite/static/pdf/leadership/believe_success_flyer_print.pdf

What is an E-Representative with Avon?

What is an E-Representative?

An E-representative is an Avon representative that has their own website or webstore where customers can place their orders and have them shipped directly to their homes. You have the ability sell to anyone in the United States from your website. If they live in your town, they have two delivery options - 1) they can have you deliver and collect for the order or 2) they can pay for the order with their credit/debit card and have it shipped directly to their house. If they place a $30.00+ order the shipping is FREE otherwise, it's only $3.00. If they do not live in your town, they have one option - See option #2 above.

What are the advantages?

Avon's Lipstick has less lead

Here is an excerpt from an online article . . .



MLM PRODUCTS ARE BETTER – AVON THE BEST LOW LEAD LIPSTICK = GOOD MLM = BEST


19 June 2010 - Tests conducted by the FDA last year on 22 red lipsticks found lead, a neurotoxin, in every single lipstick sample studied. The highest lead levels were in three well-known brands: Cover Girl, Revlon, L’Oreal. While the FDA says it’s continuing lead research on additional cosmetic brands and colors, it’s reassuring consumers that the lead levels it found in the red lipsticks are very small and not a health threat. Avon’s “Ultra Color Rich Cherry Jubilee” had lead levels 34 times lower than “Cover Girls Maximum Red” as an example. Thanks Avon and their CEO Andrea Jung. MLM products are higher quality than those on store shelves. Editors Note: MLM Products are Good better than Non MLM because of competition between MLM - Network marketing companies. MLM PRODUCTS ARE BETTER = GOOD - SAFER - HEALTHY

See the rest of the article here: http://www.mlmwatchdog.com/Report_MLM_Is_Good_products.html

Service Updates help you see what might be shorted

Service Updates:

You can find out what items will be shorted and/or when they will be in? Yes you can and here's how . . .

Go to: www.youravon.com

On your "home page" scroll down and look at the column on the right side of the page. Towards the bottom you will see a box called "In the News". There you will click on "Service Update". Then click on "Click here to see the latest service update." TIP: you can also get to this Service Update at "your order" tab. In the box where create your orders, look to the right and you'll see in red "Service Update".

But, the best way to check for product availability of individual items you are ordering is through the product availability page on yourAVON.com which is available from the "my Orders" tab after selecting "Service Update". Look in the column on the left and see "product availablilty". Click it and fill in the blanks on the form that pops up.

These tips will help you service your customers much better. You will be able to let them know earlier that a product isn't available and they can go for "plan B" if needed.

Happy Selling!

Did you know . . .

Did you know . . .

. . . the #1 reason why Avon reps quit selling is because they can't find any customers?

. . . and the #1 reason why potential customers do not buy Avon is because they can't find an Avon rep?

Let's get out there and find those potential customers that are looking for us!!

#10 - How to Be Different

How can you be different in your Avon or direct sales business?  I am trying to be one of the "different" ones by learning how to be a better sales person and not just an order taker.  It is a work in progress but reading these articles is helping me do just that.

Happy Selling!

 Karen Whitney

BUY/SELL AVON
www.youravon.com/karenwhitney


Day # 10 - How To Be Different

by Bob Oros

Give me one good reason why I should buy from you!
I get sales people calling me all the time. You all look alike - sound alike - make the same promises, what makes you any different?

You have to separate yourself from the competition. You have to be different. You have to be better.

One of the best ways to separate yourself from the competition is to know everything there is to know about your products and services. If you know what you are talking about, the customer feels it and starts trusting what you say.

#9 - How to Build Credibility

I have a story to tell you about how I built credibility with one of my customers.

A few months ago I had a really nice lady placing orders with me.  Then one day she sent me an email . . . her perferred way to place her order.  However, this email wasn't an order.  It was to tell me that she wouldn't be doing business with me anymore.  WHAT?  WHY?  Her email was very stern and to the point "I will not be placing anymore orders with you". WOW!!  Where did that come from?  She and I had visited each time I would deliver her order.  I thought we were building a good relationship with each other. 

UPDATE: New Smooth Minerals "single application" Lid!!!

Get the perfect amount every time

no more mess, no more spills

Another Avon First!

Our New Innovatiave Design

dispenses a single application . . . with no waste

Avon has redesigned the lid to the Smooth Minerals Powder Foundation.  It now dispenses a single application with no mess or waste.

The introductory price for this new design is only $8.99 (check website for current price).  It will be $12.00.   It still comes in 12 shades to match  most skin colors.

Testimonial:

"I just received my new Smooth Minerals and my husband told me to go try it out. He's dying to see if it is as good as the Bare Minerals I have been using so he doesn't have to pay for the Bare Minerals anymore.  We both think it looks just as good as the Bare Minerals." . . . Hyatt

Happy Selling!

 Karen Whitney

BUY/SELL AVON
www.youravon.com/karenwhitney

If you are interested in changing your life, you can contact me thru my website www.youravon.com/karenwhitney. I will contact you to set up an appointment to get you started for only $10.00.