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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.

Make Good Money with Avon by . . .

Increasing Your Sales, Setting Goals and Planning.

by Theresa Austin Paul on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 10:44pm

How much would you like to make each campaign? We all would love an extra $100-$300-$500 or so every 2 weeks right? Can you go get another job? Leave the kids? Hire a sitter? Is your boss going to give you that raise? well then...

GIVE YOURSELF A RAISE!!

Does $300 a month sound good to start? How can you do that with AVON? Break it down. That's $150 every 2 weeks. You can earn $150 a campaign easy!!!

Sell $425 at 40% earnings and you can profit up to $170. This varies of course because of fixed earnings items, and business tools, But you CAN profit $150 and more every 2 weeks.

Now, you're asking "How will I sell $425-$500 a campaign?"

Open an Avon Business and get your eRep website for FREE . . .

How would you like to earn some Holiday spending money? 

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.

#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.

#17 - You Can't Sell Anybody Anything

Day #17 - You Can't Sell Anybody Anything

by Bob Oros

It's true! You can't sell anybody anything, you can't change people's minds, you can't persuade them to do something against their will and you can't get people to buy based on price alone.

We have to be crystal clear about what our job really is. We think that we have to apply pressure, use special psychological techniques and force people to buy from us.

Regardless of whether you are a supervisor, a sales person, a waitress, a service provider or a marketing manager your job is the same: Your job is to help people make good decisions - and the more informed you are about your products and services, the more valuable you are to your customer.

You can make your life a whole lot easier starting right now by stop thinking that you have to be clever and use some secret selling technique to get people to buy from you. All you have to do is answer this question; Why should someone buy from me? When someone asks that question of you what they are really asking is "I need help making a good decision!"

#15 - How to Approach a New Customer

Day #15 - How To Approach a New Customer
By Bob Oros


"I forgot they were coming!"

"I wonder how long this is going to take."

"My production supervisor is on vacation."

"My office manager called in sick this morning!"

"YIKES! Look at all the stuff they have with them!"

"There are two of them - they will probably never stop talking."

"This is going to take forever - I've got to do something - fast."

"I see they have a price book - good - I know how to get rid of them."

"I'll get a price quote on something and tell them they are way too high."

If you are having the door slammed in your face before you even have a chance to say hello - you may be doing it wrong.

Let me explain.

#14 - How to Overcome Resistance

They say, with Avon and in any sales job or business, you should leave brochures (or go visit) with a potential customer for at least 4 campaigns (or weeks) before they will order.  They want to know that you are going to come back, they want to like you, and they want to trust that you are not going to give up on them before they place their first order with you. 

Know . . . Like . . . Trust

+

Persistance

=

Loyal Customers

Day #14 - How to Overcome Resistance
by Bob Oros

Customers resist even the best ideas. The resistance starts with a negative feeling about the product, service or program. He or she hasn’t looked into it yet. The immediate resistance is general. First of all, there’s the risk. What if the idea doesn’t pay off or the product doesn’t perform?

Also, something new means change. And maybe the change will be uncomfortable. It will cause trouble, and who needs trouble?

All this makes the prospect feel that they don’t want to hear about what you are trying to sell. Even if you get them to listen, their generalized resistance adds strength to the objection.

Your customer will be on the defensive before you even begin to sell. It is in a person’s nature to fear making a change that will cost money. During a sales presentation, your customer will almost always respond negatively to your pricing. It is part of their strategy to get you to lower your price.

By knowing what to expect you avoid giving in without making a case for your product. Salespeople frequently make the mistake of offering discounts up front in order to head off a potentially negative discussion about price.

#13 - The Key to Selling Success

Day #13 -The Key to Selling Success
by Bob Oros

How would you like to KNOW with absolute certainty that you could sell anybody? What if you had a magic key that would open the door to everyone you called on? You can! And once you know the secret formula - and apply it - your sales will take off!

You will lose all feelings of call reluctance. Your confidence will double - or even triple. Your income will increase. You will have everything you ever wanted in life.

Here it is...

#12 - Why You Lose Business

Day #12 - Why You Lose Business
By Bob Oros

What is the easiest way for a competitor to take a customer away from you? Why do you lose accounts to your competitors?

Here are some reasons that sound good: Our service isn't up to par. Our prices are too high. We have too many out-of-stocks. My competitor is better known in my market.

I have a surprise for you. When you lose an account it is mostly due to one reason. I would say that 95% of all the accounts you lose to a competitor are for this single reason! This single reason will enable you to take away more business from your competitor than you can handle.

It's easier than you think. Here's why.

#8 - How to Guarantee Your Success

I think Mr Oros is a mind reader! 

In the article below he says "The toughest door to open is the one that gets us out of the house early . . .".

That IS my toughest door to open!!  However, once I DO open that door . . . I get so much accomplished! Go figure!!  Not only in my business but in my home life too.  For some reason, if I stay inside, glued to the computer, I get nothing else done all day long.