does being a Avon representative pay off??

Hi coolimrose, I have been selling Avon for 2 years now. When I started I hardly got any orders, It takes time, you just have to hang in their. right now I do pretty good, I have not missed one Campaign since I started. I also have my own website, which customers order on there also. Keep in mind also that people right now are not ordering a lot due to the the holidays we've had; but it will pick up soon! Good luck to you!

no i dont think it does my grandma did that and she payed more into it then she did making off of it its a waste of time

I tried being an Avon representative back in the early 1980's and I didn't have much luck. However, I only tried selling in my immediate neighborhood and at work so who knows if it would have been more successful had I branched out to other people. Once my friends and family, co-workers, and neighbors had ordered a few times, it seemed that they dreaded seeing me show up at their doors and seemed to be avoiding me! I think that they felt obligated to buy something and later just didn't want anymore products! Ha!

Don't give up. If it does not work at first, it will for the second time. You change strategy if that is what's needed. I grew up with the Avon since birth. My mom was into it since she was still studying in a medical school, nursing. She graduated and is a registered nurse but opted to do business with Avon. Since childhood, I remember her sharing everyone and purchasing more than a hundred number of books per campaign and distributing it to as many friends that she got in different towns. That made her sales grow. Now, I am into Avon too, started as a representative when I was also in college and now a sales leader like my mom.

Don't worry your sells will come. Trust me! Everyone loves make up and every ten catalogs you send out 2 will be shopaholics. Start with family first and that way you get your confidence up and then before you know it you'll have more business from neighbors. I'm also going to start selling Avon as well and I have done about a week of extensive reasearch. Have you tried Ebay? You could go to yard sales and buy stuff for a dollar and sell them on Ebay for 10 times more. It's easy and you don't have to leave the house that much. I would not do Amway. Amway is a joke. My parents tried it and it sounded so glamorous in the beginning with all the big mansions that the Diamonds and Emeralds of Amway lived. What they're not telling you is that they worked about 50-60 hours a week and dedicated all their time to the business and knew a lot of people. The product is really good but you have to work very hard with speeches and going to peoples houses and having them recruit other people and so on, very pyramid schemis. Avon is no parties required and only $10.00 to start. Did you talk to the person who signed you up? They should have prepared you for the start of the company, usually all companies start out kind of slugish but once you get the hang of it you'll have sales just rolling in. I couldn't help but notice your avatar pic of your baby. Very cute kid. I just had a baby as well and I am a stay at home mom. I worked all my life since I was 15 and now I am 26 and it drives me completly bonkers. Don't get me worng I do not plan on going back to work for at least 4-5 years. I love being around my daughter, I just couldn't bare the thought of having to leaver her in someone elses care and missing her adorable smile. Being a mom is one of the many blessings in life and being able to find something that doesn't control you would be Avon. I'm not into doing all the cheeszy parties, and quite honeslty can't really stand other women, sorry most of them are really fake and some even whiny. LOL. With Avon you don't have to have inventory or throw girlie parties. Plus if parties is what you like you can throw them but they are not manditory. Make some business cards up with your site at places like your hair salon, walmart, grocery stores, call friends, mailboxes. Anywhere. Sorry to ramble, but when I read your blog it broke my heart to hear how disappointed you were. Good luck and God Bless.

Hi There! I was Avon representative people they did good at first but after 6months they didn't wan't to pay anymore, i trusted them by giving the product without them giving me the money, but if is a pay and give don't worry you will get customers, you just haven't meet good customers, chow Lloyd

Join the club! This is my second time selling Avon and it's not been as good as I wished it could be. There is a senior citizen apartment complex, where I had relatives and friends I used to visit there, until they passed on. Anyhow, it was about 10 years ago and I remembered visiting both D. and R. at the complex, while seeing Avon catalogs sitting in a square-shaped "basket" type of table by the front door of each building. D. and R. also confirmed to me that they and their fellow resident friends purchased products from Avon. Let's fast forward to today...I get this harrassing, threatening phone call from someone working in the apartment complex, as she didn't have the guts to leave her phone no. or name. She just threatened to do harm to me, while insinuating that next time I place any Avon catalogs at any of the apartment buildings, she's going to shred them up and call the law on me. Let us not forget that this same basket-case of a woman left threatening, harrassing message on MY ANSWERING MACHINE, so if anyone should incarcerate her to authorities, it should be ME--my husband thought she was nuts, too, as he heard this insane woman leave loud, threatening message over an Avon book! Then go figure that there was not a "No Soliciting Sign" anywhere in the apartment buildings, so common sense has it that if the staff took the time to create such a sign, the message would be loud and clear. And guess what? I would have turned around and walked out of the place. I traced the office no. down, let my feelings shine forth about this crazy lady calling me, but instead of balling the answering machine out, I left my 2 cents on how very unprofessional and creepy their operation must be, in order to allow such a nasty nutcase to call and threaten me over an Avon catalog! Where are people's brains these days? I let the office know that all they had to do was politely tell me their new policy and they wouldn't have to explain no more to me, since the point would have been loud and clear. I am in college working hard towards my degree and believe me, once I can achieve my goals, I will be much more marketable and thus, planning on seeking out the a milder part of USA, where the climate is drier, warmer, and most of all, has a higher concentration of more friendlier, less insecure population of people. I am a native and wish I could have found a decent-paying job to move, instead of the mostly $7-$8/hour temporary/contract jobs that my city only seems to offer. Bottom line: Without a college degree, only low-paying temp jobs are most people's fate as you should not count on Avon to help boost your income. Think about it: You pay around $19/per campaign for 100 catalogs and here's what you shall receive as feedback: Either most people will pitch them in the garbage can after looking through them and not purchase anything, OR you'll end up with a nutcase calling your home and threatening you, as if Avon was just as bad as an offensive "Catalog of Filth". I don't mean to turn you off, but I am being 110% honest in what selling Avon is all about. I have sold to friends and family, but the Catch 22 is most of them are either unemployed or can't find jobs with enough income to barely put food on the table. Thanks to our jobs being shipped overseas, the moneyman cries how he can't find people to buy his products, yet, he continues shipping jobs to China and other poverty-stricken, child slave-labored countries. The moral of the story is this: Do your best to sell, as you can tell your friends, etc. about it and go from there. I don't know about yourself, but $19/per campaign amounts to $38/month and surely, you shouldn't think any more about it, except how you are going to spend way more for these catalogs than a positive profit return. Selling Avon is only good to make a little money from sales off your friends and family and perhaps hook some good sales yourself, but expect nothing more. I hope this helps.

I have heard about this type of work but nobody ever came knocking at my door. There was a lady at work who sold that stuff and she made decent money off it. I hope you have been able to drum up some orders and maybe even get some repeat customers. Hang in there;)

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