hey AVON lady!

Work from home and make money with AVON

Working from home, being your own boss and setting your own schedule is a dream (and can be a reality) for many men and women.

However, if a vision of staying in your jammies all day with a cup of coffee pops into your head at the mention of working from home, I politely suggest you reassess your home business goals.

There are two words to pay attention to here: Home and Business.  The former does not negate the latter, which here means just because you're at home doesn't mean it's not business as usual.

To make money with Avon, you don't need a fancy office and you don't need your own computer (although that helps) or a special 800 number.  I did all of that and I threw away over thousands of dollars for almost a year.  That was an expensive lesson to learn!

What you need is exactly this:

• a kit and access to brochures
• access to the internet (hello, public library if you don't have your own computer & home network)
• a home phone or cell phone
• no less than half an hour each day, but more likely two hours daily
• a little space (not even a full room) house
• discipline and ambition

To make money with Avon, you need to first decide if you're going to focus most of your efforts on sales or recruiting.  In leadership, you still have sales goals but they are not as high as they might be if you were focusing primarily on sales.  As a sales leader, you have to turn some of the energy you would use for selling to motivating and building a team.  

Selling is fantastic, but the real money is in creating a deep, wide and productive downline.  If you are a sales leader, imagine cloning yourself by 10, 20, 50, 100 or more.  You get the picture.

To do this, you have to have a specific plan to attract and retain smart, ambitious people like yourself.

There are three things critical to building your Avon business: social media, advertising and marketing. If you aren't fully utilizing these three fundamentals, you're not going to grow your downline.

If you want to make money with Avon

Do not be afraid to make sudden and radical change if the opportunity is presented and you feel, after careful consideration, that it is the right opportunity.

~ Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

No man or woman ever achieved success or wealth by sitting still and doing nothing.

In our fear, we think we must wait until all the conditions are in our favor. Instead of taking small actions, each and every day, we wait.

We wait for our incomes to grow or become stable.

We wait for our partners or spouses to agree to or support  our dreams.

We wait to have kids, the kids to start school or for the kids to be grown and off to college.

We wait for others to tell us our idea is a good one or that we are smart enough or good enough.

We wait for retirement or the time when we do not have a job that we are married to, that prevents us from creating other revenue streams.

In short, we wait for external forces to allow us to earn more money, to achieve independence, to have the financial freedome we desire.

I have a message for all of you who are waiting for the right timing.

The time will never be right.

There will always be an obstacle, a life situation, a nay-sayer or person who doesn't believe in you.  Whatever you believe is preventing you from making more money, from starting your Avon business and growing it big, that is exactly what will present itself.

If you want to make money with Avon, you have to take the first step.   You have to get your kit, take the online courses, learn from more experienced reps, and start selling.

This is not rocket science. Anyone, I mean anyone, can learn the steps to selling and making big money with Avon.

Complete training is available online, at meetings, and one-on-one with experienced reps and consultants.  

Need help? Email me at avonrep4 uMary (at) gmail (dot) com

What are you waiting for?

The science of getting rich

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough. Keep on and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you.  Remember this. 

~ Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

 The world is full of people who dream of riches.  They study books about how to attain wealth and how to attract prosperity. They are highly motivated and they focus their attention on having.

These folks dream of the day when.   To make money, you need the dream and the plan.

Dreams and intentions are excellent.  But dreams without action remain nothing more than lovely daydreams.

There are crucial steps missing.  One, you must have a plan. Two, you must take action.

Does it matter if you know how to do something the right way? No.  Does it matter if the timing is right? No.  Actually, if we wait for the right time in our lives, opportunity may just pass you by.

There really are three simple things you have to do to make money with Avon. 

• Buy into the opportunnity.  You can do that online. 
• Market your business every day.
• Don't give up. 

There is a 50% turnover rate in network marketing. The obvious meaning of this is that of every 100 reps signed, 50 will drop out. Most will never make it past the two year  milepost that experts say is the longevity a network marketer needs to put in before realizing real gains in the business. 

 Some will check out without ever taking advantage of their $20 investment. There are folks who want something without any effort.  These are the people who spend $20 to start a business and don't even take advantage of the deeply discounted products for themselves. 

Don't let this fact frustrate you or impact your vision. Keep moving, taking small actions each day, in the right direction. 

It seems too simple.  It isn't.  Giving up is easy. Sticking to a plan is essential.

 

Make money while you sleep

Everyone dreams about making money while they sleep.  A few people take action to do just that.

One of the easiest ways to start making money passively is to sign up for Google Adsense, an ad serving application run by Google Inc., where bloggers and website owners enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. The advertisements administered by Google generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.

To use Google Adsense in your Avon business, you can create a blog or a website, then sign up to have ads populated to your beauty website that just happens to also  be selling your Avon products. 

In this way, your site functions not only to sell your Avon opportunity, but also to generate an additional stream of revenue for your efforts.

A second way to harness the power of the internet is to use Google Adwords. In this case, you're paying for advertising for your business based on clicks. 

It works like this according to Google:

You always pay the lowest amount possible for the highest position you can get given your Quality Score and CPC (cost per click) bid. To find this amount, we divide the Ad Rank of the ad showing beneath you by your Quality Score, then round up to the nearest cent (we show this part of the formula as "+ $0.01" to keep things simple).

For search pages, Ad Rank is calculated by multiplying the matched keyword's CPC bid by its Quality Score. For Display Network pages, Ad Rank is calculated by multiplying the ad group's Display Network bid by its Quality Score.

 Actual CPC = (Ad Rank to beat ÷ Quality Score) + $0.01

When you purchase Google ads, you don't pay unless someone clicks on your ad. The best way to get the most for your advertising dollars is to test your ads to see if the keywords you're using are working hard for you.

Google Adwords recommeds the following when selecting keywords for your ads:

It's essential that your keywords are relevant and high-quality. Overly general keywords will make it difficult to reach potential customers, and your advertising will probably be less profitable.

Here are the top three tips to help you improve your keyword quality:

1. Choose your keywords carefully. Make sure they're specific and directly relate to the theme of your ad and the page you are directing your customers to. Keywords of two or three words tend to work most effectively.


2. Include relevant variations of your best keywords, including singular and plural versions. If applicable, consider using colloquial terms, synonyms, and product or serial numbers.


3. Be specific. Keywords that are too broad or general will not reach users as effectively as keywords that are highly targeted.

 

 

Write your own paycheck

When you work for someone else, your salary depends on external factors.  

In other words, you have to stick your hand out and ask someone else to pay you what you're worth. Then you have to justify all the reasons you deserve more money.

Here's what I've learned about this system. It works pretty great if you're the boss.  Sometimes it works well if you're the employee, but you need to be at the tip of the iceberg and not at the base. Mostly, it works against you, the worker bee.

I never liked this system,  particularly the part where I had to do my dog and pony act to justify my salary increases.

I work hard. I deserve a raise. Period.

With Avon, you control when you work and how much money you make.  There's a simple equation to follow.  How hard and smart you work is directly proportionate to how much money you can make.

The vast majority of people who go into networking marketing fail before they start because they don't equip themselves with the tools they need to succeed. A second set fail because they think the Avon product will sell itself.  That's what we hear all the time: The brochure sells itself.

This is the truth.

You can't sell anything if the customer doesn't see the product. You can't add to your downline if no one knows about it. You have to position your product and opportunity in front of as many interested parties as possible.  

Doing this is going to require some thought and action.

What action will you take today?

If you haven't read this 1910 prosperity classic, The Science of Getting Rich, then sign up for hey Avon Lady's weekly newsletter and get your free copy.

Wallace Wattles writes about the "certain way" that all wealthy people live, work and play.

Do you act in that "certain way"?

If you don't naturally, don't despair. You can master your own mind.

What are you doing today to grow your business?

The frequent complaint I hear from people who want to be rich or want to be their own boss is this: I'm too busy to get started.

My question to them is this: when will you ever have time.

If we wait until the timing is right, we will still be doing exactly what we are doing today, right now in this minute. For many of us, what we are doing is not making us happy, not bringing us one step closer to our dreams.

I'd rather be dead than be among the living dead. So even if I'm uncertain of where it is I'll end up. I'm willing to take the first step.

Are you waiting for the right time to accumulate wealth? If so, keep waiting and let me know how that works out for you.

There are excuses for everything in life. The excuse of "not having enough time" robs more people of opportunity than any I've ever heard.

Now is the right time to get started. Just do it.

Getting the sale, more than just numbers

If you knock on enough doors, call enough people, put your product in the path of enough warm bodies, then even the most inept sales person will get a sale. 

It's true that one-third of all sales will happen this way.

But do you want to base your ability to earn a living  on accidental sales?

I don't.

So, what's the next?

The remaining two-thirds is made up of those who aren't going to buy (your product or your opportunity, no matter what) and those who would buy if properly approached.

The one-third who isn't buying simply isn't buying anything you're selling. For whatever reason, nothing you say will change their minds.  They aren't buying. When you're cold-calling and run  into this personality, cut your losses and move on to the next.

My rule of thumb is three.  If I can't close you in three contacts, I'm not going to close you.

That leaves the group who want to buy but don't want to be sold.  Your job, if you don't suck, is to find out what they need and why they don't want to make a commitment to buy.

It's easy for me to say, if you don't suck because I personally have been that salesperson who sucks. You suck if you can't keep the prospect engaged or interested.  You suck if you talk too much. You suck if you don't find out what a client needs.

If you're more worried more about the close rate, than about giving value, then you're going about the sales process wrong.   Wanting to make the sale can't be more important than providing the customer with something - a product, a service - they find desirable, irresistible, and necessary.

You have to put yourself in the shoes of your prospect.

Everyday I hear salespeople complain about hearing, No.  I love to hear No because I'm aware that if I hear that one word 29 times, I'm going to then hear Yes.  So to increase the times I hear Yes, I have to increase the opportunities for my message to be heard.

 

 

 

 

Do one thing well: use social media right

The finest tool still needs a man who knows how to use it. ~ Napoleon Hill.

I like this quote, primarily because it applies to the vast array of social media that assaults consumers daily.  I use the  word assault consciously because our use of Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc.,   is an attack on our time.

Don't misread this statement.  I didn't say social media has no value. But the way it is used most often is oppositional to getting rich, to accumulating wealth.

Most social media users make a mess of their opportunity because they don't understand how to use the tool or misuse it, ie., spam their would-be prospects.

Anyone who has a Twitter account can relate to receiving followers who post nothing more than tiny urls for products they don't want or don't need.

So how does this apply to making money with Avon?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, making money with Avon requires not only product knowledge, enthusiasm, and salesmanship, it requires focus and strategy. When you are a small business or brand, which here means limited resources and time, you need to do one thing and do it well. 

Scattershot efforts will produce scattershot results.

The simplest solution is to use an application or software that will allow you to build automated posts and to post to multiple social networks.  One of the easiest ways to do this is to link your blog to Facebook and Twitter so that one post shoots to all three. 

Three reminders

• Don't spam
• Be relevant
• Offer valuable information

I like using Co-Tweet to manage my Twitter accounts.  Here's a concise blog post that gives you more insight on ways to use automated posting. (via How To Blog).

Tip: If you decide to make automation a part of your long-term strategy, remember that you want to be human rather than robotic. 

 

 

Make more money focusing on recruitment

There aren't eight days in a week.  To achieve the results you want with your Avon business, to accumulate the wealth you desire, you must take action. 

Even if you are not 100 percent sure that your action will make you money, you still must act.

The problem most Avon independent sales representatives face is trying to do everything themselves.  Only Wonder Woman could accomplish being a high-achieving recruiter and salesperson.

Focus on the one thing that you do well. And make it your goal to make the most money possible by strengthening your natural skill set.

I'm a fantastic saleswoman. I love meeting people, building rapport, finding out what customers  need and helping them get the products I know they'll love.  Most importantly, I know when and how to ask for and close a sale.  But there is just one of me.  Imagine if I had 20, 30, 50, maybe 100 or more clones of myself out there selling.

That's why building a team, a network of representatives just like you,  who understands the value and importance of assertively creating  multiple streams of income, is so important to developing an Avon business that will make you more money.

You have to choose.  Is knocking yourself out trying to recruit, which here means convince people they need your opportunity really the way to go?  Or is selling and building a massive clientele the best bet.  What will give you the best long term results? 

Tip: Sales are great to generate quick cash, but the real money is in recruitment where incentives are paid to recruit as well as on the earnings from your downline.

One established rep I know has a downline that made over $2.2 million in 2009.  Her personal sales make up only $20,000 of that amount. She gets up to 12% of their sales. 

So which would you rather be - overwhelmed sales rep or the recruiter who has motivated, qualified leads to add to her pipeline?

I know who I want to be. The choice is yours.