Ideas added 04/03

From Anndrea Ruth
My next step is to take the Beauty Advisor training so that I can become familiar with the makeup and all that it has to offer. I don't currently wear makeup, simply because I don't know what would look good on me. But I'm willing to do it if it will help boost my business! I can't wait to get started with that. I've got so much to do and so little time before the baby arrives!

From Shelby Young
I tried the shower caddy idea.....with a little twist! I could not find a shower caddy with suction cups ANYWHERE!!!!! So I use a plastic basket that I found at the dollar store and I put it on my trunk or hood with a sign that says "FREE TAKE ONE."
Another idea that has worked well for me is to leave books at the local gas station and the post office.

From Kellye Necessary
My family is really big on Avon. I have had a lot of success with the gift certificates. Also I have used the Avon Bucks, and some other cute coupons that I have found in these forums.

From Paula Haswell
Hi I emailed everyone I know.One of them order off the bat. I also have changed my outgoing email to have a signature. It looks like this:
For all your Avon needs.
Makeup, skincare, wellness, gifts for the whole family.
http://www.youravon.com/phaswell
I had to play around emailing myself a couple of times so that it spaced out correctly.

AND THE LIST GOES ON.........

New ideas 04/03/06

From Tammy Leff
I go to local business's and leave brochures there with permission every campaign. I steadly gain new customers by doing this. It took a couple of campaigns per business, but I gain at least 2 new customers per business. Business's such as dinner's, mom and pop stores, I even have a furniture store.

From Andrea Ruth
These are all great ideas. I did order some of the fairly inexpensive items from campaign 7 (they had some lotions for 99 cents) that I thought I could give out as free gifts. I also offered 10% off when placing your first order with me, and am trying to start a jewelry club. When you order five pieces of jewelry and they total $50 or more, you can get a piece of jewelry valued at $10 for free or I can take $10 off a more expensive piece. I've got lots of ideas, but really want to start reaching more clients. I definitely need to try and get to some of the businesses in the area to see if I can leave my stuff with them. I plan on making up fliers and leaving some business cards and see if that helps.

From Meg Ricks
Things that have helped me recently: putting books in a shower caddy suction cupped to the back of my car when I run errands (not while I'm driving unless I forget to take it off :)- and looking for new areas to put out books. I thought that probably no one was canvassing the mobile home park down the road, so I put out some books taped up in what's new bags on the ground near the mailboxes. I've gotten three orders from that so far. I look for any townhome community that doesn't have no solicting signs (mine does and that doesn't seem to stop solicitors!) I put out the free flyers Avon sent me and put stickers on them that say to call or visit my site to get the regular brochure. I'm going to be mailing out some eyelift cards as postcards-they're oversized, so it's 39 cents to mail them :( -to places I can't leave books at. I ordered some postcards from Vista print and I'll probably be sending those out in a couple of weeks. I'm planning on doing "Avon Bucks" to reward my regular customers (1 Avon buck for every $10 they spend). For the end of the PC cycle I've been running different discounts w/ a higher percentage off for bigger orders. Hope this helps :

From Sherri Carter
I am getting ready to have my grand opening and here's what I'm doing.....I am having "an at party special" of $2 off the Anew Eye Lift Cream and 10% off order for first time customers with order of $20 or more or anyone who refers a customer that results in an order of $20 or more. If you have a minimum order limit, it encourages them to buy at least that much. I'm also giving away inexpensive door prizes, but to register you have to have a $20 order. (tweezers, nail polish, eye shadow duo, Clearskin facial scrub, Cracked Heel Cream and Skin so Soft Deodorant). I would love to get people hooked on the Face wash and the Deodorant so they continue buying those products. I also purchased a yard sign and a window sticker for my van and have put books in a small grocery store down the road. So far two of the three have resulted in orders. I also don't leave the house without wearing Avon perfume, jewelry, etc. This also results in order for me.

TO BE CONTINUED..........

New Idea 04/01/06

Here's a GREAT idea from Julie Decker:

I tried this on this new campaign and ended up with 5 new orders!!!!
I am up to 75 customers now and samples were getting expensive, so I never buy them unless someone requests them.
However, I decided to try something new.
I brought cottonb...al...ls, small craft bags scrapbooking paper.
I sprayed my new perfume that I got for myself onto the cotton b...alls with just a small spray then inserted them into the bag. Closed it up, put the paper on top of the bag with:
WOMENS (You can do it with MENS TOO)
the name of the perfume which was rare gold
item number and the page number of where it was at and the price.
I ended up with 5 orders, plus I saved tons of money!!!!
A $2 investment went very far, it gave everyone a true scent of what it smelled like AND I STILL have these items left for round 2.
The next campaign I am going to do my hubbys RPM
I also don't see why you can't do this with new lotion, body wash just dab it on as well. It would be the same concept.
Just a thought! But I just had to share this since it really worked well and doubled my sales!!!!