First Major Goal as a Sales Leader

I am a Trainee Sales Leader.

My first major goal will be to reach Personal Sales of £150 (which I achieved in the first campaign and hope to grow through further campaigns and more targetted customers, and just increased customers too)

ALSO to recruit 5 Reps into my Team and achieve a total of £888 sales from my whole team (including my own sales).

This is my first target as a New Sales Leader.

Website to Link Blogs Brochure Facebook and AVON

Having just had a great chat with my own Sales Leader, one of my next projects will be to link all my online activities together on one Webpage.

My Webpage will include an introduction, and links to all of my online presence:

ie, MY OWN BROCHURE (the AVON POB)
MY OWN RECRUITMENT PAGE & SIGN IN (the AVON PRP)
My Blog about being a REP
My Blog about being a SALES LEADER
AND My Renamed FACEBOOK PAGE (Renamed to Beautyshoptoday Yvonne Spooner as we shouldnt use the work AVON in the title)

It will also be a place to advertise any special offers and share EVENTS and new deals with my REPS and CUSTOMERS.

I will soon add the URL to my "linking it all together page".
I will program it into a page with a view to buying a single domain name for it very soon.

Facebook for my Sales Team

I read a fantastic article last night on Avon Connects by Mandy Mathews (an Executive Sales Leader for AVON) and decided that I needed to have a dedicated username just for AVON on Facebook.

So, please come along and add me (Click on my Name, not the logo):

AVON YVONNE SPOONER

Warning for Visiting Sales Reps

My own Area Sales Rep left my second campaign of magazines with me, on my doorstep yesterday, and they have mysteriously disappeared.

I live on an alleyway, so they can only have been stolen by a passer-by, she said sometimes another REP may have taken them!?!?!?

This was quite frustrating as I couldn't get started on Campaign 5 today.

I wanted to put a note on here - to learn from this - and share that knowledge - that, as a Sales Leader - when we are making visits to our new Avon Sales Reps to drop off the first two campaigns of brochures - it is not a good idea to leave them on the doorstep. Better to text if no-one is home and to find a safe place to leave them, or come back another day.

My Leader is BRILL and she is coming back tomorrow with some more! THANK GOODNESS :)

Internet Advert Brings Enquiries

Great, I have had half a dozen texts and emails from people who saw my advert online and are interested in "earning a bit of extra money for being a makeup and perfume rep" (as I put it). I am in the process of contacting them, trying to speak to them directly to see if I can get them to sign on with me and set up an appointment to see them.

So far I haven't managed to get any appointments set, or any sign ons, but the advert only went up 24hrs ago, so it's all quite early days. AND that was just ONE advert on one site, I think I could find some more sites and get a few of those running over the next week or two.

Online Advertising Recruitment

I had a small advert on a well known free website which offered "extra income opportunities" and have just had a text from a potential NEW REP!

I was a bit nervous, not quite knowing what to say if I called and fortunately (or unfortunately), she was unavailable. So I have texted her back asking her to send me an email if she has a moment and that I will send her some more information.

I probably should get her to sign up on my online PRP and then I will need to contact my Area Sales Rep to come along to the first appointment with me (and provide all the necessary kit!)

QUITE EXCITED REALLY!!!

100 brochures for £11.50

Surely this is too good to be true!

I am still on my second campaign and my sales leader will be giving me some brochures this time, but I have just read that as a SALES LEADER and a memeber of the PRESIDENT'S CLUB, I am entitled to buy 20 packs of brochures for £11.50 - thats 100 brochures! WOOHOO

Oh, just came back down to earth on realising that I don't think I'm a member of the President's Club until I achieve a massive amount of sales in the first 18 campaigns...

Maybe someone could confirm this please?

Getting my PRP on Facebook

I went on facebook and put up a link to my Personal Recruitment Page to get people to be Sales Leaders in my team.

The message on my homepage went like this:

And then I sent a longer message to a couple of my closer friends, who I think would be interested in earning a bit of extra cash - that was a private inbox message and it went like this:

Already the response was quite good and probably will have one sign up from sending out 6 personal messages like that.

How to set up my AVON PRP?

So, you have to log into AVON CONNECTS
Then go to MY PROFILE
Then check the box for ACTIVATE PRP (on the right)
Then fill out some of the details and save

To view your PRP go to MY PROFILE and at the bottom you will see: MY PERSONAL PAGE

Here is mine: My PRP at AVON

What is my PRP?

PRP is my Personal Recruitment Page.

This is where I will get my Sales Leaders to sign up with me when I appoint them. This is how AVON can track who is on my team.

I will add more when I learn a bit more about it!

EXAMPLE: My PRP is here to view

Day 1 - Questions . . . ? ? ?

I have some questions I need to find the answers to about being an AVON Sales Leader...

Listed here are the questions (please return soon for the answers!):

How do I sign someone on?
What are the Steps?
Can I sign on anyone from any area?
Can I sign someone on from a different part of the country?
How will I do this?
What do LEADS mean?
How do I get paid from this?
Can I advertise in any way I wish?
How do I set up my own Sales Leadership Website?

How do I set up my PRP?
ANSWERED IN THE BLOG POST: How to set up my AVON PRP?
And the list goes on!! :)

INFO: What is a Sales Leader for AVON?

What is a Sales Leader? As an AVON Representative I am interested in also doing Sales Leadership - it isn't a role that is full time with lots of responsibility. Basically it is a part time job as an independent worker doing as much or as little as you want to do - obviously the more you put in, the more you will get out of it.. but it's up to you how much time and effort you put in. Both AVON Representatives and AVON Sales Leaders are self-employed. Therefore I can both choose the hours I work. (Phew!) Role: As an AVON Sales Leader I will be promoting the AVON opportunity to others. My role will be to find people who want to earn a bit of extra money as an AVON Representative, I will then go on to recruit them, train and support them as a member of your team.

Cost: All AVON Sales Leaders are also AVON Representatives themselves. If you choose to become an AVON Sales Leader you will be charged a onetime fee of £30, for this fee you will be sent a “business in a bag” starter kit. This includes lots of recruiting tools to get your business off the ground. This fee is also charged to your own AVON representative account. (But not until after you've recruited your first two REPS - so you can opt in and then take a little time to think it over and set out your plan, find some suitable people etc etc).

Earnings & Criteria: As an AVON Sales Leader you earn anything from 2-12% commission from your teams net sales. There are four levels to Sales leadership and the percentage you earn will depend on your Sales Leader level. This bit will take a bit more research and understanding - so I will post about the pay structure again soon.

To opt in and be a Sales Leader - I went back onto the website and did just that, I could've asked the person that got me interested in being a REP - either way it IS easy to get started (officially!)

If you are brand new to AVON and you would like to become either an AVON Representative or AVON Sales Leader, you can apply directly through my website by clicking the links above (I will add them!).