Prospecting is Easy and Fun

OK - so I finally got a bit of time out with my Area Manager to do some prospecting - and it is exactly as I said in the title - EASY and FUN.

AVON is not a hard-sell - people want to buy beauty products and enjoy making themselves look good, it is a well known brand and most people have bought some at one time or another, so asking people if they are interested in becoming a REP and joining the team isn't difficult either.

Just getting a little bit of confidence to launch into the first conversation made me feel nervous, for about 10 seconds, then I was away - couldn't speak to enough of them!

Introducing myself as "working for AVON", asking if the person lived locally, then asking if they were interested in being a Representative for AVON themselves, do they have a little free time or would they like to earn some extra money and if it was a "no", do they know someone who might be interested - passing on the card with all the details of how to contact me and join the team, then off to find another potential rep - or PROSPECT, as we call them.

I easily approached more than a dozen people in 45 minutes, of whom one already worked for AVON and more than half of the others thought they might be interested or knew someone - sister, daughter, friend etc... I will have to see what happens now, if the sign ups come rolling in from my website link or the calls come in on the phone.

The only thing I think I could have done better was to take their phone number, or to actually fix an appointment with at least one of them to come around their house and do the sign up - I will try to achieve this next time.