AVON Wall of Fame

On achieving Sales Leader status, you receive a pin badge to wear stating you are an AVON Sales Leader, a certificate - AND you get your name listed on the Wall of Fame!

Essex-Reps Website update with Essex Map

Today I have updated the Essex-Reps recruitment website with a fabulous clickable map of Essex and a recruitment page for each main area (64 in total phew!).

Here's a screenshot of the map page - you can view the whole thing at:

http://www.essex-reps.com/avon-jobs-in-essex.html

Keeping in contact with my Team

As i grow into my role of Sales Leader and strive for the next level, I would say that 80% of the role is about communicating with my team, talking to them, motivating, being there to answer questions and generally keeping in touch.

Today I will call my new Rep that I took on on Thursday last week, and another who I haven't had a chance to get a good catch up with for a few weeks except by text - I will also call done if my leads, confirm an appointment to sign on a rep tomorrow and have coffee with another lady who is interested to join later this month.

So it us all about the communication, building those bonds and strengthening my own teams communication with myself and their customers.

Sales Leader - Training and Development

WOW - A morning of training with my Area Manager...

Macdonalds, Coffee, Laptop, Sales Leader Report and a lot of listening. Cannot blog tonight all the useful things that I have learned and been shown today - must say a huge THANKS!

And to reiterate (mainly to myself) that one of the main things I learned today was to LISTEN!

We talked about a lot of things, which I could explain in detail, (and will at some point) but I am a bit tired to do it tonight - here are some of the topics we touched on:

Daily Plan Template
Sales Leader Training Academy Tracking
Keeping in contact with my Reps
TSL Checklist
Business Development Bonus
PATD (prospecting, appointing, training, development)
Q&A Documents
Sales Kit
Order form idea
Sales Leader Dev Tool
ALM
Time Management
Coaching
Listening
Achieve Meetings - 48hrs
Promoting Demos
Brochures in advance

And a lot more too.....

First Real Campaign as a Sales Leader

Tonight I've watched and waited, waited and watched as a dozen representatives in my team put their orders online.

I have kept in close contact with all of them over the past five days leading up to "order due date", just to check and help them to reach their targets, to make sure that they will be placing qualifying orders.  I want them to make money, I want them to be happy and stay with AVON in my team.  Me earning commission from their sales is secondary to this, as without enough Representatives in my team I won't remain a Sales Leader.

I have worked hard to get to this level, its the first rung on a pretty long ladder that I intend to climb up - I will work as hard as it takes to stay in touch with my new representatives, keep growing my team over the next few campaigns and achieve the next level ASAP!

Sales Leader Badge and Certificate

I have received my Sales Leader status and with it a Certificate and Badge have arrived in the post - pictures to follow...

Plan a "Planning Day"

Today, as directed by my Area Manager (who has in fact taught me nearly everything I know about AVON)...  I had a "planning day".

This has been superb, a chance to put my business in order and work SMART.

I've caught up with all the active Representatives on my team and the newbies.  As well as asking how they are getting on and if I can offer any help, I have asked them quite directly: