In campaign 13/14 you will see the launch of Avon’s mineral makeup. I have been a follower of Mineral Foundation from Geishaface for a year now, and it makes my skin flawless, in its appearance and texture. My face has never looked so perfect without makeup. Natural mineral make up heals your skin and it is suitable for problem skin.
I have ordered myself a sample so I can review this product for you!
Avon is not an instant earner. Its like any business it takes time to develop. Never feel rushed being an Avon lady. Take thinks at a pace to suit you and you will reap the rewards. I have. I am now getting a steady £50 every 3 weeks for around 2 hours work. In a few months I would have increased this to £100 I am sure. I work full time so its better than working in a bar or being a waitress for extra money!
Judith - Kingswinford, West Midlands
Get the brilliant Mousse Foundation for £5 in Campaign 9 and also the new lipstick lip gloss for £5! This issue is great for makeup lovers and Avon Anew lovers!
Buy Avon Anew Plump and Smooth Lip System and get Anew Clinical Eye lift Free!
Buy Avon Anew Clinical Deep Crease Concentrate with Bohylurox and get the Line and Wrinkle Corrector FREE!
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Campaign 10 is a FASHION edition so keep your pennies for the superb jewellery deals starting Wednesday! Get hold of your Avon rep now!
Avon hits the high street
To launch our new look make-up and gain maximum coverage, Avon is taking to the high street!
Avon’s stylish stands will be appearing all over the country, featuring makeovers, manicures plus the very latest products complete with the new black packaging.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to take a closer look at Avon and see what’s on offer!
Where and when?
| 27 - 29 April | thecentre:MK | Milton Keynes |
| 4 - 6 May | West Quay | Southampton |
| 11 - 13 May | Drake Circus | Plymouth |
| 18 - 20 May | St David’s Centre | Cardiff |
| 25 - 27 May | The Bull Ring | Birmingham |
| 1 -3 June | Arndale | Manchester |
| 8 - 10 June | Lakeside | London |
| 15 - 17 June | Queens Gate | Peterborough |
| 22 - 24 June | The Metro Centre | Gateshead |
| 29 June - 1 July | Castle Court | Belfast |
| 6 - 8 July | Mahon Point | Cork |
| 13 - 15 July | Leeds White Rose | Leeds |
| 20 - 22 July | Braehead | Glasgow |
Taken from the Avon Website. Get your self down to a venue!
Product Description from Avon:
Now you can visibly reduce the overall length, depth and number of deep expression lines around your eyes, mouth and forehead, the areas that are in motion whenever you show emotion. Our exclusive multi-patent pending Bo-Hyluroxâ„¢ technology - a powerful blend of natural active ingredients. How it works: Relaxes with Portulaca: An Avon patent-pending extract helps you lose those hard-to-treat creases while keeping your facial expressions, naturally.Fills with a booster: A multi-action complex boost Hyaluronic Acid, a gel-like substance that gives skin its fulness, helping the formula to fill in deep creases. With every drop discover the at-home alternative to line-relaxing injections. 1 fl. oz.Proven results: Instantly reduces crow’s feet and frown lines.After 1 week diminishes the appearance of deep lines and wrinkles around eyes and forehead.For optimal results, use with Clinical Line and Wrinkle Corrector….
Reviews from customers:
My Hyper-Critical Mother Even Noticed the Results!
Because I am near-sighted, I have deep creases between my eyes above the bridge of my nose. I started using this product in my late 40s when it was first released. IT REALLY WORKS!Works great!
This product works great at reducing the lines on the forehead and in between the eye brows, it also works good around the mouth. I find this product as good as the $80 dollar Dior Serum and to ME the price is EXCELLENT compared to the high end lines which offer similar serum products.Immediate results great - Long term disappointing
The product does a great job of almost immediately erasing very deep expression lines I have had since before I was 20 (I’m now 28). However, the effects wear off within 4-6 hours. Using twice a day really does help the effects last longer - like 6 hours instead of 4. But by the end of the bottle I did not see long term effects. Pretty much the same lines every morning. I did not buy another bottle. My mother (52 years old) loves the product and swears by it after her third bottle. Try it and see if it works for you.Almost magic
I have gone through three bottles of this product, and almost cannot imagine life without it. Even my mother was hinting that botox might not be a bad idea for the deep creases between my eyes - I was 50 at the time, and thinking about the second half century! and decided that I should try something. I have never used Avon products, but the ads for this were intriguing and it was on sale…Almost immediately I saw the deep creases diminish - after about two months they were virtually gone.
I have since tried other Anew products, and they aren’t bad, but this one is almost magic. It smells good, it feels great, and IT WORKS!!!
The Scotsman has this great article on being an avon lady
‘AVON calling!” is their war cry, the streets their battlefield, and lipsticks, mascaras and blusher their weapons of choice. This is Avon’s army of sales ladies: a crack squad of beauty commandos who are about to be sent forth, spreading the word that the make-up brand with the mumsy image has had a multi-million pound facelift.
Their 1960s’ advertising slogan, “Ding dong… Avon calling”, may still be firmly entrenched in the public’s psyche but, let’s be honest, Avon hasn’t been ringing bells for a number of years. It’s not that the products are unpopular - one in three British women are Avon customers, and more women wear Avon nail enamel than any other brand in the world - but the brand’s unsexy image means few of us are likely to shout about our beauty buys. The perception seems to be that Avon is unfashionable and outdated.
It also tells us about the new beauty campaign Avon is driving in Spring 2007:
Cue Avon’s new 2007 spring advertising campaign - the biggest in its 120-year history - called Hello Tomorrow. Designed to reintroduce the brand to an indifferent consumer base, one of the world’s oldest beauty companies is boldly facing up to the future with slick packaging and billboard shots in shades of pink that are impossible to ignore.
and illustrated their best sellers:
AVON’S BESTSELLERS
SKIN SO SOFT & SENSUAL DRY OIL SPRAY
KNOWN for its ultra-moisturising qualities, soft scent and - bizarrely - its ability to ward off bugs, this £5 body oil is their bestselling product of all time. Loved the world over, crates of the Skin So Soft range are even shipped across to the Arctic Circle, where the Inuits love it for the way it soothes their weatherbeaten skin.
A NEW CLINICAL EYE LIFT
THEIR top-selling product of 2006, this wonder-jar promises “smooth eyes without the scalpel”. With hi-tech ingredients claiming to boost elastin and collagen production, this is what you’d expect from a high-end anti-ageing cream - yet this one costs only £15.
ADVANCE TECHNIQUES QUICK TOUCH LEAVE-IN CONDITIONER
ONE of the first leave-in conditioners on the market, this detangling cream was discontinued in 2000 and replaced by a liquid spray. However, it soon became Avon’s most requested bring-back product (at £2.50 for 250ml, it’s no wonder) and it made its comeback in 2005.
RICH MOISTURE FACE CREAM
THIS no-nonsense cream just does exactly what it says on the jar and provides all-day moisturising. Helped by the £3.50 price tag and its non-greasy formula, it’s one of the bestselling face creams in the world.
ONE TO WATCH… INSTANT MANICURE
AVON is already the world leader when it comes to nail varnish, but a new product - instant manicure - was used backstage at this year’s London Fashion Week and became an instant hit among the time-starved catwalk models. Used instead of a liquid nail enamel, these nail-shaped self-adhesive stickers cost £5 and come in a variety of shades. All you have to do is choose one and stick them on to your nails.
So watch our for many many avon reviews in this up and coming advertising campaign! Prepare for the turf war! Watch out superdrug!
Avon ladies conjure up a very particular image in one’s mind. They have immaculately manicured nails and not a hair out of place. They live in suburban bungalows, surrounded by white picket fences. And, when you look at their newspaper cuttings, you notice that they are mentioned mostly on the problem pages of tabloids. “I’ve had a ding-dong time with [an] Avon lady” is the first thing I come across.
This is a great article about the evolution of the Avon lady. A far cry from the lilac clad woman in Edward Scissor Hands. Even though its a great look!
I love reading articles about Avon, this one from the BBC’s Money Program says:
The modern day Avon lady still goes from door to door just as the first rep did 120 years ago.
In the UK alone, Avon’s army of 160,000 sales reps has an estimated eight million customers and one in three women have bought an Avon product.
But the growth that the company enjoyed has ground to a halt.
The value of the shares in the company has fallen by 30% over the last year and a half and Avon’s chief executive, Andrea Jung, has called for the company’s very own make-over.
Women’s opportunities
Women selling cosmetics to women directly in their home has been a winning formula that has resulted in the present day Avon having a presence in more than 100 countries with a total revenue of $8.1bn (£4.2bn) and more than 5.1 million reps worldwide.
This unique way of selling cosmetics came about by chance.
In 1886 a book salesman David Hall McConnell was giving out free perfume to housewives to encourage them to buy more books.
However, his customers were more interested in the perfume than the books so Mr McConnell decided to forget about the books and concentrate on making and selling his own perfume.
His eureka moment came when he decided to use women to sell to women at a time when they did not even have the right to vote.
Tired image
Although the Avon Lady and her brochure offers a unique personal service direct to your home, in this age of instant gratification why wait 3 weeks for your Avon lady’s return visit when you can easily get similar products from a high street store with more razzmatazz?
n the UK in particular, it seems that the company is trapped by one of the most memorable but dated advertising campaigns.With a non-existent high street presence and no sustained advertising since the 1960s, Avon is struggling to tap into the youth market that is so dominated by glamour and celebrity.
Brendan Martin, a brand expert from Identica, is concerned that while “most cosmetic firms are reinventing themselves every four or five years in terms of their packaging design and their advertising, Avon has lost all that because it is out of the media arena”.
Avon Man
To sort it out, Avon is committed to doubling its global advertising budget and Andrea Slater, Avon’s president in the UK and Republic of Ireland says the UK “is certainly going to get their fair share of that”.
Ms Slater also now feels that Avon is at a stage when it has to “step it up a level and really focus on the brand building pieces”.While one in three women in the UK are regular customers, Andrea is keen to ensure they “spread the word to the two in three that perhaps don’t know Avon that well”.
The company has spent £100m on their a new research and development laboratory in the US where it develops more than 1,000 new products a year.
This is to ensure that Avon keeps up in the ever-changing game of beauty and ensures that an Avon lipstick is still sold every three seconds somewhere in the world.
In the US, Avon has developed a range of products specifically aimed at the 18 to 24-year-olds and Ms Slater is very excited about its imminent arrival in the UK where she hopes it will “create additional energy and perhaps pull even more younger customers into the Avon pool”.
In the UK a new network marketing initiative has resulted in a revised company motto.
Avon is now a company for women with a few good men.
This new big money making opportunity has resulted in the Avon Men making up 5% of the total workforce.
Ross Craig from Sunderland found the first couple of weeks as an Avon Man “a bit daunting” in what had been “predominantly a woman’s business”.
But Mr Craig can easily make enough money to sell Avon products full-time and because of this new initiative he could potentially have an annual income of £90 000 from the business.
So the Avon Man is here and driven. Avon’s Men’s range is quite limited at the moment but I imagine Avon will expand to match the market. Long live the Avon Man. Ding dong will never be the same…..
I started selling Avon over 2 months ago, and I am doing very good at it. I have had enough time to build my customer base up now that I am steadily making about $500.00 a month selling Avon. I started selling Avon because i wanted to make a career change and I knew when I did, I would not be able to make the salary I am now so I had to have supplemental income without the hours of a second job. I decided to do Avon because it is a product that I love and that I knew would basically sale itself as long as I provided the customer service my clients wanted. And, I have. That’s why many of them have provided referrals. I am now getting ready to make my career change and am excited because now I will have more time with the most important person in my life, my daughter, and I owe it to selling Avon.
I found this article in the independent. This is why I became an Avon Lady and now a sales leader. No I don’t exepct to get those kind of sales but an extra £100-200 every three weeks will keep me happy. It it starts to escalate, whic knows it could replace my full time job! If you have any questions about being an avon rep or sales leadership then you can contact me for an honest approach and I will probably be able to find your nearest salesleader so you can join up!
Ding dong - the Avon lady is still calling
Want to set your own targets and choose when you work? This could ring your bell, says Caitlin Davies
Published: 27 July 2006Ding dong - who’s that woman at the door with a tote bag of make-up? It has to be the Avon lady, the butt of many a fond joke in the swinging Sixties when “Ding dong - Avon calling” became a national catch phrase. But far from fading away, Avon ladies - now called representatives - number 160,000 in the UK; more members than the British Army.
The beauty company started in the US in 1886, the brainchild of a door-to-door bookseller. In 1959, it launched in the UK, which remains one of its largest markets. Avon says today’s reps are more sophisticated and subtle in their techniques, using listening skills to succeed rather than jamming a well-heeled foot in the door. Men are out there selling eye-lift cream and after-sun oil spray, too, although normally as part of husband and wife teams.
Gail Reynolds, 35, stumbled across the job while working as a part-time accountant. She had just moved to Hastings when she saw an ad for sales reps, which promised a way to meet new people. Her first customer was her neighbour; her first order was for £135. Four years on, she now places orders, she says, of £15,000 every three weeks. “I will never go back to working for somebody else,” she says. And this is the big draw of the job; you’re a self-employed businesswoman setting your own sales targets, overseeing customer deliveries and handling accounts, and you work the hours that suit you.
New reps pay a £15 joining fee, get training and a selling guide, and can buy a starter pack with samples. Avon produces a new brochure every three weeks, from which reps order stock; a week later, the products are delivered for distribution. Orders are supplied on credit, with payment due 13 days later. Depending on sales, reps earn up to 25 per cent commission, while a sales leader also earns commission from her team’s sales.
Reps need to buy brochures and bags upfront, and if they don’t meet the minimum order requirement (£72), there’s no commission. Drawbacks include the occasional product being out of stock, and having to get cash from customers, not cheques.
Avon’s website states that the job gives reps the chance to earn £500 or more a month. But most reps, like Jacqui Gymer, 50, work just a few hours a week to earn some pocket money. She sells only to work colleagues in Essex because she doesn’t fancy knocking on peoples’ doors. But she says Avon products have a good reputation. “It sells itself and people like it,” she says.
Reynolds is on the other end of the scale, as she’s a sales leader. She recruits other reps, including her husband, Brian, a former supermarket manager. They work 10 to 60 hours a week each, fitting it around their three children. She has her own website (www.gailsavon.co.uk) and is in charge of 160 reps, whom she stays in close e-mail contact with. “Some women are painfully shy,” she says, “but I just say, bless you, after your third campaign you’ll be fine.” Her youngest rep is 18; the oldest 81.
Apart from being friendly and good at selling, Reynolds says you need to be reliable and have clear goals. Two years ago, she and Brian decided to buy a home - they’ve just made their first payment and Brian has bought a Jaguar.
Although Andrea Slater, president of Avon UK, says reps don’t need to be extroverts or “ultra-salesy”, many are mistresses of the soft sell. Charlie Marston, 34, is a former conference broker and hotel sales executive, and she became a rep when she moved to a village and didn’t know anyone. When a pregnant rep at a toddler group asked Marston to lend her a hand with distribution, she agreed. A year later, she is one of five Avon reps in her Stratford village and has her own established client base, fitting her work around her children and making deliveries while walking the dog.
She does her business online, spending about four hours a week at the computer. “I wanted extra income to contribute to the household, ” she says. “Now I can pay for holidays for all of us. Yes, there are lots of ‘ding dong’ jokes but then that’s what I am - an Avon lady. If you can talk to people, you can do it.”
To find a local rep, or to sign up online, see www.avon.uk.com
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