Product Description A Winning Formula for Selling to Women Around the World
Avon has come a long way since handing out its first perfume sample back in 1886. The company, long famous for ringing customer doorbells, is now the world’s largest direct sales organization-with almost five million representatives in more than 140 countries.
AVON: Building the World’s Premier Company for Women is the first book ever to show how this cosmetics juggernaut achieved such incredible success, while revealing secrets any business can use to effectively market products of all kinds-especially to women.
Founded in 1886 by David McConnell as California Perfume Company, Avon had the purpose of distributing perfumes to customers the easy way through bringing products directly to them. Eventually the company’s name was changed to Avon after McConnell visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
With over five million representatives in over hundred countries, Avon is known as the world’s largest direct selling company.
In order to become an Avon representative, one must pay $10, which is considered to be a very cheap investment considering all other MLM companies start-up costs.
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Are you looking to work from home and heard that Avon was a great and easy way to make money? Avon is a great company and has some fabulous products and even greater prices. They are one of the fastest growing companies with markets in over 135 countries across the world. Their fastest growing markets are in China and Russia.
Avon is a direct marketing company that uses door-to-door sales, catalogs and now the Internet. Each distributor is able to have his or her own website for their customers to look at the catalog and place their orders.
A friend introduced me to her Avon brochure less than a year ago. I knew very little about Avon, other than the company’s fund raising efforts for breast cancer. I was amazed by the variety of products, and being a frugal gal, decided that, rather than purchase from my friend’s brochure, I would buy from myself at a discount.
Advice was plentiful from other Avon reps and articles published in Avon’s own “Representative Times.” The key seemed to be to buy as many brochures and samples as we could afford. We are urged to purchase demonstration products from “What’s New” to show our customers what will be available in the upcoming months. Avon representatives are known for going door-to-door handing out brochures, or standing in front of public buildings and shopping centers in an attempt to publicize their business. I knew that if this was how Avon was to be sold, it was not something I was capable of doing successfully. My limited budget and time constraints would surely hold me back. There were also my own personal hang-ups about talking to strangers that didn’t seem to mesh with the whole attitude of being an Avon representative. It is, after all, a sales job.
