To consider joining Avon?

[Cosmogirl86]

I have two twin boys, aged 8 weeks and I'm not sure what will happen after my maternity ends due to childcare cost etc.

I'm considering joining Avon as a work from home job but I am not sure. Any one here have experience of it? I intend to sell mostly online, using social media to advertise.

How did find it. I genuinely don't want to be torturing my family and friends every month to buy things but I'm not sure how easy it is to gather a customer base

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@YouokHun That is your opinion but it's working great for me!

@YouokHun I also don't have a huge down line, I have around 7-8 reps in my team and make most of my money through being a representative.

It’s an opinion based on years of studying the outcomes for people signing up to these schemes. Your individual experience is not verifiable nor does it cancel out the reality of the poor numbers. Honestly, I’ve seen some real damage done to people wrapped up in these schemes. I’m glad @Tasd you feel your experience is good but it’s not true for the vast majority.

I did it a few years ago. I always made something but only enough to buy toiletries and makeup. I wouldn't do it now. The products especially the makeup are really boring. When you look at revolution, nyx etc all the amazing colours, effects etc avon is way behind and lacking. The woman across the road does it and barely anyone orders anything.

Another no. I did it about 25 years ago (was only 13/14 so had to be in my mum’s name officially). Made no money - there were a few other reps in my area and I ended up tramping the streets in the dark trying to collect catalogues etc. I only did it a couple of months and stopped as I ended up paying them to work!

I would’ve thought it’s a really outdated business model these days, I’m guessing it was started when most women stayed at home and didn’t drive? Now, everyone can either get to Boots or Superdrug as pp said or order direct online.

I am going to buck the trend and give my positive experience of Avon.

I was a rep for 5 years and gave up about 5 years ago when I went back to work full time after taking an extended time out after having my children.

I was one of the most successful reps in my area, making Presidents Club every year. I was a team leader, but very few reps lasted so the vast majority of my earnings came directly from my own sales. If I did it again I wouldn't bother with a team, but just my own sales. I found it easy to find customers in my territory, and from my large network. The products sell themselves, so you don't need to push them.

Now, I was a successful rep, BUT I would only class my earnings as 'good pocket money' - I calculated that I was earning about £10 an hour. I only put in 1-2 hours a day, so it's hardly going to make you rich.

I know the business model has changed recently away from territory, so selling to whoever you like, but I can't see how you are going to make money without some serious legwork. Over half my sales were from my territory, and I had a VERY large area. I would doubt that online sales alone would get you very far.

That said, Avon is a reputable company with good products. I still buy them 5 years on :)

Don't forget you will need to register as self employed and fill out a tax return, which is a bit of a hassle.

It depends. When I initially did it, my Ds1 was a baby, I made money most months. This was through selling to my friends, family and work colleagues (I work in an all female workplace) I also delivered to the houses in my own street and had a few customers. By money I mean £30-£40. At Christmas I once made £100. I tried found Avon again about 2 years ago and I was scraping £10-£15 most months. Then I started buying stuff for myself and ended up owing them money every month and not making anything! It is never going to be a massive money maker

@Cosmogirl86

I wouldn't. It's a lot of work, many hours, and lots of trotting around roads and avenues, hoping people are in, often having to go back 3 or 4 times, and hoping they'll have the money for their stuff (so you don't have to go again!)

I have had FOUR Avon ladies start in the areas where I live, over the past 7 years (2 in the last area I lived, and and 2 in this one.) They dropped the magazine off, then came back once or twice and then gave up, and I ended up not getting my order. One woman dropped the mag off, took my order, and then never came back! SHE didn't even give it a chance really. But I do get that it's a lot of hours of work for very little.

Weirdly, pre 2000s, I knew a few women who did the Avon for YEARS! The one who used to come to my mom's house, did it for 25 years! (Late 1970s til around 2003.) 3 or 4 other women I knew did it for at least 15-20 years too. (During the 1980s and 1990s...)

Don't know a soul who does it now.

I tried Avon for a while and lost money as did a friend who tried to do it on maternity leave. I think if you want to make decent money doing it you have to know a lot of people and put a lot of time and effort in to it.

I wouldn't,very poor quality,none of it animal friendly and you are not looked after.The TROPIC range is lovely and vegan.
Have you got a hobby?perhaps ,if you have the time,make something to sell on ETSY,Facebook,or at craft fairs?

I did it before the internet was invented, and again about eight years ago.
Never made much money either time but if people order from the internet they get their stuff quicker. So that’s what they presumably did, as I didn’t get many customers.

If you have a large client base like an office fair enough. If not you pay for the brochures, go round the houses, get a few orders, pay for the stuff and try and deliver it, and nobody’s in so you end up going back and forward two or three times. What a waste if my time and petrol. It’s not with it.

My friends daughter did it a couple of years ago and wasn’t successful either.

If a territory is good the chances are the rep will hold onto it. So the majority of available territories are rubbish. It’s ok if you like makeup and stuff and basically spend what you make on the stuff, but if you don’t have a good client base it’s no use.

could you register as a childminder & do school age children?