Avon: A Direct Marketing Review

Working from home and developing their own direct marketing small business is an idea many Americans are looking to engage in. Certainly you have heard of Avon; a very large company and still growing. They are one of the fastest growing direct marketing companies in over 135 counties; even growing fast in China and Russia.

Founder, David H. McDonnell, gave up selling books when the perfume he gave female customers became more popular than his books. Because of this, in 1886 he started his own small business, California Perfume Company, by direct marketing the same perfume. But before long he knew that he needed to hire a representative, Mrs. Albee. Avon. To this day she has over 5 million representatives and still hiring representatives.

Many entrepreneurs are looking for a company with excellent products that are easy to sell. As a direct marketing company, Avon uses door to door sales, catalogs and the internet. Every distributor is given a website for their guests to visit and place orders; thus making sales more abundant. You too can become a representative, work from home and own your own small business while learning how to use direct marketing to your favor. You will meet many new people in your neighborhood and even in your community. Don’t you want to own your own small business and work from home?

As an Avon representative, you will need to have the ability to sell the cosmetics and perfume, not to mention all the other products available. Becoming a trained Avon Beauty Advisor is a better way to make money than being a representative for a couple of reasons.

First, as a trained Avon Beauty Advisor you have the credentials backing you. In today’s economy and society, people love credentials. If you have been trained by Avon, then you know what you are talking about which makes your customers trust you and feel like they have their own personal beauty advisor. Who doesn’t want a beauty advisor?

The next reason is recruiting people to become representatives and trained Avon Beauty Advisors. When you meet a successful entrepreneur, don’t you want to find out what they are doing to have financial freedom? If you were offered the same opportunity to create the same kind of success, wouldn’t you give it a shot? Skeptic or not, the curiosity is brewing inside and to answer that curiosity, you need to give it a try.

As with any direct marketing business, Avon is a huge commitment and takes time to build a small business into something profitabel. This is an actual work from home opportunity with a very real potential to make money. You need to design, develop, and distribute fliers, In addition to purchasing samples, cards, bags, and whatever else it takes to make sure your customers have an awesome Avon experience.