Starting Your Business on a Budget

Only $15 to Start a Business?

As I am writing this post, I am listening to a video by Lisa Monoson.  She is one of the high up people in the Avon world.  I like listening to her voice and her tips are great. And she also shops on Ebay for labels !  Go figure !  The video I am watching now is how she has her office organized -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fynmlKfW7_s -- oh I wish I was so organized !

But, yes it is true ... You can start your Avon Beautiful Business with only $15.  For $15 you will get 20 brochures (10 for the campaign that you start in and 10 for the next campaign), 2 What's New Magazines (tells you what is coming up in Avon), an order book, 2 full size products and a Be Extraordinary Booklet.

Contents of the $15 Kit

For Your $15, you also get an E-Store where your business can be open for you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.  And with that online training that can also be accessed 24/7.  So what's the catch?

There's no catch.  You don't have to have fancy labels or business cards or opportunity flyers.  Just remember to have your name, contact information, and website address on each of your brochures -- writing it on the brochures can work for now just be neat!  Use your full size products, take the products around to use as demos, or sell them -- it's up to you -- it's your business!

Now you just have to get out there and start selling.  Avon offers online training and an online office for you.  If you don't have access to the internet and a computer or tablet or smartphone, see if your friends or family will let you use theirs.  Or you can go to your local library or other place that provides free computer and internet use.  

There are additional items that you will need to download from the internet for your business that will help you immensely as you start out.  The first one is the head to toe collection that only you can sell as a brand new Avon Independent Representative.  If you didn't get it in your kit, you can download it 

Daily Care Collection

here.  This set is a collection of items that most people will use and it is only $19.99.  The second thing you need to download is this follow up tracking guide.  Avon repeats that over and over in various training videos and most of the Independent Sales Representatives' videos on You-tube also mention follow-up.  

Following up with Your Customers

If you put your emphasis in your first campaign to selling this collection, hand out all your samples (that you get in your kit) and you follow-up regarding those samples, and make sure that for every brochure you hand out that you get information for follow-up (and you actually follow up and talk with your potential clients).  Plus you ask your clients about the mini skin care quiz in the brochure, then you'll have made a solid start. You should start with your friends and family, but you should also start getting used to from the very beginning to selling to strangers.  When you start, friends and family will be eager to help you, but after the first few campaigns they will be "tapped" out.   

So while they are still excited to help you, have them take a few brochures to their work or to their Church.  You may only know 5 people, but if each of those 5 know 5 (that's 25) etc etc. Make sure you carry brochures everywhere you go.  Once your relative/friend has looked at a brochure and placed an order, get the brochure back.  Remember you only have 10 brochures at this point.  However, if you really have a need for more brochures, contact your upline (the person who signed you up or their boss) and see if anyone has extras that you can have or buy. 

When you place your first order, and you should wait for your upline to help you place your first order so you don't mess up any incentive Avon has in place for new Avon Representatives, you can order more brochures for your second campaign (if the 10 included in your starter kit isn't enough).  

For growing your business, there are very experienced Representatives who recommend spending the $21 to order an extra 100 brochures.  So if you have 10 customers in the first campaign, then order 100 for the next campaign (10 for your customers, and 100 to share to others, thus growing your business -- remember you already had 10 from your starter kit).  So that would be approximately $42 every month you would be investing in your business.  But realize that the more you grow, the more brochures you will be ordering for each campaign, and the cheaper the brochures become.

Pack # of brochures cost each total
10 brochures $6.49

20 brochures $8.89
30 brochures $11.39
40 brochures $13.69
50 brochures $15.09
60 brochures $16.09
70 brochures $17.39

80 brochures $18.29
90 brochures $20.09
100 brochures $21.49

 More packs: $21.49 (for first 10  packs(100 books)
+ $1.69 for each additional pack of 10

That's it for now -- come back in a few days for part II.  Thanks.


Cindy Peterson aka Gato
Anew Skin Care Expert
Avon Independent Sales Representative

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Starting Your Avon Business with the "Right" Attitude

Do You have the "Right" Attitude?

Little = BIG

Ok you have paid your $15 (for your basic Avon starter kit) or your $100 (for your deluxe Avon starter kit).  You have opened your Avon E-store.  You have sent out emails to all your family and friends that you are selling Avon.  You have sold a few head to toe collections (which only can be sold by new Avon representatives in their first campaign), but you aren't getting the tons of orders that someone has told you that you would do.

So now what is your response?  You quit.  You did not have that much time or money invested anyway, so it's on to the next thing.  But, wait a minute.  Didn't you start this business with a dream or a goal?  Well you won't achieve that dream or goal if you quit.

Double Rainbow at the Anchorage AK Airport

But what if you discovered that you absolutely loathe trying to get people to buy from you?  Well, that's different.  If you find that selling is not for you, then you shouldn't stay with it.  But if you like selling, but you are discovering that it is harder than you thought, well then that's when you shouldn't give up.


Starting a business takes a lot of time and investment of resources.  Even if you are starting your beautiful business on a budget, it will still be some time before you will start seeing a big return on your investment.  Very few people fall into selling enough Avon their first campaign so they can achieve President's Club (PC) -- (someone actually did this by selling Bug Guard to a sports team).

So when you start, work with your upline to develop small, realistic goals.  Then as you achieve those small goals, work on bigger goals.   That way you are feeling as if you have accomplished things and that will help to keep you encouraged along the way.  However, you should also have decided at least one big goal at the beginning of your business -- perhaps the "why" as to the reason you started your Avon business.  Whether that is having enough money for a down payment on a house or a running car or having enough money to take the kids to McDonalds -- that is up to you.

But remember that although your goal might be to make money, it is not the reason why most of your clients will buy from you.  Your family or friends may buy from you because they know you need the money, however unless you have an extremely large family and friends network, you will have to eventually sell to "strangers".  And "strangers" will want to know how it is beneficial to them to buy from you.  So that means you have to be interested in people, listen to them when they tell you their issues, have good advice for them on the products that would be best for them.  Basically, learning about the products and how they can help your individual clients.  It is NOT all about you.  That is the attitude you have to have to start building a successful business.

It will take an investment in both your time and money.  And you have to have the right attitude.  Without these things, your beautiful business will be nothing than just a dream.

Cindy Peterson aka Gato
Anew Skin Care Expert
Avon Independent Sales Representative

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