More thoughts on selling Avon
I'm working on my blog today, taking a day to reflect on Avon and what it has meant to me. I'm not sure, in this moment, what I feel and think about my nearly three years as an Avon Lady. Some days are like this. I see the red balance at the end of my spreadsheet, the customers who bounce checks, the homebodies who slam doors against my samples.
Sometimes I wonder if Avon HQ knows how much this blog has contributed to its own culture, how many Avon Reps have told me that Beauty Dish helped them decide to walk that door-to-door path. If I count my saved email, just the ones from bona fide new Avon Ladies who plunked down hard cash to get their kit after reading my adventures, it numbers over 200. And many of them sold like crazy, stamped brochure after brochure, left them here and there, enough places to raise their sample coffers to the level of President's Club, those who drop a cool ten grand and more in Avon's lap. Yeah, at least 25 of them emailed me with their thanks, their gratitude. I talked 25 high sellers into existence. And those are the women who took the time to email, to offer thanks. Customers number over 8000. Eight. Thousand. Just the ones that took the time to email and tell me what they thought after they bought a product due to one of my reviews. It all adds up to incredible revenue for Avon, at my best guess a cool million bucks, and probably five times more, due to a blog from a dirt poor Southwest blogger who can't even pay her damn telephone bill.
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4:57:22 PM 
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