Hi there,

I've been doing AVON for this year and found it not to be too successful for me. BUt I don't put enough effort in it.

The books - it depends on how many you buy, but it's about 50c a book. Your territiory has about 100 houses, and you have 3 weeks to work that territory (but you can back order for a further 3 weeks). What I was doing, was buying 30 books and working them around the 100 house over the 3 weeks. But the problem is you don't always get the books back, even though you put a not saying what day to leave them on the letterbox. As I was collecting at a night time, I didn't want to knock on doors. and ultimately lost books. So by the end of the 3 week campaign, I'd only have about 10 books to work with.

Once thing I found and my SIL too.. was it may take you a few campaigns of dropping to start getting orders. As there are so many dodgy AVON ladies out there, they just hang back and wait to see if your reliable before they order. Also, ppl leave books IN their letterboxes, so you need to check inside.

The support from avon itself - that depends on your sales manager. I haven't had a great experience, but I can see it depends on the person.

My SIL has been doing it alot for about 12 months as done very well. She has about 60 regular customers to buy nearly every campaign.

I did Tupperware as a manager for some time and dound that to be far more profitable for the time you invest. 1-2 parties a week = 4-8 hours a week = $150-$300pw in profit. You can earn up to $10Kpa tax free before declaring it.. it's counted as a hobby.

hope it helps.