Are you looking to work from home and heard that Avon was a great and easy way to make money? Avon is a great company and has some fabulous products and even greater prices. They are one of the fastest growing companies with markets in over 135 countries across the world. Their fastest growing markets are in China and Russia.

Avon is a direct marketing company that uses door-to-door sales, catalogs and now the Internet. Each distributor is able to have his or her own website for their customers to look at the catalog and place their orders.

David H. McDonnell who was at the time a door-to-door salesman who sold books founded Avon in 1886. He would give out perfume to his female customers to encourage them to buy his books. The perfume became more popular then the books. He then founded the California Perfume Company in New York, NY.

His company started to grow; he knew he needed someone to help him sell, which is when he hired his very first representative, Mrs. Albee. Avon has over 5 million representatives now and still growing. You can be one yourself if you enjoy meeting people in your neighborhood. Do you want to be your own boss and work on your schedule?

Your earnings will depend on you and your ability to sell in a way that will you're your customers where they will want you to keep coming back. You can be a traditional Representative, or you can be trained as an Avon Beauty Advisor. And by introducing the opportunity to others, you will help your business to grow.

Avon is a huge commitment, fun to sell, but it is not as easy as it looks. You will have some customers that will call you for their favorite product. You will on the other hand, be making flyers, passing them out, (great job for your kids). You will be purchasing samples, cards, bags, and everything else an Avon customer expects from their sales rep. You will also need to take into account the time to deliver your products. They usually want you to stay and visit, which is great when you have the time. This is when you make the most sales.

The reason I know this is because I sold Avon for over a year. The first few months I did great, had wonderful support from my supervisor. I was excited about my new business and started calling all my family and friends to let them know I was selling Avon. I asked them all to please order something to help me get started. I then tried to do the business while also running a day care business and there was too much commitment with the latter and I was forced let go of my Avon business. I was not making enough with my Avon business to make it worth my while; it was more of a part time income.

The most difficult part for me was that I was investing more money over time than I was actually making. I had a storeroom that was filled with Avon products that I ended up having a yard sale just to get some of my money back. I was selling the products below my wholesale because I needed the money right away.

I can't explain what the reasons are, but there is something that we, the sales reps are not told, are not able to create that success that you see the top people able to achieve. They seem to flaunt the small 10% of those that succeed, whether it is because they are investing thousands of their own money and therefore earning the accolade of achievement, I'm just not sure. But they don't let you know of the other 90% who are struggling and trying to figure out exactly what I have explained. How are they doing it? Why can't I do this successfully? What am I doing wrong? Avon shouldn't be this difficult to make money with.

I have continued to gravitate towards network marketing because I had small children at home and I was trying to earn some extra money without having to leave them.

But time and time again, I failed, but not by sitting doing nothing, because I worked very hard. While a few do well in sales marketing businesses, the majority are either off to another MLM or looking for a new j.o.b.