Effective Fundraising Using Avon Products

I have done several fundraisers over the years and the one consistency that makes them very successful is the civil cooperation from everyone involved. The whole purpose of fundraising is to create awareness for your cause, raise money for you cause’s research program, and to recruit other individuals that will help in fundraising and PR. 

As a Sales Representative for Avon, I have the ability to set up online fundraisers for your cause. It doesn’t cost me anything but taxes accrued during the fundraising event. It doesn’t cost you or your charity any money to get an online fundraiser organized with me. I don’t collect an income from your fundraising event. I do however earn incentives from Avon that will allow me to increase my earning potential on my own personal sales, not fundraising sales.

I do put in hours of my time for free as a volunteer for your charity to set up the event, help create flyers, set up a unique web page and links, press releases, and use social media marketing to help promote your fundraiser’s cause. I do not have the financial resources to donate my personal customer’s sales for every cause. The only money the fundraiser will get is what is generated from the online event.

So here are a few tips that will help you increase your online fundraiser event’s sales.

1. Once we have the flyers created for your Team’s Event we will make jpeg images to post on Blogs, Facebook Pages Photos, Flickr, etc. This will give us a link that we can share on Twitter, my blog (Beauty4Charity), for press releases and you can print the flyer to hang on boards at the grocery store, Laundromats, put in the church bulletin, and hand out to people that you just come in contact with, like a cashier, receptionist at the doctor’s office, at the bank etc.

Typically a flyer will have the info of the charity, the person’s name or Team Name were supporting, a logo of the charity (with permission) to show it is authentic, how to go online an order or order through a representative of the charity (you), and contact information for the charity, the team manager, and Avon rep.

2. The only way you’re going to get sales for your fundraiser is if you will actively tell people about it. 

Letting people know the features and benefits of buying Avon products does not make you an Avon Sales Rep. You’re not selling Avon products, your giving your family, friends, co-workers, etc. an incentive to donate money to your charity and support your cause. Your fundraising market is everyone. Meaning, your team that is formed of friends and family that you recruited to help you support someone you know that may be suffering from a serious disease are the same people that will go to a supermarket or department store and purchase fragrances, bath & body, cosmetics, and other health and beauty products.  The real benefit of buying Avon products for your cause is that it helps support your cause.

Scenario: Mary is on your team and your support Michael that has a serious disease. Mary typically raises $1500.00 per year towards your team’s goal. Mary shops at Walmart and spends on average of $30.00 per month on everyday health and beauty supplies totaling $360.00 per year. Walmart will keep all of the profits made from Mary’s purchase.  If Mary and 3 of her closest friends would spend $30.00 per month purchasing Avon totaling $1080.00 per year; Mary just earned $432.00 for your Team’s Goals. Mary probably knows 5 friends that know 5 friends, plus not to mention your direct network of friends that cannot come out of pocket and support your cause but would love to know that a portion of the proceeds from the health and beauty products the buy everyday will go to help you.

3.  Are you really serious about fundraising? Being a serious fundraiser takes discipline, you have to be able to go out and talk to people share with them the seriousness of the cause you support. Some people are grateful for the work and efforts I put into creating, managing, marketing, and promoting online events through Avon for their cause, but being grateful to me is so small. Generating sales for your cause and promoting awareness is more important and that should be the focus. Put into actions and your gratefulness will generate sales.

Supporting the cause is the number one reason I do this. Any Avon Rep can choose to do fundraisers or not. I do because it is the least I can do. I have a full time job and I sell Avon. I am not financially rich and cannot support every cause and non profit I would like. I volunteer my time and my profits from Avon’s Online Events to show my support. We cannot depend on government funding to help every non profit, but we can depend on each other, and purchase health and beauty products for charity.

Jennifer Hill

Avon Sales Representative

http://jennhill.avonrepresentative.com/

Halloween Fundraiser to Support 3 Year Old Hemophiliac

Avon Rep Donates Income for 3 Year Old Hemophiliac

Local Avon Rep Donates Income for 3 Year Old Hemophiliac

August 21^st-October 25th 

Tipp City, Ohio………..Try explaining to your 3 year old boy that he cannot wrestle around with other kids, or play pee-wee football because he could bleed to death. That’s what Randi Kidder, mother of 3 years old Cayden Kidder of Tipp City, Ohio must be cautious about and deal with everyday.  “We have to be extra careful with Cayden a small cut or a simple bruise from falling down could cause serious problems.” says Randi.

Cayden was diagnosed with Von Willebrand Disease, a common form of Hemophilia, a blood clotting disorder that affects over 1% of the United States population.  Jennifer Hill a local New Carlisle Ohio resident learned about Cayden through a co-worker and Cayden’s Grandmother Jamie Stratton. “Jamie mentioned how much more difficult it is having a child that has Von Willebrand Disease compared to the normal day to day 3 year old”, says Jennifer. “I wanted to do something to help”

Jennifer is an Avon Sales Representative that serves the entire Southwest Ohio Region and a mother of a 4 year old and 5 year old has set up an event to help raise funds and awareness for Cayden.

Jennifer says, “You can go to department stores to buy cosmetics, skin care products, and fragrances, but they may not be able to donate 100% of the profits from those sales to help people like Cayden, especially in this stressed economy. I can do that with Avon’s entire inventory and for victims like Cayden, it’s the least I can do.”

To help support victims of Hemophilia, please go to http://jennhill.avonrepresentative.com/ . Shop for your favorite Avon products and use the code “TeamCayden2011” at checkout and 100% of the profits from the online event sales will be donated to the Hemophilia Organization for Cayden.

The Hemophilia Walk will be held on October 23, 2011 at the Ohio State University. Registration is at 9:00AM and the Walk at 10:00AM

For More information about Hemophilia or to make a donation directly to team Cayden please go to http://my.e2rm.com/TeamPage.aspx?teamID=220750&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hemophilia.org%2fwalk%2f

For more information about fundraising please contact Jennifer Hill or Bryan Moore at avonrepjennhill@gmail.com or call 937-623-1255.

SOURCE: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-press-releases/view-press-release/?p=20472

HELP SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH HEMOPHILIA

Look Beautiful While Giving Back

I have come to realize that being an Avon Rep is not the best way to make a living. It’s great to have a little extra cash every couple of weeks, but I have a full time job, full time mother, soccer and baseball coach, and at times I cannot “follow up” on my customers or go out and recruit new prospects and reps.

I have determined at this point that I will not collect an income from Avon; instead, I will donate 100% of my commission to help non profits raise money for their cause.

This is how it works:

First- Your non-profit must know people that use: Makeup, Skincare, Bath & Body, Fragrances, Hair Care, Jewelry, Fashion, Home, Children, and Men Products. They must also buy those products at grocery stores, department stores, and other retail or web retail oriented locations.

Second- Your non-profit must know people that understand if you buy any Makeup, Skincare, Bath & Body, Fragrances, Hair Care, Jewelry, Fashion, Home, Children, and Men Products from local retailers or online that those companies are probably not going to donate any of the proceeds from your purchase to your charity, unless, you spend months organizing, developing, and contracting with the big corporate offices to get their involvement. However, I seriously doubt that Walmart will donate any proceeds to your non-profit from purchasing health and beauty products.

Third- We set up an online event for your non-profit and give you a special link to track sales. The non-profit is encouraged to share this link with their network of friends, family, clients, and sponsors. You will see in the image below information about your non-profit, including the organizer’s name and contact info (good advertising source), and a big button that allows the traffic you send to the link access to shop only through your link, i.e. ‘Shop My Online Event”. If the individuals don’t click that button to shop we cannot track your sales.

Fourth: Your non-profit will receive a copy of my commission sheet. Avon’s commission sheet is very structured; however, the Avon commission is paid before Avon takes any fees. For example, if your non-profit shares the link with 100 people and only 10 of those people place an order, Avon charges a $0.75 order processing fee per customer transaction ($7.50).  Anyone that orders through an online fundraising event is responsible for their own sales tax and shipping fees. We also have a $7.00 monthly web fee as this allows us to create and run the online events successfully.  We charge $25.00 for administrative fees.

Why do we charge an administrative fee? We contribute to society. We create jobs. Not for individuals to sell Avon per say, but to help us create online events, market them via social media Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, they also get vocational training in advertising. For example, if your non-profit wants to utilize this unique fundraising opportunity you will be featured on all of our outreach material, such as a custom Facebook Event Page we create that includes your logo and links, advertorial or editorial (you provide) that will appear on our Blog, daily tweets and post during your participation, pushing more traffic to your company url, blog, and event fundraiser. That is a lot of exposure to pay someone to give your non-profit attention for only $25.00. Most online event fundraisers last for two weeks as this gives you and I plenty of time to market.

Let’s say for example the 10 individuals that ordered through your online event purchased $1500.00 worth of product. We get 50% commission on $1500.00 =$750.00. Our fees would be a total of $39.50; your non-profit gets $710.50 as a gift or donation directly from me.

Fifth: Your non-profit will receive payment via direct deposit, Paypal, or check, plus a copy of our commission invoice, access to track sales online 24/7, and lots of social media exposure. This fundraising opportunity is 100% risk free. If your non-profit collects less than $100.00 in fundraising sales we will waive our $25.00 fee, order processing fees and web fee still applies.

Please take a moment to consider the features and benefits of this opportunity. Can your friends, family, colleagues, and clients benefit your cause by purchasing bug spray, or soap, or Reese Witherspoon perfume for their wives?  Please try this 100% Risk Free and use this as another income source that will benefit the cause you work hard to support.

Jennifer Hill

Avon Sales Representative

http://jennhill.avonrepresentative.com/