You can make money selling Avon products. In fact, the company has been around for over 100 years, so it isn't likely to be going away any time soon. It's a company you can depend on for reliability. Its products are household names, easily and instantly recognized and trusted.

It's important to understand that you will not be working for Avon. You will be working for yourself under the Avon plan as an independent contractor. Avon will sell you their products at a reduced price. It is your responsibility to sell the goods making a profit from the sale.

When you sign up initially you will be asked to pay a fee of at least $10. This enables you to make a profit of 50% for the first four projects, a period of eight weeks. After that your profit margin will be anything from 10% to 50%, depending on the product being sold.

You will also have to deliver the products you sell to your customers. For this reason you probably need to have your own car or transport of some kind, though you could deliver on foot if you want to.

However, you need to build up a customer base first and foremost. You will need to contact a lot of new customers to get started. You can advertise in a local newspaper or in a shop window if your local stores agree.

You may have to pay to do this. You could also have a flyer printed that you could give out free. In any case, you should have a business card listing who you are and what you can supply.

Make use of the Internet too. Set up your own website. Get a hosting account with the likes of HostGator and your own domain name from GoDaddy or NameCheap. Use the free WordPress blogging software to make the website and plan what will go into the site. Promote it through article marketing every day for at least a month and you will see positive results.

The best way to make money selling Avon products is to constantly work at it. You have to keep promoting yourself relentlessly. You need to contact new customers constantly until you have at least 100, but more is better.

Once you have a group of customers you can rely on, and remember that there will always be the occasional drop out, you need to market to them constantly to encourage them to buy from you. Once a customer does buy something through you, follow up afterwards in say a week's time to see how they feel about the purchase.

This is your ace card. Unlike the big stores in the local mall, you can offer the personal touch. Never think you have offered enough personal touch, always go that extra mile and over deliver whenever and wherever possible.

If the customer thinks he or she is getting more than they expected, they will be happy. A happy customer is more often than not a repeat customer. And the wonderful thing about repeat customers is the fact that you don't have to do anything to get them to come back to you. That's how to make money selling Avon products!