Tag: avon
member name: Birdie Jaworski
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August 07, 2006 09:51 PM EDT --
The first time I met Ulak he stood in line at a coffee shop along the Pacific Coast Highway. I stood behind him, stared at the tufts of black and gray hair sticking out from the back of his neck. My God, . . .
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September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . .
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October 13, 2006 09:38 PM EDT --
Chelle lives in one of those cream-colored cookie cutter homes at the top of skull hill. The native people named it Calavera, and until the builders dug into the hard scrub dirt, no one knew why. The bulldozers . . .
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July 30, 2006 01:59 PM EDT --
Last fall, Avon Corporate made a power play. The hell with serving half the world! We're applying phallic logic! They printed thin glossy catalogues featuring items like battery-operated nose hair . . .
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August 09, 2006 10:07 AM EDT --
One of my customers ordered the new Avon Thinner Digital Precision Body Fat and Hydration Scale. Aimee lives alone, in a second-story brown stucco condo facing the west lagoon. I spent an hour with her . . .
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September 28, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
The Church of Scientology constructed an elaborate underground bunker to store the works of L. Ron Hubbard just twenty miles from my home. They cut it in secret, deep into steep sides of a scrub-tiled . . .
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August 15, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
"Mesmerize" your audience, Dave!
The top ten reasons why David Letterman needs an Avon Lady:
10. Add pizazz to your pencil toss with Avon Glimmersticks! It's America's number one eye-liner! . . .
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October 17, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
A young Navajo man sits outside the most popular breakfast place in town. Niyol sits cross-legged most mornings as I walk my boys to school, sits with the same ripped jeans, the same black sweatshirt that . . .
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August 08, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
A few days ago a woman called me. She found my Avon brochure in a dumpster behind the grocery, she said, it was missing the front cover and smelled like old fish, and she wanted me to visit, give her a . . .
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August 08, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
Just having a little fun with my Avon business....
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June 10, 2007 07:58 AM EDT --
As some of you know, I have been selling Avon for three years, as well as blogging about my wacky adventures as an Avon Lady... until last week. I quit Avon, for reasons both simple and complicated. I . . .
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April 01, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
As a prominent Avon blogger, each quarter Avon sends me an advanced sample of a new product. Regular reps get the same advanced sample one month later. Honestly, most of the time these advanced samples . . .
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August 06, 2006 10:50 AM EDT --
Listen to the Avon Prison Blues here!
The Avon Prison Blues
© me, apologies to J. Cash
I hear the truck a comin'
the delivery man's my friend,
and I'll be packin' product till . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
50 Creative, detailed ways to leave your Avon (or other home-based business) brochures, samples, and business cards with potential customers!
Hi! My name is Birdie, and I sell Avon…
I sell . . .
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August 03, 2006 10:46 PM EDT --
Two nights ago I gathered up a handful of the latest Avon brochures, fifty of the new Avon Men's Catalogues, a bag of men's Ab Cream samples, and my demo bottle of the brand new Today fragrance . . .
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August 05, 2006 08:57 AM EDT --
My Avon District Manager keeps emailing his troops with Exciting Promotions. Sell thirty-six bottles of Extraordinary - get six bottles free! Make your Fourth Quarter the Best Ever! Some months he throws . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:18 PM EST --
Some weeks ago I carefully encased a boxed bottle of Derek Jeter's new Avon fragrance for men, Driven, in three inches of bubble wrap. I twisted two good turns of black duct tape around the plastic . . .
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January 20, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
My Turkish friend, Ulak, drove from San Diego to visit me. He drove with the soft marine winds at his back, drove a day, a night, through the Mojave, past the City of Sin, into the sand art plains of Arizona, . . .
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March 16, 2007 08:10 PM EDT --
I recently completed writing a full-length book based on my experiences selling Avon in So Cal (prior to moving to New Mexico a little over a year ago), as well as the incredible journey I had meeting . . .
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April 07, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
Avon divides its brochures and website into easy-to-figure-out categories. Skincare. Haircare. Fragrances. Bath and Body. Men's Products. Makeup. Fashion and Gifts. Outdoor Protection. The section . . .
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