Avon Rant

Last night, I was watching (listening) to LMN as I surfed the web. Avon's recruiting ad is running, and quite often! That's a GOOD thing, except for the very end of the ad.

They say to "Call your Representative", and maybe some customers actually will call their Rep to help them get started.

However....they also have the toll-free number and a website shown on the screen too. Those leads go to the District Managers, according to zip code; not to the Leadership Representatives.

Every time Corporate runs these TV ads, the DMs get a ton of new leads; many times, more than they can actually get to. And, they aren't "allowed" to pass leads on to Reps. They can actually lose their jobs for that!

My suggestion, as if it actually matters what I think:

Rotate the leads between Leadership Reps and the DMs covering the various zip codes. Wouldn't that be helpful and fair to all?

Of course, Corporate benefits more if a new Rep is signed by a DM. There's a new Rep/customer out there, and they aren't paying any Leadership Bonus money to an existing Leadership Rep!

I need to get more ink, so I can print extra flyers and labels--I need to get some of the folks who the ads "get to", for my Team!