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I absolutely agree with singinjeannie that a person needs to have a type of personality to be successful at selling and I am not one of those type of personality either. However, I had a rather good experience selling Avon. Avon sells itself, most everybody is familiar with it and most have favorite avon products. I sold avon while I was working full time among my coworkers. All I had to do was put avon books in their office mailbox and the sales just trickled in, I had to do no selling at all. When their products arrived I would slip a note in their box with the total and when they were ready to pay they would visit my cubicle. At my cubicle I would have demo's there for them to look, which I would write off on my taxes and then later I would have many items to giveaway for gifts. It really worked out very well. I never really made any real money, but I saved a ton of money not buying gifts (I would pick out demos with a gift receipant in mind) and I also saved a ton of money on my taxes. I took the home office deduction and deducted a second phone line which I used for an interenet connection (before DSL was an option). I could go on and on about the many ways that Avon was a great second job, I won't bore you that way.

The only other thing that sticks out in my mind that is another reason that makes Avon a great business, is that it only cost $20.00 to join.(at least when I joined many moons ago) You did not have to buy a $300 dollar starter kit like some home based business require. There were no minimum sale requirements either. Again, there is ever so much more to say, but mainly in my opinion, Avon is an excellent home based business.