Until November 2007, Janet Miller was an administrative assistant, a career she had begun 20 years earlier. That career ended when she was let go by her employer, as Helaine R. Williams reports in Tuesday’s Style section.
Two months later, Miller saw an Avon commercial urging viewers to “start your own business for $10.” Bells went off. Miller met with an Avon district manager and that very night decided to become an Avon representative. She has been selling in the Little Rock, Conway and Greenbrier areas ever since.
Miller is just one of a growing number of people turning to direct sales during the current recession. They serve as independent consultants for companies that, according to the terminology of the Direct Selling Association, “manufacture and distribute goods and services sold directly to consumers.”
Logo from Avon
Miss Masters on April 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
That is great that she went into selling a product like Avon. I guess I have a stigma about Avon from like the 1970’s that it is what bored suburban housewives do to kill time (well, besides gossip). I too have seen some Avon commercials here on TV here lately. I will sit on the fence a little longer while I decide.