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Ocala.com:
Going to a party these days involves food, friends and a checkbook.
Sales parties are taking over more and more living rooms, but it’s not just Tupperware and Avon this time around. Women are being invited to people’s homes to buy cookware, candles, jewelry and scrapbook products. Parties are even popping up where guests leave with [...]

Guardian.co.uk:
My only interaction with an Avon lady came when I was temping in a small office in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. I recall a shadowy character who would turn up sporadically, basket over arm like the witch/queen from Snow White, sending the seven 55-plus ladies into something of a cosmetics frenzy.
Debbie Davis is neither shadowy, nor [...]

MiamiHerald.com:
For a parent, it sounds like the best of both worlds: working from home so you can make money and spend more time with your kids.
The lure of work-at-home companies is especially enticing at a time when many moms can’t afford to be without employment anymore and even those who have an outside job may [...]

The Dispatch:
Tomboy Tools is helping to raise money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer through the sale of products sold through local sales consultant Kathy Shoaf.
A percentage of Denver-based Tomboy’s sales for the month on certain products in its “Pink for a Purpose” campaign will go to help the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade. The [...]

LATimes.com:
Amid rising unemployment, more Americans are selling cosmetics, vitamins, kitchen knives and other goods to their friends and neighbors. Or trying to, anyway.
Industry figures suggest that as the ranks of salespeople grow, the increased competition is making it harder for many to move merchandise. That has left people like Lisa Wilson stuck with closets full [...]

Reuters:
Check Out one analyst’s view of direct sellers.
Jefferies analyst Douglas Lane said quarterly results from direct selling companies — like cosmetics maker Avon and storage and serving containers maker Tupperware — bolsters his positive view on the model, which uses sales representatives to promote its products.
Referring to Avon, Tupperware, Nu Skin, Herbalife and Usana Health [...]

Wired PR News:
The recession has reportedly ushered in a new wave of sellers of products made by companies like Tupperware and Avon. As reported by Reuters, the number of people seeking to earn additional funds for direct sales work has increased significantly due to the economy.
Judy Montalbano, a Tupperware sales representative, is quoted by Reuters [...]

Philly:
Direct sales, like Avon, Herbalife and Pampered Chef, are tried-and-true opportunities that existed long before the Internet. And right now, they’re experiencing a resurgence in interest from the public. Pampered Chef, a company in Addison, Ill. that sells kitchen tools, has seen an 8 percent increase in the first half of 2009, says Andrea Rossell, [...]

Washington Post:
Mary Kay, Pampered Chef and other direct sellers aren’t just pushing people to buy these days. They’re trying to get them to sell.
Even as the industry made famous by the Avon lady and Tupperware parties struggles with falling consumer demand, its best-known companies are actively recruiting sales representatives by offering the prospect of [...]

Reuters:
The Tupperware party is back and Avon is calling again, ushered in by the U.S. recession.
In the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, women are selling everything from eyeliner to food containers to make extra cash — boosting profits at companies such as Avon and Tupperware.
The flexibility of such work means [...]