Mark. College Kids Are The New Avon Lady

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The door-to-door selling days of Avon and Mary Kay ladies might be dying out, but there’s a new generation of makeup distributors rising up the ranks.

These days, it’s all about Avon’s youthful cosmetics line Mark and a little thing called social media.

According to the New York Times, a whole slew of college girls are making some extra cash (and presumably applying it to their student loans) by selling Mark cosmetics.

Kristaunia Magnum, an Ohio State University student, became a campus sales manager and started selling the line because her mom was an Avon lady and it seemed the natural money-making thing to do.

But in addition to in-person marketing, Magnum and the sales reps use technology. “It’s really a grass-roots kind of thing, hitting the dorms, sororities, Facebook,” the marketing major told the paper.

With commissions running from 20 to 50 percent, Magnum ends up bringing home about $800 a month.

Mark’s president Claudia Poccia, explained the line’s approach to the Times: “We’ve taken the same DNA of direct selling that has always been a part of Avon’s history and applied it to the digital world for our Mark reps to reach their customers. Now, we’re offering our Mark reps the opportunity to sell products not just door to door, but on Facebook, wall to wall.”

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