Contagious enthusiasm

My Oriflame career began back in 1969 when my aunt organized a “home party” at our house. Of course, she asked me to become an Oriflame consultant too. I quizzed my friends about Oriflame first because I had never even heard about it! But I soon took to Oriflame like a duck to water.

By the early 1970s I had become a Director* and started working full time for Oriflame. I guess my enthusiasm was contagious because I was able to recruit a lot of people. Listening to the experiences of people from other regions at my first Jubilee

Meeting, I realized what a huge difference one person could make in improving sales. At that moment I decided that if the others could do it, I could do it too! And in almost no time at all, my group was growing  very rapidly.

In 1989 I had more than 100 Consultants in my group, but I wanted even bigger challenges, and was soon appointed as Gold Director.

Today I have 27 groups, and one new Gold Director* has grown out of my region – we had forty groups before the split came. I still plan to grow out one or two more new Gold Director* by the end of the year. There are many good, young Directors* in my region, and I want to help them all to make their own way within Oriflame.

Today I devote almost all my energy to Oriflame and I can see the results: we’re one of the biggest regions in Finland and sales are great. Thanks to our excellent results I was invited – among other things – to participate in the big Oriflame Conference in Malaysia in January 2005.

 I have a lot of wonderful friends in the Oriflame family. I’ve matured as an individual and learned to understand different people. Apart from financial security, Oriflame has brought spiritual wealth to my life as well. The path to success may be challenging and demanding, but  believe me, it’s well worth taking!

Sirpa Mäkitalo
Gold Director
Finland