Moving up in Moldova

My long road to Oriflame began at the end of June 2000 when our friend, Sergey Zaytsev, came to visit us. He knew we were experiencing financial difficulties. Olga and I had just got married and were living with our 5-year-old daughter Diana in a small room which we rented for US$15 a month. I had already tried my hand at traditional business, and also had some experience in network marketing.

But our life was a struggle for survival in those days. Olga was working in a bookstore, earning US$27 dollars each month. I was selling newspapers that I produced myself. We were disastrously short of money, as we had to pay interest on debts we had incurred during my early forays into business and Olga’s participation in a financial pyramid. So Sergey’s offer was intriguing and timely; however, we didn’t agree to register at once. It wasn’t until we met his sponsor, Dmitry Mytzykov, that we finally decided to join Oriflame.

At the invitation of Alexander Polikhun, a Sapphire Director at that time, I went to a seminar in Kiev, and we soon had four qualified recruits. Then for a while I didn’t pay very much attention to Oriflame, and started to move from one company to another in search of faster money. But two active months culminated in good results, and it was then that Yury and Svetlana Finogenovy, who are now both Gold Directors, joined our structure.

While I was looking for fast money, Olga continued to offer the products and work with clients. When our daughter Alina was born in April 2001, I brought catalogues and orders to the maternity hospital together with "Pampers".

 Then, in December 2001, when I was trying hard to sell apples in bitter cold Podolsk near Moscow, Olga managed to earn more in a week than I did in a month and a half. So in January 2002 I dedicated myself 100% to Oriflame. Nine months later we reached 21%, and by November 2003 I was a Gold Director.

My plans? The soldier who doesn’t want to become a general is a bad soldier! So my ambition is to reach the President Director’s title and become No. 1 in the Oriflame world. I want to become a world-famous lecturer and see full stadiums of Consultants attending my lectures.

For me, Oriflame has proved to be the path to real prosperity and wellbeing, where everyone can succeed both materially and personally. Here’s my advice for someone thinking of a career at Oriflame: hold 3-5 meetings with new people each day, and help them to register with the company. Show five catalogues every day, attend every seminar held by the company or your sponsor, set goals and make sure to reach them. In a year you’ll become a Director, earning US$ 500-600 dollars in just three weeks – and in Moldova, that’s a lot of money!

Anatoliy Prizenko
Gold Director
Moldova