Tang Zifeng bragged in front of various machine tool companies, saying that the sales of Canglong machine tools could reach 20,000 units. But so far, he has only one overseas salesman, Bao Nana. Of course, Bao Nana developed an assistant like Liang Zile, which Tang Zifeng didn't know. During this time, Bao Nana and Liang Zile provoked the sales task of Canglong Machine Tool in the United States, and the two were tired and happy.

After Linyi built a prototype of the machine tool, Tang Zifeng sent five to Bao Nana and asked her to help find sales in the United States. With Tang Zifeng's thoughts, Bao Nana just went to explore the way for him to see if there was a market. If the market situation is good, Tang Zifeng will consider sending special sales personnel from China to the United States to carry out a comprehensive promotion. If the market reaction is very cold, then Tang Zifeng will have to re-evaluate the product to see what causes it to be unpopular.

With Tang Zifeng's impression, this kind of machine tool should be more popular in the West in later generations, he has seen more than once in newspapers and magazines reports on the use of this machine tool in Western families, and these different reports do not reflect the same family thing. In China, this kind of machine tool has also had a certain sales, especially in the circle of military fans and industrial parties, and having a machine tool like this is something that can blow for a year and a half.

China's domestic demand can only wait for more than ten or twenty years, after all, the Chinese people in the 90s of the last century were still very poor, and few people could come up with a few thousand yuan to buy such a toy. However, the level of economic development of Western countries at this time is not much different from that of 20 years later, and the products that can be popular in 20 years should also have a market in this era, which is Tang Zifeng's judgment.

After receiving the machine tool sent from China, Bao Nana asked Liang Zile to disassemble one for trial. Liang Zile is also a liberal arts student, but as a boy, he has a somewhat mechanical feeling. He bought a bunch of handmade audio-visual materials in the video store and made up for them for several days, and finally figured out the essentials of turning, milling, drilling, and other operations. He assembled the machine according to the instructions, did some cutting operations, and the more he used it, the more he felt that this machine tool was wonderful. He believes that those Americans who have an organic processing foundation will have a strong interest in such machine tools.

Bao Nana will not operate the machine tool by herself, she is more from a woman's point of view, observing the appearance of this machine tool. Tang Zifeng also took this problem into account when arranging the Canglong Research Institute to design this machine tool, and he specially asked Li Kejia to invite a student from the Academy of Arts and Crafts to do the appearance design of the machine tool, including lines, colors and the distribution of some small LOGOs.

After such beautification, every detail of the machine tool reveals the beauty of the post-industrial era, which makes this machine tool not only able to touch the heart of the male owner of the family, but also make the female owner willing to pay for it.

After determining that Canglong machine tool is a good product in the market, Bao Nana and Liang Zile began the process of promotion. The duo rented a van, left the machine tools assembled into a toolbox, and went from house to house visiting local furniture and appliance retailers in Philadelphia.

Everywhere he went, Liang Zile laboriously opened the toolbox, assembled the machine tools, and demonstrated the functions of the machine tools to the merchants. Bao Nana is in charge of fooling around, making people feel that not purchasing this machine tool is simply a lack of heart and blindness, and will miss the last opportunity to make a fortune this century.

Everyone likes good things, and this chic design of Canglong machine tool is indeed difficult to attract attention. Everywhere Bao and Liang went, they all caused a burst of exclamations of "goose sister paper". When they heard that the amazing machine was priced at just $800 and $1,500, merchants immediately smelled the strong smell of dollars and expressed interest in selling the product, especially as Christmas approached.

"Breckenridge Furniture Company, 200 sets. ”

"Gantz Brothers, 120 sets.

"Oberbeck Home Experience Chain, 180 units. ”

“......”

After a hard day's work, back in the temporarily rented office, Bao Nana sat on the sofa and began to count the sales performance of the day.

"Zile, today and one day, we will sell 720 sets, let's make a fortune!"

After counting the total, Bao Nana shouted at Liang Zile.

Liang Zile came to Bao Nana's side, looked at the results of Bao Nana's statistics, and said with a smile: "It's really good, 720 sets were sold in one day, and according to an average commission of $25 per set, we earned it today...... $18,000!"

"Cut, look at the way you haven't seen money. Bao Nana commented disdainfully, then sniffled again and asked, "What smell? What kind of potion did you put on your body?"

"Turpentine. Liang Zile replied.

"What are you doing with turpentine?" Bao Nana raised her head and found that Liang Zile had taken off her coat, wearing a T-shirt, and was holding a cotton ball to rub vigorously on her arm, and the smell of turpentine was emitted from the cotton ball.

"What, you're hurt?" asked Nana Bao.

"No, it's just that my arm is a little sore. These machine tools have been disassembled, installed and disassembled, and they have to be particularly hard. Liang Zile explained, "When I was outside, I didn't feel that on the way back, my arms were so sore that I couldn't hold the steering wheel, and my back was ......."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Bao Nana reproached. She looked at Liang Zile's grinning expression, and rebuked with disdain: "It's really useless! Come on, give me turpentine." ”

"Here you go, what do you want turpentine for?" Liang Zile didn't react for a while.

"Didn't you say that your back is also sore, take off your clothes, and I'll wipe it for you. Bao Nana commanded domineeringly.

"This ......" Liang Zile looked nervous, not knowing whether to accept Bao Nana's kindness.

Seeing that he didn't move, Bao Nana said angrily: "You can't take it off!"

At this voice, Liang Zile immediately knelt down and said repeatedly: "I'll take it off, I'll take it off!"

"Get on the couch!" Bao Nana ordered.

Liang Zile took off his T-shirt and lay on the sofa shirtless, Bao Nana squatted down, dipped a cotton ball in turpentine, and began to wipe Liang Zile's back.

"Hehe, hehe......" Liang Zile lay on the sofa, constantly writhing, and made strange sounds in his mouth.

"What are you calling?"

"Itchy!"

"Don't scream!"

"Yes, no calling, no calling, hehe, hehe...... It's really itchy!"

"Don't bark if it's itchy, call me again!"

"Mmmmmmmmmm......mm

Finally wiped the turpentine, Liang Zile sat up and put on his clothes again. His face was flushed, he didn't know whether he was shy or excited, and his eyes began to dodge a little when he looked at Bao Nana.

"Look at your little bit of interest!" Bao Nana glared at Liang Zile viciously, and her face suddenly became a little hot. In this era, it is normal for boys and girls to have a little physical contact with each other, but at that moment just now, Bao Nana felt something strange......

"Nana, I don't think we're on the right track. Liang Zile diverted the topic.

"Why not?" asked Bao Nana, sitting lazily at her desk.

Liang Zile said: "The task given to us by Senior Brother Tang is to sell 20,000 sets before Christmas. At the current rate, I'm afraid it's hard to sell that much. We've basically visited local businesses in Philadelphia, but it's really not good, do we have to consider New York?"

"He said 20,000 sets, do you really think you can sell 20,000 sets?" Bao Nana said, "My senior brother is used to bragging, don't be influenced by him." ”

Liang Zile said seriously: "Nana, I think that the goal set by Senior Brother Tang should be achievable. If you think about it, in Philadelphia alone, we have already sold more than 2,000 sets, and the United States is so big, the market must be more than that. Especially in the Midwest, and in Texas, there are a lot of independent family farms, and our machine tools are very suitable for them, and the demand may be much more than in Pennsylvania. ”

"You don't want to sell in Texas, do you?" asked Bao Nana, stunned. It's been a year since she arrived in the United States, and she hasn't been to the Midwest of the United States, let alone Texas. In her impression, Texas should be a very distant place, very close to Africa, right?

"Of course not. "My idea is whether we should change this door-to-door sales approach, for example, to advertise." The main feature of our products is a concept, and the effect of concept advertising should be very good. ”

Bao Nana asked: "Do you know how much it costs to advertise? We didn't make much money in total, so don't advertise and lose everything." ”

Liang Zile said: "This is not true. I studied management, and I still understand the basic advertising principles. Let's plan well and strive to spend less and do more. If the advertising effect is good, it is enough for us to sit at home and answer the phone, and we don't need to drive out every day. ”

"What's the matter, you've only been running for a few days, and you're annoyed?"

"Not really. ”

"What's not, you're just lazy, how could I meet such a lazy worm as you. ”

“...... Well, I'm lazy. However, in addition to being lazy, I have another consideration, that is, the time limit given to us by Senior Brother Tang is running out. In the way we do now, I'm worried that we won't be able to sell so much, and that we will waste such a good opportunity for Christmas. ”

Bao Nana was silent, of course she was not brainless, and she raised the bar with Liang Zile just now, it was just a routine flirtation. When it comes to getting down to business, she's still serious enough.

"Advertising, the cost is too great, and the effect is not necessarily good. After thinking for a while, Bao Nana said.

"Then what do you think should be done?" asked Liang Zile.

Bao Nana said: "I remembered my brother's approach, using advertorials to sell, benefiting without cost. Didn't you say that this kind of machine tool is mainly to promote a concept, then let's make a fuss about this concept, I don't believe that the American turtle media will not be recruited. ”

(End of chapter)