January 1, 1995, New Year's Day.

As the so-called "one yuan is renewed, Vientiane is renewed", only one month after the opening of the first store of Zhoumei Electric Appliances, under the advocacy and decision-making of Xiong Baizhou, it was decided to build the country's first "home appliance retail flagship store".

Liwan, Yuecheng, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street.

Several brand-new cars slowly stopped, and two people walked down from the front Passat, one was deep and calm, the other was dressed bravely and uninhibitedly, but his expression was very well-behaved, forming a great contrast.

It was Xiong Baizhou and Sheng Yuanqing.

Xiong Baizhou got out of the car, looked at the bustling Shangxiajiu Street, waved at the vehicles behind, and the two Buick business vehicles also came to a stop, and a group of people got off in turn.

"It's Sunday, no wonder there are so many people. Yao Xinqun walked up to Xiong Baizhou and said with a smile.

Xiong Baizhou took out a cigarette and gave it to Yao Xinqun: "After looking at a few places, I think it's still the best here, and besides, this is also the opinion of you and Mr. Liu, strive to settle it today, and it must be opened on the first day of the Lunar New Year." ”

Yao Xinqun, who was about 30 years old, said with a sad face when he heard this: "Boss, I really have to go to work on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I thought that Mr. Liu was just talking that day." ”

Xiong Baizhou said with a smile: "In the company, my words can be taken as a joke, but Lao Liu's words must be taken seriously." ”

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For Xiong Baizhou, time is money, because his layout design must be ahead of the development of the times, so that he can seize the opportunity one step ahead.

If we take the development of Zhongshankou store as the unit of measurement, then there is such a result:

On the day of the opening, there was already an idea to build a flagship store;

opened for half a month, urging Liu Qingfeng to find a suitable location;

Within a month of opening, Liu Qingfeng found several alternative locations, and even had initial contact.

It can be said that the pace of development of Zhoumei Electric has never stopped, because Xiong Baizhou will not let himself have a large amount of cash in his hands, although most of it does not belong to him.

Except for the first batch of goods obtained by the "empty gloves white wolf", after the official turnover of the Zhongshankou store, Xiong Baizhou did not take this method again, but he did not pay all the money at once.

For example, this batch of goods is worth 500,000 yuan, Xiong Baizhou will often hit about 40% first, and the others will wait until all the goods are sold out before they are called.

It is rare for channel providers to settle the payment at one time, which is also a rule established in most industries, but how much to pay for the first time and when to settle the remaining balance depends on how the two parties negotiate.

The sales of Zhoumei Electric's Zhongshankou store in the first month have exceeded 10 million, although the profit margin is very low, that is to say, there is very little money belonging to Zhoumei Electric, but it will not affect Xiong Baizhou to take other people's money to develop Zhoumei Electric.

For example, the purchase of vehicles, such as social recruitment.

In Xiong Baizhou's words, "A business without debt has no motivation." ”

At this time when Xiong Baizhou and Chen are expanding the connection to the express delivery business, Liu Qingfeng has presided over a large-scale social recruitment, in order to improve the specifications of this recruitment, in addition to advertising in the media, Liu Qingfeng also rented the conference room of the Garden Hotel as a recruitment location.

Xiong Baizhou didn't have time to participate in the whole process, but after reading the plan, he reminded that he might as well join forces with the personnel department of the Guangdong Municipal Government to hold this recruitment meeting.

Liu Qingfeng didn't expect this, and he didn't understand it.

Xiong Baizhou smiled: "After all, we are developing in Yuecheng, if we want to really take root in this soil, try to stay close to the government, so that it will be better for our development." ”

"I don't know if they'll come, after all, we're a private business. Liu Qingfeng agrees, but is uncertain about whether government leaders will attend.

"It depends on what you say, if we go directly to the invitation, they probably won't say yes. ”

"However", Xiong Baizhou paused: "If we support the government's support for enterprise development, recruit talents to promote social and economic progress, and then support their work by the way, even if no one shows up, we can always borrow their name." ”

Liu Qingfeng nodded, in fact, the focus of this matter is not what is said, but how to "support their work." ”

"Okay, then I'll talk about it in the afternoon. ”

"You have to preside over the overall situation, ask Zhao Yapeng to talk, he has experience in the agency and is familiar with the doorway here. ”

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Therefore, in the end, the content of Zhou Mei Electric Appliances in the media is "With the support and guidance of the Municipal Personnel Bureau, Zhou Mei Electric Appliances has ······ this open recruitment"

I have to say that Xiong Baizhou's reminder is very effective, and there are indeed people who come specifically for the "recommendation" of the government department, but even so, there are not too many applicants, because the conditions set are very harsh:

2 deputy managers of the store management department, with a minimum degree of full-time bachelor's degree, and more than 7 years of work experience;

1 deputy manager of advertising and publicity department, minimum full-time master's degree, more than 5 years of work experience;

1 deputy manager of the administrative office, with a minimum degree of full-time bachelor's degree, and experience in studying abroad in management is preferred;

1 deputy manager of the market purchasing department (key account department), there is no educational requirement for this, but the condition is that there must be work experience in state-owned enterprises and private enterprises.

In terms of salary, Liu Qingfeng did not introduce much, but simply wrote: the minimum monthly salary is 3000, and the others are negotiable.

At the level of 10 times the average salary, even though the conditions were very harsh, the number of people on the day of the interview still exceeded Liu Qingfeng's expectations.

The elite of the interview were very surprised to see that the final boss was actually a young man, but what surprised them even more was Xiong Baizhou's question, there were only two.

1. What is the corporate culture of Zhoumei Electric?

2. How to implement this corporate culture in your department.

The first question can't be answered, no matter how high the professional level is, Xiong Baizhou won't take a second look.

Xiong Baizhou also taught them a lesson, when applying for a position, they must have an understanding of the company's core system, and those who stayed in the end were candidates who made Xiong Baizhou more satisfied.

You must know that Xiong Baizhou was the boss of the enterprise in his previous life, has rich experience in reading people and selection criteria, and has experienced economic development and changes in social atmosphere after 20 years, so he can have a correct answer to the second question, and his overall judgment on social development is basically reliable.

Yao Xinqun is one of these people, he and Feng Jingzhou are both deputy managers of the store management department, and they are in charge of the store layout of Zhou Mei Electric.

Several people came down from the two Buicks.

Cen Jianbo, deputy manager of the Advertising and Publicity Department;

Zhao Yapeng, deputy manager of the market procurement department, and Guan Cairang, both of whom have work experience in state-owned enterprises, government agencies and private enterprises;

Zeng Min, deputy manager of the administrative office, she and Zhou Wei are the two golden flowers of the current management of Zhou Mei Electric.

Zeng Min is in her 30s, she already has children, she has study abroad experience, according to her, a woman can't let her husband raise her, her husband works in Procter & Gamble's Yuecheng branch, and now the monthly salary is a little higher than Zeng Min.

On New Year's Day, there was a lot of traffic, and people kept passing by, Liu Qingfeng came over and sighed: "The place is really good, but it seems to be a little messy here?"

"What's the mess?"

"I came to visit the store that day and learned that there were some hooligans going door-to-door to collect protection money. Liu Qingfeng also knows that in this kind of particularly prosperous place, some things cannot be avoided.

"I'm in debt right now, so it's better to give them money and let them support my career. "Xiong Baizhou haha.

Liu Qingfeng saw that Xiong Baizhou was so optimistic, and he didn't think there was any problem, and now the whole environment is like this: "Let's exchange money for peace, it's nothing." ”

Sheng Yuanqing listened to it next to him, "hehe" smiled, who will take the money, and who will change the peace, this matter is really uncertain.