Chapter 19: Finding the Market

I nodded yes, and his eyes suddenly narrowed, "How much did you just say you made in total?"

Only then did I come back to my senses and said that I had to tell the truth. I thought Kaohsiung would take the opportunity to knock me on the shoulder, but he just patted me on the shoulder: "Boss Tian, the acquaintance's money is easy to make, how can you thank me? When you come to Thailand again, how about inviting me to eat seafood and horse killing chicken?" I asked what it was called, and Kaohsiung said that horse killing chicken is a Cantonese name, which is massage. I hurriedly said no problem, and Kaohsiung asked me again if I had ever enjoyed Thai horse slaughter.

"That time with the black-hearted tour group was the first time I went abroad, so I had two meals and no massage. I replied.

Kaohsiung smiled: "When you sell all the Buddhist cards in your hand, I will take you to Thailand to experience what a real massage is." Compared to Thailand, the massage here is better than finding a dog to step on my feet. I laughed and said that it was such an exaggeration.

That night, I completely lost sleep, and I still didn't believe that I could make 30,000 yuan from this business. Pretending to go to the bathroom, I took my bag into the bathroom, took out the three thick bundles of hundred-dollar bills, and fiddled back and forth in the mirror, laughing so hard that I couldn't make a sound. I thought that this was really undreamable, I could actually make so much money, and when I got home, I put the money in bed for my parents to see, I don't know what their expressions were. At this time, someone knocked on the door of the bathroom, it was Kaohsiung, and asked me if I had kidney deficiency if I hadn't come out for so long. I hurriedly put the money away, and seeing that I was wearing only underwear but carrying a leather bag, Kaohsiung asked, "Are you afraid that you will be strangled to death by me in the middle of the night, and then swallow your money?"

I quickly explained, saying that I just wanted to see if there were any counterfeit coins. Kaohsiung laughed: "When I made the first money, I was more ridiculous than you." Lying on the bed, I scattered dozens of thousand-yuan baht bills on my body, and just slept with money covered for one night!"

The next morning, Kaohsiung and Azandukun and I were separated at the airport and returned to Shenyang. I called Huang Chengcheng first, saying that I didn't make a lot of money selling Buddha cards, so I had to borrow some from a friend, pay you back 5,000 first, and earn the rest slowly. Huang Chengcheng said again and again that I was creditworthy, and immediately provided the Chinese bank card number in Bangkok, and asked me to work hard to borrow as soon as possible and pay it off as soon as possible. I went to the bank to remit it, and when I got home, I put the remaining nearly 30,000 yuan on the table, saying that I went to Yingkou to help my classmates exorcise evil spirits and earn it. I thought my parents would be very happy, but I didn't expect them to be so scared that they repeatedly asked me if I was doing some illegal business, otherwise how could I make so much money.

I had to show them the spell casting video on my phone, because there was a college graduation photo at home, so my mother recognized Lao Yang at a glance, so she believed my words. They were very happy, and I generously distributed 15,000 to them, and the rest was deposited in the bank by myself, which was the largest deposit I had saved so far in nearly 30 years old, and it only took half a month.

Lying in bed at night, I reworked the matter from beginning to end. For someone like me, who knows almost nothing about Thai amulets and Southeast Asian culture, they can make a lot of money in the industry of selling amulet cards. There are a large number of potential markets in China, which are just emerging, and are growing rapidly. Although most Chinese still don't know about it, many well-informed people who have the opportunity to regularly contact foreign cultures have begun to pay attention to this thing, and it spreads quickly. Chinese have always been very keen on things that give less and get more, such as gambling and lotteries. It's also very practical, and he pays attention to doing things and has immediate results, and he even wants to take a cold medicine to get better immediately. The Thai amulet is effective quickly and the price is acceptable, so in China, more and more people are exposed to the amulet, and the popularity is getting bigger and bigger.

In order to verify my analysis, I sent a message to all my QQ friends and QQ groups again, asking them if they knew anything like Thai amulets and to what extent, and added a poll question: What would you do if you encountered a serious difficulty in your life? Second, spend money on Thai offerings that might help you get through the storm, such as amulets and kuman.

Five days later, I received a total of about 200 responses, and after statistics, three people were wearing Buddha cards, one person was raising Kuman Thong, and four people had worn or raised Buddha cards Gu Man. About ten relatives and friends have worn and raised. More than a dozen people are interested in learning about it, and more than forty people have heard of it, but don't understand it. In the final voting question, more than 60 people chose two.

I specially made a detailed form, 1 in 25 have been invited, 1 in 20 have been invited by someone around me, 14 in 14 are interested, 1 in 5 have heard but do not understand, and nearly 1 in 3 are likely to become users. To some, the table doesn't seem to be very useful, and the data isn't appealing, as if it doesn't represent anything, but I find it very useful.

Because I don't think anything else can be seen, and the last one alone, it's a good business. Most of my QQ netizens should be between 20 and 50 years old, not too young or too old, which represents the age of most people with spending power in China. It is found all over the country and is widely distributed. It shows that nearly one-third of Chinese are willing to find a life-saving straw when they encounter difficulties, rather than finding a way to solve it, and rush to this, this industry is promising.

Thinking of the comments made by classmate Dong about me at the previous junior high school reunion, I was even more angry. According to my conditions, I don't have any skills, and it's really difficult to get out of the way, which makes me more determined to continue selling Buddhist cards, first with a deadline of half a year, and then see the effect. If it works, just keep doing it, and if it doesn't work, it's not too late to retreat.

There were still seven or eight pieces of amulet badges left in Kaohsiung, and I thought to myself, how could I not wear them as a seller of amulet badges? It was a live advertisement, and maybe after someone asked, they would become potential customers. So I picked out a clean Chongdi card, made a primer at 12 o'clock at midnight, and began to wear it myself.

Now that you have some money, it's time to think about how to sell the rest of the goods as soon as possible. But in my opinion, the priority now is not to sell goods, but to learn. I really didn't know anything about Thai Buddhist cards, and at that junior high school reunion, I dedicated all the knowledge taught me in Kaohsiung, and I didn't leave any of them. Until now, I don't even know how many kinds of Buddha cards there are, the most popular and the most important ones, how to sell this, and the iron still needs to be hard?

So, I decided to make up for the knowledge of Thai Buddhist cards first, and the more the better. At that time, China's e-commerce was still in its infancy, Taobao was far from its current scale, and advertisements such as "You shop around, I shop around on Taobao, shop around" were often advertised on TV, and there were more fakes and copycats. In Taobao, I saw that there are really Thai Buddhist cards for sale, there are not many varieties, and the pictures are also very watery, it seems that these merchants are not expecting to ship much goods online.