Chapter 22 Brother Pig and I went to talk about business
There are many opportunities in a person's life, whether you can surpass yourself and elevate your life to another different height, it all depends on whether you can seize the opportunity.
Opportunity is like a loach, even if it is caught by you, once it has a chance to touch the lazy dirt, it will still slip into the lazy dirt and you will never find it again. Only by seizing it and putting all your energy into realizing it can we make this opportunity truly valuable.
I rode to find Brother Pig, which was the first step to make the opportunity a reality. When Brother Pig was not too busy, I chatted with him about the thoughts in my heart, Brother Pig's brain was really good, and his eyes lit up while listening. I believe that many people will be familiar with this kind of light, just like the lustful man who sees the stunning beauty, and the excited light of the best hunter after seeing the best prey. I knew he was already interested in this matter, and when I looked at the time, it was past seven o'clock, and he asked me to contact the old customer first and ask for the specific address.
He went to the company to report first, and then went back to the place where I sang to meet me, and then the two of us went to the boss to negotiate, his words were exactly what I wanted, there was nothing to say, we went our separate ways.
When his electric car left, he didn't forget to turn around and praise me: Very good, you have worked hard. I happily replied, "That's who I am." He smiled and continued: "The stinky rascal's body doesn't stink."
I'm faint, which pot is this that you don't open and mention? Believe it or not, I really called my sister-in-law and falsely accused you of flying colorful flags outside and making you kneel under the bed and sing "Conquest".
When I got in touch with the old customer, asked for the address, and rode a bicycle to the place where the song was played, about half an hour later, I saw Brother Pig riding an electric car.
As soon as he got out of the car, he asked me to park my bicycle in the room where I was singing, and he drove me in an electric car towards the factory, which had 20,000 down jackets. At this point, I felt like a warrior, and all I thought was that I had to conquer this mountain.
When Brother Zhu and I contacted the owner of the factory through that old customer and asked him at what price he wanted to sell this batch of down jackets, he actually wanted to sell it to us at the retail price in the market.
Are we really new and don't understand the market? You know, for most of the year, Brother Zhu and I have traveled all over Hangzhou. We basically know how much the price of many things, whether wholesale or retail, is, and he still wants to blind us, which is really blind. No wonder there was no way out in advance when the financial crisis came, so that no one wanted all 20,000 down jackets.
What's annoying is that he would rather no one want to burn it than sell it to me and Brother Pig cheaper. This reminds me of the scarcity theory in economics: when there is a surplus of a certain commodity, it is not sold at a low price, but disposes of three-quarters of the commodity, which causes the market to be in short supply, and the price of goods will naturally increase very quickly. In the end, the cost and profit are counted, and the three-quarters disposed of can be made up with the remaining one-quarter of the profits, or even exceeded.
I looked at the uncle in front of me, who was dressed very plainly, and muttered in my heart: Could it be that he knows such a profound theory? Want to play with me and the pig?
Brother Pig talked with the factory owner for several hours, the progress was very small, and I couldn't talk about it at all, I was a little annoyed, and I wanted to pull Brother Pig away, and I didn't want to talk to him anymore. Brother Pig's interest is very high, and he chats with the factory owner about this and that, and even where is his home? Why did you come to Hangzhou to work? How did you get into this business? Talked about it all.
I glanced at Brother Pig several times and hinted that Brother Pig should leave early, don't waste time here, but Brother Pig stopped me with a very stern look, and then he looked at the time and said that it was just time to eat, and he must invite the factory owner to dinner. He also said that it was a great fate to be able to know the factory owner, and he also had to ask the factory owner for advice, and the most numb thing was that he also said that he had a long experience chatting with the factory owner, which made him understand a lot of things, and after listening to the words of the factory owner, he found that he had read so many years of books in vain, and he had not lived well in the society in recent years.
I really don't understand, if you praise him, praise him, why do you devalue yourself so lowly? If you are living a very poor life in this state now, then don't I have the courage to live at all?
The factory owner hesitated, then excused himself and said that there was something to push away Brother Pig's invitation to him to dinner, Brother Pig smiled and said that it was okay, next time I came over and asked the factory owner to give him a chance, so that he could do a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, and then told the factory owner that he was going to settle in Hangzhou.
This guy got a citizen card and was going to settle in Hangzhou, so he really regarded himself as a Hangzhou person. After saying goodbye, we found a small restaurant near the factory, ordered two dishes, and sat there, Brother Pig excitedly said what he thought was a good thing.
"This thing seems to be very dramatic." The look on Brother Pig's face was very excited.
Got a play? Why didn't I see it? How do I feel that the boss has been making things difficult for us and is unwilling to sell us his products at a low price?
"Could you be mistaken? His attitude today was very unfriendly, and he refused to even invite us to dinner. ”
"You can't make a mistake, it's normal to have an unfriendly attitude, whoever encounters a good contract, and finally no one wants the goods that have been produced so hard, and there are still people who come to the door to rob while the fire is on, they will be angry, and if they don't blow us out, it's good."
Brother Pig's idea is really special, but if you think about it carefully, it is not unreasonable, I thought that Brother Pig and I went to help the factory owner, and the two of us were the saviors sent by God to rescue him from the sea of suffering, but in the eyes of the factory owner, we are two hateful villains who take advantage of the fire to rob.
Alas, our handsomeness and kindness are completely demonized in his eyes at the moment. I wonder if this is the sadness of society? But he really can't be blamed for all this, if you want to blame the financial crisis, if you want to blame money, you can blame money.
In the final analysis, in fact, money is not sinful, it is people who are guilty, it is people who break through the bottom line of morality, and think about making money with a clear conscience, which led to the subprime mortgage crisis, and it is precisely because of the subprime mortgage crisis that the turmoil in the global financial system and the global financial crisis have been triggered.
"As for inviting him to dinner and being rejected by him, this is what I expected, the reason why I said invite him to dinner is actually to test him and see if he is really so resolute?"
"Then you have tried it out now, and his result is so resolute."
"On the contrary, he was actually considering our proposal, otherwise he would not have hesitated for a moment to decline our kindness."
"Then you mean: we can do this business?" I was really skeptical, and I felt that this boss was refusing from beginning to end, but why did Brother Pig see it completely different from me? Is this the gap? And then is that what he often says to me? Isn't there a big difference between me and his vision?
"I don't dare to say 100 percent, at least 80 percent is okay." Brother Pig seemed very confident, and even picked up the cup of tea, and toasted with me instead of tea.
After drinking tea, Brother Zhu still didn't understand me, so he analyzed it to me step by step, and I listened very carefully, because I knew that this kind of on-site field teaching is rare, and not everyone has the opportunity to encounter it, so to speak, this is a business class that will not be taught in MBA classes.
"You see I'm talking to him about this and that, don't you think I'm wasting my time? Why don't we two sit here drinking tea and talking, right? ”
"That's for sure, it's useless to ask about that." That's what I thought, and I might as well sit with him over tea and have a practical chat, find a product to sell, or get some gloves and helmets like he did in the morning, and then discuss where there is a market in the morning.
"You're wrong, greatly useful. Am I gathering information to find out where he's from? What does the family do? Did your ancestors always be in business? How many years have you been in Hangzhou? What have you been doing? When did you start your own factory? What were the difficulties at the beginning of opening the factory? And how did he go about selling his goods? Did you encounter any difficulties in the process of selling goods? And how did he solve it? ……”
"Wait, wait, where are you? These things have nothing to do with us buying his down jacket at all, okay? How to sell the goods? Difficulties in the sales process? Why don't you ask him how old he is to marry his wife? ”
I'm confused, these things don't have anything to do with our business.
"I really asked. Hehe, you hear about me first, let me ask you: do you think it's very unnecessary to talk about this, you should always talk to him about business matters? ”
"Of course, I don't want to talk to him about this, we just do business with him, don't talk about business, and talk about useless things, what's the use of collecting this information that doesn't have a shelf at all?"
Although it is said that it is now an information society, many people are using information to make money, but people are commercial information, and these household things are completely different concepts, Brother Pig, are you sober?