At the New York Reserve Credit Center, Robinson, manager of the credit department, was receiving Chen Qiang.

"Mr. Chen, the purpose of your $8,000 loan is to open a gym?" Manager Robinson looked at a loan application form filled out by Chen Qiang and asked.

"Yes, I'm going to open a gym in New York. You know, I'm an athlete and running a gym fits my specialty. Chen Qiang replied.

"Mr. Chen, I don't doubt your athletic talent and ability, but your loan, we at the New York Reserve Credit Center still have to review again." Manager Robinson spoke.

Chen Qiang smiled, and then said, "Manager Robinson, you should know that it was Mr. Andrew of Andrew Trading Company who introduced me here. ”

"Of course I know that Mr. Andrew is our big client, but even if Mr. Andrew introduces us, we have to go through the procedure. As the manager of the credit department, I am responsible for every loan. Manager Robinson said in a somewhat unkind tone, he felt that Chen Qiang was deliberately using Mr. Andrew to oppress him.

Chen Qiang waved his hand: "Mr. Andrew, it seems that you have misunderstood what I meant, I mentioned Mr. Andrew to tell you that I still know a lot of big customers like Mr. Andrew." ”

Manager Robinson was slightly stunned, he obviously didn't understand what Chen Qiang meant.

Chen Qiang said: "Manager Robinson, rich people in New York like tennis very much, so I have met a lot of rich people, and once my gym opens, these people will become my potential customers." So you don't have to worry about my profitability at all. ”

Robinson nodded, "Okay, I'll report this to management truthfully." ”

"Manager Robinson, all I want is an $8,000 loan, and I think with your authority, I don't need to go through the top to approve this loan." Chen Qiang directly pointed out this point, while Robinson on the other side smiled and said nothing, which was tantamount to acquiescing to what Chen Qiang said.

Obviously, Robinson obviously had the authority to give Chen Qiang a loan, but he did not directly agree to Chen Qiang, but found various excuses to delay, obviously hesitating about lending to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang continued: "Manager Robinson, my future customers are all rich people, so if you can approve the belt block to me as soon as possible, I can give you a lifetime membership." ”

"Mr. Chen, you're bribing me!" Robinson said with a serious face.

"Looks like you still don't understand what I mean, there are a lot of rich people in my gym, and for you, these people are also your potential customers, aren't they? The membership card I gave you is actually creating an opportunity for you to communicate with those potential wealthy customers. So for you, it's not a bribe, it's a win-win situation. Besides, your purpose in applying for membership with me is also to reach out to more customers, this is your job, how can it be considered a bribe! Chen Qiang said.

Robinson lowered his head and began to think, as if he was a little tempted.

To do the financial industry, you definitely need to know a lot of rich people, and you also need to have a good relationship with a lot of rich people, and the managers of those bank branches in the future, who do not have the resources of a few big customers, so for Robinson, being able to contact more rich people is obviously of great help to his work. If it were possible, Robinson would be a follower behind the butts of the rich all day.

Chen Qiang saw that Robinson was a little moved, so he continued to persuade: "Manager Robinson, you can take this as an investment in me, a loan of 8,000 US dollars can not only bring economic benefits to your center, but also help your personal work." ”

"Well, Mr. Chen, you are really a good lobbyist, and you managed to impress me! I think with your eloquence and thinking, this $8,000 loan should not be a loss. Robinson nodded, and then said, "Congratulations, Mr. Chen, in three working days, you will be able to get this loan." ”

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After the Los Angeles Olympics ended, Chen Qiang once came to New York, and Chen Qiang once thought that he should be able to make a lot of money by opening a gym in New York.

However, Chen Qiang was going to return to China at that time, so Chen Qiang was just thinking about it.

After many years, Chen Qiang came to New York again, and the idea of opening a gym also came to Chen Qiang's mind again. But Chen Qiang doesn't have that much money to open a gym.

The gym is a project with a large investment in the early stage, such as venues, fitness equipment and other hardware facilities, which are all one-time investment, and once the gym is completed, the next investment will be much less.

After Chen Qiang came to the United States, he also made some money, but he was still too far from opening a gym. And because it is a national disaster, Chen Qiang plans to donate as much money as possible to support the domestic anti-Japanese war.

As a result, there was a high-level self-enriching thing, so that Chen Qiang did not dare to donate money. But this money is in Chen Qiang's hands, and it is useless for the time being, Chen Qiang plans to invest this money. But Chen Qiang doesn't know anything about stock futures, and he doesn't know anything about things outside the sports industry, so he still decided to invest in building a gym, after all, this is an industry that Chen Qiang is familiar with.

But Chen Qiang's money is not enough to build a gym, so he can only use other people's money to "borrow chickens and eggs", that is, to seek loans, and because Chen Qiang has no property in his hands, Chen Qiang can only choose a credit loan.

The amount of fast credit loans is generally not very large, and even if Chen Qiang is a celebrity, he may not be able to get a large amount of credit loans.

The most important thing is that Chen Qiang is a Chinese, if he is an American sports star, it will be much easier to apply for a credit loan, even if it is not an American, it is a sports star in the United Kingdom, France, or even Germany, it is possible to apply for a large credit loan from a bank in the United States, but Chinese, it is really difficult to apply for a credit loan.

There is no way, this is the treatment of the citizens of weak countries, even in the future generations. It is definitely easier for Singapore to borrow money from everywhere than Bangladesh, if Saudi Arabia borrows money from other countries, just hearing the name of this country, the Federal Reserve will bring money to the door and kneel down to beg Saudi Arabia to borrow, but if Somalia borrows money from other countries, hurry up and get out of the calf!

At this time, Chen Qiang could only rely on fooling, he knew a lot of rich people by teaching tennis, and then used this as an excuse to say that he wanted to open a high-end gym for rich people. In the end, Chen Qiang was really fooled and succeeded, and the Robinson manager was willing to approve the $8,000 credit loan.

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In the United States in the late thirties, gyms were nothing new. During the Los Angeles Olympics that year, Chen Qiang had seen gyms in the United States, and Chen Qiang also complained about those simple fitness equipment.

As early as the end of the nineteenth century, gyms have appeared in the United States, but at that time, gyms belonged to the exclusive place of aristocracy, and there were special etiquettes for going to the gym for fitness, such as formal dress, men should wear suits and ties, and women should wear dresses and high heels, making it as grand as attending a banquet. So now go online and look for photos of those early gyms, all of them are people in suits and leather shoes.

And in the thirties, gyms gradually began to be popularized, and this popularization also began in the United States. Especially after the economic recovery of the United States, the sports industry in the United States began to flourish, and with it, more and more ordinary people began to enter the gym.

From the end of the thirties, the American economy began to develop in great strides, and the Second World War greatly stimulated American industry, which also created a large middle class in the United States. An ordinary worker can support his wife, three children and two dogs on his salary, and can afford to live in a suburban villa and drive a car, which is a true portrayal of Americans at that time.

Because of this, when Americans' material life gradually became more affluent, they began to pay attention to the quality of life, began to pay attention to health, and a large number of ordinary people began to pour into the gym. So in the United States at this time, gyms are definitely a sunrise industry, and there is still a lot of room for development. This is also the reason why Chen Qiang chose to open a gym.

What's more, Chen Qiang knows how to use the gym to make money, and he knows how profitable the gym is!

In the gym of the future, it is full of various routines, which are difficult to guard against, and of course Chen Qiang knows these routines. As a professor at the University of Physical Education, there are not 1,000 but 800 of his students who have been coaches in the gym, and even many students themselves run gyms, so it is naturally easy for Chen Qiang to know the routines of the gym.

In the era when the Internet was so developed in later generations, there were still many people who were tricked by gyms, and people in the thirties, in the face of those gym routines, would be 100% fooled and lame, so as long as Chen Qiang opened the gym, and then used the routines of the gym in later generations to fool people, he could easily make money.

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The $8,000 loan, coupled with the fact that Chen Qiang already had some money in his hands, was enough for Chen Qiang to open a large-scale gym in the bustling area of New York.

One of Chen Qiang's clients is engaged in real estate, so Chen Qiang found a place from him that he could use to open a gym.

This was followed by remodeling, renovation and additions.

Chen Qiang specially ordered a boiler, and he was going to build a bathroom in the gym. In later generations, the bathroom was obviously the standard in the gym, but in the thirties, bathing was not a very convenient thing, so the gym at that time was not equipped with a bathroom.

The boiler is a large item in the gym, in addition to the boiler, Chen Qiang also needs to purchase a batch of fitness equipment.

When it comes to fitness equipment, one has to mention a guy named Gustav Zander.

Gustav Jander is a Swedish doctor who originally studied medical devices and wrote a manual for the use of medical devices, but before he knew it, the medical devices that Gustav Jander was studying became fitness equipment. At the 1876 Exposition, Gustav Zande won the award for best mechanical design for his fitness equipment, which made him famous, and he went out of Europe and into the world.

It was also in 1876 that Gustav Zand established the "Zander Institute" in Stockholm, which can be regarded as the first gym in history, and in 1895, the Zander Institute came to New York, and the "New York Times" at that time called the Zander Institute "exposed to a cold industrial feeling everywhere", "hundreds of fitness machines are arranged in an orderly manner, and the cold and hard lines of gears, levers, and hinges cannot help but remind people of the horror of torture instruments".

In the eyes of later generations, the fitness equipment at that time was indeed more like a torture tool.

However, with more and more people's demand for fitness, Gustav Zander's fitness equipment gradually expanded to 146 countries around the world, so the gym at that time, if you want to buy fitness equipment, you go to Gustav Zander's company.

However, Gustav Jande died in 1920, so Gustav Jand's company was run by his descendants.

Chen Qiang naturally looked down on the fitness equipment designed by Gustav Zand, and in the eyes of future generations, the fitness equipment in the thirties was ugly, rotten, and unsafe.

So Chen Qiang simply designed various fitness equipment by himself according to the appearance of fitness equipment in later generations, and then took the design drawings and went to the factory to customize.

At the end of the thirties, there was no shortage of factories in the United States, and at that time, the factories in the United States could produce everything they wanted, from large heavy machine tools to small screws. New York is the core city of the United States, and there are many factories nearby, so it is not difficult to find a factory to produce gym equipment.

Chen Qiang only runs a gym, so the demand for fitness equipment is not large, and many parts of the equipment do not even need to be modeled, and can be made by hand-beating.

If it is placed in the United States in later generations, this special part is either purchased abroad or printed with 3D, but in the United States in the thirties, there were a large number of senior fitters in the factory, and the industry of that era has not yet entered the era of automation after all, and the production of the factory mainly depends on workers, not machines.

This makes it easy to customize fitness equipment, after all, there are many skilled workers, and everyone can quickly assemble a fitness equipment by knocking and beating together.

Although Chen Qiang's gym has not yet opened, he has already started to promote it and start applying for a membership card.

Membership is nothing new in the United States, at that time, many clubs and clubs, using a membership system, Gustav Zander opened the "Jander Institute" in the United States, also using a membership system.

However, Chen Qiang's membership system is different from other gyms, other places only start to handle members after opening, while Chen Qiang starts to handle membership before it opens.

In the future, this is also a normal phenomenon, the future gym, how to wait until the opening of the membership to do membership, all before the opening of the start of membership.

And before it opens, there will be more discounts and more giveaways for members.

Chen Qiang also adopted this method, and those who came to apply for membership before the opening were all 50% off!

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