Chapter 7: Some people don't count, and some people do everything
Not long after Aimee left You's house, Hanson began to get Danny away: this guy is terrible, not only is his brain fast, but he also has a very good set of tricks when he starts to fix people, and even the number of loops like "Wai Wei to save Zhao" can be designed, since he can count Aimee away, he can also pit me at any time, it's a time bomb!
Hanson had heard of Danny privately accepting money from suppliers, but he himself had a marketing background and was not proficient in finance, so if he wanted to find out who was in charge of finance, Danny could only dispatch the company's audit department if there was a little evidence. But this Danny is a master who is more hairy than a monkey, where can he catch the handle?
Hanson had already seen his ambition in the increasingly disdainful look in Danny's eyes as he spoke to him. - This group of guys is really difficult, everyone is like a wolf, facing my position as general manager, with a green light in their eyes.
Finally got Aimee and Anna, and now only Danny is the wolf, I wanted to beat him away should be an easy thing, people who handle money, it is inevitable that they will not touch their hands, but this guy is very cunning, but after Aimee left, he turned into an offensive type, and the spearhead turned around and faced me, the general manager.
At the beginning, the confrontation between these two people was only tacit with each other, but soon, they both felt the strength of the other party and entered a head-on battle. In the end, Hanson was first asked by the board of directors for poor leadership and poor performance, and although Danny was not found to have any evidence, he could no longer be fully trusted in such an important position, and it didn't take long for him to jump ship to a large private company, and of course, his salary was tripled.
Not long after Danny left You's house, he called Aimee and asked her to come to his house. Aimee was at the airport, preparing to go to Wenzhou, and promised Danny that as soon as he returned, he would go to Chang Zhi.
The reason why Aimee insisted on going to Xiao Xing's company was because she learned that wholesalers from Wenzhou were one of the main sales forces of this type of toys in Defeng. Although she didn't believe that Xiao Xing and the others really achieved annual sales of more than 500 million, there is no doubt that they are doing toy wholesale, so how did they do it?
Xiao Xing and Mr. Hu were still very trustworthy: Ning Qian really saw the two of them rubbing their hands at the exit and waiting for her.
When the taxi drove more and more deviated, Ning Qian muttered a little in her heart: Are we really still in Wenzhou? Where are they taking me? What if they're the bad guys? She quickly analyzed: What can they do for me? Robbery or abstinence?
Robbery? They know that I am only here for a business trip, not to buy things, but to sell things, and it is impossible for them to carry a huge amount of money with them, but they may persuade them to pay for it; Robbery? They know that I am a mother, and I look serious and righteous, and there is nothing to do. Thinking about it like this, Ning Qian was relieved: it is safe to go out now, and it is indeed the age suitable for entrepreneurship!
Although the landscape and environment on both sides of the car are becoming less and less like the places where large companies are located, Xiao Xing and Mr. Hu's expressions have always been with the unique eyes and ears of wholesale people, and when they introduced Ning Qian all the way, they also had excitement and curiosity as if they were coming for the first time.
After driving for more than an hour, I finally arrived at my destination: the toy wholesale market in Xiaqiao Town. There is no door, no doorway, only rows of bungalows lined up in front and back, left and right, this kind of simple layout makes Ning Qian a little suspicious: as a building, will it be wronged: Do I have a soul?
The structure of each row is exactly the same: the front shop and the back factory. The front third is a standard narrow shop, and the back two-thirds is a simple workshop that can fit a long wooden workbench – ah, not even a workshop, this size can only be a "room", not enough for a "car" bed, not even a real car.
Ning Qian saw piles of tattered waste plastics and asked Xiao Xing what it was used for, Xiao Xing said: "We rarely use new materials here, we all use these recycled materials." "Well, that's it, it's going to be made into a toy that a baby will take in his mouth and chew on...... Most of the shopkeepers here are themselves workers, and everyone has a hard-working seriousness on their faces, using simple methods that do not have any convincing material and process safety, using recycled waste plastic as recycled material, imitating all kinds of samples bought from the market.
Xiao Xing said that their task is to sell the toys produced in this wholesale market to wholesale markets all over the country. "After all, there are only a few people who have really come here, and it depends on us to carry the atlas and run all over the country to sell."
Even if Ning Qian looked very carefully, almost every household was in the same pattern, and after reading it quickly, Xiao Xing and they were very polite, insisting on inviting Ning Qian to lunch, and came to a restaurant that looked very clean and tidy. While eating and chatting, Ning Qian learned that Mr. Hu was Xiao Xing's uncle, and those people, who were also relatives of their family, were all engaged in toy wholesale together.
Xiao Xing also grinned and said embarrassedly: "I was just a mouthful at the time, and I said more than 500 million, but I didn't expect Miss Ning to be so serious that I couldn't hide after me." ”
"However, there are really very few manufacturers who can pay so much attention to us, although we are not as strong as we blow outside, but Miss Ning, you come to us again and again, we will definitely make you a friend and help you push the moral style." Mr. Hu, who had been silent, finally spoke, and several people nodded again and again.
Ning Qian understands that what they say doesn't matter, they are not deliberately deceiving people, they are just used to saying whatever they want. No matter how big or small the ability is, as long as you are willing to sell morality. Ning Qian learned about the local customs and eating habits from them, followed them to learn the local dialect, and after a meal, he called him a brother.
After returning to Shanghai, Ning Qian contacted all the customers who had bought samples at the exhibition and the potential customers who expressed interest in Defeng at that time, told them their mobile phone numbers, asked for their fax and addresses, and prepared to send them quotations and samples. Defeng's products are very expensive, and it is impossible to send samples to customers, so the attractive brochure has become a necessary means in the sales process. Cordula has sent a CD of German samples, and Aimee needs to do Chinese and new design arrangements according to the selection of Chinese products. Sinicization of the text work,Do it yourself; Design and production, it really needs a professional company to help, so Aimee officially went to visit Zhong Ming.
Zhong Ming's company is located in his Pudong home: a very elaborate duplex apartment, sleeping upstairs and working downstairs. At this time, it is clear that he is worthy of being the creative director of Meiao Shanghai: although his office is hidden in a private house, the space layout is very reasonable, the colors are simple and bright, and the details everywhere are full of thought. There are only him and another designer in the company. The design they're doing is a local paint company.
"In order to get their design fee, I had to do a full brand strategy for them, starting from positioning, full service, almost the role of their marketing director or even CMO. Otherwise, what do I compete with other advertising companies? Aimee thinks Zhong Ming thinks very clearly.
"However, I insisted that they call me Michael, and when they call me that, I will still have a hallucination that I am still in Miao, and I can support my little psychological superiority. If they call me Zhong Ming, I will feel that all my years in Meiao have disappeared and not accumulated. It can be seen that he has a strong psychological gap and loneliness.
"Of course it's different, in the past, as a CD, I just listened, communicated with customers, had account managers and account directors, and now, I do everything alone. Originally, it was a big change from a creative director to an account director, not to mention, my clients basically did not have the marketing professional ability that our previous customers had. To be honest, it's really tiring to do. He began to sigh.
"Then do you regret starting your own business?" Aimee asked the person she was leading the way in starting her business.
"In terms of hard work, you will regret it, but since you have made this choice, there is no reason to back down so quickly." Michael's attitude is quite firm.
"Then you treat the customer in front of you well, and don't scare her away as soon as you make an offer." This is how Aimee and Michael collaborated.
After all, both of them came out of the original two docking systems, and the language system and working methods were completely docked, with extremely high efficiency, and after three days, they had been delivered and printed.
"Aimee, you are my most professional and high-quality customer!" Michael praised emotionally.
"You praise me for winning the gold medal and want me to think that I am the best, when in fact there are only two people in the competition?" Aimee is a person who meets someone who thinks he can afford to joke, and the way he speaks becomes very casual.
"Haha, then I have to develop more customers quickly." Michael smiled.
"yes, hurry up and give me a chance to be third." Aimee answered quickly.
The tacit understanding between the two people is getting higher and higher, and the task is always completed unconsciously in laughter. Aimee remembered that this was also Pudong, as if Danny had also mentioned that his family was in Pudong, so he called Danny: "You invited me to come to your house to play, I promised, I have to come." I know you're a busy person, so I should have made an appointment with you a long time in advance, but I want to try my luck and visit your house today? ”
Unexpectedly, Danny agreed: "Come on, come on, I have nothing to do, come and talk to me to relieve my boredom." ”
"My family is also working in Pudong, so I went back and asked him if he could accompany me for a long time." As soon as Aimee heard Danny's somewhat oily tone, she felt that although she was safe now, it was not good to visit Danny's house alone, so she quickly added.
"Yes, I heard that your husband is very powerful, I haven't seen it yet, come on, bring him along!" Danny's tone was warm. Yes, he heard a long time ago that Aimee's husband was an investment banker, a man of the hour, and he thought a long time ago: he had to find a chance to get acquainted, maybe he would be useful in the future.
Aimee called Bai Tian and asked if she could accompany her to her ex-colleague Danny's house after work, and Bai Tian agreed: "I will go wherever my wife tells me to go, and I will meet whoever my wife asks me to meet." You're waiting for me at Michael's, I'll pick you up from work and we'll go to Danny's together. After putting down the phone, he returned to the company conference room and continued to have a meeting with a group of people, professional and rigorous, and he was completely different from the person who answered his wife's call.
Daylight knows that those who do their job almost don't put their wife's phone call first, and when they start meetings, there is no such thing as a wife in the world, only customers. However, he didn't want to do this, he said to Aimee: "If I don't answer the phone, it means that it is really an extremely important occasion, and it is really inconvenient, otherwise, whenever there is any possibility, I will take answering my wife's phone as the most important thing." We are each other's dependence on this earth, and we are also the signal of each other's lives, and we must be sensed and connected at any time. ”
Yes, now he took his wife's hand and showed up at the door of Danny's house.
Danny's home is green in the clouds of Pudong, a mansion that has just been delivered as barren and deserted as Wuthering Heights. Behind the rows of townhouses, there are several solemn detached houses, and Danny's house is the largest and most imposing one.
As soon as Danny opened the door, he shook hands with Bai Tian enthusiastically: "I have been looking up for a long time, I have long wanted to meet the famous investment bank upstart Mr. Bai Day, but I didn't expect to meet for the first time in my house." ”
Actually, why didn't you think of it? What Danny looked forward to the most was this moment, and he was very proud: how Aimee would react and what he would do was calculated by him again!
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Part 3: Self-created private enterprises