Chapter 20: The Years of Burning Passion
With the indefinite extension of the company's ban, the 2003 fiscal year began with a high degree of excitement. This is the year of the team's rise, just as the most majestic and magnificent places of the great rivers are always around the corner, and the turbulent fiscal year of 2003 is destined to be recorded in the history of the United States Road and our memories.
In this fiscal year, the team completed the triple jump from DD to Pearl, from Pearl to Ruby, from Ruby to Jade, from an obscure small team in Tianjin, to become a guest and object invited by many teams. For Yahan's award, we have always taken care of it as our own eyes, because we know that the influence brought to us by Yahan's award is the only hope for our survival and development in the cracks of the market. Helping Yahan to hire has always been the common mission and honor of our whole team.
At that time, Lin Chao and I were Yahan's right-hand men, and Yahan's eldest sister Manager Dayan and brother-in-law Manager Niu (silver medal in November 2001, DD in August 2002, pearl in August 2003, and diamond in August 2004) were the team's "dog-headed military advisors", and the highest core level of the team had been basically formed. At that time, the team was thriving every month, and there were many talented people in the team. Yahan's little sister Teacher Xiao Yan (the introducer of Manager Dayan/Manager Niu, DD in August 2004), a two-in, two-out American passerby, was also influenced by us for the third time. Ms. Xiao Yan is a senior makeup artist, a student of the famous stylist Li Dongtian, and her joining, coupled with Yahan's background as a former beauty salon owner, has made our team's training in beauty famous in North China, and the famous three Yan sisters came from this.
In order to better expand the market, even every male leader of the team has learned skin care and makeup, not only understand the theory, but also be good at practical operation, and go all over the world with an eyebrow knife, which has become the best weapon for us to empty the makeup inventory later. Unlike other teams that suffered heavy losses in the subsequent out-of-stock turmoil, our losses were relatively light due to our solid personal sales and basic skills.
The harsh winter that cannot be recommended did not break our will to succeed, but more severe tests followed. In April 2003, a sudden SARS outbreak swept across the country. Shops are starting to go cold again, many meetings are being cancelled, everyone is forced to retreat to their homes, and the outside world is a sea of masks. Yahan gathered the backbone to the center, and everyone agreed that this was the best opportunity to surpass the top. Throughout the SARS period, our center learning, family gatherings, and individual sales never stopped; To demonstrate the superior efficacy of VC and protein, I never wore a mask.
The sales situation of Beixijian continues to rise, and even friends who are indifferent to Meilu on weekdays have begun to frequently consult me about the efficacy of VC and protein, and I can't answer no less than 30 calls a day. As soon as SARS came, the nutritional products in the store were out of stock, and the endless demand for performance and other products also suffered. But where is the product? The goods on hand have long been sold out, and even all kinds of detergents have been swept away as disinfectants. At that time, the grim situation was that everyone's goods were emptied, and there was no way to turn cash into performance, but there was no award without performance, and it was impossible to achieve the goal without award.
The core layer of the team began to look around for the source of goods, Tianjin did not have goods to find in Beijing, and Beijing did not have goods to find Langfang...... All afternoon, a few of us were locked in the center and desperately called the stores of Meilu Company all over the country, and all the stores north of the Yangtze River: Harbin in the northeast, Lanzhou in the northwest, Wuhan in the south, and Hohhot in the north, all the stores within a radius of 2,000 kilometers were swept over. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, we finally found that there may be a batch of nutritional products in Zhumadian, Henan Province, but the people in the store are not sure, and it has become our dilemma to go or not. At such a long distance, if you go but there is no goods, how can you explain to the department?
Let's decide to try our luck and do our best! So everyone separately mobilized the department to prepare the funds, and I also borrowed 20,000 yuan from my aunt who was far away in Chongqing. They had been laid off for many years, and the 20,000 yuan was basically all their life savings, but at that time in Tianjin, I really couldn't think of anyone else who could borrow money anymore. A year later, when my uncle was in urgent need of money for surgery, I sold my only house and paid my aunt's money. I was the only hope for my father's entire family, and I still remember the warmth of my aunt's kindness.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the department said goodbye to us, driving the Passat of Manager Niu (Mingzhu at that time), Yahan, Manager Dayan, Manager Niu and I, a group of four people set off from Dagang at night, and Zhumadian was still 1,200 kilometers away. At that time, it was April when the "White Terror" was rampant, and Manager Niu and I took turns driving through the prefecture. When we arrived in Zhengzhou, a team of armed police and white coats at the exit of the expressway were nervously checking the passing vehicles, and when we saw our license plates, they were from the epidemic area, and it was natural to be taken care of. After a check, we finally got back on the road, and when we arrived at Zhumadian at about nine o'clock in the morning, we were tossed again by the white coats that were inspected, and we almost didn't even have time to take care of our lives for the sake of performance.
When I arrived at Zhumadian, I didn't even care about eating, so I found the Meilu store first, and the pickpocket looked through the glass from the fence, and sure enough, the shelves at the delivery place were full of nutritious products, and the hanging heart finally fell to the ground. The store in Zhumadian is a very small storefront, the company will not go to work until 1:30 p.m., we just rushed to the bank to open an account, and the whole morning, the whole team of 400,000 yuan of funds has been remitted from all over the world.
When the company opened in the afternoon, we were disappointed, the store director told us that the goods here were delayed for a few days due to logistics reasons, so the goods arrived later than other stores in the country, but the products should be given priority to local dealers, and it was recommended that we go home as soon as possible. Coming out of the store, everyone's mood was very heavy, and I happened to meet a dejected and transcendent brother outside the store, he set off from Fuzhou, and swept all the way here through Wuhan, and we became difficult brothers.
Watching the local dealers in Zhumadian come out with large bags of products, we were so anxious that our eyes were about to bleed. We waited until 7:30 p.m. when the store closed, and we reluctantly squeezed through the door and began a diplomatic offensive against the store manager. After some soft grinding and hard foaming, the store director finally relented. When we were about to get off work that day, 400,000 yuan of nutritional products, along with some skin care products and makeup, were moved into the car by us, and the Zhumadian store was sold out by us. The shopkeeper finally sent us out with a wry smile and said, "I've never seen anyone like you, sweeping like locusts." "Yes, we were doing Meilu at that time, and it was this locust-like spirit!
There are some B groups, VC and other varieties in the 400,000 yuan nutritional products, but the largest number is VE, with 600 bottles. The mood of the return trip was pleasant, but the 600 bottles of VE still made it difficult for us. VC and protein can enhance resistance, B group can help protein metabolism, and carotene can strengthen the mucosal system, but what is the relationship between VE and "SARS"? In the end, it is still the ideal way to prevent the oxidation of the cell membrane, and the health of the cell membrane is equivalent to the difficulty of the virus to invade! After we returned, we quickly started a series of VE and SARS nutrition classes, and 600 bottles of VE that seemed difficult to sell were continuously distributed to our partners, and finally distributed to customers. In many cases, the team's nutrition class is very targeted, and we will teach what kind of class we have if the company has any goods or what we have in hand.
The crisis is a business opportunity, and the vigorous "SARS" finally came to an end, remembering the earliest sentence about "SARS": "SARS, my life is closed!" Later, when I watched the CD of Mr. Fu's "Dragon Travels the World" commendation conference, the image about "SARS" at the beginning of the film, I cried once I watched it, that is the history we have experienced! That year, the team's jade was too difficult to get on!