Chapter 12: Starting from scratch
Joining Meilu is something that Yahan never dreamed of, and it is also a door-to-door delivery, the Brahmaputra River has finally made a bend in Nanga Bhava Peak, and the thousand-year-old iron tree has finally bloomed.
The next day was October 10, 2001, and I remember it so clearly because it was Double Tenth. Yahan showed me around the store, and I was honored to join the organization that day and became a helper. It cost 101 yuan to join, and after coming out of the store, I left more than 50 yuan in the successful bookstore, and I only had 40 yuan left in my pocket, but there are still 20 days in the second half of the month, how should I live this day?
Yahan understood my situation, and she didn't want to urge me anymore at that time, but she muttered weakly in my ear: "Xiaofei, you still have to have some goods to be a beautiful road." "In the end, she didn't lend me money for living expenses.
Yahan is the nominal gold medal, I don't know that her team has shrunk to a 12% (net turnover of 19,200 yuan) at that time, and there are only six households and seven people left in the team, and the financial situation is naturally beyond her means. However, the leaders of the United States Road are very capable, and at that time I wanted to succeed and was too eager to be free, so I finally grasped this life-saving straw and stupidly followed it.
After I came back, I started to look for those friends who had been looking for them when I was preparing to study abroad, and this time I borrowed much less money, and it was easy to put together. Within ten days, I borrowed 12,000 yuan from the east and west, and ran to the store alone with the product catalog, and hit 9,600 yuan (9%) of the goods by feeling. I had seen Lin Chao, who was still 9% at that time, in the center, did a complete demonstration, and I didn't even participate in the BTC newcomer start-up training class, and I started selling the product ten days later. At the end of the month, Yahan came to inspect my house, only to find that my home had been transformed into a decent family store, and even the sales exceeded 3% (1600 yuan net).
From the first day I joined Meilu, I began to call her Teacher Yan; Since the second day I joined Meilu, I have been an Autowave (i.e., a Meilu person with automatic spontaneity, action and positive attitude)!
In all fairness, any business requires investment, even if it is a stall, you have to have a plastic sheet and a few keychains, and this truth does not need to be instilled in me. But with so many refugees from the United States, what is the problem?
In the days that followed, I experienced the gestation, birth, growth, development and death of too many Meilu people. "Delivering results" was the most common phrase in our 12% of leadership trainings at that time (topics include mindset, structural framework, how to get a silver medal, etc.). When we first came out, we were repeatedly emphasized by the team and the system on the importance of individual sales. But slowly, when you go up to 12% of the silver medal (80,000 yuan net), especially after participating in the leadership training, we find that if you don't get to the silver medal as soon as possible to have an impact, then it will be difficult for you to drive the newcomer to drive the team, and it is easy for your partners below to lose hope, and it is too slow to slowly achieve the silver medal by selling one step at a time. The shortcut to "success" is: work hard!
At that time, the most common example we gave was: a partner is equivalent to being a big customer, he also has bonuses, and he can use the product cheaply, why not? Even if it doesn't work, he will use 5 products in the last month, 10 in the first three months, at least 20 in the first half of the year, and he will always use the products in the last year. I'm excited, such a great product, such a good career, of course, there will be no psychological burden. But people forget that most of the leaders of the United States never really think about how to really bring these partners to success! They only focus on their own goals!
The speed of silver medals is getting faster and faster, from the first 2 years, to the next 1 year, and then to the next half a year, 3 months, and 2 months; The amount of newcomers starting to stock up is also increasing, from the beginning of 4,800 yuan of net, to the later 9,600 yuan, and then to the later 19,200 yuan, 32,000 yuan, 56,000 yuan. The pressure on newcomers is increasing, the awards for leaders are getting higher and higher, the situation in the market is getting better and better, and the mood of the partners is getting more and more anxious - the enclosure movement begins.
As a 12% quasi-leader in four months, I am relatively clear-headed. After a period of market operation, I found that the speed of the newcomer's start was positively correlated with the scale of stocking at the beginning, but after the net amount (turnover after deducting VAT) exceeded 19,200 yuan, the speed of the newcomer's start was irrelevant or even negatively correlated with the scale of stocking. I once asked a diamond about this, and he earnestly taught: "What are you afraid of if you have more goods, it is not easy to die!" "I remember I was speechless.
In the whole seven-year Meilu career, none of my personal departments (that is, the departments that do not include Yan Zuan) have invested more than 19,200 yuan, 9,600 yuan for conditions, 4,800 yuan for unconditional, and 1,600 yuan for those who are too poor. Of course, a real amount of money for 19,200 yuan is also welcome. 9600 yuan is undoubtedly the best choice to start Meilu. Because of this, Yahan and I quarreled a lot.
No matter what I personally think, the fate of the teams, leaders, and countless newcomers who have been tied to the system chariot has been irreversible with the clarion call sounded by the market. Mr. Chen, the ambassador of the crown of the first hand, said in the red ears on the success ridge: "In 2010, the turnover of Meilu will reach 100 billion. "The diamonds have killed the red eye, and the big mistake has been made!