Chapter 11: A Short Career as a Boss

It didn't take long for someone from Shanghai to arrive. First decorate the store, put the shelves and cash register machines in place, and finally classify the goods on the shelves, and the store is also open. My brother smiled and said to me, "Big brother, we will be the boss in the future." I also smirked: "I don't know if the business is good or not." "Three days before the opening, we also learned from others to carry out promotional activities, the whole product is 5% off, after all, the school is a small world, and soon the whole school will know, during the event, there are really a lot of guests, I and Duan Yan are very busy. But since it is a promotion, it is just to attract guests and increase visibility, and it does not make money.

After the promotion, there was no hot business, only rare people came to patronize, and at first I thought that the students had bought too much a few days ago, and they hadn't finished eating yet. But it was like that for a week, only a very small number of people came, and sometimes the whole afternoon was idle. My brother said he suggested that we should have more promotions. After that, there were discounts and gifts, and gradually business improved. But this is not a long-term solution, we have to consider what is the problem? If you keep doing promotions, there will still be fewer and fewer customers, and you won't be able to make any money yourself.

One night, after we closed the store, my brother said to me, "Big brother, take you to see the beautiful women, there are a lot of thieves in the normal university." I laughed a little and went with him. He took me to the student dormitory, and when he saw the girl, he invited others to have a snack. I said, "You're all married, you're having children, and you're still running to tease girls." Shame on you. Remember, let me do this kind of thing, I'm not married. He said, "You really think I'm here to see beautiful women, I brought all kinds of snacks for these people to eat, to see what they like to eat and what they don't like to eat." "Yo, you're a little smart." I said, "Then why don't you take it back to your wife to eat, your wife is a native of Haikou, and it is also very good for taste." My brother said, "I'm giving her food, and the more she eats, the fatter she gets, that's not okay." The two laughed and left.

Not to mention, my brother still has a harvest for taking me a beautiful woman. The first point is that if you know the taste that people here prefer, you will only sell what they like in the future, and you will not put out what they don't like, and you will be more targeted in the future. The second point is that I am a little far away from the student dormitory from the corner of our store, many students like to stay in the dormitory, and many people are not willing to walk so far to buy some snacks to eat. So I thought about free shipping on takeaway, phone orders over 20 hours.

After formulating these two sets of plans, business is indeed better again, but sometimes it is a little busier, and I originally wanted to find a student to work part-time. My brother said that if he could, he would save it, and then called his second aunt to help. The second uncle and his younger siblings have jobs, and they don't have time to help, so the second aunt specializes in taking care of the children, so the second aunt takes the children to the store and sometimes helps take care of the store, cashier or something. The second aunt is also happy to do something simple, and for this reason, we also bought an electric car to facilitate delivery.

After a month, the business looked good, but there were many promotions, and there was no business for a period of time in the middle, plus other costs, and there were some losses, but I saw hope and persevered. There is no business that can return to the original at once. After the early rectification, the second month obviously felt that the business was much better, and there were all kinds of gift packages for students, including birthday gift bags, confession gift bags, exam gift bags, and various holiday gift bags. Naturally, the second month was a little earning. Duan Yan and I have been looking forward to it, so that we will soon be able to return to our roots, and there is no shortage of guests here. After returning to the capital, the earnings are all their own, after earning a certain amount, they will change the big façade, and then promote the brand to the entire Haikou City, and strive to be expected to start their own brand in Haikou within 7 years. It's a little exciting to think about.

Three months, and another three months. After three months of operation, the store is also moving forward as we imagined. But in the middle of the month, an uninvited guest shatters all the future. It was the owner of the shop who came to tell us that the shop contract was about to expire and that it was necessary to renew it. The rent is 5000 a month, and the contract needs to be signed for one year. In other words, the annual rent is 60,000 yuan, and in addition, we need tens of thousands of yuan to purchase goods. My brother and I were really panicked, and when we first transferred the storefront, we didn't tell us this. But how can my brother and I come up with this money at one time? In desperation, I could only transfer the store quickly and at a low price, and it was really difficult to maintain a store without funds. I've been the boss for three months, and now it's over.

March fragrance of the world,

Tossing and turning back and forth.

Helplessly, the will is higher than the sky,

It's better to turn it into drinking money.