The two went to the chosen photo studio address.

The landlord is a middle-aged man who lives not far from the neighborhood.

After getting the news, I quickly rushed over.

opened the door, and the landlord took Zhao Zhuo and Zhang Yun to walk around inside.

There is a lot of space inside, there are two large rooms and one small room.

"This layout is good, two large rooms can be used for taking pictures, and that small room is just used as a darkroom."

Zhao Zhuo nodded with satisfaction.

When the landlord heard Zhao Zhuo's words, he couldn't help but glance at Zhao Zhuo with some surprise:

"You rent this door... Are you planning to open a photo studio? ”

"That's right."

Zhao Zhuo nodded.

"Okay! You young people are so bold! ”

The landlord looked at the photo studio not far away and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"This place is good, tell me how to calculate the rent."

Zhao Zhuo said lightly.

The landlord thought for a moment and said:

"My location is very good, even if it's thirty yuan a month."

"We rent for a year, three hundred."

Zhang Yun said simply.

"Hmm... OK! ”

The landlord nodded, and he was quite happy.

Zhao Zhuo paid the money on the spot, and the landlord handed over the keys on the spot.

After docking, Zhang Yun jumped up in the room excitedly.

"Our first step, this is a step!"

Zhang Yun said with some excitement.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo smiled bitterly:

"Don't overthink things.

It's an empty house, and there's a lot of things to decorate, set up, and so on. ”

When Zhang Yun heard this, she slowly calmed down.

"Indeed, it seems that there is still a long way to go."

When she thought of trivial things like decoration, Zhang Yun couldn't help but have a headache.

"Why, our general manager Zhang is starting to sigh now? You won't be stumped by such a small photo studio, right? ”

Zhao Zhuo teased with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhang Yun raised his head:

"Hmph, how can this little thing stump me!"

Zhao Zhuo smiled:

"Then let's go and find a decoration team."

……

Ten days later.

The amount of decoration work was not large, and the decoration team found by Zhao Zhuo quickly completed the work.

The leader of the decoration team is called Chen Lin, a very cheerful middle-aged man.

In this era, there are still relatively few construction workers like him who specialize in decoration, and Zhao Zhuo is also very fair when he settles his salary, after all, there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

Seeing off Chen Lin and the others, Zhao Zhuo and Zhang Yun looked at the photo studio that had been basically completed, looked at each other, and were very pleased.

"It's finally done!"

Zhang Yun said with a smile.

"yes."

Zhao Zhuo nodded:

"It's still very rewarding to watch."

Although Zhao Zhuo had earned his first pot of gold in the Soviet Union, he still had a different feeling when he looked at the store in front of him.

After all, the money in the Soviet Union relied on intermediaries, while the photo studio was completely its own.

The two were chatting, when suddenly an uninvited guest came in from outside.

"Hmph, I didn't expect you to be busy for so long, it turned out that you were going to compete with us!"

A person walked in, looked at Zhao Zhuo and said with an unkind face.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo looked at the person, who was Director Li of another photo studio.

"Competition? I'm afraid you're wrong..."

Zhao Zhuo said coldly.

Hearing this, Director Li also sneered:

"Why, even the photo studio has been renovated, and you still can't deny it? Then you're too gutsy. ”

Director Li couldn't help but laugh at it.

Zhao Zhuo was not used to this kind of villain, and when he saw that he said it so unpleasantly, he was even more unhappy in his heart.

I saw Zhao Zhuo suddenly stand up and walk straight to Director Li.

Compared with Zhao Zhuo, Director Li, who was already thin, looked even shorter.

"You... What do you want? ”

Director Li felt Zhao Zhuo's condescending momentum, and couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly asked.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo said lightly word by word:

"I'm here to remember that you don't compete with me at all.

Because... Your shop is about to run out of business, and there is no way to pose any threat to me. ”

Zhao Zhuo's words were sonorous and powerful, and Director Li's arrogant momentum was completely suppressed.

"You... You wait for me, let's see who can have the last laugh!

We are a photo studio paid for by the public, how can you compare with us?! ”

Although Director Li was oppressed by Zhao Zhuo's momentum and retreated, he still said hard in his mouth.

And Zhao Zhuo is almost indifferent to this kind of jumping clown's words:

"What about public pay? It's to meet someone like you who can't run a business!

Wait, I'll show you what the power of the market economy is. ”

After speaking, Zhao Zhuo slammed the door shut and drove Director Li out of the door.

"They came to the door before it even opened?"

Zhang Yun looked at Director Li, who was like a clown, and couldn't help frowning.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, they'll soon be out of the way."

Saying that, Zhao Zhuo thought about it, suddenly looked at Zhang Yun and asked:

"Do you know the price of photos from their photo studio?"

Zhang Yun thought for a moment and said:

"The largest family portrait costs more than 20 yuan a piece, a full-body photo is almost 10 yuan, and the smallest personal bust photo is about 5 yuan."

"Damn, it's so expensive???"

Zhao Zhuo was taken aback when he heard this price.

After all, Zhao Zhuo has long been accustomed to the era of printing mobile phone photos on the street one by one, and he didn't expect that a photo in 89 would be more than several times more expensive than later generations.

"Is this price expensive? The price should be about the same in the whole country, right? ”

Seeing Zhao Zhuo's reaction so big, Zhang Yun couldn't help but ask with some confusion.

And Zhao Zhuo also found that he was a little out of shape, so he quickly adjusted his mentality.

After a little thought, Zhao Zhuo figured out the reason.

At this time, film and cameras were still very scarce.

As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive.

Scarcity, naturally, leads to very high prices for photos.

"Zhang Yun, what is the price of the film we bought?"

Zhao Zhuo asked.

Hearing this, Zhang Yun took out a list, looked at it and said:

"According to the size of the photo I just told you, our corresponding film and processing costs are ten, five and two respectively."

Zhang Yun understood that Zhao Zhuo meant to ask this to know how much the cost was, so he said directly.

And hearing this price, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be a little surprised:

"You mean, if we go by the price of other photo studios, we can make half the profit per photo?"

"That's right."

Zhang Yun nodded.

"Also, other photo studios are not as profitable as we are. Because our cameras don't cost anything. ”

Zhang Yun further explained.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo pondered for a while, and then made up his mind:

"In that case, then we will give another 50% discount on the basis of this price!"

"Another 50% off?"

Zhang Yun was a little surprised, as if she didn't expect Zhao Zhuo to be so low on the price.

"In this way, we may have to make ends meet!"

Zhang Yun frowned and said.

Zhao Zhuo shook his head:

"I know you're taking into account our rent and renovation costs.

But in reality, it should not be enough to make ends meet.

After all, with such a big price advantage, we were able to squeeze out another photo studio in a very short time. In the case of just us, the traffic is enough to maintain our breakeven, and on top of that, we can make some more money, but maybe not much. ”

Listening to Zhao Zhuo's words such as price advantage, passenger flow, and break-even, Zhang Yun was a little shocked by Zhao Zhuo's unique understanding of business.

However, Zhang Yun still couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"Even if we don't lose money, we don't have to do charity. Zhao Zhuo, don't forget, the most important purpose of our photo studio is to make money. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo smiled:

"Hahaha, of course I haven't forgotten that our biggest purpose is to make money.

Moreover, what I want to make is not a small amount of money from photo profits, but a real big money!

This photo studio is just a fulcrum, what I want to do is to integrate the resources of the entire industry and make money from the source, rather than simply doing this kind of small business. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yun was a little stunned, and felt that what Zhao Zhuo said was a little difficult to understand.

"Open a photo studio and don't make money from photos? So what are you going to make money on? ”

Zhao Zhuo lightly spit out three words:

"Franchise fee."