Chapter 384 Li Shiyun’s suggestion

Except for my father leaving the jade shop early, Ji Yanran was the second one to leave.

The difference between Xiaoqian and her mother is that Ji Yanran was able to help in "green, fat, red and thin" today, but she saw that the business here was too busy, and Jia Sidao was not well prepared, and even Li Shiyun joined the helping ranks. Ji Yanran had similar experience on "Weekly Diary", so naturally she was able to deal with it easily. However, after the afternoon, as the traffic volume decreased slightly, Xiaoqian and Jia Sidao made a free move, and Ji Yanran stood on the display counter again, so there was no meaning.

What's more, perhaps because of Ji Yanran's appearance, there were so many customers around her, almost comparable to those of Li Shiyun. However, even when facing customers, Ji Yanran's smile was very stingy. For a moment, she won the nickname of "cold beauty" in the hearts of the customers.

Compared with the cool jadeite in "green, fat, red and thin", it complements a bit.

"Why, Sister Li, are you going to leave too?" Seeing Ji Yanran's departure, Jia Sidao came to Li Shiyun and asked with a smile. Speaking of which, Li Shiyun and Ji Yanran were in similar situations. They were all for Jia Sidao's sake, and they stayed to help. At this moment, after the initial liveliness of the store, they could slowly deal with it. If Li Shiyun was about to leave, it would be reasonable.

"Me?" Li Shiyun pointed to herself and said, "I haven't received your reward yet."

Although there was a feeling of wanting to get some small advantage in his words, it made Jia Sidao feel warm. Isn’t this kind of statement an excuse for Li Shiyun to continue to stay and help? Thinking of this, Jia Sidao’s heart moved and he couldn’t help asking: “By the way, Sister Li, when are you going to go back to the provincial capital?”

"Why, do you really want me to leave early?" Li Shiyun looked at Jia Sidao with a little hilarious smile, "Is it because of the woman who was very close to her aunt just now?"

"Sister Li, what are you talking about?" Jia Sidao suddenly realized that Li Shiyun seemed to have the potential for gossip. However, what she refers to in her words is naturally not Ji Yanran, nor can it be Xiaoqian, because Li Shiyun is undoubtedly sure of Xiaoqian's name. Then, it is only Zhou Sha.

Zhou Sha's figure suddenly flashed in Jia Sidao's mind, and then quickly made a rough comparison with Li Shiyun in front of him. However, the result of the comparison in his heart was that he would not say it even if he was beaten to death. It was nothing more than Zhou Sha's appearance, she looked taller. In terms of temperament, Zhou Sha was more changeable, while Li Shiyun was used to being indifferent and quiet.

"I just think that if you can stay here for a few days, I will go to Hangzhou in a few days. In this case, we might as well go to the provincial capital together." Jia Sidao staggered the topic and said, "I am not very clear about the scale of the conference like the jewelry exhibition, although the provincial capital is held in the provincial capital, but from the perspective of participation, I think it is still necessary to go there."

"The jewelry exhibition in the provincial capital?" Li Shiyun muttered and said, "In my opinion, whether your 'green, fat, red and thin' is actually not very important."

"Why?" Jia Sidao was a little surprised.

"Because with your 'strength', the sensation caused by going to the jewelry exhibition in the provincial capital is actually not much different from the reputation you won after opening today. Just wait a few days and wait for the jade collection enthusiasts who have visited here to promote some of the best jade in your store. Your store will be enough to become famous in the province." Li Shiyun analyzed, "Maybe, you don't know much about the jade market in the provincial capital."

Hearing this, Jia Sidao nodded. Not to mention that it was from the provincial capital, even in Linhai area, Jia Sidao really didn't know much about the market of jade and his company. At most, he only knew what quality jade jewelry had and how much value it had in the market flow. In addition, jade jewelry of which price is easier to circulate in the market.

Let’s say it’s the transaction volume of “green, fat, red and thin” today.

Although it is not time to close the door, and it is just over the afternoon. However, according to the rules of Antique Street, there are few openings at night. It’s not that there are no people on Antique Street at night. As long as all Antique Street shops are open for business, there shouldn’t be no one there. However, because of the special nature of the ‘Antique Street’ business, many shops do not even open during the day, let alone at night.

The evening time is reserved for potential customers to communicate in private, or for the sake of the owners of these stores, they can better go back to "baby" and come back.

Although Jia Sidao runs a jade shop, it is not easy to open a business alone, right?

In the original plan, Jia Sidao planned to open the business as usual during the day, and closed the door at dinner time. Salesmen like Xiaoqian can also have more freedom to arrange their time, while those like mother can also have more time to rest and adjust.

Today, I was tired of my mother. Although, in Jia Sidao's opinion, my mother's face always had a smile and didn't look tired at all, it was a mother's understanding smile for her son. Her knowing smile had nothing to do with whether she was physically tired. Jia Sidao didn't want to be tired after the first three or five days of opening the business.

According to Jia Sidao's prediction, this situation can last at least three to four days, right? Three days later, it was the first weekend market after the jade store opened. At that time, no matter what the situation was, Jia Sidao felt that he would find a few more salesmen.

It’s like when Ji Yanran came to help on Saturdays when she was in the ‘Weekly Diary’. Even shops like ‘Weekly Diary’ need help when they arrive on the market day, let alone Jia Sidao’s ‘green, fat, red and thin’.

When I arrived at my mother, I whispered to ask about today's sales performance. My mother did not answer directly, but showed the invoice to Jia Sidao. Because there was a full refund business, every piece of jade jewelry sold in her store was invoice with stubs, or even photos kept.

Jia Sidao looked at the invoices and saw that the most popular jade jewelry was undoubtedly between 1,000 and 10,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan. Jia Sidao felt helpless about this. Linhai was still a small place after all. Generally speaking, the most circulating jade market should be jewelry between 10,000 and 50,000 yuan.

In Jia Sidao's opinion, although the value preservation effect of jade jewelry is not as strong as hard currency like gold, it is also a good investment method. However, it is the same as investment in diamonds. On the one hand, jade is a non-renewable resource, similar to diamonds. However, even diamonds, not all diamonds have value preservation effects, at least there is a limit of 'carat'? I have never heard of it. Diamonds that are as small as a few carats also have value preservation effects.

The same is true for jade.

Those jade jewelry with excellent quality naturally have a value-preserving effect. Not to mention the increase of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a year, the jade jewelry that can be purchased for at least 30,000 to 50,000 yuan can increase by 30,000 yuan a year from the value growth trend in recent years. Of course, if you collect those treasures worth millions or tens of millions, then the added value in the market is not a simple percentage.

In the market, the price of top-quality jade has always been rising. In addition, personal preferences are affected by the value of a top-quality jade. For example, if a glass-type green jade bracelet has a circulation value of 12 million yuan in the market, if you are anxious to find such a bracelet to give it to others, you may have to pay a price of 13 million yuan. But if you get it to the pawnshop to exchange it, you may not be able to get it!

It is entirely a matter of which side takes the initiative.

Fortunately, in Jia Sidao's "green, fat, red and thin", nearly ten jade jewelry from 30,000 to 100,000 have been sold since its opening today. From this point of view, there is no problem with the turnover of today's day, which is over one million. As for jade jewelry with a higher grade, the more it goes, the more difficult it is to sell.

Jia Sidao noticed that fewer people asked about jade jewelry worth millions and were willing to pay immediately. So far today, that is, a customer of a half-old Xu girl who Jia Sidao had noticed before, took away a glass-type red jade bracelet for one million.

For customers of this level, even though many of them just came to see the real thing today, they were still hesitating whether to take action immediately. Jia Sidao recorded their personal information very well. These are Jia Sidao's most important customers in the future.

If you want to make money, relying on jade jewelry worth a few thousand yuan alone will definitely not have a big flower head. Even if you earn all the transaction volume, how much money will it be? What's more, there are also the handwork fees of the carving masters and some loss of tools. As for the water and electricity bills in the jade shop, the waiter's salary will not be mentioned.

If you really want to calculate it, if it is a small amount of jade jewelry, it is not based on quantity to win, Jia Sidao would even doubt whether he is going to lose money.

Therefore, the profit of Jia Sidao's jade business still depends on those top-quality jadeites. This is also the reason why Jia Sidao obtained some high-end jade customers from Wang Biao. Moreover, the sales of top-quality jadeites does not mean that anyone comes and you can pay immediately if you like it. Many times, the sales of top-quality jadeites are more like the rare antiques in other shops on the Antique Street. It requires long-term running-in between customers and shop owners. To put it bluntly, it is because the price elasticity in this area is relatively large. Even if you like it to death, it will take so long to "sweep" for such three or five days due to the difference in price. It is hard to say that these three or five days are worth millions of value.

At this moment, Jia Sidao thought about it. If a bright green glass bracelet is sold, it will cost tens of millions of dollars in cash. It really feels like I haven’t opened it for three years and I have been eating it for three years.

"By the way, Sister Li, why don't you talk to me about the jade market in the provincial capital?" After looking at the customers next to me, she was not very busy. Jia Sidao started chatting with Li Shiyun.

"How to say, have you been to my 'Shiyun Jewelry'?" Li Shiyun said, and when she saw Jia Sidao nodding, she said with a smile, "What do you think is the biggest difference between my store and yours?"

"It's different, there are so many more." Jia Sidao said, thinking, "From the decoration of the store, the styles are quite different."

However, just when Jia Sidao was about to talk, Li Shiyun was annoyed by Jia Sidao and interrupted directly: "You, don't talk about these false ones, just say something practical."

"The style of the store I just mentioned is also very practical. At least, there are quite a difference in the consumer groups." However, seeing Li Shiyun's increasingly annoyed face, Jia Sidao quickly got into the state and said directly, "But, to be honest, Sister Li, the variety of jade jewelry in your store is undoubtedly much more than mine. In addition, even if you have a good grasp of fashion, you have much better than mine."

Jia Sidao really had no choice but to do this.

The 'green fat red and thin' shop has just opened. All the jade jewelry were carved by people like Jia Sidao and Xu Zhiguo. There is nothing to say about the carving skills, and the texture of the jade materials is all natural and directly dug out of the jade raw stones. However, when it comes to the shape of jade jewelry, it has to be said that Xu Zhiguo and his men have good design skills and good aesthetic vision, but compared with some jade styles in big cities, there are still great shortcomings.

If you haven’t seen it, you can’t just see a diamond. Do you need to have a corresponding design to match the village?

In jade jewelry, many designers are needed to design some trendy designs for the colors and styles of jade. Of course, ring faces, bracelets, etc. are all classic styles, and they will not lose their price at any time when they are taken out. However, can you expect these classic jade styles to attract more consumers' attention?

"Xiao Jia, you are not honest. You are talking about the advantages of the jade jewelry in my shop, but you didn't talk about your own advantages." Li Shiyun was very disdainful of Jia Sidao's face and couldn't help but smile, "You can't always praise my shop instead of yours, right?"

"What's there to say about this?" Jia Sidao rolled his eyes at Li Shiyun and said, "My biggest advantage is that there are more high-quality jades."

"Yes." Li Shiyun snapped her fingers at Jia Sidao, and suddenly felt that this state was a bit out of place. She couldn't help but restrain herself a little and said, "It's totally correct! But what effect do you think will be after attending the jewelry exhibition in the provincial capital?"

"That's naturally to expand the influence of my jade store." Jia Sidao said casually, then frowned and said, "Sister Li, what do you mean is that as long as my jade store can maintain the current quantity of top-quality jade, then whether you participate in the jewelry exhibition or not, you can form a certain scale of influence in the province?"

"That's right." Li Shiyun replied, "To put it bluntly, its effect is not as good as you imagined. Think about it, I have also participated in "Shiyun Jewelry" several times, but what about the final effect? ​​It's not that it's not much different from usual!"

"Yes." Jia Sidao still had some understanding of the business status of Li Shiyun's store. He nodded at this moment and couldn't help feeling a little helpless.

"The jade market in the province is only so big." Li Shiyun said helplessly, "There are actually not many famous jade stores. As long as you continue to maintain this momentum, I believe that it will soon become a certain reputation in the province. Moreover, the news about jade enthusiasts is far more informative than we imagined."

Jia Sidao was very relieved about this.

Let’s say that Jia Sidao often visits the “Tianxia Collection”. Some collection enthusiasts often communicate about the antique market situation in various places. The jade sections in this area are naturally the situation in the jade market. For example, a new jade store appeared in a place, or a glass-type imperial green jade pendant was seen in a certain store. The circulation of gossip has no geographical limitations.

Fortunately, the sensational effect of a heavy jade treasure is much better than that of doing some simple advertisements by yourself. No matter what other jade jewelry are like in your jade store, the appearance of the treasures such as the "twelve zodiac signs", "blood jade bracelet", "peerless chicken oil yellow", and "glass imperial green jade bracelet" is enough to attract most jade lovers to come.

Distance? Flight? Time?

In Jia Sidao's impression, the jade enthusiasts are not good at saying that is a waste of money! In their eyes, there are only rare jade, and there is nothing else. As Li Shiyun said, the jade market in the provincial capital is so big, and Jia Sidao has the advantage of rare jade. It is a matter of time before he becomes famous or not. When he went to the jewelry exhibition in the provincial capital, it was nothing more than increasing the exposure of some jade shops.

It is hard to say that the best jade appeared at the jewelry exhibition is not as good as the "green, fat, red and thin" on Jia Sidao's side.

"Sister Li, I can only wait like this?" Jia Sidao for a moment, but felt that since he was not going to participate in the jewelry exhibition, he would have more time in the next time, but there was nothing special to do? It was like a person who had been winded up tightly, but suddenly he felt at a loss.

"Who said you can only wait?" Li Shiyun said, "And I just talked about the jewelry exhibition in the provincial capital. You don't have to go to your store, because there are not too many top-quality jades that can appear in that place, and the exposure rate may not be very effective. Moreover, some interpersonal relationships and other aspects at the jewelry exhibition are also complicated. But what about other places?"

Jia Sidao's eyes couldn't help but lit up!

Compared with the provincial capital, Shanghai, the nearest metropolis, participates in jewelry exhibitions and the like, is far better than the provincial capital in terms of publicity? This is not that Jia Sidao is self-deprecating and feels that his provincial capital is not as good as Shanghai, but that Shanghai, as the leader of the Yangtze River Delta, undoubtedly has great advantages.

Moreover, if Jia Sidao's business is going to grow bigger, I won't talk about it in the provincial capital, and Shanghai will undoubtedly become a big springboard!

So, Jia Sidao immediately asked: "Sister Li, when was the jewelry exhibition in Shanghai?"

"This," Li Shiyun smiled and said, "I don't know the specific days. Don't look at me like this. At least, my 'Shiyun Jewelry' has never been to Shanghai for exhibition. However, I know that if your jade store is famous in Shanghai, there is still a chance to go to Hong Kong."

I have to say that the word Hong Kong also shocked Jia Sidao and had a very far-reaching imagination. The jade market and sales in mainland China are still not as good as those in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. Especially the transactions of top-quality jade. If Jia Sidao's "green, fat, red and thin" was opened in Hong Kong, no, even in Shanghai, Jia Sidao thought that it would be impossible for him to only complete a transaction order of millions on the first day, right?

Linhai's regional limitations were fully displayed at this time. However, Jia Sidao had no choice but to do so.

"Okay, since you don't know, Sister Li, why don't I go to Shanghai in person?" Jia Sidao said. Moreover, in his heart, Jia Sidao also asked what Liu Yufei and Wang Biao meant. In Jia Sidao's mind, they would at least know more about the jade ranks, right?
Chapter completed!