At Qingfeng Steamed Bun Shop, Yao Yuan ordered a set meal, which included two ounces of pork buns with green onions, one fried liver, and one mustard greens.
Being young means having good energy. Even after working hard all night and not sleeping, he was still full of energy even after washing his face. After the team broke up in the early morning, he and Han Tao squatted for a while at the reporting club and came out at dawn.
I ran around in the East City first, and then went to the West City at noon. While eating, I wrote down in a notebook, deleting, deleting, and revising, and planned today's promotion route.
From the birth of the Internet to today, local promotion teams have always been indispensable.
It's a pity that he has little capital and can only do it by himself. He is the boss, planning, copywriting, and sales.
“The fried liver is a bit thick!”
Yao Yuan licked the bowl clean, shook his head, stood up and left, continuing westward along the street.
Wearing soft-soled cotton leather shoes on the hard square tiles, jeans, a down jacket, and a large shoulder bag, the salesman's temperament remains the same. In fact, he has a very good skin, but he is too lazy to clean it up. A 40-year-old soul is not that easy to change.
Not long after walking, I found a roadside shop with the words "Mobile Card" on the door.
Yao Yuan pushed the door open and went in. The boss appeared and greeted, "What can I buy?"
"You sell mobile phone cards?"
"Yes, you can choose your own number. China Mobile and China Unicom have them, and they also have monthly subscriptions."
"Monthly subscription?"
Yao Yuan was stunned, what the hell is this a fellow traveler?
"If you pay 200 yuan a month, you can make phone calls for 600 yuan. The card is more expensive, 300 yuan per card, but 300 yuan is also appropriate. If you make frequent calls, buy this."
The boss enthusiastically recommended it, and Yao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It was better that he was not a colleague. When he saw that this was Zhang Unicom’s mobile phone card, it was no different from the ones on the market, so he asked: "Is it an internal card?"
"Hey! Expert!"
The boss was surprised and did not deny it: "It's not available on the market. I transferred it from an internal employee. Can you choose a number?"
"Oh, I don't buy a card."
"Then you are?"
"I'll buy the number."
"..."
When any industry rises, there are countless opportunities to make money. Those who are more capable can eat meat, while those who are less capable can drink soup. Even if you can't even lick the bowl, you can still make some money.
The boss blinked, obviously he had never encountered such a situation before, but he was very receptive and asked with interest: "How can I buy it?"
"I want as many mobile phone numbers as you have, including those you have sold and those you have not sold. One number is five cents."
"Five cents? Don't be ridiculous, I don't have the time."
"A hundred is five yuan, a thousand is fifty, and you have no cost. You can make money just by hand, so why don't you work hard?"
"But five cents is too little. You have to sincerely ask for more."
After pulling and pulling, Yao Yuan refused to give in even for five cents. Personal information is worthless, not to mention it is not personal information, it is just a mobile phone number.
You know, you don’t need to use your real name to buy a mobile phone card now.
After some ink writing, Yao Yuan said: "Let's do it this way. You can be my agent and you can also collect the number yourself. I will also charge you five cents, but we must agree first that the number cannot be repeated!"
"Is it okay if you use China Mobile or China Unicom?"
"Anything works!"
China Mobile has Monternet. In order to compete, China Unicom also launched "China Unicom Online" with similar functions. However, China Unicom has few users, poor promotion, and far less influence than Monternet.
The boss thought about it and realized that he knew everyone selling mobile phone cards in this area, so he said: "Okay, deal is done!"
The two shook hands and expressed pleasure in cooperating. Yao Yuan directly rounded up the existing number segments in the store, about dozens of them.
After leaving the house, he took out his notebook and drew a line on the map. He originally searched by area, finding an agent on one street or two streets.
"It's so damn cold!"
Yao Yuan rubbed his hands and looked at the dirty winter sky in the capital. This was the first time he realized how difficult it was to start a business. He straightened his collar and continued heading west.
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The festivals of later generations are much the same.
First send out a red envelope in the morning, buy some gifts, have a date for dinner after get off work, watch a movie or other activities after dinner, and finally go to the hotel to spend a pleasant day.
Now it's basically the same except that red envelopes can't be given out.
In the past, Christmas was not celebrated in China. I don’t know when it started, but it gradually became popular, and concepts such as Christmas Eve and peace fruits appeared again.
Yao Yuan had bought many big apples in his previous life, packed them simply, and sold them on the street on Christmas Eve.
Not a single one was sold.
At the beginning of the new century, Christmas is becoming more and more popular, especially since Christmas and New Year coincide, many shopping malls have launched promotional activities.
Yao Yuan stuffed a large pile of flyers into his bag and wandered all the way to the Xisi area.
There are three cinemas in this area: Red Mansion, Victory, and Geological Auditorium.
Since the mid-1990s, the domestic film market has plummeted. At its worst, the total box office for the year was less than 900 million. Movie theaters were crowded, and they only became lively when Hollywood blockbusters were released and Feng Pants New Year films.
Then next year, the cinema chain system reform will be launched and the industry will slowly recover.
Yao Yuan entered the Red Building first, but was kicked out within ten minutes. He entered the Shengli again and lasted for five minutes. The manager politely thought he was a liar.
He had experienced such an encounter all morning, and he was helpless.
After adjusting my backpack, I walked into the door of the Geological Auditorium.
This cinema, formerly known as the "Li Siguang Lecture Hall" of the Ministry of Geology, is affiliated to the ministry and was only opened to the public in 1989. It has a hall with more than 1,000 seats.
As soon as Yao Yuan entered, he saw a promotional poster for "Big Shot", with the words "Watch the movie and get coffee" posted next to it. The old-fashioned spiral staircase leads directly to the upper floor. There is a karaoke room on the first floor, as well as a canteen selling tobacco and alcohol.
"The old cow breaks the cart, and every year is worse than the last."
Yao Yuan walked to the front desk and said: "Hello, I would like to meet the manager of your store. There is a promotion event that I want to discuss."
"Who are you to meet our manager?"
The aunt at the front desk didn't even raise her eyes, but a piece of banknote slipped into her sight from top to bottom, and she said again: "Let me see if it's here!"
About two minutes later, a middle-aged man appeared and asked with a puzzled expression: "Who are you?"
"I'm from 91 Network Technology Company. This is my business card."
"91?"
The man felt that it was not serious. He looked at the business card and saw that he was still the boss. He thought that college students should start their own business.
"Mr. Yao, my surname is Wang, please come this way."
Manager Wang was much more polite than Auntie. When he arrived at a reception area, Yao Yuan sat down, took out the booklets from his bag, and opened them one by one as before.
"...To put it simply, we have an online club with 4,700 local members and a text message database with 100,000 local customers. The cooperation model is that I help you attract people and you provide discounted tickets without any cost."
"..."
It took Manager Wang a long time to figure out what an online club and a text message database were.
This is advertising!
But he was confused. Doesn’t advertising cost money for businesses?
He didn't think the other party was a liar, he was just confused and asked: "We don't bear the cost, so how do you make money? Give us free benefits?"
"We have our own way of making money. This explanation is too complicated. In short, I assure you that it will not damage the reputation of your store. But the key point is..."
"You tell me!"
Yao Yuan took out his mobile phone, showed a text message, and said: "The customer came here with the text message and wants to buy discount tickets. You must recognize it."