Today is Saturday, and I am going to take two days off.
Since the company opened, no one has had a serious weekend.
Especially for the business of Maoye Shopping Mall, we have to work overtime almost every day to catch up with the progress, and everyone is very tired.
I decided to close the company for two days this weekend so that everyone can go home and relax.
In fact, I feel helpless, my career has been thwarted, and I feel very depressed.
Except for the business in Maoye Shopping Mall, we have not received any other relatively large business since our opening.
Chen Dajiang also tried his best, but the problem is that we are now a small workshop, and we are taking a mid-to-high-end route, so no one will believe it easily.
Chen Dajiang told me that someone suggested that we lower the price and sell low-end products, and they can give us a big order at once.
But I rejected all of them. Since I decided to go mid-to-high-end, it was impossible to lower the price.
So this involves advertising. It would be better if you can find a famous star to endorse it.
But the problem is, we can’t even pay next month’s salary now, so how can we still have the spare money to do this?
An Lan and I discussed selling our villa in Chengdu.
After thinking carefully, I still don't agree with this approach.
That house is my only house in Chengdu, although I may not live in Chengdu again in the future.
However, there is the blood I have shed there, and it is full of memories.
Although memories cannot be eaten, I feel that we are not at that point of desperation now.
For a "little sparrow" company, as long as all the internal organs are in place and can operate normally, it will be fine.
Development and growth is what happens after the company reaches a certain scale.
The real issue before us now is not a matter of the company's development and growth, but a matter of the company's survival.
If it continues like this, it won't last long. I'm afraid it won't even be able to pay the electricity bill, and the company will be dead.
Yes! The final payment from Maoye Shopping Mall has not been collected yet.
Why do you say "begging"?
Because that’s how I feel!
For the balance of 230,000 yuan, Chen Dajiang and I went there twice more. We had already gone to the mall four times for this amount of money.
People saw it, but things didn't make any progress.
Mr. Wang from the marketing department is like a smiling tiger, laughing and joking in front of us, but behind his back he still doesn't take us seriously.
Every time I go to his office, he greets me with a smile, offers me cigarettes and tea, and is very polite.
Every time he patted his chest and assured me that the money was not a problem and they were not short of that little money.
But the problem is that after so long, why is there no sound at all?
As the saying goes, don’t reach out to slap a smiling person. He smiles at us every time and speaks politely. We can’t reach out and slap him a few times, right?
So in the end I admit he won.
Until now, this matter has made some of us lose our tempers at all!
The only thing we can do is to keep going to Maoye Mall and Mr. Wang’s office to press for the payment.
To put it bluntly, you are wasting your time with him!
However, I know very well that our company cannot afford to deal with them.
The only result of this consumption is that our company will go bankrupt!
The only thing that can save us now is to get a big order right away.
We can take the advance payment and make the initial investment.
If that doesn't work, I'll have to borrow money.
Because only in this way can the company avoid the sad end of bankruptcy, and only in this way can the company have a way out.
Everyone has been working hard these days. For the sake of business, almost all of us in the management team have gone out to find customers.
Even the designer Li Sheng acted as a salesperson, including Gu Lisa, and the other employees were naturally on vacation.
But after running for two days, I still found nothing.
It’s still the same problem, we have no background, no network resources, and no brand effect.
Even if our products are of good quality and well designed, when it comes to clothing, people will still choose brands that are well-known to the public.
Unless the price is reduced, it will be reduced to low-end products and sold at a low price.
Everyone has been so anxious these past few days that they can't find a clear way out.
I really didn't think about this issue when the company was founded.
Just because we were going so smoothly in the past. At that time, Ruian Clothing was promoted so quickly because it had the support of Yuanfeng Group and sufficient financial guarantee.
The situation is different now. I didn't expect it to be so difficult.
But I had to find a solution to this problem. That night I sat outside in the yard and smoked three cigarettes in a row.
I even thought that if it really doesn't work, I would go to Siya Clothing now, even if we cooperate with them, as long as they can guarantee our normal operation.
But I know that if we do this, Li Sheng will be the first to disagree.
Just when I felt powerless, An Lan suddenly brought me good news.
After she put Xiaoman and Yangyang to sleep, she went outside to the yard, peeled a pear for me, and said to me:
"Still thinking about business?"
"Otherwise? Now we can't always count on Maoye Shopping Mall to settle the payment. They are deliberately delaying us. And even if the payment is settled now, it will not be able to operate without business."
An Lan was silent for a while and then said to me: "Have you discovered a problem?"
"What's the problem?"
"We have been looking for business everywhere during this period, but there has been no progress at all. So why was Maoye Shopping Mall so willing to sign a deal with us before?"
It's not that I haven't thought about this problem. Although it is quite strange, it doesn't mean anything at all.
In my silence, An Lan said to me again: "Now they are deliberately delaying the final payment. This shows that they have thought about it from the beginning and did this deliberately."
"It's not necessary? Why are you targeting us like this?"
"Tell me, could it be that we did something to hurt them when we were still in the Yuanfeng Group, and now it's just revenge?"
"How is that possible? I didn't know them before, and I had no contact with them at all."
"I mean invisibly, we just didn't know it at the time."
An Lan suddenly reminded me, but so what?
In the silence, An Lan smiled again and said to me: "Okay, don't think about it so much. These are just our guesses. What's more important now is to find the source of customers, right?"
"Well, without customers, it's nothing."
"Then if I find it for you, how will you repay me?"
"You? Found it?" I looked at An Lan with excitement.
She nodded to me confidently: "Of course, you don't want to see who I am?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Others will joke with you, but I won't." An Lan said very seriously.
Of course I believed her and hurriedly asked: "What business?"
"I used to have a senior student in London. I didn't expect that he is now an agent for domestic clothing products. However, he is currently on a business trip in Hangzhou and cannot leave. We have to go and talk to him ourselves."
I suddenly became excited: "Are they sold overseas?"
"Yes, and he made it clear that the quantity he wants is relatively large. As soon as the contract is signed, the money will be received immediately, and we will continue to cooperate on a regular basis in the future."
"I'll go! This is so lucky, isn't it? Where did you find it?"
"I told you it was one of my former seniors. I posted a post on Moments and he found me on his own."
I was stunned for a moment, then quickly took out my phone and opened WeChat Moments to take a look.