Chapter 487 The child is one month old
After the online store opened, sales continued to increase. At the same time, offline store owners called the electronics factory to place orders, and some people asked the online store operators for bulk purchases if they could get a discount.
If retailers wholesale according to the prices of online stores, then in order to make money they must sell at a higher price than online stores. However, in 12, online shopping was not yet mainstream, especially for electronic products. Offline shopping was still the mainstream. Even if retailers wholesale according to the prices of online stores, they could still make money by adding a markup offline.
When setting the price for the online store, Zhou Jing took the wholesale link of retailers into consideration, so the online price is ten to fifteen yuan more expensive than the original wholesale price, so as to give discounts to bulk purchases. Zhou Jing's current goal is to make small profits but quick turnover, which can, on the one hand, increase the popularity of Ideal Electronics, and on the other hand, quickly seize market share.
However, the discount will not be available through the online store channel, so Zhou Jing asked the other party to contact the electronics factory.
After gradually opening up the key channel of online store, Bai Xiyao's work became much easier. She no longer needed to send people from the sales department to various places to promote the products. She could just answer the phone, take orders and ship the goods in the company.
According to the trend, the hot sales of Bluetooth speakers were a foregone conclusion. Bai Xiyao first gave Tangdu Huatian Technology a contract for the OEM of 3 speakers. Ideal Electronics Factory freed up production capacity to produce simple MP4 and inexpensive MP and other products, thus increasing the richness of the company's products.
Looking at the online store data sheet sent to his mailbox by the operations department, Zhou Jing wondered what new products he could come up with. Thinking of the difficulties his high school classmates had to face in reading e-books using MP3 players and keyboard phones, Zhou Jing considered the feasibility of developing an e-reader.
E-book readers in this era cannot be high-end. First, the consumer group does not have much purchasing power. Second, they cannot realize high-end functions. If they go low-end, many configurations can be cut. For the group of e-book enthusiasts, it is not necessary. It will be convenient to read e-books by making the MP4 screen bigger.
When the online store was first established, there was an activity of giving cash back for positive reviews. If you sent photos of the goods after receiving them and gave positive reviews, you could get three to five yuan in cash back.
The online shopping logistics in 12 was not very fast. It took a week for the first batch of orders to be shipped to consumers. Ideal Electronics Factory has strict quality control. There were basically no quality problems with the Bluetooth speakers received by consumers. After trying them, they contacted the store immediately with good reviews. The online store operator confirmed the screenshots and gave cash back promptly.
The electronics factory ships orders every day. After the first batch arrived, other batches also arrived one after another. The online store received rave reviews. In more than a week, Ideal Electronics Factory shipped a total of more than 50,000 units through retail and wholesale, far exceeding Zhou Jing's expectations.
It’s not that Zhou Jing is not confident in the product, but it usually takes some time for new things to react. The sales of Bluetooth speakers have increased so quickly, which shows that Qin Zhengyu is very successful in running the online store. But it is also reasonable. Qin Zhengyu made sufficient preparations before the online store opened, and spent more than 300,000 yuan on promotion.
Although the sales volume of Bluetooth speakers in online stores is huge at this stage, the profit per unit is not as good as that of wholesale to retailers. During the online store activities, there are coupons worth five to ten yuan. You can also get another five-yuan coupon by entering the store through the advertising link on the social networking site Momo. You can get a three to five-yuan rebate if consumers give positive reviews, and there is also a commission from the platform. On average, you can earn less than fifteen yuan for one speaker, and you can only rely on small profits but quick turnover.
Bai Xiyao took a week's sales data of the Bluetooth speaker and went to the relevant units again to apply for land allocation for the expansion of the electronics factory. This time it went much more smoothly. The leader directly expressed support. Ideal Electronics Factory is one of the few technology companies in Tangdu with its own brand products, and there is no reason for the government not to support it.
After the land demarcation is completed, a loan must be obtained. Expanding the electronics factory and production lines will require a considerable amount of funds. Since the decision has been made to expand, Zhou Jing plans to expand more at one time. He plans to add eight new production lines. The land price is not high, less than 50,000 per acre, which is the lowest price for land that can be used to build a factory. Electronic assembly plants have low environmental pollution, and such factories are high-quality enterprises wherever they are located and are more popular.
The project and equipment will cost more than 300 million.
Although there are plenty of electronics factories that can do OEM, if a company wants to take root in a place completely, the best way is to bring good economic benefits and employment to the local area.
If a boss brings thousands of jobs to a place, then this boss will be a guest of honor in the local area. If he can bring tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of jobs to the country, then this boss will also be a guest of honor in the country.
Therefore, the expansion of Ideal Technology is inevitable. When the construction of the branch factory is completed, together with the three production lines expanded in the old factory, the production lines of Ideal Technology Co., Ltd. will increase from three to fourteen, which will bring thousands of jobs. Tangdu currently does not have such a large electronics factory.
Bai Xiyao negotiated the expansion project, Zhou Jing went to Tangdu to go through the procedures and discuss the loan, and returned to BJ the day before the baby's full month.
The baby's full month is a big happy event in the family. Zhou Guozhong took a leave from school and came to BJ. When Zhou Jing returned to BJ, Zhou Guozhong had already arrived in BJ. Dad Gu prepared to go to BJ on the day the baby was full month.
After Zhou Jing returned to BJ, he went to the company to handle some matters first. As soon as he arrived at the company, he received a box of red envelopes. All the staff of Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd. had prepared red envelopes and asked Tang Yuan to hand them over to Zhou Jing.
"Everyone is so thoughtful. Some people are coming from my hometown, so I may not have time tomorrow. My cousin can make arrangements and book a hotel and KTV. I will give everyone a half-day off tomorrow afternoon to relax."
Zhou Jing accepted the red envelope and said.
"Okay, thank you Mr. Zhou on behalf of everyone."
Tang Yuan was a little excited, although it was only half a day off, but in a society and workplace where exploitation is everywhere, it is extremely precious for the boss to give employees half a day off and pay for employee activities and dinners on non-holidays. Not all bosses are so generous and humane.
Zhou Jing gave the two big software contracts that Bai Xiyao had negotiated in Tangdu to Tang Yuan and asked him to hand them over to Wang Tao to quickly deal with the work at hand. After the New Year, not only was Tangdu's company busy, but BJ's company was also extremely busy.
In addition to external projects, Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd. is also developing many of its own software projects at the same time, including the game studio's King's Call, Daily Cool Run and Rhythm Master mobile game versions, the project department is responsible for the chat, ideal browser, short video transition version Micro Video, and a series of software such as the mobile phone's built-in video player and music player.
The programmer's keyboard is almost smoking.
If the Tangdu branch had not been established, BJ Company would not be able to handle the work with its staff alone.
After half a month of running-in, the team of Chuangzhi Technology's Tangdu branch is now able to take on projects.
Zhou Jing owns an entire office building in Tangdu, so he has no shortage of land. The Chuangzhi Technology branch is now rapidly expanding its team while working on projects. Taking advantage of the time when the seniors are about to graduate, Zhou Jing has asked the Chuangzhi Technology Tangdu branch to complete the recruitment of no less than 300 fresh graduates and 100 previous graduates.
With the advent of the intelligent era, companies need a large amount of basic code, which requires a large team of programmers.
After dealing with important work in the company, Zhou Jing went home. The children's daytime sleep time began to decrease, and the house became more lively. As soon as Zhou Jing got out of the elevator, he heard noisy sounds coming from the house.
"Who's coming?"
Gu Jia greeted Zhou Jing at the door holding the child.
"Oh!"
Seeing Zhou Jing's familiar face, the little guy opened his mouth wide and raised his little hands to wave gently.
"Look how many red envelopes Daddy brought you."
Zhou Jing put the suitcase aside and opened the paper box containing the red envelopes, which were neatly arranged in rows.
"The more red envelopes we receive, the more blessed we are. We have a lot of blessings from Zhou Zhou."
Gu Jia kissed the child's nose and said.
"Each person in the company earns 100,000 yuan, which is 20 to 30,00
Wu Suqin said as she looked at a box of red envelopes.
Gu Jia put the child in the cradle and pushed it to the living room for others to play with him. She went to the study, opened the box of things she bought for the child's full moon celebration, and asked Zhou Jing if he had forgotten anything.
Zhou Jing took a rough look and bought the child red clothes, a red hat, a longevity lock, a book to record the share money, ink pad, and a copybook of the calligraphy of "peace and joy" with footprints on it.
"almost."
Zhou Jing bought six bottles of Taizi last December and still have four bottles. He also bought a box of Wuliangye with strong aroma and hasn't touched it yet. He also has the red wine he bought last year. He will seal two bottles of Taizi and two bottles of Wuliangye tomorrow. There is no need to buy more for the time being.
Gu Jia packed Zhou Jing's suitcase and found two red envelopes, both with 500 yuan. "One is from Bai Xiyao, right? Whose is the other one?"
"Yeah," it was Liu Hanyu. Zhou Jing didn't know how to introduce Liu Hanyu for a moment. "Her grandmother and my grandmother are from the same village. We played together when we were young. Now she works in finance at Ideal Technology."
Zhou Jing tried his best to tell the truth. Anyway, there was nothing too dramatic between him and Liu Hanyu, so he was not afraid of Gu Jia knowing it.
"What's your name? I'll write it down."
Gu Jia put the red envelopes in the box, sat down at the desk with the register, and wrote down Bai Xiyao's name first.
"Liu Hanyu."
Zhou Jing said calmly.
"Girls, you must have had a good relationship when you were young. How do you write your names?"
Gu Jia said with a smile.
"We meet occasionally during the winter and summer vacations, and our parents know each other." Zhou Jing suddenly had an idea and said, "Yu is the language of language, and I don't know which one is Han."
"Then I'll just write one. What does it look like? Do you have a photo?"
Gu Jia wrote Liu Hanyu, thinking that Zhou Jing didn’t even know how to spell a girl’s name, so their relationship must be ordinary. She should work in Zhou Jing’s company because her family knew her.
"No, it just looks like that." Zhou Jing shook his head, looked at the name written by Gu Jia and said, "It's not this Han, there is a radical in front, three drops of water and the character Wang."
"I'm not sure about this one. I like opening red envelopes the most. I'll keep Zhou Zhou's. Ordinary employees should all get 200 yuan, and senior executives should all get 1,000 yuan." Gu Jia looked at the box of red envelopes, took one out at random and opened it. There was 200 yuan in it. He took another one, also 200 yuan. He took out a few from the edge and opened them one by one. They were all 1,000 yuan.
"should be."
"The confinement period is finally over. I will go back to the company tomorrow after Zhou Zhou's full moon."
Finally, the day came and Gu Jia took a bath and felt relaxed.
"welcome."
The company was not far from home, and Zhou Jing did not object to Gu Jia going to work. Anyway, Gu Jia did not need to be punctual for work and leave on time. She could just feed her child in the morning and go to the company, and go home to feed her child at noon. The position of the company's financial director had been reserved for Gu Jia.
"I like to go to work and love my job. When should I put the wine sealed for the full moon?"
Gu Jia opened the wine box and said.
"Grow up, kid. Some people make their own wine and bury it in the ground to seal it. It's more convenient in the countryside."
I was talking about children with the company a few days ago. Someone in the company brewed one-year-old wine for his child in his hometown and sealed it. Zhou Jing also became interested when he heard about it.
"It's better to buy it with confidence. If there is any mistake in the process of brewing it yourself, don't let others have problems drinking it."
Gu Jia also felt that homemade wine was more memorable, but she was a little worried.
"I don't brew it myself. There are many places that brew liquor, including Yushi. If you need to brew liquor, you need to prepare the grains yourself and take them to the brewery. You pay the people in the workshop to do it, and you can supervise the brewing process."
"That's fine. If you're interested, you can find someone to brew it in your hometown next year during the first month of the lunar year for Zhou Zhou's first birthday."
Gu Jia thought that wine itself has sterilization and disinfection functions, and the safety of the wine brewed with the grains prepared by oneself can be guaranteed. If you buy wine, you may buy industrial fake wine, but the wine brewed with the grains prepared by oneself is at least pure grain wine.
“We’ll see next year!”
Zhou Jing may not have time.
"You really resisted the urge to drink these two bottles of red wine."
Gu Jia picked up a bottle of red wine from the wine rack on the cabinet. It was bought during the Dragon Boat Festival last year. She couldn't drink alcohol because she was pregnant, but Zhou Jing said they could drink together after the baby was born, and they really did it.
"Let's drink red wine tomorrow." Zhou Jing went to the living room and pulled the cradle from his father to himself. "Little cutie, smile for daddy."
"what!"
The child started practicing his voice again, in a baby voice.
"Follow daddy and learn how to roar like a dragon, woooo."
Zhou Jing held the child's two little hands.
“Oh.”
The child tried hard to howl along.
Gu Jia squatted beside the child, "The roar of the evil dragon, woooo, the little cutie imitated it so well."
"Dad, why don't you take one more day off so you can stay an extra day until the weekend."
After handing the child to Gu Jia, Zhou Jing chatted with his father.
"There will be monthly exams on Saturday and Sunday. Will the admission score for Experimental Middle School be raised this year?"
Zhou Guozhong is quite busy teaching the third grade this year.
"The admission score dropped a little last year, but it shouldn't drop any further this year."
Thanks to Zhou Jing's funding, Experimental Middle School has provided generous poverty subsidies to students and rewards to outstanding students in the past two years. It should be the school with the best student treatment in the entire city of Yulin.
The meal was almost ready, so Gu Jia took the child to the bedroom to feed her first, otherwise she would be greedy when the adults were eating.
Zhou Jing also went to the bedroom and pretended to snatch the food from the child before the child started eating so that he would not choke.
"You are so bad. You comforted the crying child."
Gu Jia said with a helpless smile.
The child couldn't snatch it from Zhou Jing, and he grunted a few times and started crying.
"Zhou Zhou, don't cry, mom will beat dad."
Gu Jia patted Zhou Jing twice.
After feeding the child, he stopped crying immediately.
"You didn't even shed a tear. You're really pretending."
Zhou Jing gently poked the child's face.
"Only Zhou Zhou is easy to appease."
Gu Jia patted the child's back gently.
"Zhou Zhou is the most obedient child. He makes daddy and mommy worry-free."
Zhou Jing found a diaper and put it on the child after he finished feeding. After the little guy had eaten and drunk enough, it was time for him to go to sleep.
"Usually, adults can't eat peacefully with children this age. When they are awake, one has to eat first while the other comforts the child. After one finishes eating and comforts the child, the other can eat."
The meal was ready. Gu Jia put the child in the bassinet and pushed him to the dining table while the adults ate with the child watching.
"Baby is so good, I hope he grows up soon so he can eat with adults."
Wu Suqin asked others to eat first while she coaxed the child.
"Mom, eat too. No need to coax her. Zhou Zhou will fall asleep in a while."
Gu Jia sat outside the table so that she could look after the children.
"You are so good. You know how to care for adults."
Mother Gu also teased the child.
Wu Suqin heard the conversation between Zhou Jing and Gu Jia. She looked at Zhou Jing and asked, "When did Liu Hanyu come to your company?"
"January."
Zhou Jing said to himself, "Mom, stop bringing up things that are not relevant."
(End of this chapter)