When singing live, you should familiarize yourself with the environment and try to replicate the recording studio effect.
Xing Baohua wasn't idle while they were busy.
I found a little thing while I was out for a stroll, so I bought it to take a look.
The price wasn't cheap either; something the size of a palm cost him two hundred US dollars.
Solar-powered lights.
Why is it so expensive? The seller said it's a monocrystalline solar panel used to power satellites. The materials are top-notch.
This tiny solar panel, no bigger than the palm of your hand, has a conversion power of only 5W, and with two nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries, it can power a small light bulb.
The product is good, but the price is too high.
Two hundred dollars can buy a lot of batteries for flashlights or lighting equipment.
This thing, though seemingly high-tech, is actually quite useless.
But for Xing Baohua, this was a chance to make money. He would use some cutting-edge technology to fleece a bunch of people.
Monocrystalline solar panels are expensive, that's a fact, but you can use polycrystalline solar panels instead.
Our domestically produced products should be cheaper, right?
Sure enough, when Xing Baohua called back to ask, the most expensive monocrystalline solar panel, according to the dimensions he mentioned, cost around 300 yuan.
Polycrystalline silicon can be 100 cheaper.
The size Xing Baohua wanted was about one-third the size of the solar panel he had.
Ask how much production they have and how much they can supply each month. Wait for their reply and tell them that it's about 15,000 pieces per month.
Xing Baohua didn't dare ask for too many; she wanted a thousand pieces to try first.
Furthermore, he was going to conduct a small experiment in the United States: modifying mobile phones. Since he didn't have enough phones, he had to send someone to buy two.
Solar-powered phone chargers mean you'll never have to worry about running out of power again.
A half-day charge provides enough power for ten minutes of continuous talk time.
I've already come up with the advertising slogan.
Everything else is easy to do; you just need to modify the power manager and add a few more small electrons and capacitors.
Xing Baohua had studied this stuff a lot in his previous life; the black guys in Africa love our knock-off phones the most.
If you give him a brand-name product, he'll like it for a while, but once the battery dies, he won't care about it anymore.
Black guys prefer phones with full batteries and loud speakerphone. Giving them a smartphone probably wouldn't be enough. A cheap knock-off phone is much more enjoyable for listening to music or watching movies.
Back then, Xing Baohua developed a mobile phone with built-in solar charging, and it sold out as soon as it arrived.
In some areas there, there's no electricity. You have to go to a larger town to charge your phone.
With solar charging, there's no need to travel far or incur electricity costs.
I found an appliance repair shop, and coincidentally, the owner was Chinese.
There are three major Chinese communities in the country, commonly known as Chinatown.
San Francisco is the most famous Chinatown, followed by Los Angeles, which has a Chinatown near Hollywood.
Greet the shop owner in Mandarin, explain your purpose, and that you want to buy some tools.
The shopkeeper said he only had one set of tools and told Xing Baohua that if he wanted to buy tools, he should go to a hardware store, and he could recommend a good one.
Xing Baohua only wanted to do an experiment and modify a few parts. Seeing that there was a ready-made workbench and tools, he was too lazy to go there.
I discussed it with the boss and agreed to rent a workbench and tools, and pay him the same price for the electronic components we would use.
The rental fee was 10 yuan per hour. Xing Baohua told the people who came with him to go back to the hotel and bring the things back.
While waiting, Xing Baohua chatted with the boss.
Through conversation, they learned that the other person's ancestors had come to this land. Xing Baohua said his Mandarin was quite good.
The boss just smiled.
Xing Baohua looked around the repair shop. There were very few appliances; business didn't seem to be very good.
During the conversation, Xing Baohua also mentioned that he had worked at a repair shop a couple of years ago. Although it wasn't his own business, he was in charge of the operations.
When it comes to technology, the two have some common topics.
As we were talking, the repair shop got a customer. A young Chinese man came in carrying a 19-inch color television.
When asked why, they said the channel switching buttons were malfunctioning and frequently stopped working.
The shop owner looked at the model number and said to the young man who wanted it repaired, "This one comes with a remote control, so why don't you just use the remote control?"
"Is it because you can't find the remote that you're using the buttons? A genuine remote costs $35. That's too expensive. It's better to just walk over and press the buttons."
"This button is broken. It won't be cheap to replace it; it'll cost at least $40. Think about it," the shopkeeper said definitively without even opening the case.
Xing Baohua, who was listening nearby, thought to himself: The boss is really greedy! It's just a small part, probably less than a dollar.
Of course, Xing Baohua wouldn't say anything that might ruin someone else's business.
It's only natural for skilled workers to earn money; they earn it through their skills.
It's like a major domestic manufacturer whose imported equipment malfunctions; even the domestic repair technicians are helpless. They have no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire foreign experts to fix it.
The expert took a screwdriver, tightened a few screws in a certain part, and the equipment was fixed!
Many people feel that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to tighten a few screws is outrageous. They feel cheated by such a shady business, and the disproportion between the reward and the price makes them feel unbalanced.
But they were able to find the problem, that takes skill! If you could find it yourself, why would you spend money to hire experts?
Why did Xing Baohua insist on building his own after-sales system? That's how he made money.
Just like Huawei's after-sales service, a new phone costs a little over 10,000 yuan, but the repair fee is 14,000 yuan, which is several thousand yuan more expensive than the new phone.
For a regular customer, they wouldn't repair it; they'd just sell it as a broken machine and buy a new one.
Sometimes the data on your phone is valuable, and you won't get away with anything if you don't say anything! Saying you just need to turn on the phone and export the data tells them that they're definitely going to blackmail you without hesitation.
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