Chapter 430 Development Plan
"For example, if we want to open a new store, we need to find a location, sign a contract, and arrange for renovations. You don't need to do these things yourself. You can just delegate the tasks and then go take a look yourself. You've been running a store for so long, so you must have a good idea of what a store needs. It's completely pointless to do all these things yourself. Besides, your current work style is still the same as when we were in school. Have you noticed?"
Ye Qian's words left Wang Qiong with no way to refute them, because she was still like that. Even though she had hired a few people, she was always worried about what she was doing and always had to follow along. The people below her were also a little restrained, and she herself felt very tired and had no personal time at all. Although Ye Qian's words were a little harsh, they were indeed the truth: "I understand. I will change."
Ye Qian hadn't expected Wang Qiong to admit it so readily. She must have realized there was something wrong with this way of working. "You should have your own plan for doing things. Think about it first."
After Ye Qian finished speaking, Wang Qiong looked at Fu Shan. Fu Shan suddenly shuddered, sat up straight, and looked at Ye Qian with wide eyes. Ye Qian found it funny: "Why are you so nervous?"
"No, it's just that I have to keep an eye on my work myself." Fu Shan explained quickly.
"I know. It's our development plan. We need to establish a strong corporate culture. You also need to quickly bring out the designers below. I plan to promote haute couture, and you'll be responsible for that. You can have the other designers' designs reviewed by Liu Yubing first. Separate the better ones and the ones you don't have to deal with. You can also select designs purposefully. As the head of design, this is her job responsibility."
"Haute couture?" Fu Shan asked curiously, "What is haute couture?"
"It's high-end customization. You can design your own clothes and then release a limited edition every season. Your design skills are currently the best, but you've stagnated a bit. Do you understand what I mean?"
"It's not very original. You two are just too busy. You're always spinning like a top, staying in the same place and not moving forward. This won't work. Fu Shan, you should know as a designer that styles change every year. If the things you design are always the same, then our brand will soon be replaced."
After hearing what Ye Qian said, it seemed that the recent sales were indeed much lower than before, and she herself was a little weak. Drawing designs was not as easy as before. Every time she picked up the pen, she had to think for a long time before she could start writing, and it was not guaranteed to be successful. "Yes, I have encountered some problems when designing clothes recently."
Wang Qiong looked at Fu Shan and then at Ye Qian in surprise. Ye Qian rolled her eyes at Wang Qiong and said, "What are you looking at?"
Wang Qiong asked in surprise: "You are not in the company every day, how do you know all this?"
Ye Qian was speechless. She'd lived two lives, and if she didn't know what these little girls were thinking, she'd lived in vain. Besides, she'd been at the company all the time, hadn't she? "I'm not blind. I still have to see the final design. Our clothes all have stories to tell. Every piece of clothing should have its own soul, and I haven't seen that in the recent clothes. Design requires inspiration. When you're busy with work every day and don't have time to absorb new things, how can you have inspiration?"
Ye Qian continued, "I'll give you a day off. Take a good rest for a day or two, then come back to work."
"I thought you were going to give us a one or two month vacation." Wang Qiong was speechless when she heard about the one or two day vacation. Ye Qian needed to tell her that she could only take two days off. She didn't know how to take it.
"I want you to stay home and think clearly about how you should do your future work. Do you think I want you to go traveling? What are you thinking about taking such a long break? Even if I was away from the company for more than two months because of filming, someone still sent documents to the crew to show me. You still want to travel? Go travel in your dreams." Ye Qian almost swore without holding back.
Their employee benefits are pretty much the same as those of later generations: a 9am-5pm workday with two days off, free food and lodging, monthly team-building gatherings, and no deductions from employee wages during working hours. You can find such benefits elsewhere. They even have four days off on the first two days of the week, so what's there to be dissatisfied about?
"Take advantage of these few days to think about it. I have a few ideas. Once you have thought it through, we can discuss it." We had not originally planned to bring up this topic today, but it suddenly became like this. Besides, it is not appropriate to talk about it at work.
"Our meeting has already started, why don't you speak first? Based on what you said, we can make career plans." It would have been better if Ye Qian didn't mention it. She couldn't bear to say it halfway.
Fu Shan also nodded: "Yes, let's plan it together."
"Our store has always been selling fashion. I want to add some casual, classic and versatile looks, so I drew some designs." Ye Qian took out several designs she had drawn from the drawer. There were sports suits, zippered jackets, pullover sweatshirts, tapered sweatpants, and the children's clothing series she had thought of before.
There are a lot of ideas, but it is too busy to start so many projects at once. Ye Qian said: "Let's start with children's clothing. Women's money is the easiest to make, and children's money is also easy to make. Our store sells women's clothing. Some of them have children, so if we come across them, we can sell them together."
Wang Qiong nodded: "Indeed, it's possible, but the store won't be big enough."
"The location of our store is pretty good, and I don't plan to move. Isn't the store next door going to be sold? Let's buy it and combine it into one store so that the clothes won't be too crowded." In fact, the clothes in their store have always been not too crowded, even after they started selling men's clothing. The original area was not small, and it was enough to accommodate all the categories I wanted.
Ye Qian looked at Fu Shan and said, "There's no rush for this. This is just the company's future plan. Let's stabilize the current situation first and then plan the next step."
"Also, it would be difficult to manage our braised meat shop if we opened it in other places. It would be better to franchise it. We could sell our marinade ingredients to Chuangxin and hire someone to decorate it in the same style and brand as ours. Then we could charge a franchise fee and sign a contract to guarantee that the ingredients used are fresh. What do you think?" Ye Qian said and looked at Wang Qiong.
Wang Qiong was a little confused. "Join?"
"Yes, it's about franchising. We only provide the marinade ingredients, and let others pay to use our brand logo and write clearly at the bottom that it is a franchise store. Then we can add a directly-operated store locally to distinguish it." Ye Qian continued to explain.
Wang Qiong nodded, "Indeed."
(End of this chapter)
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