Chapter 72 Attempt 2
"Well, that sounds good. If you can come up with a detailed plan, I might be able to provide you with some help."
"Wow! That's great! I'll go get ready now!"
Zhang Wei happily ran to the room upstairs. If Charles could provide help, Zhang Wei believed that their website would definitely be built.
"Vera is very thoughtful." Emma looked at Zhang Wei rushing up the stairs and wanted to laugh. She was rarely so unstable.
"She's really good. I didn't expect her to have more business acumen than her brothers. Maybe she can become a successful businessman in the future."
"Yeah, I didn't expect she was interested in business."
Zhang Wei didn't hear the conversation between Charles and his wife. If she had, she would definitely have wanted to refute it, because she was not interested in business, she was simply interested in making money...
Then, for the next week, she spent her spare time working hard to complete the planning of the shopping website.
So much so that Dora, seeing her efforts, tentatively said, "Paris should be able to solve the website problem, right?"
She was also worried that Zhang Wei was putting too much effort into it and would be disappointed in the end if Paris failed to succeed.
Zhang Wei had actually considered this. Even if Paris was really a computer genius, it would be impossible for her to build a mature shopping website by herself, so she planned to pay someone to do it when the time came.
Although she now has a hundred dollars of pocket money every week, it is definitely not enough to do big things, so she plans to seek investment.
The target of attracting investment is her brothers, and Leida will definitely be able to find cheap and good website engineers in college, so there is nothing to worry about.
And if all else fails, if her plan is approved by Charles, maybe she can get some sponsorship.
However, she did not tell Dora all these things one by one, as they should have more confidence in Paris.
As a result, a week later, Zhang Wei's plan was almost completed, and Zhang Wei had not met Paris at school.
His classmates said that he always left early after school, as if he had something to do.
Zhang Wei didn't plan to go find him specifically. She planned to tell Paris if her plan was approved, and they would work together to find a way to solve the website problem.
Although the website has not been built yet, Zhang Wei still wrote down her functional requirements for the website in the plan. After all, if she only plans to sell second-hand books, as long as the classification is clear and the purchasing method is simple, there is no need for a complicated interface.
But the most important issue is payment. Zhang Wei thinks this is the most difficult problem to solve, so she also wrote it down.
Then there are the sources of goods, target customer analysis, pricing rules, etc.
She was afraid that what she wrote was not comprehensive enough, so she showed it to many people and asked them for suggestions. Finally, she felt that it was comprehensive enough and gave it to Charles.
"Oh! This is the real style!"
Charles was surprised when he received Zhang Wei's plan.
Because after Zhang Wei finished writing, he printed it out on the computer and put them together in a new folder.
Charles read it over in about ten minutes, then asked her a question:
"So what do you think is the difficulty in implementing it at the moment?"
Zhang Wei had already figured this out: "The first thing is to create the website, which is indeed a bit difficult. Then there is the payment method for customers, which requires cooperation with major banks."
Because the only way to pay online now is with a credit card, and only large banks in Country A can issue credit cards. If a small website like theirs wants to negotiate cooperation with others, it may not even be able to get in.
Charles continued, "It seems you've done your homework. This isn't easy. Have you thought it through clearly? If you don't succeed, won't all your efforts be in vain?"
"Even if it doesn't work out, I'll still have experience creating a website. Besides, Dad, how will you know if you don't try? I want to give it a try."
Zhang Wei didn't want to give up. Even if Charles didn't help at all, she felt that their chances of success were still 10% to 20%.
Because the social atmosphere here is to encourage children to try tasks that are beyond their abilities and seem impossible to complete, especially in their school, Tifield.
She even thought about going to the school for help. It is said that you can get to know anyone you want to know through just five people, and there should be many children of bigwigs in the school, so she was quite confident.
I have to say that Zhang Wei, who held this idea, was still thinking too simply, but now all he was thinking was:
Even if she fails in the end, she has not lost anything. This is her attempt to break into the society of Country A, and also a test of her future path.
Charles finally expressed his opinion: "So far, I am somewhat interested in your plan."
"Also, I have good news for you. Your website might not be such a big problem. Paris's father, Mr. Lin, contacted me a few days ago, hoping I would allow his son to study in our company's terminal management department."
"I've agreed to it, and I've allowed them to help in some way."
"Yeah! Thank you!" One of the two major problems was almost solved. How could Zhang Wei not be happy?
"But," Zhang Wei hadn't finished her joy when Charles changed the subject:
"Regarding the payment issue, I can't help you solve it for now. As a businessman, you have to show me the value, and you have to let the bank see the value of your website."
"Yes, Dad, I agree with you. I will find a way myself."
If Charles had to solve everything, the project would lose most of its meaning. Zhang Wei didn't want to rely on him for everything, although it was really nice to have someone like him.
Now that Paris has taken the baby in her arms, it seems she has to figure out the rest on her own.
Whether it is to attract investment or to find cooperation with a bank, the value of the website must be demonstrated first, and the first step is to get traffic. Zhang Wei has an idea, it’s marketing!
However, this would have to wait for Paris to make any progress, so Zhang Wei first looked for sources of supply. Since the graduation season had passed, he could only rely on his friends to find used books.
Then, with the help of Zhang Wei's emotional and profit cards, Namier, Dora and Grace all became the website's purchasing agents.
They went to find classmates from different grades and collected old books from everyone with the charity sale flyers made by Zhang Wei.
In fact, this is not a very simple job. The flyer contains the purchase prices of various books, and the initial capital investment is the pocket money of Zhang Wei and theirs.
Unexpectedly, the largest shareholder was Grace, who invested 5,000 US dollars as start-up capital.
The poorest was Namier, who only had fifty dollars left for the week. Zhang Wei invested all the hundreds of dollars she had saved for several weeks. Dora, who was not interested in worldly affairs, also found two hundred dollars in the house and gave it all away.
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