Chapter 73 Attempt 3
In this way, their second-hand book website had five shareholders, including Paris.
Paris undertook a more important task, so Zhang Wei did not let him invest money, but only invested in the technology.
It has to be said that Zhang Wei's use of the banner of charity sales is quite effective. She promised on the flyer that she would donate 5% of the revenue to help people in poor areas, and another part of the books would be donated to community libraries.
Although she is not making any money now, Zhang Wei is still cautious. At first, when Dora said she would donate 50%, she thought to herself that this was not the child of a capitalist, but a philanthropist.
Finally, under Zhang Wei's persuasion, it was changed to 5%. After all, their power is limited. If they earn less, there will be no big difference between 50% and 5%. If they earn more, it will be a different story.
In the end, they not only bought up almost all the old books in the school, but also charged some students only a symbolic dollar or two. In addition, the teachers also got involved. Zhang Wei had to reluctantly raise the purchase price for the teachers to make them appear less unscrupulous.
As a result, the old books collected by Zhang Wei and her colleagues filled up an entire storage room, and they were faced with a huge workload - classifying and cataloging them.
When they were purchasing, they did register them by category, and Zhang Wei was responsible for the daily accounting summary. However, there were too many books later on, and things gradually became messy, so they needed a professional warehouse.
But the money had almost been spent, and then Zhang Wei found the extra wooden boards that Venus had used to build the training ground, and decided to make a few simple bookshelves, so that at least the mess could be sorted and organized.
Of course, she and Namier were in charge of helping, and it was Chris who did the implementation. Fortunately, he was willing to help and even got the hardware materials from his own garden tool room. In the end, he nailed up three simple large bookshelves.
The four of them worked for a whole weekend before they sorted out all the books. Zhang Wei also made a clear record, and this part of the work finally came to an end.
Fortunately, there was good news from Paris. The domain name had been registered, and he asked everyone to choose a good name for the website.
"How about calling it Nile Book City?"
"Why?" Everyone had some doubts about Namir's proposal.
“The Nile River is longer than the Amazon River, which means we can surpass the Amazon!”
Zhang Wei and the others stared at him with wide eyes. They didn't expect that his goal was so ambitious.
"That sounds okay," Zhang Weixian gave his affirmation. One should still have dreams. What if they come true?
"But we're a second-hand bookstore, so we need to let people know what we sell right away!"
"Maybe we can just call it a second-hand bookstore?" Grace suggested.
"How about calling it the Time Used Book Market? People will know it's a place that sells second-hand books." Zhang Wei couldn't think of a good name, but it was indeed important to have a clear theme.
In the end, the "Time Used Book Market" passed the proposal unanimously because everyone agreed that if the website was not successful, they could open a physical store. It has to be said that this was also a way out.
Zhang Wei told Paris the name in the evening. Paris had no objection to the name, but he said that he could only contribute a small part to the construction of the website, and most of it had to rely on the help of Charles' company's engineers, which made him a little frustrated.
Zhang Wei quickly encouraged him: "Paris, you're already better than many people. Look at me, I know nothing about this. You're the only technical backbone of our team. Without you, we wouldn't be able to carry out this project. I believe that after this attempt, you will be able to complete this work independently in the future!"
Moreover, she believed that Paris's role was not as small as he said. He still had the humble and cautious side of a Chinese. She had always believed in Paris's intelligence and ability.
After two months of waiting, Zhang Wei and his team's website was finally launched before Thanksgiving.
Now the only problem left is how to solve the payment problem.
However, when Zhang Wei and his colleagues implemented it, they found that this was not just one problem, but a series of problems.
Zhang Wei previously thought that this problem could be solved by asking the relevant person to handle it, but after searching online, he found that third-party payment in Country A can directly apply for a corporate account online. Then the problem arose: they have not yet registered a company, and private accounts cannot be used for website transactions.
A group of people were dumbfounded. It was just a small website, but they had to register a company, which required the company's legal person, address, company account, etc.
None of the five minors had such qualifications, and they had no funds, so they fell into the biggest dilemma since the implementation of the website project.
"How about I ask my dad for help? But I've already asked him once before." Paris hesitated.
Zhang Wei also wanted to find Charles, but he had said before that he would only help if they provided value. This would put them in a vicious circle. If the website could not be operated, it would definitely not provide value.
Finally, Zhang Wei set his sights on Leida.
"You mean you want to set up a company!" Leida's voice rose eight octaves and came out of the phone.
"No, it's us. If you're interested, I can send the plan to your email."
Leida said with a smile, "If, I mean, if I participate, what do I need to do?"
"We need a legal person. You know, we are not yet adults. Of course, if you are willing to invest some money, you can become a major shareholder of the company." Zhang Wei felt that they still needed more start-up capital.
"That sounds interesting. I'd like to take a look at your proposal. I'll get back to you later. Go to bed early and have a sweet dream!"
Zhang Wei felt a little depressed when Leida didn't seem to take it seriously. Now she was a little skeptical whether she could get the expected results if she really successfully operated this website.
Because it felt like their investment was getting bigger and bigger, the time spent wasn't a big deal, the money was already quite a lot, and if they lost money, she might really have to sell the gold pen to pay off her debts...
"My dad said that this time he wants us to figure it out on our own and he can't help me all the time."
Paris told everyone dejectedly.
"Oh!" Dora sighed. "My parents don't have time to listen to me. They just said to tell the housekeeper if you need anything."
"Is it impossible? Then let's donate all those books. That would be quite meaningful." Grace didn't quite understand the problem they were facing, and didn't care much about the final outcome.
Even though the major shareholders said they could quit, Zhang Wei still wanted to fight back:
"I'll wait for Leida's reply. If it doesn't work, we can come up with a promotional and sales plan. If the plan is attractive, we should be able to find other people to help."
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