Chapter 107: A Few More Transaction
Just now, at a formal meeting, everyone had been discussing opportunities for future industrial development. Now, as the topic of luxury real estate came up at dinner, Lu Gan had acquired a new group of potential clients with whom he could discuss the matter later. Besides being interested in luxury real estate, these clients might also have children interested in learning websites and Go, which could allow them to place other advertisements on the "free" website.
In addition, the most important thing is to promote the OA system. After all, these three Panshi representatives are corporate executives. How to effectively manage the scattered enterprises and allow leaders to handle official business while on business trips is also a problem they urgently want to solve.
The paperless office of the OA system becomes very attractive under Lu Gan's description.
So, after this meeting, Lu Gan received a number of orders in the following days. He sold a complete OA system, customized for the entire Panshi Metallurgical Group. The system was used for various purposes within the group, such as office systems, factory systems, and domestic and international management systems. These were all different sub-items, with a contract value of hundreds of thousands of yuan.
On the private side, he'd received over a dozen contacts interested in buying luxury homes or reselling property numbers. These included not only people from Panshi but also senior employees of the Lin Group. Fortunately, he'd already trained a sales team to handle these clients and provide targeted, high-quality service. Otherwise, he'd be overwhelmed.
Hao Heshan naturally had to take on custom orders for OA systems. Furthermore, after demonstrating his impressive technical prowess within the public security system, he was invited to participate in the development of a security system. Of course, the project was primarily undertaken by a large state-owned enterprise, and he only provided outsourced services for a specific sub-item. However, the contract itself was worth several hundred thousand yuan.
All in all, the contracts received by the Information Department alone can total more than one million.
Of course, Hao Heshan's biggest investment was in the development of professional engineering cost estimation software. During the era of the book, the real estate industry was booming, with design institutes, real estate companies, and construction companies popping up like mushrooms after rain. The demand for this kind of localized professional software was enormous. The key was that after purchase, the subscription fee was annual, and each machine had an electronic lock, which made it impossible for others to use it. Legitimate companies generally purchased three or five sets to meet their needs.
When updating various material data, you can also use paid ranking. Brands that are clearly ranked ahead of similar materials are more likely to be noticed by clients and design companies, which has many potential profit points.
After Lin Ruoyan taught Hao Heshan some tips on how to make money using websites and software, it was as if a new door opened in his mind. In all his future programming creations, he always thought about reserving these possibilities in the software. Selling advertisements and bidding for rankings were already ingrained in him.
In addition to those, the real estate company also needs to build its own bidding and procurement platform. Although it seems to be just a procurement website for its own use, various suppliers need to enter their product information into the website themselves.
The real estate company will have an internal evaluation system for these materials, providing feedback to suppliers, allowing them to make timely improvements. This prototype made Hao Heshan realize that this approach wasn't limited to real estate companies; the Lin Group could also develop a larger procurement platform. Looking at the needs of other similar companies, such as government procurement, this type of system would undoubtedly be needed to facilitate information management.
This immediately gave him the idea to develop another product line after the OA development: a bidding and procurement platform website. From then on, the real estate company's information department gradually evolved rapidly into an information technology company.
July was a relatively stress-free month for Lin Ruoyan. The issue of how to spend the 100 million yuan had been settled in advance, and the company's operating income was also steadily increasing.
Apart from the contracts signed by the Information Department for selling technology and the advertising fees from the Marketing Department, there is no need to worry about customers for selling house numbers.
According to the marketing department's weekly report, the potential clients they've contacted have scheduled appointments to view model units at the sales office from the end of this month until early September. Currently, they're receiving one group each morning and afternoon, meaning there are at least sixty groups of clients. The requirement to view the model units is a capital verification of three million yuan, meaning anyone who gets in has the money to speculate on the units.
So perhaps around September, her luxury housing project would start bringing in tens of millions of yuan in monthly revenue from deposits. Even if she only received one deposit next month, it would cover the monthly expenses of over 100 million yuan in recent months and allow her to successfully survive November.
Therefore, Lin Ruoyan happily took her son on a summer vacation in the third week of July. The trip lasted ten days, and after returning for a few days of rest, July was almost over.
After careful consideration, they settled on a northwestern route from Qinghai to Gansu. They'd originally planned to travel abroad, but their son mentioned some famous sites he'd read about, like the Mogao Grottoes, the Great Wall, and Qinghai Lake, and insisted on seeing them in person. Naturally, they had to accommodate him. The Yu family elders were preoccupied with other matters, and the well-off women in Lin Ruoyan's circle looked down on the impoverished northwest, even considering overseas island vacations. So, ultimately, she had no choice but to take her son on the trip.
The brother didn't care about anything else, he just strongly requested that Lin Ruoyan must bring bodyguard Chen Jun with her.
At the time of the book, the economy in western China was still somewhat weaker than that of coastal cities. High-speed rail wasn't yet available, and high-standard highways were still under construction. Traveling there now involves flights or trains. If you're driving, it's best to use an RV. Otherwise, you'll often find yourself in areas with no human life for days, with no food, water, or electricity, which can be quite arduous.
But Lin Ruoyan had the wherewithal. Besides Chen Jun, she had also hired a dedicated driver and tour guide from a travel agency. Last time, her company signed a contract with this agency for a two-week trip to Europe worth over a million yuan. Although this time, the contract was small, the agency treated it with extreme caution, offering the biggest discounts and assigning Lin Ruoyan their best and brightest. Who knows, if the boss gets excited, they might even organize an overseas trip for the entire company later this year, or perhaps a team-building event, another contract worth hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Therefore, the travel agency was eager to meet all of Lin Ruoyan's needs. The drivers and guides were the best in the agency, both literate and skilled, and able to speak the local language. They flew first class on all planes and trains, and could easily change to any type of car along the way.
In short, Lin Ruoyan only needed to specify the places she wanted to visit and the number of days she would stay there, and the travel agency would carefully craft an itinerary that would accommodate both mother and child, ensuring they wouldn't be too stressed out by the early departures and late arrivals, and providing the best accommodations and meals. Such a high-standard, customized trip cost less than 50,000 yuan. It couldn't be helped; the cost of living in western China at the time was just that low, much lower than international travel.
But the scenery is stunning and there aren't too many tourists, so it's definitely worth the money.
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