"Okay, you decide how to decorate the store. Draw up the design within the next two days. I know a construction team here, so you can oversee the later renovations. I won't get involved in the purchasing, so you can handle everything yourself. I'll only be responsible for the final payment. Okay?"
Jian Shu didn't plan to be a nanny, otherwise, who would open the store, her or Zhao Yueling?
If she does it all herself, what good will that training do? She might as well just give her money.
"Yes!" Zhao Yueling took a deep breath and shouted loudly.
Her sister has helped her so far. If she still can't do it, she should just go back to work and stop running the store.
"Great. I hope I can see your bookstore open before the end of this semester."
Zhao Yueling is a newbie, and Jianshu doesn't expect her to open the store in just one month, so she has a little more time.
“I’ll try my best!”
After the discussion, Zhao Yueling changed her previous leisurely life and plunged into the mountains of entrepreneurship and couldn't get out.
Besides attending classes, I spent the rest of my time writing plans and making lists of books to stock when the store opened. Weekends were spent either going to the bookstore to discuss the layout with the construction crew or running around to contact people for stock.
With the success of Xinhua Bookstore, she needed to find a new way to make a name for herself. Fortunately, she was a literature student at Peking University, and her roommates were from other majors. They were well-versed in the types of books each major needed, allowing her to stock specific books.
With the advantage of distance, it is not a problem to grab some customers.
It sounds simple, but it's not easy to do. Some books are not easy to find. Zhao Yueling mobilized all her connections and even asked her father for help to get them.
In addition, he also contributed a lot of his own collection, some of which were out-of-print books. He would not sell or lend them out, so if you wanted to read them, you could only do so in the store.
When the bookstore becomes profitable, she can go to a printing factory to print the books at her own expense.
My friends in dormitory 301 were also busy with graduation matters, and for a while, no one could get together in the dormitory.
It was not until a month before graduation, on the day Zhao Yueling's bookstore opened, that everyone gathered together.
"Lingling's store has a nice environment. If this store had existed in the past, we wouldn't have to go to the library to fight for a seat at the end of each semester. We could just come here directly." Wei Ye sat in the study area on the second floor, touching the table in front of him and sighed.
Ge Mei jokingly said, "You couldn't get a seat in the library, but you can get one here?"
Wei Ye winked at her, "Why fight for it here? Can't we just let our Boss Zhao go through the back door? The one who is close to the water gets the moon first!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help laughing.
"Okay, so that's what you came up with!"
"You know what, Ye Zi's idea is really good. Let's not go to the library at the end of the semester. Let's come here directly. There is ready-made tea and the environment is much better than the library." Jian Shu nodded with a smile.
"What does our boss Zhao say?" Li Yuying put her arms around Zhao Yueling's neck.
Zhao Yueling's eyebrows curved, and she waved her hand, "Come on, there's a place reserved for you."
Anyway, the second floor is free and it doesn’t matter who uses it. So why not give our own people some convenience?
"readily!"
On the first day of the new store's opening, there weren't many people. Jian Shu was worried that Zhao Yueling would be discouraged, so he said, "That's just the beginning. Bookstores are a long-term business. Once the traffic picks up, things will get much better."
Zhao Yueling was reading a book behind the counter. Upon hearing this, she smiled and said, "Sister, I think this is good. It's quiet. If it were like a clothing store, with a constant stream of people all day long, I wouldn't be able to stand it until my voice is hoarse."
She opened the shop not to make a lot of money, but just to have a place to read books. It doesn't matter how much she makes.
"You!" Jian Shu shook his head helplessly.
She finally understood that this girl had no ambition. When the bookstore made money, she would let her buy a few more houses and wait for them to appreciate in value.
This way of making money suits her best.
After a few days, perhaps because of the publicity, the bookstore's business was much better than the first day it opened, especially the study area on the second floor, which was loved by many students.
The place is packed with people every day, which indirectly brings a lot of business to the bookstore.
Just as Jianshu had initially expected, the best-selling item in the store was not books, but stationery. Although the unit price was low, the large quantity accounted for more than half of the daily revenue.
"In addition to stationery, you can also sell small items like umbrellas, hairbands, and hairpins. Most of the people who come to your store are college students. If you stock up on some nice-looking items, there will definitely be people who will buy them. When I go to Guangzhou next time, you can come with me. There are many factories like this there, and the styles are much better than those in Beijing, and the prices are reasonable too. They will definitely sell well if you stock them up." Jianshu gave her advice.
Although Zhao Yueling was a bit of a novice, she was still very interested in Suicheng and agreed without hesitation. "Okay, sister, call me next time you go. Speaking of which, apart from the last time I went to see you, I haven't been away from home much in all these years. I heard that the weather in the south is much warmer than here, so this is a good time to go and see it."
Then she asked a bunch of questions, and Jianshu answered them one by one.
As the end of the semester approaches, the campus life of this class of Jianshu students is coming to an end and the countdown has begun.
The library was packed every day, and Zhao Yueling's bookstore became the second choice for many students. However, the store was limited in area, and the number of students it could accommodate was also limited.
So much so that there is already a queue at the door before it opens at 12:00 every day. Fortunately, they are all well-mannered people and there is no fighting for seats.
This wave of traffic brought the bookstore’s sales to a new peak.
At the end of the month, when we checked our accounts, we had a net profit of over 80 yuan. With that much profit after just 20 days of opening, we should definitely be able to make over 100 yuan a month.
Zhao Yueling was very happy. "Ah, I didn't expect there were so many. I thought there would be only about thirty or fifty at most."
"This is the case for bookstores and stationery stores that mainly serve students. There are off-seasons and peak seasons each year, and sales are cut in half during the winter and summer vacations. Everyone will be on winter vacation next month, and business will definitely be worse then." Fearing that she had too high expectations, Jianshu gave her a heads-up in advance.
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