Chapter 1083 Guidance
Song Zijun touched the hairpin on her head and prepared to give money, but Wang Aiping said with a stern face that this was a gift from her elder sister. If she wanted to give money, she should return the thing to her and not come to play again.
Seeing how serious she was, Song Zijun had no choice but to nod and say thank you. Only then did Wang Aiping start laughing again.
"By the way, Sister Wang, have you ever thought about expanding this stall?" They had met twice, although the first time was very short and today was the second time they met, but Song Zijun had a good impression of Wang Aiping. Moreover, because both sets of parents were educated youth, Song Zijun really wanted to help Wang Aiping.
Especially after hearing about Wang Aiping's family situation, Song Zijun felt sympathy, but she could also see that Wang Aiping was a person with great self-esteem. Judging from the fact that she insisted on giving her a gift just now, if Song Zijun directly gave money to help others, not to mention that they were just strangers, Wang Aiping would definitely not accept it.
After thinking about it, Song Zijun suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but ask about Wang Aiping.
"Expand? How can it be that easy?" Wang Aiping pointed at her stall and smiled. "Besides, it's not appropriate to expand the stall in this place. Don't you see that most of the stalls around are of similar size? We sell only these types of things. If the stall is larger, the rent will be higher, while the daily sales and customer base are similar and fixed. From the perspective of investment and cost ratio, the bigger the stall, the better."
"That's not what I meant, Sister Wang. Have you heard of online shopping?" Song Zijun asked.
Wang Aiping thought for a moment and asked, "Are you talking about Yi... Yi something? Yes! eBay! I have heard of this. It's the kind where you open a store online, and people can use their computers to buy your products online. After you receive the order, you deliver it to them, right?"
"Yes, yes! That's it. Sister Wang, I think you can also open a store online and organize the products you sell. If you do well, it will be no worse than setting up a stall here. Besides, many businesses have gradually moved to the Internet. Don't you think that physical stores have begun to be affected by online stores in recent years?"
Wang Aiping thought about it and nodded slightly: "That's true. I've heard people talk about this before. Some of the stall owners here have opened online stores there. But I heard that their online store business is not very good. It seems ordinary. The sales in a month are not as high as those in two or three days of setting up stalls."
"It's open now, but I just keep it open from time to time. My main business still depends on it. Besides, I don't know much about these things, and I have never been exposed to them because I am busy with business."
After hearing what Wang Aiping said, Song Zijun suddenly became excited. She immediately introduced the situation of online shopping to Wang Aiping.
Song Zijun knows much more about these emerging things than Wang Aiping. What's more, Zhang Hao, as the famous godfather of the Internet, was originally one of the pioneers of the Internet, and online shopping is also a derivative of the Internet. Although Zhang Hao has now focused his energy on other industries, he still holds shares and control over many emerging Internet companies.
eBay, which Wang Aiping mentioned just now, is one of them. As early as around 2000, during the Internet winter, Zhang Hao invested in eBay. However, due to different business philosophies, Zhang Hao later withdrew his investment and turned to other similar projects.
Zhang Hao is one of the shareholders of the new shopping website that has just emerged, the one in Hangzhou. He is already a major shareholder of Yahoo and invested a lot of money through Yahoo in the initial financing stage a few years ago. The website is now developing very rapidly.
Although Song Zijun was not directly exposed to these things, she was very familiar with them because of her admiration for Zhang Hao and their relationship. This was also the reason why she asked Wang Aiping if she knew about online shopping and intended to help Wang Aiping in this way.
Song Zijun introduced online shopping to Wang Aiping incessantly and talked about the prospects of online shopping, which made Wang Aiping somewhat interested for a while.
"Haha, this little girl knows a lot. But little girl, what you said is so good but the actual effect is not like that. My son helped me set up an online store, and he didn't get any business for two months. It was also very troublesome. Only young people like you like this kind of new thing. Who would go online to buy things? You have to know computers and so on to go online, and you have to wait several days for the courier to deliver the things you bought. What's worse is that you can only look at pictures and you can't be sure whether the things are good or not. How can it be better to see them in person and buy them on the spot?" The conversation between Song Zijun and Wang Aiping was heard by an older sister next door, who interrupted with a smile, and her words and expression seemed to show that she was not interested in online shopping at all.
"That's not the case. Technology is always developing. Online shopping has only been popular for a short time, but the speed of its development from scratch is very amazing. Besides, the Internet will be the ultimate platform in the future, and it will be a trend to gradually replace physical stores. In this case, there is definitely no harm in getting involved earlier." Song Zijun explained quickly.
The eldest sister shook her head: "Anyway, I think this thing is unreliable and a complete waste of time. I might as well use this energy to attract more customers. It's so troublesome to deal with those computers and take photos every day..."
"This again..." Just as Song Zijun was about to continue to refute, Wang Aiping on the side quickly grabbed her and winked at her.
"Oh, it's almost half past twelve. I forgot the time." Wang Aiping looked at her watch in surprise, then stood up and said to the elder sister who had just spoken: "Elder sister, have you eaten yet?"
"Xiao Wang, are you going to eat? Go ahead, I'll help you watch over the stall. I brought some food and I've just eaten."
"Thank you, big sister." Wang Aiping said to the big sister politely, then pulled Song Zijun and said, "Come on, little sister, let's go eat. It's my treat!"
As she spoke, she took Song Zijun and walked along the aisle out of the stall. When they got outside, Wang Aiping led Song Zijun forward.
They did not walk along the way they came in, but went straight to a small alley on the side, then went straight forward, turned two corners, and came to a small noodle restaurant that looked ordinary and not much different from that of an ordinary family.
"Little sister, do you want to eat noodles? If you want noodles, we can stay here. If you don't like it, I'll take you to the front to eat something else."
"I want to eat, Sister Wang. Is this a noodle shop? Is it privately owned?" Song Zijun looked at the small noodle shop which looked inconspicuous from the outside. If she hadn't seen a few tables on the side with customers eating noodles, she would have thought it was just an ordinary family's.
As if she could see Song Zijun's surprise, Wang Aiping smiled and said, "Don't be fooled by the fact that this noodle shop doesn't look very good. In fact, this noodle shop has been open for many years and is very famous in this area. Many people who love noodles come from far away to eat here."
"Don't worry, the sanitary conditions here are absolutely fine. This is an old store that has been open for many years." Wang Aiping thought for a moment and said again. It was the first time for Song Zijun to eat noodles in such a place, but she felt relieved when she saw the people sitting and eating noodles happily. Just at this time, someone finished eating and left, and Wang Aiping hurriedly pulled her to sit in the vacant seat.
Wang Aiping asked Song Zijun what kind of noodles he wanted to eat. The famous noodles here were fried noodles with toppings, and the pork liver noodles were the best. Song Zijun followed suit and ordered pork liver noodles immediately. Wang Aiping shouted to the inside: "Amao! Two noodles with fried pork liver toppings, hurry up!"
"Okay!"
The boss A Mao's voice of response sounded inside. Wang Aiping took out a pack of napkins from her pocket, took out one and handed it to Song Zijun, then took out another one and helped Song Zijun wipe the table in front of him.
"Don't be angry about what my elder sister said just now. She's a good person, but she just can't accept new things. Haha, I'm actually in the same situation. After I graduated, I first went to work in a factory, dealing with machines every day. Later, the company's performance was not good, and my mother got sick, so I opened a stall to make money. I get up early and stay up late every day, either buying goods or greeting customers at the stall. I don't have time for online shopping. I remember this thing from what I heard from other people in the market, but I have never tried it myself."
Wang Aiping explained to Song Zijun softly, and Song Zijun nodded in understanding. But after thinking for a while, she said, "Sister Wang, I think you can give it a try. Online shopping has just started and is developing very fast. If you do it well, it might be a good opportunity."
"I understand. You are younger than me and you have been to college, so you know more about these things. I am not very old, and I am not hard to accept new things. But you can see my current situation. I really can't spare the time, and I don't understand these things at all. Forget it... forget it..."
"No! Sister Wang, if you don't understand, I can help you. I understand!"
"You?" Wang Aiping hesitated and shook her head: "This is not appropriate, little sister, I appreciate your kindness, but it takes a lot of energy and is very troublesome..."
"It's no trouble, no trouble. Besides, I just graduated and I have nothing to do now, so I can help you run this store. And it's not difficult to run this store. If you take some time every day, I will teach you, and you will learn it quickly."
"this……"
Seeing that Wang Aiping was still hesitant, Song Zijun thought about it and suddenly came up with an idea. She was going to start a company, and the future direction of the company was mainly related to the media, which included part of the scope of video production.
In the past few days, Song Zijun has been thinking about what direction to use as a starting point. In addition to traditional video (film and television) production and broadcasting, there must be some personal video production. Wang Aiping set up a stall in Chenghuang Temple. The atmosphere here is so strong, and there is also the transformation from physical to online stores. Isn’t this a good subject?
The more she thought about it, the better she thought this was. She immediately talked to Wang Aiping about it. Of course, she found a reason and didn't say it was hers. She said that a friend's company had this idea. If Wang Aiping was willing, they could follow her up as a long-term program, and then add her experience and changes from physical stores to online stores during the program.
In order to reassure Wang Aiping, Song Zijun assured her that it would not affect her business at all, and that someone would guide her on how to run the online store and how to promote it. In addition, if Wang Aiping agreed, there would be a certain amount of compensation for the project, which was a good thing that would kill two birds with one stone.
"Little sister, are you kidding me? How can such a good thing happen?" Wang Aiping was not happy after hearing this. Instead, she shook her head and laughed. She felt that what Song Zijun said was completely a fantasy. How could such a good thing fall from the sky? Pay her and help her set up an online store and even promote it? All she asked was to shoot a few videos within a certain range.
Moreover, Song Zijun also guaranteed that Wang Aiping also had the copyright to these videos, and that she would get a percentage of the profits, and the percentage was not low. Was this pie in the sky or something? Wang Aiping had never heard of such a thing.
"Really? Don't disbelieve it, Sister Wang."
"Okay, okay, even if it's true, can you believe it?" Wang Aiping laughed. She felt that this little sister was really passionate, but her brain was a little slow, and what she said was not realistic at all. But isn't that how girls are? Especially a girl as old as Song Zijun.
Didn’t Song Zijun say it herself? She had just graduated from college and hadn’t officially entered society yet, so many things were naturally normal.
Just then, the boss A Mao brought over two bowls of freshly fried pork liver noodles. The pork liver was fried very well, and with the noodles sprinkled with chopped green onions and clear soup, it looked very appetizing, and the aroma was tangy when you smelled it up close.
Wang Aiping picked up the chopsticks and asked Song Zijun to eat noodles first, and other things would be discussed later. Song Zijun was indeed a little hungry, and how could he resist the tempting aroma? He immediately picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of pork liver and put it in his mouth.
Her brows relaxed after eating this. What Wang Aiping said was absolutely right. This noodle shop didn't look very good, but the toppings were top-notch. It could be said that it was the most delicious freshly fried pork liver Song Zijun had ever eaten in her life. The noodles were also good. The soup looked clear, but as soon as you drank it you could tell it was made from large bones. It was so delicious that her eyebrows almost fell off.
Song Zijun ate a big bowl of noodles with a smile on her face, and in the end she even drank up all the soup.
