Chapter 79 Orders are coming in one after another
Chapter 79 Orders are coming in one after another
The next day, Yang Wendong, Su and Zhao arrived at the company early in the morning.
"Along?" Yang Wendong glanced at Along and several others who were already next to the machine.
"Hey, Brother Dong?" Aaron was just looking at the machine and didn't sense anyone coming around him. He only reacted after hearing the voice.
Yang Wendong glanced at the few people, and the circles around his eyes were a little tired, so he asked: "You didn't go home last night?"
Aaron smiled and said, "Yes, Brother Dong, we also know the importance of this equipment. We have been debugging it at night. We want to understand it clearly as soon as possible to avoid problems in the future."
"There's no need to do this. One or two days won't make a difference." Yang Wendong paused and said to Liming, "Liming, go buy some meat buns."
"No, Brother Dong, meat buns are too expensive, don't waste money." A Long said quickly: "Just make some vegetable soup fried rice for the brothers yesterday."
Yang Wendong waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it. You should eat more meat."
"We are able to eat enough in the factory thanks to Brother Dong. We are very satisfied if we can eat some meat occasionally." Seeing that Zhao Liming had already run far away, A Long did not want to refuse again.
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "I have lived through those days before, but since they are from the past, we just need to remember them. We remember the past so that we can remember the hardships we once experienced and not waste food.
What we should do is to work hard to make our future life better. This is our goal.”
"Yes, Brother Dong." After hearing this, Aaron was a little excited, and then he said, "We will restart the machine right away, but it will take some time to prepare the glue, about half an hour."
"Well, OK, you guys get busy, and don't be shy when Baozi comes later." Yang Wendong said, "We'll come back in half an hour."
"Okay, Brother Dong." Aaron said.
Afterwards, Yang Wendong took Su Yiyi and Lin Haoyu back to his office.
Yang Wendong took out a sticky note that he had just taken from the side of the machine and said, "The final product is almost like this. At most, these two pages at the top and bottom can be used as covers like a book."
To exaggerate a little, the idea of sticky notes can improve the work efficiency of tens of millions of office workers. However, its structure is so simple, just like a small notebook.
Although the machine below was not adjusted properly, it was just a matter of details and production speed, and the product has taken shape.
Su Yiyi took it and played with it in her hands for a while before saying, "This machine-made paper is much better than our handmade ones. It's so neat and the paper doesn't have any wrinkles at all."
"You think several thousand dollars were wasted?" Yang Wendong said with a smile.
When labor costs are so low and a large number of poor people need work to support their families, Yang Wendong would never spend a high price to buy equipment as long as it can be done manually.
But more complex products cannot be made manually and can only rely on mechanical equipment.
Su Yiyi smiled and said, "Then we can produce in large quantities and sell them. In the past month, I have received many contact information from large Hong Kong companies for purchase. They all hope to buy more."
"Of course. Didn't dozens of us go through so much trouble before just for today?" Yang Wendong nodded and said.
The labor cost in Changxing can reach HK$1.5-2 when it is busy, and HK$1 when it is not busy. Add some food costs, and it costs more than HK$ a month to work for dozens of people.
This money can even be used to advertise in Hong Kong newspapers, but it's something that no one knows about, so the advertising effect will definitely be very poor, or even zero.
So instead of wasting this money, it is better to make some sticky notes manually and then send them to administrative staff of large companies for free. By the way, this can also prevent your subordinates from losing their jobs.
Su Yiyi smiled and said, "Brother Dong is really good. He can think of a way to give it to others for free first." Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "In fact, many products are also done this way. Drinks in European and American countries are also often given to people for free."
The idea of later Internet companies to cultivate potential customers for free actually appeared a hundred years ago when Coca-Cola and Pepsi were competing. It’s just old wine in new bottles.
Su Yiyi smiled and then asked, "Brother Dong, now that we are about to have production capacity, what about the price?"
"Let's set the price at 1 cents each, 100 pieces each." Yang Wendong said, "We can change it later depending on the situation."
Since there is no papermaking industry in Hong Kong, the price of paper is relatively high. However, the pure raw material cost of a palm-sized sticky note is only about three cents. After that, you just need to amortize the cost of the equipment and add a few labor costs, and the rest is pure profit.
Su Yiyi nodded and said, "It is indeed a high profit, but will this cause many people to be unwilling to buy it?"
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "There will be some impact, but this is the company's purchase of office supplies, so relatively speaking, the price is not as sensitive as personal goods.
Also, we think that sticky notes have high profits. Even if we buy thousands of them, it’s only a few hundred yuan. Big companies don’t care about this little money.”
Su Yiyi thought for a moment and said, "I'm just worried that if it's too expensive, someone else might copy it. Brother Dong, you also said that it's difficult to do well in patent protection in Hong Kong."
Yang Wendong picked up the sticky note on the table and replied, "Yes, I have thought about it, so we need to occupy the market as soon as possible. Although sticky notes are very useful, such a sticky note can only be used for several months or even longer.
As long as we sell a large number of sticky notes to many large companies in Hong Kong, what is the point of others making them? This is also a disadvantage of sticky notes in business."
"So, later on, we have to focus on exports." Su Yiyi also nodded and said.
Yang Wendong said: "Yes, export is the most important thing. The same goes for mousetrap and fly traps. The same goes for all the factories in Hong Kong. Without relying on foreign markets, they would have died long ago."
"What about the channels?" Su Yiyi asked.
"Not yet. Let's talk about this later. Let's take over the Hong Kong market first." Yang Wendong paused, then said, "It's almost time. Let's go down and take a look."
"Okay." Su Yiyi agreed.
The two came to the workshop. At this moment, the equipment had already been turned on. In less than a minute, a yellow sticky note came out of the equipment.
Yang Wendong checked the time with his cheap watch and it was about 40 seconds.
By this calculation, taking into account equipment maintenance and rest, about 2000 sticky notes can be made in a day.
"Next, it depends on sales." Yang Wendong smiled.
Su Yiyi had already prepared the contacts of hundreds of companies that needed sticky notes, and she contacted them one by one immediately after mass production began.
Just as Yang Wendong expected, a price of 1 cent was not a problem for most companies' purchases.
In the following week, Changxing Industrial's sticky note business began to boom. The equipment was in production 24 hours a day, and more than a dozen people watched the weather. When the weather was good, they would immediately carry a shoulder pole to deliver the goods.
It was also the first time that Yang Wendong experienced the feeling of making money every moment.
There are too many orders coming in.
PS: There are two more chapters today, and the big chapters will start tomorrow
Asking for monthly ticket
(End of this chapter)