Chapter 211 Chen's Mother's Company
Chapter 211 Chen's Mother's Company
"This is my son, he is about the same age as you, and he is studying abroad..."
As soon as we entered the company, my mother introduced Chen Xi to everyone. This is a company that mainly sells printers and other advertising equipment.
There were quite a few young people in the company, who looked only a few years older than Chen Xi, and they all looked at him with curious eyes.
This group of young employees felt that people are born differently. They are about the same age, but they are working for others, while the boss's son is living a carefree life abroad.
When they were studying abroad, they had only seen this kind of thing on TV.
Some bold employees have already started to greet Chen Xi, and several young and beautiful girls are looking at the handsome boy in front of them with their beautiful eyes and starting to whisper with their colleagues beside them.
"What do you think? My son is handsome, isn't he? Haha!" The mother put her hands on her hips and laughed, completely different from other bosses who usually pretended to be serious.
My mother is very generous to her subordinates. She pays them high salaries, provides them with meals, and provides housing for those who don’t have a place to stay. She is like a philanthropist. Chen Xi used to think that her mother was very nice, but when he grew up, he felt that she was not suitable for running a company.
After the financial crisis, Chen's father laid off employees. Chen Xi expressed his opposition, thinking that his father was a little unkind, but now it seems that this is indeed in the interests of the company.
"Mom, give me a list of equipment models and prices." Chen Xi walked into the office and sat in the boss's chair. He also turned around and looked around.
"Okay, Mr. Chen." My mother shouted in a pinched voice.
"Ahem, there are employees outside. Can you please be more serious?"
"You little bastard, you are trying to educate your mother, right?" Chen's mother came over and grabbed his ear.
"Mom. Are there any new models of these devices you are developing? Why are all of them from two years ago?"
Chen Xi flipped through the stack of papers in his hand and turned to look at his mother.
"What can be developed for printers? Isn't there only a few functions? Either ink or laser. Ink is so expensive nowadays that changing ink costs almost as much as buying a new small printer."
"There are no new printers. The price of large printers like yours has started to drop every year. It has already dropped below 100,000 yuan, and is now dropping by several thousand yuan every year."
"Now the provincial markets around Xinlu are saturated. Business in the north is not going well at the exhibition, only the south is okay."
Mother Chen leaned on the sofa with a sad look on her face.
"I'll write a plan in the next few days, and you can follow the steps above. I'll go to Huajing in a few days to ask the law firm at my friend's house."
"Wait, are we going to Huajing? Then I'll go with you."
Mother Chen's eyes rolled, as if she had thought of something.
"What are you going to do?"
"Is it not okay for me to go find your dad? He should be at the company in Huajing now."
"You two are divorced, why are you still looking for him! Doing your own business well is better than anything else. This guy is an ungrateful person. Be careful that he will take away all your money."
"Alright, alright, they're father and son, but you're acting like enemies." Chen's mother waved her hands, not wanting to listen to Chen Xi's lecture at all.
As parents, most of us cannot accept what our children say.
"Mom, do you have enough funds?"
"Why? If your living expenses are not enough, I will give you more when the time comes."
"It's not living expenses, it's opening a chain of graphic stores, which also requires capital, and you have to create your own brand first. The machines are all your own, and you also have an advertising company. Anyway, these are your old business, so it won't be a problem for you to manage it."
"I do have the funds, but I recently bought some stocks, and the price has gone up. I think I can make more money by putting it in stocks. When the stocks make money, I will have more funds!" Chen's mother seemed to think she was very smart, and she clapped her hands and opened the stock trading software on the computer.
Chen Xi was so worried that she asked her mother not to touch stocks. She had been tricked into investing in stocks by her friends who worked in securities companies, and she had lost a lot of money there.
"Look, these are the stocks my friends recommended to me. They say bank stocks are a sure win. And the mining and communications stocks have gone up by more than ten yuan since I bought them!"
Looking at the stocks on the computer screen, I did make money, and a lot of it.
It is just the year 07 now and the stock market is doing pretty well, but the good times won’t last long and things will start to go south.
"Let's sell it when it's almost done, and then use the money to start a business." "Yeah, yeah. I'll listen to my dear son."
Seeing that he couldn't persuade his mother, he could only say that he needed funds for business, and then let his mother sell the stocks so that she could save some money.
Then he suggested to his mother that she buy several stocks that had seen significant gains in her previous life.
These stocks are all high-quality stocks that can generate profits through long-term holding.
Although stock trading is considered a form of investment, it also contains elements of gambling.
It is indeed difficult to completely quit stock trading, so he suggested that his mother sell other riskier stocks and focus on these stocks with profit potential.
In this way, even if you treat stock trading as a form of entertainment, you can still get stable returns while enjoying the fun.
He found that women especially like to speculate in stocks. Zhao Lingshan's mother is the same. She used to be in the catering and hotel business, but she also usually participates in stock and real estate speculation.
But Zhao Lingshan's mother was very smart. She made money by speculating in stocks and real estate, and only Chen Xi's mother lost money.
He couldn't understand how his mother had managed to speculate in real estate. Every time she sold a house, the price would rise sharply not long afterward, and this happened more than once.
"Mom, give me your stock account password and I'll help you check it out when I have time. If you want to invest money in it, ask me first."
To be on the safe side, Chen Xi had no choice but to do this. However, his mother did not object, but nodded in agreement.
"Son, those girls in my company have been secretly staring at you. Just now, they pretended to get something at the door several times. My dear son, you are so handsome. Are you also popular with girls in Australia?"
"I was just talking to you about business, but you were focusing on these boring things. I'll say hello to those uncles and ask them to help you more."
Chen Xi thought about several veterans in the company. They were all capable and loyal to his mother because she was generous.
Later, Chen's father wanted to poach them, but these people would rather work for other companies and refused.
Having said that, these people were also worried that they would not get any benefits if they went to Chen's father. After all, Chen's father was not generous in the eyes of his employees.
"Son, you look like a boss now. Haha, I'll leave the business to you from now on, and I'll go out and travel with Shanshan's mother, hahaha!" When my mother thought about her future life in old age, she laughed so hard that her body shook with laughter.
I am the boss.
Chen Xi glanced at his mother. She had been living a hard life in her previous life. He must work hard in this life so that his mother can live a good life in the future.
"How's the situation at the advertising company?"
"Not very good. Now the streets are full of video ads. We also participated, but the effect is very poor."
My mother said with a bitter face that the main business of advertising companies nowadays is still the billboards on those buildings, plus some lighting projects, but those jobs all need approval from the relevant departments.
It is not like before, when one company dominated the market and the leadership team changed very quickly. They always intended to support newcomers to take over projects.
Chen Xi nodded. This was similar to the situation in his previous life and was all within his expectations.
Times are changing. In the past, there were outdoor billboards, and now there are video ads and web ads, and later there are ads on apps.
In short, advertisements are everywhere, they just change the way they are played.
"Mom, are there many graphic design shops in Xinlu now?"
"It's OK. There are shops everywhere, but they are all small shops. The equipment is old and the products are not complete. Most of them are mainly photocopying and printing. The better ones take on small billboards, and some even make keys."
My mother tilted her head and thought for a while, then explained the current situation of the industry.
For a graphic store, these things are definitely necessary, but forget about the key. It's almost the same to make official seals and business cards.
Well, let's do it.
Chen Xi nodded, and picked up the other documents his mother handed over and started to read them. These were all information about the advertising industry.
(End of this chapter)