Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 198 Product Brochures

When Duan Yun returned to the rental house, Cao Dong and the other young workers were already busy.

Recently, they have made a lot of money, and the morale of the team is also high. There is no need for Duan Yun's supervision, and the young workers are working very hard.

The sales of antennas are still on the rise. While Duan Yun has become a ten thousand yuan household, other young workers have also made a lot of money. Needless to say, Cao Dong, his income is second only to Duan Yun, and now he has earned thousands of yuan Of the other young workers, Cui Lin was the highest, earning 410 yuan in installation fees this month. Dajun and Erhu were the latest to come, so naturally they were the least, but they both earned more than 300 yuan.

Duan Yun tried his best to keep his wages as equal as possible, but an absolute average is impossible, and it is completely acceptable for several young workers to differ from each other by tens of yuan on the basis of the current wages, so there is no If people have any objections to salary income, it is only natural for those who work fast to get paid.

Although a few hundred yuan is not worth mentioning compared to Duan Yun's current net worth of 4000 yuan, it is still their salary in the factory for more than a year, which is quite considerable.

"Brother, I really convinced you." At this moment, Cao Dong walked up to Duan Yun, took out a cigarette and lit it for him, and said with admiration: "I saw you desperately increasing your inventory, Worried about not being able to sell it, I didn't sleep well after thinking about it for several nights, now it seems, Brother Duan, you are really prescient..."

"Hehe." Duan Yun smiled after hearing the words, and continued: "This is also a big gamble, but as long as the antenna we make is really a good thing, then we won't worry about selling it."

"Brother, I'm a little worried now..."

"worry about what?"

"What do you think if someone cracks and masters our antenna manufacturing technology, what if they compete with us for business?" Cao Dong said with a frown.

"It's not that easy to decipher. The antennas I designed have anti-piracy devices. People with ordinary skills can't decipher them. Even if there are experts who can decipher them, at most two or three sets can be assembled a day. If you want to produce them on a large scale, you still need to do so." To open up sales channels, it won’t be possible in a short time.” Duan Yun paused, and then said: “It’s impossible for a product to be popular for too long, and now our antennas are selling well, that’s because we’re stuck. When "Blood Doubt" is shown, when this TV series is over, our antenna sales will drop..."

"Yes, yes, I have also heard that the users who recently bought the antenna are just to watch "Blood Suspect"!" Cao Dong nodded after hearing this, and then said: "I am more at ease after hearing what you said, Brother Duan."

"In this way, we can still make money with this antenna for a period of time. After the popularity of the TV series "Blood Doubt" passes, coupled with the appearance of antennas that counterfeit our products on the market, sales will drop sharply, which will definitely happen." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "When we finish our work during this period, I will arrange for you to sell new products."

"Is that the subwoofer?" Cao Dong asked.

The subwoofer speaker made by Duan Yun left a very deep impression on Cao Dong. He has not figured out why the sound effect of this speaker can shatter glass. This made him admire Duan Yun's superb electronic technology, but also It can be seen that this subwoofer does have considerable commercial value.

"That's right." Duan Yun nodded, and continued: "At that time, I will make a few sets of brochures, and you and Lei Zi can sell a wave of them during the after-sales service of the antenna..."

"What's a brochure?" Cao Dong was startled when he heard that.

These days is a planned economy, both manufacturers and stores are purchased and sold by the state. Before the emergence of private enterprises, ordinary people have never seen product brochures.

"The brochure is a booklet that classifies and prices various product photos for users to choose." Duan Yun said.

For Duan Yun, product brochures are very common in later generations, even to the point of flooding.

Many people can even see all kinds of printed materials of promotional products from the issuers on the roadside, telephone poles, walls of residential units, and even door handles and door cracks. It is almost pervasive.

But in the 80s, due to the fact that there was no mature and cheap copper plate color printing technology at that time, and cameras were expensive luxury goods, leaflets and product catalogs were still very rare, and ordinary people basically did not see them.

Duan Yun's idea of ​​making a brochure actually originated from the Wenzhou Eight Kings incident.

In the 80s and [-]s, Wenzhou was at the forefront of reform and opening up, and a group of businessmen with outstanding technologies in various fields emerged. Ye Jianhua, who was once one of the "Eight Kings of Wenzhou", was one of them.

In the 80s, Ye Jianhua officially opened his long-awaited photo studio on Liushi Street, named "Xiaoxiao Photo Studio".

With the prosperity of family industrial households in Yueqing, Ye Jianhua saw business opportunities.He began to collect various information books and product manuals, and classified and arranged various product photos.After nearly two years of hard work, two volumes of "Product Sample" and "Product Price List" with rich content, well-produced, and bronzing covers have finally come out.Very popular with everyone, the supply exceeds the demand.Ye Jianhua's title of "Catalogue King" quickly spread.

Duan Yun’s idea is to buy a camera, and then take photos of his speaker products and organize them into a book, so that it will be much more convenient for Cao Dong and the others to sell speakers or other products door-to-door in the future.
Duan Yun is not worried about whether Ye Jianhua will be treated as a speculative thing about making product catalogues, because he bought a camera to take pictures and make brochures for his own use only, and he does not open the business of taking photos and making brochures to the public, so he is not worried. There is no possibility of being regarded as a crime of speculation.

"That's fine, I'll follow your arrangement." Even though Cao Dong didn't know what the brochure Duan Yun was talking about, he had to obey Duan Yun's arrangement.

"Okay, you can continue to work." Duan Yun nodded upon hearing this, signaling him to continue working.

"Hey." Cao Dong responded, turned around and went to the rental house to continue assembling the antenna with Cui Lin and the others.

"Duan Yun!"

Just as Duan Yun took his last puff and flicked the cigarette butt away to go back to the studio to solder the circuit board, someone behind him suddenly called him.

"Gao Lei?" When Duan Yun saw that it was Gao Lei who came, a smile appeared on Duan Yun's face.

During this period of time, Duan Yun's business was booming, and Gao Lei also made a lot of money by selling electronic watches.

Without his own counter sales department, Gao Lei can only rely on going back and forth in several factory areas to sell the electronic watches purchased from Guangzhou this time.

In the beginning, Gao Lei, who hadn’t figured out the way of retailing for a while, didn’t sell a few watches in a day. Later, with the rapid improvement of his marketing skills and eloquence, Gao Lei’s delivery speed became faster and faster. In a month's time, I sold all the more than 400 electronic watches that came in, and went to travel expenses and other costs, and made a net profit of more than 2000 yuan!

(End of this chapter)