Return to 1958 and build a century-old giant

Chapter 76 High Profit Target (asking for monthly ticket)
"Free?" Su Yiyi was very smart and asked immediately, "Brother Dong, do you mean it's just like a few months ago when we gave free mouse traps to the people near the Wharf?"

"Yes, Yiyi is smart." Yang Wendong smiled and said, "Our products are all new things. They didn't exist in the world before us. If we want to promote them, we must let people use them first. Otherwise, it will be difficult to promote them."

"Okay, then let's make some sticky notes right away." Su Yiyi said with a smile.

Yang Wendong also said, "Let's do it together. Besides, the mousetrap business is not very good right now. Liming, you can also arrange for the people in the workshop to cut paper or apply glue. We won't take a long holiday unless these people can find some better part-time jobs."

As a person who once lived at the bottom of the social ladder in squatter settlements, Yang Wendong also knew how afraid many people were of suddenly losing their jobs.

At the beginning, Yang Wendong and his companions were all young people, and the pressure was not on themselves. However, those who had families and children worked hard every day just to keep their families from starving. In this situation, let alone unemployment, even if they did not work for a short period of time, their families would suffer a major blow.

Zhao Liming smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

"Well, let's all work harder and make the sticky notes famous as soon as possible. Then, life will be easier for all of us in the future." Yang Wendong said again.

He knew very early on that the rat extermination or pest control industry is seasonal. If the business is not good in the first half of the year, there will inevitably be trouble in the winter.

Fortunately, he successfully made some money from the Japanese and British markets in the summer. Now he is using the money to develop post-it notes, and the transition has finally been successful.

"Okay, I understand." Zhao Liming smiled and then went to the workshop.

Li Haoyu also brought over a box of yellow paper, which was the color that Yang Wendong had specially bought.

Yellow is the most pleasing to the eye, and few people don’t like it.

The main selling color of post-it notes in later generations is also yellow.

Yang Wendong asked: "These papers are quite expensive, right?"

Lin Haoyu said: "Yes, the paper in this box in my hand is almost more than ten yuan. Paper in Hong Kong is very expensive because it is all imported. This paper is shipped from the sea and is easily crushed or even absorbs water, which makes it useless."

Su Yiyi nodded and said, "Yes, it's very expensive. I keep accounts on a piece of paper and try to be frugal. I won't stop until I make use of the empty space."

“There’s no other way. There are no paper mills in Hong Kong, and the transportation cost of this thing is also high.” Yang Wendong also said after listening.

Su Yiyi asked curiously, "Why doesn't Hong Kong have a paper mill? I see every company needs one, and there are so many newspapers, which also need paper."

Yang Wendong smiled and said, "Papermaking is a highly polluting industry. The raw material it needs is wood, which Hong Kong does not have. The auxiliary materials are many chemical products, which Hong Kong does not have either. So we cannot do it and can only import them."

In the mainland of later generations, people born in the 70s and 80s should remember how expensive paper was when they were in school as children, and they used draft paper very sparingly.

Because there were very few paper mills in the mainland at that time, and now in Hong Kong, there are zero paper mills. And now there are no containers in global shipping, and the transportation mode of bulk cargo leads to the cost of dozens of times that of the container era.

"Oh, so that's how it is." Su Yiyi nodded and said, "What a pity, otherwise our costs could be reduced a lot."

"It doesn't matter. For sticky notes, we will go for the high-profit route." Yang Wendong said with a faint smile. Su Yiyi asked doubtfully, "High profit?"

"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded.

He hadn’t even planned the machines before, so naturally he hadn’t told people around him about his future plans; now that it’s basically down to the east wind, it doesn’t matter what he says.

Then he said: "In fact, I always want to take the high-profit route. Business is all about making money. It's just that the business environment in Hong Kong makes people think that doing business should be about small profits but quick turnover. This is not wrong, but it depends on different situations.

Competition is fierce. In order to compete for the market, we must naturally take the route of small profits but quick turnover. However, since there is only one product in the market, of course we should have high profits. Without competitors, we should make a lot of money. "

Su Yiyi thought for a moment and said, "Yes, Brother Dong, you once said that the factors that limit the price of sticky mouse boards are mouse traps and rat poison; but for sticky notes, there is no competitor."

Yang Wendong said with a smile: "That's about it. Anyway, we will mainly make money from European and American foreigners in the future. If we make more money, it will be better for us Chinese."

Only with money can the development of the entire social group be driven, especially since a lot of funds are needed behind it.

Otherwise, even if you come up with some creative ideas, you won’t be able to develop a finished product. Not every idea is as simple as a sticky mouse board or a sticky note.

Take the Rubik's Cube for example. He didn't look up its structure on the Internet in his previous life, and now he can't figure it out by himself. Later, when his company gets bigger, he will need to recruit a team of top students in mechanical structure to carry out research and development.

Furthermore, purchasing equipment also requires a lot of money, otherwise even if you have creative ideas and patents, you may not be able to implement them or produce them in large quantities.

And without sufficient economic and political influence, the patent may not be able to play its maximum role. After all, lawsuits are very expensive.

Another week later, dozens of people worked hard together and successfully made thousands of sticky notes;

However, due to the limited operating capacity of human hands, each set of sticky notes only has 20 sheets. However, this is enough for short-term use.

Although sticky notes are very good consumables, they are not consumed very quickly under normal circumstances. Some people can use 20 sticky notes for half a month or a month without any problem. It all depends on personal habits.

"Yiyi, have you finished collecting all the information about major Hong Kong companies that I asked you to collect?" Yang Wendong asked after putting the last box of sticky notes in his office.

Su Yiyi nodded and said, "I got it. I went to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and found a scalper. I asked him to buy some contact information of the purchasing departments of major Hong Kong companies."

"Well, OK." Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Assign someone to write a few hundred instructions for using sticky notes, and then send one copy of the instructions with about ten sticky notes to the purchasing or administrative departments of these large companies."

Su Yiyi already knew the plan, and immediately said after listening to it: "Okay, I'll do it right away."

A few days later, many large companies in Hong Kong received a lot of strange express deliveries. When they opened them, they were all strange small yellow papers.

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(End of this chapter)