Chapter 262: I Was Sweating From Nervousness
Li Xiaofan looked up and saw the number displayed on the electronic calculator was "36582".
"Wow, 36,000 Singapore dollars, how did you do it?" he asked in surprise.
"In the past few days, customers with myopia glasses have to wait 10 days to pick up their glasses, so we guide them to use discount coupons to buy sunglasses in the store. Recently, the sunglasses gift boxes in our store have been particularly popular, and many people I bought them as gifts and gave them away as gifts. Of the 36,000 yuan in sales today, most of them were from selling sunglasses..."
These sunglasses are the most profitable product and the least troublesome. However, sunglasses are not used frequently, unlike myopia glasses, which are just needed.
"Well, great! Keep up your hard work, and I will give each of you a big red envelope at the end of the month!"
Liu Mengchen laughed when he heard this and said, "Thank you, Boss Li!"
"It must be a hard day working in the optical shop, right?" Li Xiaofan asked.
"It's hard work, but we feel very happy. Because the incentive policy you gave us, Boss Li, is good, we have improved our performance, and our income commission has also been high!"
Li Xiaofan's current sales incentive policy for them is: the daily guaranteed sales base of Yifan Optical Glasses Store is 10,000 Singapore dollars, and 1% of the excess of the base is withdrawn and rewarded to the store's sales service team. Calculated in this way, the bonus on the first day is 160 yuan, and today it is 260 yuan. If you can get an average of 200 Singapore dollars per day, it will be 6,000 Singapore dollars a month. For Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen, it is too tempting!
Of course, Li Xiaofan also knew that business was particularly good during the opening period due to the help of advertising and special preferential policies. After the first week of the preferential policy ends, especially after one month, there is still a question mark as to whether we can still achieve such a high turnover every month?
This 1% bonus on the sales base of more than 10,000 Singapore dollars is not so easy to get.
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The next morning, when Li Xiaofan went to Tanah Merah Country Club to practice golf, he met Ye Niya. She smiled and asked: "Afan, the Miss Lin who had dinner with you yesterday is quite beautiful. Are you dating?"
"Haha, Aunt Yenia, where are you thinking? Miss Lin and her company are the developer and operation management unit of our park. Last time we went to the United States together, I helped them introduce merchants, and she owed me a favor. So she invited me to a meal at Holland Village last night."
"Oh, I see, this girl looks very capable and quite good..." Yenia said thoughtfully.
After practicing until about nine o'clock in the morning, Li Xiaofan left the club early and made an appointment with a reporter from Xinhua News Agency to come to the company for an interview at 10:30 in the morning.
The financial reporter from Xinhua News Agency's Singapore reporter station who came to interview Li Xiaofan was named Ren Xiaoying. She graduated from the School of Journalism at Renmin University of China with a master's degree in journalism and communication.
At that time, the journalism major of the National People's Congress ranked first in the country. In 1955, the Journalism Department of Yenching University and the Chinese Department of Peking University were merged into Renmin University of China, and the Journalism Department of Renmin University of China was established. Since then, formal journalism education in New China has officially started, and the National People’s Congress occupies a special historical position in journalism education. In 1985, the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China was formally established on the basis of the original Department of Journalism.
Ren Xiaoying was admitted to the School of Journalism at Renmin University of China in 1985 when it was established. She is an 85-year-old student majoring in journalism and communication. She was posted to Singapore at the beginning of this year to work.
"Hello, Director Li, your office is so beautiful!" Ren Xiaoying exclaimed as soon as she entered Li Xiaofan's office at Raffles Place OUB Center.
Ren Xiaoying's previous routine interview with Li Xiaofan, like that of the two reporters from "The Straits Times" and "Lianhe Zaobao", did not have anything particularly new.
Because Li Xiaofan also registered Yifan Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. in China, Ren Xiaoying’s entry point plan for the article was written from the perspective of a mainland company in Minnesota going to the Yahoo website in Silicon Valley to advertise on the Internet and successfully attracting foreign trade orders.
Near the end of the interview, Li Xiaofan received a call from AFG Trading Company Aboud in Dubai. Abboud called because his company had recently received another batch of orders for sunglasses and plastic lunch boxes for microwave ovens. He called Li Xiaofan to bargain for another discount. In view of the relatively large amount of this batch of orders, Li Xiaofan finally agreed to give a 2% discount based on the original quotation.
After Li Xiaofan answered Aboud's call, Ren Xiaoying became very interested in Li Xiaofan's background.
"Director Li, what did you do before you founded Yifan Company?"
"I used to work in an electronics factory in Singapore..."
"Can I ask about your academic qualifications?"
"Graduation at night."
When Li Xiaofan said this, Ren Xiaoying became more and more interested and asked curiously: "Director Li, did you learn your English in China? I just heard that your English is so fluent and you use professional terminology very accurately. I feel, Your English skills are better than those from our majors!”
Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Society is the best university. I often learn English while using it..."
Ren Xiaoying stared at Li Xiaofan with her big watery eyes and said, "Mr. Li, I always feel that there is something strange and mysterious about you. I'm telling you the truth, please don't be angry. Logically, with your education and experience, your vision should be relatively limited. How come you went to the United States to find Yahoo to advertise after accidentally coming into contact with the Internet? I'm really curious."
Li Xiaofan responded with a smile: "This may be an innate talent. Our Minnesota used to be one of the five ports for trade, and the business atmosphere is relatively strong. Maybe my business acumen is slightly higher than that of ordinary people..."
Next, the serious Ren Xiaoying's questions became more and more sharp, and she asked a lot of details. As a professional journalist, she likes to dig deep into the inner causes of things through the surface. When answering her questions, Li Xiaofan was cautious and sloppy, and his hands were sweaty with nervousness, for fear of exposing himself as a reborn person.
Finally, Li Xiaofan felt a little overwhelmed by the sharp female reporter in front of him, and had to check his watch before interrupting the interview: "Reporter Ren, sorry, I have a meeting later, or we will stop here today. If there is a chance next time, let's talk again?"
Ren Xiaoying, who was still not satisfied, had to put away the notebook: "Okay, Mr. Li, let's make an appointment next time. Thank you for taking the time to accept my interview today!"
After seeing off Ren Xiaoying, Li Xiaofan was alone in the office and took out the notebook again.
There have been too many things happening recently, and I have many new ideas. Li Xiaofan feels that he has to sort out his next ideas:
At present, the four businesses of Yifan Company, including trade, investment, technology (ITC testing and after-sales), and optical glasses, are developing smoothly, especially in the equity investment of Yahoo. If there are no accidents, great results will be achieved next year!
These days, I have been thinking about the military industry in Ukraine, online literature websites and IP industry, as well as Chinese search engines and Chinese portal websites, and making a record and mid- to long-term plan...
When Li Xiaofan was halfway through writing, his cell phone rang. It was Tang Xinyi calling.
She asked excitedly, "Honey, what are you doing? I'm back from Tokyo!"