Quick travel to save a miserable life

At this time, the network cable at Lin Hui's residence had been connected. Because it was dial-up Internet access, a landline phone had to be installed.

But thinking about the career she was about to do, it would be better to have a landline phone to make contact with the outside world more convenient.

What Lin Hui is planning to do is e-commerce, or e-commerce for short.

Although computers were far less popular in China at this time than in later generations, they had long been common in developed countries such as Europe and the United States. Even online shopping had been developing for some time, and many knowledgeable people wanted to move the foreign online shopping model to China will run it.

At this time, many platforms have begun to emerge in the domestic e-commerce industry. The most well-known and powerful one at this time is eBay, which has a foreign investment background, followed by Dangdang and Excellence, which started out as books and audio-visual companies. Of course, these are not Lin Hui’s goal.

She currently wants to rely on Zhejiang Province's developed textile industry and convenient express delivery industry to sell clothes online. The best choice is of course Moubao, which was established in Hangzhou in July last year.

Mr. Ma, the founder of Moubao, once said in Zhuang language that Moubao would be free for three years in order to attract sellers when it was founded. Now, just half a year has passed, and there are still two and a half years of free period.

Of course, Lin Hui is not greedy for the so-called free, but wants to take advantage of the fact that there are few merchants settled in now, and establish a store early to accumulate credibility.

As for what to sell, of course it’s children’s clothing!

Lake City has a developed textile industry. In fact, the main industry is children's clothing, and most of the factories are concentrated in a town east of the city. This town is called Zhili Town.

Zhili Town is not a new town. Its name originated from the development of the weaving industry in ancient times, so it was called Zhili.

As for the production of children's clothing, it only started after the reform and opening up. In 92, the country built an economic development zone in Zhili. After ten years of development, last year, in 2002, Zhili was designated by the China Textile Industry Association, The China National Garment Association named it "China's Famous Children's Clothing Town".

The entire town covers an area of ​​just over [-] kilometers, but there are more than [-] children's clothing manufacturers, many manufacturers of children's clothing accessories, and many children's clothing-related trading companies.

According to incomplete statistics, more than [-]% of the children's clothing on the domestic market is produced by Zhili. With such excellent innate conditions, the children's clothing business can be said to be twice the result with half the effort.

However, even if there are these source manufacturers, Lin Hui still needs to make a decision after careful research on how to choose the right manufacturer, what kind of cooperation method to use, and how to conduct online sales.

The family home of the Electric Power Bureau where she works is more than ten kilometers away from Zhili Town, and there is no direct bus. For the convenience of going back and forth, she can only buy an electric scooter. Moreover, in order to facilitate contact with business in the future, I bought myself another mobile phone.

The mobile phone I chose is Nokia, which is durable and durable. It has a straight style, is cheap and easy to use.

After sending Yanmin to kindergarten in the morning, she rode an electric scooter to the town.

Even though she was wearing a helmet and a mask, the cold wind kept getting into the seams of her clothes. After riding for half an hour, Lin Hui's hands and feet were already freezing by the time she reached the town.

I still underestimated the cold weather. I should buy a windproof quilt, but I don’t seem to see any for sale at this time. Alas!

There are too many factories here. To be cautious, Lin Hui did not go to those big factories at all. They all have their own fixed sales channels. She has not started yet, and she is not even qualified to talk to them, let alone be in charge. Well, I guess even the salesmen in the sales department wouldn’t take me seriously.

The ones she went to were all small factories with small production scales that could only produce one style at a time. Some were even family-owned workshops with only a few machines, and they made orders from some large factories.

It's a pity that even such a small factory doesn't bother to cooperate with Lin Hui.

Because the delivery model she proposed was frowned upon by the operators, Lin Hui proposed that she would take the orders online, and then send them the address and phone number, and the factory would help deliver the goods. She would provide the payment and freight immediately. Pay.

Unfortunately, this drop-shipping model, which is very common in later generations, is still too outrageous today. You have no corresponding channels at all. You can make empty claims, and other manufacturers will not bother you at all.

Lin Hui felt that she had taken it too much for granted and had not considered the current actual situation. Fortunately, this was just a way to find a way. If it didn't work, she could think of something else.

In addition to children's clothing manufacturers, there are many wholesale and retail stores in this town. Their customers come from all over the country, and the goods in hand also come from different manufacturers. Lin Hui decided to go there to have a look.

Lin Hui had a simple lunch at a nearby small restaurant, and then went to the children's clothing street in the town in the afternoon.

There is a street with facades in the town. Both sides of the street are full of large and small shops, all of which sell children's clothing. Of course, if it is retail, they will also sell it, but it is definitely not the wholesale price, but because it is the source of the goods. , and it’s much cheaper than buying retail items elsewhere.

Lin Hui walked around that street for more than an hour, and finally selected a medium-sized store to get the goods.

She took a fancy to several styles of children's jackets, most of which were spring clothes. Each style had matching sizes. She asked the store for the manufacturer's promotional pictures and size charts, and finally bundled them into a large package and put it on the pedal of the electric car. There was almost no room for her legs to rest.

By the time she dragged a large bag of clothes upstairs and took them home, it was almost time for the kindergarten to end. She had no time to unpack the clothes and sort them out, so she went to pick up the child.

After taking Yanmin home, Lin Hui began to unpack the clothes. Because the clothes were all for girls, Yanmin thought they were clothes bought for her. When Lin Hui explained that they were going to be sold online, Yes, I didn’t buy it specially for her. The little guy pouted a little unhappily.

However, then she couldn't help but asked curiously: "Mom, how do you sell it online?"

"I take some photos of these clothes and put them on the Internet. Someone sees them and likes them and wants to buy them. Then they transfer money to me on the Internet and I send the clothes to her. That's it."

Lin Hui explained.

However, a child's curiosity is boundless. After explaining a question, more questions came up. After a while, she asked again: "Mom, how do I put the photos on the Internet?"

Lin Hui then remembered that her camera was a film camera, not a digital camera. If she wanted to upload photos, she needed to buy a digital camera.

So, after patiently answering Yanmin's questions, she took out her notebook and listed all the problems she was encountering and what was missing, and decided to solve them as soon as possible so that she could launch her e-commerce plan as soon as possible. .