Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

As the station director, Wang Feng attached great importance to this live evening party. He communicated with the telecommunications bureau and temporarily opened 4 telephone lines for the audience to call when they wanted to request programs.

As the director of a TV station's evening party, Huang Yi extended invitations to key members of art troupes from various places, as well as male and female actors from some popular movies and TV series.

Soon, some well-known entertainers, film and television actors, as well as some well-known singers responded and expressed their willingness to participate in this unprecedented evening party.

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Time flies.

Li Youcai has been in Peking for half a month.

The production lines at the branch factory have started operation one after another and have officially begun production.

Wang Qiang's newly formed sales department is also working hard to expand sales channels, but the first three steps are the most difficult. After half a month of hard work, the results are not very satisfactory.

This made Wang Qiang a little anxious.

At night, in the conference room of the branch factory, Wang Qiang led all the people in the sales department to hold a meeting, trying to find out where the problem of not being able to open the sales channel lies.

"Let's talk about it. We've been busy for half a month now, and after all this time, we've only opened 9 outlets for consignment sales, and our daily sales are less than 10 boxes. At this rate, even if we wait until grass grows on our factory's graves, I'm afraid we won't be able to achieve our goal of covering the entire city!"

Wang Qiang frowned and glanced at the people below.

Then he pointed to the director of the sales department and said, "Tell me, what are the problems?"

This sales director is an old employee brought over from the main factory by Wang Qiang. He is capable and had outstanding performance when he was in Taihe. After he came to the branch factory, Wang Qiang directly appointed him as the sales manager, hoping that he could lead the sales department to achieve more results. However, what he got was failure.

When the man was called, he finally raised his head which had been lowered.

His face looked a little ugly.

"Director, for the past two weeks, all members of our sales department have been contacting several nearby retail outlets, including supply and marketing cooperatives, small grocery stores, and small shops, but the results haven't been very good."

"Based on my on-the-ground understanding, the problems mainly arise in several areas, with price being the main one. Most shop owners generally believe that our bread retail prices are too high, making it difficult to sell. They find it very troublesome to pay a high price for our goods and then have to return or exchange them if they don't sell them."

"I also learned that the sales of our similar products are mostly not very ideal. Later, I learned about the eating habits of the people here. I found that Beijingers eat less noodles and more cakes, especially cakes with Chinese toon. Their brand has a long history and many sales outlets. They are currently the largest cake sales company on the streets of Beijing..."

Li Youcai sat in the back as an observer, listening to the question the man had just stated.

Chinese toon pastries are indeed a time-honored brand in Peking, and are deeply loved by Peking people. It can even be said that they have developed into a culture.

Give gifts to welcome guests during festivals.

Many families buy a few boxes of toon cakes to add flavor to the solar term.

Toona sinensis is also one of the specialties of Peking City.

However, in Li Youcai's opinion, Toon Cake has never been a competitor of Chunfeng Bread, and it is obviously inappropriate for the sales director to use it for comparison at this moment.

After the minister finished his speech, Wang Qiang's face became even uglier.

"Does anyone else have anything to add?" Wang Qiang asked in a deep voice.

The meeting room was completely silent. The entire sales team of more than 30 salesmen were all silent.

"There are so many people in the sales department, and you, the director, are the only ones who have noticed some problems? Then what are you all doing?"

"Let me ask one last time, is there anyone else who wants to speak?"

At this moment, Wang Qiang's anger was growing stronger and stronger, and was even about to erupt.

Li Youcai allocated so much money to him and handed over such an important branch factory to him, but from the start of production to now, more than half a month has passed, and he has been unable to open up sales channels, so that the factory that has just started operation is about to face a situation of reduced production.

This made Wang Qiang like an ant on a hot pan, feeling anxious and ashamed.

Especially at this moment, Li Youcai was sitting not far behind him, and the sales director he promoted himself was so incompetent. This made Wang Qiang feel embarrassed in front of Li Youcai.

What made Wang Qiang even more annoyed was that there were so many people in the meeting, but no one was willing to take the initiative to talk about the problem.

Everyone kept their heads down, as if it was none of their business.

Facing Wang Qiang's questioning.

Wang Qiang wanted to fire all the people in such a team and rebuild it from scratch!

Just as Wang Qiang was about to make up his mind, a hand slowly rose up.

"Director, can I share my opinion?" A young man in his early twenties raised his hand and said in a low voice.

"Just say it directly. This is a meeting, not a question from a school teacher. Don't worry about making mistakes. Just speak loudly." Wang Qiang said.

Upon hearing this, the young man raised his voice and said, "Director, I think we can first try to open up sales channels from some special places."

When Li Youcai heard this, he found it interesting. He looked at the young man, waiting for his next words.

Wang Qiang also wanted to hear what the salesperson had to say: "Tell me, what's so special about it?"

"For example, the Peking Zoo, Houhai Amusement Park, Wangfujing, and Dazhalan all have a lot of tourists every day, and food is one of their biggest problems. Our bread is individually packaged, convenient and hygienic to eat, and easy to carry. It's the perfect food for tourists, and compared to restaurants near tourist attractions, our bread is incredibly cheap."

"So I decided that instead of pursuing a large sales network, we should change our mindset and focus on opening sales outlets in these areas first."

After hearing what this person said, Wang Qiang felt relieved.

Finally someone has something useful to say.

Li Youcai was listening from behind and thought that this person’s proposal was very good and very suitable for the current situation of the factory.

"What's your name?" Wang Qiang looked at the man and asked.

"Director, my name is Han Tianming." said the young man.

"Han Tianming, I'll remember you. From now on, I'll give you the right to form a sales team of no more than 15 people. You can choose from existing salespeople or recruit from outside. I don't care. I just want you to open up sales channels in the places you mentioned as quickly as possible."

"You have half a month to complete it. If you do, I'll promote you to Sales Manager. If you don't, you'll remain a salesperson."

"I've given you this opportunity. Whether you can seize it or not depends on you!"

"This..." Han Tianming looked at the sales director beside him with a subtle look.

"You don't have to look at him. Every position in Chunfeng Bakery is reserved for capable people. No matter who it is, the capable will be promoted and the mediocre will be demoted. Even me, the factory director, is the same!"