Rebirth 2004: I can make money by writing.

The next day,

Hao Qiang used his free time to personally visit Zhengjia Plaza, where Tianhe Road and Tiyu East Road intersect in Tianhe District.

This shopping mall, a newly opened commercial landmark, has seven floors and is extremely popular.

The dining area is on the sixth floor, and currently has brand restaurants such as Dayefeng Rice and Las Vegas.

After walking around, he asked the mall's investment department about the mall's rent. The staff gave him a brief introduction and also handed him a copy of the mall's regulations for merchants entering and renovating the premises.

After listening to it, Hao Qiang found that the data was not much different from what he had guessed.

1F: 750 yuan/square meter/month;

2F: 480 yuan/square meter/month;

3F: 360 yuan/square meter/month;

4F: 230 yuan/square meter/month;

5F: 150 yuan/square meter/month;

6F: 95 yuan/square meter/month.

Only for rent, not for sale!

The prices vary slightly depending on the location.

At the same time, the decoration must comply with the requirements of the shopping mall. Before operating the decoration, materials such as decoration renderings, construction drawings and construction schedules must be provided. This shopping mall does not have any entry fees.

If you want to move into the first or second floor, the brand influence requirements for the merchants are relatively high.

After inspecting the shopping mall, Hao Qiang continued to go to Sunshine Metropolis Plaza on Shibei Road for further research.

The shopping mall was handed over in June this year and officially opened in August.

The shops can be rented or sold. The shops in good locations on the first floor are priced at up to 7.5 yuan per square meter, and those in the inner areas are priced at 5.5 yuan per square meter.

Even on the third floor, the shop space still costs 2.5 yuan per square meter.

In terms of rent, it is not much different from Zhengjia Plaza.

After visiting these two shopping malls, Hao Qiang returned to school. He had a more detailed understanding of the rental and sales prices of large shopping malls in Tianhe District.

Anyway, he would not buy a shop and could not afford it.

After returning to school, Hao Qiang conducted an in-depth analysis and planning of the shop.

Renting a restaurant space of about 600 square meters in Zhengjia Plaza, with quarterly payments plus one month's deposit, costs 228,000 yuan!

In terms of decoration,

There is no specific standard for store decoration. Take Zhongda's Renjian Yanhuo as an example. This 200-square-meter store adheres to the concept of "light decoration, heavy decoration" and has invested 100,000 yuan in decoration alone, but this does not include the cost of tables, chairs, and equipment.

If it is in a large shopping mall, this level of decoration is obviously not enough.

According to Hidilao’s 2020 annual report, the related decoration project costs incurred with Shuyun Dongfang were 32.95 billion yuan, with an average decoration cost of 606 million yuan per household. Based on 1000 square meters, the decoration cost per square meter is about 6000 yuan.

Taking into account the price level in 2004, Hao Qiang believed that a decoration cost of about 3,000 yuan per square meter would be luxurious enough.

Therefore, for a 600-square-meter shop, the maximum budget for its decoration should be controlled within 180 million yuan.

Other investment budget:

Working capital for opening a store: 20 yuan.

Kitchen equipment (range hood, freezer, etc.): The budget for new equipment is 20 yuan.

Central air conditioning budget: 10 yuan

Budget for tables, chairs and benches: 15 yuan

Tableware and pots budget: 15 yuan

Promotion and publicity budget: 10,000 yuan

Opening materials budget: 6 yuan

……

Combined with the quarterly rent and deposit budget, the overall investment requirement increases to approximately $290 million.

If a little saving is made on decoration, the decoration budget can be controlled at around 150 million yuan, thus reducing the overall investment budget to less than 260 million yuan.

So, his previous budget of 3 million yuan was a relatively accurate estimate.

Since the renovation of such a large-scale store is relatively complex, it takes a relatively long time, the shortest being 30 days, but usually no more than 45 days.

After completing the investment budget calculations, Hao Qiang couldn't help but sigh: "Three million, three million!"

He wants to invest now, but he doesn't have enough funds.

Even if he sold all his stocks, he could only get more than one million yuan.

Taking into account the income from his writing and running the large hot pot restaurant, he can earn about 60 yuan per month.

In addition, the membership recharge business can bring in nearly 10,000 yuan in cash every day. Excluding repeat consumption, it is expected to have a surplus of 200,000 yuan in a month.

In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, he still has to hold on for another month to raise about 190 million yuan in funds, and then he can start the renovation.

By the time the renovation was finished, he had saved enough money to pay the remaining balance.

Although the funds are not yet in place, Hao Qiang decided to find a design company to design the store first, and began to contact the shopping mall to discuss leasing matters.

If he finds a shop he likes, he plans to pay a deposit to ensure it is not taken away by other businesses.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the mall is willing to accept the deposit.

After careful consideration and sorting out the investment plan, Hao Qiang felt his ideas became clearer.

the next morning,

Hao Qiang called Yue Neng, the owner of the decoration company he had worked with last time, and said, "Boss Yue, do you want to take this business?

I plan to renovate a high-end store of about 600 to 700 square meters in a large shopping mall.

"Answer it! Why don't you take on walk-in business?" Yue Neng was surprised to receive a call from a client. He immediately responded, "Boss Hao, what's the budget for this renovation?"

“Maybe over a million, depending on the design. If I’m satisfied with it, I’ll hand it over to your company.

Otherwise, I will have to find another design company.

Next year, I have more than one large store to renovate.” The renovation budget Hao Qiang mentioned already includes design fees, construction, and materials.

Yueneng's Sumei Decoration Co., Ltd. is a one-stop decoration platform integrating design, construction, building materials, soft furnishings and furniture. It is large in scale and strong in strength, and is fully capable of taking on this big order.

However, when he negotiated with the other party, he could not say that he would definitely let the other party do it.

In this way, the other party will design more seriously and will not dare to make a random quote.

In addition, we can also discuss the funds payment cycle.

Yue Neng was extremely surprised when he heard this.

A renovation budget of millions!

This is a big order!

Of course, he also understood the hidden meaning in Hao Qiang's words. The last cooperation experience made Yue Neng realize that Hao Qiang was a shrewd businessman who focused on quality.

Therefore, he knew that the cooperation with Hao Qiang could not be taken lightly and he had to come up with the best design plan and a reasonable quotation.

When cooperating with such a shrewd businessman, if the other party realizes that they have been cheated, they will immediately turn around and look for another company, leaving no room for Yue to continue negotiating, and it will be too late to regret.

In order to win Hao Qiang's trust, Yue Neng immediately said, "Boss Hao, how about this?

I will personally bring someone to your location this afternoon to meet with you. We will definitely give you the most competitive quotation and do our best to complete this project."

After a moment's thought, Hao Qiang replied, "I'll go directly to your company. It's not too far. How about meeting at 5 p.m.?"

Yue Neng readily agreed: "Sure, Boss Hao, this arrangement is indeed more convenient."

After hanging up the phone, Yue Neng immediately called together his employees, urgently prepared relevant materials, and began to develop a preliminary design plan, hoping to win Hao Qiang's satisfaction.

After 4:30 in the afternoon, Hao Qiang left the campus and took a taxi to Yueneng's decoration company.

As soon as he stepped into the store, Yue Neng, who was in his forties, trotted out to greet him warmly and arranged for employees to serve hot tea to Hao Qiang.

Without any unnecessary greetings, Hao Qiang sat down on the sofa in front of the tea table, then took out the decoration materials he had printed and handed them to Yue Neng.

He described in detail the store's area, structure, location, as well as his specific requirements for decoration style and grade.

You are spending your own money and have invested a lot, so you don’t have to be polite to Party B when making requests. The more demanding, the better.

He emphasized, “I hope you will design it carefully, because this plan is likely to become the future decoration standard of our ‘Renjian Yanhuo’. In the future, when we have new stores to decorate, we can hand it over to your company.

Of course, even if I accept your design, if the final decoration effect is not satisfactory, there will definitely be no next cooperation."

Yue Neng nodded solemnly, fully understanding Hao Qiang's expectations and requirements, and said, "Don't worry, Boss Hao, after all, we have worked together before.

Has the store been decided yet? Which mall will it be in? It's easiest to come up with a plan after an on-site inspection."

As long as you go to the store with the customer for an on-site inspection, the on-site explanation will be more convincing and it will be easier to get the order.

"It's still under investigation, but it will be done soon. Let's first decide on a rough design plan to avoid rushing the construction deadline." said Hao Qiang.

"Indeed, the rent for a big shopping mall is not cheap." Yue could understand.

Next, Yue Neng’s design team began to discuss the specific design requirements with Hao Qiang in detail, and at the same time took out their preliminary design plan for Hao Qiang to review.

Hao Qiang carefully looked at the preliminary design plan and crossed out the ones that did not meet his requirements.

The designer of Sumei Decoration Company said that they would first come up with two design plans. After the store is almost finalized, they would conduct an on-site inspection, measure the store size, analyze the decoration requirements of the shopping mall, and then formally come up with the design drawings.

At that time, the decoration renderings and other information must be submitted to the shopping mall for review before formal decoration can begin.

Hao Qiang felt that the communication was almost complete, so he left the design company and decided to notify them after the store was finalized.

Every time he wants to do something big, he is full of passion.