Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Zhou Min had initially thought her winter break would be relaxing and enjoyable, but the very next day, Sister Zhang summoned her to her beauty salon. After showing Zhou Min around various beauty salons, Sister Zhang insisted that Zhou Min give her feedback. However, Zhou Min, who relied solely on experiences from her later life, had long since run out of ideas.

"I think everything is fine, but with so many stores, can you manage it all by yourself?" Zhou Min couldn't think of any other opinions, so she could only worry about the management issues.

"It's alright. I've set up a store manager for each store and given her a certain percentage of the revenue from that store, so everyone is still very enthusiastic."

"This is a great idea. Who came up with this?" Zhou Min was quite surprised that Sister Zhang had come up with this method.

"This was your dad's idea, and we just copied it." Zhou Min was even more surprised to hear that it was her father's idea. It's worth noting that her father had only truly left farming about four years ago. It seems the wisdom of the working class is boundless.

"By the way, how's business at the online store?" After taking Zhou Min to a beauty salon, Sister Zhang started browsing women's clothing stores and casually asked this question.

Ms. Zhang asked about online skincare product stores, as she wasn't very optimistic about the skincare business. After all, people don't have much trust in online shopping these days, and few dare to buy skincare products online, especially since these stores often have low brand recognition and high prices.

So Zhang Jie wasn't really keen on opening this online store; it was Zhou Min who insisted. Zhang Jie figured there wasn't much cost involved, and with the principle of making as much profit as possible, she invested anyway.

Later, because the online store's business was indeed dismal, and the customer service staff of Sister Zhang's online store only knew about women's clothing, their answers to customers when selling skin care products were irrelevant, and because the business was so bad, it wasn't worth assigning someone to learn this skill separately.

Later, Zhou Min simply took full charge of the online store herself. She even learned about the market and wrote an AI mini-program that automatically replied and sent the daily express deliveries to Sister Zhang's store.

"It's alright, we made over 600,000 yuan. I transferred your money directly to your Duoduo account." Zhang Jie was only in charge of the warehouse and shipping for this online store; of course, she also had to pay the cost price. Zhou Min handled the store's operations and accounting; the two had agreed to split the profits 50/50.

Because Sister Zhang didn't care much about such small amounts of money, she directly asked Zhou Min to transfer the money to her son Duo Duo's allowance card.

"This much? No way, I have to get his card back when I get back. You can transfer the money to me next time." Sister Zhang was also surprised when she heard the amount. Now she just wanted to hurry home and get the money back from her son. She was worried that her son would go astray if he had money. You know, her son is only one year younger than Zhou Min, and Zhou Min is already in college, while her son is still in junior high school.

"Oh, okay, Sister Zhang. By the way, Sister Zhang, I'm planning to open a few more stores selling cosmetics and skincare products, and put our beauty salon's brand on them. That way, it'll also have some advertising effect," Zhou Min said, thinking about the rapid development of online shopping in the future.

"Okay, you can handle it yourself. Just let me know if you need manpower or resources. I'll set up a customer service team specifically for selling cosmetics later, so you can focus on your studies." Although Sister Zhang's business is much bigger than Zhou Min's now, she believes that a large part of it is due to Zhou Min's efforts.

As the two families got to know each other better, Sister Zhang admired Zhou Min's intelligence even more.

The books that lined several walls of Zhou Min's house during the villa renovation were Zhang Jie's doing. Because of Zhou Min, she realized the importance of knowledge even more, which is why she encouraged Zhou's mother to buy so many books with her, hoping that her son could be influenced and become as outstanding as Zhou Min.

Then Zhou Min asked about Brother Jiang's business.

"It's so-so, slightly better than before. After all, big cities have higher requirements for appliances, but it's still far behind what I used to have. Now he spends most of his time helping me manage the garment factory and workshop." Sister Zhang said this with great pride. You know, before, her husband just opened a shop for her to pass the time. Who would have thought that her business would grow so big now?

Because her store's sales were getting better and better, Sister Zhang simply hired some designers and opened a clothing factory. This way, she could not only choose the styles of clothes herself, but also ensure the quality.

Because online stores cater to buyers across the country, Ms. Zhang's sales volume is huge. Even though her prices are lower than in physical stores, she still makes a fortune.

Of course, to enhance its prestige, Ms. Zhang also plans to create a high-end series. She doesn't expect it to sell a lot, but she hopes to reach a wider audience.

Beauty salon workshops are even larger in scale, as they require not only advanced scientific extraction techniques but also a significant amount of manual labor. Therefore, managing either of these factories is extremely demanding.

At this time, Brother Jiang decisively handed over his shop to a professional to manage, and then came over to become a good helper to his wife.

Zhou Min looked at the store and saw that it had launched a lot of new skin care products. Although there were still very few high-end ones, the more common ones were just as good as the big brands on the market. The most important thing was that they were all-natural, pure plant-based, gentle and non-irritating.

After returning home, Zhou Min quickly went online and registered several more shops. At that time, shop management was not as strict as in later years, so the approval process was very fast.

The application process for opening a store is quite complicated, so Ms. Zhang always asks Zhou Min to help her register her online store.

Zhou Min set up two of the stores as women's clothing stores. After finishing the store decoration, she sent the store accounts to Li Lu, who was an operations manager recruited by Sister Zhang.

Zhou Min asked Li Lu to put all the products on the shelves for the new store and then left it to her. Li Lu was quite capable; she could handle most of the tasks assigned to her, so Zhou Min trusted her completely.

Zhou Min then designated the remaining four stores as "Beautiful Life Flagship Stores." "Beautiful Life" is the name of Zhang Jie's beauty salon and also a registered trademark of their cosmetics company. Although Tmall hadn't launched yet, Zhou Min still named the last two stores "flagship stores" in advance, simply because it sounded more legitimate.

Once Tmall launches, it should be easier to upgrade my stores.

Zhou Min first organized the names, performance, effects, and prices of various products in Word, and then found her DSLR camera, planning to take pictures of all the beauty products first thing tomorrow morning.

Zhou Min fiddled with her DSLR camera for a while, then called Sister Zhang and asked her to find someone to organize all the beauty products for a photoshoot the next day. Sister Zhang had already experienced the initial rush of opening a women's clothing online store, so she calmly made the arrangements.

You should know that the women's clothing photos that Zhou Min took with models when she opened her online store were not only printed out and placed in the store for others to choose from, but also placed in clothing factories as samples for negotiating business. They had many uses and brought considerable profits to Sister Zhang and her team.

So Zhou Min spent her winter break busy filming and writing scripts. By the time she finally uploaded all the products, she was completely exhausted.