Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

The next day, in the office.

The loaders outside were moving boxes of goods into the warehouse, and Lin Ran was also chatting with Manager Zhang about the store's planning.

"Mr. Lin, I wonder which direction you want to start?" Manager Zhang could see that Lin Ran actually had his own plan. Otherwise, he would just open a small store and he would not call him over to discuss the direction. .

"These are just embryonic ideas that have not yet been considered for concrete implementation." Lin Ran smiled and asked, "Manager Zhang, do you have any opinions?"

"Electronic products have a bright future. At present, the best-selling products in the domestic market are radios and BP players. The former is because it is cheap, and the latter is because it is commercial. Closely followed are tape players and black-and-white TV sets."

Manager Zhang answered the questions quickly, and it was obvious that he had done market research.

Lin Ran nodded, took out his BP machine from his waist, and said, "In the past, your store mainly sold BP machines. What do you think of the prospects of the paging industry?"

"Selling BP machines is my old profession." Manager Zhang said proudly, "It's just that the quality of domestically produced BP machines is relatively inferior. Most of the customers who buy BP machines are businessmen. They actually only care about whether they are good or not. Easy to use, unwilling to settle for cheap alternatives.”

Isn't that what you told me last time I went to buy a bp machine?

Lin Ran thought about it in a funny way, but he did not say it out loud. Instead, he asked with a smile: "Selling bp machines is actually just one aspect. Isn't the most important thing in the paging industry not the paging station?"

"Paging station?" Manager Zhang was startled. He didn't expect this young man to be so ambitious.

They all just wanted to get a piece of the pie, but they didn't expect that he had already entered the paging station business.

In their view, paging stations are an industry with long investment cycles and slow returns.

In comparison, it is better to sell a few more bp machines.

Lin Ran's idea was completely different.

The first is that he understands the future development trend. Starting from the early 80s, with the rapid development of the economy, the number of pager users will grow exponentially.

There is currently only one paging station in China. Entering the game at this time is equivalent to having only one competitor.

However, Lin Ran knew that the competitor was not easy to deal with. It could be described as quite difficult, otherwise there would not be another competitor appearing for a long time.

Lin Ran's goal is of course not to make this small amount of money, but to set his goal 20 years later.

The age of mobile phones.

If you want to join the ranks of mobile phones by then, start with pagers, which can save a lot of detours.

However, Lin Ran thought that his plan was too far-reaching. Not to mention Manager Zhang, even Yang Jianlong sitting here would not be able to understand what he was saying.

Then he smiled and changed the subject: "Manager Zhang, do you think there are any flaws in the current pagers?"

"There are too many defects. It would be great if I could call back directly." Manager Zhang inadvertently revealed the prototype of the mobile phone.

Lin Ran nodded and said with a smile: "That's true, but I think the biggest problem with current BP machines is that they can only transmit information through sound."

"if not?"

"If it could display text, would this kind of bp machine become more popular among people?" Lin Ran asked.

This idea shocked Manager Zhang.

What exactly is in Boss Lin's mind? It's a paging station and a character bp machine.

The ideas are more and more fanciful.

However, he also agreed with Lin Ran's idea.

"If there is such a bp machine, it will be very popular in the market."

In fact, Lin Ran has seen a similar bp machine, called a Han display bp machine, but it was already a product of the mid-90s.

As for whether it can be produced in this era, he has no guarantee in his heart.

"Let's just sell the electrical appliances in the store like this for now. As for the other ones, I will arrange for my friends in Hong Kong City to get me a batch of equipment from Hong Kong City. The quality will definitely not be worse than the ones in your previous store."

"Really?" Manager Zhang's eyes lit up. He originally sold imported products, but suddenly he only sold local products, and there was still a gap in his heart.

Hearing Lin Ran say that he would arrange the goods in Hong Kong City, he asked again and again and learned that Lin Ran had many friends in Hong Kong City, so he settled down.

Lin Ran called Chen Qi in front of him.

Chen Qijia is engaged in the financial industry. Their family does not have physical stores or factories.

But this does not prevent them from investing in many bp machine factories.

When he learned that Lin Ran had opened an electrical appliance store, Chen Qi immediately promised to help him transport a thousand BP machines to test the waters.

"In addition to BP machines, I also want a hundred color TVs and a hundred air conditioners." Lin Ran was impressed by their level of development when he visited department stores in Hong Kong City last time.

Although it hasn't changed for a long time, they now have a good standard of living.

What restricts cross-strait exchanges is mainly the currency situation.

Currently, if you want to buy goods in the port city, you need to use foreign exchange, because the current domestic production capacity is insufficient and it cannot produce enough goods to exchange for foreign exchange.

Lin Ran obtained this batch of goods entirely through his own connections.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Ran called Yan Hong again and asked him to purchase some electrical equipment and send it to him.

Manager Zhang was stunned to see Lin Ran's wide network of contacts.

How could he look down upon others at that time and think that Lin Ran was just a brat? In his words now, this is the real boss.

His speech was neither condescending nor arrogant, which was in sharp contrast to his boss's condescending attitude when communicating with businessmen in Hong Kong City.

Lin Ran decided that since he was going to take this path, he should naturally go to the extreme.

He plans to hire several experts in the communications industry to study the working principle of the Han display bp machine, and then find a domestic foundry to make it.

There are still more than ten years before mobile devices such as mobile phones and PHS become popular. If we can make a Han display bp machine, we will definitely have time to capture the market in the mainland and the Three Islands.

Lin Ran remembered that BP machines had actually appeared in European and American countries 30 years ago. They had their own unique technology, but they did not sell it to the outside world.

Just to keep making money.

The bp machines that domestic manufacturers can produce actually pay expensive agency fees, and they have to pay a certain licensing fee every year.

However, bp machines were already outdated in Lin Ran's time.

The bankrupt BP machine manufacturer has actually published the source code in the community for a long time, so that some idle and bored enthusiasts can modify it and play by themselves. This can be regarded as their sharing spirit.

When you are not making money, you can share without restraint.

Unfortunately, Lin Ran didn't understand programming and was not an expert in the communications industry. He only remembered some of the routines and hoped to recruit suitable people to assist in their development.

After telling Manager Zhang the recruitment requirements, Manager Zhang was completely stunned.

"Does Mr. Lin really want to get into the paging field?"

Immediately, he smiled.

It’s not him who takes the risk anyway. The bigger the boss makes the company, the higher his status will be.

Just do your job steadily.