Chapter 280 Dividends [Two chapters in one]

"I...I don't know."

Da Jun touched his short flat head and said naively.

Then he looked at Xiaoxiao next to him: "Xiaoxiao, what do you think?"

Although he hasn't married her yet.

But because I love this girl so much, and my grandfather told me last night to listen to Xiaoxiao more in the future.

"No hurry, we can take a look first."

"However, my personal suggestion is to buy all the video tapes in this batch."

Xiaoxiao said eloquently, "Of course. This guy just said he wants five, and the guys over there also said they want five, so let's combine them to get ten. We won't fight over these ten, and I don't think we should look for another buyer for the remaining ten."

Lu Yang agreed: "That's fine. Anyway, Xiaoxiao, you and Junzi took the risk to get this batch of goods back."

"Then I think this is the way."

“Don’t jump to conclusions, everyone. When you go back today, prepare the money first.

In addition, I will go to the town later to find Zhuangzhuang to learn about the recent business. You might as well come with me. At that time, you can also check out other newly opened video halls in the town to see which of these two business models is better and which one is more suitable for you.

This way you will feel more at ease.

How many projection machines do you need? Let's figure it out tonight and bring the money tomorrow. We can just pay and get the goods. How about that?"

Of course it doesn’t matter to my brothers.

But as for Secretary Li, Lu Yang felt that he should make things clear.

Second-hand machine, no after-sales service.

This is the first one.

Payment first, goods later. No credit.

This is the second one.

Personal relationships are personal relationships, and business is business. This order itself is not profitable.

One thousand and fifty per unit, isn’t that cheap?
The money earned is not enough to cover the shipping costs.

What's more, in order to buy this batch of goods, Da Jun had to fight with others and paid 2000 yuan in compensation.

If Lu Yang really wanted to make money, he would not sell it for 1500, but for 2000, 3000, or even more.

"Okay, then we'll all listen to Boss Lu."

Yin Mengdi said half-jokingly, "I haven't seen Zhuangzhuang for a long time. Ever since he opened this video parlor, he hasn't come to my house to play. I don't know if he should come to see me. He's been busy."

Don't rush into making a decision.

Give them one day to think it over, and even take them to visit other video halls on the market to see how they do business, and then decide how many VCRs to buy.

This is simple.

Such a considerate seller.

Lu Yang picked up the key and said, "Okay, that's a happy decision."

"Look at how many people there are. There are three of us here, two of you, Dajun, and five of you, Director Li."

"Then my car definitely won't be able to accommodate all of them."

"How about this, Xiaoxiao, Mengdi, you two come with me and take the car, and let Dajun drive the truck to give Director Li and the others a ride."

"Yeah!"

"Brother, can I not go? I can just watch TV at home. This movie is so good."

The little girl was addicted to the movie and didn't want to turn it off.

It was still Lu Yang who said, "Be good, little sister, be obedient. We can still watch a movie in town later, and there will be delicious food at noon. You will be hungry if you stay at home."

I heard there was something delicious.

The little girl then agreed and took the initiative to turn off the TV and VCR.

however.

No waiting for half an hour.

She regretted it.

Because although they were both the same movies, my brother's family used a newly bought large color TV to play the movies, while the TV in the video hall opened by my brother and his friends in the town was a black and white TV, and the screen was much smaller.

After being used to watching color TV and big screens, it’s time to look at this black and white image on a small screen.

She was so angry that she screamed.

He yelled and threatened to settle the score with his brother.

It was Yin Mingyue, the sister-in-law, who coaxed her for a long time before she was finally persuaded to sign a bunch of unequal terms.

Including, but not limited to, delicious food, spending time together at night, sleeping, etc.

Poor Lu Yang, he has no idea and will have to stay alone in the empty room again tonight.

He was settling accounts with Yin Zhuangzhuang at the moment.

It's not the kind of settlement, it's the settlement of money.

"This is 1750, last month's dividend, Brother Lu, please count it."

"By the way, here is another dividend that was originally intended for Brother Ping An, but since Brother Ping An hasn't come back yet, I'll give it to you as well."

Upstairs, in Yin Zhuangzhuang's bedroom, the boy took out two bulging sealed envelopes.

Needless to say, the envelope must be full of money.

Lu Yang took it, took a look, and tore off the seal on the envelope that contained his share of the dividend.

Open it and take a look.

Oh, all of them are 100 yuan, and a few brand new 10 yuan notes. Lu Yang's eyes lit up.

"Did you exchange this note from the bank?"

"Yes, if you don't change the whole bills, I have been collecting all the notes for the past month. There are not even many yuan notes, and there are also a lot of one-cent and five-cent notes. It is not easy to count and sort so much money. Then I have to use sacks to distribute the money to you, right?"

Although using a sack is a bit exaggerated, it is true. With so many coins of 1 cent, 2 cents, and a few dimes, wouldn't Lu Yang be overwhelmed?
After all, it’s troublesome to count.

After putting away the two envelopes filled with money, Lu Yang laughed and scolded: "Not bad, you have made progress. You know how to round up. Then tell me why last month's dividends were so much more than the previous months?"

Lu Yang had an idea of ​​the income from the previous few months. At the end of the day, when the business was operating at full capacity, the revenue was probably just over 4000 to less than 4000 yuan, which means a little over yuan a month. After deducting the water and electricity bills, the wages of Zhuangzhuang for watching the store, and the wages of the cashier girl, there was probably about yuan left.

If divided among three people, it would not exceed 1400. In fact, the dividends in the past few months were indeed like this. Either one person got more than 1200, or one person got more than 1300. In any case, it did not exceed 1400. But last month, it directly reached more than 1700, which is a bit exaggerated.

When Zhuangzhuang heard this, Lu Yang finally remembered to ask this, and he couldn't hide the excitement on his face.

He said excitedly, "Hey, Brother Lu, you may not know this, I changed the charging rules downstairs."

"Oh, how did you change it?"

"Didn't you say before that each video can only be viewed by five people? The fee is 5 cents per video, or 5 cents per hour. The private room upstairs charges 5 yuan per video, or 1 yuan per hour. The number of people is also limited to avoid too many people causing crowding and trampling.

Especially on the upper floor, you told me to be more careful. It’s okay to let one or two more people in, just turn a blind eye, but don’t let too many people in, lest the floor upstairs collapse.

Hey, I heard it all.

But look, recently, several new video halls have opened up in both the county and our town. However, they don’t have as many equipments as we do, and they bought brand new machines, I heard.

That would cost tens of thousands, Brother Lu, don't you think so?"

Lu Yang was speechless: "Can you get to the point?"

Zhuangzhuang scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, "Okay, okay, we're almost at the point. I've visited those newly opened stores. Some of them only have two or three machines, and some even have only one. The space is quite spacious, but their charging model is different from ours.

We charge by the hour and by the movie. Customers have the right to choose the movie. If they don’t like it halfway through, they can switch to another movie.

But it's not like that there.

They charge per person, 5 cents per person, but there is no time limit, customers can watch as long as they want. However, they no longer have the right to choose the movies. All the movies to be played on the day are decided in advance by the boss in the morning.

They also put up a sign outside the store with the names of all the movies showing that day written in chalk, arranged from top to bottom. On the one hand it was used as a notice, and on the other hand it was used to attract customers, and the effect was very good.

I didn't take it seriously at first.

They did this, and although there were more customers, sometimes 40 or 50 people gathered in front of one machine, it was a mess, a sea of ​​people, but they didn't raise the fee, it was still cents, and they let customers watch as they pleased from morning to night, as long as they didn't go out of their door, even if they had to go to the toilet, there was a toilet inside, and they would rather go hungry. Many people stayed from morning until closing time.

I just thought, even if they do this, they may not be able to earn as much as us, right?

Moreover, by doing this, the guests will lose the right to choose the films, and cannot watch whatever they want. They spend money and the time is extended, but they will be sharing a projection equipment with many, many people. Wouldn't the treatment they can enjoy decline linearly?

I then thought, their business won’t last long.”

Lu Yang sneered, "So you've said so much, what's the point? And since you've already concluded that their business won't last long, why do you want to learn from them? I just took a look, and our downstairs lobby is also in chaos, with people crowded together. It doesn't seem like they're limiting each machine to five customers as I said before."

Yin Zhuangzhuang was dumbfounded.

"Brother Lu, um, hey, you already know everything."

In order to suddenly increase sales, and increase it so much at once, the only way to do it, apart from raising prices and introducing more projection equipment, is to change the charging rules.

"Brother Lu, it's like this, I didn't intentionally mess up the charging rules without notifying you, but those bastards did the same thing one by one and took away all my business.

Hey, I overestimated the money of the people here. They are all too poor.

And they are all old-fashioned and I haven’t seen any good movies.

Just put something in it, they like it.

By comparison, my place seems much more expensive. For the same 5 cents, you can watch a whole day at other places, but I can only watch an hour or a whole movie here.

At first the impact was small, but later, more and more people would rather choose to watch the movie on that day. They had no right to choose the movie and had to sweat together with others. But even so, they were not willing to come here to watch a movie for 5 cents.

As time went by, there were almost no guests downstairs.

As for our private room upstairs, although the charge is more expensive than downstairs, and you need to pay 1 yuan to watch a whole movie, but on the contrary, it has not been affected at all. In fact, business is even better than before.

I was just thinking about it.

Since the upstairs is not affected, I did not make any changes to it. Instead, I added two more private rooms upstairs.

In this case, there were originally four machines in the spacious hall downstairs, but now two have been moved upstairs, leaving only two machines. I might as well follow their example. For 5 cents, you can watch movies in the hall downstairs from morning to night. The two machines play different movies all day long. Guests only need to pay 5 cents to come in, and they can watch whatever movie the two devices are showing. If they think a movie is good, they can go to the screening area of ​​that movie. It's all fine.

Hehe, you know what, the effect is great. Last month, the number of people in the camp was increased to over 5000. I estimate that this month it will be even higher.”

Classmate Zhuangzhuang said with a proud look on his face.

After hearing this, Lu Yang couldn't help but give this boy a thumbs up. "Great, you know how to adapt. You are indeed a big boss. It's only been a few months and you have learned a lot. Okay, from now on, I will leave everything here to you. As for dividends, you don't have to pay one a month. If you make money, you can save it first, and then pay it to me and Brother Ping An all at once at the end of the year."

Yin Zhuangzhuang also gave a thumbs up, "Okay, you are indeed a good brother. You trust me so much. I will definitely not let you down, Brother Lu."

The net profit from one month's turnover can be distributed to nearly 2000 yuan, which is at least 20000 yuan a year. The money of the three shareholders combined is close to a net profit of 6 yuan, which is equivalent to creating 6 millionaires in a year. With such a large sum of money, instead of requiring dividends to be distributed on time at the end of each month, the company actively asks him to distribute dividends at the end of the year. If this is not out of trust, how could it be otherwise?
Lu Yang also said to the other people at this time: "Did you all hear it? Did you see it just now downstairs and upstairs? This is the situation. Now a video hall can open with one device, two devices, and three devices are of course better. In general, the more equipment you have, the more money you can make. As for the charging methods, there are also many varieties now. It depends on how you choose."

Secretary Li discussed it with Yin Zhuangzhuang's fourth sister.

Said to Lu Yang: "We still decided to buy five devices."

Then he said to Yin Zhuangzhuang: "Brother-in-law, when the time comes, I will trouble you to help your sister with some advice and decorate the storefront. We also want to charge the same as you. We will get one for the public area and four for the VIP box."

Yin Zhuangzhuang agreed readily, patting his chest and assuring, "Brother-in-law, rest assured, leave it to me."

Director Li's younger brother also discussed it with his wife and brother-in-law for a while, and the three of them gathered together whispering.

"We have thought it over and decided to buy two machines. We just took a look. The private room upstairs charges 1 yuan an hour, but for a whole day, we can't make more than 20 yuan. But the lobby downstairs is different. There are almost endless people coming. It's 5 cents per person. If we charge 100 people a day, that's 50 yuan. If we charge 200 people, wouldn't we make about 100 yuan?
If that’s the case, then why bother with a private room?
We will just have a hall for screenings. When the time comes, we can rent a bigger venue and make it more spacious. With two devices, I think that should be enough for screenings.”

Lu Yang nodded: "Okay, it's decided."

You don't have to worry about selling your own equipment. If you make good money, the other party will ask for fewer units, and you can keep a few more. You may be too lazy to sell them at that time. You can give one to your father-in-law's house, one to your new home, and you will have one left.

"Me, me, give me the remaining one. I'll take it home to honor my grandfather. He likes to watch TV when he has nothing to do. If he has this VCR, he will probably also become addicted to watching movies."

The army raised their hands.

(End of this chapter)