The day after returning from Pengcheng, Li Mu started to register the domain name.
The first domain name he tried to register was Facebook.
Unfortunately, this domain name was already registered in 1997.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg really didn't have the money to buy Facebook's domain name at the beginning, but he got the domain name only after financing.
Li Mu didn't care, and wanted to find some good Chinese double-pin domain names to register. It cost less than 100 yuan a year. It would be good to register a few and keep them for fun.
Although many Shuangpin have been registered, many domain names that will become household names in the future have not yet been registered, such as Taobao.
Taobao was a domain name registered only in 2003. Before Jack Ma, no one had thought of the word Taobao on the Internet.
The word "Taobao" should have been a very amazing idea in Jack Ma's mind. Of course, Taobao's model itself is amazing, but it is undeniable that the word Taobao is also amazing because it is so intuitive and vivid. , is not only obvious and catchy, but also releases a subconscious feeling. I have many treasures here, come and buy them.
Therefore, Taobao’s significance to Jack Ma should be almost the same as Facebook’s significance to Mark Zuckerberg.
Haha, I'm sorry then...
Later, the word "WeChat" was not immune to the disaster. When he thought that Baidu would start playing Tieba in two years, Li Mu registered Tieba.com and Douban.com. He also wanted to register "Know.com", but unfortunately It was registered by someone else.
When Li Mu thought about his music portal plan, he thought about it and registered Eting, which can be understood as E-listening, easy to listen to, easy to remember, and easy to input.
I registered a bunch of domain names and didn’t spend much money in total, but they will be extremely useful in the future.
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After getting the domain name, Li Mu went for a walk on the street.
He was thinking about opening a specialty store for his parents. Now that he had the money, it was time to put this plan into action.
Li Mu went out and went straight to the busiest commercial street in Haizhou. He wanted to see the rental situation of shops first, see if there were any suitable shops, and then inquire about the rental price.
In my impression, Haizhou Commercial Street only started to prosper in 2002. Now it has not really become a center of retail business. At present, people's shopping patterns are very simple. For very low-end products, they go to various small markets and urban-rural areas. For a slightly better one, go to the department store, where there are various stalls selling everything. For a more high-end one, you have to go to the provincial capital.
So now on this commercial street, there are only a few specialty stores and some slightly higher-end restaurants, and most of the shops are buying.
Li Mu laughed out loud when he saw a store with an area of more than 100 square meters tearfully selling off-season wool pants.
The words "Last Three Days!" are written on the huge white paper outside the door, which is very eye-catching.
In Li Mu's impression, this kind of vendors usually rent stalls on a daily or weekly basis, and they can move to another location. Now that they have rented such a large shop so close to the city center, there is only one possibility: the shop rent is cheap.
It’s no wonder that in 2001, Haizhou’s economic development was still too lagging behind, and people’s consumption concepts had not yet been developed. Even those doing business in this city had not yet figured it out.
The Li Ning store is now very crowded. His shoes are too expensive. They only sell two to three hundred pairs in this era. Their clothes are not cheap either. Unlike Baleno, their business is good, partly because of Andy Lau’s advertising, and partly because of the price. More people-friendly.
A pair of jeans only costs 99 or 119. You can buy short-sleeved jeans in your early 20s. In winter, you can buy a cotton jacket for more than 100 or 200 yuan.
However, whether it is Li Ning, Baleno, Double Star or Jeanswest, Li Mu found a common feature: the stores are too small.
Among the several stores, the Double Star store is the smallest, with a width of five or six meters and a length of less than ten meters, which is only more than fifty square meters;
Baleno, Li-Ning and Jeanswest are slightly larger. Most of their shops have a double-door layout, nearly ten meters in length, but short in depth, less than ten meters, and less than ninety square meters in total.
Li Mu looked around and saw the dark man shopkeeper who was tearfully selling cashmere pants on the last day, holding a cigarette with a bitter look on his face, so he went to the side and bought a pack of Chinese cigarettes, opened them, and walked away Come to the front.
"Hey, brother, are you from Mongolia?" Li Mu said in a flirtatious manner.
"Yes." Seeing that Li Mu was a young man, the man knew that he would definitely not buy these old cashmere pants that he had accumulated, so he responded casually.
Li Mu then took out a cigarette. The eye-catching red color made the middle-aged male shop owner stunned, and he was amazed: at such a young age, it is really a luxury to smoke Greater China!
When he was looking at it greedily, Li Mu happened to take out two sticks, threw one to the other party, and sighed: "I have longed for Meng Province since I was a child, what a great place!"
The middle-aged man took the Chinese cigarette thrown by Li Mu in the air with both hands. He was excited and immediately looked at Li Mu with admiration. He was idle anyway, so he took out his lighter and lit it for Li Mu first.
Li Mu was also very polite. When the other party came to light a cigarette for him, he protected the flame of the lighter with both hands to show respect.
The middle-aged man's impression of Li Mu suddenly improved a lot.
It's really rare for a local kid who smokes Chinese to be so polite to a vendor who has been wandering around the country all year round.
So he lit his cigarette and took a nice puff: "Our province is picturesque. I must go and see it if I have the chance."
Li Mu nodded and asked curiously: "Brother, are you a Mongolian?"
The man laughed and said, "Yes, I am a Mongolian. My name is Bayan, and I am from the Blue Banner."
Li Mu nodded: "Business like yours must be very hard!"
Bayan sighed: "Who says it's not the case! I've been working for five years, and I've almost traveled all over China."
Li Muxiao asked: "How many days have you been staying in our Haizhou? How is the business?"
"Not so good!" Bayan shook his head with some dissatisfaction: "You people here are too stingy and like to bargain too much. Those elder brothers, elder sisters, uncles and aunts, holding cashmere pants that cost fifty yuan a pair, still want to pay I’m offering five dollars…”
Faced with Bayan's complaints, Li Mu smiled. Haizhou people's spending power is not very high, not to mention that the clothes worn inside cannot be sold at a high price. Besides, the winter in Haizhou is not very cold. Cashmere pants are not a must-have for everyone either.
Immediately, Li Mu asked the question he was concerned about: "This is our city center. Is it expensive to rent such a store?"
"It's not bad." Bayan dusted off the cigarette ashes: "It's eighty yuan a day. I originally wanted to sell it here for a few days, but I didn't expect that I couldn't sell it."
Now it was Li Mu's turn to be surprised. It costs 80 yuan a day. At a glance, there are three shops connected. It is estimated to be 156 square meters at least. However, it is very messy inside. It seems that it was just demolished. There is nothing inside now, except for a pile of cashmere pants hanging up, and there are two sets of floor bunks, which Bayan and his wife should sleep on.
"The rent here is not cheap. Eighty yuan a day is really a bargain."
Bayan shook his head: "I thought I was getting a bargain at first. The subletter boss also told me that he used to do cloth business here, but the landlord wanted to raise the price this year, so he stopped renting. It just so happened that he said There was a cloth market that opened, and there was a lot of traffic there, so he moved there. There was still more than a week left until the real landlord took over the house, so he rented it to me for only 80 yuan a day."
As he spoke, Bayan said mysteriously: "It is said that it only cost 5,000 yuan a month here before, but the real landlord will increase it to 7,000 yuan this year!"
This is the information Li Mu wants.
More than 7,000 yuan a month? I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if it’s true, that would be great.
But think about it, after all, the current business is still in its infancy, the market prospects are uncertain, and investment confidence is low. Once the retail industry, especially the clothing business, begins to explode, the rent here will definitely skyrocket.
Bayan felt that Li Mu seemed to be very interested in this shop. Thinking that he took the initiative to hand over a cigarette cover, he asked: "Little brother, do you want to rent this shop?"
"Yeah." Li Mu nodded without covering up.
Bayan reached out and took off the big sale sign posted on the wall next to him, revealing a printed A4 paper: Shop for rent, 139*****
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out his cell phone and wrote it down. He threw the remaining cigarettes to Bayan and said with a smile: "Brother Bayan, thank you."
Bayan didn't dare to accept it and when he wanted to go back, Li Mu had already gone far.
He has never been addicted to smoking in this life. Smoking is not essential to him. In addition, it is harmful to health, so if it is not necessary, he should not smoke if he can.
(End of chapter)