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Text | The world is a network business, author | Jie Yang, editor | Wu Lingwei
"I'm not in the mood to listen to any love stories now, I just want to make money now!" This line in the classic old drama "Wings Can't Escape" is being regarded as a classic by many young people.
For them, nothing ignites more passion than the words "make money." Young people who love to make money can't stay idle during the Spring Festival.
"The long holiday of the Spring Festival is definitely the golden period for most young people who are engaged in vice businesses to make money." Wind says that he works two part-time jobs.
In the interview of "World Netizen", many people have started the Spring Festival holiday years ago. In this time of family celebration, they did not choose to rest, but hurried to make money: some people came to feed cats and walk dogs for people returning home during the Spring Festival, and spent the Spring Festival with more than a dozen cats, some people took advantage of the boom of WeChat red envelopes to design red envelope covers, some people set up stalls to sell calligraphy spring couplings and firecrackers, and they received 20,000 yuan in 7 days, some people developed small games, and some people came to make Chinese New Year's Eve rice...
Celebrating the New Year in place and actively making money is a unique experience.
Feed pets and celebrate the Spring Festival with 50 cats
Yuanyuan, Spring Festival income: 2200 yuan
"If you need a cat to feed at home for the New Year, you can contact you." In early January, Yuanyuan began to frequently "solicit customers" in the community.
During the Spring Festival, many people returned to their hometowns one after another, but pets often could not be brought back together, staying in Hangzhou for the New Year, planning to earn a small amount of money during the Spring Festival holiday to feed the left-behind pets for the shovel officer.
"Every long vacation, I will brush a lot of pet posts in Xianyu, Little Red Book, and Douyin, so why can't I try it myself?" Yuanyuan, who used to be a shovel officer, has a lot of experience in raising pets.
After referring to the pricing of other companion teachers, Yuanyuan began to distribute part-time posts on social platforms. In the pricing table she provides, door-to-door feeding is 40 yuan a time, depending on the number of pets, distance, service content will be increased, door-to-door feeding is not only feeding food and shoveling, but also includes cleaning and cleaning the environment, observing the status of pets, accompanying pets to play and other work.
In Yuanyuan's opinion, this job of making money while petting cats is actually not all enviable.
On the one hand, before each order, she will go to the customer's home to "step on the point", familiarize herself with the route in advance, and at the same time sign the "Door-to-Door Cat Feeding Service Agreement" to understand whether the pet is aggressive, write down how much food and water to feed, and then communicate with the guest about the next arrangement.
On the other hand, for pet owners, stranger door-to-door service still has a certain degree of uncontrollability. For safety reasons, Yuanyuan will try to pick up some guests who have installed monitoring at home, so that the owner can see the process of door-to-door feeding and avoid tears due to property loss and pet injury.
"I am a Buddhist who takes orders, I don't want to be particularly tired, and I have received eight customers so far, all in the nearby community, and there are customers who are communicating and booking." Yuanyuan told "Tianxia Netizen" that at first it was a "casual" mentality, but then the list increased. This Spring Festival, she will accompany 50 cats for the Spring Festival, with a total income of about 2,200 yuan.
After the first user placed an order, Yuanyuan went to the door to step on the point, and as soon as he entered the door, he found that the customer and her turned out to be couple slippers. "It's a wonderful fate, and it's fun." She sighed.
The Chinese New Year's Eve cooking was on fire, and 90 descendant chef orders were scheduled to the fifteenth day of the first month
Chen Jiale, Spring Festival income: nearly 20,000 yuan
This Spring Festival, Chen Jiale has become a "sought-after" person in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu.
"It's so busy during the Spring Festival, I just can catch my breath today, and the current order has been scheduled for the fifteenth day of the first month." After serving a customer, Chen Jiale sat down and chatted with "World Netizen". From Chinese New Year's Eve, taking orders, buying vegetables, visiting doors, cooking... This "home cooking" process has become his daily routine.
Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Jiale was busy in the customer's kitchen at 3 p.m., and finally served 16 dishes before 6 p.m., 8 hot and 8 cold, and the processing fee was about 388 yuan. The customer was full of praise for the dishes and repeatedly kept Chen Jiale to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal together, but he still returned to his rental house, "Although I didn't eat my own reunion dinner, I was happy to make a sum during the Spring Festival." ”
Chen Jiale, a young man from Anhui, accidentally bumped into the "door-to-door cooking" industry. Born in 1992, he has been engaged in the catering industry for more than 10 years. In 2021, he opened a seafood restaurant in Dangshan, Anhui Province, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the restaurant had to close. After moving to Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, he began to work in an enterprise.
"Accidentally brushed on the short video platform, door-to-door cooking is very hot, cooking is my strength, you can take orders at leisure to try." In October this year, Chen Jiale tentatively sent a small advertisement, but he did not expect that someone would call to make an appointment on the same day, which was still a big list for a family gathering.
His pricing is determined according to the number of dishes, the processing fee of three dishes and one soup is 50 yuan, the processing fee of four dishes and one soup is 60 yuan, and the labor cost for a large-scale family banquet is about 300 yuan, and the substitute vegetable purchase is added 20 yuan, and the distance beyond 3 kilometers is 1 yuan more per kilometer. Before the Spring Festival, Chen Jiale's monthly sideline income had exceeded 3,000 yuan.
During the Spring Festival, he celebrated the New Year in place and began to set his sights on making New Year dinner. Compared with daily life, the door-to-door chef of the Spring Festival will have a small price increase, "the more dishes, the more expensive the price, seafood-based dishes, the cooking requirements are higher, the fee is naturally higher." ”
The first time I took orders during the Spring Festival, I didn't expect to burst orders all of a sudden. According to reports, his scheduled orders have been scheduled to the fifteenth day of the first month (February 5), and the two are full a day, and at most he needs to cook four tables of New Year's meals a day.
In order to prepare for the Spring Festival, Chen Jiale set up his own team, in addition to professional chefs, there are also some housewives or retired aunts who are skilled cooks, "because the time for substitute cooks is relatively free, and some people who are good cooks can also take orders by themselves to earn remuneration." ”
"From Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifteenth day of the first month, the total income is nearly 20,000 yuan." Chen Jiale said happily.
Set up a stall to sell spring couplings, "fire" a handful
Lin Ming, Spring Festival income: more than 20,000 yuan
Sticking Spring Coupling, an indispensable activity for every household before the Spring Festival every year, has also spawned a group of vendors selling couplets. In lower-tier cities or rural areas, these items are in greater demand, and in addition to residences, some temples also require couplet decoration.
In December this year, Lin Ming, who originally worked in the Taizhou factory, left his job early. In his spare time, he saw the business opportunity of selling spring couplings at a stall.
"If you want to make money, you have to go to a crowded place, and I plan to start a small business 20 days before the Spring Festival." Lin Ming noticed that there were many stalls on the street selling spring couplings, but the stall owners rarely paid attention to the content of the couplets, mostly only looking at the color and paper.
Close to Yiwu, the source of goods is not a problem. Lin Ming started from the category, in addition to couplets and door god paintings, he came with some rabbit pendants, mascots, children's lanterns, and Kong Ming lanterns that recently exploded. There are many categories, and the style is also good-looking, which really makes his stall "fire".
After the twenty-third day of the lunar month, there were more people rushing to gather, and Lin Ming's business suddenly prospered. Guests who come to choose Spring Festival will usually stop in front of the stall. "Do children want lanterns" "You can look at the wishing Kong Ming lantern, and your New Year's wishes will come true". Imitating the stall owner next to him, Lin Ming also learned to "chase after the victory".
According to reports, the profit of Spring Union is basically 3 times to 5 times, and the profit of lanterns is the highest. The more popular Spring Festival is basically related to financial luck, such as "people prosper and prosper every year, fortune family is prosperous, welcome spring and receive blessings", "good family people are lucky, prosperity and prosperity are prosperous, and auspicious stars are shining" and so on.
"There are also small skills in setting up stalls, dare to shout loudly, and it is much worse to shout or not. In addition, during the New Year, everyone pays more attention to the meaning, and tries to report according to the tail number of 6 and 8 when calculating accounts for guests. Lin Ming was already familiar with setting up market stalls.
Taking the week before the holiday as an example, he recorded nearly 20,000 in 7 days. Even though he was shivering behind the stall by the cold wind, Lin Ming still felt happy, "that feeling is more exciting than getting paid."
The business of selling couplets can basically only last for about ten days, and when the New Year is approaching, every household is basically purchased. According to Lin Ming, he plans to use children's lanterns and pig balloons to attract children during the New Year.
"Now that there are more young people returning from the city, there will be more young people coming back from the city, and next year they will look for some novelties that are difficult to buy in the countryside, such as potted plants and kumquat trees." Lin Ming said that he will continue to do his small business with money.
"In order to sell the slow-selling oranges at home, I became the head of the sales group"
Li Chun, Spring Festival income: 1800 yuan
After handling the work of the main business, organize and publish the new group purchase information to various groups, sort out the group purchase that had good results before, and deal with users' order consultations, commodity complaints... This is the schedule during the Li Spring holiday.
He is a novice group leader in a community group buy. In November this year, in order to help his family sell slow-selling oranges, Li Chun thought of community group buying. For him who is in a hurry to sell and has no e-commerce experience, opening a group is the fastest and most convenient choice, firstly, opening a store and listing goods are very simple, and he can open a store in a short time, and secondly, with the help of WeChat groups, he can reach more buyers in a short time.
Tangerine has only been online for a month, Li Chun has sold more than 5,000 jin, with an overall sales of nearly 10,000 yuan, and at the same time, he has also pulled up a private domain group of nearly 200 people, and also contacted more gang leaders.
"When the oranges are sold out, how do you keep your 200-person community active?" After Li Chun successfully cleared the goods, he began to try to become a gang leader.
Previously, his source of goods was his own oranges, and the leader of the sales group was more of a role in helping others sell goods, putting other people's goods on the shelves of the fast group, and getting a commission of 5%-10% of the commodity price. Sell a $200 product, and the commission is close to $20.
"If the help is done well, the supply master will upgrade to a higher tier of exclusive commissions." On the eve of the Spring Festival, Li Chun put on shelves cherries, nuts, ejiao, snack gift bags and other New Year gifts to attract business in his community.
Below each product, the more people follow the group, the more popularity, for this type of product, Li Chun will increase the frequency of forwarding. During the Spring Festival, through helping sales, his side business earned more than 1,800 yuan.
On various social platforms, we can see many young people like Li Chun.
Many college students or foreign trade practitioners majoring in English translate manuals, texts, etc., to earn an amateur income; Young people who saw the explosion of "Sheep and Sheep" also began to try to develop simple games with open source code in their leisure time during the Spring Festival; There are also young people who work as movie ticket agents, through idle fish, Douban and other platforms to release information to earn some profit difference, customers first choose the theater, time, seats, number of tickets on the ticket purchase software, and get detailed information can be quoted.
Nowadays, the Internet has penetrated into everyone's lives, and there are many paths to make money. The "slash youths" who are good at discovering various opportunities and have the courage to do things are developing their hobbies and interests into their main or side business. Making a sum of money while others are resting may not be much, but it is happy enough.