"Beipiao" Migrant Girl Made A Million Rich Sister With One Hand

Left-handed people account for about 9 percent of the world's total population, and there are at least 80 million people in China! Because our gadgets are designed around right-handed habits, left-handers feel awkward living in a right-handed world. And a "north drifts" working girl saw this market gap - "left-hand business" to create a million rich sister.

In the autumn of 2001, when I was 20 years old and had just graduated from secondary school, I came to Beijing alone from the countryside of Guyuan County in Ningxia to join a fellow worker in Zhongguancun. After many setbacks, I took a job at any price, earning 800 yuan a month as a cleaner for a foreign-owned clothing company in the Xicheng district. One day, I overheard two white-collar women in the company complaining about lefties. One of the "left-handed" girls complained that other people can easily manipulate the small mouse, once her hand does not listen to what to do, originally with the right hand click the left mouse button to "execute" the program, click the right button can view the file "properties", but let her left-handed use up a mess. The GIRL SAID BECAUSE CAN'T FLEXIBLY OPERATE THE MOUSE, SOMETIMES FOR THE COMPANY TO LOOK UP DATA, MAKE STATEMENTS OF WHAT, ALSO THAN THE RIGHT-HANDED people WORK EFFICIENCY IS low, even GET THE boss SCOLD for THIS!

Another service design girl, also left-handed, said that August 13 is the "International Left-handed Day", but on this day, she and several left-handed friends visited half of the city's shopping malls, but did not buy left-handed goods.

I also learned from the Internet that in developed western countries, some shrewd merchants have realized that there is a "gold mine" hidden in left-handed goods. ANTE, a left-handed shop in London, has been running for more than 20 years, offering kitchenware, garden tools, sporting goods, and Musical Instruments such as screw bolts, corkscrew drills, turntable phones, scissors, bottle pickers, and golf clubs. In Japan, New Zealand, and other countries, there are also many left-handed shops. "The left-hand market tide has been opened by the clever laowai. It is still a new thing in our country.

See here, my eyes bright: China has so many "lefties", but the left-hand goods market has not been developed, this is not a good entrepreneurial opportunity?

After some thought, I decided to leave that company and try to start my own business!

After I finished cleaning, I put my mind to the left-handed business. However, soon I was worried: I worked in the capital for nearly a year, just saved a few thousand yuan, where to get entrepreneurial capital?

At this time, I thought of the Zhongguancun work in the same village, and later through her several friends in Ningxia hometown. They are all IT staff in Zhongguancun, with a generous monthly salary, who may be able to help themselves! When I told them I wanted to open a "lefty shop" in Beijing, they said it was a brilliant idea and wanted to invest in it. In this way, I raised 80,000 yuan with the help of several warm-hearted fellow villagers.

Now that left-handed stores are out there, they have another problem: where can they get their hands on left-handed goods? Considering that left-hand goods were developed earlier in Europe, I decided to look them up on the Internet. Sure enough, I found A "LEFT-hand supplies" business located in Lyon, France, on the computer. I was ecstatic and immediately asked people to send a letter in English to ask for a purchase. The reply was also very straightforward -- they can provide any left-handed supplies.

However, before I had time to be happy, I was scared by the high price of these "left-handed" supplies: left-handed scissors with the same texture as ordinary scissors, price is more than 10 times that of ordinary domestic scissors; A seemingly ordinary left-hand golf club, the wholesale price as high as ten thousand yuan! At this time, I realized that it was not practical to purchase goods from abroad, so I could only find supplies for my left hand in China.

After that, through many inquiries, I pleasantly discovered a few manufacturers of left-hand supplies. But THEIR products ARE exported to Europe and the United States, do not engage in domestic sales at all, and I want the quantity to be very small at first that I want to act as their products, Guangdong Yangjiang, Fujian Xiamen, and other places of a few bosses are expressed "not interested". However, after many visits to these manufacturers, they finally reluctantly agreed to let me "cut off" a small portion of the left-handed products exported. After acquiring some "special goods" specifically designed for left-handed people, such as a mouse, scissors, turntable phone, and golf clubs, I rented a 20-square-meter shop in a busy area near Wangfujing Street. In 2002 "Ten. On this day, my Left-handed store was finally born.

As soon as the name "Left-handed Store" was printed, it became an instant local sensation. The store was bursting with people who came in every day to shop or look at the strange. While the majority of shoppers in the store are left-handed, there are also some right-handed customers. A real estate owner bought a left-handed lawn mower a few days after buying a left-handed mouse and a left-handed penknife. His wife and daughter, it turned out, were left-handed.

Because BE "SPECIAL COMMODITY", THE PRICE OF LEFT-HANDED APPLIANCE SHOULD BE HIGHER THAN CONGENERIC PRODUCT MANY TIMES, A GOLF CLUB CAN SELL 6000 YUAN, A COMPACT, CHIC "LEFT-HAND SCISSORS" ALSO WANT DOZENS EVEN HUNDREDS OF YUAN, AND THE PRICE OF LEFT-HANDED MEDICAL SCISSORS, HAIRDRESSING SCISSORS IS HIGHER. But customers will not care too much about the price, because it brings great convenience to their life and work after all.

The small gap in the university asked the store after the opening of the third day, there is a Sino-foreign joint venture clothing company from here to buy 14 left-hand scissors. Since seven of the company's dozens of cutters are left-handed, buying two pairs of left-handed scissors for each person would undoubtedly improve their productivity. Since the price of the brand scissors is as high as 388 yuan, the profit is also very substantial, just this "big business" let me earn more than 2,000 yuan.

One DAY, THE SHOP COME IN A FULL HEAD BIG SWEAT OF CUSTOMER, ASK URGENTLY: "HAVE THE HAND ELECTRIC DRILL THAT LEFTY USES?" I was amazed, is it difficult for left-handed people to use a general hand drill? The interior decorator complained, "It's not just inconvenient, it's a little dangerous." It turns out that left-handed people are confused about the design of the handle, the direction in which the bit rotates, and the position of the switch when using a normal hand drill. He said that when he used tools such as a hand drill and hacksaw, he found it difficult and sometimes even hurt himself. Only then did I believe the newspaper that left-handed workers faced far greater dangers on the production line than their right-handed counterparts.

Since then, customers have repeatedly complained that the "left-handed store" does not have enough products, such as left-handed guitars, left-handed skin scrapers, and left-handed milk pans, all of which they have long been longing for. So I went to some Musical Instruments and hardware manufacturers around Beijing and asked them to make similar products for left-handers as well as right-handed ones. These manufacturers know nothing about left-hand articles unexpectedly. So I sat back and explained to them about left-handed products and how attractive the market was. The 8 MANUFACTURERS IN THE surrounding AREA of the CAPITAL were finally moved by me, and they developed dozens of left-hand supplies. My business is starting to take off.

Develop TO 2003 August, I ALREADY FROM THE LITTLE-KNOWN "LEFT-HAND CITY TIDE DIGGER MORE THAN 200 THOUSAND YUAN, THE FRIEND THAT BUYS A STAKE AT THE BEGINNING ALSO GOT BONUS HAPPILY. At this time, considering that the store was too small to "cope" with the flood of customers, I simply handed over the original store to loyal employees to manage, and I rented an 80 square meter front in Xidan Commercial Street, set up a branch. I've helped a lot of people while running left-handed supplies. When I learned that some "lefties" have psychological barriers because of various inconveniences in life, I used my knowledge to provide psychological counseling to these people and encourage them to be confident and self-reliant. Once, I heard about a child in Beijing whose left cranial nerve was damaged, causing him to lose control of his right limb. Hence the intense pessimism. After UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATION, I RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY, UNDERTAKE PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING TO HIM, and USE SCIENTIFIC method to help him TRAIN TO use HIS LEFT HAND, STILL, send HIM A few left-HAND THINGS FOR FREE. After more than a month, the little boy came out of the hospital and wrote me a thank-you note with his left hand.

To MAKE MORE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE LEFT-HANDED WORLD, IN EARLY 2004, I asked some COMPUTER FRIENDS TO SET UP a "LEFT-HANDED CLUB" website on the Internet. Not only on the Internet to promote their left-hand goods, but also opened up the city's telephone order and national mail order services, but also introduces the various aspects of left-handed knowledge and training left hand, activation of the right brain methods. What is surprising is that when some urban white-collar workers learn about the benefits of "left-handedness" on the website, they all start to exercise their left hand. Some people practice "kung fu" at home, and their left and right hands are as flexible as each other. So as the number of acquired lefties grows, so does my customer base.

Not LONG AGO, TWO BIG COMPANIES IN South Korea AND Hong Kong, WHICH PRODUCE LEFT-HANDED PRODUCTS, EVEN sent me EMAILS inviting me to represent them in China. After two years of hard work, I made a million dollars and had my car. I believe my "left-hand business" will continue to grow. Because my goal is to open more stores outside of Beijing to make life more comfortable for left-handers across the country.