Earn 500 thousand a year: THE handsome boy OF THE sea returnee and his "SELL DREAM" cool station

To be a professional "dream seller"

"I don't want to ingratiate myself with big clients and turn my designs into the garbage. Don't want to don't like things all day long, the most important thing is don't want to let oneself regret, regret I TM so used up their whole life!" On Roll Call Time, the project promoted by young designer Sun Yang -- "I want to make Money Standing" stands out. According to the video, he quit his stable job in a rage and embarked on his dream journey to make letterpress paper products, including handbooks, business cards, and paper gifts, without enough money to buy production equipment. Later, after being introduced by friends, Sun Yang posted the fundraising message with text and video at the roll call time, which can be called "China's first dream realization website".

Unexpectedly, after seeing his presentation on Letterpress paper technology, netizens thought it was a good idea. In addition, his experience and ideas resonated with many young people, so they donated money to Sun Yang ranging from 20 yuan to 2,980 yuan. In just two months, the young man raised nearly 50,000 yuan of start-up capital online in this playful way. In return, he gave his supporters paper art products of his design. Now, a year later, his paper business is booming. Speaking of He Feng, the founder of Roll Call Time, Sun is still grateful: "He was the driving force behind my dream and that of many others. He helped us change our destiny!"

He Feng, a 31-year-old handsome man from Beijing, earned an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and then worked for the Boston Consulting Group. Although he has a good salary, he hopes to apply what he has learned to his favorite design and cultural creativity. To find a way to "live true to his heart," he resigned from the United States and returned to Beijing in 2010 to discuss starting a business with several friends.

He told his friends that when he was in the United States, he saw a website called Kickstarter and felt a light bulb. It's a crowdfunding platform for creative projects for all Internet users. In just over two years, it has grown to become the leading crowdfunding platform: more than 20,000 projects have gone online, and more than $40 million has been invested in nearly 8,000 successful projects. The site is currently raising over $10 million a month!

What motivates him most about Kickstarter is not the numbers above, but seeing all kinds of exciting and moving projects come true, thus fulfilling the dreams of many people. He still remembers one project called "Tsuyako -- A Student's Graduation Work." The international film student at the University of Southern California wrote in the project: "When I go back to Japan to commemorate my grandma's death, I dig up old photos of her. One of them shows a young grandmother with another girl. From the photos, I felt that there was more than friendship between the grandmother and the girl."

So the Japanese film student wanted to make a touching story based on her grandmother's story. To raise money, the girl found He Feng. He Feng was so moved just by seeing the film's preview and the director's introduction that he immediately helped her raise money. The project had a target of $5,800, but by the deadline, it had raised $13,996. With the support of these funds, the film was edited with high quality and started to show in various film festivals.

After hearing He Feng's introduction, several friends in the creative and design circles were very interested. One person said, "There are many people with good ideas, but there is no platform to show themselves and get support to realize their dreams. Why not introduce the business model of Kickstarter to China?" Some people said: "The power of the people should not be underestimated, this kind of 'crowdfunding' website development prospects should be very broad!" He Feng was overjoyed to see that everyone's ideas coincided with his own. He decided to work with his friends to build a Chinese version of Kickstarter!

He Feng and three fellow entrepreneurs registered the domain name Demohour on the Internet. "Roll call time" is a homonym for Demohour and paraphrase: Demo means to show, hour means time.

To his great surprise, because the project was so good, after a lot of effort, they got an angel investor in Taiwan to invest $500,000! In June 2011, China's first platform to initiate and support creative projects, called Roll Call Time, was officially launched.

Behind every idea

They all have a touching story

There is no forced deletion, no forced distortion, and the project displayed on the website is a dream of the original flavor, with the main color of the green page, the whole "roll call time" shows a very vitality of grass fragrance. This is an arena that supports ordinary people to realize extraordinary dreams. Maybe you can't match your father, maybe you don't have the capital support of venture capital and bank, but as long as you have a warm dream, you can log on to this platform, launch projects to promote to the public, and get funds and support. And the viewer, like you and me, as long as the movement of the mouse, browse a variety of interesting projects, can pre-purchase someone else's dream, while getting their favorite reward.

Zhiwei, a Taiwanese boy studying film in Beijing, released his first creative project, the interview series "Truth From a Girl", on Roll Call Time. He wants to interview random girls in Beijing and Taipei about pick-up lines, flirtations, intimate relationships, cohabitation, infidelity, money ideas, and so on, and finally, present them in video form. While Posting his dream online, the video, text, and picture introductions he provided were also posted on the social networking sites that cooperate with Roll Calls, such as Sina Weibo and Douban. The impact was far greater than Zhiwei had imagined. The project received financial support of 4,962 yuan, which he used to buy camera equipment. A lot of pretty girls are willing to appear on his camera when he executes projects.

Zhiwei eventually compiled the interviews and edited them into a video series. In return, he offered supporters more than 50 yuan a limited-release DVD containing the entire interview series, as well as the option to send a good wish or favorite message to a family member or friend at the end of the video. The video has since found its way online and has become very popular.

Subsequently, documentary filmmaker Chen Fu project, bring him from 2009 began filming a call girl "the border of Burma's" golden triangle "of the choking region documentary after the war, the heroine, a 14-year-old girl, shyly to the camera said:" my ideal is to grow up to find a Chinese husband, married to China." Chen had accumulated more than 2,000 minutes of material and needed a fund for post-production. His wish was: "If you are touched by the eyes of the children in the film, I would like to donate to the poor children in the film for you." In less than a month, he received 22,900 yuan in excess support.

Visible, "roll call time" is a grassroots financing platform, but ant soldiers will also have the ability to be seen. For supporters, it's rewarding to see one of their favorite projects turn from an idea into a reality and to see the flowers they've watered flourish while helping others.

With many successful projects, roll call attracted more curious users, and within a few months of launching, the site was Posting four or five new projects a day. In the beginning, people in the creative and cultural industries are the majority, because these people are the most concerned about the creative field and are the most willing to accept new things. Later, many creative artists, filmmakers, musicians, product designers, writers, painters, performers, and others have come to this magical platform to promote their dreams. Here, anyone can be an idea submitter or supporter.

Gu Yue, the main character of "Hitchhiking to Berlin" and "All the Way South" aired on Travel TV, also came to roll call time to raise funds to continue his journey south. The project must reach the target of 100,000 yuan before 11:30 on November 8, 2011, to be considered successful, which is also a project that has raised a large amount of money since the inception of Roll Call Time. By the deadline, he had raised enough money to set off on a motorcycle journey from Mexico to Argentina, the southernmost part of South America.

To prevent dreamers from not delivering the promised returns, the website will distribute the funds they raise in two installments, paying 50% if the project is successful and another 50% when the project returns.

"Dream Agent"

Create novel industries

It is said that dreams and reality are always difficult to find the best combination, but He Feng and his friends found it at roll call time. On this platform, they are doing something they love and can help others. Therefore, although I quit my well-paid job and threw myself into a new career, I was very busy and tired every day, but we didn't feel the pain. They are happy when they see a project developer's dream come true.

There are many cases where the dream of presale failed at roll call time. There are a variety of reasons why a project may fail. It may not be attractive enough, it may not have the rewards its backers want, or it may not be promoted enough. In early 2012, a well-known photographer in Taiwan submitted his project "Crying Girl". When He Feng's team got the proposal, they were amazed by it. Both the idea and the project introduction were profound and attractive, so they quickly sorted it out and put it online, but the result was a disastrous failure, which surprised the whole team. In summing up the project, He and his team agreed that the reason for the failure was that the idea of the project may have been too grandiose. It was recognized in the photography community, but the public was not interested in it. In addition, the initiator in Taiwan, its project promotion is insufficient and lack of interaction is also one of the important reasons for failure.

Another project that surprised the team was The Unbreakable Paper Wallet. When He Feng first got the proposal, his team raised doubts, "A paper wallet, which looks like a handicraft of about 20 or 30 yuan, should be sold for hundreds of yuan. Can the public accept it?" As a result, the initiator Bai Minghui's project has gained extraordinary returns, not only winning the support of 158 people, a total of 13,566 yuan, but also its support rate reached 271%! "It has to remind each of us not to judge projects based on personal taste in the screening process. Beyond the project itself, it's also important that the person's dream is compelling." "Feng concluded.

For non-public projects, the site charges a 10 percent commission, which is his only source of income. But BECAUSE THIS UNIQUE creative website is both romantic and practical, but also reveals a thick literary temperament and humanistic care, operation over the past year the business volume increases continuously. As a result, the three founders' pockets have grown, and Mr. He's annual income is now around 500,000 yuan. Although not as much as he earned in the United States, the business of helping people realize their dreams brings him great happiness and satisfaction.

In March 2012, He Feng began to look for venture capital institutions to discuss cooperation. He plans to open a new business on Roll Call Time while focusing on "pre-selling dreams and ideas", which is to directly acquire some good entrepreneurial projects and creative product designs, and then resell them to manufacturers or fund their production. The monetization model is much like Qidian.com, which makes money by buying authors' novels and then releasing them for a fee.

I believe that this young "dream agent" will make his career bigger and stronger, not only because he created a new "dream" industry, its market prospect is immeasurable, but also because he has willing to help others, never say die heart!