20: Chapter 20: You'd better cling to Zhao Yang's coattails!

Besides making money, it was also a way to put his parents' minds at ease, showing them that he was fine and hadn't been discouraged by anything.

It could be considered killing two birds with one stone... No, that's not right. Killing three birds with one stone!

It also allowed him to exercise! Moving goods and going up and down stairs—it was all exercise.

Exercising was something he should be doing anyway. Although Zhao Yang was still young, if he didn't pay attention to his physical health now, it would only become more troublesome later!

Sigh! Why didn't the system give him a task to exercise? The body is the capital of revolution!

In the future, whether doing experiments or conducting research, he would need a sturdy physique. If his health wasn't good, he wouldn't be able to withstand the high intensity of scientific research.

After all, doing experiments often meant staying up late, and the same went for mathematics. When encountering a difficult problem, staying up all night to grind away at it was just a daily routine.

The system just wouldn't issue any tasks! Thinking of this, Zhao Yang sighed softly.

For the next period of time, news about Zhao Yang applying to a 211 university with a score of 534 spread continuously through the No. 1 High School group chat, with many people laughing at Zhao Yang's overestimation of his own abilities.

However, quite a few people felt that Zhao Yang was only doing this to force himself to repeat a year.

After all, there were objective factors behind Zhao Yang's poor performance this time. If he repeated a year, let alone a 211, even a 985 would be within his grasp, and he might even have a chance to aim for Qingbei!

After all, he was someone who consistently scored above 650 on his usual exams; he really did have a chance to aim for Qingbei.

According to previous years' score thresholds in Gan Province, to get into Qingbei for science, one generally needed around 660 or 670 points to have a chance. 680 points was basically a sure thing.

It wasn't as if Zhao Yang had never achieved those scores! Repeating a year could even improve his grades! Therefore, the vast majority of people believed that Zhao Yang had a chance.

However, no matter what others said, Zhao Yang didn't care at all. His daily life was exceptionally regular; besides grinding through problems and reading books every day, he just focused on running the online store and selling goods.

Father Zhao and Mother Zhao gradually got used to Zhao Yang doing this. After all, Father Zhao and Mother Zhao could occasionally see him when he sent out packages every day. Zhao Yang sent out an average of twenty or thirty packages daily.

But things were different over at Wang Ming's end; he was much busier than Zhao Yang. Because the goods were cheap, and coupled with the fact that Wang Ming, as customer service, replied to messages very promptly, he was particularly passionate about running the online store.

With these two factors combined, the business of that online store grew very quickly.

Zhao Yang's forward-thinking vision brought not only an improvement in the taste of the clothing but also a simplicity and trendiness to the store page itself.

The business of Wang Ming's store was getting better and better, and starting from this period, daily sales were constantly rising. In less than twenty days, Wang Ming's store had surged from selling one or two hundred items a day to shipping five or six hundred items a day!

This shipment volume stunned Father Wang and Mother Wang! Especially after the payments for the first half of the month came in, and after Zhao Yang distributed the dividends to Wang Ming.

Seeing the amount, Father Wang and Mother Wang quickly realized that this was an extremely reliable channel, and a very good one at that! Because selling goods online meant getting cash directly!

Moreover, it was settled immediately, and the key was that the selling price was high! It was far higher than the wholesale prices of those agency distributors. When those primary agency distributors took stock, even for high-end goods, it was hard to exceed fifteen yuan per jin!

But on this platform, even if it was sold cheaper than at street stalls, it was still thirty or forty yuan per item! More importantly, the people on this platform wouldn't look down on any surplus stock!

These past few days, Father Wang and Mother Wang could be said to have witnessed their son's online store becoming busier and busier, and the payments were all in cash! This business was run much more comfortably than his Garment Factory!

Therefore, when Zhao Yang came to the Garment Factory for the third time to pick up goods, Father Wang couldn't help but ask Zhao Yang.

"Yang Yang, can we open a few more of these online stores? That way we can sell more goods???" Father Wang looked at Zhao Yang with shining eyes.

Zhao Yang shook his head. "If we open too many, we won't be able to manage them. Besides, I have already picked out all the clothes from your factory that have a bit of a sense of fashion. The other styles simply don't have the potential for online sales. If we open more stores, first of all, we would just be competing for traffic within the same category, and secondly, the conversion rate would also be very low, which is completely meaningless."

Although what Zhao Yang said didn't contain any technical jargon, Father Wang still found it a bit difficult to follow, but fortunately, he was also a businessman, so he managed to barely understand what Zhao Yang meant.

"You mean... we don't have enough styles, they aren't fashionable enough, and so they might not sell well online?" Father Wang looked at Zhao Yang with some confusion.

Regarding slightly more professional terms like traffic and conversion rate, in this era, most people didn't really understand them. Most people thought traffic meant mobile data. As for conversion rate... that term could only be guessed at.

"Pretty much. Later, if there's a chance, I will design a few styles of clothing for you to create samples, which will serve as a foundation for the subsequent promotion of the online store." Zhao Yang said to Father Wang.

While he called it design, in reality, it was just copying. Zhao Yang's girlfriend in his past life ran a women's clothing Taobao store; Zhao Yang had been exposed to a large number of women's clothing templates, and he had many attractive patterns in his mind. He knew many of the hit products from his past life, so he could just copy them directly. He didn't need to rack his brain at all.

"That would be great!" The success of the Taobao Online Store made Father Wang very convinced by Zhao Yang.

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now. A-Ming, if you have any questions, ask me on QQ." Zhao Yang said to Wang Ming.

"Okay, Brother Yang!" After saying this, Zhao Yang left the factory in a tricycle.

Watching Zhao Yang's back, Father Wang said with some emotion, "Yang Yang is truly worthy of having such good academic grades; his brain is just sharp! Indeed! One must study! You should learn more from him! Being by Yang Yang's side is probably the luckiest thing in your life!" Father Wang said to Wang Ming.

"Yeah!" Wang Ming nodded in deep agreement. "I've always thought Brother Yang has a sharp brain. I used to think Brother Yang was just good at studying; I didn't expect Brother Yang's business sense to be this awesome too!"

"Capable people are awesome at whatever they do!" Father Wang said with a smile.

"By the way, the College Entrance Examination admissions should be coming out soon, right?" Father Wang suddenly thought of something and asked Wang Ming, who was beside him.

"Yeah, the early batch has already been released, and tomorrow the first batch of admissions will start coming out one after another. It seems like Brother Yang is in the first batch of admissions." Wang Ming pondered a little and said to Father Wang.

"You should pay more attention. If Yang Yang is planning to go with this year's admissions, you can go to the city where he is located to attend a junior college. By following Yang Yang, you will be able to learn a lot."