Turn photos into oil paintings and earn 80,000 entrepreneurial stories in three months.

Turn photos into oil paintings, earn 80,000 entrepreneurial stories in three months 1 Wuhan Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge, and 23-year-old Chen Mo and his "920 God Painting" project won the best project award. Chen still regrets that he failed to enter the top three. He said: "Our failure is mainly limited by the TV challenge. If the judges can see the process of making photos into oil paintings, the results are likely to change. "

Last July, Chen Moran graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology majoring in multimedia. He gave up his stable job with a monthly salary of 3000 yuan and started a business. His shop is located at the entrance of Huashi Culture Street, with the upper and lower floors near 100 square meters. The wall is covered with oil paintings made of photos, which are vivid. Chen Moran said that a handmade oil painting averages more than 2,000 yuan; With oil painting software, it only takes 2 hours to turn a photo into an oil painting, and a 36-inch oil painting only needs 580 yuan. "We have found a low-cost oil painting production process, and there will definitely be business opportunities."

The reporter saw in the store that the customers who came to consult were in an endless stream. Since September last year, the store has turned a profit and received at least 30 oil painting orders every month. Up to now, the shop has sold more than 1 100 oil paintings, with sales of15,000 yuan and profits of 80,000 yuan. Chen Moran said that with such achievements, they spent nearly two years cultivating the market.

Chen Moran said that he would like to thank his partner, Wang Chengtan, 4 1 year-old, for bringing him into contact with this entrepreneurial project.

Songchun Zhu is a classmate of Wang Chengtan and teaches at the University of California. In 2007, he developed a digital art production system, which can make oil paintings retain the composition of photos and the charm of people, and the texture is very close to hand-painted oil paintings. Songchun Zhu set up a company in Wuhan and invited his old classmate Wang Chengtan as the general manager to promote this technology.

At the beginning of 2008, Wang Chengtan read in the newspaper that there are 654.38 million sets of wedding photography in Wuhan every year, with an annual output value of about/kloc-0.2 billion yuan. This set of figures let Wang Chengtan find the direction. "Newcomers hang wedding photos at home. If they make wedding photos into oil paintings, they will be more personalized. " He decided to promote this product through the wedding photo studio in the city. At the same time, he met Chen Moran, who was receiving photography training in the studio, and they hit it off.

There are thousands of wedding photo studios in Wu Hanyou, and it should be a good sales channel to join hands with them. However, this is not the case. After a year's efforts, Chen Moran and Wang Chengtan have developed nearly 1,000 studio franchisees. However, based on the cost accounting of the wedding photo studio itself, oil paintings can only cost 8,000 yuan to 10000 yuan, and few newcomers can spend so much money to take wedding photos. "The price offered by the photo studio to customers is very high. A 36-inch oil painting costs as much as 2,000 to 3,000 yuan. In the end, our profit is very low. Making a painting can only earn tens of dollars. "

Multi-channel marketing has finally been recognized.

After a year's attempt, Chen Moran and Wang Chengtan reached a consensus that the wedding photography shop is too slow to promote its products, and it is far from enough to rely on oil painting as a single project to open its own physical store.

In March last year, Huashi Culture Street opened. Together, they raised more than 654.38 million yuan and rented a 100 square meter shop on the street corner. The store of 920 DreamWorks with the homonym "Love You" opened.

In addition to the business of changing photos into oil paintings, there are also photo printing, photo T-shirts, photo cartoon dolls, gift photo frames and photo art wall design services, which can meet the various needs of different customers. The division of labor between the two is clear. Chen Moran is in charge of sales and photography, and Wang Chengtan is in charge of sales channels.

In order to open their popularity, they have exhausted all low-cost marketing methods. Chen Moran posted on the forums of major websites, "If it is deleted, it will continue to be posted. You can only post it." The products in the store are mainly aimed at married people and home improvement people. Every time there is a large-scale home improvement exhibition, Chen Moran will also print some picture books and distribute them before the exhibition.

With a multi-pronged approach, 920 Shenhua DreamWorks finally got in touch with a loyal wife. Last September, the total monthly sales in the store exceeded 1. 80,000 yuan, and turn losses into profits.

Want to be an expert in photo processing

The ideal of Chen Moran and Wang Chengtan is to develop 920 DreamWorks into a national franchise chain store and make it an expert in photo processing technology. "When people think about photos, they think of 920 paintings." Chen Moran is full of confidence in the store.

At present, they are summarizing and standardizing the management and operation mode of the store through the operation of direct stores, and will openly recruit franchisees once the time is ripe. If the franchise stores are mature, Chen Moran and Wang Chengtan plan to sell the software again and promote it through job training and entrepreneurship.

In fact, although there are good projects in hand, because the oil painting software was developed by Wang Chengtan's' friend', its right to use will expire on 20 13. At present, the two sides are still communicating on the right to use. "I dare not recruit franchisees now, and I also have concerns in this regard, fearing that the interests of franchisees will be damaged.

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Turn photos into oil paintings and earn 80,000 entrepreneurial stories in three months. 2 "Taste before you buy, and don't give money if you don't taste." The Xue brothers and sisters in Jinan are very confident in their barbecue skills. It is said that this royal barbecue technology originated in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. The Royal Barbecue was once a famous local food that Meng Luochuan, the founder of Jinan Ruifuxiang, paid tribute to the imperial court. After the Empress Dowager Cixi tasted it, she was full of praise, and the royal barbecue immediately rose in Zhangqiu, Jinan.

Xue's brothers and sisters constantly improve their barbecue technology and can roast two pigs every day. The Xue Longjia brothers said that in order to ensure the quality, the amount of aged meat is up to two pigs a day. The whole roast pig weighs about 50 Jin, and it is refreshing and smooth after adding ingredients, and there is no greasy feeling at all.

45 yuan cooked a catty of barbecue. From opening in the morning to closing at night, my sister Xue Longyan is in charge of marketing, and my brother Xue Longjia is in charge of cutting and weighing meat. At the end of the day, there is almost no chance to have a good breakfast and lunch. After dinner at 9 o'clock in the evening, Fang quietly settled down to eat. But after dinner, it's time to prepare the barbecue.

Xue Longjia said that he doesn't want to make the store bigger now, but now he wants to improve the quality and service of barbecue, so that when people regard barbecue as their own food for the first time, they will be satisfied with saying, "That chef did a good job."

Now, the shop opened by the two brothers and sisters is called "Chuxin Shop". Through their own labor, they have made delicious food and achieved their own food brand. Don't forget that your initiative encouraged them. Now the two brothers and sisters have been doing business for eight years, and they are more and more recognized by the public. Xue Longjia said that it is also a thing to have a backache and leg pain after a hard day's work, but it is also a beautiful thing to make a hobby into your own career, and now I am working hard in this direction. "

Turning photos into oil paintings earned 80,000 entrepreneurial stories in three months. This boy with a childish face but mature manners said that he earned his first bucket of gold from the age of 16. Patrick was born in a rural family in Quxian County, Sichuan Province, with a general family. His road to entrepreneurship has to start from a trip six years ago.

Several parents, including Patrick's parents, offered them 1 0,000 yuan each to try to find a job in Shenzhen. So Patrick went to Shenzhen with everyone. Unexpectedly, it was this unexpected trip to Shenzhen that prompted him to embark on his own entrepreneurial road. After arriving in Shenzhen, some children took this 1000 yuan to play around, while others honestly started looking for jobs. However, Patrick went alone to wander around Huaqiang North Road, a famous business district in Shenzhen.

He found that there are many vendors selling mobile phones here, and most of them are beautiful and powerful knockoffs, but the prices are much cheaper than brand mobile phones. In this way, Patrick came up with the idea of "buying more mobile phones before selling them", but what if the money is not enough?

The next day, he came to Huaqiang North Road again and selectively asked local businesses for business cards to prepare for the future. Patrick told the author with a smile yesterday that after returning to China, he cleaned up his business cards and found that he had collected more than 100 business cards in one day. After coming back from Shenzhen, the idea of "selling mobile phones" has been lingering in Patrick's mind. Patrick also found that there was only one mobile business hall in Quxian at that time, and the customers who came to charge the phone bill and do business were particularly crowded.

Under the reminder of friends, Patrick began to conceive his own business plan: mobile phones and calling cards are inseparable. If you sell mobile phones in the mobile business hall, isn't it a "win-win"? So Patrick began his first adventure. He quietly took the real estate license of his family and uncle's family to the bank and got a mortgage loan of 65,438+10,000 yuan. With the start-up capital, he started his entrepreneurial attempt. At this time, Patrick's 100 business cards collected in Shenzhen came in handy. He boldly bought goods from strangers in Shenzhen, first put the money into the other party's account, and then let the other party mail the mobile phone. To be on the safe side, he initially purchased from several different local mobile phone manufacturers in Shenzhen, and each one only bought five mobile phones. He said, "I'd rather pay more freight than be cheated, trapped and lose everything." It is understood that Patrick's mobile phone shop has been in operation for three years, with a profit of 400,000 yuan.

Turn photos into oil paintings and earn 80,000 entrepreneurial stories in three months. 4 Gaomi Liu graduated from Shandong University of Finance and Economics, majoring in foreign trade. After jumping for four times, he still couldn't find a suitable job. He decided to start his own business and opened a noodle restaurant with less than 20 square meters in Wenshui Road. From few people at the beginning to later, he experienced countless difficulties.

After graduating from Shandong University of Finance, Liu majored in foreign trade. Facing more and more undergraduate graduates after the expansion of enrollment, he never found a suitable job and jumped ship four times. At that time, he was 28. Thinking about the future, he began to lose sleep. At a party, he heard from a friend that someone opened a small noodle restaurant on Jiangxi Road, earning nearly 10,000 yuan a month. He usually loves cooking, so he came up with the idea of opening a noodle restaurant and starting his own business.

"The store can't be opened too far, no one eats it, and it can't afford the high rent when it is opened in the downtown area." Liu said the rent is one year 15000 yuan. Although the place is a little biased, there are many freight forwarding companies and office workers around, and it is close to the school, which can ensure the number of customers.

Other people's noodle shops in Liu Qu learn from others, and borrow CD-ROM from friends' homes, and slowly find out the tricks of making noodles. He emptied all his savings and borrowed some money from his relatives. With 30 thousand yuan, the noodle restaurant opened. Rent, refrigerators, tables and chairs, pots and pans have all spent the remaining funds. In a noodle restaurant less than 20 square meters, only five tables can be put down except the kitchen. He found a friend's photography to hang on the wall, and his friend specially wrote a calligraphy of "a bowl of noodle soup" for him. In the corner of the noodle restaurant, there is a fish tank with Brazilian turtles, and the small noodle restaurant gradually has a warm taste under his arrangement.

Starting a business should start from scratch. At 7 o'clock every morning, he goes to Tuandao morning market to buy fresh vegetables and beef. Because the VC is not rich, in order to save costs, he will bargain with the vegetable dealer for a penny.

In order to make his noodles delicious, he added eggs to improve the taste of noodles, used onion and tomato stew to increase nutrition, and went to the market to choose beef for stew. In order to make the marinated eggs well, he used up two boxes of eggs for experiments.

At first, he worked alone, and he dared not leave his noodle restaurant for a day, even for a moment. "The noodle restaurant can only make money when it is open, and it can't make a penny when it is closed." Every time he thinks about it, he gives up the idea of rest. None of this is a big problem. What worries him most is the price, spices, beef, gasoline ... everything is overwhelming him. He really can't afford to hire people. Only when he is too busy at noon will he hire a sister with a salary of 20 yuan at noon.

As prices rose, he began to struggle with the price increase of beef noodles. However, he caught everything. In the past three years, he has only raised his price once, and his repeat customers are increasing. In addition to the usual regulars, a family of three often drives to eat his noodles on weekends.

Three years ago, it was Liu Yao's unattainable dream to open a chain store or branch. "If I can earn seven or eight thousand yuan a month, I will be very satisfied. I can pay the down payment of the house, settle in Qingdao, and buy a car with more money. " This was his most realistic goal at that time. Now, his business is gradually on the right track, with a monthly net income of about 50 thousand, and the overall income is considerable. Liu bought a house and a car, which have all come true. I also hope that his business will be prosperous and prosperous in the future.