The entrepreneurial experience of poor children

The entrepreneurial experience of poor children

On the eve of the 11th, a hotel in Luohe City, Henan Province was crowded, and a private economic development forum with the theme of "the next round of competitiveness" was held here. The person in charge of the forum organizer is particularly eye-catching. He is Chen, 3 1 year old.

This young man who has just won the title of "Top Ten Citizens of Luohe City" is now the first person in training and education in Luohe City. In just two years, the Shangdao College he founded has trained 7,000 migrant workers and enterprise personnel. It is hard for people to imagine that he started from the "three noes" entrepreneurs: no funds, no venues and no teachers.

Poor boy, keep fighting.

In the autumn of 2000, Chen from Huaibin County, Xinyang City, Henan Province rushed to Luohe Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as "Luohe Vocational College") with tuition fees borrowed from the east and the west. His college entrance examination score is 428 points, which is 28 points higher than the college entrance examination line. As a farmer's child in a national poverty-stricken county, Chen's family economic situation is quite poor, which can't support his desire to repeat his studies. Luohe Vocational College had a tuition fee of 3,000 yuan a year, which was the lowest among universities at that time. Chen was moved.

On the first day of freshmen's registration, Chen helped a fellow villager of Grade 99 sell slippers. He sold dozens of sets that day and earned more than ten dollars. My brother didn't give him a penny, but Chen has always been grateful because this brother gave him his first marketing experience on the university campus. A few days later, the freshmen began military training at school. When his classmates slept in the dormitory after a hard day's work, he sold bags of Rejoice Shampoo door to door, earning only a few cents a bag, selling more than 300 bags and earning more than ten dollars. In order to solve the problem of eating, the poor child later earned some meager income by selling ink and 20 1 phone cards.

In his sophomore year, Chen decided to practice his entrepreneurial dream. He set up a "student service company" and posted small advertisements all over the campus overnight. The headmaster was disturbed the next day. The headmaster talked to him personally and told him that the company had no relevant procedures and it was illegal. Chen more is at a loss. He has no idea how to go through the formalities. Hand-posted posters had to be torn off one by one, but the business of the "company" was still going on quietly-he introduced some students to part-time jobs and earned his own agency fees.

Chen is the first person in the class who is equipped with a pager and a mobile phone. He likes to make friends and keeps in touch with his classmates in primary school, junior high school and senior high school. His telephone and postage alone exceeded the sum of other students in the class. Help classmates introduce part-time jobs, and one person only earns an intermediary fee of 5 yuan. Because of the small business volume, Chen earned a few hundred dollars in agency fees, which was only enough to pay the telephone bill, so he had to do tutoring, distribute leaflets, promote sales and even wash dishes in restaurants in his spare time, just like his "clients".

In the summer vacation of sophomore year, Chen applied for graduation one year in advance and was approved, creating a precedent for Luohe Vocational College. After going to Guangzhou, I worked as a warehouse keeper and cartographer, and also worked as a telemarketer. Chen regrets that he has been engaged in telemarketing for too short a time and has not learned any real experience-he hurried back to Luohe because of a "pie" falling from the sky.

That was just after the Spring Festival in 2003. At that time, Chen's sister, who was working in Hangzhou, informed him that she had found a check for 5 million yuan and was going to take out 500,000 yuan to support her brother in starting a business. After returning to Luohe, my sister called him again: "Pie" is gone. The bank decided that the check was invalid. Chen more is stupid. "My sister has never been to school and can't read at all." He planned to start a business after two years of training in Guangzhou, but now he wants to go back to Guangzhou and can't afford a ticket, so he has to stay in Luohe to meet the unknown fate.

Seize the opportunity in poverty

In the poor days of Luohe, Chen's entrepreneurial dream had a chance. A friend's intermediary company could not continue to operate, so he transferred the office space and equipment to him for free: it was an office of a unit of more than ten square meters in Luohe city, with only two desks, two chairs and a telephone. Chen started out as a student's old job and worked as a part-time intermediary, still earning only a little money from hand to mouth, but in the summer of 2003, the opportunity came, and he began to eat "enrollment" meals for eight years.

Chen is the first student to be enrolled. I followed my school teacher back to Huaibin's hometown during my freshman summer vacation, so that he could accumulate experience. It is not easy to change other people's minds, but Chen has done a good job. The secret is only two words: sincerity. Through self-introduction, he told his fellow villagers that the results of the college entrance examination were only on the junior college line. Luohe Vocational College has a low tuition fee, so he might as well go there to learn a skill and get a formal diploma. Two years later, he still touched the children of farmers who needed to change their fate with this sincerity.

At that time, Chen found the leaders of Luohe Water Conservancy Technical School and Grain Technical School, talked about the business of enrollment agency, and recruited a student, so he could get a commission from 500 yuan. Because he is too poor to eat, he can't borrow anything. Under Chen's sincere communication, Director Li of the Admissions Office gave him an advance of 500 yuan. In the summer of 2004, his two-month efforts were not in vain, and he earned the earliest sum of money in his life: 1. 50 thousand yuan.

Chen took his father from his hometown to Luohe (his mother died when he was a child), rented a street-facing house of 50 * * 60 square meters upstairs and downstairs, a fixed-line supermarket downstairs, looked after by his father, and an upstairs bedroom and office. In 2004, he continued to operate the student part-time intermediary business, and earned 20,000 yuan through the agency enrollment. That year, he also met a kind girl and later became his wife.

In 2005, Luohe Vocational College began to recruit students in the spring, and Chen started the business of recruiting students all the year round. That year, he made great achievements, earning 654.38+10,000 yuan.

The more affluent the days are, by the end of 2008, he found that no matter how hard he worked, he could not earn more than 65438+ 10,000 yuan. "There is no future for agent enrollment."

"You earn one hundred million, you help one hundred million people what concept, how great! I want to help more children of farmers and give them a skill. " Chen said that many years of experience in recruiting students as an agent gave him the idea of running a school. But the money he earned, after buying a house, is running out.

"Three noes" business success.

How can we run a school without funds, venues and teachers?

Chen returned to his alma mater and traveled to the academic affairs office, student affairs office, general affairs office, mechanical and electrical office, light industry office, foundation office and other departments. After repeated consultation, "the mouth is worn out!" Luohe Vocational College agreed to cooperate and let his "Luohe Business Vocational Training School" enjoy classrooms, offices, teaching equipment, experimental practice equipment and related teachers.

Before the Spring Festival in 2009, Chen submitted an application for running a school to the Municipal Labor Bureau. On April 2, he finished all the formalities. So fast and efficient, in addition to relying on the help of fellow villagers, the biggest secret is "grinding". The labor bureau, the civil affairs bureau, the bank and the quality supervision bureau repeatedly ran, and the "thick skin" honed in the early years came in handy: "The leader is busy in the morning, I will go in the afternoon, but I can't go the next day. In this way, I have been grinding all the way. "

On April 3, 2009, Luohe Business Vocational Training School was established. Ten days later, the first business came from Luohe Telecom Company. He visited the department manager in charge of human resources in the company and offered to help the other party recruit and train in the talent market for free, and pay people free of charge one month later. So free, where does the money come from?

"Thank you * * * producer!" Chen said that his business opportunities come from the national policy of training migrant workers free of charge, and training a migrant worker to subsidize 400 yuan. The school opened its first enterprise. He trained 33 migrant workers and sent a team of telemarketers to Luohe Telecom. Chen basically didn't make any money because the venue and teachers were expensive. He paid the highest salary in Luohe at that time: one class 100 yuan. But the school is open after all.

Relying on the resource advantages of Luohe Vocational and Technical College, the "school" founded by Chen was quickly recognized as the designated training institution for rural labor transfer and employment in Luohe City, the designated education and training base of Luohe Federation of Industry and Commerce, the training base for women's entrepreneurship and employment in Luohe City, and the national entrepreneurship cultivation point in Luohe City.

Chen said that he sincerely thanked the party and the government for their policies. When Luohe Business Training School was established, it was catching up with the "Ten Thousand People Entrepreneurship Assistance Activities" in Luohe City, and the Luohe Municipal Committee also gave him a big list to train more than 700 migrant workers. The school has hired many excellent "double-qualified" teachers and production and sales experts. With their teaching, training, guidance and help, the number of students has increased from 33 to more than 900 in less than three months. Today, the school has trained more than 3,500 students to change jobs for free.

20 10 On April 3, the first anniversary of Luohe Business Training School, Luohe Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. founded by Chen was also announced. This company still relies on the resources of Luohe Vocational College and complements the business of commercial training schools, and is called "Business School" locally.

At present, Chen Business School has more than 10 majors in home economics and community service, tourism and hotel management, fashion design, computer, electronic appliances, food engineering, numerical control technology, marketing and psychology, with more than 1000 students. Since 2009, more than 7,000 people have been trained in various vocational skills for rural laborers, enterprises and institutions, and the employment (entrepreneurship) rate of graduates has reached 100%.

When it comes to future development planning, Chen, who was born in 1980, seems ambitious. He said: "I hope that there will be enterprises founded by me among the top ten education and training groups in the world in the future."

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