It is the legends of legends, but Zhou Shangtao has the ability to put paper into gold.

In the eight skillful hand art shops in the West Fourth North, I saw his paper cutting efforts: astro boy was alert to observe the movements around the world in order to maintain world peace. The cat touched the treasure bag on the stomach and his eyes narrowed. Hello Kitty wore a beautiful skirt and was "smug".

These realistic cartoon works are all made of small pieces of paper which are 5 centimeters long and 3 centimeters wide and are inserted into triangles, all of which are from Zhou Shangtao's "post-80s" masters.

A penny and a pineapple lead to a business venture. After graduating from college, Xiao Zhou, who was eager to start his own business, started a toy business and ended up losing money.

At the end of his life, he suddenly remembered the paper pineapple in his family when he was young.

That is the mother folded a small triangle with a penny of money, and then put hundreds of small triangles on one layer, and the color was yellow and very vivid.

"When I was little, there were many people who would make this kind of paper pineapple around my family. My neighbor's aunt and aunt liked it."

Xiao Zhou himself followed his mother to learn how to insert pineapple. When hundreds of notes came out of the big pineapple, he was still fresh in his memory.

Things that have been popular in the past may be popular again, which is more reliable than selling toys.

When he thought of doing so, Xiao Zhou immediately began his "paper cutting" business.

The works of plug and paper can be sold and DIY, and the pineapple will not work.

His first work is a black cartoon ball.

For this little ball, he shut the house for one or two weeks, and the discarded paper triangle was all over the floor.

After the ball was made, Xiao Zhou's heart was cool again: would anyone buy such a simple ball?

We need to do something more technical.

He tried to stick the balls together and change direction, and finally made a cute cartoon tiger. It was the little tiger who brought him the first single business.

Now, Xiao Zhou has already designed 24 kinds of cartoon characters to insert paper. At least, more than 300 small pieces of paper will be used, and more than 1800 pieces of paper will be used in complex ways. The new characters will also increase at the rate of one month each month.

Goods on the shelves are abundant every day, and business is thriving day by day.

"Every time I make a cartoon character, I have a sense of achievement," he said. "If consumers can enjoy this kind of fun, they will be more selling points."

Now, he not only sells his own work of inserting paper, but also enacts drawings and small pieces of paper so that customers can finish their work on their own according to the logo.

This idea has won a lot of repeat customers for Xiao Zhou. Many people will buy paper inserts in their stores when their relatives and friends are having birthdays, and use their own hand made paper inserts as birthday gifts, which is unique and profound.

Now it's a new idea: cartoon characters are attractive, but they can't be used; if you can plug in something that looks good and practical, business will be better.

He has designed some coloured pen containers, swan shaped baskets, beautiful picture frames, and so on. After the new products were put on shelves, the sales of "clever hand skills" rose sharply.

In the store of Xiao Zhou, the price of the finished products is between 60 yuan and 150 yuan, and the price of each pattern and small paper is between 20 yuan and 60 yuan. When the business is good, it can sell more than 20 finished products and several sets of drawings one day.

In less than a year, Xiao Zhou has opened three stores, and the best stable stores in the business can sell more than ten thousand yuan a month with a net income of more than 8000 yuan.

Xiao Zhou told the author that his fourth stores will soon be opened in the Tianfeng Li wholesale market in Hepingli.

Not only did the young Chou become a boss, but also a few friends and relatives went to sea.

My best business is in Tian'anmen, although the shop area is less than 20 square meters.

The main reason for the good business there is that there are many tourists, and many young people come in and out every day.

Now, the water in that shop can support other stores.

Sometimes, that store can sell dozens of products a day, compared with it, the head office business is really too bad.

Although the head office is large, there are few people in the alley, and the customers are too old. They will not spend money on seeing my product even if they like it.

So, I think the DIY product like this is not the size of the store, but its location when it is sold.