The popularity of the Internet has covered all aspects of people's lives today.

Online shopping has occupied half of the sales market because of its fast and cheap features.

With the popularity of online stores, the "network shopkeeper" with its own characteristics also emerges.

Li Baoqing, in Beijing, sells newspapers on the Internet after resigning. Now his sales volume is 20 thousand yuan a day.

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Li Baoqing, a 32 year old Hebei native, graduated from China University of Petroleum in 2001 and worked in a state-owned enterprise in Beijing.

In the same year, a library near Li Baoqing's house relocated and discounted some old books and newspapers. He spent 300 yuan to amend 3 people's daily newspapers from 1975 to 1980.

"The news and advertisements in former newspapers are very interesting."

Li Baoqing said collecting old newspapers is one of his hobbies. It's interesting to flip over old news.

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In one year, Li Baoqing collected nearly 100 old newspapers from various sources, including the people's daily.

And his hobby changed because of a news.

"After the successful bid of China's Olympic bid in 2001, Mr. He Zhenliang, who had heard of China's bid for the Olympic Games, heard that he received a birthday gift from International Olympic Committee, the original British newspaper" TIMES "on the day of his birth in 1929.

Li Baoqing recalled that this news gave him great inspiration. Such a creative gift giving concept, such a collection of valuable birthday gifts, will certainly be popular in China!

One ton of old newspapers at a time.

Li Baoqing initially opened online stores in eBay and later went to Taobao.

"At the beginning, no one patronized my shop."

After knowing the disadvantages of his online store, Li Baoqing went to the antique market and old book market, and contacted and collected old newspapers everywhere.

He recalled that he had received a ton of old newspapers when he had the best luck.

"I'm so excited!" said Li Baoqing. He hired a truck to pull away a whole ton of old newspapers.

After returning home, he checked the layout of newspapers in accordance with the date, month and date, whether they were intact or not.

Li Baoqing said, then he put all the qualified newspaper information into the computer, so that when the client consulted, he could quickly access the relevant information.

It took Li Baoqing more than half a month to clean up this ton of old newspapers.

Daily turnover exceeds twenty thousand

Li Baoqing's business is slowly on track.

"There are more and more newspapers, and all kinds of newspapers are available."

Li Baoqing told reporters that there are three main categories in his online shop: big newspapers, local newspapers and pictorial magazines.

From 50s to the last century, we can basically find it.

The reporter saw in Li Baoqing's online store that an original newspaper in the 80s of last century sold for 30 yuan, while the original newspaper in 40s of last century amounted to 600 yuan.

"Online stores now have a turnover of more than twenty thousand yuan per day."

Li Baoqing told reporters that more and more people now see the value of old newspaper collection, so business is getting better and better.

Nouns explanation

Network shopkeeper, as the name suggests, is the owner of online shop.

They make use of the network platform to enable people to buy in real time while browsing the Internet and shopping, and pay through various payment means, so as to complete the whole process of pactions in the virtual network, which is a form of e-commerce.

At present, the network shopkeeper mostly uses Taobao, eBay, ah, pat and so on the three party platform opens the shop.

Entry conditions

1. network operators should first choose service providers and service forms for online stores to ensure a secure trading process.

2. analyze positioning, choose suitable style of products and prepare sufficient capital investment.

3. choose the good source of goods and the processing and placement of the goods after loading the goods; the shop decoration of the shop should be matched with the style of the merchandise, mainly with the introduction of pictures, and the introduction of words (or speech). The most important thing is to be clear at a glance.

Expert comment

Finding market gaps is finding opportunities.

Cai Min, vice president of Wenxin college, Industrial and Commercial University Of Chongqing

Along with the frequent network communication and the dissemination of network information, it also brings opportunities to network entrepreneurs. Naturally, the development of online shopping has produced a number of network shopkeeper.

And the shopkeeper must run a good network shop and stand out from many competitors. There are three requirements: convenience, characteristics and service capabilities.

After finding the blank of the market, the network shopkeeper responds quickly, continuously improves the service ability in operation, provides fast and high-quality service to users, and can make use of the virtual network to make money.