Chapter 43 Making money from other ways

Gu Yan got two orders through network publicity. The customers wanted to lower the price since Gu Yan was a green hand but Gu Yan promised to offer the free interior design. She finally got the orders after bargaining.

Xiao Han would recommend Gu Yan to her friends who wanted to decorate houses because her parents was very satisfied with Gu Yan’s work. Besides, she introduced a store which could provide finishing material with reasonable price to Gu Yan.

Gu Yan was very happy because she had got four orders currently. But she faced a problem of insufficient manpower for decoration.

“What about staggering the decoration time of the four houses?” Manla majored in economics and knew seldom about Gu Yan’s major.

Gu Yan listed the decoration time of the four houses on the paper and introduced the situation to Manla roughly.

“Look, decoration for the third and fourth houses can be delayed since the houses are not prepared well. But decoration for the first and second houses should be started a week later.”

“What about grouping the workers into the decoration of different houses?” This problem might be solved in other ways.

“But there was only a small number of workers.” Gu Yan shook head and gesticulated.

“So, what are you going to do? To find other workers? Where can you find such professional workers?” Manla thought maybe Gu Yan could only find the casual workers.

“I should find a few professional workers and let some of them decorate the third house when the decoration of early two houses was almost ready. After the early two houses were completely decorated, we decorate the third and the fourth houses.” Gu Yan put her hands under the chin and looked at Manla’s confused face.

“Will you find casual workers or full-time workers? If you get other orders soon, how do you arrange them?” Manla scratched her head, “It seems that it is uneasy to be a boss and no wonder most of people cannot stick it.”

“I have to finish the current four projects at first and I plan to have a temporary corporation with those workers and check the decoration quality.” Gu Yan thought about Manla’s words and calculated the labor cost. “The full-time workers are expensive.”

“Have you got the whole plan?” Manla looked at the paper and totally couldn’t understand what