Business Direction
Chapter 37 Business Direction
The next day I gathered all the managers to convey some orders.
"All right, there are a few things I want to say. First, because this situation will get better because most people in this town have taken the medicines we sold before, I want you all to be prepared to do our normal business."
"Second, I want you to watch your surroundings. If there are still people who are sick after the next 3 days, you can tell me. I will give them medicine for free to avoid the same outbreak happening again."
"Third, recruit some new employees for the positions needed in the new palaces and train them to be able to do what we used to do. Like how to make reports, how to cook menus, and others. Especially for the manager who will be in charge of the new shop, I want you to adapt to the situation there."
"Fourth, as I emphasized from the start, I want you to collect information from customers. To improve efficiency, I will pay every employee who submits information from customers. Every 5 information they give you can give them 2 silver coins."
" That's why to facilitate the archiving of all information, hire someone to record all the information that has been collected. I will also make a place to store all that information later."
"Boss, I forgot to ask one thing before. What kind of information should we gather?" Argus asked the same thing as Snake's previous question.
"I also forgot to tell you guys, I want all the information you hear from customers. Even though it's just trivial gossip like criminal activities, quarrels, missing people etc. I want all of it to be recorded." I explained the same as before.
"Why are you gathering information like that Nine?" Selvi asked after hearing my explanation.
"This is just the beginning, I plan to sell the information we have gathered to people who need that information. For example, you get information about this year's crop failure. You can sell that information to merchants because they need it to get maximum profit. As long as they pay a fair price and we have the information, we will sell it. But, you must not offer them openly. You can only answer their questions, in other words you must be passive when selling information."
"I will give you a guide on how to separate information based on their level. Later you can sell trivial information to anyone, but you can only sell 'special' information such as information about nobles or information that has a great influence or impact, to people who are qualified to buy it. I will give cards to you if there are people who already meet the requirements, you can give them to them as a proof they can buy any information from us in the future."
"What are the requirements for them to buy our special information?"
"I'll make it more detail later, for example they have large assets, we have enough information about them and they are already regular customers in our business, or they get recommendations from people who already have access. Those who can give recommendations are only people who have special cards that can be obtained after they fulfilled our requirements. Especially they who we have enough information about them, so they can be responsible for the people they give recommendations to."
"One thing that is very important, you must act as a "Middleman" when dealing with 'special' information. Here's the flow that you have to explain to our buyers: first, you explain to them that you are only a "Middleman", second, tell them that information can be taken at a location that will be notified later, and it needs to be at least 1 day to process. There will be other people who will put the information they bought at random and send you a notification about their location, this is to avoid the danger that could happen to you. That's why all the information that you gather later will be stored elsewhere. There are people who will take all that information and purchase requests from customers every day."
"I will give you detailed documents later. For now, don't sell any information yet because I still have to prepare a few things."
Everyone began to carry out what I ordered. I also began to make a detailed guide for them, explaining some of the things they had to teach to people who were working on recording the information. I also made a guide for Snake that explains the procedures they must carry out when conducting information transactions. I ordered him to buy another hidden building as a place to store all the valuable 'Special' information.
It took me a week to make these rules and instructions to ensure the security and confidentiality of all involved in this matter. During this one week I not only thought of the best way to do this business and reduce the impact that would occur, I also helped train new employees and oversee some building renovations.
I often train cooks in the luxury restaurants that are soon to be opened. I want them to be able to make some fancy food that will only exist in this restaurant. I give recipes and teach them how to cook them after I gather information from the internet and watch tutorials on Yourtube. In addition, Argus friends from other cities have started to arrive and have started working to protect all the assets that I have, especially in the warehouse. Since there was already a security guard there, I moved all the supplies there and hired people to deliver it every morning to all places at the request of every manager.
After I gave all the documents to all of them, I'm just waiting for everyone to be ready to start selling information. I still have to watch over those who work with the information to make sure they do it according to the instructions I have given, it will take some time for them to be ready.
"Mr. Nine, the owner of the mansion that you want to buy has returned to the town. After hearing from the guild about your offer, he wants to talk to you about the price of the mansion." The same person as before came from the merchant's guild.
"Alright, I'll be there in a minute. Thank you, sorry for the trouble."