Key girl's colorful life

Dress the key in colorful clothes.

Walking in the colorful streets at a loss after resigning, I know it will be hard to find a job again. This period coincides with the opening of Shanghai International Hardware Expo. When I arrived at Yan 'an East Road, I strolled into the exhibition site with a curious attitude. In the meantime, my eyes were deeply attracted by the personalized keys exhibited by an Italian manufacturer: the rows of keys in the glass showcase were all colored, and the dull ordinary keys were covered with colorful "colorful clothes", which became very popular. This color key not only has the function of an ordinary key, but also looks more fashionable because of the color and pattern. Some also have luminous function, flashing crystal lights in the dark, which is very convenient to use. She said that these colored keys were successfully developed by Italian company SILCA. Once launched, it quickly became popular in Europe, America, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is made of high-quality and high-strength alloy, and is made by printing various color patterns on the surface of the key blank with high-tech laser color plating technology. Color keys have the characteristics of light weight, wear resistance, not easy to break, not fading, fashionable personality, easy to distinguish and so on.

At this moment, I can't help thinking that keys play an indispensable role in our lives. In today's era of emphasizing uniqueness, if ordinary keys can also highlight their individuality like mobile phone casings and change their "coats" at any time, they will be highly sought after by young people. I can't help but feel heartbroken when I think about this: If I can "wear" tens of millions of keys in the hands of more than ten million people, even if each one earns 10 yuan, it will be an amazing "astronomical figure"!

Create a "color key E family" and set off a fashion storm.

The next day, I got up early in the morning and went straight to the hardware fair. After consulting, I learned that a department store in Xuhui District, Shanghai is the general agent of the company's color keys. So, I quickly came to visit. Unexpectedly, the talks between the two sides went surprisingly smoothly. Because they are eager to expand the Shanghai market for this new thing, the department store group promised not to charge any cooperation deposit and gave me a week of free technical training. Then, I took out my savings of 1 1,000 yuan, bought a color key copier and a computer for making key patterns from the department store group, and bought 800 sets of color key blanks in 5 yuan at the wholesale price of1.

On March 5, 2003, after repeated research, I opened a small shop of more than 30 square meters in the bustling area of Minhang District. Although the storefront is small, its geographical location is ideal. It is not only close to several universities, but also surrounded by white-collar apartments.

The layout of the store took me a lot of thought: the beige walls are covered with colorful buttons, such as metallic yellow, dark silver, melancholy blue, pure white, grayish red and bright purple ... as long as it is the color you can imagine, it is the "coat" of these keys; Cartoon images such as Snoopy, Crayon Shinchan, Bitch, China Baby, Snow White and McDull, as well as super cute patterns such as lovers' kisses, colored signs, constellations and luminous signatures.