In the first half of 1940, the hottest product sold in New York was undoubtedly nylon stockings. In the second half of 1940, the hottest product sold in New York was the hula hoop.

The customers of nylon stockings are all women, and perhaps men with fetishness will buy them. The customer base of hula hoops is wider. Of course, children have one, and many adults are willing to buy hula hoops to try this kind of fresh thing.

Hot selling of hula hoops is also a normal phenomenon. After all, when hula hoops were launched in 1958, 25 million hula hoops were sold in the United States in just four months, which means that a product like hula hoop will inevitably succeed. Now there are only more than one million hula hoops, and naturally they are quickly sold out by consumers.

Chen Qiang's inventory is already in a hurry.

Originally, Chen Qiang rented several large warehouses to store 1.2 million hula hoops produced, and Bakerland Company continued to produce new hula hoops every day. However, when the hula hoops were officially sold, the warehouses were cleared one by one, and the supply was in short supply and it was settled.

Beckland has started a 24-hour continuous production model, and a new production workshop has also begun to be built, but this is still far-reaching and inactive.

In desperation, Chen Qiang could only sell in limited quantities, and every retailer who came to ask for goods was supplied in limited quantities.

Many products are sold in a limited quantity, the more popular they are. For example, the future Moutai liquor has been artificially hyped to a sky-high price. Nowadays, Chen Qiang's hula hoop is the same. Many retailers are willing to increase their money in order to get the goods.

The customer is willing to pay more money, so Chen Qiang will certainly not refuse. He can make more money.

Those retailers who add more money to pick up goods are not fools. The overpayment of the goods is eventually doubled on the consumers. Anyway, there is no need to worry about selling the hula hoop, and being able to get the goods is equivalent to making money by placing the goods.

The hula hoop has no technical content. Chen Qiang thought that counterfeit products would appear soon. However, the hula hoop has been on the market for a while, but there are still no counterfeit products on the market. Chen Qiang's hula hoop is still the only one. This is a bit beyond Chen Qiang's expectations, and it is somewhat inconsistent with history. In history, the hula hoop was just launched in 1958, and counterfeit goods were already everywhere.

This is also the reason for the era. First of all, in 1940, the oil industry was not as developed as in 1958, and plastic was not a popular material. At that time, the main purpose of plastic was to make bakelite, just a power switch, machine instrument panel, etc., which would not consume too much plastic at all. Therefore, the demand for plastic at that time was small, and the demand for less resulted in a small market, so the entire plastic industry was relatively small.

Moreover, in 1940, polyethylene was still a very fresh material. The production and processing technology of polyethylene was not mastered by everyone. Unlike now, if you just need a university textbook for chemical engineering, you can figure out the production distance of polyethylene and easily assemble a set of polyethylene production lines.

At that time, the threshold for producing and processing plastics was relatively high. Take Beckland Company, which produced hula hoops for Chen Qiang as an example. Beckland's father was a doctor in chemistry and the inventor of phenolic plastics, so he was able to start a company to produce plastic products.

For example, nylon, which was so popular at that time, was also a petrochemical raw material. It took more than ten years to study nylon production since its inception. The company that produced nylon stockings began to fund scientist Carrothers in the 1920s. It was not until 1940 that it had nylon stockings, and it took more than ten years of investment to get a return. In modern times, those who spent more than ten years researching and producing products were basically in the pharmaceutical industry and materials industry, and they were industries with extremely high thresholds.

So in 1940, even if someone wanted to copy hula hoops, there were not so many factories that could process plastic products.

In addition, Chen Qiang's hula hoop was not affected by counterfeit products, and it was also because of the European war. Britain gave the United States a large number of orders, and according to the current trend, such orders will increase. Therefore, American capitalists have invested their funds in traditional industrial projects. At this time, even if they produce pots and pans, the British will buy them. The supply is absolutely in short supply, and the production of guns and cannons will be even more profitable. Since capitalists have projects that can be invested in, they do not need to focus on a hula hoop with higher technical requirements but only selling 70 cents.

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Bakerland has built a new production workshop as fast as possible.

After the new workshop, the production capacity of the hula hoop was directly increased to a higher level.

As Bakerland said, raw material supply and production process are not a problem, the problem is insufficient production capacity.

American oil companies are desperately exploiting oil, and American refineries are also working hard to refine various oil fuels to provide them to the European battlefield. Due to the large-scale start of factories, petroleum products such as lubricants do not have to worry about sales. However, since the industry has not yet developed to a certain extent, the chemical raw materials produced by oil refining are in a state of surplus, so the supply of raw materials for plastics is very sufficient, and the price is much cheaper than before the war.

As the production capacity of the hula hoop increases, Chen Qiang finally has extra hula hoops that can be supplied to places outside New York.

When the hula hoops were just launched, Chen Qiang once placed a small number of hula hoops in major cities such as Washington and Boston. Those hula hoops were sold out soon, and Chen Qiang did not continue to supply to other cities. After all, even New York is in short supply, so Chen Qiang has no time to estimate places outside Washington.

Now that the production of hula hoops has increased, Chen Qiang has finally begun to expand into markets outside New York.

New York is not only the largest city in the United States, but also the weather vane of various industries in the United States. Whether it is music, sports or fashion clothing, as long as it is popular in New York, it can become popular throughout the United States. The same is true for products. As long as it can be popular in New York, it will definitely be popular throughout the United States.

The sales of hula hoops in New York exploded, so Chen Qiang was not worried about sales outside New York, and retailers everywhere would not miss a product that could make money. What Chen Qiang had to do next is to keep producing hula hoops and ship them to all parts of the United States.

Chen Qiang estimated that if he was lucky, he might be able to sell 8 million hula hoops in the second half of 1940, which could bring Chen Qiang millions of profits.

Compared with selling hula hoops, the ability to make money in the gym seems too trivial.

However, when the hula hoop was selling well, Chen Qiang did not give up on the gym. On the contrary, he was still looking for more franchisees.

Chen Qiang also did two things, one was to find the famous New York musician, "the ancestor of rock" Louis Jordan, and created a song for the Hula Hoop.

The second thing is that Chen Qiang pieced together a set of hula hoop aerobics through memory. Then he promoted this set of hula hoop aerobics in his gym.

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Thomas is the owner of a gym and is also a franchisee for "Chen Qiang Fitness".

Since becoming Chen Qiang's fitness franchisee, various novel courses have also made Thomas make a lot of money. Although it is far inferior to those big business owners, Thomas is doing well in the gym industry.

Today, Thomas received a letter from Chen Qiang, inviting Thomas to send someone to participate in the training of a new fitness course called Hula Hoop Fuck.

"Hula hoop? Isn't it the thing that is very popular in New York recently? There are many children playing hula hoops on the streets and alleys. Is this kind of thing also available for exercise? I always thought that this thing was just a toy, but I didn't expect it to be treated as a fitness equipment and a systematic exercise method."

Thomas complained, but decided to learn this hula hoop fuck in person. After all, he has to pay a franchise service fee every year. If he doesn't participate in the training, wouldn't the service fee be paid in vain?

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Chen Qiang used his franchisee to start promoting hula hoop fucks.

The reason Chen Qiang did this is not to increase the sales of hula hoops, but to change people's views on hula hoops.

At this time, most Americans were very Thomas with the same idea, believing that the hula hoop is a toy, not a fitness equipment.

The hula hoop in history was indeed the earliest launched by a toy company. The initial positioning of the hula hoop is also a toy. In the 1960s, the hula hoop was spread from the United States to Europe, and even entered China in the 1980s, and they were all used as toys. The main customer group of hula hoops is also children.

However, now you go to Taobao to search for Hula Hoops. The keywords that the most sales companies have put out are words such as "slimming waist", "loss weight", "abdominal tightening", "women's fitness", etc., and the advertising pictures often show a beautiful woman wearing sportswear shaking a Hula Hoop. This shows that after decades of development, Hula Hoops have changed from a children's toy to a fitness equipment.

What Chen Qiang hopes is that people regard the hula hoop as a fitness equipment, rather than a children's toy. If possible, Chen Qiang even hopes to shape the hula hoop into a sports.

Children's toys are not sustainable. People in every era will have different toys, and children's toys in each era are also different. For example, the toys played with when they were young are completely different from those born in the 2000s. Those toys born in the 2000s have never even seen them.

Moreover, many children's toys have only a trend of popularity. When the cartoon "Four-Win Boy" was popular, the four-wheel drive toys sold on the market were also "Emperor superstars", "burning the sun", and "sprinting meteors"; a few years later, "Four-Win Brothers" was released, and the four-wheel drive toys on the market became "Crash God of War", "Sonic God of War", "Speed ​​Axe", etc. For those who grew up in that era, it was full of memories when mentioning these names. However, for children who grew up watching "Bears in the Haunt", they didn't know what "God of War" they knew better. The Bear Two Bald Qiang.

Therefore, the update of children's toys is very fast. An animation can drive a group of children's toys. When another cartoon is released, a new kind of children's toys will become popular. As the children grow older, they will gradually abandon the children's toys they are familiar with. No one in his twenties or thirties is still fiddling with their childhood bb guns and dolls. When people grow up, the bb guns are replaced with inflatable dolls, and the dolls have become ***.

Children's toys have a prevalence period and will become out of date after a long time. However, sports are different. Many sports will be popular for decades, or even hundreds of years.

For example, twenty years ago, many middle school students liked to play basketball, and now many middle school students also liked to play basketball. I believe that middle school students in twenty years later will still like basketball. As a sports sport, basketball will never fall behind and will always be liked by people.

Other sports are similar. Basketball, football, table tennis, etc., which can be popularized, are naturally very popular and may not fall behind for hundreds of years. Even if gymnastics and diving cannot be popularized due to technical difficulty, there will still be many professional athletes and many spectators to appreciate it.

As for sports, there may be a low period of development, but it will never be outdated.

So Chen Qiang hopes that people's view of hula hoops is not a children's toy, but a fitness equipment, or even a sports exercise. In this way, hula hoops can continue to be active and popular. If only hula hoops are regarded as children's toys, maybe in a few years, the hula hoops will slowly disappear and eventually become people's childhood memories.

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Chen Qiang had just walked into the bank in a New York bank, and the hall manager immediately came over.

"Mr. Chen, what business do you want to do? Please come in. We have black tea and coffee here. What do you want to drink? OK. Lucy, pour a cup of black tea, and don't add milk and sugar."

The hall manager enthusiastically invited Chen Qiang into the VIP reception room.

The new intern looked at the scene in confusion, and then he asked a formal bank teller beside him: "What is the origin of this Chinese? He actually wants the manager to receive it himself."

"He is Chen Qiang, the world's number one athlete. You should have heard of his name." The teller said.

"So it's him! I heard that he has won the US Open championship. No wonder the manager would receive him personally. It turned out to be a celebrity!" The intern nodded suddenly and realized.

"Do you think that just a famous athlete will make the manager so enthusiastic?" The teller lowered his voice and continued: "This Chinese, in addition to being a well-known athlete, is also a millionaire!"

"What? Millionaire!" the intern took a breath.

Millions in 1940 may be more rare than billionaires in 2019, especially in the United States.

In the colonial era, the royal nobles in Europe gained a lot of wealth through colonial plunder. To put it bluntly, they were robbers all over the world to grab money. The United States missed the golden age of colonialism and could only get rich by developing industries.

Making money is much harder than grabbing money, otherwise people wouldn't have the catchphrase of "You might as well grab it." So American millionaires at that time were naturally more valuable than European millionaires.

Chen Qiang never thought that he would become a millionaire. Even in later generations, he wasted most of his life and his assets did not reach the level of one million US dollars. Perhaps Chen Qiang traveled a few years later and waited for the housing prices to rise again, with the old house in the city where he lived, he might really have assets of one million US dollars.

Chen Qiang didn’t know when he became a millionaire. In short, one day when he went to the bank, he suddenly realized that he was already a millionaire!

Chen Qiang can make a profit of almost 25 cents for each hula hoop. In this way, Chen Qiang only needs to sell 4 million hula hoops to make one million US dollars.

This means that Chen Qiang's hula hoop sales have exceeded 4 million.

However, Chen Qiang also knew that the potential of hula hoops was more than that. When hula hoops were listed in the future, they sold 200 million in two years!

Nowadays, hula hoops are only sold in cities around New York. In the future, when hula hoops are sold across the United States, Chen Qiang can still make more money.

Now Chen Qiang is rich, but he does not take the money to enjoy it. Instead, he comes to the bank. He plans to withdraw some money and donate several planes to the country like other patriotic overseas Chinese.
Chapter completed!