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Life
of Okami's “Strenuous Efforts”
---Steps
to the Opening of The website---
14.
The Sales Exhibition and OSMC
Now
that the wholesale dealer for a buying-in was fixed, but my agony
related to it still continued.
‘Have
I made a right decision? Is it really Ok that I'd sell ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI?'
Which
came from my hesitation of having chosen one of the highest quality
Kimono,'USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI' to sell from the beginning.
I
also had an anxiety about possibility for selling such a high quality
Kimono at the time of recession.
As
I had wanted to do something for the benefit of customers , I wondered
if there were any beneficial goods that I was confident of, even Tabis,
for example.
One
time I looked round the wholesale dealer to see what would be possible
to sell customers within their budget, one hundred thousand yen by
Internet.
What
I noticed then was the shop area of the dealer looked much smaller
than it had been before. In fact, to me the dealer had seemed bigger.
I found nothing I might be able to sell with a confidence.
Feeling
down, I visited the wholesale dealer several times.
One
day a sales exhibition for ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI' was conducted.
I
watched and tried on ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI' for several hours, and
it was about to leave there when I knew ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI' was
so rear at the dealer that the next sale of it would be in autumn.
‘ Autumn? That wouldn't work!', thought I.
 My
website was due up TOMORROW. There was only a slight possibility that
my website would be up on the next day. I was still struggling for
the site-up.
The
reason why the site-up was scheduled the next day was that it was
made from the outcome of OSMC Yokohama OFU-KAI, or ‘OFU organization'
held on July 17.
OSMC
stood for Online Shop Masters Club, which was an organization composed
of owners of online shops. I participated in the Yokohama ???
, and went even to the after-meeting gathering.
At
the meeting, I gathered much advice from many owners of net-shops
and more to it, I was encouraged by Chairman, Mr. Shigeo Morimoto.
He suggested me by saying, “ Why don't you open your site even
tomorrow?” About twenty people came to the after-meeting gathering.It
was my honor that I, only a layman yet, had a chance to get to know
such well-known owners, and to be given such practical advice, which
was beyond my expectation. Mr. Morimoto's words, ‘ Even tomorrow'
with Kansai accent sounded absolute to me.
He
didn't explain the detail of the net-shop, but I knew the Internet
was something that required the moment of ‘ an quickness'. He added
to me , “ How about your case to be up only the name of your shop?”,
which made me feel that I could do it .
On
the contrary, I had hard time even deciding a name of my shop. There
were many things that I had to think of, starting from the matter
of the domain and the future direction.
But
the words' UP TOMMOROW' never disappeared from my mind.
The
words of ‘It's now or never before the next autumn' came to my
mind made my decision. I finally said, “ I buy!” and actually
bought eleven ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI' having spent all all my retirement
money.
Later
on, many people said many things against my final decision.
Among
them I heard” You should have collected all the necessary information
before buying ‘USHIKUBI-TSMUGI' in. But it was too late now…”
But
I never had any anxiety about it or a regret. I was confident in successful
sale for ‘USHIKUBI-TSUMUGI'
Now
that what I would be selling was decided.
But
my struggling totally over yet at the time.
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