"Laying floors," "pasting wallpapers," and "designing furniture" online... This is what Li Feng, a self-proclaimed "online store decorator," does in a day. He calls himself a standard otaku, staying at home every day to help everyone online. The shop owner "renovates" the shop. It is different from decoration in reality. He does not need a decoration team. His raw materials are music, pictures, and FLASH, and his tools are a mouse and keyboard. "Our kind of profession is becoming more and more common now. In the past, when business was good, it was not difficult to earn 8,000 yuan a month. Now that there are more people doing this, and I have weekends off, 5,000 yuan is still no problem."
PS master occasionally enters the "money-making channel"
Li Feng is 24 years old this year. He studied chemistry in college. “It has nothing to do with decoration.” Out of personal hobbies, he has always liked to study various graphics software such as Photoshop, and he likes FLASH very much. When he was in college, his classmates all knew that he loved computers. They asked him for help with tasks such as buying computers and installing them, and he was very happy to do it. Later, there was a girl in the class who opened an online store to sell accessories, so she asked Li Feng to help her "decorate" it. "I thought it was quite new at the time. Online stores are just a few photos piled on top. What kind of technology is there?"
After agreeing to help, Li Feng discovered that "decorating" an online store was not an easy task. "Take jewelry as an example. If the real thing is not post-processed, it will not look good at all." Li Feng said that most of the pictures in online stores need to be post-processed. If you add some animation and music, it will be more attractive. He helped his classmates redesign a plan and added a little angel shopping guide animation, and the store's business improved a lot. Since then, Li Feng has discovered that the "decoration" of this online store is a way to make money. "Actually, the technical requirements are not high. The key is that you need some art and design skills."
Resigned to become a homebody and specialized in "decoration"
After graduating from college, Li Feng joined a foreign-funded company to engage in research and development. "Doing chemical experiments is very boring, and it's not my hobby. It's very annoying to start with." Li Feng has been in this company for nearly a year. He works during the day and posts on the forum at night to accept requests for "renovation" of the online store. list. "At that time, there were not many online store decoration companies, so business was relatively good." Li Feng received new orders almost every day. "There were people selling clothes, bags, everything." Because at that time, he could only use In his spare time, it takes Li Feng three or four days to make an order. "An order costs about two to three hundred yuan, but the workmanship is very detailed, and it's basically all my own ideas."
Due to his good reputation, Li Feng's business is getting more and more popular, and he is getting busier and busier, so busy that he doesn't even have holidays. "Business was really good at that time. I earned more than 3,000 yuan a month in my spare time, which was higher than my salary." Later, Li Feng simply resigned. "Anyway, I also like to be a homebody, sitting at home and doing what I like. It's great. "So he became a person who specializes in online store "decoration" using pictures, Flash and music as building materials. Li Feng's income reached 8,000 yuan in the first month of "going to sea".
Luxurious “decoration” can sell for thousands
Li Feng introduced that there are now many people doing online store "decoration" on the Internet, and the prices range from tens to thousands. "Online store decoration sells creativity. If you only provide simple templates, you can't make money." Templates worth 10 yuan are everywhere on the Internet. Some online stores feel different as soon as you enter. The patterns are completely designed by you, and even the music is matching. Every detail is carefully considered. "A good 'decoration' can sell for thousands, and it all depends on creativity."
Nowadays, the online store “renovation” market is growing day by day. In many online forums, you can see people posting posts looking for people who can “renovate” online stores. On Taobao, more and more shop owners are popping up who specialize in opening online stores for "renovation". In response, Li Feng said with a smile that it is not easy to do online "renovation". All business must be taken care of by oneself, and the workload is very high. The difficulty is not small and requires a high level of overall quality. At the same time, uncertainty of income and lack of corresponding social security will become bottlenecks in the development of the Internet "decoration" business.
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