Chapter 105: The Meaning of the Passenger Seat

The campus belle competition finished smoothly and the project team members seemed to suddenly breathe a sigh of relief, returning to the office to relax, chat, making the entire Room 208 lively and bustling.

“Want to play poker?”

“Sure thing, we’ve been tired for several days, playing some poker to relax would be great!” Lu Feiyu was the first to agree.

Dong Wenhao couldn’t help but look at Jiang Qin, “Boss, come play poker with us?”

“No, if you want to play go to 207, I need to think about some things.” Jiang Qin waved his hand for them to leave.

So a group of people whooped out of 208 to next door 207, leaving only Jiang Qin and Su Nai in the room, the two of them sitting face to face not disturbing each other, doing their own thing.

Outside the window, a light rain started again, pattering down, sounding particularly atmospheric.

“You should just go play some poker with them, Dong Wenhao said you’ve been getting too serious lately.” Su Nai suggested Jiang Qin join in the fun.

“You think Old Dong was asking if I wanted to play poker but actually he was asking if they could go play poker, I only needed to agree, no need to participate, and if I did participate, they definitely wouldn’t be able to play freely.”

After speaking, Jiang Qin entered a pondering state, constantly considering the issue of monetization tools.

Internet projects without exception burn money first then make money later, so the richer getting richer is a simple truth, based on Jiang Qin’s current financial strength, making a campus network is fine but if he wants to do anything else, his bit of funds may not be enough.

Riding the trend is a must but the method has to be right, there’s a good line in Transformers, no money but there are ways without money.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qin couldn’t help recalling that Ye Ziqing from the afternoon.

Paper-gained knowledge always seems shallow in the end?

“Mm…”

Jiang Qin stretched and got up to pour some water.

Su Nai sitting across from him immediately moved his mouse, straightened his back, pushed his glasses, face slightly red.

“Stop looking, meeting.” Jiang Qin glanced at him.

Su Nai’s face turned red, “I wasn’t looking!”

“I didn’t even say what you were looking at and you know what I’m talking about?”

“…” Su Nai froze.

“Telling me to go next door to play poker? Heh, I’ve played through those tricks.”

Su Nai slapped his laptop shut, following Jiang Qin to 207, calling the poker playing people over for a summary meeting, the main topic being a focused discussion on the results of the campus belle contest, analyzing the reasons for its success.

In his previous life, Jiang Qin also didn’t understand why bosses liked holding meetings, and some unrelated to personnel specifically found break days to hold them, and damn didn’t allow requesting leave.

But after becoming a boss himself he knew, decision makers often stand higher with a longer-term view but aren’t easily down-to-earth, slightly careless and they’ll make assumptions, in the end leading the team into a ditch.

And Jiang Qin’s next step plan was to replicate the campus belle contest at University of Science and Technology, University of Technology, and Teachers College, so summarizing the successful experience was a must.

“I think the success of this campus belle contest was all thanks to the boss’s wise leadership.” Dong Wenhao took the lead to speak.

Jiang Qin couldn’t help but glance at him, “Things everyone knows don’t need mentioning again, anything else?”

“The key is still our unity right, thinking with one mind, using our strength together.”

“Can we discuss some practical things? Details?”

Lu Xuemei thought for a while before speaking up, “I think buying the milk tea shop was the most critical step.”

“Agree, if not for the milk tea shop’s sales reports, even if the contest was successful it may not have attracted so many merchants.”

Wei Lanlan added, she was on the market team, on the very front lines, sensitive to this aspect.

Based on the merchants she interacted with recently, what attracted them most wasn’t the campus belles but the milk tea shop’s sales performance.

For a commercial contest, the ultimate goal is still to make money, the small Xitian store undoubtedly played a huge role in this regard.

“Continue.”

Tan Qing raised his hand, “I think the big PVC board in the front plaza was great, very big and eye-catching.”

Shi Miaomiao also spoke up, “Senior Dong’s planning topics were also great, a large part of the retention rate was because the senior’s topic selection standards were quite on point.”

Lu Feiyu followed, “I think there’s only one most critical factor for the success of this contest.”

“What factor?”

“Because our boss lady didn’t participate.”

Jiang Qin silently cursed him a bootlicker, thinking someone like Lu Feiyu not getting promoted and rich would be against the natural order.

But he had to say, their summaries made sense, the campus belle contest provided heat for the forum while the forum heat increased the milk tea shop’s sales, finally users were retained due to the content while the sales data attracted a large number of advertisers, this combo of punches was tightly integrated, couldn’t remove any of them.

In other words, the first step to promote at other schools isn’t holding a contest but opening a Xitian branch there, first planting a conspicuous stake in someone else’s turf.

Looks like the little rich girl will make more money again, although she doesn’t lack this bit of money.

Jiang Qin called an end to the meeting, letting them continue playing poker while he returned to 208, contacting Guo Zihang on QQ.

Old Guo was a student at University of Science and Technology, definitely relatively familiar with his own campus, since he wanted to replicate the previous formula, he needed to find a guide, Guo Zihang was a good candidate, this guy knew the little aunt at the fruit stand after all.

Guo Zihang was clueless but the little aunt definitely had some understanding of the business atmosphere in that area.

What was the path of Xitian’s rise?

It was in a very bad location, through advertising and promotion, instantly resurrecting, giving surrounding merchants a huge shock, so this time replicating, he had to replicate this basic condition over too.

“Old Guo, what are you doing?”

“I participated in a club activity a few days ago, got to know a senior sister, chatting with her now.” Guo Zihang instantly replied.

Jiang Qin sent a smile over, “You’re quite good at seamlessly transitioning eh, not pursuing the little aunt selling fruit anymore?”

“I was never pursuing her, just added her QQ and chatted a few times, Jiang bro, don’t spread rumors about me.”

“Don’t worry, I don’t have the free time to gossip, I’ll come find you tomorrow Sunday.” Jiang Qin made the keyboard clack.

Guo Zihang instantly replied, “Really? Damn, awesome, come come, I’m bored to death on weekends too, was just thinking if I should go find you to hang out, you coming to find me is even better, it’s not convenient for me to take the bus here.”

Free?

I’m poles apart from the word free.

Have to do business, coax the little rich girl, you think anyone can be a boss?

“Alright, see you tomorrow then.”

“Wait Jiang bro, the road south of our school is under construction, the bus is detouring, you have to take 203 to the city library first then transfer to 101 to get here.” Guo Zihang kindly reminded.

Jiang Qin typed with a smile, “I bought a car.”

“…”

Early the next day, Jiang Qin took the bus to the city center, to the Fourth Son dealership, took out his newly bought Audi, then queued to select the number, get temporary plates, fussing for a whole morning, by the time he arrived at Linchuan University of Science and Technology it was already 3pm.

Guo Zihang waited at the school gate, looking again and again at Jiang Qin’s Audi, eyes full of envy.

Just entered university and already bought a car, and it’s a BBA, too arrogant.

“Jiang bro, does your family know you bought a car?”

“They don’t know but you absolutely can’t spread it, I don’t want to be too high-profile, otherwise everyone will know your first love in university is a little aunt selling fruit.”

Guo Zihang’s face paled and he immediately patted his chest assuring he definitely wouldn’t spread it, “So what are we doing now? Going for a drive?”

“First let’s go see your little aunt, then drive around, I have some things to consult her about.” Jiang Qin planned to take care of business first.

“Huh?”

“To tell you the truth, I plan to open a milk tea shop at your school but I’m not too familiar with your school, finding someone in business to ask, see which location is the worst.”

Guo Zihang paused, “Don’t you mean which location is the best?”

“Mind your own business about capitalist affairs.” Jiang Qin couldn’t explain it clearly to Guo Zihang.

Then the two came to Luyuan Fruit Supermarket across from the school, meeting Guo Zihang’s first love, a little aunt named Wu Caifeng, around 30 years old.

She really wasn’t bad looking and truly had a doll-like voice, just a bit short, but more than enough to match Guo Zihang.

Because it wasn’t early, Jiang Qin didn’t make much small talk and directly got to the main topic, asking about the business situation in this area.

Although Wu Caifeng only had a middle school education, she had good insights when talking about business, she said the place with the best business at University of Science and Technology was the storefronts under the female dorms while the worst place was the small plaza in front of the male dorms.

Jiang Qin nodded, thinking the situation at university towns seemed all similar, business under female dorms was always better than under male dorms.

These days, getting male university students to spend more money was too hard.

Out of every ten of them, five went to the female dorm storefronts to date, another three saved money to buy gifts for their goddesses, the other two were pure internet addicts.

Of course, there were indeed the kind who single-mindedly only studied, abstaining from relationships for all four years of university, but they were after all a minority.

Business faced the majority, too small a demographic didn’t need consideration.

After discussing this, Jiang Qin bought two bags of fruit as thanks, giving one bag to Guo Zihang and putting the other in the trunk.

“Jiang bro, let’s go for a drive?”

“Let’s go!”

Jiang Qin unlocked the car, not expecting this short fatty to reach out to pull the passenger side door, “Old Guo!”

“Hm?” Guo Zihang froze from being startled by Jiang Qin’s suddenly raised voice, “What’s wrong?”

“New car, the passenger seat hasn’t been used yet, sit in the back.”

“…”

Guo Zihang sat in the back sullenly, thinking sitting in front was the only way to feel like you were going for a drive but putting himself in Jiang Qin’s shoes, he felt Jiang Qin was right.

For your first car, the meaning of the passenger seat really couldn’t be understated, if it were him, he definitely also couldn’t let anyone sit there casually.