Chapter 130: Business is All About Tricks

Jiang Qin was completely unaware of what happened at the entrepreneurship base because he spent the entire afternoon at Linchuan University of Science and Technology after the interview at noon.

Business at the Xitian branch was quite good, already showing a trend of long lines forming. But the three milk tea shops next door did not sit idly by.

In order to curb Xitian’s dominance, they privately joined forces and have been doing price reductions and promotions for the past three days, making the whole situation very tense.

Jiang Qin felt this kind of thing was very normal, because doing business cannot be without competition.

Then he calmly had the part-time college students in the store place the pre-made advertising boards in the most eye-catching positions below the female dormitory building. He took the opportunity to launch the concept of “Autumn’s First Cup of Xitian”, and had people hang four banners at the east, south, west and north entrances, directly squeezing out the three shops across the street so they had no business for an entire afternoon.

“Xiao Liu, why are you playing on your phone during work hours?”

“Boss, we don’t have any customers. They all ran to the opposite side.”

The boss of the Really Good Milk Tea shop walked to the door, and seeing the long lines forming across the street, he gritted his back molars so hard they almost shattered.

At this time, Jiang Qin was standing on the steps of Xitian, listening to Wei Lanlan’s work report while handing out the flyers in his hands one by one to the coming and going students.

The name Xitian itself was very interesting.

When promoting, they specifically split the two characters and gave it the meaning of “like the sweet you”, matching it with Autumn’s First Cup of Xitian for a fierce combo attack.

Price reductions and promotions indeed have a big appeal for ordinary buyers, but if buying things as gifts, then promotions don’t have much meaning.

Bluntly speaking, this trick is just like the marketing tactic of tying diamonds together with love.

Ordinary diamonds themselves aren’t very valuable, but once mixed with love, people will buy them no matter how exorbitantly expensive they are.

The key point is, this thing isn’t like gold that holds its value. If you buy it and resell it, the price immediately plummets, but there are still fools eagerly buying it.

So everything else is unimportant, the important thing is creating an atmosphere.

“Boss, what kind of trick is this again, how can it be so effective?” Wei Lanlan felt puzzled seeing the consumers quickly flowing back.

Jiang Qin stood on the steps of the milk tea shop and grinned, “I want to give the goddess of my heart the first cup of Xitian in autumn. The goddess was so happy to hear it, she gave me a good boy card that I love to eat!”

“????”

Wei Lanlan had a completely dumbfounded expression. Then she watched as Jiang Qin went to the opposite comprehensive building with a dashing posture.

The University of Science and Technology’s support for work-study programs was quite good. Although there was no actual financial support, they at least provided an activity classroom.

Now, this classroom was the new base for the content team and technical team. Under the leadership of Dong Wenhao, the two teams were constantly stirring up the forum, working hard to improve user retention.

Jiang Qin stepped into Room 502, logged into the backend and started checking the data.

He found that the retention rate on the University of Science and Technology side was quite good. The forum that originally had less than 20,000 daily active users now reached 40,000 daily actives.

Of course, this was propped up by the event. The real retention still needed to be seen after the event ended.

“The campus belle of our accounting department, Cui Yan, is number one, everyone else step aside!”

“Do you have eyes to breathe with? Obviously senior sister Gui Tao Ying is the number one campus belle!”

“A pure Linchuan University passerby expressing their opinion, from the photos, Mao Dan is the prettiest one!”

“The one above, shut up, artistic photos with thick makeup, of course the photos will look good!”

“Sorry, once our chemical engineering department’s Pang Duo appears, all you demons can scatter!”

Jiang Qin looked through a few posts and found that these posts were almost the same as the previous ones selecting the campus belle at Linchuan University. The biggest difference was that Linchuan University students had mixed in.

These guys also knew how to play, constantly provoking fights on the University of Science and Technology’s board, unexpectedly causing the two schools to link up.

Of course, there was more cursing, but cursing wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for forum traffic, because disputes could often bring unexpected popularity.

“Boss, should we delete these Linchuan University posts?”

“Leave all of them except those suspected of personal attacks, let them participate. Who doesn’t like looking at beautiful girls, it’s like a talent show. Watching others eagerly select their campus belles, that kind of participation is also very addictive. We can’t neglect old users for the sake of new users.”

After hearing this, Dong Wenhao felt it made sense, “Then should I also open up voting access for Linchuan University?”

Jiang Qin immediately waved his hand, “Don’t open up voting, the University of Science and Technology’s campus belle can only be chosen by the University of Science and Technology. Letting Linchuan University choose, how does that make sense? It will cause resentment.”

“Okay.”

“By the way Wenhao, I have a friend called Guo Zihang who studies computer science. Arrange for him to come here and train for a bit. He probably won’t develop any technical skills, but gaining some experience is also good. At the very least, it will train his communication skills. This guy has a hard time even talking to the cafeteria lady.”

“Okay boss, the technical team is now led by Yang Shuai. I’ll have him pair up with Yang Shuai.”

Jiang Qin nodded and sent a message to Guo Zihang telling him to come report in. Unexpectedly, this guy was very apprehensive after receiving the message and even asked back if he could do it. Jiang Qin spat at him through the screen, thinking how would I know if you can do it or not.

But Old Guo finally agreed. He knew his weaknesses and also knew that he must overcome these weaknesses.

Because he would graduate someday, would enter society someday, would have to do those things he wasn’t good at someday.

Rather than being pushed along by the gears of fate and getting crushed to death at the slightest misstep, it was better to prepare in advance to avoid being passive.

After handling the forum matters, Jiang Qin ate some biscuits and sachima to fill his stomach. He started preparing for the poverty alleviation work-study interview that would take place later.

Work-study programs couldn’t just be slogans. Besides, the interview was done, the benefits were taken, the things that should be done also had to be done.

Of course, interviews couldn’t be done by one person. Jiang Qin also pulled in Director Hu from the Youth League Committee and Zhang Mingan from the school office.

Doing this on one hand was to let the two people have some sense of participation. Later on, they would feel a few more points of closeness to Jiang Qin’s off-campus project. When “group buying” came out, it could also smoothly transition.

On the other hand, being poor doesn’t mean being kind. First pull the two people onto the pirate ship, lest the people recruited later stir up some trouble and Jiang Qin would have to bear it all alone.

“Hello teachers, I’m Ran Fu from the Chinese Language and Literature Department. I want to join the forum’s content team.”

“Hello everyone, I’m Lai Cunqing from the Computer Science Department. I want to join the technical department.”

“I’m number 24, Jia Wenting…”

“I’m Liu Mingyu…”

“Gao Mowen…”

The afternoon sun was warm. Jiang Qin sat expressionlessly in the c-position as an interviewer. His gaze swept over those young and awkward faces, his pen never stopping as he scored the interview forms and finally handed them to the score keeper.

Sheet after sheet after sheet, referring to those young faces, and also those score sheets of varying levels.

“This one called Lai Cunqing isn’t bad, quite articulate.” Hu Maolin lowered his voice and said to Jiang Qin.

Jiang Qin nodded, “Indeed quite good, but no relevant project experience. I suggest putting him in the market group to start by running some business.”

“The team you brought over from Linchuan University didn’t have project experience at the beginning either?”

“That’s because time was quite urgent, we could only recruit and use as we went. But the proportion of those who couldn’t do it or stopped doing it was indeed very high. The few positions this time involve poverty alleviation for students. It’s best to be a bit more cautious.”

After hearing this, Hu Maolin expressed understanding, “The market group is also fine. I heard the commission in your market group is quite high. Then keep him.”

“Okay Director.”

Jiang Qin wrote a line of words on the interview form. Director Hu approved, allowing him to join.

Hu Maolin glanced at him, “Why did you write this?”

“Director Hu personally recruited, put it on file for safekeeping. Later if problems arise and Director Hu you get angry, saying I didn’t do a good job, then I’ll have something to say.” Jiang Qin grinned.

“You brat, how come you have so many tricks?!”

Zhang Mingan who was on the side suddenly leaned over and coughed, “You two, the school office photographer is here. Later sit up straight.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qin and Hu Maolin immediately straightened their backs and tried to make energetic smiling expressions.

An hour later, all 26 candidates had finished their interviews. Director Hu suggested keeping 9, Zhang Mingan liked 7, and Jiang Qin himself felt 3 were quite good.

This result was due to different identities. Director Hu considered more the issue of position quotas, Zhang Mingan favored those dressed plainly, while Jiang Qin considered whether they could be used and how well they could be used.

“Jiang Qin, are you free this afternoon? Come sit in my office?”

“Forget it Director Hu, I have to go back to school for a bit. There are still some things over there. Next time I’ll treat, let’s chat at Zhongming Dingshi.”

Looking at Jiang Qin’s departing figure, Hu Maolin only now remembered, this kid was a student at Linchuan University. He only had a collaborative relationship with the University of Science and Technology.

Fuck, if only he had filled in the wrong answer sheet during the college entrance exam.

After leaving the interview site, Jiang Qin drove back to Linchuan University.

Although he was physically exhausted from running around all day, the “group buying” on Su Nai’s side was still ongoing. He had to rush over to check on the progress. Boss really wasn’t an easy job.

Jiang Qin stopped the car at the door and stepped into the entrepreneurship base. As a result, he saw Tang Lin and an unfamiliar male student standing at the door of the general office. Their expressions were extremely bad and the atmosphere was also quite heavy.

Especially when Jiang Qin passed by in the corridor, the gazes of the two people were fixed on him the whole time.

Tang Lin’s eyes carried confusion, doubt and disbelief.

That male student’s eyes carried vigilance, envy and undisguised jealousy.

“?”

Jiang Qin felt it was very strange and always felt something wasn’t quite right.

Am I more handsome today compared to usual?

Otherwise where would that male student’s jealousy come from?

But he didn’t think too much about it. After all, he wasn’t familiar with Tang Lin and didn’t even know the guy next to her. So he stepped up to the second floor and returned to Room 208.

Only after his figure disappeared at the corner of the staircase did Xue Gang and Tang Lin withdraw their gazes, still feeling a bit dazed.

“That person is Jiang Qin?”

“Mm.”

“Didn’t you say his success rate was only 40%?” The corners of Xue Gang’s mouth were twitching.

Tang Lin pursed her pale lips, “I may have… forgotten to add a zero?”

“You might as well not have called me to make my presence known. I fucking imposingly came, before I could even say a word to Hong Yan, I got brushed off by someone not even here!”

“I really didn’t do it on purpose, it was a mistake!”

“You’re a fucking fake intelligence dealer. It’s no big deal if you forget to add a zero. Do you know what a huge psychological blow this is to me?!”

Xue Gang felt his back molars couldn’t hold on anymore. Fuming with anger, he turned and left.

Tang Lin still wanted to say sorry. As a result, when she raised her head, she saw Xue Gang frantically bump into the big glass door at the entrance. Her shoulders immediately trembled.

“Senior, you… walk slowly.”

“Fuck off!!!”

Tang Lin forced a smile for a long time with a pounding heart. Finally, she carefully pushed open the door and glanced at her bestie sitting at the workstation.

After an entire afternoon of calming down, Hong Yan’s state was much better now. She no longer had that strong aggression from before. This made her feel a bit more at ease.

“Tang Lin, help me organize the bound documents into the file bag.”

“Oh oh, okay.”

Tang Lin trotted over, took out the file bag from the cabinet. She wanted to ask but couldn’t get the words out.

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