Chapter 218: The Backbone of the Team

In mid-March the campus queen contest fever continued climbing.

Xitian Milk Tea Shop firmly sat atop the flow traffic peak instantly opening up the market to the point where there was a long line out the door every day and the length of the line once again attracted even more people to join in the excitement.

The commercial street was crowded with people from morning till night and even the surrounding businesses rode the wave their turnover steadily increasing.

Why?

Because waiting for orders took too long so some people would choose to browse other shops first.

After browsing and browsing they would unintentionally end up buying something this was very natural after all I’m already here it would be a waste to not conveniently buy something.

Especially for delicate little piggy girls this kind of impulse buying was simply too common.

This economic phenomenon was very common similar to various provinces and cities continuously promoting the tourism industry.

Because when the flow of people increased spending on food clothing housing and transportation would increase and non-essential consumption would also rise.

Buying a bunch of useless things ordering more than you could eat every time wasn’t this very common?

Therefore the beneficiaries of traffic weren’t necessarily just the target users the entire business district would reap quite a few benefits.

Based on this situation negotiations for Pintuan’s cooperation with this street became extremely smooth.

No choice because it was truly fragrant.

However not all the merchants felt happy for example the several other milk tea shops on this street truly wanted to curse someone out.

Ever since that damn campus queen contest started the number of customers in their shops had decreased.

After all sales volumes between competitors were inversely related no one would buy a cup of milk tea at the first shop then turn around and buy another cup at another shop that would be purely having nothing better to do after being full.

Especially when regular customers who came every day suddenly stopped coming it made the milk tea shop owners feel a sense of impending doom.

Damn it didn’t you say you only loved drinking my milk tea?

This kind of seeing someone new and forgetting the old was truly fucking just like love not even a word of greeting!

“Old Xu do you have any business?”

“What fucking business the door’s been open all morning not to mention handsome guys and pretty girls I haven’t even seen a single fucking person.”

“I discussed with Sister Wang from Zhenguo Fresh and we can’t just sit and wait for death like this otherwise this business really can’t go on.”

“What do you mean?”

“I heard that shop is run by students let’s go and scare them a bit!”

So within a week of the contest reaching a fever pitch the owners of the three milk tea shops brought people to make trouble four times

They didn’t dare to actuallyash or rob anything just came to utter some threats every day making the shop unsettled and scaring away quite a few customers.

Lai Cunqing as the head of the University of Technology promotion team went to resolve it many times mainly trying to reason with them and appeal to their emotions but in reality it was completely useless.

Because you had truly snatched away their business no matter how many nice words you said it was useless nice words weren’t money who would be willing to listen to you ramble on and on.

For example you stole someone’s girlfriend and still went to comfort them to relax their mindset it would be lucky if your nose wasn’t punched crooked.

Moreover money was much more important than a girlfriend!

But Lai Cunqing was also furious.

Damn it doing business relied on ability what the hell did it have to do with us if you couldn’t sell anything?

So later on he also stopped going just sent a few people to guard the door ensuring the safety of the shop employees after all besides the milk tea shop issue he was facing many other problems.

The content team was short on manpower Lai Cunqing had originally planned to borrow some from the marketing team but as a result no one wanted to hand out flyers anymore.

Especially a certain poor student who complained every day that handing out flyers was tiring and wanted to join the content team seeing his name wasn’t on the list for transfer he directly went on strike.

Reasonably speaking this kind of person should be directly fired but the difficulty was that this guy was a poor student so Lai Cunqing had always been unable to make a decision.

“How did the boss initially manage the project alone from nothing to something?”

“I heard from Brother Dong that the boss could dance wildly between giant pits but never stepped into one.” Ding Qiaona said in a faraway voice.

After hearing this Lai Cunqing clicked his tongue: “This metaphor is really vivid!”

“If only the boss was here…”

Hearing this sentence Gu Tiantian Chen Wenxiu and Tang Li couldn’t help exchanging glances seeming to have a deeper understanding of the word “male god”.

They had been running around in the marketing team for half a month and because they were relatively diligent they were transferred to the content team by Lai Cunqing.

Then every time the team had a problem they couldn’t solve everyone would shout why isn’t the boss here it would be great if the boss was here.

As if as long as Jiang Qin appeared all problems were no longer problems.

Other male gods you could only see the “male” part but for Jiang Qin this male god truly made people feel he was a “god”.

But what they didn’t expect was that Jiang Qin really couldn’t stand being called for and the next second he entered the activity classroom.

“Boss you’re finally here!”

Lai Cunqing instantly collapsed on the stool as if he had found his backbone the pressure immediately lessening quite a bit.

After Jiang Qin walked in he glanced at him: “Why do you all look like you’re about to cry?”

Ding Qiaona couldn’t help speaking: “We originally thought things were going pretty well feeling that if we just proceeded step by step it would be fine but in the process there were always all sorts of miscellaneous problems it’s really difficult boss how did you manage it back then?”

“It’s just a tiny bit of talent and handsomeness that’s all.”

“…”

Seeing everyone’s speechless expressions Jiang Qin also felt tipsy damn it nowadays even telling the truth no one believed what kind of dog-eaten society was this: “What troubles have you encountered tell me.”

“First is the milk tea shop matter…”

Three minutes later Jiang Qin finished listening to Lai Cunqing’s report: “Doing business is like this if you eat too much others won’t have anything to eat it’s very normal.”

Ding Qiaona couldn’t help asking: “Boss when you were leading the team to do promotions in the past did you encounter this kind of thing?”

“I also encountered it but no one came to make trouble so blatantly.”

“Then how should it be resolved now?”

Jiang Qin thought for a bit: “I’ve always emphasized one point to the Linchuan University team which is to see the essence through the phenomenon what do you think is the end result they hope to achieve by coming to make trouble?”

Lai Cunqing knew the answer: “They just want to make money.”

“Isn’t that easy then just give them an opportunity to make money.”

Jiang Qin waved his hand leading them to swagger over to the milk tea shops that had made trouble found the shop owners and reached out to slap a cooperation contract directly on their counters.

Lai Cunqing had thought the boss would say sign it don’t be ungrateful!

That was how it was acted out in TV dramas.

But the actual Jiang Qin had a face full of smiles not revealing any hint of arrogance.

“This is our Pintuan online service please take a look.”

“Online delivery?”

“Yes it’s a brand new sales model becoming a Pintuan partner user the traffic Xitian obtains you can also equally obtain.”

“According to what you’re saying as long as we make it that’s enough?”

“Correct.”

“But even if it’s online with Xitian having so much traffic we still can’t beat Xitian!”

“Then I promise you here that Xitian will not sell milk tea online this market will always belong to you.”

Two hours later Jiang Qin led the team to run around the three shops taking three contracts and returned to the University of Technology classroom.

Lai Cunqing was a bit puzzled: “Just because they made trouble Xitian won’t do online service compromising so harshly?”

“I didn’t say we wouldn’t do online service I only said we wouldn’t sell milk tea.”

“Then what will we sell?”

Jiang Qin took out a Xitian milk tea card from his wallet: “Xitian won’t do milk tea delivery business but will sell milk tea cards online people who buy or receive milk tea cards will all need to consume in-store.”

Ding Qiaona also took out the card from her wallet: “I also have one it was given by a junior schoolmate.”

“How did you feel after using it?”

“After having this card I basically never drank milk tea from other places again.”

Jiang Qin nodded: “For us doing business there’s no need to drive people to desperation leaving a tiny bit of living space for those three milk tea shops letting them rely on takeout to survive this is our compromise.”

Lai Cunqing’s scalp felt a bit numb: “Then those three shops can only survive on takeout from now on?”

“Perhaps.”

“Then for every milk tea they sell they also have to give us a cut? This way there’s no market online or offline that we won’t get a piece of?”

“Of course.”

Jiang Qin revealed a charming smile.

Actually in the future there would be many many shops that purely did takeout collectively known as takeout shops they had no offline business at all purely surviving on online orders.

The media called them small workshops.

Because they didn’t need a storefront costs were low prices could be pushed very low it was also a new business model born from the new era.

Jiang Qin put his wallet back in his pocket: “Any other troubles say it all at once I need to go see Director Sun in a bit.”

“The issue of deploying manpower in the marketing team the people below have a lot of objections they all don’t want to hand out flyers and keep asking in the group why others can be transferred to the content team but they can’t.”

“Then why can’t they?” Jiang Qin asked.

Lai Cunqing immediately replied: “They don’t have enough ability they aren’t even diligent in handing out flyers of course I have to save the opportunities for those who work hard.”

“How about this fire the one with the biggest objection first let him experience the cruelty of society.”

“But the one with the biggest objection is the poorest it’s not good to directly fire him.”

Jiang Qin laughed: “Think about it from another angle if he’s poor then it’s even better after he’s fired how regretful will he be in the future the University of Technology team will be that much more stable the salary we offer other places can’t match.”

Lai Cunqing thought for a bit: “But what if he makes trouble?”

“I spent over thirty yuan making a pennant and certificate this money can’t be wasted Director Sun will help us handle it this is the benefit of having a guidance teacher.”

“Oh oh.”

“Old Lai we’re doing business not running a charity you have to remember poverty can never be seen as a protective umbrella.”

After Jiang Qin finished speaking seriously he inexplicably felt that last sentence was very handsome and wanted to say it again.

But saying it again would seem a bit silly so he could only experience his handsomeness just now from those worshipping gazes.

Hm? Gu Tiantian’s gaze was simply perfect she admired him so much? Even clenching her legs together.