Chapter 239: The Sponsorship Money Was Worth Every Penny

People are usually very proactive when working for themselves but tend to procrastinate when working for others. Zhang Boqing was well aware of human nature’s flaws and Jiang Qin’s slippery character. Fearing he wouldn’t take it seriously since it wasn’t his own matter, he specially instructed Zhuang Siyu after the meeting ended.

“Siyu, remind Jiang Qin frequently about the materials in the coming days so he doesn’t forget.”

“Okay Dean, I’ll give him a call right after I get back.”

Zhuang Siyu agreed then packed up her things to leave. But just as she slung her bag over her shoulder, her phone started vibrating with Jiang Qin’s name displayed on the caller ID.

Zhang Boqing glanced at it and told her to answer on speakerphone. Jiang Qin’s voice immediately came through.

“Senior Sister Zhuang, why haven’t you sent me the materials list yet? It’s been twenty minutes. Dean Zhang will scold me for not being proactive.”

“I just finished the meeting…”

“Hurry up Senior Sister. I can’t wait to spend money for the school. I’m simply aching for it!!”

“?”

After hanging up, Zhuang Siyu couldn’t help glancing at Zhang Boqing who was also somewhat puzzled thinking what’s wrong with me? Am I getting old and misjudging people?

Could it be Jiang Qin is an honest, kind-hearted, trustworthy good student?

Actually, the dean’s analysis of human nature wasn’t wrong. Subconsciously procrastinating when helping others with tasks is indeed common. But he didn’t know in Jiang Qin’s eyes, preparing the sports meet publicity materials was not someone else’s work at all, it was his own.

At 3 PM, Zhuang Siyu sent the publicity materials production list to Jiang Qin who then forwarded it to Lu Xuemei.

Two hours later, Shengshi Advertising Factory had already started taking orders and making them.

Linchuan University Room 208 was their old client with frequent collaborations. Plus recently with no special occasions, the factory didn’t have many orders so their efficiency was lightning fast.

While the materials were being made those few days, Jiang Qin wasn’t idle either. He went to Wanzhong Mall to inspect the office and heard reports from Bao Wenping and Yue Zhu about the first round of interviews.

Indeed quite a lot of people came to apply but the quality was mixed. The two managers joined forces to screen leaving twenty-six people with second round interview notices. Half of them lacked much project experience but were kept due to impressive interviews.

“President Jiang, actually I don’t know enough about advertising and marketing to be professional. I’m afraid of missing out on talent so I had to lower the threshold and keep as many people as possible for the second round for you to personally select.” Bao Wenping explained.

Jiang Qin nodded, “You two managers worked hard. There are still a few days left. I hope more experienced veterans can be recruited.”

“Okay President Jiang, we’ll further expand the recruitment information.”

He Yijun was sitting to the side at this time watching Jiang Qin skillfully yet fiercely utilize his female managers making him feel a bit sour inside.

Thinking about how even the office belonged to him made the sourness even stronger.

However, with Jiang Qin’s reference manual, the mall’s reform progress had already started accelerating fiercely and would likely officially undergo generational marketing by month’s end. He’d have to take advantage of him then and freeload some ads.

He had tangibly experienced university students’ consumption power which was enticingly strong. So since you’re freeloading my office, why can’t I freeload your traffic?

“President He?”

He Yijun snapped out of it, “What’s up?”

Jiang Qin turned to him, “Our school’s sports meet is coming up soon. I borrowed some momentum to push out the group-buy service. Your mall’s hot pot and fish in sour soup were listed on the front page.”

“Really?”

“Of course it’s real. We’re close as family. I definitely wouldn’t forget Wanzhong. So I hope this weekend, your mall can pay attention and clean up the renovated scrap materials, use the freshest ingredients. Let’s work together to score this deal.”

He Yijun instantly felt much better inside thinking that’s more like it. What kind of win-win is it if you win twice alone? Us winning together is the real win!

“President Jiang, let’s have dinner together tonight and taste my hot pot restaurant’s flavors!”

“Let’s talk about it this weekend. I need to go back to school to train my abs now.”

“…”

Thursday afternoon, warm sun and gentle breeze. Shengshi Advertising Factory called to notify Jiang Qin the materials were finished and being transported. So Zhuang Siyu got a call from Jiang Qin then gathered a large group of student council members to the field to clear the venue.

Those playing cards, dating, playing board games were all asked to leave.

Then, trucks from Shengshi Advertising drove into Linchuan University one after another stopping at the east, south, west, north and podium locations in sequence.

The truck compartments opened and waves of workers in blue uniforms emerged beginning to unload at extreme speed.

Seeing this scene, the twenty plus student council members exchanged looks, scalps tingling.

To be honest, after receiving Zhuang Siyu’s notice, they originally didn’t want to come because without asking, they knew coming this time would definitely mean manual labor.

Someone even changed into clothes that needed washing with two pairs of white gloves in their pockets.

But seeing these dexterous workers, they realized they seemed to not need to work.

“How much would production and installation cost for this much?”

“Don’t know but definitely very expensive.”

“Businessmen really have money, sponsoring a whole field alone, too domineering.”

The student council people whispered and gossiped clearly already knowing who maligned Tan Shipeng in the conference room that day and declared he would sponsor the sports meet.

Jiang Qin, Linchuan University’s entrepreneurial star, boss of Zhihu and group-buy, single-handedly creating the beauty pageant across four schools.

Ever since these titles spread, the student council members finally understood why this guy had no respect for even the student council vice president.

Because let alone the vice president, even the president didn’t have a single title more useful than Jiang Qin’s.

Just as everyone didn’t know what to do and could only stand around chatting, a figure riding a pink electric scooter suddenly appeared on the field, zipping straight to the podium with a woosh.

Everyone stared intently and discovered the person who came was precisely Jiang Qin.

Damn, truly flamboyant, even pink…

The twenty plus people watched him circle the field twice, toss a few packs of cigarettes to the masters unloading, then leisurely come right up to them.

“Junior schoolmate, where’s your car?”

“Recently isn’t low carbon and environmental protection being promoted? I’m also responding to the call with green transportation. This is my sense of responsibility as a people’s entrepreneur.”

The corner of Zhuang Siyu’s mouth twitched thinking this junior really has skill, spewing eloquent rhetoric at the drop of a hat.

Jiang Qin was indeed speaking nonsense because ever since the little rich girl learned to ride an electric scooter, as long as she had no class she would find him acting all aloof letting him take her for rides.

She liked sitting on the back clutching Jiang Qin’s clothes as he rode along the lakeside road back and forth never getting tired of it.

For this reason, Jiang Qin also got used to riding electric scooters and even forgot he had an Audi.

Plus to prevent fires, the dorms didn’t allow charging battery-powered vehicles inside, so this little pink scooter was always charged in 208 and taken out by him.

“Five trucks of materials with production and installation, how much would this cost?”

At this time, the student council vice president Tan Shipeng couldn’t help pointing at the workers and asking.

“Don’t know.”

Jiang Qin shook his head.

“Don’t know?”

“We have a long-term partnership with Shengshi Advertising Factory. Usually for such bulk orders, we produce first then settle payment later. Brother Peng don’t worry, it’s all small change.”

Hearing “Brother Peng”, Tan Shipeng swallowed and averted his gaze not speaking anymore.

Jiang Qin grinned thinking when it’s time to flaunt wealth, one should indeed flaunt because Dean Zhang wasn’t here anyways so there was no point playing poor.

As time passed, over two meter tall PVC boards were erected at the right side of the podium with a bright yellow background displaying the main slogan of Linchuan University’s Spring Sports Meet.

Besides the main slogan, there was another line of large text on the side: “Stay at hotels, eat hot pot, sing karaoke, surf the net, come to group-buy, 40% off everything.”

Furthermore, the dividers outside each event venue were also filled with “group-buy, group-buy, group-buy”.

Even below the “Spring Sports Meet” banner above the podium was another banner filled with “group-buy”.

As the workers gradually laid out the materials, Zhuang Siyu discovered the entire field was covered in “group-buy” with the yellow theme color nearly dizzying.

“Wow, did we poke a group-buy wasp nest?”

The student council cadres were stunned.

“Junior schoolmate, isn’t your advertising a bit too dense?”

Zhuang Siyu also couldn’t help looking at Jiang Qin.

“I initially didn’t plan on making so much either but didn’t Dean Zhang say this sports meet might have TV stations coming to interview? I was afraid they wouldn’t be captured so I printed it all. Oh right, there are flags too, quick look.”

As he spoke, everyone looked ahead and saw workers who finished installing ad boards starting to plant flags around the field.

Next to every Linchuan University flag was a “group-buy” flag.

Zhuang Siyu gave Jiang Qin a deep look thinking junior ah junior, you really got your money’s worth, no wonder you agreed so readily at the meeting.

At dusk, the sky gradually darkened, the workers packed up and left in their trucks, and the Linchuan University field had completely transformed into Jiang Qin’s image.

After returning from the field, Zhuang Siyu showed pictures of the scene to Zhang Boqing instantly leaving Dean Zhang speechless.

“I indeed did not misjudge him…”

At 8 AM the next morning, gentle sunlight, clear weather, each department started mobilizing students to go to the field for this sports meet.

When the entire field was packed with people, a small squad wearing yellow caps entered. Their hats had “group-buy” written on them as they held a stack of flyers and ad fans distributing them from both sides of the podium.

“Stay at hotels, eat hotpot, sing karaoke, surf the net, come to group-buy, 40% off everything.”

“Gather for a meal after the competition, go on group-buy, enjoy 40% off!”

“Eat, drink, play, it’s all here, did you group-buy?”

“New users exclusive 40% off, order on group-buy, spend less to book the most expensive rooms!”

At the same time, a topic thread was specially opened on the Zhihu forum to update competition rankings in real-time mainly pushing online and offline interaction.

“Holy crap, even booking rooms can be 40% off? Take action tonight!”

“We can do hotpot dinners my dorm goes out for a meal together every week.”

“Foot baths and massages… is that appropriate? I’ve never been anyone care to enlighten me?”

“It’s been a while since we had a meal together ever since everyone started dating our dorm relationships grew more distant if I post a group coupon tonight wonder if anyone would go.”

“We can check out the swimming pool do 60% off memberships apply too?”

At this moment Jiang Qin stood to the right of the podium looking down at the sea of yellow caps feeling quite content thinking the money was well spent it really livened up the scene.

He stood for a while when he suddenly saw a few people who looked like teachers walking towards the podium thinking I better leave now don’t want Dean Zhang to catch me and say I’m acting too familiar.