Chapter 277: The Little Rich Girl Has Walked the Whole Road

The attributes of Pintuan and Zhihu are different. The former sells goods, the latter is social networking. So which one is easier to promote?

Without asking, of course it’s Zhihu.

If Pintuan wants to promote outward, it must forcibly change everyone’s consumption patterns before the trend arrives, which is like going against the current, time-consuming and laborious.

But Zhihu itself has the attribute of being trendy and sexy, it’s a forum that gathers high-quality content and social interaction. In this day and age, open social circles are still the most popular way of socializing for young people.

Therefore, rather than promoting Pintuan painstakingly before the trend arrives, Zhihu is the easiest channel to blossom nationwide.

The way of doing business is not pushing a stone up a mountain. Not only is it tiring, but you can be hit by falling rocks at any time. The best way is to climb to the top of the mountain first and casually throw a stone, then it can roll to the destination.

In other words, when the capital is waiting, as long as he can quickly capture the university town market through Zhihu, once the trend appears, Pintuan can fiercely roll down with Zhihu and even avoid a lot of business competition.

Hiding the sword is for the purpose of revealing the sword, definitely not for seclusion.

However, Ye Ziqing is quite an interesting person. She may really love this project infinitely, so she won’t haggle over gains and losses.

Jiang Qin plans to observe for a while first, have more contact with this senior sister, and when it’s time to use people, morally kidnap her a bit!

What? I have no morals?

Hahaha, what does it matter?

Moral kidnapping doesn’t require the kidnapper to have morals, as long as the kidnapped has morals, it’s fine.

“By the way, when are you going back to Ji Zhou?” Jiang Qin looked at Feng Nanshu.

“Early tomorrow morning.”

Jiang Qin silently calculated his itinerary, “I probably need to stay for another two or three days to deal with some trivial matters.”

Feng Nanshu looked around and suddenly lowered her voice, “There seems to be no one around here, we can watch a movie first.”

“You said what I wanted to say, so what should I say?”

“You say, little rich girl, come here and let me hug you.” Feng Nanshu taught him seriously.

In a blink of an eye, the sun set, the dusk sky was half bright and half dark, a piece of mottled light. A lone wild goose flew past the sky, passing the last ray of light before the dark night.

“Howl’s Moving Castle” had finished playing, the progress bar gradually reached the end, then the music stopped and the storm video automatically jumped to the black standby page.

Feng Nanshu, who was sitting in Jiang Qin’s arms, stretched out her hand casually. When Jiang Qin wasn’t paying attention, she seamlessly switched the movie they just watched to the next one, pretending that she had been watching this one all along.

She’s really super good at little actions like this, just like stealing sips of Jiang Qin’s alcohol.

“Finished watching? Go, I’ll send you back.”

Feng Nanshu said coldly, “It’s not over yet, look, the movie has just begun.”

“Feng Nanshu, do you think I’m a fool?” Jiang Qin looked at him seriously.

“I won’t look at you, I want to focus on watching the movie.”

“Actually, I also like watching movies with my best friend, but I have an appointment tonight.”

“Will you drink tonight?” Feng Nanshu suddenly turned her head to look at him, her eyes glistening.

Jiang Qin instantly understood what the little rich girl was thinking in her mind, “I won’t drink, and I’m going to Juxian Building in the city center. Even if I drink, you won’t be able to ride there to pick me up.”

“I think I can try.” Feng Nanshu’s tone was serious and earnest.

“You’re quite confident, but I don’t agree. You should go back and sleep well tonight. When you return to Ji Zhou, I’ll take you to the cinema to watch a real movie.”

At night, when the lights first came on, Jiang Qin sent the little rich girl back to the dormitory. He drove to Juxian Building to attend the banquet and meet Wang Peixiang from Vienna Hotel Chain and Zhang Qiao from Hongjin Dining & Entertainment.

Since Pintuan began promoting in the city center, Jiang Qin had been hiding behind the scenes and had not met these merchants in society.

And this appearance was Jiang Qin’s precious first time.

“General Manager Jiang, we finally meet you in person. You are really young and promising.”

“General Manager Wang and General Manager Zhang, you two are really too polite. I’m just an ordinary college student. If you don’t mind, just call me Azu.”

Jiang Qin shook hands with the two of them and sat down in his seat.

Vienna and Hongjin Dining & Entertainment were not local companies in Linchuan. They also had their own businesses in other provinces and cities, and their headquarters were also established in other places.

And Wang Peixiang and Zhang Qiao were not the real bosses, more accurately they should be called regional managers.

The purpose of their meeting with Jiang Qin this time was not just to eat a meal. It was an order from the head office. They wanted to ask Jiang Qin if Pintuan really had any plans to promote outward.

If so, they could provide money and effort. The only requirement was to become Pintuan’s chief partner.

Because after experiencing Pintuan’s two sharp marketing campaigns, the surge in customer traffic on Linchuan’s side was really shocking, making the management at the headquarters taste the sweetness and always want more.

To be honest, the current advertising and marketing, whether television or internet, could not compare to the highly targeted Pintuan in terms of effectiveness.

So if Pintuan had a nationwide promotion plan, these two companies both wanted to ride the momentum.

Jiang Qin pondered for a long time. He originally wanted to use the same tactics he used on Ye Ziqing to deal with them, but after thinking about it, he felt it wouldn’t work.

He had no business dealings with Ye Ziqing, but Vienna and Hongjin were different. Pintuan was sure to have its day of sudden rise. At that time, he really needed to unite with these national big merchants.

Because for O2O platforms, merchants that could provide high-quality services were the lifeline of the entire platform. Without high-quality merchants in the early stage, everything would just be empty talk.

So Jiang Qin didn’t completely reject them, only saying that all of Pintuan’s subsequent plans were still under planning, and he would notify them first thing if there was any news.

After dinner, Wang Peixiang and Zhang Qiao saw Jiang Qin off at the restaurant entrance and watched him drive away. They couldn’t help but look at each other.

“This General Manager Jiang, although young, I can feel a very strong aura from his words and deeds, which always makes me want to invite him to eat, it’s really uncanny.”

“It seems that ambition is not related to age. But why does he always insist on us calling him Azu?” Wang Peixiang was a little confused.

Zhang Qiao folded his arms, “Azu may be his nickname. Calling him that sounds close and hits a note of being approachable.”

“Makes sense…”

Early the next morning, after sending the little rich girl on her way, Jiang Qin came to 208. At this time, Wei Lanlan, Tan Qing and Dong Wenhao had all returned from the banquet and reported the dinner situation to him.

In fact, their experiences were all similar, with companies that had business in other provinces or cities or wanted to do business outside, hoping to borrow the momentum to expand their business outward.

This showed that Linchuan’s news had gradually begun to have an impact in business circles.

For some partner merchants, they saw a better future through Pintuan and were eager to get on board, wanting to fly higher.

Dong Wenhao and the others did not reply on the spot, because they also knew the importance of merchants to Pintuan, so they brought the issue back for Jiang Qin to decide.

This was the benefit of not letting Lu Feiyu go.

If Old Lu went, wouldn’t he just slam the table and say, no promotion, our boss said no promotion means no promotion, I heard it for real, everyone hurry back and go to sleep!

Look, what an honest and trustworthy news practitioner.

“Boss, how should we reply?”

“Actually, this is a good thing. Having national chain companies seeking cooperation with us will be the best asset Pintuan can have in the future.”

Dong Wenhao rubbed his chin, “But our original plan was to promote Zhihu. Isn’t it better for Pintuan to keep a low profile during the dormant period? Saying that a dog won’t do it in the news, but secretly colluding with major companies behind the scenes will definitely attract attention.”

Jiang Qin patted the table, “It’s still the same words. Before thinking about the problem, look at the essence through the phenomenon first. Think, what do they want?”

“They want to borrow the momentum to make big money.”

“Yes, they don’t care if the momentum is stirred up by Pintuan or Zhihu. If they want to borrow the momentum, Zhihu can also do it.”

Wei Lanlan seemed to understand a little, “When there was no Pintuan, Zhihu’s initial monetization function was forum advertising, and the effect was actually not bad, it’s just not as directly targeted as Pintuan.”

Jiang Qin nodded, “That’s right. If we don’t want to lose partners, but also don’t want to expose too quickly, then we’ll tie them all to Zhihu’s chariot. At worst, we’ll be a little cheaper, but at least the coverage is wide and the speed is extremely fast.”

“Promoting Pintuan with merchants may require a whole new promotion plan.” Dong Wenhao looked pensive.

“The business department has no summer or winter vacation, the working people are always on the road. Let’s leave the new plan to them. Lanlan, go and connect with them in the afternoon.”

“I’m very worried about my workplace life after graduation.”

“Huh?”

Wei Lanlan laughed, “I’m just joking, boss.”

“Alright, dismiss the meeting, I won’t delay your time to go home. I’ll give you two days off during the trip as compensation. Goodbye.”

Looking at the boss’s departing figure, the three looked at each other, thinking what the heck, the trip was already during the vacation, why give another two days off? The boss must be too busy and confused recently.

In the next three days, Jiang Qin worked from early morning to late at night, busy and happy.

On the 1st of the month, he took the Wanzhong branch for a team building activity, deepening familiarity with the staff of the business department and marketing department.

After all, they were the pioneers of cross-provincial business, and the importance must be grasped.

On the 2nd of the month, he was invited to attend a business meeting organized by the Linchuan municipal government to discuss the industrial upgrading of Linchuan in an all-round way.

At the meeting, many Linchuan leaders were full of curiosity about Jiang Qin. Some invited him to dinner, some to wash feet, all kinds.

Although the prosperity of Linchuan’s market was not high, the businessmen were really rich one by one. Jiang Qin lowered his posture and accepted all invitations, almost washing his feet bare.

“General Manager Jiang, this is Director Qian, he has…a lot of mines in his hands and even invested in two TV dramas last year.”

“Come, come, General Manager Sun, let me introduce you. This is General Manager Jiang of Pintuan, the youngest member of our chamber of commerce so far.”

“Girl, don’t sing that love song, order ‘Towards the Sky and Borrow 500 More Years’, I’ll show General Manager Jiang my singing!”

“Watch the iron hooves clatter, treading across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains~”

“Mr. Jiang, I came all the way from the neighboring city. I want to open seven or eight chain convenience stores in Linchuan. Mr. He from Wanzhong is an old friend of mine. He told me to borrow a light from you to smoke a cigarette.”

In the resplendent business KTV, Jiang Qin, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, shook hands from all directions. He called the middle-aged Linchuan businessmen brothers, not falling short in the slightest.

Many people would be puzzled, thinking this young man was clearly not even twenty years old, but his temperament was surprisingly mature. In response, Jiang Qin just smiled without saying a word.

Who would know that hidden beneath a shell like this, as if Sheng Yanzu had won over Guo Rongyong, was an old man who had experienced the vicissitudes of a forty-year-old’s life?

Moreover, he was also Linchuan’s first “Star of Learning”. If this got out, it would simply scare someone to death!