Chapter 297: Always Thinking About Your Abs

Group-buying only started being promoted city-wide this year. The overwhelming marketing ads also began entering the public eye at that time.

So when many people interested in group-buying investigated Jiang Qin, they mostly looked at information from the past six months. But after today’s seminar concluded, the merchants with collaboration intentions began shifting their focus to study Jiang Qin from before this year.

Then they discovered that although Jiang Qin was suspected of exaggeration, group-buying’s meteoric rise in a short time really was due to capturing Zhihu’s huge traffic bonus.

More critically, they also investigated a milk tea shop called Xitian.

This milk tea shop’s branches are currently rapidly expanding in Linchuan City proper. There are as many as five branches under renovation, squeezing out other milk tea brands.

Whether students or white-collar workers, if you don’t drink Xitian milk tea, it’s like you’re an outsider.

In other words, there are only two kinds of milk tea in Linchuan. One is called Xitian, the other is milk tea from other shops.

But according to information released by an unknown person, over a year ago, this milk tea shop was in a half-dead state. Then just by title-sponsoring Zhihu’s campus beauty contest, it was completely revived.

More importantly, this milk tea shop still hasn’t opened group-buying online purchase channels to this day. It can only be bought offline.

This is a brand that truly hasn’t ridden the group-buying trend and got popular just through Zhihu marketing.

This kind of evidence gave many bosses wanting to get onboard more confidence. It also made hesitant bosses start to waver.

It turns out group-buying’s brilliance isn’t because the project is really that strong. It completely grasped the secret to monetizing traffic. Isn’t this what they want?

“Old Zhao, did you find out? Is what he said in the meeting true?”

“Mm, I already had a friend verify it. The Nongfu Spring marketing ad was indeed written by Jiang Qin.”

“‘We don’t produce water, we only transport it for nature.’ Damn, this is too incredible. How did he come up with it?”

“This shows CEO Jiang’s strongest ability isn’t making websites, but doing internet marketing. I was blind before. I’ve decided to get onboard.”

“Weren’t you worried about promotion effects?”

“Old Liu, don’t you get it? Even if Zhihu’s conversion rate is really low, as long as Jiang Qin can provide a marketing plan, the money is absolutely well-spent. Truly good marketing ads can revive a brand.”

“Couldn’t it be a coincidence?”

“Nongfu Spring, Xitian, group-buying, Wanzhong Mall. His successful marketing can’t all be coincidences each time, right? That would be too damn lucky!”

“…”

The Linchuan municipal government’s industry upgrade seminar lasted three days. In the end, constructive suggestions regarding establishing the Linchuan Business Group were adopted. Taking Zhihu’s promotion as an opportunity, a city-wide business alliance was launched.

That day, eight local brands signed strategic cooperation agreements with Jiang Qin’s Zhihu, becoming the first batch of Linchuan Business Group members.

The other chain enterprise bosses were still hesitant, but their willingness to cooperate was obviously much stronger than before.

To be honest, the cooperation threshold Jiang Qin set was actually very low. It was just these brands’ six-month marketing budget. There was no situation of forcing anyone.

When it came to marketing, Jiang Qin just wanted to see if Linchuan businessmen had the courage to follow him into a completely new track.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fifth day. The number of brands joining the strategic cooperation agreement had reached sixteen, half of which were enterprises previously pessimistic about Zhihu.

Businessmen are like this. When they’re cautious, they’re really cautious. But when it’s time to admit defeat, they really dare to admit defeat.

There were even some local mine bosses with lots of money urgently seeking to transform. They directly registered a company first without even hiring employees and signed the agreement.

Jiang Qin, as the “Wu Yanzu of Jizhou”, “First Learning Star of Linchuan University”, and “Young Linchuan Entrepreneur”, had established his identity. He couldn’t personally handle everything, so he threw all the signing matters to the Business Department.

So every day, people successively visited the group-buying Business Department office at Wanzhong Headquarters, racing to sign agreements.

Seeing this scene, Yue Zhu, who also served as the group-buying branch manager, was dumbfounded. Sun Zhi, in charge of the Business Department, was dumbfounded. The Business Department people were dumbfounded. Even the entire branch’s people were dumbfounded.

What on earth did this strategic cooperation agreement mean?

Actually, it was very simple. After you signed the agreement, I could take your money to make my own website. Listen, does this fucking make sense?

The boss played this barehanded fleece the wolves move damn well. He straight up poked the wolf den!

The key question was, what the hell were these Linchuan businessmen thinking?

Were there really people who would foolishly rush to be taken advantage of? Yue Zhu felt she couldn’t understand. Those big bosses couldn’t be stupid if they could build their businesses. How come when they met CEO Jiang, it was like their IQ dropped? If it were her, she definitely wouldn’t allow herself to be taken advantage of.

Wait, when Yue Zhu thought of this, she suddenly froze. Then she realized a key problem.

She was now standing in the Wanzhong branch, also serving as this place’s general manager. Hadn’t she also been fiercely taken advantage of by Jiang Qin?

Oh, so that’s how it is…

From college students to entrepreneurs, everyone was a piece in Jiang Qin’s game. The reason they couldn’t wake up was just that the one in the situation is lost while the onlooker sees clearly.

Could everyone in this world be manipulated by CEO Jiang as he wished? Was there not a single person who could manipulate CEO Jiang?

…

“Jiang Qin, I want to touch your abs.”

In the Vienna Hotel, Jiang Qin was packing his luggage preparing to return to Jizhou. Suddenly, he saw the aloof-looking Feng Nanshu run over and whimper.

“For what purpose do you want to touch my abs?”

Jiang Qin covered his chest with both hands, showing a wary expression. He felt the little rich girl wanted to trick him into sexy time.

The little rich girl pursed her ruddy little mouth. “I don’t know either. But whenever I think of your abs, I want to touch them.”

“Since when did you start thinking about my abs?”

“I…”

Feng Nanshu was in a daze for a moment. “Jiang Qin, I seem to be thinking about them all the time.”

Jiang Qin lifted his clothes and glanced, then raised his head with a solemn expression. “Little rich girl, we are good friends. We can’t have too much physical contact. It’s not right.”

“But you ate my feet.”

“…”

After a while, Jiang Qin lifted his shirt and closed his eyes. He felt a fragrant, soft little hand pressed over and thought it was over. This time he was completely grasped by Feng Nanshu.

The old saying was indeed true. When you take favors, you’re at others’ mercy. When you eat others’ food, you can’t retort. After eating good stuff, don’t you have to pay? The most charming is indeed the most dangerous.

At first calling him big brother, then holding hands. After that hugging, and she liked to sit on his lap rubbing around. Now it turned into groping. Then what’s next?

Good friends are really just a child away from girlfriends, huh? But I have no interest in dating at all!

“Feng Nanshu.”

“Hm?”

“Ravage your best friend more gently.”

Feng Nanshu showed a delighted expression, her moist eyes incredibly lively. It was completely the look of a little schemer succeeding. Then she saw Jiang Qin’s phone constantly vibrating in her hand and couldn’t help reaching out curiously.

“Don’t casually move it. It could be disastrous.” Jiang Qin’s voice was incredibly hoarse.

In the afternoon, the setting sun shining late, the temperature still high, Jiang Qin brought Feng Nanshu back to Jizhou, returning to familiar old land.

He did many things this summer vacation – market research, finalizing strategic cooperation, and subscribing to Wanzhong’s shares. It could be said the gains were abundant.

But long periods of work truly made one feel exhausted. So for the remaining half month, he decided not to go out anymore. He would properly idle at home and enjoy the leisurely holiday.

Getting fat couldn’t be done in one bite. To manage time like this, Jiang Qin was already very satisfied with himself.

Of course, being idle didn’t mean doing nothing. Just right, the strategic agreements were done, market research was also done. Currently the only thing left was Zhihu itself.

He didn’t have enough technical ability, so he couldn’t help much on Su Nai’s side. So he began researching content direction issues with Dong Wenhao.

No matter how good the technology or marketing, without good content it was hard to retain people.

So, in the following period of time, Jiang Qin was always studying the content produced after launching the Top 100 Bloggers plan. He discovered that after sincere monetary creation incentives, the things some female bloggers played with were getting more and more exciting, extremely harmful to the body.

This was because internet regulation hadn’t caught up. Otherwise, sooner or later Dong Wenhao would have to go eat some government meals.

“Hm?”

“What is this?”

Jiang Qin moved the mouse and clicked open the newly developed hot search list section.

Although Zhihu mainly targeted the college student market with content requirements infinitely close to college life, college students weren’t “hearing nothing outside the window, single-mindedly reading only the sages’ books”. So he not only had to specialize in producing college content but also introduce a place to pay attention to social news.

If Zhihu could only partially produce college content, but once students wanted to learn about society they could only go to other websites, this undoubtedly would bury the hidden danger of user loss.

It’s just that this hot search list was still in beta. The content on the list wasn’t social news but a ranking of popular forum posts.

The reason Jiang Qin suddenly paid attention to this section that hadn’t passed final testing was actually because he saw a post that had been upvoted to No. 1.

[New work “Loving You in the Name of Friends” first five chapters released, adapted from a true story, author: Sugar-Crunching Huihui]

[Table of Contents]

[Chapter One: Wanting A Good Friend]

[Chapter Two: He Kicked Me]

[Chapter Three: Wanting To Go Out And Play With Him]

[Chapter Four: I Don’t Know What Loneliness Is At All]

[Chapter Five: A Bit Lonely Without My Good Friend Around]

Jiang Qin froze for a moment, thinking what the hell is this ghostly thing. How come just the chapter titles gave such a strong sense of immersion?