Liu Limin asked suspiciously: "Weidong, do you mean to become bigger and stronger, is there a specific concept, or a more straightforward indicator?"

Lin Weidong nodded and said: "Of course there is, I personally think that only by being the first in the whole network and the first in the country can we be regarded as truly bigger and stronger!"

"No. 1 in the country? Do you know how many literary forums there are in the country? If you want to be No. 1 in the country, it's not easy to talk ......," Liu Limin said worriedly.

Without waiting for Lin Weidong to answer, Liu Limin continued: "Weidong, I think you should lower your goals, such as we strive to enter the top ten on the whole network, or the top five on the whole network." ”

Lin Weidong shook his head and said bluntly: "Senior sister, you don't know about the Internet, let me tell you this, the Internet industry is only the first, there is no second, not to mention the top five and top ten." ”

Although in the traditional industry, Lin Weidong has seen many examples of the two opposing giants going hand in hand after the dust of industry competition has settled.

For example, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, McDonald's and KFC, Nike and Adidas......

However, compared with traditional industries, the Internet industry does have this saying.

For example, after Baidu, Google's search engine is struggling, and in the IM field, QQ is becoming more and more powerful, and MSN is gradually declining and doing nothing.

The other IMs, even if they are tenacious and haven't fallen yet, are just dying and struggling.

However, Liu Limin obviously disagreed with Lin Weidong's statement, and retorted: "Weidong, your point of view is too absolute, I think that a literary website, even if it can't be the first on the whole network, it may not be able to survive." ”

After listening to Liu Limin's words, Lin Weidong reflected in his heart for a moment, and realized that his words were a little too absolute and arbitrary.

Thinking of this, Lin Weidong muttered: "Even if the second, third, and the last generation can survive, their market share will be quite narrow, and the gap with the first will get bigger and bigger." ”

Liu Limin nodded thoughtfully, and then asked: "Then how long do you think we will have to persist in order to be the first in the whole network and achieve the commercialization you said?"

Lin Weidong thought for a while and said frankly: "Actually, to be honest, I'm not sure, maybe half a year, maybe a year, or two years, but I'm sure it will definitely not be more than three years." ”

Liu Limin asked again: "What if it really takes three years? Have you ever thought about how much money you need to invest in it?"

Lin Weidong persuaded: "Senior sister, you don't need to worry about money, I will figure it out myself." ”

The reason why Liu Limin asked this is also to put herself in her shoes, considering Lin Weidong's current situation.

It is conceivable that in addition to paying the author regularly every month, Lin Weidong also has to pay the store rent, the wages of the employees, etc., which is a lot of money inside and out.

According to Liu Limin's estimates, Lin Weidong spends at least 30,000 yuan per month on manuscript fees, salaries, store rent, Internet fees and other items, not including the cost of purchasing website space and servers.

It's just that Liu Limin underestimated Lin Weidong's ability and financial resources after all.

In fact, for Lin Weidong, spending 30,000 or even 50,000 yuan a month to invest in the operation of Century Chinese Network is completely within the affordable range.

However, then again, if you want to grow and develop a website, it is definitely not possible to rely only on crazy money burning and rapid expansion, and the failure of William Zhu and Banyan has set up the most realistic negative teaching material for Lin Weidong.

Moreover, as early as when Lin Weidong decided to do Century Chinese Network, he had already prepared for the worst, and he also expected that such a thing might be encountered.

What's more, the problem that Lin Weidong is encountering now is a real problem that all Internet websites will face.

Whether it is Tencent or Alibaba, when they first started, they were destined to face a situation where they could not make ends meet, or even only get in and out.

In recent years, many Internet companies have finally gone from glory to extinction because of the bubble of the Internet economy and the inability to find a way to make profits.

In this regard, Lin Weidong has long been mentally prepared, and Lin Weidong knows in his heart that this is a very difficult road.

However, Lin Weidong also believes that if Century Chinese can be successful, it can also bring him a steady stream of money.

Of course, money is not the only purpose of Lin Weidong to start Century Chinese, because he was a reader and an online writer, and he understands the needs of readers and authors better than anyone else.

In addition to realizing self-worth and making money, Lin Weidong also wants to support and encourage more authors in the process of development through the establishment of Century Chinese Network, so that they can have the conditions to create original literature, and readers can see better and more wonderful online articles, which is his ultimate ideal.

On the other hand, Liu Limin's arrival also made Lin Weidong's work much easier, at least when he needed to employ people, there was still Liu Limin who could command, and he didn't have to call Wang Taoxin as desperately as before.

While Lin Weidong was low-key preparing for the Century Chinese Network, in addition to Dragon Sky, other literary websites had to constantly look for ways to make money in order to pay for increasingly expensive space costs.

In the case of the depression of online advertising, they all set the goal on physical publishing, and actively looked for ways to publish simplified Chinese while publishing traditional Chinese books as an agent.

Most book stations, such as Cuiwei, Tianying, and Phantom Sword Book League, have made attempts to publish in simplified Chinese, but most of them have failed.

So far, only Dragon's Sky has successfully published two books, "Lost Continent" and "Weishilu" in May 2001.

However, what the founding team of Dragon Sky did not expect was that those bookholders who claimed "I will buy a book if you publish it" during serialization disappeared without a trace like a family, and there were even fewer orders.

Analysts who ridiculed the number of sales of fantasy in Taiwan were shocked.

May 20th.

After two months of preparation, Lin Weidong led Wang Taoxin and Liu Limin to promote their Century Chinese Network in the Dragon Sky and the major literary forums of the Phantom Sword Book Alliance.

According to common sense, Lin Weidong will definitely be deleted if he promotes his own website on other websites.

But in fact, with the exception of the wealthy Banyan Tree, all literary forums, including Dragon's Sky, are created by writers or readers.

Because all the literary forums don't make money, because all the sites are unprofitable, most of them don't think about the appearance of a new website that will have any impact on them.

Of course, what amazed them was not the birth of Century Chinese Network, but the remuneration and bonuses of Century Chinese Network.

Soon, Century Chinese.com's recommendation ticket remuneration reward system spread in the author circle, and authors who are keen on creation rushed to inform, which was even happier than the festival.

"Everyone remembers, Century Chinese Network officially opened on Children's Day on June 1st!"

"I heard that the first place in the recommendation list has 1,000 yuan, the second place is 800 yuan, and the third place is ......."

"Don't think about the top three, it must be the author of their company's own designation, let's strive to be in the top 20, maybe there is hope to drink soup." ”

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