At the Wright Center for Digital Arts, Pixar Animation Studio, near Jobs' office, has a special computer room, which was originally used for video presentations to clients, but now it has become the place where Zhou Ming and Jobs worked.

At half past twelve o'clock at noon, Zhou Ming and Jobs were sitting in front of the computer in the computer room, and the computer screen in front of them was displaying the BBS interface, which was no different from the common forum post bar floor in later generations, the only difference was that compared with later generations, the current BBS function is simple, and there is a limit on the number of words and pictures, the lack of search function, if you want to find the floor, you must turn page by page and so on.

After refreshing the interface again, and seeing that the floor did not continue to update, Jobs said to Zhou Ming: "It seems that this morning is here, let's go to dinner first, my secretary has come to remind me twice, if I don't go to eat again, I think my health scientist will not let me go." ”

Seeing that Zhou Ming frowned and did not move, Jobs then said to him: "I can understand your feelings, I know that you must hope that our news can get a lot of attention on BBS, but maybe we are in the wrong place, or maybe there are not as many people who pay attention to the Internet as we imagined, at least so far, all the people who speak on the Internet are basically our own people, and few others participate." ”

Zhou Ming nodded silently, it has been three full days since he sent the first message out.

During these three days, in addition to eating and sleeping, Zhou Ming has been staying in this computer room of Pixar Animation Studio and staring at BBS, so he knows the direction of his remarks very well. At present, their posts are still at the top due to the reason for the constant replies to be received, but the attention is actually not as high as expected, and most of the replies are their own people, and almost no one else is involved in the discussion of this topic.

Is it really that you are looking in the wrong direction, there are not so many Internet users now, or is it the wrong way to choose yourself?

Zhou Ming didn't understand, he then went to the restaurant with Jobs to have lunch, Jobs said to Zhou Ming: "I don't mean to offend you, but I think we still thought things were too simple at the beginning, the Internet is indeed a good channel for convenience and cost reduction, and I also believe that in the near future, this will be a very good marketing method." ”

Jobs paused at this point, then changed the conversation and continued: "But the current BBS may not be as good as we think, at least not as obvious in the number of users. ”

"So Mr. Zhou Ming, why don't we choose to think about other publicity plans? Even if we spend a little more money, I am very confident in Toy Story, if I use this project to finance, I can still get a lot of investment, so the publicity cost can be increased. Jobs said, "And now with Mr. Zhou Ming's ideas, there will not be much resistance to the replacement plan." ”

"To be honest, I'm still very confident in my plan, and even though the situation is not ideal, I still think it's the best option. Zhou Ming said with a wry smile.

Jobs wanted to say something, but Zhou Ming said first: "I'm not too paranoid when I say this, I just want to find out what went wrong and correct him, of course, if Jobs can think of a better way, of course, it's the best." ”

"Well, I'll go back to Paro City first and see if I can find the problem. Zhou Ming said.

Although Jobs wanted to keep Zhou Ming, he also understood that the current Toy Story publicity plan was the most urgent thing to solve, so he didn't keep it anymore. And for Zhou Ming, he didn't want to pick on anything or anything, but now that he was facing the computer all day long, he really didn't have any ideas, so it was better to walk around and see if there could be any new ideas and directions, so that afternoon, Zhou Ming drove back to Paro City.

Hearing the news of Zhou Ming's return, Tang Ran was happy as if she had won the five million lottery, she took Zhou Ming to a newly opened café on California Street, Tang Ran told Zhou Ming that this was opened by Xiaoxue and her friends in partnership, and her friends mainly injected capital, she was responsible for business promotion, and it has only been open for a few days.

Xiaoxue playfully asked Zhou Ming and Tang Ran, the two big bosses, to support her business, and Zhou Ming generously ordered all the expensive things in the café, Zhou Ming's generosity made Xiaoxue very happy, I believe that if Tang Ran was not here, she was afraid that she would be happy to kiss Zhou Ming.

After ordering something, Zhou Ming Tang Ran and Xiaoxue sat down, Zhou Ming asked curiously if Xiaoxue didn't live in San Francisco's Chinatown? Why did she come to Paro City to open a store? You must know that although Paro City still belongs to San Francisco, it is still more than an hour's drive, which is still relatively far, and speaking of Paro City, it may not be better than San Francisco, not to mention that San Francisco is still the place where Chinese people gather the most, so why shouldn't they make a special trip to Paro City to open a store.

Xiaoxue told Zhou Ming that it was because she was studying here, and because the classmates she partnered with were all in Paro City, so she came over.

"I didn't expect Xiaoxue that you are still a top student at Stanford University? If I'm not mistaken, there is only Stanford University here in Paro. Zhou Ming asked in surprise.

Zhou Ming can't help but be surprised, you must know that Stanford University is a famous university on the same level as Harvard, and the number of billionaires who have come out of Stanford is also the most, of course, it does not mean that as long as you go to Stanford University, you will definitely become a billionaire, and you will not be able to start a business again, but at least it will definitely be an excellent talent that many high-tech companies are rushing to want.

Maybe Xiaoxue is low-key and too honest to tell that she is a graduate of Stanford University, but her classmates shouldn't be like this, opening a store together, isn't this what any ordinary college graduate does?

Faced with this question, Xiaoxue replied embarrassedly: "I studied at Stanford University's Otto School of Management. ”

"Although I didn't go to college, I heard that the name should be Stanford University, I didn't expect you to be so powerful, Xiaoxue......"

Before Tang Ran's words were finished, Zhou Ming grabbed her, because as a reborn, Zhou Ming understood too well that Xiaoxue was actually a second-level college with the name of Stanford University, but it was actually not directly related to Stanford University.

In this era, domestic universities are not as widespread as in later generations, and those who can enter the university are the pride of the sky, and they are all looked down upon when they go out, Tang Ran doesn't know much about universities, so he doesn't understand the term secondary colleges.

Xiaoxue smiled at Zhou Ming very gratefully, and she immediately changed the topic and said, "By the way, Brother Zhou Ming, I heard that you are making a movie now, right? Is there anything we can help with? Or can we also temporarily go in and play a cameo role or something?"

Zhou Ming spread his hands helplessly: "If I can, I will definitely find a way, but I'm sorry that it's an animated movie, all produced by computers, and it doesn't need any real people to star." ”

"I see, that's a pity, in fact, I also want to act. Xiaoxue said very regretfully, but then he said, "But Brother Zhou Ming, if you need my help, please tell me." ”

Originally, Zhou Ming wanted to politely push it away, but then Zhou Ming suddenly thought of something, so Zhou Ming said again: "Don't say that, because I'm really busy with you now." ”

"Really, what's the busy?" Xiao Xue hurriedly asked, her eyes were very sincere, and there was no pretentiousness.

Zhou Ming thought about this for a while and then asked: "Before I say what is busy, I want to ask you first, do you know BBS, do you know which BBS is the most popular now?"

Xiaoxue nodded and said, "Of course I know, many of my classmates are playing this!, but I really don't know which BBS is the most popular, but my classmates and I are mainly in Stanford, California and the Chinese community.

Zhou Ming told Xiaoxue that he was promoting this movie on BBS, and Xiaoxue was puzzled when she heard it: "But I haven't heard that there are any movies on BBS that are being promoted now." ”

"Then have you and your classmates ever heard a story about how toys can become a world of their own at home after the soul of a toy and its owner are gone?" Zhou Ming asked again.

Xiaoxue first nodded and said yes, and then immediately reacted and asked: "Brother Zhou Ming, is this the movie you promote? This is really cool, toys can have their own souls, I really can't wait, when will he be released, my friends and I will definitely support the cinema!"

Facing Xiaoxue's questions one after another, Zhou Ming said with a smile: "I can talk about the release later, but I really hope that you and your classmates can help me participate more in the discussion and attention of toy souls and supernatural events at home on BBS." ”

Seeing that Xiaoxue didn't seem to understand, Zhou Ming asked Xiaoxue's friend to take out his laptop, connected to the Internet in the café, opened BBS, and found the post about the toy supernatural incident.

Seeing this post, Xiaoxue's friend was immediately surprised: "I have seen this post, and I have also argued with my friend about whether toys have souls or not, and whether they will have their own world when we leave the house, my God, did he post it by you?"

"I think I'm sorry for that, but please keep it a secret for me. Zhou Ming smiled and said, with Xiaoxue's friend's words, Zhou Ming already has enough confidence, obviously the posts he posted have received attention, but these attention has not really been stimulated.

Xiaoxue's friend readily agreed to keep it secret, and Zhou Ming then said: "So what I want to do you for help today is to hope that you can help me on the Internet to continue to reply to this post, or other related posts in the future, on the one hand, to say your own thoughts, on the other hand, to guide others to follow your thinking, this job is not difficult, I believe you are so smart that you will be able to do it." ”

"Of course," Zhou Ming continued, "I won't let you do it for nothing, I can pay you a dollar for each reply that exceeds 256 bytes and does not repeat it, you can do it as if it were a part-time job, but you must sign a confidentiality agreement." ”

In the face of Zhou Ming's request, Xiaoxue immediately said happily: "Of course there is no problem, I know a few friends, they all like to play BBS on the Internet the most, if I tell him now that he can still make money playing BBS, he will definitely jump up with joy! And I have a classmate, he is also the administrator of the Stanford University community, he has a very wide range of contacts, and he will definitely be able to help Zhou Ming's big brother you publicize it to everyone!"

"Administrator? That's a very good position. Zhou Ming was overjoyed.