Chapter 87: Unhappy Breakup
Monday, October 17.
In the afternoon, Wei Mingrang received a call from Xie Yi from Jiale Studio: "Wei Mingrang, do you have time to have dinner in the afternoon?"
Wei Mingrang asked, "What's the matter?"
Xie Yi said: "An entertainment agency in Shanghai approached us and wanted to talk to you. Introduced by a friend, it's not easy to push. ”
Wei Mingrang thought for a moment and said, "Okay." ”
In the evening, Wei Mingrang rushed to the agreed hotel, in addition to the four Yiyi brothers, there were three people from a brokerage company in Shanghai, a deputy general manager, a broker, and a legal adviser.
Everyone chatted while eating, and the three people from the brokerage company took turns to tell Wei Mingrang about the various benefits of signing a brokerage company.
After having an exclusive agent and brokerage company, Wei Mingrang can continue to concentrate on learning to write novels, and they go to help Wei Mingrang contact commercial performances, receive advertisements, cut ribbons, be guests, participate in awards, release albums, contact mobile companies to make RBT downloads, and even Wei Mingrang can help contact publishing, copyright sales and other related matters on the side of the novel.
It sounded very professional and worry-free, which made Wei Mingrang quite excited.
As a result, when it came to the commission, the other party actually wanted to draw seventy percent of Wei Ming's income, that is, three or seven points.
In the future, Wei Mingrang will take over commercial performances, advertisements, and albums, and the brokerage company will take seventy percent, and only leave thirty percent for Wei Ming.
When Wei Mingrang heard this, he immediately refused. Not a tactful, an explicit rejection.
It's an international joke.
Wei Mingrang was not discovered and cultivated by themselves.
The real pure newcomers discovered by the talent scouts of those brokerage companies, the brokerage companies have to spend money on training, buying songs, hitting charts, and tackling key problems, and then they start to release albums, run announcements, and receive commercial advertisements to have income.
The brokerage company invests a lot in the early stage, so the proportion of the commission in the later stage is a little higher, three or seven points, or even two or eight points, which is understandable.
But Wei Mingrang's specific situation is completely different, the song was written by Wei Ming, and his fame has already broken out by himself, and now the brokerage company has come to the door, to put it bluntly, it is to pick up the fruit.
This has to be smoked seventy percent, when he Wei Mingrang is a three-year-old child, coaxing ghosts!
No matter what the other party said later, it was a lot of talk, and finally it was reduced to fifty-fifty points, and Wei Mingrang didn't let go at all.
Even if it is divided into fifty or fifty, in Wei Mingrang's opinion, he thinks that he is a pure newcomer and doesn't understand anything, so he comes to pick up cheap and suck his blood, instead of cooperating and helping him.
A meal broke up.
When leaving, Wei Mingrang told Xie Yi that in the future, there would be any brokerage companies that wanted to contact Wei Mingrang through them, and asked the other party to be prepared to only take a 10% commission, otherwise don't contact him.
Xie Yi's brothers suddenly looked like they had seen ghosts.
No matter what, it won't be so low that it will only give 10%, right?
Wei Mingrang is a pure newcomer who only has one song, even if he participates in any large-scale event and has an appearance fee, it may only cost tens of thousands of yuan!
Take the commercial performance venue fee of 50,000 yuan as an example, if the brokerage company only gets 5,000 yuan, people have to send someone from Shanghai to help Wei Mingrang contact, negotiate the contract, arrange clothing, security, itinerary, food and accommodation, what is 5,000 yuan enough for?
Even if Wei Ming is responsible for clothing, security, food and housing, the brokerage company doesn't have much income, what can he do to pay the broker a salary, train new people, and give dividends to the boss?
Unless it is a superstar of the level of Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, and Jet Li, the average star only takes one percent of the income, and the brokerage company and the broker really want to drink the northwest wind.
Wei Mingrang is a superstar who compares his appearance fee to hundreds of thousands and millions.
In fact, Xie Yi didn't know that Wei Mingrang regarded himself as an international superstar in his heart.
With so many songs, novels, shows, movies, and TV series in my mind, and more than ten years of leading time, isn't it reborn in vain if I don't become an international superstar?
At that time, the annual income will be tens of millions and hundreds of millions, and even if it is divided into 10%, it will be a large number.
Of course, Wei Mingrang is just a reference, and there is still room for maneuver when talking about it.
In the puzzled eyes of Xie Yi and several others, Wei Ming let Yang go.
He didn't care if Xie Yi and the others could help him contact the brokerage company, and he was not in a hurry.
Next month, when the novel manuscript fee arrives, you can set up your own studio, and you don't need a brokerage company at all, at most, your experience and connections are poor.
But with what he has in his mind, only others will ask for his share in the future, and the role of experience and connections is not as important to him as outsiders think, and the people in the studio basically only need to do some chores according to his requirements.
When he returned to the dormitory at night, Yao Qiaolin called him on QQ.
Yao Qiaolin: "Wei Mingrang, good news, it's online and back to me." ”
Wei Mingrang asked after going online, "What good news?"
Yao Qiaolin was online and immediately replied: "After hearing you say that there was no newsstand the day before yesterday, I found a place yesterday, put two tables in the entrance hall on the first floor of the largest teaching building, and then ordered more than ten different newspapers and magazines, a total of more than 100 copies, and put them on the table this morning, and also put a cardboard box containing money, indicating that the coin is self-picked. As a result, I went to collect it after school in the afternoon, and all the newspapers and magazines were sold out, not a penny was bad, it was really worry-free, sitting and collecting money!"
Wei Mingrang: "Congratulations, congratulations, are there any classmates and teachers discussing?"
Yao Qiaolin: "Of course, no one in our school really knows about the unmanned newsstand, and they are very supportive of my approach, and everyone is very conscious of it." Just now, the counselor also called to say that the school leaders knew about it, and asked me to persevere, and the school fully supported it to make this unmanned newsstand a business card of our school. ”
Wei Mingrang: "That's good." How much money do you make selling newspapers today?"
Yao Qiaolin: "It's not much, it's only more than 30 yuan, which is not as good as the income of a part-time job, but it's really easy, and I have an income every day! And on the first day of testing the waters, I ordered all the newspapers and magazines, and the number was not much, and the security guard said that it would be sold out in the afternoon, and the people who came later didn't want to buy it." Tomorrow I will order more, there will be more than 10,000 teachers and students in the whole school, and there will always be people who like to read paper newspapers and magazines, and sales will not be a problem at all. Besides, even if you can't sell out that day, you can continue to stay there, anyway, in the entrance hall of the teaching building, the rain can't be drenched, and I don't need to take back the dormitory, which is very convenient. ”
Wei Mingrang: "Then do you still go out for part-time work on weekends?"
Yao Qiaolin: "Go, why don't you go? This unmanned newsstand doesn't have to be guarded anyway, let's earn more money and count it as one!"
Wei Mingrang: "Hmm." But when you have time, you have to hurry up and learn, first learn web page production, how to build a website. ”
Yao Qiaolin: "What are your ideas?"
Wei Mingrang: "It's just some immature ideas, you can learn it first! It just so happens that you are majoring in computer science, so if you don't understand it, ask the teacher." ”
Yao Qiaolin: "Okay. ”