Chapter Eighty-Seven: Group Buying Men
Out of politeness, Hu Yiming still took Huo Huo to his office and closed the door.
The two sat down facing each other, and Hu Yiming glanced at Huo Huo. Huo Huo is still beautiful, but he hasn't seen him for less than a year, and there are still some more vicissitudes between his eyebrows.
Relatively speechless, after a minute of silence, Huo Huo still spoke first and said, "I broke up with that person." ”
Hu Yiming didn't know what to answer, so he had to say one word: "Oh." ”
Huo Huo saw that Hu Yiming didn't follow her words and asked, and didn't care about the story of her and the stupid man in the three suites, so he had to say again: "After seeing you last time, I searched for a lot of news related to you on the Internet. The Xiaoxiao, Zhiling, Dandan, and Bai Yaqin I saw last time are all employees of your company. ”
Hu Yiming still only said one word: "Hmm." ”
Huo Huo continued: "Last time, they said that they would ask you to dinner, ask you to see the stars, and kiss you, all of them were acting for me, right?"
Hu Yiming smiled and vaguely guessed Huo Huo's intention. Hu Yiming didn't use mind reading, Huo Huo guessed that it was not difficult to guess that this was a script, Hu Yiming wanted to watch her quietly and continue.
So, Hu Yiming replied a few more words: "Yes, you guessed right." ”
Huo Huo saw Hu Yiming laughing, and finally mustered up the courage and asked, "Did you hate me very much at that time?"
Hearing this question, Hu Yiming answered truthfully: "It was indeed a little bit at the time, but after Xiaoxiao, Zhiling, Dandan, and Bai Yaqin finished the play, I was relieved." Everyone has the right to choose their own path. ”
Huo Huo lowered his head and thought for a while, as if he had plucked up his courage again, and finally said: "Brother Hu, I saw a line a few days ago, where there is love, there will be hate." You hated me at the time, do you still love me? Can I go back again?"
After Huo Huo said this, his body trembled a little. Hu Yiming remembered that before Hu Yiming, many things were hinted at by Huo Huo's simple words, Hu Yiming understood her mind, and he would do it according to her mind.
And this time, maybe Huo Huo thinks that if Hu Yiming is still interesting to her, then when she says "I broke up with that person", Hu Yiming will take the initiative to show her favor.
And Hu Yiming's response made her confused about the situation, and in the end, she still showed her favor first.
Hu Yiming thought that when Huo Huo just left, he had also thought in his mind several times that if one day, he became famous and this woman came back, what would happen to him. Do you want her to beg hard and refuse again? Or do you angrily reprimand her ruthlessness at that time? Or just tell her, get out?
Everything came true today, but Hu Yiming found that he still couldn't do these actions. In fact, Huo Huo's sentence is right, there is love, there will be hate. Now, there is no love or hate, and Hu Yiming doesn't even have a trace of turmoil in his heart.
Forget it, a gentleman can't speak ill of you, this is Hu Yiming's request for himself, and it has nothing to do with love and hate.
So, Hu Yiming said lightly to Huo Huo: "It's a coincidence that you came, I planned an event for a company, and it was implemented the day after tomorrow, or would you also come to participate?"
Huo Huo was a little confused, but he was too embarrassed to ask for anything, so he said, "Okay, I'll go see your activities." I haven't been involved in many of the activities organized by your company. ”
Looking at the "group buying men" activity, in fact, the same is true. According to reports from several data research institutions, the main user group of group buying websites is women. How to understand the needs of female users and how to serve female users is particularly important for group buying websites. Through such an activity, we can effectively understand the potential needs of users and understand the comprehensive feelings of users about the platform, which is more important than anything else.
2011 came, and Hu Yiming returned to Beijing.
When Hu Yiming was thinking about how to hype up in the new year, there was a group buying website, and the person in charge of publicity of Hands.com found Hu Yiming.
After some greetings, the person in charge of publicity of the hand.com gave Hu Yiming a briefing on the situation.
Since the first group buying website was launched in early 2010, by 2011, the number of group buying websites had exceeded 5,000. Among them, there are many major portals to join, there are also new group buying websites, new wolf and other platform Internet companies have also entered the field of group buying, group buying has almost become the standard function of Internet companies.
The entire Internet industry is looking forward to the replication of the group buying model that created the myth of high profits in China.
In order to compete for the domestic group buying market, various group buying websites began to compete in disguise. At present, the relatively well-known group buying websites in China, such as Hands-on, Meituan, and Wowotoutuan, have started round after round of financing competitions, and overwhelming advertisements such as advertising wars, tug-of-wars, and positional battles have been integrated into the daily lives of major people.
The low entry threshold has accelerated the development of the group buying industry, but at the same time, it has inevitably caused vicious competition and rapid reshuffle in this industry.
Initially, group buying websites required a large number of salespeople to educate merchants about group buying, and before long, almost every merchant received salespeople from several or dozens of group buying websites.
Merchants quickly reversed their position by promoting their websites, and began to weigh which group buying site was more beneficial to them to work with, and some group buying websites had to lower their bottom line again and again in order to compete for customers. In this kind of game, both sides must ensure their profit margins, so consumers have become the ultimate payers in this profit competition. However, consumers who are dissatisfied with the single consumption experience are likely to stop buying the group purchase model from now on.
As a result, the development of the industry has entered a bottleneck, and venture capital has begun to move to other fields, and the results caused by the rupture of the capital chain are self-evident. For the future of group buying websites, although some industry insiders said that they are not optimistic, but some industry insiders said that after fierce competition, 99% of the thousands of current group buying websites may die in the future, and only four or five websites that have reached a certain scale will eventually become leaders. So, how to survive in this fierce competition has become a problem that more than 5,000 group buying websites need to face.
The resulting battle is known as the Battle of a Thousand Regiments.
In this battle, the hand-holding net is relatively powerful, ranking third.
Among the 5,000 families, it can be ranked third, and it is already doing its best. However, in every industry, the first is very comfortable, and the second is chasing the first. It's embarrassing to be the third in line. Many times, maybe the second after all died. Thirdly, and the third thousandth, there is no difference.
After listening to this introduction, Hu Yiming thought for a while and asked, "What are your requirements?"
The person in charge of publicity of the hand-holding network said: "You are the god of hype in the industry, and of course I want to make some hype when I look for you." The requirements are also very simple, that is, to be popular, to make us famous, we want to hit the second. ”
Hu Yiming replied cautiously: "To be honest, hype is the icing on the cake. Successful hype is just to make you famous, but there is no guarantee that you will be able to defeat your opponents. ”
The person in charge of publicity who held the hand.com replied with a smile: "I understand this, we don't expect a hype, and the third will become the second." Our problem now is that we have to raise a lot of money to survive the battle of a thousand regiments. As long as you can increase your fame, it will be easier to raise money. With financing, there is the possibility of becoming second. ”