Chapter 198: The Right Person, Please
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In the preparation stage of "Fast and Furious", the busiest person was not Li Qing, but Cao Ying, Li Xiuxiu, Huo Wenxi, and Theron.
As producers of "Fast and Furious", they not only had to prepare all the items and locations needed for the filming of "Fast and Furious", but also had to complete the same difficult task - soliciting sponsors.
In order to attract sponsorship, they were divided into four groups and contacted almost all the car brands in the world, and some had to fly to negotiate.
But then again, the effort is also rewarded, and with the efforts of the four of them, they brought back 1.5 million US dollars in sponsorship and more than 20 gas cars (with a total value of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars) for Li Qing.
Among them, Porsche and Dodge are the most generous.
Porsche sponsored half a million dollars and a Speedster that was a further innovation on the 911 Carrera, and promised to deliver the 911 Speedster to Miami.
Dodge, the fifth-largest car brand in the United States, sponsored a million dollars, as well as two Dodge Chargers, which also promised to deliver the cars to Miami.
Porsche and Dodge were so generous that the producers of "Fast and Furious" naturally gave a considerable reward - making the 911 Carrera and the Dodge Charger the protagonists of "Fast and Furious".
Just when Li Qing was dealing with the listing of Dream Clan's VCDPY-329 and his exclusive favor Xu Peiyu in the magic capital, the preparation for the filming of "Fast and Furious" had been completed, and even the assistant director Rob Cohen, who had fully communicated with Li Qing, had already taken Li Qing's storyboard script and Xiao Hei's team and Raptors stunt team to Miami to modify the cars that Cao Ying and others pulled back and bought back and looked for shooting locations.
It must be explained here that the reason why Cao Ying, Li Xiuxiu, Huo Wenxi, and Theron, the four rookie producers, were able to complete the preparation of "Fast and Furious" so smoothly is thanks to three people - Li Lianjie's partner Cui Baozhu, and Li Qing hired two senior producers in the industry from Hollywood through Ron Mayer and Rob Cohen respectively.
Cui Baozhu is a gold medal producer and senior filmmaker in Hong Kong, who has been engaged in film and television creation for many years, and has rich experience in the preparation and shooting of films.
Li Lianjie starred in the blockbuster movies "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Fang Shiyu", "Huang Feihong", etc., all of which were produced by her.
Later, Hong Kong films declined, but "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Kung Fu", of which she served as the producer, were still blockbusters, and many Hong Kong directors, including Li Lizhi, were proud to work with her.
Moreover, Cui Baozhu has a good character, Li Lianjie once said in public: "There have been a few years when Sister Baozhu has no money and still follows me, I want to repay the favor." ”
In fact, Li Lianjie really did this - 20 years later, Cui Baozhu served as the producer of "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Fuji Detective", Li Lianjie, who has not made much film, participated without thinking about it, and when he participated in "Fuji Detective" directed by newcomer director Wang Ziming, he said that he would just make a temporary cameo, but under Cui Baozhu's face, Li Lianjie became the second leading actor of this movie.
Cui Baozhu is actually the ideal producer.
However, Cui Baozhu is now his own boss and is unwilling to work for others.
And Cao Ying, Li Xiuxiu, Huo Wenxi, and Theron really have no experience.
In the end, Li Qing agreed to let Zhengdong invest 5 million Hong Kong dollars in the production of "Fast and Furious", so that Cui Baozhu could be the producer of "Fast and Furious", commanding and teaching Cao Ying, Li Xiuxiu, Huo Wenxi, and Theron.
In addition, after all, making a movie in the United States requires a large number of extras, as well as temporary venues and temporary equipment, so Li Qing also hired two well-known producers from Hollywood through Ron Mayer and Rob Cohen respectively.
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Magic City Qingyuan, meeting room.
Li Qing politely invited Dong Mingzhu, the head of the business department of Mengzu Electronics Company, to sit down.
That's right, it is Dong Mingzhu, the chairman of Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., who was elected as one of the "100 best CEOs in the world".
Who Dong Mingzhu is does not need to be said.
In the last life, she not only led Gree to break through 100 billion sales, but also led Gree to the world's top 500.
In 1992, the sales of the Anhui area for which Dong Mingzhu was responsible exceeded 16 million yuan, while the sales of the very wealthy Jiangsu area at that time were only 3 million! The company had nearly 30 salesmen, and Dong Mingzhu's personal sales accounted for one-eighth of the company's sales.
In 1993, Dong Mingzhu increased Gree's sales in Jiangsu tenfold, with sales as high as 36.5 million yuan, and in addition to the Anhui market, Dong Mingzhu alone sold 50 million yuan, accounting for one-sixth of the entire company.
Just when the Nanjing market was booming, there was a serious crisis within Gree, and some key salesmen suddenly "resigned collectively".
If Li Qing hadn't personally wielded the hoe, Dong Mingzhu would have withstood the temptation in this crisis, and then was unanimously elected as the head of the company's business department, and then Dong Mingzhu and Gree embarked on the trajectory of the previous life.
However, Li Qing personally dug Dong Mingzhu and her team to the dream family with super high treatment, and formed the sales network of the dream family - the early profit of the video disc player is very large, because the entry threshold is not high, there will be many companies because of the attraction of huge profits, which leads to the rapid decline of profits, there is not too much profit for the consumption of multi-level distribution system, and the largest market in the early stage of the video player is concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, and the dream family electronics is fully capable of preparing a national dealer network.
Dong Mingzhu lived up to the reputation of the previous life, and did not live up to Li Qing's high salary to poach her, and in three days, she planned the sales network of Mengzu Electronics.
After Dong Mingzhu sat down, he asked, "Mr. Li, I don't know if you have heard of Gome Electric?"
Li Qing said: "When I was in Kyoto, I saw a retail store called Gome Electric Appliances, this electrical appliance company adopted a new supply and marketing model in 90 years, their retail stores have got rid of middlemen, and the upstream manufacturers to implement the direct supply model, and this company took the lead in 91 years in the "Kyoto Evening News" to publish a sewing quotation advertisement, out of the traditional model of sitting in the store, I don't know if Ms. Dong is talking about this very inconspicuous small company......
Dong Mingzhu didn't expect that Li Qing really knew about Gome Electric, and obviously studied the sales model of Gome Electric!
Just for this point, Dong Mingzhu looked up to Li Qing a little more, and then said: "Mr. Li, I want to cooperate with Gome Electric to establish our dream family's sales network, what do you think?"
The development path of Gome is also the epitome of the development of domestic commercial capital and the development of household appliances (including mobile phones) market channels, how could Li Qing not want to cooperate with Gome, but Li Qing still pretended to think about it, and then said: "I agree to cooperate with Gome, but the current Gome is too small, not enough to release the potential of our Dream Clan VCD, have you studied Suning?"
Dong Mingzhu suddenly felt like a confidant, because what she wanted to talk about next was Suning, in addition to Gome and Suning, Dong Mingzhu also wanted to talk about Dazhong, Yongle and other future large shopping malls and super stores.
At the beginning of the market promotion, Mengzu Electronics will inevitably rely on the resources of large channel providers to do the market, but when Mengzu Electronics develops, it is necessary to consider the possibility of getting rid of these large channel merchants and seeking direct control of the market.
It can be said that Dong Mingzhu's idea of establishing a sales network is very correct.
In other words, Li Qing has invited the right person.
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