Chapter 14: The Storm Caused by the Reward
"Hello, here DreamWorks Corporation... Yes, these two arcade machines are produced by our company..."Tank Wars" costs 18,000 Hong Kong dollars each, and "Squirrel Wars" is a little higher, 22,000 Hong Kong dollars each...... If you buy more, there are related discounts, if you purchase 100 "Squirrel Wars", the unit price of each purchase can give you a discount of 1000 yuan. "Tank Wars" can give you a discount of 1500 yuan per unit......"
As soon as Li Yixuan entered the door, he heard the company's phone ringing non-stop. Several newly recruited employees are busy answering the constant incoming calls.
The ringing of words one after another is undoubtedly the most beautiful note for Li Xuan now. He picked up a newspaper next to him.
The headline on the front page of the Oriental Daily News was a report about the long queue of thousands of people playing games at the Lisheng Cinema yesterday. The second half of the homepage is a half-page advertisement for the launch of the new game console of Dongfang Electronics Company.
Since the first day of opening, I met the female reporter surnamed Zhang, and at that time, the other party said to come back to check.
originally thought that the female reporter came to see it and wrote an article in the newspaper, which was equivalent to DreamWorks publicity. Who knows, more than a year has passed, but the female reporter hasn't even seen a figure.
Later, he told his mother about it.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Guifang sneered at him and said: "You are a fool when you treat others, and you want the other party to write an advertorial advertisement without a penny." ”
Li Yixuan came to his senses at this time, but this also reminded him that relying on a good reputation, DreamWorks has also made a good start, but many Hong Kong people don't know that there is such a company specializing in games. Advertisements should be placed in newspapers to let the people of Hong Kong know that there is such a company.
So from the day "Squirrel Wars" was released, he contacted "Oriental Daily" and "Tiantian Daily", placed large advertisements on them, and at the same time contacted the editors-in-chief and reporters of the two newspapers, and gave them a generous pen fee and tea fee, and asked them to write an advertorial and publish it in the newspaper.
Oriental Daily is the largest selling mainstream newspaper in Hong Kong, selling more than 300,000 copies a day. Announcing the release of "Squirrel Wars" and the long queue for this new game will surely arouse the curiosity of many people. Although the sales volume of "Tiantian Daily" is less than 100,000 copies, this newspaper has always been known for its ingenious headline reports and new eye-catching reports in the past two years, and it also has a lot of influence.
"Yesterday was Christmas Eve, and although I didn't have a beautiful woman to accompany me, I also went to a cinema in Kowloon alone. Seeing that the theater was full of infatuated men and women holding hands, but I was alone, and I couldn't help but feel a little self-pity in my heart.
Suddenly, the conversation between a pair of boys and girls who were in line in front of me to buy tickets attracted the author's attention. The girl was complaining that the boys around her had no sense of responsibility and didn't know how to look at the watch to pay attention to the time, so the two missed the opening time of the movie and had to buy tickets again.
And the boy retorted, "I reminded you several times, and you said to wait a while and finish the game, can you blame me?"
The girl said, "Aren't you the same, I'm done playing, but you're still playing, don't blame anyone......
The report the size of a tofu cube was raised by a couple arguing with a couple in front of him when he bought a ticket. The two young men missed the movie because they played a game and had to buy new tickets. In front of the two new video games "Squirrel Wars" in the box office of Lisheng Cinema, the game is even more attractive than the movie.
The price of the front page advertisements of "Oriental Daily" and "Tiantian Daily" is not cheap, Li Yixuan bought it for a week in one go, and the newspaper also tacitly reciprocated with a headline in return. News and advertising complement each other in order to achieve the ultimate publicity.
After reading the entire report, Li Yixuan shook his head undeniably. This "Oriental Daily" is very uninteresting, giving so much advertising money, and the editor-in-chief and reporters are not less than the pen fee and tea money, but their attitude is very perfunctory, and the style of the article is very average. He won't be working with such a newspaper in the future.
In contrast, "Tiantian Daily" is much more powerful, not only on the big page directly above the front page, but also the title of the article is also very attractive - "Two groups of young people fight on Christmas Eve, not for beautiful girls for games?".
Two groups of hot-blooded men formed a bond in the game hall directly under the Happy Valley Dream Factory on Christmas Eve, what else could it be because of the jealousy of beautiful women? No, it turned out to be for a video game console. Because the game is so fun, this group of people wants to go up and play, but the other group of people dominates the position and refuses to give up, and finally the two sides have a dispute, almost to the point of fighting!
After reading such a report, readers can't help but wonder how fun this game is to make a group of young people not hesitate to fight?
This report made Li Yixuan very satisfied. In fact, the two groups of people who quarreled were specially arranged by him, and the actors who starred were all Ma Zai arranged by Liang Kun in advance. They didn't really fight, they just made a noise to attract everyone's attention, and DreamWorks released a new game, Squirrel Wars.
In addition, Mr. Shao Yongqiang of the Hutchison Company just called and placed a large order for 200 units in one go! In addition, our five directly-operated game halls in Hong Kong are doing a brisk business. ”
Li Yixuan leisurely leaned on the boss's chair behind his desk, and his assistant Cao Jingya handed him the latest statistical table.
DreamWorks is now mainly managed by Zhang Guifang, the general manager, and he is the chairman, who is generally not responsible for the day-to-day management of the company, but mainly responsible for the company's technical problems, for which he has given himself the title of DreamWorks chief game designer and chief hardware designer.
In addition, it is a mother-son business, so in many cases, although Li Yixuan is the chairman of the company, the company's employees generally regard Zhang Guifang as the company's big boss, and Li Yixuan has become what everyone calls Xuan Shao.
"How's the RB side?"
Assistant Cao Yajing took out another statistical report, "This is a fax I just received from there, "Tank Wars" is very popular in RB, and our directly operated stores are full every day. Arcade sales are also very hot, and as of last Friday, RB Branch has sold 7,000 Tank Wars arcade machines. ”
After visiting the DreamWorks store in Hong Kong, Son felt that this business model of direct sales plus distributors was very good, so RB also opened a direct store in Tokyo in full accordance with the Hong Kong DreamWorks method, and business was booming on the day it opened.
The game hall business is booming, and it is the best advertisement, and there is no need for Son to go around to the door, and the owner of the game hall in Tokyo will come to the door himself.
Like Hong Kong, I tried to buy a few first, and saw that "Tank Wars" was very popular, so I began to buy a large number of them, and soon "Tank Wars" became popular in Tokyo, and soon there were more and more game hall owners from all over RB to Tokyo, and the unique cannon sound of "Tank Wars" began to spread throughout the territory of RB.
"In the past few days, everyone has worked hard overtime, you call Cai Kee Restaurant, order two tables of seafood dinner, and let them pack and send it to the company! ”
This moment of enjoying the fruits of victory always makes people feel happy, so he is not stingy, and the bold Chrysostom is opened, and all the staff are treated.
After Cao Yajing went out, it didn't take long for her mother Zhang Guifang to come in.
"You're going to seal a big red envelope for them, do you know how much it is?"
If the mother and son can't reach an agreement on this matter, DreamWorks will face a split situation in the future.
My mother is good at everything, but she is too stingy in terms of money. If it were an ordinary company, he wouldn't do this, and there would be too many places to use money in the future, but he Li Yixuan was different, he sometimes had a super cheat like a door, at least he didn't have to worry too much about money. What's more, now is a critical period for the company's great development, and it is necessary to take a sum of money out to boost the morale of employees.
Pressing the panic in his heart, he looked at his mother calmly, and asked in a cold tone, "Shouldn't it?"
Zhang Guifang didn't speak, and sat down opposite Li Yixuan.
"Red envelopes will be distributed according to the level of the position and the size of the contribution to the company, starting at 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. Li Yixuan added.
"10,000 yuan, are you crazy?" Zhang Guifang was anxious, as if she had dug a big piece of meat from her chest, stood up from the chair, and shouted: "Do you know how much money it will cost, more than 1 million!!"
Ignoring Zhang Guifang, he didn't want to quarrel with his mother, so he picked up the internal phone on the desktop, "Assistant Cao, ask Director Chen to come over." ”
Director Chen's name is Chen Xiaoqing, and he is the company's financial advisor.
Chen Xiaoqing arrived, holding a thick document in his hand, and Li Yixuan said to him: "Report the company's financial situation to the general manager." ”
Since Li Yixuan announced that he wanted to treat everyone, the whole company soon knew that this kind of thing was spread very quickly, but before they had time to be happy, they watched Zhang Guifen enter the chairman's office with a cold face, and everyone sighed in their hearts. Sure enough, there was a quarrel inside.
Director Chen has been paying attention to the movement inside, and when Cao Jingya informed him that Li Yixuan asked him to go to the office, he understood what Li Yixuan was looking for him to do.
So I hurriedly picked up the financial account books and came over.
"At present, the company's cash flow is 110 million Hong Kong dollars, and there will be 30 million more money from RB next week. Chen Xiaoqing quickly reported the company's financial situation.
Li Yixuan looked at Zhang Guifen and said, "I heard it, our company has sufficient funds. ”
"But ......"
Zhang Guifang still wanted to distinguish, and was rudely interrupted by Li Yixuan, "No, it's decided." ”
Zhang Guifang slapped the table angrily and yelled, "I'm your mother!!"
Touch~, Li Yixuan also slapped the documents he was reading on the table, "I am the founder of DreamWorks! I am the chairman of the company! You are only the general manager of the company! I am your boss, I have the final say!!"
Zhang Guifang looked at him in amazement, as if the person in front of him was not his son Ban.
"You're going to take power with me!"
"Take away your sister's power, if you don't agree, Lao Tzu will go, Lao Tzu will start a new stove, who loves to be the !!chairman of the board of directors" Li Yixuan was also on fire.
"You ......" Zhang Guifang pointed at Li Yixuan, after a long time, she wanted to go, this time and space gate is controlled by his son, if he leaves, the company will be dispersed. Zhang Guifang has been able to get to this point completely by relying on Li Yixuan's time and space gate.
Thinking of this, Zhang Guifang put down her hand helplessly, sighed, and silently turned around and left Li Yixuan's office.
There was a cheer outside!