Chapter 50: I am afraid of the power of my ultimate
Roy and Debra sent off elite talent Gary Copperfield together.
The two of them also got into a taxi and went back to their respective homes.
On the way, Debra asked, "Did he say yes?" ”
"Of course. Didn't you see that he was nodding his head? Roy turned his head, avoiding eye contact.
"All I heard him say think about it."
"That's right. You think, he never said anything before, right? This time, I even said that I would think about it, but in fact, it implied that it was OK. This is a unique expression of the implicit personality. ”
"Oh, that's it. You cultural people are really troublesome, and you always make puns when you speak, which makes people think about it for a long time and be confused. ”
"Just get used to it." Roy breathed a sigh of relief.
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Roy returned to the office alone, rushed straight to the bathroom, and slammed his head with cold water, trying to calm himself down.
It's really Falk tonight, I thought it was foolproof, and the atmosphere was at its peak, but Gary's answer at the climax was not YES, but to think about it.
Roy's heart is dead, hemp, the world is too difficult, and it simply doesn't give people a way to live. In the end, if you want to solve the problem, you have to rely on yourself.
Don't force me, I'm afraid of the power of my ultimate.
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The next day, the meeting room of the Red Coral Company.
Roy and a couple of sales managers were there.
Except for Roy, everyone else at the scene didn't look very good, and the dismal sales performance of the previous week made them collectively doubt their lives.
Eddie Wright had complained N times before the meeting began, and as soon as Roy entered the conference room, he impatiently reported: "Boss, you can also see last week's results, although our group sold the most products through telephone sales, but in the sales process, many families have never heard of this DVD, let alone bought it." If this continues, it will greatly affect the morale of front-line employees. ”
Roy despised in his heart, your team of 7 people sold 3 DVDs in a week, and you were embarrassed to ask for credit, you were really drunk.
Fern-Rhodes echoed: "I personally took the team out to sell the DVDs, and from the results, people have very little identification with the DVDs. Hard sales pitch is very difficult, and we need to think differently. ”
Eddie teased, "Change your mind? Do you have any ideas? ”
Fern was silent.
Roy knew in his heart that Eddie was obviously referring to Sang scolding Huai, sarcastically saying that his strategic policy was wrong, and he smiled in his heart and was noncommittal.
The only one left who didn't speak was Ulysses, whose team hadn't sold a single DVD in the past week, and who had the largest team of nine, exceeding Roy's suggested limit of seven.
Ulysses is usually very positive, but today he is rarely a quiet beautiful man, and it seems that a week's sales career has abused him with indelible psychological wounds.
Roy took the initiative to ask, "Ulysses, how is your situation over there?" ”
"Not so good."
"Any suggestions or comments?"
"No...... BOSS I will continue to work hard, I swear to God, I will definitely sell one today, if I can't sell it, I will buy one at my own expense and go home. ”
Eddie and Fern both laughed, and they couldn't tell how disdainful they were.
But Roy glanced at Ulysses instead, this guy didn't choose to give up, but resolutely broke through, I have to say, this is a small progress.
The dull atmosphere and short-term despair may not be able to defeat a person, but for a long time, the sales team that Roy has worked so hard to pull is likely to face a collapse.
This is the autumn of critical survival.
Roy watched them silently, and finally muttered: "Partners, it's normal to encounter some difficulties in the early exploration stage, and I understand the difficulties you said. As a new thing, DVD is not well recognized, and it is not a high-frequency product that is just needed, so it will naturally be very difficult to sell. However, a certain share of the DVD market is very important to the company's early development, and even a matter of life and death, so no matter how big the difficulty is, we must work hard to overcome it. ”
Eddie proposed: "I think we should do product positioning, target a certain type of consumer group, and then assist media advertising, and slowly start to cultivate the market." This will make the sale much smoother. ”
Roy directly refused: "We are not a manufacturer, nor are we a general agent, we are just a small distribution platform." Product positioning is a major matter considered by DVD manufacturers, and the market advertising strategy is also decided by the general agent. We don't do things that make money and shout, so we don't have to think about this. ”
Eddie was silent.
Fern said: "Can you do some offline activities with the mall?" ”
Roy muttered: "Offline shopping malls have their own brands, their own channels, and their own merchant stores, and they will not cooperate with Internet distributors like us who have no roots. Even if you are willing to cooperate, the requirements will be very demanding, which is not good for us who are not qualified in the early stage, so I do not recommend it. However, this proposal has a certain feasibility, and you can do your independent research offline, and if you think there is an opportunity, you can submit a promotion request to me. ”
Fern nodded, thinking that his boss hit the nail on the head and analyzed it well, and this idea was afraid that it would not work.
Roy asked, "Does anyone have any other ideas?" …… Continue to cheer up this week and adjourn the meeting...... Ulysses stayed. ”
After the other two managers left, Ulysses said guiltily, "Boss, I'm sorry. I really didn't expect it to be so difficult to sell your products, and it would be a shame for you. ”
Roy could see that Ulysses had been a lot haggard these days, and even had dark circles under his eyes, which showed that he was under a lot of pressure.
"Cheer up, boy, don't forget, your boss can do anything."
Ulysses raised his head, and suddenly saw the confident smile on Roy's face, he felt very warm inexplicably, and he was almost moved to tears, and his crazy and desperate heart calmed down, is this to save me?
Roy smiled and said, "That's right, from today onwards, you and all of your team will act with me." ”
"It's been a long time...... BOSS ......" Ulysses jumped up happily, this rhythm is not wrong, and he is about to start counterattacking!
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Netflix, Conference Room.
CEO Reid Hastings is communicating with several colleagues about the company's latest business situation.
"As of yesterday, the website had a total of 4,330 subscribers, an increase of 156 from the previous month. ”
The person in charge of operations sighed: "Sure enough, as soon as the advertising stopped, there were fewer new customers." I really didn't expect the effect of newspaper advertising to last so short. ”
"Why don't we try a TV commercial?" Another colleague suggested.
"There is so much budget, and now the company's cash flow is already very tight."
"You can't sit still, just a few subscribers is not enough to maintain the company's operating costs."
When Reed heard that the two sides were arguing over whether to continue advertising, he had a headache, and now the company was struggling to make ends meet.
"There's always a way, as long as you don't die like Red Coral."
"Red Coral?" Reid asked, "Is that the company Mark and Roy founded?" ”
"yes, it's funny to hear that all their salespeople are selling DVDs, and there's a limit to stupidity."
“DVD? What's that? How can this kind of product, which we in the industry have never heard of, become popular. ”
"Yes. It seems that it is only a matter of time before they go out of business. ”
"Maybe the bowels of regret will be green at that time."
"Yes, now everyone uses video tapes, who knows what a DVD player is, can you buy it and use it as an ornament?"
"Hehe, I heard they sell several units a week."
"Several, sure enough, a lot. It looks like they're going to make a lot of money. ”
Everyone burst into laughter, thinking that Roy's company was as funny as a clown.
Only Lance and Roy have a good relationship, and when they heard everyone's analysis, they were secretly worried about him, and decided to call Roy at night to remind him not to take a detour.
DVD Reed had heard of it, and he thought that this technology would have a lot of promise in the future. It's just that the market is not mature, and now, there are no opportunities.
Reed was silent and fell into deep thought......