Chapter 40: Beginner's Lecture
Within a week, Rizhao completed the reorganization of the editorial department and opened an online training course, based on a deep understanding of Zhao Zejun's intentions, the first step of the training was for the majority of online writers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first class of the online lecture was officially opened.
Introduction to Web Novels: The Importance of the First Three Chapters
"With the development of online novels, novels of millions of words have become common, and novels of hundreds of thousands of words can only be regarded as short stories, so in these hundreds and thousands of chapters of novels, the importance of the first three chapters far exceeds everything else......
One of the most common mistakes of novice authors is to devote a large amount of space to the world structure and power system he/she has constructed in the first chapter......
No matter how wonderful your follow-up is, but the reader's patience is limited, there are a large number of novels on the Internet, and the reader's choice is too large, so within the first tens of thousands of words, there must be something that can catch people, it can be a contradiction, it can be a good golden finger......
As a writer, signing a contract is the most basic threshold, and it is also a necessary condition to make a lot of small money, so you can consider it from the perspective of an editor, an editor, managing dozens or even hundreds of writers, reading and paying attention to hundreds of books a day, does he have the energy to see a book after 100,000 or 200,000 words......
At the end of this lecture, the next topic is: Introduction to Online Novels II: The Wonderful Use of Goldfinger.
Friendly reminder: The next issue of the lecture hall has a very high gold content, which is composed of the editor-in-chief Rizhao, the compilation and sorting of the godfather of online novels, and the relevant quotations of Mr. Zhao Zejun. Stay tuned! ”
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After the first lesson of the lecture hall came out, the effect was surprisingly good!
Zeyue's internal employees are joking, they have been on the Internet for so many years, except for ****, it is the first time to see a post behind, a lot of messages, but they are all praises, and there is no scolding.
"Oh, I say I can't sign a contract all the time! It turns out that the editor didn't read what I wrote behind at all! Depressed! ”
"I make this mistake a lot, and it looks like I'll have to pay attention to it in the future!"
"It's amazing, I can actually summarize the skills of writing novels!"
In a large number of messages, the blood cloud of the Internet god appeared: "Support, let more novices who love novels learn, and avoid detours!" Thank you to the editors of Zeyue! ”
"Catch a great god!"
"Touch your head!"
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The link to the lecture hall is in Zeyue's homepage navigation, and the number of clicks on the post broke 100,000 on the same day.
Taking advantage of the popularity of the lecture hall, Zeyue Chinese Network publicly announced the 'Zeyue Three-Year Development Plan' to readers and peers on the whole network.
Within three years, that is, by 2006, we will strive to achieve three hundred.
First, the number of paying users exceeded 'one million';
second, there are more than 100 writers with a monthly income of more than 10,000 people;
Third, cultivate the top gods in the industry, and the annual personal income exceeds 'one million';
This plan was first submitted to Zhao Zejun by Rizhao, which is the development goal of the enterprise, and it is also somewhat similar to the meaning of the military order to repay Zhao Zejun's trust.
In the current industry environment, these three hundred goals are very scary.
If I remember correctly, after the starting point of the previous life was acquired by Shanda with tens of millions of dollars, relying on the background of Shanda's financial resources, these three goals were achieved in 06, and it was from that time that the online novel industry officially got out of marginalization and became one of the 'valuable' industries in the eyes of real capital.
But there was no Ze Yue in the previous life, the starting point from 03 years after the introduction of the VIP fee system, has been a monopoly, the most important, 05 years of the starting point was Shanda acquisition, with a grand strong capital injection.
At that time, Shanda was almost one of the largest Internet companies in China, and Cheng Tianqiao himself was still sitting in the position of the richest man.
The starting point has changed hands twice, once Shanda, once Tencent, the buyers are all industry giants, the richest man in the country, the reason why Zhao Zejun chose the online novel industry as the entry point, to a certain extent, is to follow the footsteps of the richest people.
In terms of making money, the two richest people have taken a fancy to this industry, which is enough to show that the potential of this industry is huge.
And now in the online novel market, Huanjian has withdrawn, Zeyue and the starting point each account for half of the country, Zeyue is one step ahead, but it is not enough to crush the starting point and dominate the rivers and lakes.
The support that Zhao Zejun can give Zeyue is far from being comparable to the richest people.
When Rizhao chatted with Zhao Zejun in private, he said frankly that this big goal is a gimmick, which is used to promote Zeyue and attract most of the eyeballs.
The reason why we set our goals very high at the beginning is that even if we can't reach three hundred later, we can have three eighty, or even three fifty, and the results are already quite impressive.
"Don't worry, you do your best, I will do my best to support you, as for how far you can reach in the end......"
Zhao Zejun smiled mysteriously, pointed to the three hundred plan on the table, and said, "Perhaps, it will be better than you and I can imagine!" ”
In 2003, the major cities of the country popularized the ADSL network, the network into thousands of households, within a year, the number of individual Internet users doubled at a geometric rate, from more than 20 million at the end of 01 and early 02, to 80 million, and then two years, exceeded 200 million.
"Mr. Zhao, this long-term goal is put aside first, and the immediate priority, we should recruit people." Rizhao said with a wry smile.
The editing group is refined, according to the previous plan, at least 18 editors are needed, and at present, there are only 9 editors in Zeyue, and most of them are part-time.
In addition to editing, Zeyue is a company that is already slightly larger after all, and needs daily office staff.
There is also the newly established 'Operations Department', which is responsible for commercial operations, and currently has two main tasks: promoting Zeyue, and expanding the business around novels, such as simplified and traditional Chinese publishing, and various adaptations.
This department is an empty head, only Rizhao is alone, and he really has no identity. For example, if you go to another place to contact publishing, you can go on a business trip for a few days, and what if you have a big mess left?
In addition, Song Yun's technical team also put forward personnel requirements.
Of the first few people in the technical group, only three of them are still in Zeyue, some have graduated, and some are too busy with their studies to find time to work part-time. Although the current R&D task is not very heavy, Song Yun believes that Zeyue is an enterprise based on network technology after all, and the technical team is weak, which is not conducive to future business expansion.
At the same time, website development involves security, and the mobility of technical personnel is too large, which will bring huge hidden dangers to website security.
There are a lot of them, in one word: recruitment.
Zhao Zejun assigned Song Yun to do the recruitment work, and the target target is mainly part-time students of HKUST.
There are many advantages to recruiting college students to work part-time, and it is very convenient to come to Zeyue's office location next to the University of Science and Technology; Second, Zhao Zejun has a selfish heart, he has a good impression of USTC in both lifetimes, and the quality of HKUST students is high, and he is famous in the country; Third, he hopes that Zeyue's team can be younger, and it is best to cultivate it from the student stage.
There are a lot of part-time jobs for college students, as long as the money is in place, there should be no problem, Zeyue recruits people, all of which are carried out by Song Yun through the 'internship work' page of the campus forum of the University of Science and Technology, and many companies and enterprises are also recruiting people through the campus forum, which can be regarded as the most convenient way for students to find a job in addition to the large-scale job fair in the graduation season.
Now with a slight change, the interviewer has one more daylight.
Song Yun was busy recruiting, Japan and North Korea were busy with business, and Zhao Zejun rarely freed up time.
The final exam is approaching, and I'm afraid I'm going to fail this semester!