Chapter 19 The Money-Burning Pattern

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However, with the rapid increase in the number of authors, editors should shift more energy to the selection of good books, arranging recommendations, and communicating plots with authors.

Set up a technical department to be responsible for the technical research and development of the website, daily maintenance, and response to hacker attacks.

Regarding the hacker attack, Song Yun specifically reported it to Zhao Zejun twice.

Since the launch of Zeyue, it has suffered three hacker attacks before and after, but fortunately, Zhao Zejun dared to spend money from the beginning, and Zeyue's server performance was good enough to not have a serious impact on the website.

But this also reminded Zhao Zejun that if the trouble of Zejian Company may be a gangster and a famous farmer who asks for wages and makes trouble, then the vast majority of the 'black hands' that Zeyue Company has to deal with based on the Internet are network hackers, and it is necessary to take precautions.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to find talents in technology, and HKUST is a ready-made cradle of technology.

At present, the minister of the Ministry of Technology is temporarily held by Song Yun, in terms of technology, he is certainly not the strongest one, but he is the first to follow Zhao Zejun, in this position, loyalty to Zhao Zejun himself, feelings for Zeyue Chinese Network, more important than technology.

In addition, let Song Yun select a few technical backbones from the previous project team, and if necessary, he can carry out campus recruitment and set up a technical department.

Set up an editorial department and establish a professional online novel editing team.

The selection of the technical department is easy to handle, but this editorial department candidate really gives Zhao Zejun a headache.

In addition to the superficial reasons, there are deeper ideas to prepare for future 'signings'.

If you want to take the road of professionalization and commercialization of online novels, it is essential for websites and writers to sign commercial contracts. Now that the contract system is not yet in full swing, it is better to let the authors taste the sweetness first, and then promote the contract system after they get used to taking money.

Finding potential books to sign contracts will become the main task of the editorial department in the future, and the requirements for the editor's 'vision' are particularly important.

It is necessary to understand the writing skills of online novels, but also to understand the laws of this industry, and even have certain management and communication skills.

Since the online novel industry has just started, in the eyes of the mainstream, online novel editors are not talents at all, and it is difficult to find people who are suitable for this position.

At present, the relevant domestic editorial talents who understand online novels are mainly concentrated in the starting point and Huanjian, especially the starting point. This is also the biggest advantage of the starting point.

In this way, only some people can be selected from the original project team and recruited at the same time, and the director of the editorial department is temporarily served by Zhao Zejun himself.

Therefore, Zeyue's editorial department is facing a somewhat embarrassing situation: the leadership is strong, the staff strength is mediocre, and the main work has to be done by Zhao Zejun.

"Everyone, I think everyone has read the story of the Three Kingdoms, and now the domestic online novel industry has essentially entered the mode of competing for hegemony in the Three Kingdoms. ”

At the end of the meeting, Zhao Zejun made a solemn concluding speech, "The dispute between the Three Kingdoms, the final outcome I think everyone knows that the general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and there is only one that can dominate the world in the end." Everyone, work hard, don't let Ze Yue, let your efforts become a stepping stone for other people's achievements. ”

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After the release of Zeyue's diligent writing award system, the domestic online novel industry was in an uproar!

If the last reward system benefited middle-level and high-level writers, and the real benefits were well-known writers with certain strength and readership base, then this diligent writing award is for all writers without discrimination!

As long as you are willing to write, diligent enough, and insist on code words, even if the level of what you write is extremely bad, there is not a single reader, and you will have an income of 300 yuan every month!

300 yuan, which is equivalent to half a month's living expenses for an ordinary college student in a second-tier city, and a month's living allowance for ordinary graduate students!

In other words, Zeyue has created an era: writers are profitable for all.

Although the current profitability is not much. But for the entire online novel industry, for all writers, this is undoubtedly a good measure across the era, in essence, reversing the dilemma of not making money by writing novels.

"Where did Ze Yue get so much money?!"

After Kong Decheng of Huanjian got the news, his first reaction was not annoyance, but puzzlement.

Zeyue's volume is not small, a writer has three hundred a month, and it costs more than ten or two hundred thousand a month, how much money does he Zhao Zejun have enough to smash it inside?

Could it be that he has found a new investment?

With so much money, why should he invest in online novels? The industry itself has little prospects.

"Mr. Kong, I don't know why he dared to do this, but the effect is obvious. Rizhao's face was ugly, and he said: "According to our preliminary estimates, less than half a month after the announcement of the Diligent Writing Award, the number of writers in Zeyue has nearly tripled. ”

"It's all lost from us?!" Kong Decheng asked with a frown.

"Thankfully. Some of them are lost from our Huanjian, some of them are lost from the starting point, and some of them should be new writers who have joined the industry. ”

Japan and North Korea analyzed: "His policy is too ruthless, not only to attract people, but also to stimulate many people who originally did not write novels to join the industry." Objectively speaking, it has actually driven the development of the entire industry. ”

"I don't care about him for the time being, I wonder, how can he be willing to invest money like this?"

Kong Decheng's concept is completely different from Zhao Zejun's, people like Zhao Zejun and Rizhao aim to make the industry bigger and stronger, but Kong Decheng's purpose is to invest and make quick money, so Zhao Zejun's approach seems strange to him.

A month is hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of investments, this Zhao Zejun, do you think that this industry can bring tens of millions or even higher returns in the future?

"Mr. Kong, I have studied it carefully, and his policy sounds good, but it doesn't cost much. Rizhao said with a wry smile.

"What do you mean by that? He announced that there was a reward, and it was impossible to regret it, right? ”

Rizhao said: "You think, the more authors he has, the more readers there are, and the more rewards." Part of the money comes from the tip. And his writing award is issued every three months, in other words, so far, he has attracted a large number of writers and readers by relying on this award, in fact? So far, Zeyue has not spent a penny, it is nothing more than the development of a new website function. This hand came too ruthlessly, and he drew a cake casually, and attracted all the writer's resources to them. ”

"Yes, Mr. Kong, we can't sit back and watch Zeyue develop like this. Even Brother Ting, who was in charge of technology, couldn't sit still and said: "Our traffic has not declined at present, but the traffic of Zeyue and the starting point has risen very fast, especially Zeyue." This shows that the new market is almost entirely occupied by the two of them. ”

"Mr. Kong, do we also imitate Zeyue's way and give the author some benefits?"

"The issue of welfare is put aside for the time being. Kong Decheng's heart is also very conflicted.

Knowing that these two old guys have a point, if they don't find a way to keep the author, Huanjian will be hollowed out.

But the problem is that he really doesn't have much money to smash, in terms of worth, he gritted his teeth, and he can make up a million dollars, but if he really smashes it, what if he is trapped?

Besides, unless you can find a stable way to make money from online novels and ensure that you can make money, how long can you spend 100,000 yuan a month like Zeyue?

He really couldn't figure it out, even if there was a reward and a three-month buffer period for diligent writing, the website itself still couldn't make money, and it was to break even, and maybe a little bit of it would have to be subsidized. Busy working and busy, in the end, the benefits are all for the writer, what is he Zhao Zejun for?

"What is the starting point?" Kong Decheng asked Rizhao.

Rizhao only had a wry smile left today: "The starting point has also opened the reward function, I heard, I am preparing to imitate Ze Yue and give all writers rewards." The specific reward plan has not yet been decided. ”

Kong Decheng's face sank, and the starting point and Zeyue began to play the economic card, which means that the online novel industry has officially started the money-burning mode.

"In this way, let's also make a tipping function. Also, you contact the management of the starting point, and we sit down and have a good talk. It doesn't do anyone any good to burn money like this. ”