For an ordinary fresh graduate girl, if she applies for a job in a company with only one employee and the opposite sex, she will definitely have to do it. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In particular, the company only provides a bottle of mineral water, and even the only conference table is stacked with take-out boxes.

But Lin Zhiling only cleaned up his emotions after the initial surprise, returned to that kind of calm and quiet, and when dealing with Gu Cheng's questions, he always maintained a gentle speech that seemed to be smiling rather than smiling, which was very decent.

In this world, there may be some women who are naturally suitable to be courtesans - not the pejorative term for courtesans. It's a lady, a cold fan, and an aura of an intellectual sister.

Through a brief chat, Gu Cheng got Lin Zhiling's job search intention and the reason for applying for the position of agent: she ignorantly wanted to enter the entertainment industry, but her family hoped that she would not show up too much. After compromising with each other, Lin Zhiling decided to try the second-line management of the entertainment company, and then accepted Jiang Youbo's introduction.

Gu Cheng asked how she met Jiang Youbo, Lin Zhiling simply said that he was an ordinary friend when he was studying in Canada, and later Jiang Youbo's girlfriend Guan Ying also introduced Lin Zhiling to work for two summer jobs and gradually became acquainted.

Gu Cheng thought for a while and confirmed: "Miss Lin, what you mean by 'acting experience in the entertainment industry' refers to those two summer jobs?

Lin Zhiling's face turned slightly red, just like all female fresh graduates with no work experience are asked by HR about "work experience". But she quickly adjusted her breath and the speed of her speech:

"Okay, that's when I was in the summer of graduate school, and I went back to Wanwan to visit my family. After Yingying heard about it, she asked me if I was interested in doing some summer work, and I said I wanted to try it, so she introduced me to acquaintances and made a music video for a song by Mr. Zhang Yurong. At that time, the song needed a group dance of girls, so I was just one of the models, and I didn't shine.

But later, after Mr. Zhang's album was seen by peers in the circle, Brother Yu Chengqing fell in love with my performance in it. So when I came back from the summer vacation of my sophomore year, he invited me to shoot the MV through his agent, and this time it was the single heroine. Later, I also did a few print ads. ”

Gu Cheng pondered: He has only filmed two MVs, and he is also a "female college student part-time job in the summer", so he is not familiar with the entertainment industry...... However, since it is prepared to be an agent, the talent for dealing with people is the most important, and other things can be learned slowly. Especially Lin Zhiling's high education is very rare in the entertainment industry, and he should get started quickly.

Under such a trade-off, Gu Cheng also felt that guiding Lin Zhiling into an excavator and mediator in the entertainment industry might be more successful than letting her be a model for a lifetime.

What's more, what he is showing now is the attributes of a leather bag company, so what is there to pick and choose.

"Miss Lin, thank you very much for your trust - seeing such a mess with nothing, you can talk with me for so long. ”

Gu Cheng carefully considered the wording. However, he doesn't seem to be very good at talking to women, and when he heard these words in Lin Zhiling's ears, he thought he didn't like her.

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work...... Forget it, it seems that I am not suitable to be a broker. ”

"Huh, is that what you mean by me? That's not what I meant. I mean, my company is just getting up and running, so I can't give you too many guarantees, and on the other hand, you need to learn a lot about it. Well, if you think it's okay, we'll give each other two months — I can advance your salary for two months, and in a few days if the company has business, you can run with me, maybe sign a few artists.

But the initial workload of the company will not be saturated, and you don't have much to do in this position. If you have a part-time job as a model or an actor, I don't limit it. If you decide to stay next year, I'll sign a contract with you, how about that?"

Before the Southeast Asian economic crisis, the graduate salary of graduate students started at around 40K (NT$, 22K for undergraduates). In the past two years, it has fallen a little, but Lin Zhiling is a returnee from a prestigious school, at least starting from 50K.

Gu Cheng sincerely gave the other party 100K - the monthly salary is equivalent to the price of a lyric in Fang Wenshan.

The key is to allow the other person to take on private jobs when they are free.

"Thank you, the monthly settlement will do. Mr. Gu is a big person, and he will never hack me as a little woman. ”

"Then it's settled, I'll make an appointment with someone from Alpha Records the day after tomorrow to talk about things. You should go back and study this information first, and then draft a cooperation model. ”

Gu Cheng said, throwing a bunch of peripheral information about Zhou Jielun to Lin Zhiling and asking her to try her hand. In fact, he just wanted to see Lin Zhiling's learning ability, after all, except for people who know history, who can really know the value of Zhou Jielun.

Lin Zhiling took the materials, left a bank card number, and got up to say goodbye.

Gu Cheng looked at the figure of the beautiful woman, suddenly had some bad taste, and asked tentatively: "By the way, Miss Lin, you are studying in Toronto, do you know a professor named Jeff Hinton? ”

Lin Zhiling turned around gracefully, frowning slightly: "I'm sorry, I'm only from the Mississica campus, and the masters who are engaged in cutting-edge scientific research should all be on the St. George campus." But I did hear a big lecture from a professor named Jeff Hinton, but he taught psychology. I still remember that the topic of that class was "Discussion on the Underlying Operating Principles of Thinking". ”

"yes, it could be that my message is wrong. ”

It's a bit embarrassing. After all, the textbooks of later generations rarely mention the things that preceded Jeff Hinton's success. Gu Cheng is not a research addiction, and it is normal not to know.

Isn't the pervasiveness of the Internet precisely by lowering the threshold to the point that people from all walks of life can come in and use the Internet to solve problems in specific industries?

……

Two days later, Alpha Records.

In the CEO's office, Yang Junrong, a close friend of Hu Zongxian and the actual controller of the company, looked at an offer letter in front of him with a somewhat playful expression.

Hu Zongxian can also be regarded as a senior boss in the Wanwan entertainment industry, he often has to organize various entertainment variety shows, and he also has performing arts activities, so it is impossible to have time to take care of these business matters himself.

And Yang Junrong is a professional agent and has no acting identity, as a close friend of Hu Zongxian, he was naturally entrusted with important tasks.

"This is a typical Fusang and Dongyi-style second-level agency contract, which does not give a signing fee, and directly relies on the sales commitment to get the regional market agency right. Don't be a small company that doesn't have the strength to gamble? After promising to sign Zhou Jielun, the new album in the mainland market will sell 500,000 copies a year? From the second year onwards, the annual sales volume of the new album will be 500,000? In that market where piracy is rampant, can such a new singer sell so much?"

In the Wanwan music circle, few people can understand the market better than Yang Junrong. The peak sales of Wanwan Records occurred before the Southeast Asian crisis of '98. First, at that time, the Internet music model did not rise, and piracy was inconvenient; second, it was the peak of Wanwan's economy, and everyone had more spare money.

At that time, the most popular was Ren Xianqi, a "Sad Pacific" sold more than 1 million copies, which is equivalent to 1 "Sad Pacific" for every 4 Wanwan families. Later, the economy declined and the Internet rose, and Ren Xianqi's data was considered to be unprecedented and unprecedented.

At present, Wanwan's most popular singer is the hottest album, with an annual sales volume of only 500,000. This is already the limit of this small island of more than 20 million people.

However, despite the small population of Wanwan, according to historical data, the market capacity of Wanwan's consumer-oriented cultural products is four times that of the mainland - because the authenticity rate of Wanwan is 200 times that of the mainland.

In later generations, so many pirated online novel writers who were about to starve to death even sacrificed the model of "not allowing their works to appear in simplified Chinese versions, and directly switching to traditional Chinese and publishing them on paper", and finally came back to life. The same is true in the music industry, where the number of cultural people fed by Wanwan is 4 times that of the mainland.

(Note: This data is the worst situation before the rise of the mobile Internet, that is, the data of 08 and 09.) After the rise of the mobile Internet, because of the precise positioning of mobile phone consumers, domestic piracy has been controlled a lot. At present, the domestic genuine rate is roughly estimated to have risen to more than 30 of Wanwan. ）

Now, Yang Junrong actually saw a company from the mainland that dared to promise to sign a gambling contract promising annual sales of 500,000 to a rookie singer who was about to debut?

This is not a blind gamble by a white wolf with empty gloves, what else could it be?

Although Yang Junrong is quite optimistic about the young man Zhou Jielun, he knows that he is a very talented composer. But the company felt that Zhou Jielun's image and voice were not suitable for being a singer in person.

Brother Xian was also soaked by Zhou Jielun a few months ago, so he gave him a seemingly impossible task, wanting Zhou Jielun to retreat.

At that time, Brother Xian said: Give you 10 days to compose 50 tunes, with arrangement, and the bad stuff you make up doesn't count. If you can do it, the company will pick 10 tunes from it and make your debut as an album! If you can't do it, you can rest assured that you will be a composer in the company for the rest of your life.

At that time, everyone thought that Zhou Jielun would definitely not be able to finish it, who knew that this kid's small universe exploded, and he didn't sleep for 10 days in a row, and wrote 50 tunes by force, and the quality of each song was passable.

What is Brother Xian's status? Can you not count what you say? So Alfa Company can only pinch its nose and let Zhou Jielun, a person who is not beautiful enough and not have enough voice, try.

"How could that mainlander be so optimistic about Jielun? 500,000 tickets are absolutely impossible to achieve in the mainland market. If you sign a VAM contract that is settled once a year, and the sales volume is not completed at the end of the year, it is nothing more than a penalty and a rebate and the contract will be terminated in the next year. But that will also delay the promotion of Jielun for at least 1 year. No, unless the other party gives a sufficiently high security deposit, or commits to purchase goods on a monthly basis, and terminates the contract immediately if it does not meet the standard in one month. Otherwise, the risk to Gelen is too great. ”

Thinking so, Yang Junrong had already set a negotiation strategy in his heart.