Chapter 60: The Success of Life Weekly

Shenzhen and Shanghai are the earliest pilot cities of the republic's housing reform policy, and commercial housing has been sold many years ago, and the price is extremely low in the eyes of later generations, but Li Bayi did not buy even one set, and his money will still be of great use at the end of the year.

The uncle is also more willing, he takes his son Guo Wen, while working for Li Bayi, receiving Li Bayi's salary, and at the same time allowing his son to see a doctor in Shanghai. Shanghai's psychiatric treatment is relatively advanced in the Republic, and there are foreign doctors on the side.

Li Bayi also gave his uncle a task to learn English. In a few years, Li Bayi will arrange for his uncle to go abroad, first, to register a shell holding company overseas, and second, to further treat Guo Wen's illness.

In order to facilitate contact, Li Bayi equipped both of them with a pager.

Li Bayi is in charge of the editor-in-chief of "Life Weekly" in the life department of the student union, which is very familiar to him.

In his previous life, he was also in charge of editing "Life Weekly", because it published too much literature and poetry, so it was discontinued after only two issues.

I heard that some school leaders were not very satisfied, thinking that it was not cost-effective to waste so much money by overlapping with the publications run by the Literary Society.

At that time, these two issues of the journal were revised at the suggestion of Li Bayi, and not only the cover became much more exquisite, but also the circulation was also very large.

It would be a piece of cake to be reincarnated and reborn, and let Li Bayi, who has been a reporter, editor, proofreader and other journalistic work for more than 20 years, preside over and edit this publication again.

He posted in front of the school's lively bulletin boards that the "Life Weekly" of the life department of the school's student union was openly recruiting two reporters, two newspaper delivery workers, and three salesmen, indicating specific requirements and treatment.

Of course, at that time, most of the things that everyone did not seek financial returns, but just needed to have an honor or be recognized by the leader.

In her previous life, Chen Xia in the class was also pulled into the student union life department by Li Bayi, who was a beautiful and dedicated girl, because Li Bayi liked her a little in her heart, so she asked her to be her assistant.

It's a pity that Li Bayi's heart in his previous life was higher than the sky, but he didn't win the love of other girls in terms of ability, and a year later, Chen Xia, who was exercising herself, quit the student union in disappointment.

There were many people who signed up, there were hundreds of people, and Li Bayi, accompanied by Chen Xia, carried out a series of efficient screenings, passed interviews and written tests, and finally left five people.

Li Bayi first conducted basic journalism training for these five people, and then conducted targeted professional training. First, he taught the recruited reporters how to write news and how to discover news, and took out two newspapers to teach on the spot; Subsequently, the salesmen were trained in business, teaching them how to screen customers, how to run the business, and even did on-site simulation exercises.

This is his way of being a salesman, and he also told everyone about Ogur Mandino's book "The World's Greatest Salesman" as a textbook, as well as the story of Joe Girard, the American car sales king who set the Guinness World Record for thirteen consecutive years, all of which deeply touched everyone. Even the Minister of Life, Guo Baode, is no exception.

At this time, there were no such inspirational books for sale on the mainland market, and everyone was enthusiastic about listening to them, and all of them were determined to do something in the life department.

As soon as the training was over, Li Bayi mobilized everyone to inquire about all kinds of new and novel things that had happened on campus in the past week, and then took everyone to interview them one by one. Regarding the management of the canteen and the situation of meals, Li Bayi led everyone to interview the director of the school's general affairs office, students, canteen staff and management personnel, and also interviewed food experts......

After each interview on a topic, Li Bayi assigned the task of writing the manuscript, and almost everyone had to write at least two manuscripts, and Li Bayi was responsible for the heavy draft.

For each manuscript, he pointed out the specific requirements; Everyone, he will teach by hand, or write news, or write pass, or write interviews, there are all kinds of news topics.

He then personally edited and reviewed the manuscripts, and submitted them to the general affairs office of the school in charge for them to review the manuscripts, and then asked the school leaders to help write a preface to the revised edition of Life Weekly.

After the manuscript was finished, he took the salesman to solicit sponsorship, such as pager sales points, snack bars, bookstores and other places, all of which he selected one or two to focus on.

At this time, the merchants did not have the cunning and shrewdness of later generations, and with the eloquence of his former salesman, as soon as he flickered, all the merchants helped each other one after another, and happily advertised in the "Life Weekly" that he had not yet seen.

Li Bayi also shrewdly called an advertising hotline before and after "Life Weekly".

As a result, this issue of "Life Weekly" was printed and sent to all offices, departments, and classes of the school, which immediately aroused a huge response.

College students have never known in such detail how much new and new things are happening on their campuses; Never before has the school leadership been so clear and clear that students have so many demands and opinions on improving the food in the cafeteria.

In particular, an article entitled "Changes on the Campus of NTU after the Chief's Southern Tour Speech" was approved by the president, and then forwarded by the Nanzhong Daily, which produced excellent results in the society.

This is a newsletter carefully written by Li Bayi, which was edited by him in the first article of the revised "Life Weekly". Using himself as a line, he interviewed a large number of students and teachers in schools about their understanding of the chief's speech on the Southern Tour, especially those who had already put it into practice, what they had done, and what the results were.

This issue of "Life Weekly" printed 400 copies and was distributed free of charge, just like in the previous life, but it did not cost the Ministry of Life a penny, and it was all sponsored by the advertising of the merchants.

In his previous life, he had spent 400 yuan on the Ministry of Living. This is the most half-year funding provided by the General Affairs Office to the Ministry of Life.

After Li Bayi reported to Minister Guo Baode for approval, he gave the reporter who wrote the manuscript a manuscript fee of 5 yuan and a 15 percent commission to the salesman. Li Bayi didn't take a penny, but proposed to go out and rub it to celebrate. In the end, there were still 300 yuan left.

A month after that, Li Bayi was promoted to deputy minister and director of the self-discipline committee, responsible for the daily discipline of students.

From time to time, the articles in Life Weekly will be used as examples by teachers who teach journalism, and Li Bayi has also won the admiration of Chen Xia, the praise of her classmates, and the attention of department and school leaders.

For all this, the reborn Li Bayi has been able to treat it calmly.