"Hey, Moe?" Lin Zaishan cleared his throat and picked up Liu Mengmeng's phone.

"Uncle, where are you? Nothing happened, you didn't answer the phone. ”

"Oh, it's okay, I had a hangover with my friends last night and just woke up." Lin Zaishan asked: "I see you have made several calls to find me, is there something urgent?" ”

"It's Mr. Zhang, who is searching for thousands of miles, who wants to invite our band to come over and do a performance with Lao Yan this weekend, waiting for our reply."

"Where are you going to perform, Chang'an?"

"Yes, Lao Yan has finished his tour in the south and has returned to Chang'an. They have two special sessions in Chang'an this weekend, one on Saturday afternoon and one on Sunday afternoon. They want to invite the band of believers to perform together and see if we have any intention of performing here. They hope that we will reply to them as soon as possible, and they will make arrangements. ”

"It's Thursday, right?" Lin Zaishan rubbed his temples and tried to clear his thoughts.

"That's right, the old-fashioned special will be performed the day after tomorrow."

"Then they are in a hurry, why didn't they inform us earlier, how can there be time to rehearse."

"So they want us to get back to you as soon as possible."

"Is it Mr. Zhang who contacted you directly?"

"It was Mr. Zhang's secretary who contacted me, Mr. Zhang went to Seattle, and he was not in Chang'an this week. But this is what Mr. Zhang meant, he hopes that our side can go over and cooperate with Lao Yan again, and sing Chang'an! ”

"Did you tell the pigeons about this?"

"Not yet, I want to hear what you mean first, you have to let them go, and I'll tell them later."

"I'll let them go, but we'll see if they can spare a few days."

"It should be fine, they all have a holiday on Saturdays and Sundays, right?"

"The performance is Saturday and Sunday, but we can't really wait until Saturday and Sunday, we have to go to rehearsal early."

"That's right." Liu Mengmeng asked with concern: "Uncle, are you going with you?" ”

"I'm not going. I have a back injury, I can't sing, and I can't move, so I'd better take care of it at home for a few days. "Zhang Jiale is not in Chang'an, Lin Zaishan doesn't make much sense, if Zhang Jiale is here, he can still talk to Zhang Jiale about cooperation in the past, but the other party is not there, he won't go.

Lin Zaishan asked Liu Mengmeng again: "Can you ask for leave these days?" If you can take a leave of absence, you can take the children with you. I'm not at ease with letting them go on their own. ”

"I can take time off, I can take them with me. But I'm going to take them with me, and I won't be able to come back on Sunday. At the wedding banquet at noon on Sunday, uncle, you have to contact Sister Nan to go over by yourself. ”

"Okay, it's a trifle. I'll do it myself. You can take the believer's children to Chang'an. Mr. Zhang is arranging the itinerary for you, responsible for air tickets, food and accommodation, right? If they are not responsible, you and the company apply for the cost of the business trip, and you don't have to pay for it yourself. ”

"Don't worry, uncle. They will definitely be responsible for these things, and they also quoted us for two performances, 20,000 after-tax performance fees. Comes with food, lodging and play, they are all-inclusive. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Zhang is really generous enough, give 10,000 for a song. These kids are paying more than I do. ”

"It's all Mr. Zhang giving you face, if it weren't for the good song you wrote, how could Mr. Zhang pay such a high price."

"Then you can talk to the pigeons. If they have time, try to fly over tonight or tomorrow morning to rehearse without delay. ”

"Okay, I'll contact them."

……

At six o'clock in the evening of the same day, Liu Mengmeng took the six excited children of the believers on the flight to Chang'an and went over to meet with the old team.

The six children of the believers have performed several special performances with the Lao Yan team in Huangyi before, and they have reached a very good tacit understanding between them, and there is no need for Lin Zaishan to follow them to rehearsals.

At the same time, Lin Zaishan also considered, he is still in the midst of public opinion controversy and it is difficult to get out, he is going to show his face in the past, it is possible to recruit black for the old team, so simply don't go to find trouble for others.

Lin Zaishan and Lu Chen sent Liu Mengmeng, Bai Ge and others to the airport this night. After coming back, the two went straight to Canghai Mansion and asked Lu Dong to have dinner together and chat about the recent progress of the company.

"The number of registrations for our forum has been steadily increasing in the past few days, and the number of registered members has exceeded 25,000. The number of people online at night is more than 5,000, which is quite popular. However, most of the views are concentrated in the school flower page, and the users who discuss in the music area are only about 20% of the total registered users. Especially in the past two days, due to the impact of large pirated music websites, the registration of music users has obviously shown a downward trend. The number of users who download new songs on our website is decreasing dramatically every day. Today, all day long, there are only 36 users of new songs on our forum, which is an astonishing number. We're going to have to figure out a way to re-mobilize the interest of music users. After all, we're a music-specific forum. ”

Lu Dong introduced the situation of the forum to the two, and then suggested to Lin Zaishan: "Brother Shan, why don't you post a new song on the forum to adjust the interest of the fans." ”

Lin Zaishan nodded thoughtfully: "It must be sent, but it must be timed." Those big pirated music websites have been eyeing our website, and as soon as I release a new song, I let them steal it, and users still won't choose to listen to and download it on our website. ”

Lu Chenqi said: "Those pirated websites are really fucked up, this is completely stealing other people's things to make a profit for themselves!" ”

Lu Dong said helplessly: "No way, there is no law to restrict these now." Everything on the Internet, whether it has a price or not, is all free. Even if they steal those pirated websites, they are stolen in vain. ”

Lu Chen hated: "The sky has eyes!" God is watching from above, these people who steal other people's things will definitely be punished! If they steal other people's things just for the small profits in front of them, they will definitely suffer a big loss in their lives! Lao Tzu has seen too many such people. ”

Lin Zaishan is actually most disgusted by this kind of person who makes piracy.

After all, the domestic people have not yet formed a very sober awareness of intellectual property rights, and they do not think that cultural products are as valuable as ordinary commodities.

Most people don't think of music as a bun yet.

You are hungry and want to eat steamed buns, and I believe that there are few people who steal other people's steamed buns without paying;

But your spirit is hungry and you want to listen to music, watch movies, and read novels. But only a small percentage of people will actually spend money to buy this kind of spiritual "bun".

The people who make piracy are different, they understand the value of cultural products, and what they do is steal that value for their own profit.

They are real thefts, no different from thieves and robbers in society, and their sins are even worse and worse.

The thief stole something and just enjoyed it for himself. But these people who make piracy, after stealing things, still use these spiritual products to enslave most ordinary people who don't know the truth.

It's like spreading sick thoughts, even diseases, to the masses. It's like saying that when you were a child, your parents were educating you. If you want to eat steamed buns, you don't need to give money, just go and steal them. How can a child who is educated in this way be able to be successful when he grows up?

It is this kind of evil act of spreading mental illness among the general public that the pirate makers are doing today.

If this stubborn spiritual disease is not eliminated, the domestic cultural market will never be able to catch up with Western society.

But there is no way, there are no strict laws and regulations to restrict these behaviors, and this phenomenon will only breed more and more serious.

Maybe it's only like Lu Chen said - those pirates, the future life. I will be punished by God.

Anyway, Lin Zaishan now believes in reincarnation.

The little evil you do in this life will be punished accordingly in the future, or even more severely; And you do a little kindness. In the future, it is very likely to become a blessing for future generations.

The kind of people who are greedy for small profits will never have any particularly good fortune, let alone this kind of pirate workers who spread the idea of stealing copies.

Such people. In this life, you don't have to think about any good fortune, you can only pray for fewer disasters and fewer diseases, and pray for the evil you have done. Don't implicate your family.

"The development of the forum music area is very slow, but the development of the campus section is faster than we imagined. At this rate, this section can open a campus community-type website alone. Brother Shan, I don't know what you think, I think if it continues to develop like this, we can separate the campus section and the Beyond forum, form two directions, and focus on both developments. Lu Dong asked what Lin Zaishan meant.

"Don't separate now, we don't have enough financial resources to advertise the two websites separately. Taken together, the two sections can now be mutually reinforcing. There are also many people in the student body who like to listen to music, so it is very beneficial for the development of our forum to let them pay more attention to the Beyond forum. ”

"I understand this, I mean, in the future. The campus plate must be taken out and played alone, right? It's not going to be hung up with the Beyond forum, is it? If we want to take it out in the future, on the database side, we have to make preparations from now on. ”

Lu Dong has been engaged in the Internet all year round, and seeing that this campus section is now so popular, he has a hunch that this section will be taken out and turned into a community-based website, and the future development potential will probably be greater than the Internet music company they want to do.

Lu Chen couldn't figure it out: "What's the use of just making a student community?" And don't make money. Our Beyond forum can try to promote the paid download model in the future, I heard that there are already many foreign websites engaged in paid music downloads, we should focus on the development of this. ”

Lu Dong analyzed Lu Chen: "The environment at home and abroad is different, people do piracy illegally, ordinary people want to download songs from the Internet, they can only pay to download, and there are very few who can download them for free." It's different in our country, no one cares about piracy, there are free download websites, who wants to spend money? We still have a long way to go before we want to promote the paid download model. But it's not the same to be a community website, and the profit model of a community website mainly relies on advertising and various paid developments. This has to be done, not to mention whether our website can make money, as long as we can expand the scale and increase the number of users, there will definitely be countless venture capitals waiting to send us money. ”

Lin Zaishan was very excited when he saw Lu Dong say this, obviously more interested in this business, so he said, "Dongzi, I agree with what you said." The campus section is very interesting. You can tilt our company's development team in this direction. When the time is ripe in the future, you can take out this section and make it into a more open community. ”

"Brother Shan, you have a vision. I'm thinking about hiring a few more people to the development team, and there's a shortage of people in the development department. It's a bit out of step with development. Also, the server we rented also needs to be upgraded, I didn't expect the forum to develop so fast, to continue to develop like this, it is estimated that it will not take a week, our server will be under pressure to the limit, or upgrade, it may be down. ”

"The hardware must keep up, you can't just open the altar and go down, you look at the upgrade. You are the expert in these, you call the shots. As for recruitment, you can also look at it, let's seize this opportunity. ”

Lu Dong hesitated and said: "If you want to upgrade and recruit people, our company's cash will be a little tight." If we have no income, it is estimated that we will not last for three months, and we will have no money. ”

Lu Chen said generously: "This is easy to do, Qilixiang will pay dividends at the end of the year, and I can invest dozens more at that time." ”

"You don't have to invest any more money, you can invest dozens of them in the water. Let's rely on the company to make money and develop. I'll be able to sing a few end-of-year performances in no time. At that time, according to what we said before, my performance income will be split between my performance income and the company's account, and I expect to bring more than 50 revenues to the company around the Spring Festival next year. After "Singer-Songwriter" became popular. I will have a lot of other income, and then our company will be a little richer, and it will not be as tight as it is now. Also, didn't the children of the believers go to Chang'an to perform? The company also has to take a cut of their income, and they are slowly able to make money for the company. In the future, let's dig out a few more artists, in the early stage of development. It relies on the income of the artist department to maintain the company's expenses and development. Wait for the Internet to really have a big income, and then return to develop the artist department, and strive for the two sides to promote each other, and the future can be prosperous. ”

"Brother Shan, I respect you, you are too righteous! We will definitely live up to your expectations and make the company prosperous! ”

Lu Dong knew that Lin Zaishan was using his own income to move forward with the company in the early stage, and he really admired Lin Zaishan's dedication.

Nowadays, Beyond Records has no other means of income than mining the value of artists.

They had previously invested a total of $2.15 million to set up the company.

Rent a house and decorate into the equipment rental service recruitment and development forum, it didn't take a month, they have done more than 1 million, and now the company can use less than 1 million funds, which will also bear the heavy staff expenses in the future.

Now Beyond Records has recruited 20 regular employees, most of whom are from the network development department, and the artist department and music department have not recruited many people.

According to the plan, in the future, they will recruit people one after another, and before and after the Spring Festival, the scale of their company should reach at least 50 people, and several professional teams will be established to cope with the development of all aspects.

There are a lot of professional musicians to be recruited here.

If a newly established small company like theirs wants to recruit powerful musicians, it can only offer high salaries, and there is no other means.

At that time, the company's expenses to employees will be a very heavy financial burden. In a month, it is estimated that the employee expenses alone will be 4 to 500,000 yuan.

If they keep making money, don't make money, and don't form a healthy development model, their company will not be able to develop.

And relying on Internet development alone, they can't get income in the short term, so at the beginning of its establishment, Lin Zaishan and Lu Dong and others discussed that they would rely on operating artists to maintain expenses in the early stage.

The Believers have signed a brokerage deal with Beyond. Before the believers band became a formal professional band, that is, when they were still in school, the band was considered a growth training period, and all the income of the band was owned by the company, and the other three components were given to a few children.

This time, believers go to Chang'an to perform, and the performance fee of 20,000 yuan will be taken by the company according to this proportion.

Liu Mengmeng has not signed a formal brokerage contract with Beyond yet, but Lin Zaishan has already negotiated with her, and after Liu Mengmeng joins Beyond Records in the future, the company will give Liu Mengmeng a fixed agent salary. In addition, Liu Mengmeng's acting income is also 7 transactions to the company, and 3% of the income is owned by Liu Mengmeng.

If there is an advertising endorsement, Liu Mengmeng and the company are five or five points.

This condition is very harsh, but this is the proportion of the share before the release of the record.

When Liu Mengmeng really releases a record and becomes a professional singer, the proportion of acting income will be increased accordingly.

Liu Mengmeng doesn't have too many objections to this contract, if it weren't for Beyond Records, she wouldn't have had a chance to become a singer at all. Since the company wants to train her to be a singer, it must invest in training in her, and it will also invest in publicity in the future, which all requires money. And Lin Zaishan also promised that after she officially joined Beyond in the future, she would be offered a fixed salary not lower than the current one, so she would not be satisfied. What the future can develop into depends on her own efforts.

Lin Zaishan himself did not sign a brokerage contract with Beyond, this company is his, and he doesn't care whether he signs it or not.

At the beginning of the company's establishment, when he needed money the most, he said that he would take five cents of all income to the company, but if the company was really developing too fast and was still short of money, he would subsidize more income to the company, and strive to make the company achieve the fastest and largest development.

At the same time, he hopes to sign more potential artists and make a profit for the company by tapping more artist value.

However, it is not an easy task to tap the value of an artist, nor is it a matter of getting money quickly.

In particular, it takes a long cultivation period to dig up new people.

At the beginning of the company's development, he could only push the company forward by himself.

Now faced with any opportunity to make money, Lin Zaishan does not want to miss it; When he sees any newcomer with potential, he will also observe and observe each other more, for fear of missing a piece of gold.

……

All day on Saturday, Lin Zaishan was at home to raise his waist, did not go out, and has been preparing in the studio for the next round of "Singer-Songwriter" competition.

Sun Yuzhen had a rare day of rest at home that day, and she had been waiting for Lin Zaishan by the side, and she was also feeling Lin Zaishan's incredible creative talent on the side.

"Uncle, the next proposition is 'white hair', this is a question tailored to you by the program team, you have to think about it." Sun Yuzhen looked forward to it, hoping that Lin Zaishan could have amazing creations on the proposition of "white hair". (To be continued.) )

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