Chapter 70 Contrarian Growth in Sales
On the day of the distribution of "Tianxia Weekly", Zhao Chen did not stay at home, but waited for news in Tianxia Comics Company, Shangguan Xiaobao and Ma Rongcheng also sat aside, quietly waiting for the employee's reply.
"With the quality of "Football Player" and "Chinese Hero", the follow-up sales should not be bad!"
Shangguan Xiaobao took a sip of tea while holding the teacup, looked at Zhao Chen, who was a little nervous in front of him, and said softly, he believed in his vision. In Shangguan Xiaobao's view, these two comics are excellent works, whether it is the painting, the plot or the charm of the characters, as long as the quality of the back remains the same, then the sales will soon open.
Zhao Chen nodded, did not speak, after all, the World Comics Company is his, and he naturally has high hopes for "Tianxia Weekly", although he knows the charm of the two comics, he is still a little nervous in his heart.
As for Ma Rongcheng, who was sitting on the other side, he was even more nervous, after all, this was his first time drawing a long-form comic, and if he failed, it would undoubtedly bring him a very big blow. Although Ma Rongcheng also knew in his heart that the quality of "Chinese Heroes" was good, he was still quite nervous, and the director's office became dull, and the three of them were speechless for a long time, waiting for news tacitly.
Soon after the time, an employee in charge of sales entered the room, with obvious excitement on his face, and handed the notebook in his hand to Zhao Chen, which recorded the sales in the morning.
Zhao Chen hurriedly set his eyes on the notebook, and Shangguan Xiaobao and Ma Rongcheng also hurriedly came to Zhao Chen, looking at the dense numbers on the notebook.
"It's pretty good, it sold 20,000 in one morning, you go and talk to the publisher again, and then order 5,000 copies!"
Zhao Chen swept over a bunch of numbers in the notebook, his eyes followed closely the total sales that fell at the back, and his face was full of excitement.
"Tianxia Weekly" has rushed to produce two batches before, each batch has a quantity of 10,000, adding up to 20,000. After all, this is the first issue, and Zhao Chen's heart actually has no bottom, and it is not until now that he sees the specific sales volume and is stunned that the 20,000 copies of "Tianxia Weekly" have been sold out. I couldn't help but think about it for a while, and asked the staff in charge of sales to go to the publishing house again and rush to produce the last 5,000 copies, and he felt that this number was almost enough for the market to digest.
After the employee in charge of sales left, the three of them couldn't help but look at each other, their faces were full of relieved smiles, and the sales of more than 20,000 in the first issue were really beyond their expectations.
"Zhao Chen, it seems that the cover you designed has made a lot of contributions, otherwise even if the quality of the magazine is better, it is impossible to sell this amount in the first issue in the case of competition with Huang Yulang! Hehe, I don't know what Huang Yulang's expression will be when he finds out, it's really exciting! ”
Shangguan Xiaobao has always regarded Huang Yulang as his biggest opponent, and he can't wait to go to Yulang International Co., Ltd. to 'visit' Huang Yulang.
"In any case, the sales of this issue may not be as good as that of "Fresh Weekly", but the best is yet to come!"
Zhao Chen showed an expression of watching a good show, although "Drunken Fist" belongs to the classic Hong Kong comics, but the sales are not as good as "Chinese Heroes", not to mention the joint offensive of "Football Player" and "Chinese Heroes", which directly leads to "Fresh Weekly" being weaker in quality.
Yulang International Co., Ltd. is not far from the World Comics Company, only a few hundred meters, Huang Yulang is sitting in his office at this time, holding a comic magazine in his hand, it is "Tianxia Weekly"!
Looking at the exquisite cover of "Tianxia Weekly", Huang Yulang couldn't help frowning, and then stretched out in an instant, in his opinion, this is just a crooked way, that is, to attract the reader's attention, the most important thing in the comic is the quality.
When Huang Yulang began to study "Tianxia Weekly", his face gradually became solemn.
"I didn't expect it, even if this Zhao Chen has changed some styles, but the quality has not decreased, although this kind of sports comic is a bit unpopular in Xiangjiang, but as long as it is successful, it can quickly expand the Xiangjiang market!"
After reading the content of the first issue of "Football Player", Huang Yulang knew in his heart that his suppression plan was likely to face failure, it was really Zhao Chen's "Football Player" The quality is not bad, and the painting style is even more than "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the most important thing is to be able to open up the primary and secondary school student market in Xiangjiang, which is the benefit of this sports man.
Huang Yulang is not too worried in his heart, he has confidence in his new comic "Drunken Fist", thinking that "Drunken Fist" can compete with "Football Player", just like "Dragon Tiger Gate" can always hold down "Bruce Lee".
Huang Yulang originally didn't want to watch the later "Chinese Heroes" after watching "Football Player", because in his opinion, Ma Rongcheng is almost equivalent to a rookie cartoonist, if it weren't for Zhao Chen's World Comics Company as an opponent, Huang Yulang would not necessarily watch it.
But just looking at it like this, Huang Yulang's face became gloomy, he didn't expect that Ma Rongcheng, who was equivalent to a rookie cartoonist in his eyes, would be so powerful, and the level of "Chinese Hero" was faintly better than "Drunken Fist"!
"Damn, it seems that this time it can't stop the world comic company, with these two excellent comics, "World Weekly" is bound to soar! Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen, I really didn't misread you, you are destined to be my biggest opponent in unifying Xiangjiang Comics! ”
Huang Yulang is very ambitious, but these are all based on his strength, and in today's Xiangjiang Huang Yulang's fame can be said to be crushing any local cartoonist, including Shangguan Xiaobao, not to mention Zhao Chen, who is far less famous than Huang Yulang at this time.
It is precisely because of such a strong reputation and strength that Yulang International Co., Ltd.'s exhibition will be so rapid, occupying a large market in just a few months, if it is not for the unprecedented popularity of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", I am afraid that Yulang International Co., Ltd. has occupied half of the Xiangjiang comic market at this time.
But Huang Yulang didn't expect that there was "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" to block it, and now "Football Player" and "Chinese Hero" have come out, which is bound to make Huang Yulang's ambition stillborn, that is, such a relationship again and again, Huang Yulang began to regard Zhao Chen as one of his biggest opponents.
Just as Huang Yulang put the "Commonwealth Weekly" in his hand on the desk, there was a knock on the office door.
"Come in!"
A staff member enters the office with some paper in his hand and places it in front of Huang Yulang.
"Boss, here's today's sales!"
Huang Yulang did not speak, but quickly opened the papers, which recorded the sales of comic magazines and daily newspapers owned by Yulang International Co., Ltd. Huang Yulang's mind did not focus on other places, but directly found the paper that recorded "Fresh Weekly" and looked at the dense sales on it.
When he saw the total sales, Huang Yulang's eyes flashed with a hint of tyranny, and the sales volume above was a little different from what he imagined, to be precise, it was low.
A total of more than 30,000 copies of "Fresh Weekly" have been purchased in major bookstores and newsstands in front of Buqian, but until now, the total sales have not even reached 40,000, that is to say, only a few thousand copies have been sold, which is still due to the quality of "Drunken Fist" and Huang Yulang's fame.
Huang Yulang's chest continued to rise and fall, and finally took a deep breath and said to the staff member: "Have you found out what I asked you to check?" ”
"I just went to that publishing house, and the publication of this issue of "Tianxia Weekly" has reached 20,000, and now the third batch of 5,000 copies is being produced!"
The staff suppressed the nervousness in their hearts and told the results of the investigation.
"Okay, you're good to go!"
Huang Yulang didn't say anything, but his face became a little blue, although in terms of total sales, "Fresh Weekly" obviously overpressed "Tianxia Weekly", but the growth trend is not as good, that is to say, Huang Yulang's decision this time has failed, with the quality of the two comics of "Tianxia Weekly" as long as they do not make mistakes, they are destined to soar.
It's just that Huang Yulang is still quite unwilling, he naturally doesn't want to see the expansion of the world's comic company, which will inevitably affect his interests, and if he wants to dominate the Hong Kong comic market, he will inevitably end up in nothing.
On the second day after the two comic magazines were distributed, newspapers such as Oriental Daily reported on the sales of the two comic magazines, and the article vigorously belittled the two new comics of "Tianxia Weekly", which correspondingly raised the grade of "Fresh Weekly".
These newspapers were all achieved by Huang Yulang using his own connections and interests, in order to try to reduce the sales of "Tianxia Weekly", so as to suppress the exhibition momentum of Tianxia Comics Company.
But Huang Yulang was also blinded by lard, and this did temporarily belittle "Tianxia Weekly", but it was also an advertisement for "Tianxia Weekly", so that sales not only did not decrease, but began to grow against the trend.
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