Chapter 47: Simple Likes
Lin Ming's consideration of the joyful and grand performance of this Peachwood Music Festival is by no means a temporary idea.
In fact, as early as the beginning of this month, when Taomu Company held a survival meeting of the company, Lin Ming put forward two points to help Taomu avoid the upcoming record crisis.
The first of these is to hope that Taomu will no longer be obsessed with releasing records and paving the way for sales. Instead, it will find another way to carry forward the Taomu Music Festival and make it an independent brand of Taomu, so that the downturn in the record market will not affect the operation of Taomu due to the arrival of the MP3 market.
In the previous life, when the Taomu Company encountered this crisis, it relied on this method to avoid it. Small companies like them actually rely on record sales to make money, because their sales are not high, and their celebrities are also very low, and many small companies even need to work as intermediaries to support themselves, and there is no way to continue to grow. Therefore, once many small companies fall into the crisis of the record market, they will collapse directly because of the already poor sales. And Momoki was supposed to belong to this category, but they had a music festival to support it, and every year the festival was doing better and better, and the tickets were selling well, so they managed to stay afloat.
Later, Zhao Bin and the others saw that the record market was completely dead, so they simply plunged into the music festival. Dedicated to the music festival, the Taomu Music Festival finally achieved the status of the largest music festival in Asia.
As the so-called intentional planting of flowers does not bloom, unintentionally planted willows and willows into the shade.
Momoki originally wanted to be a regular music record company, but the record market declined, and the music festival, which was a side business, suddenly sprung up and became a dark horse to save the company, which was unexpected by everyone, and it was also a surprise for the three shareholders of Momoki.
Imagine, when it comes to the Taomu Music Festival in the capital of the later generations, the number of attendees is 240,000, and the tickets are 120 yuan pre-sold. The income from the ticket fee alone has reached tens of millions of yuan, which is enough to feed the Taomu Company.
Therefore, in Lin Ming's view, although Taomu Company has indeed departed from the original historical trajectory because of its own participation, it is no longer making a fortune by making music festivals, and it has a tendency to go to an orthodox record company.
But since there is a successful historical trajectory, why not continue to follow this path? Both sides can be taken care of, and only by taking a two-pronged approach can it develop.
Therefore, Lin Ming's proposal to increase investment in the music festival must be done.
As for how to do it, you have to plan.
After all, this proposal is not the same concept as the previous millions of petty fights, and the company's liquidity at that time was actually so much, and it was used up for itself, and a month's record sales came back. But this time, not only do you have to invest all the money you earned before, but you may also put some funds upside down. Just inviting those top big-name stars to come over, the cost may exceed 10 million. In addition, venue fees, labor costs, and other miscellaneous expenses. After this music festival, it is very likely to cost more than 20 million. This is almost equivalent to half of the total value of the entire company now, and once there is no return to the capital, then Taomu will really return to the pre-liberation period overnight.
This is not what Lin Ming looked like before he came to Taomu, but almost back to the appearance of the three shareholders who had just set up this company with money. If 20 million is smashed down, and the water splashes without splashing, Taomu will basically collapse there, and employee salaries may need all shareholders to continue to take money out to fill it.
Even if it is because of Lin Ming's relationship, he may be able to slowly earn it back in the future, and slowly come to today's scale. But this kind of vitality injury is not something that can be quickly healed by licking the wound. Not to mention the large amount of time and money, the relationship between the four shareholders may also have problems.
At least for pure businessmen like Zhao Bin and Hou Wenhui, who are in business, it is absolutely unacceptable that in the important stage of the company's rapid development, such a huge mistake occurs, and Lin Ming is likely to lose his voice in Taomu.
In fact, he has no say now, and his shares are only 12%. But at least three shareholders still trust him very much, and his opinions will be seriously considered.
And at that time, these three people would never agree to any of Lin Ming's proposals. Because this world is like this, when you succeed, you are greeted with all kinds of praise and praise. If you fail, you will be beaten into the abyss with a stick, and you will never be able to get up again.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Ming thought about how to plan the music festival, although he didn't go to the 2018 Taomu Music Festival, he had also been there twice in the previous sessions. The overall effect is indeed okay, if you follow the successful model of the later generations of Taomu, there will be no problem, and because I was the audience in the previous life, I can know what I did before when I feel at the scene, and now I am the host, and I will definitely be able to do better. But what he was thinking about was how to add the star element he just thought of. Because in his opinion, if you want to quickly become famous, the simplest and rude way is, of course, to use the fame of celebrities and invite these popular top celebrities to take charge.
But inviting so many top heavenly kings at one time is not a small amount. So Lin Ming has to think about it, how to make the Taomu Music Festival an instant hit, and save a lot of money without investing too much. And the idea had to come up with as soon as possible, because in October, the festival was about to start.
Even now Momoki has begun to follow the old rules and begin to invite some domestic bands to participate. Carry out some preparatory work in the early stage, and by the time we reach September, we will be able to officially start renting the venue, setting up the stage and other post-production preparations.
Sure enough, if it's not active now, then this music festival must still be the same, and it can't carry out a reform as Lin Ming wants.
Lin Ming returned to the living room of the teacher's house.
Li Sisi was looking at him sideways, his burning gaze made Lin Ming's back a little cold, he didn't dare to look at her, lowered his head and sat back in his place. These days, Li Sisi's courage seems to be getting bigger and bigger, and when her eyes collided before, she would blush slightly and bow her head shyly. And now, she dared to look directly into Lin Ming's eyes.
The girl looked at him with an expectant look, and she didn't know if he liked herself. She only knew that the smile of the boy in front of her was very beautiful, like an afternoon sun, shining warmly on herself.
Liking a person is actually very simple, his every move, a smile, a look, are all worrying, and I can't help but think carefully about the meaning of any of his actions. Everyone has had a crush, all we don't know is whether the crush knows that she likes her and whether she likes herself just as much. People are always complaining about life, but in fact, life has given you a lot of good things. Maybe in that summer, lying on the grass and watching the clouds drift by in the sky. At the intersection of reality and memory, we are reminded of the sunny afternoon at that time. It's a love letter that has been written for a long time, a sentence that I didn't dare to say, or the person I secretly like. Most of the time, people will hide their feelings in their hearts, in that era when they blushed when they were holding hands and drawing 38 lines on the table at the same table for men and women, what we can recall about our feelings may be the regrets of a lifetime in life, or the jokes at the dinner of classmates many years later, smiling and occasionally recalling the vignettes.
People may have many regrets in this life, but life is not only for love.
Taking advantage of the time when the teacher went to the toilet, Li Sisi quietly handed over a note with a red face. Lin Ming turned around and looked, the teacher went to the toilet, and the master and mother were brushing his cat, and the cat was on the windowsill, looking at them with a pair of green eyes.
Took the note and glanced at it, there was a question written on it, which page of the book did Lin Ming not be stupid enough to tell her that he guessed that there was a love letter in the book, so he wrote a sentence on the note.
"I've been very busy lately, so I don't have time to read." He originally wanted to go back like this, but suddenly remembered that he had been thinking about how to repay Li Sisi's love in the matter of delivering cigarettes before, and today happened to be an opportunity, so he wrote below: "In order to thank you for lending me a book, I invite you to dinner?" ”
Today, An's father took turns off, and while he was on vacation, he took An Ran back to his grandmother's house. Lin Ming naturally didn't have to hurry back to cook for An Ran, thinking that he was just fine today, so he invited Li Sisi to have a meal. At the dinner table, by the way, he returned Li Sisi's affection, and on the other hand, he also made it clear to her and made her break off this thought.
Li Sisi received the note, and before he could read it, Li Yi came out of the toilet. She hurriedly crumpled the note into a ball, grasped it in the palm of her hand, held the pen in her right hand and spun it nervously, held the note in her left hand and propped her hand on her left chin, looking at the topic, pretending to be in thought.
What is that youth most afraid of?
It was a small note passed in class, and the teacher stood at the window and watched them quietly, and then a sudden attack took all the notes back.
We are always looking for some of our own after-school programs in the boring after-school life. In the era when there are no mobile phones, no, and no game consoles, the post-80s generation naturally has their fun. Sometimes, they will take some blank notes and deliberately get caught, angry with the teacher.
More often, I still put a heavy like in my heart. Until one day after graduation, maybe you will be afraid of leaving regrets, or maybe you will not see that side again in the future, that you will have the courage to say this feeling.
Li Sisi didn't want to wait until he was about to graduate before he had the courage to release his love for Lin Ming in his heart. Because she is a girl who dares to love and hate. Even deep down, she still felt embarrassed to speak.
But for some reason, she always felt that fate was like two intertwined threads. One end was tied to Lin Ming's hand, and the other end was tied to his own hand.
The two threads overlapped each other in the middle, entwined so that neither of them could separate.
Li Sisi didn't understand whether this was some kind of fate in the previous life, or a desire born from the depths of his heart. When people meet someone they think they are suitable, they always can't suppress the impulse in their hearts. Even for a girl like Li Sisi who should be unspeakable, she is willing to write a love letter.
That's perhaps.
It's the most sincere and pure love of boys and girls. There are no impurities and no care about any factors. It's just, simple like.