Chapter 13: A First Glimpse of the Doorway
Chen Erdong took out a pen and paper, and Lin Daqi had a copy each, and he asked Lin Daqi to write down the contacts that could be used, including name, work unit, age, position, etc., after writing, search for the news of these units on the Internet, find out what they need for publicity, and then record it in the back of the corresponding person in the network list.
It took more than an hour for the two to complete this matter, Chen Erdong has sixteen connections, and Lin Daqi has twenty-three people, mainly elders in the family or friends of parents.
"Your dad is right, connections are very important, since we have it, it is impossible to wait for them to feed us, we have to take the initiative." Chen Erdong analyzed Lin Daqi.
"I'm just embarrassed to talk to these elders, and I mentioned it to my relatives last time when I had a dinner at home." Lin Daqi was a little difficult, he was a relatively thin-faced person.
"What's so embarrassing, we're juniors, what's the point of asking the elders to help out within the scope of their ability? Therefore, the information we checked just now is very important, do not fight unprepared battles, do your homework and ask the elders for help, and people will also feel that we are sincere. ”
"What if people won't help?"
"If you don't help, you won't help, let's not ask where we know if people will help? Besides, we are not too difficult to force others, if the uncles and aunts are really difficult, we can also understand, we take the initiative to say these words on our own, to leave a good impression. ”
"Okay, then we'll split up tomorrow."
"Try to visit in person as much as possible, some words are easy to shirk on the phone, and the face-to-face elders can't pull this face."
"You're the hell!" Lin Daqi has always admired Chen Erdong's ghost ideas, in fact, these are not good tricks, but for young people who have no social experience and social skills, simplicity and straightforwardness are common phenomena, and people with more eyes are more special.
I have to say that this method is really effective, the next day, especially Chen Erdong's side, he can speak more than Lin Daqi, and his acting skills are good, sometimes inspirational and sometimes miserable, and the four elders who visited have all been supported, including a ready-made business, although it is only a design and printing business of 500 posters, but this is the first business of Big Ear Media, which is of great significance.
Lin Daqi's progress was a little slow, because he spent two to three times as much time with his elders as Chen Erdong, and a lot of the content he narrated was ambiguous and had no clear purpose.
The elders did not refuse, but they really didn't know where to start, and they didn't dare to recommend the young man to the colleagues in charge of publicity, but after a day of visits, it proved that Chen Erdong's preparations yesterday were not done in vain, almost every unit has publicity needs, nothing more than how much and the way of expression is different, Lin Daqi is still full of confidence in the company's prospects.
Of course, Lin Daqi's most suitable position is still a designer, rather than letting him show up and rely on social networking to win the world, it is better to stay in front of a small table and concentrate on design, but in the early stage of entrepreneurship, all kinds of matters need to be taken into account, even if he is not good at it, he must be on top, the rumored difficulties of starting a business in less than a week, make him feel really piercing.
Because of receiving the first business, Lin Daqi did not go out to contact, but called the elders and arranged for Chen Erdong to go to the docking, which is also what he wants, not only to avoid difficult business negotiations, but also to return to the work he is best at and familiar with, and the division of labor of Big Ear Media has also begun to take shape.
After the business is contacted, Chen Erdong will return to the company to discuss the customer's needs with Lin Daqi, and will also assist Lin Daqi to complete other work of the project. As a result, the two of them performed their duties, and the efficiency immediately improved, and the company's business volume gradually spread from the two blank sheets of paper full of connections, and a month later, there have been more than a dozen orders of business.
Shen Pei's printing house has undoubtedly brought a lot of convenience to this small company, generally speaking, media companies will have a lot of printing needs, then there needs to be a long-term cooperation stable and reliable printing plant to support, with Shen Pei's unique relationship, Chen Erdong can be said to be worry-free in the quality and cost of printing.
Shen Pei's printing press covers the printing process from high to low from the most advanced Heidelberg, Germany to the common Komori, Japan, and the customer is also very surprised why a small company founded by a young man can make the price of printed matter lower than the market price, and the quality can be guaranteed.
Of course, Shen Pei contributed a lot to this. For the order of Big Ear Media, she only asked Liu Min to charge the most basic printing fee and the cost price of paper products, and when the manufacturer gave profits to the middleman free of charge, the price was naturally beautiful. Liu Min didn't look down on this little profit, and did it all for Shen Pei and his future uncle.
Shen Pei's support for Chen Erdong is far from this, she pesters Liu Min all day long to persuade her to persuade the client to take out the design business, and even to lobby the client's home, Liu Min was reluctant at first, she just wanted to concentrate on running the bank, but with the increase in orders for Chen Erdong to print, she also saw the design works of Big Ear Media, and she did have a bright feeling, in her opinion, the better the design, the better the more she can match her superb printing ability, so, in public and private, she has become the most powerful outreach weapon outside Big Ear Media.
After Shen Pei met his parents, the meeting between Chen Erdong and Liu Min was also put on the agenda, just in time for the opening of his company, this matter was temporarily shelved, but recently he and Liu Min have invisibly intersected because of the printing matter, Chen Erdong feels that he should visit Liu Min, otherwise he is too ignorant as a junior, not only because of Shen Pei, but also for Liu Min's support in printing and business, he should also have something to say, and he must take the initiative to propose, if Shen Pei speaks first, it will definitely change the taste, So he proposed the idea of meeting Liu Min to Shen Pei, and Shen Pei was overjoyed and immediately started to arrange time.
When Shen Pei told Liu Min, Liu Min had already booked a ticket to fly LS on Thursday, because it was a temporary work arrangement, Shen Pei did not know in advance, and heard that Chen Erdong was going to invite her, the future mother-in-law, to dinner, Liu Min immediately instructed the secretary to change the ticket to Friday, and made an appointment to meet Chen Erdong on Thursday night.
Chen Erdong heard that Liu Min likes to be a vegetarian, so he specially booked a vegetarian restaurant, although the price is expensive, but the first time he invited Shen Pei's mother to eat, he couldn't lose the specifications and no courtesy, and the business has been good recently, and his pocket is not as shy as before.
On Thursday afternoon, Chen Erdong came to a chain company engaged in imported food with a design sample, this company was introduced by Lin Daqi's brother-in-law, the boss's surname is Qiu, is a female returnee who studied in the United States, she finally selected three advertising companies to participate in the design of her new store VI through the preliminary draft, Lin Daqi's brother-in-law's relationship is limited to information provision and preliminary introduction, whether it can be selected or based on real materials, after Lin Daqi's three days of day and night carving, there is a chance for Chen Erdong to go to the proposal.
With more than a month of real guns, Chen Erdong is now more calm and sophisticated than when he went to Yongto Department Store for an interview, he is already good at expressing himself in the face of this proposal, which can be regarded as handy, his tacit understanding with Lin Daqi is not only reflected in personal relations, if Lin Daqi's design is an electrical appliance, then the preparation of the instruction manual is none other than Chen Erdong.