Chapter 139: Do You Have a Girlfriend?

The founder of the weekly magazine The New York Observer is Arthur Carter, a New York real estate developer.

Arthur founded and ran the magazine.

At first, it was mainly for his real estate company to do promotion.

In the beginning, the magazine focused on the real estate industry in New York and the surrounding area.

Later, Arthur Carter found that the newspaper was selling well, and the key was to increase his influence.

Promote the sales of your own real estate company.

He began to run it in earnest.

It's just that his strength is insufficient, coupled with the fierce competition in the industry.

After more than 20 years of development, The New York Observer has been confined to New York and nearby New Jersey.

Elsewhere, it's not well-known.

The sales volume of each issue is generally about 3-50,000 copies.

&5 years later,

With the rise of the Internet, coupled with the departure of the old editor-in-chief.

The New York Observer even began to go downhill, with sales falling and advertising bills falling.

In the past, I was able to maintain my daily balance and even make some money.

After that, start losing money every year.

If you don't hold it,

If it would have helped his real estate company, Arthur Carter would have sold it long ago.

After 2000.

The weekly magazine is losing more and more money every month.

So much so that Arthur Carter couldn't bear it anymore.

He began to spread the word that he was going to sell the weekly.

In parallel space-time,

He couldn't sell it for several years, and he didn't sell it until 2006.

By that time, the sales volume of this weekly magazine was just over 20,000 per issue.

In this spacetime,

Because Abel wanted to have his own newspaper at that time, he was able to fight with possible public opinion.

He asked David Mellon,

Helped yourself acquire several influential newspapers in New York.

The New York Sun and the New York Observer became Abel's belongings.

After becoming the owner of these two newspapers, Abel combined his experience as a traverser.

Both newspapers were reformed.

As it turned out, he had no talent at all.

The reforms he demanded from the two newspapers were not met with much response.

The New York Observer is okay, because for a month in a row, there is a celebrity interview in each issue.

And because of Abel, the celebrities invited are all well-known figures in New York.

This has somewhat boosted the sales of the New York Observer.

Let its previous average sales of about 40,000 copies per issue increase to about 6 to 70,000 copies.

This amount of growth is actually quite good.

Because of the bigwigs in weekly magazines, the sales of each issue of Time Magazine are currently about 150,000 copies.

If the New York Observer were able to maintain this sales every issue, it would become one of the top 20 best-selling weekly magazines in the United States.

At that time, the American Sun, which had been renamed, sold about 100,000 copies a day.

It looks like "The New York Observer", but "The New York Observer" is a weekly, weekly issue.

The American Sun is a daily newspaper that runs once a day.

In terms of pricing, one copy of the New York Observer can buy almost five copies of the American Sun.

That is, before the Smith storm.

Abel's reform of the two newspapers he bought has also benefited The New York Observer.

But this kind of benefit is not that his ideas and ideas are useful.

It's that he's in New York, and now he has a little face.

The celebrities invited earlier are willing to give interviews to the New York Observer.

The American Sun for positioning reasons

, there is no such benefit.

The previous newspaper had a relatively low bonus and low reputation.

Naturally, there will be no development, and it will still be the same.

Fortunately, this time there was a Smith storm across the United States.

On Abel's side, at the suggestion of David and the newly formed public relations department.

In a not-so-ingenious way, he transferred part of his heat to the American Sun.

This made the "American Sun" popular all of a sudden, and it has the current situation.

This is the case, in fact, it is a bit of a fiction.

The American Sun is now selling so much per issue.

At least one-third is because of the newspaper's bonus, a little more than one-third is Abel's popularity at this time, and the remaining one-third is the strength of the newspaper itself.

When Storm Smith cools down in the United States, it can still maintain such daily sales.

That proves that

The American Sun officially became one of the top 10 newspapers in the United States.

The current ranking is a bit fake.

But anyway, this time Abel's heat.

Let the "American Sun" eat a wave of benefits.

Next to the brother newspaper "The New York Observer", it is called a red eye.

As a current affairs and financial type, it must be advertised as a professional and high-end "New York Observer".

It's impossible to learn the marketing methods of the American Sun.

After thinking about it, the editorial department hit the boss with the idea.

They found that

The boss of his own house,

Until now, I have not been officially interviewed by any newspaper or magazine.

If only "The New York Observer" could get the boss's blood.

Obviously, you can take advantage of this popularity now to promote your fame to the elites of the whole United States.

That's what we have today.

The New York Observer sent one of the most elite interview teams from the entire editorial office to MGM's headquarters to interview Abel.

The interview team consisted of four people.

There is a gaffer, a videographer, an editor, and a reporter.

Among them, the editor is the leader, and it is the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, Dilan.

The interview was with his own boss, and the New York Observer sent out the best team, of course.

The videographer is the best, the gaffer is the best, and the editor is simply the editor-in-chief.

Reporter. Journalists are the most beautiful.

The prettiest one.

The beautiful journalist's name is Ashley Lis.

Ashley is a graduate of Northwestern University's Madill School of Journalism.

This is one of the top journalism majors in the United States.

She is very young, and many reporters or editors in the editorial department can surpass her in education.

Not to mention experience and work experience.

It's a pity that these people were all excluded by Dilan.

Whoever calls them or them is either not a woman or not young and beautiful enough.

And Ashley happened to be the prettiest flower in the entire New York Observer newspaper for two days after she joined the New York Observer.

Dylan is not stupid.

With yourself watching, the ability of the journalist himself does not matter.

The important thing is to make the boss feel satisfied and let the boss see it.

So Ashley, a recent graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, got the job that the whole newspaper was rushing to want.

This proves that sometimes, appearance is the primary productive force.

On the top floor of MGM Film's headquarters building, Ashley has been seeing her for nearly a month.

Abel Smith, who made the American public opinion surging and making the American media as happy as the New Year.

At the same time, he is also his own boss

Ashley, who came through the door, saw it first,

It was a tall and handsome young man in front of him, who looked polite.

He was not as youthful and rebellious as Ashley had imagined, and his handsome face and eyebrows showed a confidence and maturity that did not match his peers.

Even the reporters who came to interview him were just employees of one of his humble magazines.

He was also not domineering.

His attitude made Ashley and the others feel like a spring breeze.

This paragraph could be added to the press release.

Ashley thought to herself.

"Good morning, Mr. Smith."

Dylan hurriedly greeted.

The other two, including Ashley, also hurriedly greeted each other.

Able responded with a smile in response.

After a brief greeting, Dylan humbly handed an A4 piece of paper to the boss.

"Mr. Smith, here are some of the questions we're going to ask you next."

"Do you think it should be more, or less?"

Abel took it, looked down, and found that it was all old questions.

After all, it was his boss who wanted to be interviewed, so how dare he ask too many questions.

After a slight glance, Abel shook his head.

"Not much. Dylang, I remember you were called by that name, right? These questions are all too common." Abel took the A4 paper and said.

The boss had made a mistake by his name, and Dylan wanted to correct it.

But he didn't correct it in the end, and let the boss call him Dylang, which sounded similar anyway.

"What do you mean?"

The humble editor-in-chief asks online.

"Such an ordinary question. How much popularity does "The New York Observer" get? If you want to ask, ask something sharp."

"Oh oh oh~" Dylan nodded hurriedly.

If only that's the case, of course.

This will be of greater help to the sales and fame of The New York Observer.

It's not that Dylan doesn't want to make some explosive problems, it's just that he doesn't dare.

The boss is so active now, of course Dilan can't wait for it.

But Dylan doesn't know where the boss's bottom line is.

I don't know which sharp questions to ask and which ones not to ask.

Dylan was also entangled, and could only ask again, "Then what question should we ask?"

"Durron, are you the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, or am I the editor-in-chief?"

Abel said as a matter of course, "Of course, it's up to you to think about these questions, and I'll decide not to answer them!"

After saying that, Abel shook his head slightly.

He noticed that Dylan had been so cautious since entering the house.

asked Dilan to ask some sharp questions, and it is estimated that Dilan would not dare to be too sharp.

After thinking about it, he happened to see Ashley, who was pretty and in very good shape next to Dilan.

This beautiful reporter has been staring at herself excitedly.

Abel simply pointed at this beautiful reporter and said:

"Let this lady come. Just let her choose the issues that would make "The New York Observer" sell better and attract more attention, just like a celebrity interviewing ordinary celebrities. Duron, you can check by yourself, just keep a good sense of proportion."

Dillon breathed a sigh of relief, and thought about it, and the boss's solution seemed to be good.

The key is that you don't have to carry the pot, let Ashley carry the pot.

That's why he insisted on letting Ashley come over today, instead of other more capable and senior reporters.

"Okay." Dylan immediately said, "Then let Ashley come."

Seeing that the boss and the editor-in-chief were looking at her, Ashley was a little overwhelmed.

She first looked at the editor-in-chief, then at Abel, and finally whispered to Abel:

「BOSS。 So what kind of questions should I ask? scales

Where?"

Ashley wasn't stupid either.

I know that although the boss is so generous, but the interview I am waiting for a while, if it angers him, it is I who is unlucky.

Don't you see that the editor-in-chief, who has so much power in the company, is now all like this quail?

Ashley just lacks qualifications and experience, but she doesn't have a low IQ.

If she has a low IQ, she won't be able to get into one of the best journalism colleges in the United States!

Abel was made unpleasant by the attitude of Ashley and Dilan, who were pushing around a little.

He said, "You look like you've just graduated, Miss Ashley? Just like what you learned in school, you can interview as you want, and ask whatever questions you need to ask. Anyway, there are some questions I don't have to answer, move faster!"

The boss has said that he has to do this, and he is urging him to do this.

Even if Ashley doesn't want to do it, she can only bite the bullet at this time.

What's more, no matter how young she is, she still has the momentum of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers.

Young people who have just graduated will always have some illusions and have not yet been forged by society.

Courage is the most important thing compared to old fritters.

Gritting her teeth, Ashley said, "OSS, I'm going to do it then?"

Abel nodded.

Dylan hurriedly instructed the gaffers and videographers to move so that they could take some photos from the interview later.

Use it in magazines.

At the end of the day, he will also take a full-body cover photo of Abel.

It will be used in the latest issue of The New York Observer.

This is a benefit that leading magazines such as Forbes, Time and Fortune do not have.

is also a son like "The New York Observer", who can enjoy such treatment.

The interview officially began.

Ashley's first question, which seemed a little abrupt: "How would you describe yourself?"

Abel was slightly stunned, looked at Ashley with a warrior expression, and replied confidently, "Genius."

"You say you're a genius, what's the proof?"

"Evidence? In less than a year, I made a fortune of almost tens of billions of dollars with a few dozen dollars. I guess that's the strongest evidence, right?"

Alexander and his wife were not stingy with him, the only child.

In addition, he was already in Texas at the time, and he experimented with a few of his abilities.

When he came to New York, he had $70,000 in cash with him.

There was also a credit card in his own name, with a limit of five thousand dollars.

There was also a supplementary credit card that Alexander gave him, on which Able could spend $30,000 and ask Alexander to pay it back.

No matter which way you look at it, he was not poor at the time.

But I don't know if it's a lie, or what.

The media behind him, for the money he brought to New York at that time.

From a few thousand dollars at the beginning, it has become a few hundred dollars, and recently it has become dozens of dollars.

The media are saying that he only brought a few dozen dollars and made so much money in a short period of time.

The caliber is very unified, and Abel is wondering if it is a sign from the relevant departments of the United States.

Abel thinks a few dozen dollars is very ridiculous, but it looks more legendary.

It also seems to be more bullish X.

He simply acquiesced, saying that what he brought to New York at that time was only a few dozen dollars!

This kind of trivial matter, and no one will debunk it.

It doesn't hurt to debunk it.

Before it is debunked, of course, it can be blown and blown.

Afraid of an egg.

Ashley, on her part, heard this answer from the young and handsome boss.

The questions she had thought about were a little unanswerable for a while.

yes, this kind of person is not a genius what is.

Whatever it is

With how much capital, you can earn so much wealth in one year.

Does he still need proof?

His wealth is the best proof of him!

Ashley had no choice but to switch questions and ask MGM the question.

"What made you wake up and buy MGM all of a sudden?"

Abel's current news popularity can be said to be due to his purchase of MGM.

Ashley thinks that readers will be interested in this question as well.

This question is also not so sharp, it is easy to answer, and it is suitable for the boss to pretend.

But she didn't expect that Abel didn't answer at all as she thought.

Abel's answer was-

"On a whim. I came here in Los Angeles mainly to buy Marvel. When I was a kid, I loved Iron Man and Spider-Man. Now that I have enough money, I just bought the company that created them."

"After that. I can let Marvel create the comic book plot that I like. For example, make Iron Man Spider-Man's father, or make Spider-Man a super-rich man. I think it's funny!"

"Later, near Beverly Hills, I happened to meet Corkrian. Corkrian asked me if I was interested in MGM. I asked about the price, and I didn't think it was expensive, so I bought it."

Abel's answer this time is obviously not in line with his original intention of buying Marvel and MGM.

But he felt that his answer might make more Americans worship him.

Showing off wealth in China can easily cause ordinary people to hate the rich.

It is also easy to attract the attention of Iron Fist.

But flaunting wealth in the United States will also attract people who hate the rich.

But it's more of the Americans who think you're awesome because of your wealth.

The national situation is different, on the side of the United States, it is really awesome to have money.

Not just in everyday life and in influence.

It's that in the everyday perception of Americans, rich people are awesome.

It is superior, it is noble blood, and it is high.

This is a concept that the capitalists have spent a long time brainwashing.

In this case, the proper flaunting of wealth, the proper Versailles.

It does not arouse the disgust of most ordinary Americans.

Instead, they may worship Abel even more because of their wealth and age.

This is based on different national conditions, and thus different results.

Both questions were answered differently from what I imagined.

Ashley has been initially aware of her boss's character.

This is a very self-confident and at the same time very self-ego-rich super-rich.

Maybe that's exactly what it is.

He was able to legally earn so much wealth in such a short period of time.

And in the media across the United States, the current Smith storm has been set off!

After realizing this, Ashley's questions became sharper, and it was easier for Abel to play.

Her third question is –

"Do you have a girlfriend?" If not, what type of woman would you want to find as your girlfriend? Or even your future wife?"

This question suddenly made Abel's eyes light up.

made him feel that this female reporter in front of him.

In addition to being particularly good-looking and having a particularly good figure.

It's not a straw bale, but the ability is still there.

He smiled and spoke.