Recently, Lu Zhou has been very busy, not only busy writing songs, singing songs, practicing piano, running performances, and receiving advertisements, but also busy meeting various people.

Today, I was urged by Qin Lao to practice the piano for an hour in the gap time, and I immediately rushed to the next agreed place when I came out.

The person I want to meet this time is Qiu Mingbo.

After secretly pulling for so long before, this is the first time that the two have met today.

Because each other's working hours are tight today, they both squeezed out time to meet, so the two of them are very tacit, and they almost don't waste time when they meet, and they go straight to the point.

"I heard Cheng Yi say that you are very eager to cooperate with me, and you locked me in when you were looking for an agent."

Qiu Mingbo is a thirty-nine-year-old man, slightly chubby, with a middle-aged belly that has a tendency to become fat, and wears black-rimmed glasses.

The tone that came up was quite confident and strong, and he had the upper hand.

This aura is quite in line with a veteran agent who has been in the entertainment industry for many years.

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded, admitting, "That's true. ”

"It is a great honour for us to agree to work with us. I believe that with the blessing of Bogo's ability in the future, Legend Entertainment will definitely break into a great world in the entertainment industry one day. ”

Lu Zhou began to smear honey on his mouth, picking on nice words.

"We haven't even started talking, how are you sure I'll agree to join you?"

Qiu Mingbo took a sip of the cocktail and looked at Lu Zhou's calm and relaxed posture with great interest.

"The terms of cooperation that our Legend Entertainment can give, Brother Cheng Yi must have talked to you in depth before, you originally rejected us, but in the end you changed your mind and were willing to come out to see me, doesn't this mean that you have decided to cooperate?"

Lu Zhou didn't plan to go around with him, and directly opened the skylight to say something.

Qiu Mingbo likes this kind of smart and cheerful person, and he pushed a document he brought in front of Lu Zhou.

"I have added three articles to the original terms of cooperation, you see, if you agree, then the cooperation is happy." He said.

Lu Zhou took the document and looked at it carefully.

Most of the content was provided to him before, and with three additional conditions, Qiu Mingbo was marked in red.

First, it is required to hold shares in Legend Entertainment.

Second, the identity of the executive president of artist strategy cannot only have a name but no power, and he must have enough say in the future planning of the artist.

Third, he has three or four artists whose contracts are about to expire, and his career achievements in the circle are good, and he is currently in the stage of rising step by step. He is allowed to bring these artists together to Legendary Entertainment, and the artist's contract needs to be reviewed by him before signing the contract.

The pit that he stepped on in Shixiang Entertainment made Qiu Mingbo's sharpness drop a lot, and the conditions he put forward did not appear in very sharp words.

The conditions feel that they are still within a reasonable range, and Qiu Mingbo still leaves a relatively large room for negotiation for both parties.

At first glance, it doesn't seem so unacceptable.

But Lu Zhou read it silently, pondered for a while, and then said with a smile.

"I'll respond one by one."

Lu Zhou looked at the words on the document and said slowly:

"First, if you want to take a stake in Legend Entertainment, of course, it's no problem, if you join us, you will be an important head strategist of the company, and you should give shares. However, the premise is that the entry time must meet the minimum standards required by the company. ”

"We will have a meeting to discuss this at that time, and if there is no problem in the discussion, it will be written into the contract, do you have any objections to this arrangement?"

Qiu Mingbo felt reasonable, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Lu Zhou looked at the second condition on the document.

"The CEO of the artist has enough say in the company's contracted artists, which is also right. Otherwise, we would have worked so hard to find you, and it would be impossible to find the decorations? The development plan of the company's artists, except for me, everyone else is fully responsible for you. ”

"However, for the career planning of each signed artist, it needs to be regularly reported to the board of directors, and the team you lead needs to be fully responsible for the concealment and misreporting."

"There's nothing wrong with that, right?"

As he spoke, Lu Zhou looked up at Qiu Mingbo again and asked for advice.

Qiu Mingbo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Lu Zhou for a while before nodding and responding: "OK, reasonable." ”

Lu Zhou looked at the document, turned the mobile phone in his hand, and said, "But the third condition, I'm sorry, I can't agree." ”

Qiu Mingbo's brows furrowed when he heard this.

He originally thought that the third condition would be the most refreshing condition that Lu Zhou agreed, and even thought that he would feel glad that he could bring an artist to Legendary Entertainment.

Outcome...... This one, but it is the only one that has been vetoed by Lu Zhou?

"Why?"

Qiu Mingbo asked the doubts in his heart.

"These artists are all very good artists, and they can bring a lot of income to Legendary Entertainment, I don't quite understand, why don't you agree to sign them?"

Lu Zhou pushed the document back on Qiu Mingbo's desktop, smiled, and said:

"They have already mixed up their own achievements, in fact, they don't have to worry about signing contracts with good companies, and it is better to go to other large companies for resources, which is more beneficial to their development."

"As for our company, I hope to leave more signing opportunities for artists who have not yet mixed up, and cultivate their fame from scratch."

Qiu Mingbo frowned again.

"That will be very costly, and it will be a long process, artists go from not famous to famous, and if they are unlucky, years of time will be wasted."

"You're from the past, you should know the hardships. The angle is reversed, and it is the same for the company. ”

Qiu Mingbo couldn't understand Lu Zhou's thoughts.

Lu Zhou: "So what we have to do is to keep our eyes open and select artists with great potential, and strive to let them make achievements in the shortest possible time." ”

He smiled and said, "Isn't that more challenging?" ”

Qiu Mingbo: "??? ”

What's he doing?

Whimsical?

is young, but his ambition is not ordinary.

Is it so easy to choose an artist with high potential? Is it so easy to make them popular in a short period of time?

Before, he still felt that Lu Zhou was not simple, but now Qiu Mingbo suddenly felt that he was too blindly confident?

Qiu Mingbo: "It's very challenging, but it's not as easy as you think. Nowadays, you are the only one who can handle Legendary Entertainment, add more famous artists, and it is easy to get resources in the circle. ”

Lu Zhou knew that Qiu Mingbo was still struggling in his heart, he smiled and spoke again:

"Brother Bo, if you want to break through the bottleneck period of your career, you need to jump out of your comfort zone and give it a go."

"Just like I did at the beginning, if I hadn't let go and terminated the contract with Jinhua Entertainment, maybe I would still be sweating in the rehearsal room of idol trainees today."

Qiu Mingbo was stunned when he heard this.

Damn, I don't like his rhetoric, but he's not wrong.

"You seem to be confident in yourself." Qiu Mingbo raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, I don't have enough confidence to open the door to you, do I?"

"But Bogo, are you confident in your restart?" Lu Zhou asked rhetorically.

This question is simply a soul question.

Qiu Mingbo paused.

yes, is he confident enough about his fresh start?

If so, why does he want to take the old man with him wherever he goes?

Is this also another act of lack of confidence?

After realizing this, Qiu Mingbo was shocked in his heart.

It turned out that he was not confident enough.

He relies too much on his past achievements and aura in the entertainment industry, so the burden is getting heavier and heavier, and he has to take it with him wherever he goes.

These are his burdens, his achievements, and the basic guarantee for him to prove that he will never be defeated!

If you want to break through, you have to step out of your comfort zone.

Qiu Mingbo was finally moved.

When Lu Zhou left, he sent a message to Pan Chengyi: [It's okay].

Pan Chengyi: [You cow]

……

Three days of thinking about it was not a long time, and before the day when Lu Zhou made an appointment to meet Xu Junze, Qi Jiajia gave him a final answer.

Fortunately, so far, everything that Lu Zhou has planned on his own initiative is still in his prediction.

The meeting with Xu Junze was made in his office.

It was one night, and almost all the employees left after work, and there were still a few working overtime, but they didn't notice Lu Zhou's arrival.

Lu Zhou had been busy all day, and his spirit was relatively tired, and when he saw Xu Junze, his face looked a little serious.

At first glance, Xu Junze secretly said that it was not good, this face, is it really to be held accountable? So Lu Zhou really has a marketing habit of cleanliness?

The corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a slightly embarrassed smile.

How much will I feel embarrassed, he used to have a good relationship with Lu Zhou in the show, but now he is helping his ex-girlfriend bind him behind his back to hype, in Lu Zhou's opinion, there will definitely be an uncomfortable feeling of being backstabbed by a friend.

But Xu Junze is doing traffic operations, and he really has so many scruples, he doesn't have to play.

Responding to customer needs and meeting customer goals is what he has to consider, Li Jiayan is now half of his customer, but Lu Zhou is not.

At most, Lu Zhou is a friend who may not be in touch in the future.

He is now a public figure, and public figures should be mentally prepared to be used to hype.

Xu Junze thought.

"You look a little thinner, you're very busy at work after the show, right?" Xu Junze opened the greeting session of the meeting of friends.

Lu Zhou found a chair to sit down at random, sighed lightly, and said: "It's really busy, but it's not because I'm busy, it's to look better in front of the camera." ”

Xu Junze smiled and nodded to indicate that it was understandable, they are all people who are familiar with the work in front of the camera, and they all know that proper image management requirements are inevitable.

"Want something?" He asked.

Lu Zhou: "Just boiled water." ”

Xu Junze got up and poured a glass of warm water for Lu Zhou.

"The last time I said I would make an appointment for dinner, but because of the conflict in the itinerary, the dinner was canceled, and I came to see me so late today, say, what is the matter with me?"

Xu Junze glanced at the kraft paper document bag that Lu Zhou was resting on his lap, and went straight to the point.

Lu Zhou took the water cup, raised his head and drank half a cup in one go, obviously really thirsty.

"There's a collaboration I'd like to talk to you about."

After drinking the water, he put the water cup on the low table next to him, took out a document from the file bag, and handed it to Xu Junze.

"Look, interested?" He went straight to the point.

Xu Junze was stunned for a long time before taking it, "Talking about cooperation?" ”

Isn't it here to be held accountable?

That's weird.

Lu Zhou: "I want to invest in you to do this project, if you think it's a good idea, we will cooperate." ”

Xu Junze roughly finished reading the contents of the document, and the eyes that looked at Lu Zhou were different from before.

It is not easy for a person who plays the entertainment industry to have such a deep understanding of the Internet celebrity industry.

"You are an Internet celebrity MCN, what do you think of the current Internet celebrity brokerage market?" Lu Zhou saw that Xu Junze had finished reading the content, and asked with a light smile.

"The market is quite big, but the competition is also quite fierce, everyone is trying to break their heads and try to create a head Internet celebrity, but at present, the content that can be mined is almost dug up, the audience is aesthetically fatigued, and the content development tends to be saturated."

"If you want your Internet celebrities to come out of the Internet celebrity army, you must play the characteristics that you can really play, and let them have a long-term topicality, otherwise even if you get into the head, it won't be long before you fall silent."

"In the current Internet celebrity brokerage market, it is easy to say that it is easy to do, and it is not easy to do if it is not easy to do. It depends on how big you want to be. ”

Xu Junze put down the document and told the truth.

He is not afraid to get to the bottom of it, after all, not everyone in this industry can find out the way to play. The water is deep, of course, it is not as deep as the entertainment industry, but the depth of the entertainment industry and the depth of the Internet celebrity industry are not the same thing.

"Influencer agency is not the same as artist agency." Lu Zhou said.

"The success of Internet celebrities is too reproducible, the previous model was successful, and you want to use the template to train the next generation to play the same, but after tossing it, you find that you can't play.

But artist management is a different state.

After cultivating a successful artist, the agency can often continue to produce several generations through a one-stop mature training system. ”

"Why can artist agents play like this, but it's a bit difficult for Internet celebrity agents to play like this, do you know why?"

Lu Zhou looked at Xu Junze with a smile and threw the question to him.

Lu Zhou's words just now had caused Xu Junze to think deeply, and he frowned and thought about it seriously.

"Most of the Internet celebrity works are not hard enough, and the substitution is too strong. The artist's works are different, most of them are carefully created by the team, as long as the works have been there, they have a place in the hearts of the audience, so the artist's fame will last for a long time, and Internet celebrities are easy to explode, but it is difficult to last long. ”

"If an Internet celebrity agent wants to become an artist agent, the capital support and team effort that need to be paid behind him is another level."

Lu Zhou smiled with satisfaction: "That's right." ”

"So if you want to break through the bottleneck as an Internet celebrity agent, simply signing potential Internet celebrities will not make your dreams come true."

"If you want to break through, you have to change the model."

"The fundamental reason why Starlink MCN has come to this level today and has seen a decline in growth is not Chu Yao's departure, but that it has basically touched the ceiling when it has reached this level."

Lu Zhou mentioned Chu Yao, which was also Xu Junze's heart knot.

Xu Junze was shocked in his heart and couldn't calm down for a long time.

Lu Zhou said: "Are you interested in testing the water in a different mode? Using a gameplay similar to that of an artist agent to challenge an Internet celebrity agent may be different. ”

Xu Junze: "I'm not familiar with the artist agency. ”

"It's familiar to play, no one is born with it, but you have an advantage, so I want to cooperate with you."

Lu Zhou smiled and stretched out his index finger to tap on the document.

"We can jointly do a new Internet celebrity brokerage content company, batch output of Internet celebrities who can play short dramas, you are responsible for mining and cultivating Internet celebrities with potential in this area, and I provide the content industry chain, as well as the gameplay and resources of the entertainment industry."

Xu Junze is still in the hesitation stage, "The short drama is still a blank market, I haven't studied it yet, and I'm not sure if I've done it." ”

Lu Zhou: "Just because it is a blank market, we must take the lead in leading the trend to seize the market and eat the first wave of dividends." After that, if you have the strength to do in-depth and excellent content, and if you do it well, you may have the opportunity to transform into the entertainment industry. ”

"Believe me, now that society has entered the short-term entertainment mode, there will definitely be a big market for short dramas in the near future, sooner or later."

Lu Zhou gave Xu Junze a feeling of confidence.

Xu Junze pondered for a long time and replied: "It's not impossible to try. But you just said that you provide a content industry chain, you are a musician, how to provide this kind of content? Do you have the resources? ”

Lu Zhou smiled, "Don't worry, I have it, and it's basically in place, I'll send someone now." ”

Of course he has, he's bought an entire library of works from the site. Wouldn't it be appropriate to find a screenwriter to sort it out again?

Lu Zhou's phone rang, he picked it up and looked at it, and then refused to answer.

"You think about it, and if you are interested in cooperating, give me an answer."

"One week is enough, right? If I don't get a response from you after a week, I'll find someone else. I originally locked two intended partners, one is you and the other is Wang Bin......"

Xu Junze: "......"

Wang Bin, Gan, that's his opponent.

Lu Zhou, you are a ruthless person.

"Wang Bin, I haven't talked to him yet, after all, my first candidate for cooperation is you." Lu Zhou said.

Xu Junze: "I'll think about it first and give you an answer within a week." ”

"Okay." Lu Zhou pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Oh, by the way, there is one more thing." ”

Xu Junze didn't know why: "What? ”

"Has Jiayan ever come to you?" Lu Zhou asked with a smile.

Xu Junze chuckled in his heart, should he come?

"I found it." Neither did he hide from him.

"Did you sign her?" Lu Zhou asked bluntly.

Xu Junze was stunned for a moment, "What?" ”

"Jia Yan posted a video of "Starry Night Sonata" playing the piano in Doule before, is it your plan for her, right?" Lu Zhou said with a smile.

The corners of Xu Junze's lips trembled, "It's me." ”

Now that he knows it, there is no need to hide it.

"She came to me for help, and I gave me a suggestion. I thought this would be the best of both worlds for both of you, she benefited, and you benefited, and you should be okay? ”

Xu Junze smiled.

Lu Zhou smiled and didn't say if he had any opinions, "You want to sign her into your Starlink, she has tasted the sweetness now, and she is also interested in cooperating with you, am I right?" ”

Xu Junze: "That's right. ”

He had to sigh in his heart: this kid has a really bright brain, and he guesses accurately.

"Did you sign her?" Lu Zhou asked again.

Xu Junze shook his head, "Not yet, I'm ready to sign, and I'm still in the stage of negotiating conditions." ”

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "If you are interested in cooperating with me, I have an additional small condition." ”

Xu Junze looked at him suspiciously, "What conditions?" ”

Lu Zhou: "You can sign Li Jiayan, but you have to sign her into our cooperation company, if you agree, I will wait for your cooperation reply in a week." If not, then I won't wait. ”

Xu Junze narrowed his eyes slightly, why is this?

Does this have anything to do with Li Jiayan?

Sign Li Jiayan into his partner company with Lu Zhou? Is he planning to control his ex-girlfriend's future? What fetishes? Isn't he bored with Li Jiayan? Fake?

"Do you still have feelings for her?" Xu Junze joked.

"No, it's just that if she insists on going this way, I think it's more reassuring to put it under my nose, I don't like you to poke some holes in me at every turn."

Lu Zhou confessed.

"It won't do you much good if you sign her into Starlink, and you won't lose anything by putting her in our partner company."

Signing her into Starlink doesn't do much good, it will simply pull you into the abyss of ten thousand catastrophes. Brother, it was because of her that your career reached the bottom in your last life.

"But Jiayan is not material for playing skits, she is in the direction of music, which is not suitable at all." Xu Junze felt that Lu Zhou didn't know how to do it from here.

"Wrong, it's wrong for you to bet that she will be popular in the direction of music. On the contrary, she is the material for skits, and I predict that she will be the head of the industry in the future. Believe it or not, I know her better than you anyway. ”

Lu Zhou said solemnly.

Lu Zhou's point of view subverted Xu Junze's cognition.

Lu Zhou's phone rang again, he got up with his mobile phone, and said, "Brother Jun, think about it seriously first, I still have some work here, I have to go first and keep in touch." ”

Xu Junze nodded and sent Lu Zhou out of the door.

(End of chapter)