If the heat in June is still a little reserved as if it had just stepped onto the stage, the sun in July is like a crazy donkey spinning in circles, running rampant in the world, making everyone avoid it when they see it, and they can't stand it even though they are separated from each other by the old man. You can feel its madman-like threat from afar.
You can still run out to meet people at this time. Either the relationship is extremely good, or there is something really going on and you must meet.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were sitting in a coffee shop next to Guangmao Building, waiting for Xin Zixin.
They are going to communicate with Xin Zixing today about the follow-up cooperation of this Mook.
Compared with just talking about intentions when we first met, what we want to talk about today is more specific and realistic.
Chen Siqi saw that Lu Yanhe was a little nervous and said, "Let me talk about it later. You and she have known each other and worked together before. You are embarrassed to ask her about many questions. It's better for me to tell you."
Lu Yanhe heard Chen Siqi said this and glanced at her with some gratitude.
Thin-skinned is really a huge problem for him.
To be changed.
“However, I have always wanted to ask you a question.”
"What's the problem?"
"I've been surprised since the first time I communicated with Sister Zi Xing. You don't seem to be nervous or unfamiliar with negotiations at all. You are always confident." Lu Yanhe Said, "How did you do it?"
"I have imitated it many times. When I was a child, I often followed my dad and saw him discussing business with others. Later, when Liu Wei'an came, I often fantasized about inheriting my dad's company one day and then slapping her in the face. I often fantasized about negotiating with people in various scenes, just like in the TV series, imagining myself She is a queen." Chen Siqi said with a smile, "Actually, I just don't care about anything, and I don't think about speaking skills or anything like that. The more people think about it, the more they feel they don’t know how to speak. I just say whatever comes to mind. Maybe others think I’m very blunt and unskilled, or that the way I speak is not suitable for negotiation. I don’t care. , compared to whether it is a suitable way, I always think that what should be said should be said first. It is better to really say what needs to be said than to show your face. I am much more important."
Lu Yanhe said: "Your mentality is much stronger than mine."
"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "If you were born in a family like mine, Every day when you open your eyes, there is an enemy who wants to compete with you. After so many years of training, you must have such a mentality.”
Lu Yanhe couldn't laugh or cry when he heard what Chen Siqi said.
At this time, Xin Zixing came.
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Xin Zixing has been busy setting up the shooting team of "City Travel" these two days, and at the same time guides Liu Yaliang step by step in the clothing and fashion section.
Almost every working day exceeds 15 hours.
However, Xin Zixing did not find it difficult at all. Instead, she was full of motivation and energy, which made people around her feel incredible, even unbelievable.
There are many people in the cafe.
However, she still saw Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi at a glance.
The two of them were sitting in a booth by the window. Lu Yanhe was wearing sunglasses, probably to avoid being recognized as much as possible.
Xin Zixing smiled and walked over, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting."
"No, we just arrived."
"I've been really busy these two days. I just had a video conference with someone in the car." The feedback is much better than expected. I am forming a shooting team. Once confirmed, we will start recording the documentary. "
" Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Xin Zixing asked: "Is there any follow-up progress on the Mook you want to do?"
Lu Yanhe nodded and said: "The list I showed you last time, I have contacted them all, and everyone is initially willing to write and read, and there is no refusal.”
Xin Zixing looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise, "So fast?"
"Yes, we also want to make it as soon as possible."
"Then what you want to talk to me about today, This should be a follow-up method of cooperation?”
“Yes. "Lu Yanhe nodded and looked at Chen Siqi at the same time. "We need to communicate clearly first about how we will meet with you in the future and what kind of cooperation we will have."
Xin Zixin nodded without any hesitation. It was unexpected that they would make such a request.
"This is how it should be. If you have any ideas, you can tell them directly. If I can make the decision, I will reply to you on the spot. If I can't make the decision, I will go back and communicate with my superiors." Xin Zixing said very frankly.
Chen Siqi said: "Regarding this Mook, if it is published on Yemai.com in the future, what can Yemai.com do to promote this book?"
"If it is exclusively listed on Yemai.com, I can guarantee that the intensity of promotion will not be worse than the documentary "City Travel Notes: Corridor". " Xin Zixing said, "I have to repeat it again. Yemai.com itself very much hopes to create a book series of its own. We have a dedicated e-reading section, but we do not have our own book series. When you proposed by Yan He When I wanted to make an electronic magazine, my eyes suddenly lit up and I felt like I hit it off so well. Because of this As long as your Mook is exclusively available on Yemai.com, you can imagine that we won’t treat it badly.”
“Do you expect it to make money?”
“I said. To be honest, you may not have made money in the past one to two years. You must have lost money and made money. The current e-reading market The market, especially this form of e-reading with traditional content, does not have a mature market and a stable and profitable industry line, which needs to be developed by ourselves," Chen Siqi said, "I don't even want it to be charged, it is just for us to launch. A product that lets more people know and read.”
Lu Yanhe said: "What about the production costs?"
Xin Zixing said: "Yemai.com has its own profit points. This book may not be profitable in terms of the investment and output of this book alone. Yes, but let me put it this way, we want to launch a book series like this. It’s not for profit, but for the influence of the brand and to obtain a stable group of readers.”
Chen Siqi nodded and said, “I understand, but in this case, all costs will be borne by you. Yemai.com will pay? Including our remuneration? We can’t work for free, right? ?” book, one hundred thousand yuan also includes the remuneration of the two of you. Let’s see the effect first in the first issue. If the effect If our expectations are met, we will sign a long-term cooperation agreement, and the production budget can also be increased, but this increase must depend on how many readers it can convert."
"One hundred thousand yuan is all that is needed. Copyright, or just online communication rights?" Chen Siqi asked cautiously.
Xin Zixing said: "I can't say this now. I want to report it and confirm it."
"If it costs 100,000 yuan to get all the copyrights, we will definitely not accept it." Chen Siqi said directly Said, "To be honest, the price is not high."
"For an electronic Mook, it is no longer a low price."
"As you said, nowadays electronic Mook There is no foundation, and the market has not been developed. Come on, there is no comparison. Who knows whether it is a high price or a low price?" Chen Siqi shook his head, "Jiang Yuqian, Lu Yanhe, Li Zhibai, Song Linxin, Liu Jiazhen, Mingyin... put these names together, and put them on any product. publicity value They are all more than 100,000. Not to mention the brand influence, the traffic generated by these names alone is not small. This traffic will not be small for your Yemai.com’s advertising revenue.”
Xin Zixing was a little surprised. He glanced at Chen Siqi.
The same goes for Lu Yanhe.
Chen Siqi took a deep breath and said: "However, the first phase of 100,000 yuan, as long as you agree that we only want the right to broadcast online, I think we can try it first and see if we can do it in the first phase. To what extent, let’s talk about the future, to be honest It would be difficult to pay these people 100,000 yuan just for their manuscript remuneration and design fees.”
“I know, of course I know that this amount of money is not comparable to the investment in the traditional magazine era, but I also say. To be honest, apart from our Yemai.com, there is no other company The company will spend 100,000 yuan in production funds to try something that no one is doing now," Xin Zixing said, "As long as this Mook can get more than 50,000 subscriptions, we will make additional productions starting from the second issue. Funding should be increased to at least 150,000 yuan One issue."
Chen Siqi said: "How to calculate the number of subscriptions? Since you are not planning to sell, how to count the number of subscriptions?"
"We will count it if the same user reads more than 30 minutes. One subscription." Xin Zixing said.
Chen Siqi made some calculations in his mind. If it is on the shelves for free, everyone can subscribe to this book without spending money. Fifty thousand subscriptions is not that many.
Jiang Yuqian and other celebrity artists alone can bring more loyal fans than this number.
But there is a problem, they will read articles by their own idols, but can they persist in reading for half an hour?
Chen Siqi was suspicious.
In fact, if a person is willing to read for more than half an hour, it means that he has almost accepted the content of the book and is really willing to read it.
Based on this calculation, the number of subscriptions of 50,000 is very high.
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After meeting Xin Zixing this time, Chen Siqi and Lu Yanhe were silent for a while, thinking.
What to do, how to decide?
Lu Yanhe actually doesn’t have much idea about these things. Compared with these things, Lu Yanhe is more concerned about the content itself.
So, after thinking for a while, he stopped thinking about it.
Leave it to Chen Siqi to think about it. Anyway, she seems to be much more skilled at this matter than him.
Chen Siqi looked up at him and asked, "What do you think?"
Lu Yanhe said, "I listen to you."
Chen Siqi glanced at him in surprise, Say: "This is the book you want to make."
"Yeah, but I found that I'm really not very good at these things. I just want to avoid losing money. If I were to think about it, we might soon fail because of my lack of care." Lu Yanhe exposed his shortcomings and said sincerely Explained, "You are much sharper than me when it comes to who to cooperate with, how to cooperate, and how to distribute benefits."
Chen Siqi: "...I won't let you do this and let the boss go."
Lu Yanhe said: "The right person does the right thing."
Chen Siqi was silent for a moment and said: "As long as Yemai.com doesn't ask for the ownership of this book, I will be inclined to cooperate with them. The right book will be Only by putting it on a suitable platform can you get the effect of one plus one greater than two."
Lu Yanhe laughed and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great, I'm really worried that you don't want to cooperate with Yemai.com. ”
"I'm not stupid, they were just a bit stingy and didn't achieve the goal I expected, but they didn't cheat us either." Chen Siqi said, "Moreover, one hundred thousand yuan is enough to produce this book, but there is a high probability that the two of us will If you have to pay for your ideals, you won’t make much money.”
“If this book can be turned into a book series as Sister Zi Xing said and start to make a profit, the two of us will make a profit of 50%. points." Lu Yanhe said.
Chen Siqi raised the corner of his mouth, "So generous?"
It is said that two people worked on this book together, but in fact, it was Lu Yanhe who really made this book possible. Otherwise, Jiang Yuqian and the others would not be invited to write articles, and Yemai.com would not be so willing to cooperate with them.
Chen Siqi never thought of making a 50-50 profit from Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe said: "It was the two of us who did it together."
Chen Siqi nodded and said, "Okay, then I believe it."
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded. .
“Now we have one more thing to do.”
“What?”
"Choosing a name for this book is also a name for this book series." Chen Siqi said. Lu Yanhe asked: "Do you have any ideas?"
Chen Siqi: "This is not nonsense, I don't believe you don't have any ideas."
Lu Yanhe laughed.
Indeed, since I have the idea of making a magazine, how could I not think about what kind of name I want to give the magazine.
Lu Yanhe asked: "What name are you thinking of?"
Chen Siqi: "You tell me first."
Lu Yanhe said: "It's actually a very common name, "Jump Up". "
"Jump up?"
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded. "When I was writing a composition before, I wrote a sentence that I remember very well. At that time, I wanted to change my mediocre life. I wrote, I don't want to look at the world map and imagine the future of traveling around the world in boredom. I want to Jump into the depths of the universe and go to the black hole to see if there is a new continent on the other side.”
The moment Lu Yanhe saw that he had finished speaking, the way Chen Siqi looked at him changed.
"I quite like what you said." Chen Siqi said.
"I also like it very much, so I always remember it."
"Let's use this sentence as the introduction to the first issue." Chen Siqi said, "The name is "Jump Up" , pretty good.”
“What was the name you thought of before?” Lu Yanhe asked.
Chen Siqi shook his head, "I like you better, so I won't tell you."
She took out a pen and paper and wrote down what Lu Yanhe had just said on the paper, and then wrote "jump up" at the end. .
"Lu Yanhe, I suddenly have some feelings for this name now. When I wrote it, I especially hope that it can go on for a long time."
"Then let's work hard. "Okay." Lu Yanhe smiled seriously.
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In the next few days, Lu Yanhe began a miserable journey to push for manuscripts.
Chen Siqi sent him a message: I will leave it to you to push for those people's manuscripts. I sent invitation letters to some authors I thought were suitable to see if they were willing to contribute.
Lu Yanhe asked: Which authors did you send invitation letters to?
Chen Siqi sent a list, and Lu Yanhe found that he didn’t know anyone.
Chen Siqi said: These are some authors I saw on the Internet who told stories about their student days and their posts were very popular. I would like to ask them to write about their student days in more detail and richly. Maybe they can receive Nice article.
Lu Yanhe felt that Chen Siqi's idea was quite new. Many people look for manuscripts online, but few use online content to invite authors to create richer content.
What surprised Lu Yanhe was that the first person to submit the manuscript was Song Linxin.
Song Linxin only took five days to send the article she wrote.
Lu Yanhe didn’t know why it happened so fast and was surprised.
When I opened it, I saw that Song Linxin was talking about her experience playing in a band in high school.
Lu Yanhe immediately took Song Linxin's article to Li Zhibai: "She has already submitted it, and you haven't written a word yet!"
Li Zhibai: "Yan Liang hasn't written it yet either!"
"He has already written half of it!" Lu Yanhe decided to use a frustrating tactic against Li Zhibai, "Why don't you do it today?" Write an introduction for me? Brother Li, Brother Bai, Brother!"
Li Zhibai looked worried: "Okay, okay."
Lu Yanhe looked at him sitting in front of the computer. , couldn't write a word for a long time, he tried really hard, but it didn't work, Lu Yanhe realized that he might have to think of other ways.
He thought of a way to help Li Zhibai write it himself, but when he thought about it, he couldn't do it. He would still write his own column for this column. The styles of the two articles would be too similar and there would be problems.
Then change it to an interview style?
The question is, who can come for the interview?
Moreover, this column uses first-person narration to make it more immersive.
Moreover, people who are not familiar with Li Zhibai cannot hear some real stories from him. That's just the way he is. People who are not close to him, even professional reporters, will just deal with it.
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During the process of urging the manuscript, Lu Yanhe also thought about the fact that the content of his book is still too little. There are enough well-known figures, but not enough content.
In addition to the people invited by Chen Siqi, other manuscripts are also needed.
Lu Yanhe suddenly thought of his classmates, Lin Yu and Bai Yu.
As a "hexagon warrior" among students, Linyu is also a monitor and a top student. Maybe we can ask her to write an article?
There is also Bai Yu. She often writes novels, and Luo Zicheng even read passages in front of the whole class. In fact, everyone knows that Bai Yu has a dream of writing.
Lu Yanhe hesitated for a moment and decided to invite them to write.
Let’s talk about the inappropriateness of the manuscript, but since we want to make a Mook that is truly related to our student days, how can we not create it without real students?
Lu Yanhe immediately sent messages to both Linyu and Bai Yu.
When sending the message to Linyu, Lu Yanhe was still a little worried that Linyu would refuse, because Linyu had a competition in August and she was preparing for it, and the time was very tight, but Linyu immediately agreed and asked if there was any Word count requirements.
Lu Yanhe said that about two thousand to four thousand is more suitable.
Because it is an e-book, compared with paper books, there are fewer layout restrictions, and the control of the number of words is not as high.
Linyu agreed immediately.
Bai Yu’s first reaction was: Me? can i?
She has little confidence in herself.
Lu Yanhe didn't dare to say yes at this time, he would definitely use the manuscript: "Write it first, okay?" Now I can't promise that I will definitely use your manuscript. This is an official electronic Mook. When the time comes, Liu Jiazhen and Mingyin's short stories will also be published in the first issue, but I hope to be able to publish your creations on it. I Also need your support.
Bai Yu: Okay, let me try.
Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.
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Bai Yu put down her mobile phone and everyone felt numb.
Ever since her college entrance examination results came out, the atmosphere at her home has become very stressful because she only got into an ordinary university and didn't meet her parents' expectations at all.
Until now, her parents have never smiled at her.
She cried several times. Did she fail the exam? Not necessarily, the usual results are like that.
But it is true that as soon as the college entrance examination results come out, the lifelong pressure comes.
Bai Yu himself was depressed and kept himself in the room reading a book without going out.
Suddenly, there were two knocks on the door.
"Your dad and I won't be at home for dinner tonight. You can make some yourself." Her mother said outside the door.
"Yes." Bai Yu responded.
She heard her mother and her father going to the entrance to change their shoes.
Knowing that they were going out, Bai Yu felt relieved.
I can take a breather from this low pressure.
At this time, her father's voice came in from outside the door: "I got those damn scores, but I still stayed in the room all day long. I didn't read the book well, and my brain went crazy."< br>
"Okay, just stop saying a few words. What else can you do now that it's like this?" Her mother also had a good tone and persuaded her father.
No more sounds came from the two people.
The door opens, then closes.
She was the only one left at home.
Bai Yuku sat on the chair and was in a daze for a long time.
By the time she came to her senses, the sunset had already set and entered her room diagonally.
There was no light on in the room, and half of it was in darkness.
The tears on Bai Yu's face have dried.
She took a deep breath, created a new document, looked at the white document interface, and put her hands on the keyboard.
The sound of fingers tapping on the keyboard sounded.
“She knew that she didn’t do well in the exam, but when the results came out, she still felt an uncontrollable pain in her heart. The atmosphere at home was very bad, and no one spoke during the meal. She felt very Sorry, I don't even look up on such a bad day. One rainy afternoon, at two o'clock, she walked into a convenience store wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and she met the boy behind a row of shelves."
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For readers. For me, reading is like entering a dream and getting comfort from other people's dreams. In fact, for the author, creation is actually creating dreams, and getting comfort from the dreams he creates.
Bai Yu doesn't know whether his manuscript will eventually be adopted.
But at least this is a chance.
After failing the exam and not getting into a good university, can her persistence in writing bring her a glimmer of new hope? (End of this chapter)