"One hundred thousand copies were sold out on the first day!"
Shangguan Xiaobao came to tell Yang Ye the good news, his face turned red with excitement.
Written by Zhou Huimin herself, the comic based on "Girls' Generation", coupled with "Transformers", and the novel written by Yang Ye himself, this gimmick is really too powerful!
In addition, before the launch of "Blue Bird Pictorial", there was a wave of overwhelming publicity.
As a result, once it was launched, it was like a nuclear bomb that exploded in the Hong Kong newspaper industry.
What is the concept of one hundred thousand copies? Surpassing "Ming Pao" and "Sing Tao Daily", it ranks third in Hong Kong newspaper sales.
Second only to Oriental Daily and South China Morning Post.
This is so scary!
The content of "Oriental Daily News" is relatively popular, and it is currently the highest-selling newspaper in Hong Kong.
The South China Morning Post is an English-language newspaper. Its sales volume remains at about 100,000 copies. Its readership is very stable and no one can shake it.
The average sales volume of "Ming Pao" and "Sing Tao Daily" are about 90,000 copies.
Fortunately, "Blue Bird Pictorial" has opened up the student market and has no competition with those traditional newspapers.
So although these traditional newspapers were shocked, they were not under great pressure.
Huang Yulang’s balls ached.
The average sales volume of his "Birth Newspaper" is about 50,000 copies, making it the largest doll newspaper in Hong Kong.
Now it can only be the second child, the kind that is tied up and beaten!
……
Huang Yulang is going crazy.
When Shangguan Xiaobao came to recruit people, Huang Yulang had no choice but to increase the labor force and recruit a group of new people studying art to barely stabilize the situation.
Now that the Blue Bird Animation Studio has been established, they are digging again and again with a hoe.
The treatment Baiyang Company provides to its employees is second to none in Hong Kong.
Not just salary, but also reflected in all aspects of benefits.
That’s really treating employees as human beings, not just wage earners, consumables, and leeks!
This is an anomaly in Hong Kong's capital circle. Many people cannot understand his behavior and even laugh at him and call him a fool.
Yang Ye’s philosophy is: I hated the capitalists who exploited their employees in my previous life. Now that I have traveled through time, I will never live like what I hate the most!
Some people may say that you are a scumbag who traveled through time and fucked women everywhere. Isn’t that annoying?
Pull it down!
Yang Ye doesn’t hate those rich bosses sleeping with women everywhere, he envies them sleeping with women everywhere!
Which man doesn’t envy the guy who sleeps with internet celebrities every day? Don’t you envy Leo who sleeps with a supermodel every day?
Yang Ye has become the person he most envies, and he is still better than his predecessor, with nothing wrong with him!
Talking back to Huang Yulang, even though he has added more labor to his employees, he still cannot keep the painter from leaving.
On the one hand, Baiyang Company’s treatment of its employees is well-known in Hong Kong.
Every time the group company recruits externally, there is always a rush to get the head start. Hundreds of people apply for any position.
Nowadays, a large number of people are being recruited. Where can people with talents in this field find a seat?
On the other hand, the coming of "Blue Bird Pictorial" is too fierce.
When it came out of the sky, it instantly crushed Yulang International.
Any fool can tell which side has more promise.
People, life is not all about pursuing a future, hoping that your life will be better.
Baiyang Company was banned by Taiwan. Many artists who were on the front desk left, but none of the people behind the scenes left.
They don’t have to show their faces, so they don’t care about Taiwan’s ban.
Huang Yulang was thinking about countermeasures when the phone on his desk rang.
Huang Yulang picked up the microphone and heard that it was Ma Rongcheng.
“Boss, half of my painters are ready to leave. If I don’t add more people, I’m afraid next month’s “Heroes of China” will be difficult to produce.”
“You Don’t worry, I’ll add more manpower to you right away!”
“Thank you, boss, I’ll hang up now”
Ma Wing-cheng's "Heroes of China" is currently the best-selling comic book in Hong Kong. It once created a miracle of 200,000 copies in one issue.
Ma Wing-cheng has therefore become the highest-paid cartoonist in Hong Kong, with an annual salary of one million. Huang Yulang is the boss, so he has other concerns.
However, "Heroes of China" was deliberately conceived by Huang Yulang based on Ma Rongcheng's creative conditions and personal style. Therefore, Ma Rongcheng does not have the copyright of "Heroes of China" and only worked for Huang Yulang.
Huang Yulang hung up the phone, feeling even more depressed.
At this time, the Human Resources Department called again: "Boss, five more painters have submitted their resignation letters."
"Are there only painters? Where are the other employees?"
"The Bluebird only recruits painters."
"I know, put out the recruitment advertisement. In addition, you can take people to the University of Hong Kong and Polytechnic University , the University of Science and Technology recruits students who have not graduated yet, and they can also be recruited as interns first, and they will be given priority after graduation."
"Boss, these students...can't meet the requirements?"
“It’s enough to do basic tasks such as hooking, tucking, and coloring.”
"Okay!"
It is impossible to raise the salary again. Huang Yulang will not be able to accept any further increase. Those painters were leaving, and Huang Yulang couldn't keep them. He couldn't break those people's legs, right?
"Yang Ye, this street boy, what is he doing?"
Huang Yulang believed that this was because he refused Yang Ye's acquisition, and Yang Ye was taking revenge on him.
......"Even if we poach all the painters from Yulang International, it will not be enough!"
When Yang Ye proposed to produce the TV animation of "Sailor Moon" and broadcast one episode every week, Te Wei said that there were not enough manpower!
“If we want “The Lion King” and “Sailor Moon” to run at the same time, we will need at least 500 professional painters.”
“In the case of “Sailor Moon”, if If you want to produce one episode a week, you need at least 20 original animators, 100 animators, 100 colorists, and 50 background painters.
In addition to directors, storyboards, previews, screenwriters, art, Photography, editing, music, dubbing... no matter how streamlined it is, it will still require a team of at least 300 people to barely maintain it.”
"Also, both original painters and animators require relatively professional talents. People recruited from Yulang International may not be qualified."
The Hong Kong market is so big. It turns out that cartoon-related painters are There are only two to three hundred people, and it's still a long way to go to recruit them all.
Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "If "Sailor Moon" can't produce one episode a week with the current manpower, then it will be one episode every two weeks and reduce the production team to two hundred people. That will work. No?"
Tewei nodded: "That's okay."
Yang Ye said again: "We can also...outsource! Isn't it true that Meiying Factory takes on a lot of work from Japan now? Earn foreign exchange? Hong Kong dollars are also foreign exchange! ”
Tewei nodded. He had no objection to this. Meiying Factory had started doing this job a few years ago.
Since the reopening, the American Film Studio has often worked for Disney and Japan to earn foreign exchange, acting as comic workers, and they still enjoy it.
However, Tewei said: "Shanghai is still too far away and communication is inconvenient. We can only take on some basic coloring jobs, which is a waste of talent."
Yes, again It is not possible to communicate via video, and it is very troublesome to communicate. Moreover, it is not possible to use a computer to transfer files remotely. The drawings can only be sent back and forth, which is very delaying and not safe.
Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "We can also open a branch in Shenzhen, recruit art talents from the mainland, and move part of the work there."
Tewei's eyes lit up; "This method is good, it saves costs, and can also create more jobs for the mainland. And they are not far apart, so communication is more convenient."
Yang Ye smiled and said: "I Donate another amount to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to help them open an animation major to train animation talents. "That would be a great blessing!" Te Wei was very happy.
Even in mainland China, animation talents are very scarce.
The few people Yang Ye poached from the Meiying Studio were simply not enough, and the local Hong Kong painters could only be responsible for the mid-term painting work.
Storyboards, character designers, animation directors, performers and other early-stage tasks are all incompetent because they have no experience.
As a last resort, Yang Ye had no choice but to call Hayao Miyazaki and ask him to help introduce several professionals to Hong Kong. Yang Ye hired them with high salaries.
Yang Ye has not considered recruiting painters from Japan. Labor costs there are expensive, so bringing them to Hong Kong would cost extra, which is not cost-effective.
But it is cost-effective to recruit high-level talents and pay them a higher salary, and people will be willing to come.
Then in the subsequent work, just slowly cultivate your own talents.
...
After the miracle of creating 100,000 copies of "Blue Bird Pictorial" on the first day, it did not print more copies the next day and still issued 100,000 copies.
Because of the advertising effect on the first day, it is not the real demand.
And the student population in Hong Kong is so large, 100,000 copies is almost the limit.
Sure enough, it dropped a little bit the next day.
But the problem wasn't that big. A few days later, the plot of "Xiaoyaoyou" got better and the price went back up again.
Since then, it has remained at around 100,000 copies, firmly occupying the third place in sales of Hong Kong newspapers.
......
Zhao Yangming is sitting on the sofa, holding a copy of "Blue Bird Pictorial" and reading it!
Yang Ye’s family of three walked into the living room chatting with Zhao Yazhen.
"Dad, where are you reading the newspaper?"
"Grandpa!"
"Hey, my dear grandson!"
Zhao Yazhen glanced at the newspaper Zhao Yangming placed on the table , laughed loudly and said: "No, daddy. Do you still read comics?"
Zhao Yangming was quietly reading "Sailor Moon", when he heard this, his face turned red and he said: "What comics are you reading? , I’m reading Aye’s novel.”
"I said Aye, why did you serialize your novel in the doll newspaper?"
Yang Ye secretly laughed in his heart, even the old man couldn't resist the beautiful girl in sailor uniform!
“This novel is originally positioned as children’s literature, so it is very appropriate to serialize it in a doll newspaper!”
“No wonder, when I read this novel, I always I find it strange. The words in it are very simple and easy to understand, not at all like the literary style you used when you wrote "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"."
"Do you think this novel is good?"
"You can't tell much yet. You have set up some suspense and showed off the child's special abilities, but I can feel that there is a huge story behind it, so I will continue to read it."
< br>"That's good, you can read it. It should be more attractive to children."
"If you don't write good martial arts novels, how can you write children's literature? ”
“This is actually a business plan. I want to write a long story that children can read when they are young. When they grow up, I will make this story into a movie. When they are older, , just make this story into a game..."
Zhao Yangming was stunned when he heard this, this is going to reap a lifetime!
He said somewhat teasingly: "You are really a business wizard!" (End of Chapter)