These past two days, Song Sining wished she could split herself into five to manage all the work.
She was contacting workers to install the large characters on the rooftop, supervising cleaners, and dealing with the departure and retention of merchants.
She also had to run to the market, purchase office equipment, and buy computers...
And check emails, recruit people, schedule interviews...
She was busy for two whole days, sometimes not even having time to drink water!
To ensure both quality and quantity, she personally supervised everything, completely unwilling to entrust it to others.
On the other hand, Wang Yi was completely hands-off; ever since buying the office building, he hadn't shown up again.
"Am I being greatly deceived by becoming his professional manager?"
Song Sining wiped the sweat from her forehead and quickly said,
"Put the sofa down slowly, that's right, against the north wall!"
"Ugh, the wallpaper installer, it's crooked!"
"Put this money tree in the lobby, to the right!"
"Auntie, please clean the stairs too!"
Before she could finish here, the phone rang again over there:
"Hiring, hiring! Generous benefits, five social insurances and one housing fund upon joining."
"What? The location is remote? Heh, we provide room and board!"
"In one month, you'll save one thousand on rent, two thousand on food! Plus a five hundred salary increase, that's a full three thousand five, definitely a high salary!"
"An extra three thousand five a month means forty-two thousand a year. Join Meiyou, and you'll effectively double your income!"
"Is that how it's calculated? Of course it is!"
"Interview time? Tomorrow at 2 PM, address: Eastern New City!"
"Once you arrive here, you'll see four large characters: Meiyou Building!"
"That's right, our boss bought it himself!"
"Don't worry, an office building costing three to five million has been bought; are you doubting our strength? Just come!"
Through a combination of boasting and persuasion, Song Sining finally finalized seventeen decent applicants.
She just didn't know how many would actually show up, and how many would stay...
It couldn't be helped.
It's an obscure small business, still in the far eastern suburbs, really hard to persuade... no, hard to recruit!
Fortunately, programmer salaries weren't too high these days, ordinary ones were two to three thousand, high-end ones four to five thousand...
Wang Yi had Song Sining add five hundred yuan to everyone's salary and also provided room and board; only then did people start submitting resumes and inquiring.
The initial stage of a small startup company is bitter and difficult; fortunately, Song Sining learned the art of great persuasion.
These two days, Wang Yi wasn't idle either, directly developing Meiyou 2.0 for the Apple platform.
Since the company hadn't recruited anyone yet, all development had to rely on Wang Yi himself.
Meiyou's user count, on the other hand, was steadily growing.
As of noon on July 22nd, Android users reached 76,000, and Apple users also reached 51,000.
Although a few more moderately popular advertorials were released, the user growth rate on both sides was still around ten thousand per day.
If this continues, by the end of the month, there would only be over two hundred thousand users.
Considering the conversion rate issue, testing the waters with e-commerce with just over two hundred thousand users is still a bit risky!
If only there was a wave of heaven-sent traffic, reaching a million users, that would be great!
Wang Yi sighed, once again daydreaming about a surge of traffic from the heavens.
Just then, his phone suddenly rang.
"My homeroom teacher, Lao Liu! What does he want with me?"
Wang Yi wondered, then answered the phone:
"Wang Yi, are you in the county town?"
"Yes, Teacher Liu, what can I do for you?"
Wang Yi was still very grateful for a good teacher like Liu Haifeng.
He hoped Liu Haifeng would be diagnosed with lung cancer early in this life and receive early treatment!
If it was too late, he wouldn't be able to do anything.
And he couldn't say it directly, it was a difficult matter.
Hmm, then he would say a friend gave him cancer screenings, and there were two extra, which he could give to Lao Liu!
Let his daughter take him and his wife to get checked!
This way, it could be detected and treated early!
Liu Haifeng chuckled,
"Nothing much. Today a media outlet contacted me, wanting to interview a high school senior for a special column, so I recommended you!"
"Interview me? A special column!"
Wang Yi's eyes lit up.
"Such a good thing? Is it about my fluke admission to a 985 university?"
"Ahem, it's about your Beihang dream!"
Lao Liu smiled:
"You getting into Beihang with 569 points was already incredible, and I heard you also have a Beihang dream. Now our country has a space dream, and it precisely needs your kind of positive energy with dreams, so when I mentioned it, they became interested! What do you think?"
"Okay, absolutely okay!"
Wang Yi was overjoyed.
See? A free exposure opportunity just presented itself!
It's a media outlet after all, and it can be published in the newspaper!
Newspapers these days are still widely read and very influential.
Wang Yi didn't want to be high-profile, but Meiyou needed to be high-profile!
Being published in the newspaper without showing his face was still acceptable.
Not to take free traffic would be foolish!
"It's good that you agreed. I'll have them contact you in a bit."
"Many thanks, Teacher Liu, I'll definitely treat you to a meal another day!"
Wang Yi smiled.
"Don't be polite, just don't steal my Ruan Zhonghua cigarettes in the future."
Lao Liu's mouth twitched; he would remember that for a lifetime!
However, thanks to Wang Yi, he had significantly cut down on smoking.
Wang Yi: "..."
"Ahem, by the way, which media outlet is it?"
"Jizhou Evening News!"
"What! Jizhou Evening News!"
Wang Yi was overjoyed.
This was one of the most influential newspapers in the city!
Jizhou has a permanent population of over ten million, so its influence is quite considerable!
Placing an advertisement in a prominent spot on the front page of Jizhou Evening News would cost at least over one hundred thousand yuan!
Originally, Wang Yi was still worrying about how to better promote Meiyou, feeling that effective advertising was too expensive.
Now it's great, Jizhou Evening News is directly offering it, for free!
The daydream of heaven-sent traffic had come true!
During the interview, wouldn't it be perfect for Wang Yi to not only talk about his Beihang dream but also promote his inspiring startup and Meiyou?
Reporting it this way would give it more substance and popularity, and the media wouldn't refuse!
Meiyou could also leverage this wave of free traffic to become popular and gain many users!
Wang Yi had already thought of the titles:
"High School Senior: From Beihang Dream to Meiyou CEO!"
"Relentless Self-Reliance: The 18-Year-Old Meiyou CEO!"
"18 Years Old, Scored 569 to Get into Beihang, and Founded Meiyou Tech!"
This wave of free traffic will certainly bring a large influx of users to Meiyou!
In this way, Meiyou would be more confident in launching e-commerce to test the waters!
More importantly, major official institutions in Jizhou all subscribe to Jizhou Evening News, and many people have the habit of reading newspapers!
Once they see Wang Yi's report, they can also form a preliminary impression of Meiyou.
In the future, when Meiyou achieves success, its development in Jizhou will also be much smoother.
Whether it's for loans or financing, it will all be easier.
As the saying goes, "A person's name casts a shadow like a tree's"; it's the same for running a business.
Like Huawei in later generations, just those two words are valuable!
As soon as they express a desire to build a branch somewhere, local officials immediately offer land in core areas for free, practically begging them to come!
Today's Meiyou cannot compare to Huawei at all, but being able to leave a preliminary impression and pave the way for future development would be excellent.
As for other things, achieve results and work towards them gradually.
Liu Haifeng continued, "Don't get too excited, it's not the front page; it's probably just a small section on page three or four!"
"Oh, I see, I understand. Thank you, Teacher Liu."
Wang Yi smiled.
If it's not the front page, the effect will be greatly reduced.
If the front page could bring hundreds of thousands of users, pages three and four might only bring tens of thousands!
But this isn't a problem; opportunities are seized!
Wang Yi decided to subtly show off Meiyou's strength!
If only it were a female reporter, that would be great!
With this in mind, he called Song Sining:
"Sining, have those contributors get ready. I'm releasing Meiyou 2.0, launching the social plaza. Have them immediately update the software, post, and liven up the atmosphere!"
(End of chapter)
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