After New Year¡¯s Day, on January 4, the company started working normally. Starting from January 5th, Internet giants such as Baidu, Google, Sohu, etc. who had agreed with Tomoko Hi-Tech before the holiday and wanted to cooperate with the company began to send representatives to Chengdu according to the scheduled schedule to contact Tomoko Hi-Tech. .
The first person to come into contact with Zhizi Hi-Tech was Sohu, a large company that has produced the best Pinyin input method in China, "Sogou Pinyin Input Method".
There are three negotiators from Sohu, all of whom are Sohu¡¯s staff responsible for the input method project, headed by a project manager. After Li Jingran led three people to visit his company with only a dozen people, seven of whom were young men he had recruited from Zhizi Chao, as soon as they entered the conference room and both parties sat down, the project manager who claimed to be surnamed Mao became arrogant. He told Li Jingran that Sohu wanted to acquire his Zhizi Hi-Tech and asked him to make a direct offer!
The other party was arrogant, and Li Jingran was stunned by my arrogance of being the best in the world. After reacting, he immediately replied:
"If you want to acquire this company, yes, one billion pounds!"
"What, Mr. Li, one billion pounds? Did I hear it wrong?"
"You heard me right, Mr. Mao, one billion pounds, every penny is a lot!" Li Jingran said seriously.
Li Jingran¡¯s one billion pounds first made Manager Mao dumbfounded. After the shock passed, he burst into laughter. The two colleagues who came with him also began to look at Li Jingran with disdain and sneered.
The three people laughed wildly in the conference room for a while. Even Jiang Xiaorou, who was beside Li Jingran, felt that the laughter was extremely unnatural. It took at least a minute before they gave up. Then, the manager surnamed Mao looked breathlessly. Looking at Li Jingran, he said:
"Mr. Li, is today April Fool's Day? Or do you mistake pounds for yen?"
"It's not April Fool's Day. But for me, as long as I need it, every day can be regarded as April Fool's Day!" Li Jingran replied unhurriedly.
After listening to Li Jingran¡¯s words, the smile on Manager Mao¡¯s face slowly began to solidify and became a little embarrassed. He obviously understood the sarcasm in Li Jingran's words.
"Mr. Li, what do you mean? You really don't want to talk about business, right?" the manager surnamed Mao said with a gloomy look.
"Xiaorou, open the door and see the guests off!" Li Jingran was too lazy to pay attention to such a arrogant and self-righteous guy. He raised his butt and told his little secretary before leaving the conference room, leaving only three unknown people. The three representatives were overwhelmed and then became furious.
The contact with Sohu ended on bad terms again.
After the people from Sohu left, big companies such as Baidu, Google, and Tencent also sent people to contact Li Jingran. Although the people sent by these large companies are not as good as the three representatives of Sohu, on the whole they still have an obvious sense of superiority in front of Li Jingran, a little-known small company. The cooperation plans proposed by these large companies are either full acquisitions and asking Li Jingran to get out of the house with a sum of money; they are holding shares and asking Li Jingran to work for them; or they are to purchase Sophon Voice's intelligent recognition engine at the price offered. , the highest investment was from Google, 20 million yuan, and the least investment was from Tencent, 8 million yuan!
This kind of cooperation is naturally not what Li Jingran wants. The final outcome can only be for the representatives of those big companies to "come in joy and return disappointed"!
After the big companies came, many small and medium-sized Internet companies came one after another to visit Li Jingran¡¯s company to seek cooperation possibilities. Because these companies are relatively small and not well-known, they attach great importance to coming to Chengdu. Some even have the general manager and chairman of the company come in person. The attitude of the visitors is sincere and their attitude is relatively low. Li Jingran got along very comfortably and harmoniously with the people in these small companies, and there was no "unhappy breakup" anymore.
These small companies are also self-aware and do not ask for acquisitions or holdings as soon as they arrive like the Internet giants. Most of them just ask for authorization from Tomoko Hi-Tech, allowing them to use the speech engine for a fee to develop their own speech. Entry system.
From the inside, Li Jingran is very hoped to give them a little hope that they fly over to form a partner, but after all, business is not human. Once the D-level intelligent core is released, regardless of security, its super response speed and recognition rate, no matter it is loaded into any voice system, can bring about substantial improvements in its performance and bring strong competition to itself. , he didn¡¯t want to feed a tiger and shoot himself in the foot, so although he had a good impression of many small companies, he could only say sorry in the end.
While Li Jingran was busy receiving these visitors, large and small, aA few weeks ago, he asked three people from the company's planning and marketing department to complete the planning plans for the company.
"Internet marketing" practiced by Wang Junfeng and Chen Fan is relatively simple. He himself had used this method when the company first opened and was very familiar with it. After taking a preliminary look at the detailed terms of the planning plan drawn up by the two, and asking them to fully explain the areas where he had questions, Li Jingran agreed and allowed the two to operate with confidence.
"Yi Shasha's "advertising marketing" is relatively more complicated and involves many aspects, so it was not until the last day of Li Jingran's deadline that Yi Shasha brought the planning book.
"Mr. Li, please take a look!" Yi Shasha respectfully placed the plan in front of Li Jingran, feeling very uneasy.
In the past week, in order to make a good impression on the little boss, live up to his praise and expectations for her at the meeting a week ago, and produce a weighty planning document, Yi Shasha worked hard, forgot to eat and sleep, and came up with I used all my talents and wisdom, ran around, looked up a lot of information, and worked on this project day and night. Due to being too focused and working hard, Yi Shasha's eyes are still red, her face is a little pale, and she looks haggard.
Although she was very confident in her "work", she didn't know whether it would suit her boss's taste. Sometimes, no matter how hard you work and no matter how good your work is, if you encounter a boss who doesn't know what to do, all your efforts will be wasted and worthless. This kind of situation where laymen cannot appreciate insiders has been encountered many times in Yi Shasha's nearly five years of career. Therefore, although she thought she had done her best this time, she still had to wonder whether she could enter the primary school. It's hard to say whether the boss's discernment suits his taste.
Li Jingran spread out Yi Shasha's advertising and marketing plan in front of him, flipping through page after page, taking his time and reading it very carefully.
In Yi Shasha¡¯s ¡°advertising marketing¡±, there are two main directions, one is the production of advertisements, and the other is the choice of broadcast platform.
In the advertising production part, Yi Shasha gave a detailed explanation on the theme, content, length of the advertisement, including the casting of the advertisement, and which type of person is more suitable to act, and put forward her own opinions.
After that, he provided nearly ten well-known advertising production companies and their corresponding quotations, and attached video links to the famous works of these advertising companies for Li Jingran's reference.
In terms of the choice of broadcast platform, in addition to the TV advertisement she proposed last time, a new online advertisement was added, which is to be inserted on some famous video websites on the Internet before the start of popular movies, TV series and variety shows. .
Regardless of whether it is a TV advertisement or an online advertisement, Yi Shasha lists the time reference quotations of many TV stations and video websites later.
In short, after Li Jingran read it, although he was still an outsider in this aspect, he felt that this was a very detailed, very convincing and operable advertising plan! You can see and feel the author's intention and hard work!
While Li Jingran was flipping through his "works", Yi Shasha stood in front of Li Jingran's desk, sweating and looking at the little boss without blinking, hoping to see a hint of appreciation or satisfaction on Li Jingran's face. But what disappointed her was that the young boss had a calm face and few expressions, making it difficult to detect his inner emotions on his face.
"Don't you think the little boss likes the planning project that he worked on all night long?" Yi Shasha had a bad feeling in her heart.
After Li Jingran read Yi Shasha's plan, he put the plan aside and didn't say yes or no. Instead, he used the landline phone on the table and started making calls.
His move made Yi Shasha feel even more uncertain, as if she was holding seven or eight buckets of water.
"Xiaorou, please call and inform everyone in the company to come to my office. I have something to announce. In addition, please call Director Shen from the finance department below." Li Jingran said with the microphone.
A few minutes later, Wang Junfeng and Chen Fan from the Marketing Planning Department, three technicians from the Technology Department, Secretary Jiang Xiaorou, and Finance Minister Shen Jiayi all came to Li Jingran's office one after another.
"Okay, everyone, be quiet for a moment. Let me announce something now: from now on, Yi Shasha will serve as the head of Zhizi Hi-Tech's marketing planning department. Wang Junfeng and Chen Fan will be under the marketing planning department, led by Yi Shasha. Yi Shasha, Jiang Xiaorou and Shen Jiayi stay, and the rest can leave." Li Jingran stood up and said to the seven or eight people present.
After the others left, Li Jingran said to Shen Jiayi who was left: "Sister Shen, starting from next month, when Minister Yi's internship period expires, her salary will increase.Let's double it to four thousand. "
"Okay, Mr. Li." Shen Jiayi nodded with a smile, then turned to congratulate Yi Shasha, who was standing aside, still in "huge shock", "Haha, congratulations to Minister Yi."
"Hehe, sister Yi, congratulations, do you want to treat us to dinner tonight?" Jiang Xiaorou, who was standing aside, was also happy for Yi Shasha.
"Mr. Li, thisI" Yi Shasha was originally worried that the plan she had worked so hard on would not be appreciated by Li Jingran, and she had been uneasy. But in the blink of an eye, things took a 180-degree turn. It caught her off guard and in disbelief.
"Haha, Minister Yi, your plan is very thoughtful and very good. I appreciate it very much. However, there are a few points in it that I still have some questions about. How about you explain them to me?" Li Jingran smiled and looked at the still confused person. Yi Shasha said as she was surprised by being hit by a pie.