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  Chapter 122: Group Buyie

  TL: Etude

  The m, Jiang Qin drove to Lin Uy of Sd Teology, delivering all the prepared materials.

  After reviewing them, Hu Maolin, the director of the uy’s Youth League ittee, nodded and stamped the work-study approval dot with a red seal.

  Then, Shengshi Advertising drove directly to Lin Uy of Sd Teology, delivering new signs and freshly printed flyers.

  Si was deep autumn and the temperature had dropped sharply, making ms and evenings chilly, the use of advertising fans was no longer feasible, which Jiang Qin found slightly regrettable.

  However, Shengshi also provided other alternatives for Jiang Qin to choose from, such as umbrels, water bottles, and hats.

  But pared to fans, the cost of these promotional items was too high and not eical. Moreover, if the quality oor, they would not only fail to serve their promotional purpose but might also cause annoyance.

  “Damn, what if I use your umbrel on a rainy day and it breaks halfway through?”

  So, after weighing his options, Jiang Qin chose to stick with ordinary flyers.

  The students of Lin Uy of Sd Teology were already looking forward to the campus beauty test, so they were quite receptive to it. Jiang Qin specially instructed Pang Hai to mention the test on the flyers, pensating for the ck of practicality of the chosen medium.

  After repg the sign of the Enter Milk Tea Shop, the branch of the Xi Tian Milk Tea Shop at the uy reopened for business.

  Simultaneously, Jiang Qin gathered a rge number of part-time uy students to distribute flyers around the campus.

  Guo Zihang, leading the flyer distribution team, worked diligently, distributing flyers all day until he was exhausted, profoundly realizing the hardships of life.

  “Brother Jiang, distributing flyers is really tough work.”

  “Yeah, damn, my hands are sore.”

  Jiang Qin was squatting oeps, drinking milk tea. The ‘soreness’ he referred to was from holding the milk tea cup, as his flyers were on the ground, eagerly grabbed by the surrounding female students.

  Seeing this, Guo Zihang’s mouth twitched, “Stepfather, teach me, how do you always mao be so charming?”

  “Want to learn?”

  Guo Zihang nodded fiercely, his eyes filled with endless desire.

  Jiang Qin coughed, straightened his back, and slightly extended his arm as if holding something, then started drawing ar the air.

  “?!”

  Then, Guo Zihang practiced this motion while distributing flyers, his arms sore from the effort. He was met with rolled eyes and looks that seemed to say he was an idiot, leaving his face burning with embarrassment.

  He wasn’t sure if he was doing the moti or missing some essential trick. Meanwhile, Jiang Qin had already returo Lin Uy, leaving Guo without a ce to ask for advice, so he kept practig.

  That evening, while practig Jiang Qin’s motion, Guo returo his dormitory, amusing his roommates.

  “Old Guo, what’s that motion? Turning a steering wheel with one hand?”

  “…”

  Guo Zihang froze, then had a sudden realization, as if he had uood the true meaning of the gesture.

  Damn, the stepfather meant that my charm es from owning an Audi!

  So, what was the point of just practig the gesture? It was the car that mattered!

  Unaware of Guo Zihang’s drastic misuanding, Jiang Qin had already returo Lin Uy in his Audi, heading to Room 208 of the Entrepreneurship ter.

  Su Nai was waiting for him in the office, with the puter still on, dispying the homepage of a newly created website.

  The campus beauty test at Lin Uy of Sd Teology was gradually gaining momentum. Dong Wenhao was already busy beyond measure, but Su Nai had not been involved. Instead, as per Jiang Qin’s instrus, she led the eam in building a website named “Group Buying”.

  “Boss, this is the new site built acc to your requirements. Take a look.”

  “That was fast. It’s only been five days, right? Su Nai, I knew I was right about you. You have the look of a successful entrepreneur.”

  Su Nai coughed, “Don’t get too excited yet, boss. This is just a framework, something like a… PowerPoint presentation.”

  Jiang Qin was slightly disappointed, “So what’s it for?”

  “It’s for effective unication, to avoid starting off on the wrong foot. You have to y a foundation before building a house, right?”

  Jiang Qin pulled up a chair and sat down, “Alright, you make sense. Go ahead with your presentation.”

  Su Nai nodded and began demonstrating the various designs aails of the website. “The basic ses of Group Buying include shopping, food, eai, and lifestyle. The subcategories are not do, but the funality of the third and sed-level pages is simir. There’s also the window dispy effed the design of the pop-up dist pages…”

  “That’s pretty good. It includes most of what was in the pn,” Jiang Qin affirmed.

  “Then I’ll tinue w in this dire.”

  “How long will it take?”

  “Group Buying is more plicated than Zhihu because of its maions aures. With the six people I’ve retly recruited, it will take about a month to implement all the funalities in the pn.”

  Jiang Qin hinking a month wasn’t too long.

  The campus beauty test at Lin Uy of Sd Teology was just starting, and from warming up to finishing, it would also take about a month. The timing matched perfectly.

  “Then go ahead with it. Don’t worry about other things. If there’s an issue, call Wei Lann. She’s w part-time as my secretary. I’ve expined everything to her. Prioritize your work here.”

  “Got it, boss!”

  Jiang Qin patted Su Nai’s shoulder and walked to the window, stretg zily.

  Group Buying was the moization tool he po unch. It was a signifit step and an important attempt irepreneurial phase, inspired, of course, by Ye Ziqing.

  Professor Yan had been puzzled tely, w why Jiang Qin no longer inquired about “entrepreneurial failures.” In fact, Jiang Qin had spent an afternoon flipping through the campus neer, uanding the cause and effect of the situation.

  Ye Ziqing was the unfortuudent Professor Yan had mentioned, stirring things up in the uy like Jiang Qin since her freshman year.

  Her initial ptform wasn’t the i but anizing uy students through QQ groups by csses and dorms. She piled lists of desired items and colborated with nearby merts for bulk purchase dists, earning a ission from the merts.

  As her wrew, so did the number of group buying els. However, problems started to arise.

  Ma and procurement required more people, increasing costs and limiting future development dires.

  To resolve this, Ye Ziqing created a website, allowing students to select items they wao buy. She then focused on the most popur items, assigning specific people to procure them.

  The issue was that this move turned Ye Ziqing into a middleman.

  And being a middleman usually meant pleasiher side.

  Eventually, Ye Ziqing foueam increasingly difficult to manage, and the number of part-time students she recruited grew, crowding together and being a huge burden for Juihui Group Buying. (Guessing that’s the pany name)

  But Ye Ziqing didn’t give up, thanks to her family’s good financial situation. She started spending moo break free from straints.

  Jiang Qin didn’t know the details of what happened afterward, but he guessed that things got increasingly difficult and slowed down until they fell apart.

  Positioning herself as a produtermediary, addressing user o find sellers, worked on a small scale but had its limitations.

  Had Ye Ziqing stopped to rethink, shedding the burdens ieam and ging her approach, she might not have ended in such a mess.

  But one shouldn’t judge her past as with the knowledge of the future.

  At that time, most people who managed group buying groups followed a simir mi. Ye Ziqing was just following the trend and, with her substantial financial bag, iently found herself in a tough spot.

  “It’s all tears of the times.”

  “I’m different. I’m a bug of the era.”

  Jiang Qihat the i era was about to dawn, and the real future y iing ptforms and arkets.

  Only by being someone who set the rules you stand taller and go further.

  However, Jiang Qin wasn’t yet daring enough to think about setting rules on a rge scale, as that required signifit iment. But small-scale moization was still within reach.

  This task might be difficult for others, but not for Jiang Qin because he had a forum, meaning he had vast resources of users and merts.

  First, use petitions to gee traffic, then leverage that traffic to attract users.

  Users are the foundation, and the group buyie would rep advertisements as the ultimate focus.

  Jiang Qin wasn’t shooting in the dark; he had a pn.

  During the campus beauty test, many merts inquired about advertising. However, faced with high advertising costs, smaller businesses quickly backed out.

  Now, by providing a ptform and drawing in traffic, resistance from these businesses would likely be minimal, right?

  “Jiang Qin!”

  Just then, footsteps sou the door, and Tang Lin and Hong Yan arrived at room 208, followed by a workman in blue overalls. “Senior Cao asked us to get the saintenance man to fix the window in 207.”

  “Really? Thank you so much. That windo has been killing me. I hardly sleep at night, and mosquitoes get in.”

  Jiang Qi 208 ahe workman to 207.

  He had been so busy tely that he rarely returo his dormitory, sometimes making do with staying in 207. But that broken window had greatly dimihe quality of his sleep.

  Meanwhile, Tang Lin and Hong Yan sneaked into 208 for a quiet tour, eventually fixing their gaze on a data chart on the wall.

  “Yan Yan, I heard that this website made over half a million in advertising fees st month. Do you think it’s true or false?”

  Hong Yan couldn’t help but nod, “It’s probably true.”

  Tang Lin’s hand couldn’t resist gliding over Jiang Qin’s chair, somewhat wistful, “It’s really impressive, but it’s missing something.”

  “What’s that?”

  “It’s missing a boss dy to preside over it.”

  At that moment, Su Nai returned from the restroom and slightly frowned upon hearing the words “boss dy.”

  Were they discussing a boss dy?

  Yeah, the boss dy was the best, the very best in the whole world.

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