Later on, the success rate increased, with at least one out of every three clients being successful, and there were even cases where all three clients were successful.
Xiao Zhang was overjoyed! This job was great; he'd get a commission for every client he closed a deal with. If he succeeded in closing all of them, he'd earn at least 50,000 to 60,000 yuan in bonuses this month. Go for it!
A few days later, Huang Zheng was also shocked when he saw the list of customers who had been successfully invited.
"so much?"
"Yes, Mr. Huang, I didn't expect this job to be so easy. Towards the end, we were basically on the same page every time, and we even had clients calling back to ask for cooperation."
"Yes, well done. You'll definitely get your bonuses this month."
"Thank you, Mr. Huang."
Huang Zheng looked at the list in his hand, rubbed his chin, and tsk tsk tsk. It has to be the boss. He calculated it so accurately. I don’t know what kind of tricks Taobao did to push so many big customers into the enemy camp.
Keep in mind that these are just the big sellers; there are countless small sellers out there. When the time comes, they will all be drawn to Pinduoduo and rush to join them.
Lin Chen had already told him in advance that since it was a small seller, the discounts couldn't be as generous; they would just give him three days of free promotion on Douyin.
Huang Zheng picked up the phone and called Lin Chen.
"Boss, we've already talked to all these big sellers, and a whopping 80% are willing to join Pinduoduo! However, they've also raised a concern: Pinduoduo also has its own stores, so will they steal their business?"
"These people are really dreaming. Do they really want me to shut down Pinduoduo's self-operated stores? Would Jack Ma shut them down? Tell them that both Taobao and Pinduoduo have self-operated stores now, so it doesn't really affect them. On the contrary, we can bring them more orders. If they think the impact is too great, they can leave at any time, and we won't stop them."
"Got it, boss. These old hands don't rely on platforms to guarantee their business success. They rely entirely on their own abilities."
Zhang Yong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the merchants had stopped causing trouble. It was too difficult; life was too hard for ordinary workers.
However, he also knew that these merchants were simply indignant. Why should Taobao steal their business and then demand protection money? If he were in their shoes, he would be indignant too. What could he do? Isn't that how society is? What can a seller do when faced with a behemoth like Alibaba?
With the availability of products from Taobao's self-operated stores, Taobao's live streaming platform has also become busier. Although they are all promoting their own products, the accounts between various departments still need to be processed, only the discounts will be higher.
However, as time went on, quality problems with counterfeit products sold in Taobao's self-operated stores began to emerge.
Since they are all counterfeit, the quality may be okay at first, but gradually, the merchants will start to cut corners, and the quality will only get worse and worse.
Furthermore, Taobao's direct-sale stores copy Pinduoduo's product categories, offering hundreds of product categories, which greatly increases the probability of problems.
Actually, a few netizens had posted about this issue online at the beginning, but it didn't attract much attention. After all, it's perfectly normal to buy substandard products online.
But one day, a Weibo post by an ordinary netizen suddenly went viral and became a trending topic. As a result, more and more netizens who had bought defective products left comments under this Weibo post.
The Taobao online public opinion department quickly discovered the problem and went to report it to Zhang Yong.
"Mr. Zhang, something terrible has happened!"
"What's up?"
"A Weibo post about quality issues with products sold in Taobao's self-operated stores suddenly went viral and became a trending topic."
"Trending topic? Was it posted by a celebrity?"
"No, he's just an ordinary netizen. I even checked his Weibo, and he doesn't follow many people."
"That might just be a coincidence. Go contact Weibo, spend some money, and get this trending topic removed."
"OK."
The colleague quickly went back to contact Weibo, and after the call was connected, the person on Weibo said there was no problem.
I've seen this kind of thing a lot on Weibo; it's either paying to buy trending topics or paying to remove them.
However, when he submitted the process for removing the trending topic, it was not approved.
"Huh? What's going on?"
The person on Weibo called his superior.
"Director, I just proposed a procedure for removing trending topics, why was it rejected?"
"There's no need to bring up that process again."
"Director, that's Taobao!"
"I know, but do you know why this Weibo post went viral?"
"Ah, this..."
"In short, you can't afford to offend either side, so just pretend you don't know anything about it."
"Okay...okay, Director."
After hanging up the phone, the person stopped caring about it. It was obvious that another big shot had given prior notice.
The other big shot he mentioned was none other than the enthusiastic netizen Lin Chen.
Lin Chen couldn't bear to see such injustices covered up by capital, so he resolutely paid out of his own pocket to buy a trending topic for this netizen.
Although this netizen was a bit confused, wondering what was going on, his phone kept notifying him of 99+ messages on Weibo, wondering if it was infected with a virus.
On the other hand, when faced with two internet giants, Xingchen Technology and Alibaba, Weibo did not hesitate to side with Xingchen Technology.
After all, Alibaba only dominates the online shopping industry, while Xingchen Technology has not only surpassed you in the online shopping industry, but also on social media platforms, Douyin has become as popular as Weibo.
Most importantly, how could the owner of Weibo, a self-proclaimed gossip expert, not know about the love-hate relationship and grudges between Xingchen Technology, Alibaba, and Tencent?
How could he not know about how Jack and Tony were utterly humiliated by Lin Chen?
If he had to choose now, he would definitely choose Xingchen Technology. He doesn't want to get attacked. What if Lin Chen gets upset and starts targeting Weibo?
At that moment, a scene automatically popped into the mind of the Weibo owner.
Lin Chen looked at the Weibo building and roared at Zhang Yiming.
"Battalion Commander Zhang, bring up my Italian cannon!"
Forget it, forget it, I can't afford to mess with them. I'd rather not make money off Alibaba.
The Taobao online public opinion department thought the matter had been resolved, but when it was time to leave work, the monitoring software indicated that the Weibo post had caused an even greater reaction, and the public opinion danger level had been raised to level two!
The man was startled. What was going on?
So he quickly searched and found that not only had the trending topic on Weibo not been removed, but screenshots of the Weibo post on Douyin had also become trending topics on Douyin!
The same trending topic on two major social media platforms has ignited the internet in no time. Shouldn't the level of public opinion danger rise to level two?
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