Chapter 431: Burning money, fuck him!
On Wednesday morning, golden sunlight sprinkled from the sky, awakening the entire city. The buildings standing on both sides of the Huangpu River were all immersed in the red morning light, looking bright and warm.
At about 7:30, several managers from the Shanghai branch of Lashou.com arrived at the company ahead of time and entered the conference room and sat down one after another.
Lashou.com has always had the tradition of holding regular morning meetings, but the managers present all yawned and were obviously not used to it.
This is because the Shanghai market had been very stable before the arrival of group buying, so this regular meeting has become a dead end in name only.
But since last week, they restarted the morning meeting, causing everyone to come an hour earlier, and the urge to curse has been brewing for a long time.
After waiting for Robin to arrive, the regular meeting officially began.
As usual, each department first reported on their work progress, and then began to focus on discussing the issue of group buying.
"Boss Luo, has the funding from headquarters been approved?"
Cui Yiting couldn't help but ask.
Without funds, she, as a marketing manager, is just a figurehead and can do nothing.
Robin nodded expressionlessly: "Headquarters is already holding a meeting to study it, and there will be news soon."
"I hope the headquarters can move faster and stop wasting time, get the funds in place as soon as possible, clear the group buy, and we don't have to get up so early."
The field sales manager is named Wu Peng. He has short hair and speaks in a muffled tone.
"Even if it's approved, the amount won't be too much. The headquarters has invested too much money in second- and third-tier markets, so what they can give us is just a small fraction."
The financial manager couldn't help but retort, not really pouring cold water on the opponent, but just stating a fact.
Robin smiled indifferently after hearing this: "It doesn't matter if it's a small amount. As long as it is used well, even a small amount can play a big role. So we have to wait for an opportunity."
“Wait for the pace of group buying to slow down?”
"Yes, as long as the pace of group buying slows down, the follow-up will inevitably be weak. It is easiest to achieve the goal and weaken their edge if we take action at this time."
Cui Yiting raised her head and said, "The high-intensity promotion of group buying has lasted for a week. It's almost over."
Advertising manager Wang Min couldn't help but nod his head: "It's almost done. I don't believe they can hold on for another week."
“The first push is strong, the second is weak, and the third is exhausted, unless the group buying ground pushers are really robots!”
"When Suixintuan was acquired, 24quan also had a strong momentum, but it only lasted for three days. The funds raised by group buying were not as much as 24quan at that time. It was already the limit for them to last a week."
At this moment, the cell phone in Robin's hand suddenly vibrated, and the location of the incoming call number was shown as Kyoto.
Seeing this, Robin immediately stood up, asked others to take a rest, and went out to answer the phone.
Three minutes later, Manager Luo returned to the meeting room with a smile on his face.
"Approved. One million and two hundred thousand for the event. The funds will be credited to your account within five working days."
“It’s really just a small amount, huh?”
"It's a lot. We have 23 cities operating at the same time. It's rare to be able to spare such a large sum of money. And with the current size of the group buying business, 1.2 million is enough."
Lashou.com's existing market is huge. If it wants to carry out targeted sniping of group buying, it will not be difficult to organize an event with 1.2 million.
Therefore, everyone couldn't help but feel relieved, thinking that after this wave of market competition is over, they can sleep in well and make the most of this sunny winter day.
Song Yaqian was also in the conference room of Lashou.com at this time. She sat there listening without saying a word. Her role was extremely transparent.
The team structure in Shanghai is very complete, and Robin didn't know what to arrange for her to do, but he couldn't ignore his eldest brother's kindness, so he arranged for Song Yaqian to stay by his side.
Although this college student group buying representative had heard about group buying in Shanghai when she was in Tianjin, it was only when she actually arrived here that she felt how powerful group buying was.
In just one week, from nothing, the business has now spread across Yangpu, Huangpu and a corner of Pudong. In addition, Songjiang University Town's business has been expanding towards the northeast, which is simply astonishing.
Song Yaqian has a very clear positioning of herself. She has always felt that she is just an entrepreneurial college student who cannot compete in the national market.
But Jiang Qin, who is also a college student, has made his financial sponsor so frightened that he has to attend meetings every day. The sense of disparity is simply too strong.
It takes tremendous courage for college students to enter society, not to mention that they must have the ability to stir up trouble.
Based on this, she has developed an inexplicable admiration for Jiang Qin.
Didn’t the manager just say that? Even the 24 coupons were only strong for three days, but the group buying was strong for a week. That’s really strong. If the group buying is so strong, how strong must Jiang Qin be?
I dare not think, I dare not think...
But unfortunately, the funding application for the Shanghai branch has been approved. Otherwise, if group buying had continued, it might have really been able to gain a foothold in Shanghai.
A group buying website that originated from a campus has become the third largest group buying website in first-tier cities. It will be something to brag about until its death.
In the blink of an eye, it was ten o'clock in the afternoon.
In the office of the group buying branch, Jiang Qin waved his hand and invited everyone to play cards, but after experiencing the boss's salary recovery plan, everyone would rather run field work than play cards.
"Boss, your reputation in the poker game is ruined!"
"Hehe, how do you know I'm not doing this to make everyone willing to run field missions?"
"????"
At this time, Ye Ziqing had already arrived at the group buying branch and was sitting at a workstation leaning against the wall, not knowing what to do.
To be honest, she was still not used to the transformation from the helmsman of a group-buying website to a small clerk, so it was inevitable that she felt embarrassed.
Moreover, she knew that Cui Yiting and Zhou Zhenhao were now employees of Lashou.com, and Jiang Qin could not arrange for her to do something important.
But it doesn’t matter. It’s enough for her to see clearly how the other party wins.
But at this moment, Cui Yiting showed up in the group chat of Sui Xin Tuan and "shared" what happened this morning in the group again, which immediately made her frown.
"Mr. Jiang...Mr. Jiang, we might be in trouble."
"?"
Jiang Qin turned his head and looked at her. After thinking for a moment, he raised his head and asked, "Is Lashou.com taking any action?"
Ye Ziqing was a little surprised: "How did you know?"
"You just came to Shanghai and didn't even understand the current situation, but you knew that group buying was in trouble. The only source of information should be Cui Yiting. She is an employee of Lashou.com, so of course Lashou.com is the one that took action."
"yes."
Jiang Qin stretched out his hand and pinched his fingers, chanting "Amitabha": "I calculated that the activity funds they applied for should have been approved. Seeing that I keep jumping around, they are not happy with me and want to carry out targeted sniping on the group buying?"
Ye Ziqing's brain suddenly buzzed and he felt like his head was going to explode.
What was that just now? He...he really knows how to tell fortunes? Jiang Qin looked at her expression and laughed, "Don't be afraid, senior sister. I was just kidding. I can't tell fortunes."
"Then how did you guess so accurately?"
"Isn't this the same routine used by all websites? Here comes the rival, spend money, beat him! I've been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's nothing new. I can't get excited."
As they were talking, Sun Zhi came in with a large group of people: "Boss, everyone is here."
Jiang Qin turned to look at Tan Qing: "Give them the things."
"Okay boss."
Tan Qing brought a group of people and brought two thick piles of contracts, one taller than the other. Then they cut the ropes on them and sorted them out and took them away by the sales team hired by Sun Zhi.
Jiang Qin looked at Sun Zhi and said, "You don't have to go out today. Kaixuan is watching over the market. Take everyone back and have a good rest. We won't give them face tomorrow."
"The Great Sword understands!"
"Go ahead."
When Erhu from the field promotion team left, he couldn't help but approach Sun Zhi and said, "Boss Sun, will the boss give us a holiday and also take us to a health check-up?"
Sun Zhi turned his head to look at him, his mouth twisted: "Your mind is full of things in your crotch, right? My nickname is Dabaojian!"
“…”
After seven days of intensive field work, the brothers on the front line were indeed a little exhausted. Even if they had participated in Wulin Feng, they were not made of steel and were definitely exhausted.
At this juncture, the opponents began to mobilize funds to snipe them from the front. If they didn't play well, the rhythm might really be messed up.
We can't be slow, and we have to guard against the money-burning attacks from competitors. Even a god can't handle it, so we have to do some stupid things.
Jiang Qin had made a plan for this from the beginning and was well prepared, so he was not panicked about the current situation.
"Boss Ye, what are they going to do? Why can't I understand?"
"I don't know. I don't understand it either. But you called me the wrong name. I'm no longer Mr. Ye. Just call me Ziqing."
After work in the evening, Ye Ziqing and the two men and one woman who came with him were walking back to the apartment, chatting about their feelings about the day's work in the group buying platform.
The two men and one woman were named Xing Xiangming, Dai Zhitao, and Guan Shen. They had originally worked in the Shenzhen market with the Sui Xin Group.
Ye Ziqing felt that if Pintuan moved into Shenzhen in the future, the three of them would definitely be able to help, so he brought them back with Jiang Qin's permission.
However, none of the four of them together could understand what Boss Jiang was up to.
They had already experienced the horror of Lashou.com once, so Nuomi.com must have been prepared. Seeing the two group-buying giants mobilizing funds to make a move, how could they not panic? When they first started Suixintuan, they were so panicked! "Have they raised funds secretly a long time ago?"
"Non-listed companies can choose not to disclose their financing, but if group buying really raised money, it's hard to say."
"But that doesn't make sense. If they have raised money, it would be good to say it out to scare their competitors. There's no reason not to make it public."
(End of this chapter)
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