Open business day-to-day

Chapter 311 Charges
I had a good time playing that night. Although he, Mr. Lin, paid the bill, the total cost was only more than 30.

Among them, their table alone consumed nearly 20 yuan, and the bill was only a little over [-] yuan for drinks.

He Fanyu, who has finished pretending to be aggressive on stage, also knows that there is a price to be paid for pretending to be aggressive.

After getting off the stage, I laughed with Lin Rui again. After all, this pretense was a bit big. Seeing that Lin Rui didn't care, I felt relieved.

Afterwards, the bar management staff was called in and asked everyone to drink ordinary drinks. After all, it was true that Mr. Lin paid the bill in public.

As for those more expensive drinks, whoever orders them is responsible.

After all, it’s okay to invite the audience to have a drink. You can make as much ordinary wine as you want, and it’s not fun to be taken advantage of by others.

Even so, their table, or Lin Rui, seemed to be the focus of the audience's attention.

Young and rich, generous.There is also the legendary ICBC black gold card, and everyone pays the bill again.The performance is so inhumane that it is difficult for people not to pay attention.

Many people came to the side curiously, secretly looking at it, and those who were brave came directly to toast.

There were even more than ten beauties with online looks, walking around all the time, stepping forward when they saw the opportunity.

Of course, Lin Rui wouldn't be too tense, so he chose two close-eyed people to come and drink with him.

I have to say that this kind of spending money like water, the life in Jiuchi Roulin is really good, it is very enjoyable, very refreshing, and very enjoyable.

But it is also easy to be addicted, destroy people's fighting spirit, and consume people's passion and energy.

It’s okay to come over to play once in a while, relax completely, clear your mind, and then face new work and challenges.

If it happens frequently, if you get addicted to it, you will probably become useless.

When he got home that day, Lin Rui put the extravagant life in the bar behind him, took a shower, and held the fragrant and soft Su Hongxiu in his arms, which was more fragrant than a little fairy.

In the next two days, the first semester of the junior year officially ended and the winter vacation began.Without going to school, Lin Rui also has more free time.

I read books at home every day, accompany Sun Hongxiu, and go to the company when I find time. I live a very leisurely life.

The time soon came to the 25th, the day when Weiyue Chinese website was officially launched for a week.

In such a short period of time, the number of registered authors on Weiyue Chinese Online has reached [-], and [-] of them have published books.

The registered readers have broken through more than 200 million, and the performance is very impressive.

Such a good result made everyone very happy.However, such an excellent performance is both unexpected and reasonable.

Keeping such a huge source of authors and readers on Weiyang Weibo is a huge treasure house, and it is also the biggest confidence of Weiyue Chinese Network.

The website has been established for a week, and discussions on many issues are gradually on the agenda.

For example, today, Lin Rui specially called all the management of the company for a small meeting.The main issue discussed was the charging of Weiyue China.com.

Lin Rui has no doubts about Weiyue Chinese website taking the path of subscription fees for Qidian Chinese website.

But he has a lot of opinions on how much to price.

Even though Lin Rui is also an author of online articles, he is also a reader. The current pricing method really feels unreasonable.

At the beginning of the meeting, someone looked at today's topic and asked slightly puzzled: "Don't we charge according to the industry's general standard for novel websites?"

Lin Rui shook his head and said, "What's common in the industry doesn't mean it's the best. Don't you think this charging standard is a bit high?"

"Ordinary members and senior members get five points for a thousand words, junior VIPs get four points for a thousand words, and senior VIPs get three points for a thousand words. This is the current charging standard for major websites."

Looking at the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Lin Rui said: "This standard may not sound high, but if a new reader registers an account to read a book, the fee is [-] cents for [-] words, and [-] yuan for [-] words."

"Everyone knows how many characters are in online novels now. For example, the number of VIP characters is 200 million after the above-listed, and it costs 100 yuan to read a book."

"It's not buying a physical book. Just reading a novel online costs [-] yuan, which may be more expensive than buying a physical book. Do you still think it's cheap?"

"If you meet someone who reads books more frequently, you can read one book in five or six days, and you can read five or six books in a month, and the monthly subscription fee alone costs five to six hundred. Naturally, I don't care if the economic conditions are excellent. Can he bear the normal conditions?"

Everyone thought about it for a while, and it is indeed the truth. How many people have the financial strength to spend six or seven hundred a month to read novels, but the current average salary is not even two thousand!

Another person wondered: "I heard that this charging standard was set in 03. At that time, everyone's income was lower. Not many people could value the genuine version. How could it be set so high!"

Lin Ruidao: "Computers were quite rare at that time, and they were not popularized. Except for Internet bars, families who can afford computers should have good conditions!"

"And paying is also troublesome. Ordinary people want to watch the genuine version, and they may not have payment channels."

"The charging standards set at that time were mainly aimed at the small group of high-income groups, and only this group is more particular. If you have the economic strength to watch the genuine version."

"So up to now, this fee standard still seems a bit high. Because when the price was originally set, the target customer group was not ordinary Internet users."

Looking at everyone's thoughtful expressions, Lin Rui continued: "But it's different now. With the development of online shopping and e-commerce, there are more and more payment channels that ordinary people can easily use."

"Moreover, compared to a few years ago, everyone's income has gradually increased, and it is a bit out of date to target a small number of high-income groups for online text fees."

Glancing at everyone, Lin Rui went on to say: "In this regard, I am more optimistic about the method of small profits but high sales, which will greatly reduce the charging standard, so that more people can easily subscribe, and then expand the target customer base and have more paying users. "

"We can learn from other websites and classify users. But only the number of recommendation votes is different, and the subscription fee should not be differentiated. The subscription prices for all levels of accounts are the same."

"For example, we can set a charging standard of one cent per thousand words, and only two cents for a chapter of two thousand words."

"100 words are only 200 cents, subscriptions to 20 words only cost one yuan, and subscriptions to [-] million words only cost [-] yuan. Even if the number of VIP words is [-] million words, it only costs [-] yuan."

"In this way, many people wanted to watch the original version, but thought it was too expensive to subscribe. Will they watch the original version again because of the low price?"

"I think there will be a lot!"

Zhou Wenfeng suddenly said at this time: "This charging standard is indeed more friendly to readers and can attract more paying users, but whether the authors on the platform will agree with it is easy and difficult to accept."

"After all, if this standard is implemented, compared with other novel platforms, our charging standard is several times lower, and correspondingly the same subscription data, the manuscript fee is several times lower. Will the author agree?"

Lin Rui pondered for a moment and said: "There must be some authors who don't understand this aspect, but as long as they have a little foresight, they can understand the benefits of this."

"The charging standard has been reduced several times, and it seems that the same subscription data revenue has been reduced, but under this charging standard, paying users have definitely increased geometrically, and the gap is more than ten times."

"Doing so will not only expand the readership of the original version on a large scale, but also make the work more influential. With more and more paying people, subscriptions will definitely double, and the real income may be more than before."

"And such a low payment standard makes it easier to attract readers to our platform."

"As long as readers get used to the subscription standard of [-] words, let them go to other websites to use the subscription standard of [-] words. They may not be used to it themselves, and feel that their charging standards are too high, and finally return to Weiyue Chinese website obediently. .”

"Of course, there must be some negative effects of doing this. We need to prepare a plan in advance, do a good job of publicity, and try to make the authors understand our intentions. These still need everyone to work together."

After Lin Rui's voice fell, everyone knew that he had made up his mind. Moreover, the advantages of doing so did outweigh the disadvantages, and it would greatly promote the competitiveness and influence of Weiyue Chinese.com.

If it goes smoothly, the paying users of Weiyue Chinese.com will definitely surpass other websites by then. With so many paying users, Weiyue Chinese.com will easily become the leader in the online literary world.

After talking about this, Lin Rui said again: "Actually, if you do this, those readers who are very well-off will spend less on subscriptions, but it doesn't mean that they will spend less money."

"When they come across novels they like, they may have more budget to tip."

"Of course, I don't really like to use the word reward. It's like a street performer. The word appreciation is more appropriate, and it respects the author more."

"When we update in the next step, we need to improve this aspect, and change the reward to appreciation. This is also a way for our website to show respect to the author."

In this regard, this matter has been settled, and there are operations department and marketing department to assist Weiyue Chinese.com in this aspect of publicity and promotion.

Strive to carry this out smoothly.

On this day, another happy event came. After Zhao Yan's travels for so many days, the establishment of an investment fund finally took shape.

After preliminary negotiations with ICBC, the financing ratio was set at one to four, Weiyang Technology contributed 6000 million, and the bank gave a quota of 4000 million.

Establish an investment fund directly under Weiyang Technology with a quota of [-] million.

Of course, the interest rate is also very high, with an annualized rate of eleven points.However, Lin Rui thinks it's worth it. There are 4000 million available, and it's normal to give more interest.

In fact, when Lin Rui saw that the financing amount was one to four, he still thought about whether to invest more money, directly injecting 8000 million or 2000 million, and the bank would give a quota of [-], [-] or [-] million in proportion.

Coupled with Weiyang Technology's investment, the total amount will reach [-] million or [-] million.

But obviously not. The ratio and amount given by the bank are based on overall consideration. It does not mean that the more the investment, the more the amount will be given. It depends more on the credit evaluation of the parent company Weiyang Technology.

The larger the scale of Weiyang Technology and the higher the credit, the bank will naturally give you a higher amount and ratio according to your repayment ability.

If you want to make the investment fund's plate bigger and the bank give you a higher amount, it depends on how Weiyang Technology develops!

The matter of the investment fund has been finalized. During this period, the two start-up companies that have completed due diligence and negotiations can finally sign a formal investment contract.

The first is "Yue?" With the company's due diligence team settled in, I found that this start-up company is indeed as promising as they have shown.It just needs to spend money on promotion, and the company's money is almost burned out.

After two rounds of negotiations, Lin Rui finally made a decision, and Weiyang Technology decided to invest 1000 million in "Yuema", accounting for 40.00% of the shares.

The pre-investment valuation is 500 million and the post-money valuation is 500 million.

Luo Song hesitated for a moment, then readily accepted.

The other company is Anzhi Technology, which is mainly engaged in Android system download websites and forums.

Since the rise of smart phones, Apple's IOS system has been relatively closed, and all applications can only be downloaded from the app store that comes with the phone.

The Android system is open source, and Google has withdrawn from China, resulting in no official app store for the Android system in China.

This has allowed many startups to see opportunities, and many Android-based app stores have popped up.

Anzhi Technology is such a start-up company. They not only developed an app store based on the Android system, but also set up a professional forum based on the Android system.

And they have done a good job in these two businesses. The app store has more than 200 million users, and the forum is also very professional, and they are well-known in the industry.

It has gathered a lot of professional talents who study Android system development.

Most of Weiyang Technology’s investments are in game companies. When encountering this relatively unorthodox, relatively new start-up company that seems to be doing well, I decided to give it a try.

After all, the app store is also a traffic portal, and many talents have gathered on the forum.If it can grow to a certain level, it will also be of great help to Weiyang Technology.

After the due diligence was completed, and after two rounds of negotiations, it was finally decided that Weiyang Technology invested 800 million, accounting for 40.00% of the shares of Anzhi Technology.

The pre-investment valuation is 200 million and the post-investment valuation is 2000 million.

On the 27th, Weiyang Technology officially signed an investment agreement with two start-up companies.

So far, Weiyang Technology has invested in ten start-up companies since November, and Lin Rui found that he seemed to have completed the investment task.

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, the system suddenly came out.

System: The user has completed the task of investing in ten start-up companies within half a year, and will be rewarded with 80 hours of focus time.

Even though it had been expected, Lin Rui was very happy to receive so many rewards for concentration time at once.

(End of this chapter)