Chapter 79: The Rising Newspaper Agency
After leaving Yang Chaoye's office, Su Cheng did not leave the Su Group Building immediately, but came to the third floor of the building.
Originally, because of its small scale, the entire office was only about 80 square meters.
Nowadays, as its scale becomes larger, the area of the entire office has expanded to 200 square meters.
There are no more than a dozen employees in the office, but more than fifty.
Whether it is the editorial department, investment promotion department or printing department, many people have been recruited.
Su Cheng walked into the office, and the people inside immediately recognized him and said, "Hello, boss."
Today, Sucheng is a celebrity in Xiangjiang. As an employee of his company, even if he has never seen a real person in Sucheng, he has seen photos on newspapers and TV.
Su Cheng nodded and looked around the office. At this time, Chivalrous Literature Media Company had been divided into two offices, one management office and one ordinary employee office.
However, there is a passage between the two offices, and the two offices are interconnected.
"Boss, you are here, please come in." Seeing Su Cheng, Editor-in-Chief Wang and President Li immediately stood up from their respective posts to welcome Su Cheng.
"I'll take a look." Su Cheng smiled.
After all, I have made a novel here to understand the current business situation.
Speaking of which, in Hutchison Huangpu, there is a Hutchison Publishing House that is of good size, which mainly publishes English versions of novels in Europe and the United States. Its strength is quite good in Xiangjiang. The two companies can cooperate with each other and it would be better if they are responsible for publishing books.
Both sides are their own, their palms are also flesh, and the backs are also flesh. You can't just care about the Su Group.
Of course, both sides can also develop in various ways to compete with each other. Only with competition can there be progress. The flowers in greenhouses cannot withstand wind and rain. Benefits of competition will make them progress faster.
Anyway, Xiao Ai has a lot of literary works, and when more advanced computers are created, Xiao Ai doesn't have to worry about Su Cheng as soon as he uploads it himself. Hutchison Publishing House is responsible for the English version of the novel, and Chivalrous Company is responsible for the Chinese version of the novel. It is also possible.
However, there is no need to think too much about this matter. Now the new computer is not available, and the efficiency is too low now, so he is too lazy to do it.
"The boss probably doesn't know me yet. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Li Shuai, and I am the general manager of Xiayi Literature Media Co., Ltd.." The middle-aged man in the suit next to Editor-in-Chief Wang introduced himself.
As his name suggests, although Li Shuai is in his early forties, he is indeed a bit handsome.
"Well, the company will ask you to get more profits for the group. The company will not treat you badly." Su Cheng said with a smile.
"Boss, I'll report to you about the recent situation of Xiayi Literature Media Co., Ltd.." After Su Cheng sat on a chair, Mr. Li continued.
"Okay, say, I'll listen." Su Cheng nodded.
"Since you, boss, gave the novel "The Legend of Qin" to our company, we followed your opinion and released it for 7 days in advance, and on average, only 100,000 copies were distributed every day. As expected, it was very popular. In the later period, some readers even queued up at some newsstands in order to get the newspapers, resulting in the whole of Xiangjiang being published in less than two or three hours a day.
On the first day of the resumption of fees, we originally thought that many readers would give up buying, but they did not expect that they would still be very popular, with the highest number of copies sold to 230,000 copies. In the past month, nearly half a month has been ranked first in all newspapers and magazines in Xiangjiang. If there weren't a few days of hot news, such as the Hutchison Whampoa shareholder war, Hutchison Whampoa acquisition case, and the boss you took over Hutchison Whampoa as a senior team, etc., resulting in a sharp increase in sales of newspapers in Oriental Daily, maybe our number one days will be more.
Driven by the novel "The Legend of Qin", we collected short literary manuscripts from all Xiangjiang. After screening, we put some excellent works in the "Charming Literature Monthly". It was launched for ten days, and now the sales have even reached more than 50,000 copies.
Nowadays, our Chivalrous Literature Media Company not only has Chivalrous Literature Journal, but also has added Chivalrous Sports News, Chivalrous Ma News, Chivalrous News Morning Post, Chivalrous Entertainment News, Chivalrous Literature Monthly, etc. Driven by Chivalrous Literature Journal, the sales of other newspapers can reach 5,000 to 30,000 copies per day. Now, our company's daily advertising revenue has grown to about HK$150,000 per day, and it is the fastest-growing subsidiary of the group's profits."
While Li Shuai reported to Su Cheng, he was also full of pride. Of course, he also knew that without the boss's novel, such a scene would no longer exist.
"The Legend of Qin" which has been serialized ten thousand words every day has become more and more famous now. Even martial arts masters such as Jin Daxia and Gu Daxia have published book reviews for "The Legend of Qin", which has made its popularity even more popular.
Nowadays, there is a popular thing among the readers of Xiangjiang, which is to collect the "Journal of Chivalrous Literature" that began to be published on June 1, especially the limited edition free-issue newspapers, which are said to have now increased to HK$10 per copy. It is conceivable how popular "The Legend of Qin" is.
In one month, 300,000 words were serialized, who else?
In Xiangjiang, I can't find it at all!
Even its fame has begun to spread to Wanwan, Haojiang, Xinjiapo and other places.
"It's very good. Develop well. Don't let the company rely too much on my works." Su Cheng nodded.
"Yes, boss, so we are taking advantage of the popularity of "The Legend of Qin" to build the brand of chivalrous, so that we can have our place among many newspapers in Xiangjiang. We are now holding an essay contest for long martial arts novels. The rewards are rich and it will definitely attract the participation of many first- and second-tier writers." Mr. Li said.
After the completion of "The Legend of Qin", if no new good works appear, the sales of "Journal of Chivalrous Literature" will definitely plummet. Therefore, taking advantage of the current situation, you have to make the brand bigger and attract more good works to contribute to it so that you can keep it bigger and stronger.
As for the boss writing another good work for them? They dare not think about this, and Su Cheng will not say it for the time being, so as not to let them have no motivation to work hard.
"By the way, boss, we plan to publish the full version of "The Legend of Qin" when "The Legend of Qin" is about 100,000 words, so that our books will be sold more." Mr. Li thought for a while and said again.
The total number of "The Legend of Qin" is about 1.5 million words, which means that a daily number of ten thousand can be serialized for five months. In these five months, you can do a lot of things.
Moreover, before the complete version of "The Legend of Qin" was released, many people must have purchased the novel "The Legend of Qin" published in order to see all the follow-up content faster.
"It's a pretty good strategy, and I'll give you some advice. If you find some particularly excellent works in the essay contest, you can reduce the serial number of "Xu Qin Ji" in "Journal of Chivalrous Literature" and then put the new works on it to serialize, which can increase the exposure of new works." Su Cheng said with a smile. In later generations, he has seen many similar operations.
"We have prepared the strategies mentioned by the boss. The serial number of "The Legend of Qin" will be reduced to 5,000 words per day in the later period. In this way, the serial time of "The Legend of Qin" can not only be extended, but also allows other works to develop." Li Shuai looked at Su Cheng with admiration, but he did not expect that the boss also had so many development strategies.
Chapter completed!