As the saying goes, where sincerity leads to gold and stone.
As the saying goes, a brave girl is afraid of being entangled by her husband.
Cross out the sentence above.
In short, Lin Yi's solution to the uncooperation of these restaurant owners was not a shocking one.
Just grinding.
Lin Yi and Li Jianguobing worked in two separate ways. They went to each store every day and started persuading people when there were few people there, just like little monks reciting sutras.
Each boss resists for a long or short time, but sooner or later he will choose to surrender. The main reason is just as Lin Yi expected.
This is beneficial and harmless to merchants.
Normally, they need to charge for launching their website, just like they charge store rent in a shopping mall. However, Lin Yi's small website has not yet opened, so of course this first wave of customers must be treated specially.
Later, when there were only two food delivery websites, Yellow and Blue, on the market, they charged merchants a considerable proportion of the sales amount, which made merchants big and small miserable.
These days, food delivery websites have just started and are far from such a strong position. Even Hungry? charge a fixed fee.
After bargaining with the merchants, Lin Yi agreed that the website would charge them only if the number of orders generated by the website for the stores exceeded a certain number every month.
Of course, the delivery fee for takeout is still charged per order, but this money is paid by the consumer, and the merchants do not care.
But they asked a question that knocked them both off their feet: "What's the name of your website?"
After returning home, the two began to discuss. Lin Yi first gave Li Jianguo a chance: "It's not too late to choose a name. What suggestions do you have?"
Li Jianguo was obviously a rough guy, and this kind of thing was really difficult for him. After thinking hard, he only gave one answer: "How about calling Snowpiercer?"
A black line appeared on Lin Yi's head: "I am your partner, not your girlfriend, why are you just messing with me here!"
The Northeastern dialect is very contagious. There is a Northeastern person in a dormitory at the beginning of the freshman year. When I graduate from the senior year, the whole room is often filled with Northeastern accents.
However, both Li Jianguo and Li Moyan grew up in big cities, and their accents are very dull. Lin Yixue's Northeastern dialect was meant as a joke.
Li Jianguo was embarrassed: "Isn't this too hasty? Then tell me."
Lin Yi didn't plan to spend too much time on this: "Choosing a name is not a casual matter, for example..."
Those words just now gave Lin Yi an instant inspiration.
"Why don't we just call it casual?"
"What?" Li Jianguo didn't understand.
"I mean our website is just called Casual, which is a super common mantra."
Lin first explained the reason: "Usually when you walk to the cafeteria after class, when Lao Zheng asks you what to eat, do you usually answer casually?"
"When our potential high-frequency customer Zilong asked us to bring him food when he was lying dead in the dormitory, he also said he could bring whatever he wanted."
"What to eat? Go to the takeout website!"
"How about it? Even the slogan came out together, so you don't have to think about it anymore."
Li Jianguo admitted that this scene is quite common, but he always thought it was too childish.
"Is this name... too casual?"
"A little bit of vividness in the ordinary, and a little bit of playfulness in the vividness, it's perfect."
In this way, Lin Yi still feels a bit like the approach of Are You Hungry? Internet companies like to do this in order to show their youthfulness.
But what Lin Yi just thought of was that there is a dish in Gan cuisine called "Sui", and he was not deliberately imitating his competitors. After all, the takeout ordering industry ended up fighting against the Huang and Blue families, and it was not because of their good names.
While Li Jianguo was still hesitating, Lin Yi had already decided to cut the knot quickly: "If you don't have any better suggestions, then I declare that this website will be officially named Yiyi from now on."
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The "patient offensive" of the two founders of Yiwai Takeaway.com lasted for a week.
That night, when Lin Yi and Li Jianguo met in the dormitory to synchronize their progress, they found that they had achieved all the planned goals.
Except for the Xiaonanmen Malatang restaurant at the beginning, the boss Yang was very stubborn.
Although Lin Yi and Li Jianguo felt that they were already very familiar with him, and if they wanted to get a credit or even waive the order someday, they might not be able to agree, but they would not let up on the takeout matter.
"What should we do? Should we continue to work hard to defeat him?" Li Jianguo was actually a little desperate.
Lin Yi was at his wits' end for the time being. He thought for a while:
"Although I also think that if we can win the popularity of this school, it will be a good publicity for our website, but we don't have much time to waste on it."
"If that doesn't work, let's start with the merchants we've already negotiated with. After all, we finally agreed and we can't keep them waiting too long."
Li Jianguo couldn't wait: "When will we go online?"
Originally, when starting a business, you have to race against time as fast as possible. Normally, you should promote it while the iron is hot, and then take advantage of the trend to go online.
However, it has been one month since school started, two weeks since I returned from military training in Changhua, and it is now the end of September.
Lin Yi had promised to go to Chengdu to visit Gu Caiwei during the National Day holiday. Thinking of this, he felt a little expectant.
"After the holiday, we will quickly do a round of promotion in the whole school and then go online."
Lin Yi had told Li Jianguo about his holiday arrangements in advance, but it was not so convenient for the latter's girlfriend to live abroad.
Li Jianguo, a left-behind child, also took the initiative and said: "I don't have to go home on October 1 and stay in school. Do you think there is anything else I can do?"
Boys are not as home-loving as girls. Many boys have not yet passed the excitement of going to college. They have only been away for a month and do not want to go home.
Lin Yidong wanted to leave the promotion to Li Jianguo so that the website could be launched as soon as he came back, but he hesitated and gave up.
On the one hand, he is not too worried about Li Jianguo, so it is best to keep an eye on him.
On the other hand, what is more important is that during the holidays, the school is not fully staffed and many students have left school. At this time, promotion coverage will inevitably be insufficient.
Then leave some trivial preparatory work to him and treat it as a practice.
"Well, you have two jobs these days."
"First, continue to try to get close to that boss Yang and see if you can make him change his mind."
"Second, our promotion and distribution after launch require a lot of manpower. You can build up the team first during the National Day holiday."
Li Jianguo didn't have much hope for the first task, but he was more interested in the second task. After working with Lin Yi and two people for so long, he finally started recruiting troops. He felt that this was a bit like a career.
"I think when my team first opened, there were only a dozen people and seven or eight guns..."
This guy even figured out the BGM by himself, and of course he agreed easily.
Lin Yi couldn't hear his voice, and was still secretly commenting that although this guy's abilities still needed to be exercised, at least he was very motivated.