Lu Yu was too lazy to play games with him and dialed his number directly.
"Let me tell you the good news first." Lu Yu said straight to the point.
Snoopy coughed slightly on the other end of the phone and replied: "The good news is that all 20,000 copies of our magazine's first issue have been sold out."
Sold out?
Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the sales to be so good.
It seems that "shock clubs" are also new to Americans of this era.
"The channels are all ready-made. "Sport" magazine had its own sales channels before. We only need to be responsible for distributing the goods. After excluding the cost, we made more than 10,000 yuan for this batch of magazines."
Snoopy's voice was full of excitement. He didn't expect to make so much money all at once.
"Thanks to Jessica this time. She helped us get the content for two days and two nights. We also have to thank Fender. Fender told the supplier that he could press a batch for us and then settle the payment."
Lu Yu frowned slightly. It was a bit unexpected for Fende to be so kind and ask the supplier to help with the payment.
"How much does a magazine cost you?"
"Two dollars."
"Two dollars, that is, the profit of a magazine is a little more than 50 cents..."
Lu Yu pondered for a while and said to Snoopy: "Use Fende's suppliers at most two more times. During this time, you can familiarize yourself with the supply channels. I don't care what method you use. Let's talk about two more.
The cost is 40% lower than that of Fender's suppliers. In terms of sales, there is no need to buy 20,000 copies to test the water this time. The next issue will be directly sold to 100,000 copies. Sales channels must also be expanded by ourselves and sold to as many as possible.
Spokane covers all the surrounding states, you know?”
"ah?"
Snoopy was stunned, and then realized that he might have been deceived by Fender: "Shet, I knew he wasn't so kind."
In fact, Fende didn't lie to him. There must be Fende's account from the previous supplier. It is impossible to transfer this debt to Lu Yu, but Fende probably doesn't want to pay it back, so he used such a
Methods to offset your own debt.
Magazines are content output products. If the gross profit margin is only 30 points, it is definitely impossible.
But regardless of the high gross profit margin, the real way to make money depends on sales volume.
In addition to making profits, you also need to control expenses.
The most important one is the operating cost. When the sales volume is low, the operating cost may be lower. When the sales volume increases, various operating expenses will cost a lot of money.
After putting all these aside, whether a magazine can sell well depends on its content.
"Is the content of the next issue ready?" Lu Yu asked.
Snoopy replied: "Okay, currently basketball is still dominated by March Madness. For other sports, such as baseball, tennis, and rugby, I have also 'borrowed' from other magazines and newspapers according to your request, but
The timeliness may be a bit worse.”
"It doesn't matter if it's not timely. Magazines are not as timely as newspapers. Just make the headlines attractive. By the way, there is also the matter of the sports website I told you last time. This time, part of the profit will be used to pay the supplier.
, take out the rest and put them all into the website.”
Lu Yu doesn’t expect “sport” to make money for him yet.
After all, the money owed to Steve Fender is already backed by Anta's signing and endorsement, and what he wants to do now is to lay out the sports media industry.
Print media like magazines will sooner or later disappear from the stage of history.
Not to mention Li Gui like "Sport", even Li Kui like "Sports Illustrated" cannot avoid the wheel of the times.
So what Lu Yu has to do is to use the first pot of gold earned from "sport" to lay out a sports network platform before the wheels of the times roll over.
The most important thing is to take control of the online traffic in your own hands.
Like some NBA historical level rankings, they are ranked once a month, but it is really not feasible to be ranked once a week. As long as it can attract traffic, he can use any vulgar tricks.
What's more, didn't the later websites like Bleachers also rely on this to get started?
m established the website much later. Why can the outdoor bleachers reach the ranks of mainstream media in just a few years? It mainly relies on attracting people's attention and rankings of sports of all sizes. The outdoor bleachers are the largest, with one row every three days and one every five days.
Xiaopai, you can brag and don’t have to pay taxes anyway.
The website Lu Yu is building now is only seven or eight years older than Bleachers.
"You just said good news and bad news. Now that you've said the good news, what's the bad news?"
Although Lu Yu didn't want to know the bad news.
But Snoop is now in charge of his own media business, and he has to take it seriously.
Snoopy thought for a while before speaking: "The bad news is that we will no longer have a content editor soon. Jessica only agreed to help us with the first few issues. Once the recruited employees arrive, she will no longer help.
Already."
Lu Yu felt a little headache.
It seems Jessica is still angry.
Snoopy analyzed Lu Yu, and his prospective girlfriend Lilian told him that Jessica had already planned to accept Lu Yu and wanted to try dating Lu Yu, but she saw Lu Yu hanging out at the KTV and now she felt very sad.
disappointment.
Lu Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Lillian didn't blame you?"
"I told Lillian, you were the only one who touched it." Snoopy replied seriously.
Lu Yu: "..."
You are really a fucking talent.
"Forget it, you don't have to worry about Jessica's affairs, I'll take care of it."
Lu Yu hung up the phone and stood in front of the window looking at the lights in the distance. He and Jessica had been in a cold war for a long time since the last Michigan game. Lu Yu had called several times, but nothing happened.
All were hung up with one exception.
But from Jessica's willingness to go to the magazine to help, it can also indirectly indicate that Jessica has at least a little tendency to forgive herself.
"No matter what, I still have to make it clear. At least we can be ordinary friends instead of being boyfriend and girlfriend."
In fact, Lu Yu didn't think he had done anything wrong.
Just talking about business, nothing done.
After a while, he came to Mark Foyou's room: "Coach, my phone is out of battery. Can I borrow your phone? I'll call my dad."
"Okay, the phone is on the table. You can take it."
Mark Four is still working on the Connecticut Huskies' playbook for the next game.
Lu Yu picked up the mobile phone on the table, returned to his room, and dialed Jessica's number.
The phone beeped twice and the call went through.
"Uncle, what's wrong?"
Jessica's sweet voice came from the phone. Lu Yu could imagine that she must be sleepy in bed at the moment, but he also thought that when you received the call from your uncle, you had to hold on to your pajamas and pretend to be energetic.
appearance.
After all, she helped herself stay up for two whole nights.
Lu Yu smiled and said, "I'm not Coach Fuyou, I just borrowed his cell phone to call you."
As soon as Jessica heard Lu Yu's voice, she knew what was going on. Just as she was about to hang up, she heard Lu Yu say hurriedly: "Don't hang up, even if you are angry, you have to give people a chance to explain."
, before the prisoner is executed, he still needs to be heard in court."
"When you touched another girl, why didn't you expect that you would be sentenced?"
Jessica's voice was cold.
"Did you see me touching it?"
"Lillian said it."
"Lillian saw it?"
"Lillian didn't see it, but..."
"But Snoopy said so, right?"
Lu Yu didn't give Jessica a chance to say it, and continued: "How else could Snoopy explain to Lillian? Did he tell Lillian that I touched the girl at the KTV, but Lu Yu didn't, and it was all me?
Do you think it’s possible for someone to touch it?”
"Anyway, none of you men are good."
When Lu Yu heard this, he knew that Jessica was actually not that enthusiastic anymore.
In fact, I wasn't that angry at first, otherwise I wouldn't have stayed up two nights helping Lu Yu get the magazine, but I couldn't get rid of my arrogant little temper, and I was waiting for Lu Yu to apologize.
"Snoopy said you stayed up for two nights, thank you for your hard work."
Lu Yu should first take care of Jessica. She has a stubborn temper. She can't be tough, so she has to be soft.
From a work perspective, Jessica is actually quite capable.
Lu Yu hoped that she would continue to work.
Hearing Lu Yu's concern, Jessica's grievances over the past few days suddenly burst out, and she could vaguely hear her sobbing slightly on the phone.
"Don't cry."
Lu Yu struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Actually, after negotiating the contract with Fender, the boss of the "Sport" magazine copyright company, that day, I planned to go back, but Snoopy said that he had promised to invite Mr. Fender out to relax...
"
There's nothing you can do about it, it's you who didn't act like a human being in the first place.
"You mean, it was Snoopy who suggested going to KTV?"
Jessica stopped crying and asked doubtfully.
Lu Yu said calmly: "Yes, I have been busy playing games. During this time, Snoopy was always talking about business communication with Fender. I only found out after I went there, but it's my fault. I thought at the time
Take down their office in Spokane and agree to Snoopy's suggestion."
With this said, Jessica believed Lu Yu.
Because during this period, she was helping Lu Yu with the magazine content at the Spokane branch where she was an intern, and Snoopy also mentioned that this office was temporarily lent to them by Fender.
However, she was still a little worried, so she asked:
