It was a bit stuffy in the private room. A bald man spat, pushed open the door, and said in a loud voice without hesitation: "I asked all my friends to find out some clues."
"Have you found Daolang?" Bian Gang asked hurriedly.
"Found him, where do you think he was before?"
Baldhead looked at everyone and answered: "In XJ!"
Alas!
Everyone booed.
Damn, a pop music singer is in XJ?
This is not next to each other!
"Keep talking, keep talking!"
"I'm in a crappy company, I forget. They only distribute it locally and can't even go out of the province. Daolang has released a few albums before, and they all were rushed. Last year's "Love Song of the Western Regions" was pretty good, selling hundreds of thousands of copies, I guess.
A collection.”
"Stop talking nonsense, where are you now?"
"Leave now."
"Where have you gone?"
"I won't tell you what kind of confidentiality contract I signed."
"Get out of here, you still haven't found it after a long time!"
Everyone booed again.
Bian Gang drank a glass of wine and said: "Actually, we don't need to find anyone, we can do two songs. If we don't make an album, wouldn't it be over if we just mix it into a collection?"
"What's that called?"
"'Hot Hits'! This is your strong point."
"Haha, "Hot Hits" is good!"
These people are publishers and pirates, so they eat both sides. Regular audio and video distribution must be approved, but it doesn't matter whether piracy is approved or not.
Nowadays, the officials are clamoring all day long to protect copyright and crack down on piracy, and the clamor becomes stronger every time.
But everyone like Bian Gang knows that this is bullshit!
Take pirated discs as an example. They can be found everywhere in major book markets, electronic cities, video stores, and night market stalls. The official crackdown is indeed on them. When will they be cracked down on?
There are a few so-called "rectification actions" every year.
During the rectification period, it was indeed very clean, but if it ends today, it will pop up tomorrow. Can law enforcement be normalized? Just kidding, how much will it cost?
Or if a consumer complains, the department may handle it.
If the people don’t raise officials, they won’t be punished!
So this group of people didn't care at all, and immediately decided to make a "2004 Hot Hits" album, including two songs by Dao Lang.
After finishing the meal, Bian Gang walked away.
I didn't care whether I was a drunk driver or not, so I drove away. After driving for a while, I suddenly felt my stomach was turbulent. I stopped quickly on the side of the road, hugged a tree and started to vomit.
"Oh, I'm getting older!"
Bian Gang, who is in his 40s and almost 50 years old, wiped his mouth and missed the days when he was young and strong. But now he felt a little hungry after vomiting, so he looked at a small noodle shop.
"If you didn't know how many drinks I had that day, you wouldn't understand how beautiful you are..."
There is a small speaker at the door, playing "The Punishment of Impulse".
Bian Gang walked in and ordered a piece of shredded chicken noodles with pickled mustard. He had just been drinking and not eating, but now he was slurping and eating, listening to the song over and over again.
"Boss, can you change it to another one?"
"Nothing else, this song is so nice, listen to it more."
The boss smiled with vicissitudes of life, he is also a person with stories.
Bian Gang shook his head. Based on his many years of experience in the industry, he could easily judge that the audience for Daolang's two songs was precisely lower-class middle-aged men.
He must have someone behind the scenes, otherwise it wouldn't have spread so fast and so widely.
It seems that after the Spring Festival, small restaurants, grocery stores, and small clothing stores began to open in the streets and alleys of the capital, in less affluent places, one after another.
Followed by Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, and I heard it is also spreading in the south.
What he doesn't understand is, why should we choose such a method? Why not cooperate with a formal distribution company and go through formal channels?
"..."
Bian Gang couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it. He wanted to pluck the wool anyway.
I quickly finished my noodles and went out to leave.
…
"2004 Hot Hits"!
There are Jay Chou's, Stefanie Sun's, Pu Shu's, and JJ Lin's. They are all the leaders in the Chinese music scene, and there are incompatible Dao Lang inserted into them.
This thing has to be made in the south, where there are many workshops and is close to Hong Kong, which is a base for pirated discs.
Putting together an album, designing a cover, forging a batch number, it can be done in a few days, and then take it back to the north to sell it - Bian Gang is very skilled at this.
………………
There is so much work going on here, even 99 is not idle.
After Liu Qiangdong heard about Yu Jiajia's project, which was exactly the same as Mu Zimei's "Suicide Letter" last year, he secretly thought that Yao Yuan was really a new trick that would be used all over the world, but it only needs to be effective.
At this moment, he was arranging things for the hypermarket, and suddenly someone came to report:
"Mr. Liu, there is something wrong with Dangdang.com!"
"What's wrong?"
"You see, this is a new book we have put on the shelves. The price is 20 yuan. Dangdang.com sells it for 22 yuan. But soon it became 18 yuan, which is 10% lower than us."
"What kind of problem is this? It's normal."
"No, no, look at this, this and this. I discovered the day before yesterday that as long as our similar products are lower than Dangdang's, they will soon adjust their prices, always 10% lower than ours."
The subordinate pointed to an extremely unpopular book and said: "The sales volume of this book is extremely poor, so bad that even competitors will not pay attention to it. But I deliberately adjusted the price to be lower than that of Dangdang.com, and as expected
, they actually followed suit and it was still 10% lower.”
Um?
This is indeed abnormal. Just as Liu Qiangdong was thinking about it, Yao Yuan called.
"I just had a conversation with Lei Jun, and based on his technical intuition, I judged that Dangdang should have developed a new system... Hey, forget it, just read the news yourself. The interviews are all out, on Sina."
He died.
Dongzi hurriedly opened Sina, and sure enough, Li Guoqing popped up again.
“This is an ‘intelligent price comparison system’ independently developed by Dangdang!
Through electronic searches, it finds that similar products on other websites are priced lower than Dangdang's prices, and will automatically lower the price to 10% lower than the other website.
Automatic price adjustment is very common in traditional retail, but Dangdang uses a system to complete this process, which is faster, more convenient, and more fair."
HE...TUI!
Dongzi spat, if you want to fight a price war, you have to fight a price war, and you have to use technology as a shield.
…
As soon as this Dangdang thing comes out, laymen will watch the excitement, while experts will watch the door.
A reporter immediately went to interview Zhizhi, and Chen Nian responded.
He likes to respond to these things. He is an educated person and loves to quarrel. He later said, "Jay Chou is trash. Mu Dan dumped Jay Chou for hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Mu Dan was a poet, translator, and Jin Yong's cousin.
Comparing a poet with a pop idol is magical in itself.
Chen Nian sincerely satirized Li Guoqing: "Mr. Li may have been stimulated and used this method to fantasize about his victory. He might as well just say that he wants to start a price war, and we will just accept it."
Whatever is useless now, consumers will vote with their money."
Li Guoqing wanted to declare war, but Chen Nian responded to it.
The media was so happy that Peipianpidian came to ask Liu Qiangdong what he thought again. Dongzi also said some cruel words. Yao Yuan felt that it was not acceptable and directly took a photo of the "B2C Command Headquarters" paper.
It was openly posted on the website!
"China's Internet is rejuvenating as a whole, and online shopping is out of the ice age!"
"How to solve the three major problems of information, payment, and logistics that hinder the development of e-commerce?"
"Dangdang, Excellence, Maiwo, a sales war is about to take place from darkness to light!"
In April 2004, all B2C e-commerce companies obtained financing, strengthened their capabilities, and became increasingly competitive. Finally, they couldn't help but start fighting.
eBay and Taobao, which had been fighting for a long time, glanced here in a hurry, turned around and continued fighting.
Netizens are also very excited. They don't care who wins or loses, they only care about how much advantage they can take.