Ye Qingling picked up Zhao Mingyang's business card, and she felt a glimmer of hope. For her, this was Nirvana and rebirth.
After a quick meal, she took the money and went straight to a hotel here, and had a comfortable sleep. This sleep was more comfortable than she had ever felt before, and she even forgot what it felt like to be comfortable.
This bed made her swear that she would seize this opportunity and never sleep in the open air again.
She wants to return to her country, visit her parents and relatives and friends, and take her parents over to honor them.
She thanked Zhao Mingyang. She knew that Zhao Mingyang was helping her, and all she could do was to repay Zhao Mingyang's kindness one day.
Yes, this is kindness, a great kindness.
At noon the next day, Ye Qingling slept comfortably until she woke up naturally and got up to wash up.
I went out to buy some clothes and cosmetics, returned to the hotel room, and dressed myself up carefully. I almost forgot what I looked like.
She went out and rented a car. This was life. This was her original life and life.
She quickly formulated a plan and was ready to work immediately. This was not difficult for her. What was difficult was how to communicate with people again. She lacked the ability to communicate with people for many years. She basically worked alone and earned some money.
Send money home.
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After Zhao Mingyang stayed in the United States for a few days, he either did some shopping or shopping, and then inspected various schools and companies.
Just like Yvonne said, he was quickly cleared of suspicion.
Hua Qinghua had a phone call with Zhao Mingyang. Everything went according to plan. What should we do next?
Zhao Mingyang thought for a while, since he was on a business trip now, he might as well get some benefits for himself.
He and Hua Qinghua formulated a new plan to carry out this cultural promotion in an all-round way with multiple elements and angles.
First of all, Zhao Mingyang is preparing to reunite Meng Xiaoxian and Liu Bingbing. The popularity of these two people has declined, as well as Wang Chenbo and Xiao Yu.
If a star really can't find anything to talk about in China, his first choice is to go to Paris Fashion Week to get some buzz, or go to a film festival to catch the red carpet.
In fact, going to Fashion Week is also about taking photos. For example, if you see an international superstar, go up and take a photo with them. Don’t worry about whether they recognize you or not. After the photo is taken, post it on Weibo with a text and picture: Long-time friends meet again.
Those who don’t know better think that they are close friends with international superstars. To put it bluntly, the routine is the same formula for a certain throat, the same routine that Ronaldo used to backstab him, but the soup is changed without changing the medicine.
In fact, foreigners are not stupid for this kind of routine. They will take photos and know your identity in advance. If you are a domestic artist and can find out your ranking number, they will also take photos with you. They want to use your influence to help others promote themselves for free.
After all, promotion fees are quite expensive, and it’s hard to find international superstars these days.
In the past, information dissemination was simple, nothing more than TV sets, video tapes, DVDs and the like. There might only be a few movies and a few albums per year, so artists spread quickly. Now in the Internet era, Psy is popular all over the world today, but there may be no one tomorrow.
People are interested.
Information spreads quickly, and the number of participants increases. Everyone can publish works at any time. There are too many artists, and agencies will no longer carefully select and spend huge sums of money to create one person over several years.
Nowadays, the average number of international superstars has been around for almost 20 years since their debut, and they are still an older group of influential people. People like Bieber are all old artists. Although they are young, they debuted early.
Why do domestic traffic buy fans? Because many foreigners don’t know domestic celebrities at all, but they recognize the number of fans, and most foreign stars have hundreds of thousands of fans, millions are super Vs, and tens of millions are international superstars. For example, Mei
The boss only has tens of millions of fans, but his domestic traffic can easily reach hundreds of millions of fans.
They showed their social media accounts to foreigners and deceived many people.
Ordinary people who want to go abroad to fool foreigners can create a domestic social account and buy hundreds of thousands of fans to fool them, because foreign social accounts increase their followers too slowly.
Zhao Mingyang also wanted to use this routine this time, but he couldn't play fashion weeks and film festivals anymore, it was a bad way to play.
Zhao Mingyang called Ning Dongsheng and asked him to arrange the artist's schedule to come over.
Zhao Mingyang didn't go to Lao K, the well-connected person here, for this matter. He only asked the God of Wealth for a promotion fee. The God of Wealth was indeed rich. Zhao Mingyang actually guessed that the God of Wealth was most likely someone he knew. It was very possible.
Hua Qinghua or Mrs. Ren, because Zhao Mingyang asked for fifty million dollars, the other party only asked Zhao Mingyang for his account number and nothing else.
This kind of absolute trust must only be given by someone who is familiar with it. Otherwise, it stands to reason that you have to ask what to do, or wait to discuss it later, and it is impossible to give money directly.
Zhao Mingyang also thought that the other party might be from the Nan family, after all, they had met and dealt with him before.
As for Old K, Zhao Mingyang was rather worried about this person and did not dare to contact him too much.
First of all, we can be sure that this person must be a native of the United States. Regardless of whether he is Chinese or not, he must have been born and raised here. Otherwise, he would not have such a strong relationship network. There is a higher probability that the other person may be at least two generations old.
Born and raised here, in a sense he is a native of the United States.
Zhao Mingyang is more afraid of this kind of people, because Zhao Mingyang doesn't know what the other person thinks, and he will most likely do things first, so Zhao Mingyang has always been vigilant and defensive towards Old K, but he is at ease with the God of Wealth.
After all, there is no need for the person who spends money to cause trouble for himself. This money is not small money.
Therefore, Zhao Mingyang only wanted money. Zhao Mingyang tried his best not to approach Old K for the matter of connections later on. Except for some trivial matters, he could approach Old K as long as his identity was not exposed.
Through Zhao Mingyang's own personal network, he contacted the organizer of the basketball league here.
The most popular sport in the world is undoubtedly football. After all, the World Cup has a huge influence and brings the most revenue among sports.
But in China, the most influential sport used to be football, but now it is basketball.
Basketball attracts a lot of attention in China, which is why the American Basketball League considers China as its most important partner outside of the United States, because outside of the United States, the biggest revenue comes from China.
The number one local sport in the United States is rugby. Basketball is not as influential as rugby. The biggest sport in Europe is football, as is football in Japan and South Korea. In addition to football, tennis is also very influential, and basketball’s market share is not the same in the world.
Not big, regionality is limited.
Without the support of such huge basketball fans in China, the market share of the American Men's Basketball Professional League would not have reached such a high level. You must know that the national football team used to be very influential. A large number of football superstars, such as General Fan and others, were more powerful than celebrities back then.
There are also cards. Later, due to Yao's influence, basketball quickly became popular in China.
In the past, domestic TV stations mostly broadcast live broadcasts of football leagues, but after 2002, the number has basically decreased.
During that period, the Asian flying star Lao Hu was not bad in the domestic men's basketball team, but his influence was incomparable to that of football.
Until 2002, the influence of the national football team was declining year by year, while Dayao's influence was increasing year by year. Most fans did not go to the American Professional Men's Basketball League because they liked basketball. Many of them were because of Dayao.
If you want to find data to support this, you can look at the gap between top basketball superstars and top football superstars on foreign social accounts. Many of the fans of top basketball superstars are from China.
The largest overseas market that is really willing to pay for basketball is China, so Zhao Mingyang’s goal this time is very clear, starting with basketball.
As for why people pay so little attention to football, I guess most people don’t want to get high blood pressure, and they don’t want TV manufacturers to make money. After all, many people can’t help but smash TVs...
Zhao Mingyang met with a league director here, who was an old white man in his seventies. Although this man was retired, he was still in charge of league business. His right to speak was basically a certainty.
"Hello Mr. Zhao, nice to meet you."
"Hello, Mr. David, it's a pleasure to meet you." Zhao Mingyang shook hands with the old man and took their seats.
The two met at David's home. This was considered a private visit. They talked first. This method gave both parties a space. When the conversation was almost complete, they went to the company to talk.
Zhao Mingyang didn't talk too much nonsense or polite words to the other party, and just talked about a few points.
First of all, Zhao Mingyang can purchase the uniforms of all league teams. Among them, the popular teams can purchase 10,000 sets of autographed player jerseys. The total number of jerseys that may be purchased is 100,000. The price is not cheap.
They are all sold there.
Secondly, Zhao Mingyang will buy 10,000 tickets for league games.
These all add up to a small amount of money, and the last point is the key point. Zhao Mingyang plans to invite the teams here to play airport friendly matches in China, paying US$3 million per game, for a total of three games.
David is also a scheming master. Zhao Mingyang is here to give money to the league. He is not stupid enough to think that Zhao Mingyang would be so kind. How can a businessman like to give away benefits to others for free? There must be monsters when things go wrong.
"Mr. Zhao, is that all? We are all businessmen, and the core of business is the exchange of interests. If you want to cooperate, you can specify which team to cooperate with, or purchase jerseys and game tickets of some popular teams.
There is no need to purchase all the team’s jerseys and tickets. You are helping our league solve some problems, but I always believe that benefits are not unilaterally demanded and given away, they must have value, right?”
Zhao Mingyang looked at the old man and said with a smile: "Mr. David, you are right, business is the exchange of interests. In fact, I don't have any big demands, just a trivial one."
"Then Mr. Zhao, please tell us your trivial request." David said.
"Actually, I'm here mainly for your beloved son. We heard that your son is a fashion designer. Our company has Ma Dou Clothing, which wants to be a trendy brand for young people.
We have been looking for a suitable designer. You see, this is the information we have learned before. We are looking for suitable designers all over the world. After accidentally seeing your son's design work, our eyes lit up.
This is the designer we are looking for. We have contacted your son, but we are afraid that if he does not agree to cooperate with us, it will be our loss. We hope to cooperate with him. I will make a special trip to your side.
Let’s chat, I hope you can communicate with him, don’t worry, the annual salary will be no less than one million, and we will set up an independent brand specifically for him.”
David looked at Zhao Mingyang and said nothing for a long time. It turned out that Zhao Mingyang was really prepared.
David is almost eighty this year, and he has a son at an old age. This child is David's only child.
David regarded him as the most important person in his life, but this boy was rebellious and insisted on finding his own way, and he didn't need his father's help.
His father helped him, but he stopped doing it. The key point is that this kid has never made a name for himself and is really not doing well. This is David's heartache.
David could understand his son. He wanted to prove to himself and to the world that David's son could do very well without David's help.
But it’s so easy to get around now. If you don’t have ready-made connections and resources, you have to go out on your own. The key is talent. This thing is very important. There is no one-in-a-million talent. It’s too difficult to be famous in the design circle.
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"Mr. Zhao, I don't know what you mean." David said with narrowed eyes.
Zhao Mingyang picked up the phone and called. Soon Lao Wu brought a tea set. Zhao Mingyang asked someone to put the tea set on the table, as well as some tea boxes.
"Does Mr. David usually drink tea?" Zhao Mingyang said.
"I drink a lot of coffee. I know that tea was introduced to Europe and the United States from China four hundred years ago, and only nobles could afford it, because the transportation fee was too expensive at the time. It was first reserved for the royal family in the Eagle Kingdom, but I
I'm not used to this, I just love coffee.
What does this mean, Mr. Zhao?" David was indeed confused, because for the first time he didn't know what a person was going to do, and he didn't know what Zhao Mingyang was doing with these things.
Zhao Mingyang took out the tea leaves and put them into several teapots. Then he washed the tea with hot water and brewed it. He poured it into several small teacups and raised his hand to signal David to have a taste.
David picked up the tea cups and checked them individually. There were no less than ten kinds of tea on the table. David took a few sips of Pu'er and said, "I like this."
"This is called Pu'er tea, which is divided into raw Pu'er and cooked Pu'er." Yours is cooked Pu'er. Pu'er tea is also divided into loose tea, brick tea, square tea, Tuo tea and so on.
None of this is important. What is important is that each sip of the tea you drank is worth about fifty dollars, so you probably drank almost five hundred dollars."
When David heard this, he looked disgusted. This is just a small cup. It’s gone in one sip. Why is it so expensive?
"It's not expensive, some may cost hundreds of dollars per mouthful. It depends on the quality. Of course, there are also teas that are worth more than a dollar per liter of brewed tea.
This depends on market demand and positioning. Just like your design, it may be worthless in the eyes of others.
But I think his work is worth millions. I can make him a million-dollar designer, I can make him a fashion brand manager, and I can make him recognized by the market, because I appreciate him and I recognize him.
Like this tea.
I won’t tell you the value of this tea. If you are not a tea lover, you won’t think it is valuable, right?
Do you think your son is valuable? If you think it is, then it must be.
In fact, I just want our clothing brand spokespersons to increase their visibility, such as performing on stage at the opening or halftime of basketball games.
It would be best if you can give me a reputation, such as the promotion ambassador of the American men's basketball team or something like that.
I am also a senior basketball fan personally. I have always had a basketball dream, but my conditions are not good enough and I cannot meet the requirements of a professional athlete. But I want another way to make up for my regrets.
For example, buying a team, becoming the team owner, and building your own team.
If you can help me find out if there is a team that needs to be transferred that I can take over, then you can help me realize my dream.
I will definitely thank you very much. Your son also has dreams, so you must understand me, right."
David looked at Zhao Mingyang and remained silent for a long time. He was weighing the pros and cons.
He knew what Zhao Mingyang meant, and he also knew that if he did this kind of thing, he might bear some risks. Some things cannot be accomplished if you have money.
But his son has a dream. He is also old and may pass away one day. He also knows the meaning of cold tea when people leave.
He can leave a large amount of money to his son, but sometimes it is not possible to have money. It requires connections and resources. His son is not good at these things.
Zhao Mingyang can give his son fame, resources, and help his son complete his wealth.
David was a little hesitant. He also had a weakness. Zhao Mingyang knew this weakness and could help him.
"How do you want to build a clothing brand?" David asked.
"This is a simple, new brand. I will directly co-brand with international big brands. Find a few celebrities to promote it, and I will purchase 10,000 pieces of clothing designed by your son and give them away. The price of a single piece of clothing starts at $200. Don't make it low.
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Later, we will recommend your son to represent our brand in fashion exhibitions and design exhibitions. We have channels. The potential of your son's work to win awards depends on your ideas.
With fame, awards, and works, there will be no shortage of clients. Of course, we will not tell your son all this. You and I will just talk in private. After all, we appreciate him. This has nothing to do with you. I am just here.
Talk to you about the league.
If your son is recognized by the market, he will be very happy, right?"
David fell into deep thought again, and his heart moved.
He knows what his son needs, needs market recognition, needs fame. He needs awards and works. With these, he is a top fashion designer.
Zhao Mingyang could help his son realize this dream. David hoped that his son could be happy, so he was moved.
David looked at Zhao Mingyang. This young man was really amazing. He knew how to force someone to help him complete something, and he couldn't refuse him. It was really hard to refuse.