A few days later, Sun Quan himself went to the official website of 99 Braised Chicken and saw a large red banner at the top of the home page.
This large banner has several eye-catching golden characters on it - "We sincerely invite general agents from all cities across the country!!!"
When he saw such a headline, he was not surprised. He questioned that in many cities in China, their head offices had opened branches or franchise stores and were no longer suitable for recruiting general agents.
Because before this publicity plan was released, the company's vice president Kuang Longfei had already discussed this issue with him in detail and came to a conclusion.
The conclusion is that cities that already have branches and franchise stores will also release general agency rights this time.
As long as when signing the general agency agreement, existing branches and franchise stores in that city are excluded from the agreement and will still be managed by the head office.
Of course, if someone is interested in such a city's general agency rights, they will definitely reduce part of the franchise fee, or general agency fee, appropriately.
According to Kuang Longfei, the method of recruiting general agents in each city can, on the one hand, collect more agency fees, and on the other hand, it also facilitates the management of the company.
After all, the number of branches and franchise stores currently under the company's name is already quite large.
If we can sell general agent rights in more cities by recruiting general agents, the company can concentrate its existing manpower and material resources to better manage existing branches and franchise stores and create a better reputation.
As for such a large-scale release of the general agency rights in various cities, will the head office have no market to open new branches and individual franchise stores?
Don't worry about it for now.
Because there are so many cities across the country, it is impossible to sell all the general agency rights in each city in a short period of time.
And those cities where the general agency rights have not yet been sold will still be enough for the company to open branches and develop new, single franchise stores in the next few years.
It can be said that this is a plan that kills two birds with one stone.
It will not affect the company's development pace in the next few years, but it can also quickly accumulate a large amount of general agency fees in a short period of time by selling the general agency rights in various cities.
Like the original franchise method, each franchisee charges tens of thousands of yuan in franchise fees to open a franchise store, which is not only inefficient, but also requires a large number of receptionists to receive customers from all over the country who are interested in joining.
This way of joining is a waste of time, manpower and material resources.
Sun Quan was persuaded by Kuang Longfei.
Hence the promotional title on the company’s official website.
Click the promotional title with the mouse, and the web page will jump to a new page. On this page, the various terms of becoming the general agent of 99 Braised Chicken in a city are listed in detail, as well as the authority and rights that you have after becoming the general agent.
prospect.
Sun Quan looked at it for a while and found no problems, so he exited the page and ignored the matter for the time being.
His recent thoughts are still on writing a new variety show plan and the outline of a new book.
During this period, he received an invitation from Qidian to the Writers Summit.
It was a QQ private message sent to him by his editor-in-chief, Haiyu. After thinking about it, he rejected it.
There are two reasons:
First, he has been very busy recently. The company and the studio need him to take care of it. Occasionally, he has to communicate with Xue Zihan and others in Hangzhou about the recording issues of the new program "The Birth of the Actor".
Second, he does not feel that he is qualified to receive any awards if he attends the Writers Summit this year.
Firstly, there is no time, secondly, there is no big prize to win, and in addition, he has to go to Shanghai to visit his wife and children every now and then. Naturally, he has no interest in this year's Writers Summit.
Seeing this, some people may ask: His wife and children are in Shanghai, and Qidian’s headquarters is also in Shanghai, so why doesn’t he take the opportunity to visit his wife and children and attend this year’s annual meeting?
Could it be that he is deliberately pretending to be competitive? He deliberately did not attend this year's Writers Summit to show his difference?
From this look, it seems that this is really the case.
And what about the reality?
Qidian’s annual writers’ conferences in recent years have not been held in Shanghai, and this year’s Writers Summit will not be held in Shanghai either.
In this case, how could his grandson attend this year's annual meeting?
Before his rebirth, he had never attended Qidian's Writers Summit (annual meeting) because Qidian had never invited him and he was not qualified.
At that time, he was not qualified to participate, but he always had this obsession in his heart, imagining that one day he would be able to get an invitation letter to the Qidian Annual Meeting to broaden his horizons.
But after he was reborn, he was invited to participate every year, again and again. The more times it happened, the less rare it became.
When I go to participate every year, I mainly see the same old faces and not many new ones, which makes it easy for people to lose the sense of freshness and expectations!
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Time flies, time flies, and in the blink of an eye...it is impossible that a thousand years have passed.
But time still passes day by day.
New variety show planning projects were born in his hands, such as "Run, Brother!", "Extreme Challenge", etc. After he finished writing, he handed them over to Fu Lei in the studio to run them.
The rest of his time was spent on writing the outline of the new book.
This process is lengthy.
It took longer to prepare the outline of a new book than any previous one, because before the outline of this book was written, he had already thought about adapting this book into a web series in the future.
Because he had to take this goal into consideration, during the writing process of the outline, he subconsciously reviewed each plot repeatedly, not only to ensure that each plot was exciting and touching enough, but also to ensure that those plots were suitable for adaptation into web dramas in the future.
Do not make future adaptation work unnecessarily difficult.
For example, if some plots are written in a supernatural direction, they will inevitably require a lot of special effects shots when adapted into web dramas in the future.
And special effects lenses... are not only expensive, but also difficult to guarantee the effect.
Therefore, he tried his best to use the horror elements in this supernatural novel to create psychological horror.
However, creating a sense of psychological horror is not an easy task. Compared with directly using supernatural elements to create that feeling, psychological horror is several times or even ten times more difficult to write in the plot.
More than anything.
This is also a major reason why there are so many bad horror movies in China.
Sometimes, it's not that the director or screenwriter doesn't want to produce a high-quality script or film, but it's just too difficult.
It doesn’t matter if you want an effect, you will definitely get it.
In order to keep improving, Sun Quan had to change his manuscript several times, overturning and rewriting the outline of the characters and plot again and again.
Sometimes, it is not to overturn the outline that has been written to better shape the characters and plot, but to avoid one day in the future the book will be 404.
Two years before he was reborn, the most serious incident occurred, which resulted in the publication of many popular supernatural articles.
For a time, almost no one dared to write supernatural works.
Is he afraid that this supernatural book will get a 404 in the future?
If you say you are not afraid, you are definitely lying.
But he thought about it repeatedly and finally decided to try writing a supernatural novel.
First, he needs a supernatural novel to be adapted into a web drama in the near future to test the film and television drama market. In his opinion, it is very suitable for a supernatural novel to be adapted into a web drama.
Not to mention the difficulty of filming, good supernatural works can also attract a large number of viewers who like supernatural works, and the investment amount for this type of web drama should not be very large.
Secondly...
He felt that as long as he wrote more cautiously, this supernatural novel might not be 404 in the future. Even if it became famous, there was no need to worry too much.
He has seen examples.
Before his rebirth, when a large number of supernatural articles were 404-ed, he checked the famous "Ghost Lantern" on Qidian.com.
What did he find?
It's not that big of a deal. I just accidentally discovered that a supernatural book as famous as "Ghost Lamp" has gone through several large-scale 404 incidents without any damage. You can still easily search for this book at the starting point.
Not only is the first part of "Ghost Lantern" still alive, but even the sequel to this book, "Ghost Lantern 2", has always existed in Qidian's library.
What does this mean?
Are there no ghosts in "Ghost Lantern" and "Ghost Lantern 2"?
He doesn't think so, but the book is famous enough. Not only as a novel, it is famous enough, but the movies and TV series adapted from it are also famous enough.
Moreover, in his impression, these two books seemed to have never been classified into the supernatural category, but rather into the suspense category.
So when the 404 wave flooded into the supernatural category, "Ghost Lantern" and "Ghost Lantern 2" were not affected.
In addition, perhaps it is also because the copyrights of these two books have been sold to Qidian long ago, so they have always been protected by Qidian?
Sun Quan wasn't so sure.
But he believes that as long as he writes his supernatural article carefully, becomes popular enough after publishing it, and does not put the book on the supernatural channel, when the 404 wave hits in the future, this book may also be safe.
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While the outline of Sun Quan's supernatural novel was gradually taking shape, Blueberry Channel's "The Birth of an Actor" and Lychee Channel's "I Am a Singer" were broadcast on time every week.
Unstoppable.
Sun Quan didn't watch every episode regularly, and he didn't have that much free time, but he heard that the ratings of these two variety shows continued to rise.
Word of mouth...
The reputation of "I Am a Singer" is also continuing to rise. Although the reputation of "The Birth of a Drama Queen" is gradually showing signs of mixed reviews, overall there are still more positive reviews than negative reviews.
With the popularity and discussion of these two variety shows, 99 Braised Chicken has become more and more famous.
These two programs broadcast once a week are like advertising 99 Braised Chicken once a week, and the effect is very good.
When Sun Quan occasionally goes to the company headquarters, he always hears Kuang Longfei or Bai Yufeng talking about how many franchise stores have been developed recently.
Not only did the number of individual franchise stores grow rapidly, but in just half a month, the general agency rights in three cities were sold, and the general agency fee alone was worth more than 10 million.