Before you know it, time has arrived to bring December.
Christmas is only two days away, but unfortunately, not even a single snowfall has fallen in Bingzhou.
If it snows, it will probably be a romantic winter.
The development of Renren finally ushered in an explosive period. In late November, the number of registered users was 80,000.
One month later, due to the promotion of new users and promotion by Chen Wei and others, the number of registered users of Renren exceeded 300,000, the cumulative number of visits to the website exceeded 700,000, and the number of unique visits exceeded 500,000.
They have also launched four games: Farm Stealing Vegetables, Grabbing Parking Space, Happy Landlord Fight, and Happy Mahjong!
With these four games, Renren quickly became known among netizens.
Lu Yang also launched a VIP membership system in early December. Member functions: you can change the theme of your personal homepage, with distinguished VIP logos, personalized skins, avatar pendants, card backgrounds, and personalized covers.
Members are also bound to casual games. Stealing vegetables in rural areas can shorten the time for crops to mature, and grabbing parking spaces can increase profits.
In Happy Landlord and Happy Mahjong, ordinary players will receive 2,000 Happy Beans three times a day for free.
Members can receive 2,000 Happy Beans five times.
The first charge for a new member is 6 yuan, and if you renew, it will still be 6 yuan. Once the membership is discontinued, it will be 12 yuan per month if you purchase again. Of course, there are also annual services.
That afternoon, Lu Yang was working in Haifeng Building.
The sound of computers crackling could be heard in the office outside. Fan Pingchuan and the others were busy outside.
The next game on the schedule has been upgraded, and that is Plants vs. Zombies.
To be honest, Fan Pingchuan admired Lu Yang's unbridled imagination very much. He couldn't think of such an interesting game even if he thought about it.
Xie Zhiqiang and Zhou Yi also admired Lu Yang. They originally planned to leave after graduation next year. After going out to inquire around, they found that the salary offered outside was not as high as Lu Yang's.
They decided to continue working with Lu Yang next year.
Lu Yang is calling Chen Wei.
At present, they have gone to colleges and universities in the East China market.
Nowadays, it is much easier to promote Renren, because Renren has gradually become known to college students, and they do not need to bother to introduce Renren’s model.
Just spend some money to promote and cooperate with colleges and universities.
Now more and more university officials have settled on Renren.com, and they can publish announcements, publicity, etc. through Renren.com.
Lu Yang looked at the number of member recharges in the background.
There are 300,000 users, but the number of members is very low, only more than 10,000, and he concluded that at least 70% of these 10,000 people are there for the game.
Is your monthly income more than 60,000?
If you are an ordinary person, you would think it is already very high.
But it is still too little for Lu Yang. His daily expenses now exceed 3,000 yuan, which means that he is currently unable to make ends meet.
In particular, the cost of attracting new users is 50 cents, which accounts for more than 2,000 yuan per day. This does not include labor wages, server bandwidth and other expenses.
Of course, many advertisers came to Lu Yang, but they were all vulgar and fraudulent advertisers. Lu Yang gave up this opportunity to make money for the sake of the future of Renren.
Including the Jinlang chewing gum, the one-month cooperation expired and was not renewed.
Vulgarity and marginalia are never the benign development of a website.
He is waiting for rich and famous advertisers to contact him to discuss cooperation. If there is no advertiser after the funds are burned out, he will have to take the initiative to find advertisers.
If it still doesn't work, you can only look for funds to invest in Renren.
At this time, Xu Xiaoxiao called Lu Yang.
"Lu Yang, are you still busy at the company?"
"Yes, have you finished class?"
"Well, we have the final exam next month. Don't fail. I've sorted out all the information for you."
"You can give me extra lessons then. I want to learn a foreign language."
"Huh, you lied to me again. I remember your college entrance examination English score was higher than mine."
"Xiaoxiao is so smart, I can't hide anything from you."
Xu Xiaoxiao's soft voice came from the phone, and she suddenly said: "It's Christmas soon. I want to treat you to dinner. Where do you want to eat?"
Oh, what a nuisance.
This kind of festival is obviously for boys to treat guests, so why don't you just let me have a soft meal?
Lu Yang asked: "Where do you want to go? Let me treat you to dinner."
Xu Xiaoxiao said stubbornly: "No, how about I treat you to dinner and then you buy me a gift?"
Lu Yang: "Deal!"
Xu Xiaoxiao: "Also, when will you come back today? I want to eat spicy hotpot from outside."
Lu Yang glanced at the time: "How about I finish the work at hand before contacting you?"
Xu Xiaoxiao agreed and they ended the call.
Lu Yang doesn't dare to say what time he will get off work now. What if something unexpected happens?
For example, Gu Xiaowan will often look for him, and then the two people's schedules will conflict.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yang saw two missed calls on his phone, which were from Gu Xiaowan.
What a risk!
In the past month, he spent the most time with Xu Xiaoxiao, attending classes during the day, eating at night, and sometimes coming to Haifeng Building for work.
Sega Garden has become a dormitory for employees. Lu Yong, Fan Pingchuan and others sometimes live in the dormitory if they work overtime.
Of course, Lu Yang would not neglect Gu Xiaowan. He would spare two days every week to go to Gu Xiaowan for dinner and shopping.
Lu Yang dialed Gu Xiaowan's phone and heard Gu Xiaowan's pleasant voice.
"Lu Yang, who were you calling just now? Why is the line always busy when I call you?"
"Oh, the counselor just called me. It's almost New Year's Day. As the class monitor, I naturally have to lead the class to participate in the New Year's Day party."
"So that's it. So what show are you going to perform? I want to go and cheer you on."
Lu Yang was shocked. He must not let Gu Xiaowan come to cheer him up. He must not be a helper then.
"I won't go on stage to perform, but I will ask other students in the class to sign up."
"I think you sing very well. Aren't you going to perform on stage on New Year's Day?"
"I only want to sing my songs to you, and they don't deserve to hear them."
He silently added in his mind: Except for Xu Xiaoxiao.
Gu Xiaowan's laughter came from the phone: "Who knows, maybe he lied to me by saying he was nice."
Lu Yang: "Then you should also say something nice to me."
Gu Xiaowan hesitated for a moment, then she whispered: "I miss you. Can you come to me tonight? How about I invite you to dinner?"
Ah this...
Another one wants to treat me to dinner.
There is a bit of a conflict in the itinerary.
Seeing that Lu Yang didn't agree immediately, Gu Xiaowan asked, "Do you have anything else to do tonight?"
Lu Yang said: "I'm working in Haifeng Building now. How about waiting for me to finish my work and then go find you?"
Gu Xiaowan: "Let me go find you. I haven't been there since you moved to your new place."
Lu Yang asked her if she knew the place?
Gu Xiaowan said that she was not a fool and could not find a place to ask.
Lu Yang thought it would be unsafe for Gu Xiaowan to go out alone in the evening, so he hurriedly went to Huyu Campus to pick up Gu Xiaowan from get off work.
He planned to deal with Gu Xiaowan and then go back to Xu Xiaoxiao for dinner.