Chapter 160 Establish a new entertainment department
Time passed very quickly, and it was New Year's Day of 2004 in a blink of an eye.
It was already after New Year's Day when Chen Wei and the others came back from East China Market.
After more than half a year of promotion and publicity, Renren has finally gained a firm foothold in the Internet market.
As of January 10, 2004, the number of registered users of Renren exceeded 800,000, and the number of unique visits to the website exceeded 2 million.
Lu Yang is confident that Renren’s registered users will exceed one million by the Spring Festival.
This was a great success for him.
However, the most critical thing is the launch of Renren’s casual games.
Happy Farm, Grab a Parking Space, Happy Landlords, Happy Mahjong, Plants vs. Zombies, five games have become popular mini-games.
Countless white-collar workers are keen to steal food and grab parking spaces, which adds a lot of fun to their boring work.
The number of members has also increased from the initial more than 10,000 to 30,000.
The fee of six yuan per user means that Lu Yang's Renren has a monthly profit of nearly 200,000 yuan.
Even so, he still felt that the money was not enough.
More users mean greater bandwidth and server costs, more complex website functions, and higher operating costs.
His wallet is still struggling to make ends meet.
Lu Yang began to place advertisements about Renren in newspapers and TV stations, which added a lot of expenses to him.
That afternoon, Lu Yang came to Haifeng Building.
The office staff is much more lively now than before because Chen Wei and the others are back.
When Chen Wei comes back this time, she doesn't have to go to the market anymore. She has to give them some rest time.
Not long after Lu Yang turned on the computer, Chen Wei knocked on the door and came in.
Today she was wearing a camel woolen windbreaker with a black turtleneck sweater underneath.
Perhaps because of being in the workplace, Chen Wei looks much more mature than in the summer, and her proud career line makes a woman's curves perfectly present.
She wore delicate makeup and looked like the movie we watched: My Girl Boss series.
"Sister Wei, have you read the recent operating data?"
Chen Wei sat down in front of Lu Yang and nodded: "I've seen it. To be honest, these games completely exceeded our expectations. I never thought that a few small games could be so attractive!"
She praised again: "Lu Yang, you are very talented in game conception. I remember that you developed the original legendary private server."
Lu Yang chuckled, these games were figured out by countless seniors, he was just stealing ideas.
If he is willing, he can make small games such as Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and Temple Escape at any time.
There are also those large-scale games, such as LOL, Dungeon and Fighter, and Chicken Fight, which can also be imitated.
Lu Yang leaned on the chair and said to Chen Wei: "Currently, our monthly membership income is more than 100,000 yuan. The salary and bonus before the end of the year and the basic expenses of the website are enough."
Chen Wei asked: "Do you plan to rely on these games to support Renren's future expenses?"
Lu Yang shook his head. Although these small games are popular games, they cannot last long.
Other Internet companies have discovered the popularity of farming and parking space competition, and will definitely copy and follow up.
This wave of bonuses from the game cannot last too long.
He said: "Next year I will give you great authority to recruit people independently. I hope you can capture the remaining university markets in South China and Central China as soon as possible."
Chen Wei said there was no problem. She had promotion experience in the East China market and she was relatively confident about winning South China and Central China.
Now they are the only one in the field of Internet social networking, and there is little competition pressure.
Lu Yang continued: "Our speed is faster than others. We have captured the national market before others have entered this market. By then, the number of website registrations should exceed two million. We have huge user data that we can use to raise funds."
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Chen Wei nodded: "Now that colleges and universities are starting their winter vacation, we will go to the South China market when school starts after the new year."
Lu Yang looked at the balance of his bank card and saw that there was only more than 200,000 left. This was assuming that Renren continued to have income.
In other words, he invested at least two million in Renren this year.
Except for Chen Wei, no one else in the company knew how much money Lu Yang had invested in it.
Gu Xiaowan and Xu Xiaoxiao didn't know either.
Chen Wei asked: "If there is financing, have you considered specific financing plans?"
Lu Yang: "For us now, when it comes to financing, we need to start with at least five million to have any hope. An ordinary one or two million will not make any substantial difference to us."
Chen Wei clicked her tongue, she thought it was crazy when Lu Yang came up with the idea of this website this summer, but subconsciously she was willing to believe him.
Then I tried to compete with Lu Yang.
Facts have proved that the original choice was correct.
Renren has great potential.
Lu Yang asked: "By the way, do you have a suitable candidate? Recommend someone to me. Someone should be smart and good at dealing with the outside world. I am going to set up a new entertainment department."
Chen Wei: "How about Jia Xin? She is your senior sister. She is relatively stable and good at communication and communication."
Lu Yang nodded and asked Chen Wei to call Jia Xin over.
After Chen Wei left, after a while, Jia Xin, wearing cartoon cotton clothes, came to Lu Yang's office.
"Lu...Mr. Lu, are you looking for me?"
Lu Yang smiled and said: "Sister Jia, you don't need to call me Mr. Lu, just call me Lu Yang."
Jia Xin sat down in front of Lu Yang with some restraint. She didn't know why Lu Yang came to see her.
Since starting to work on Renren Online, Lu Yang has paid them their wages on time on the first of every month, and the treatment is relatively high.
Sometimes there are extra bonuses, which she is very happy with.
Jia Xin asked her classmates and found out that most of them had a salary level of around eight or nine hundred yuan after graduation, but now she can get one thousand two hundred yuan a month.
Lu Yang asked: "Sister Jia, how do you feel in the marketing department?"
Jia Xin: "I feel pretty good. Sister Wei takes good care of us, and the relationship between our colleagues is also very harmonious."
Lu Yang tapped his fingers on the table: "I'm going to set up a new department, with you as the director, and the salary will be increased by one level. I wonder if you are interested?"
Jia Xin couldn't help being stunned.
About to get promoted?
Happiness comes too suddenly.
She asked: "Then what exactly am I responsible for?"
Lu Yang said: "The new department is called the Department of Culture and Entertainment, and you will take the lead in recruiting the team. Your purpose is to contact the stars in the film, television and music industry, give them money, and let them join Renren!"
Recruiting stars?
Will celebrities come to Renren?
Jia Xin asked the question in his heart.
Lu Yang explained: "You don't need to contact popular celebrities, but you are asked to contact celebrities who are not very popular. Do you understand?"
Jia Xin shook his head: "I don't quite understand. Do you mean to find those outdated celebrities to join Renren?"
Lu Yang took out a list from the drawer: "Look at this list first."
Jia Xin took the list and discovered that there were dozens of celebrities on it, but none of them were very popular.
For example, she didn't know this person named Pang Long at all. The information showed that Pang Long graduated from Shenyang Conservatory of Music and was currently working in a bar...