Just as I was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door outside.
Pei Qian looked up and saw a group of horses coming.
Ma Yiqun has been busy since preparing to establish the Dingmin Chinese website.
Although administrative, financial, legal and other personnel have been arranged, and the company's big frame has been set up, it is still up to the Ma group to make their own decisions on how to operate the website.
According to Pei Qian's request, Ma Yiqun went to the resource website to buy a ready-made website template and author backend, and bought the domain name www.zhongdian.com for more than 300,000.
Because there is no "starting point" in this world, people who rush to register the domain name "end point" cannot raise the price too high. Moreover, it is 2010, so the domain name is not that expensive, so it is a small profit.
In addition, I found the website maintenance personnel, bought a cloud server, and applied for authorization from the relevant departments...
After a series of twists and turns and hundreds of thousands spent, the preliminary preparations are almost completed.
Then, the group of horses started to get busy.
First, he gathered all his employees and assigned work to them one by one.
These people are all senior brothers and sisters who were directly recommended to Pei Qian by Guo Wei. All of them graduated from liberal arts majors and their writing skills are all decent.
Ma Yiqun's first impression of them was that these people were relatively autistic and somewhat nerdy.
This is normal, after all, these people have not found jobs.
If everyone could speak eloquently, they wouldn't have been unemployed right after graduation and waited until now.
Fortunately, the attitudes of these people are okay, and the horses are not too picky.
He knows very well that online writing doesn't matter whether it's the right one or not, and it doesn't matter what your professional performance is. Once you enter this field, you have to learn everything from scratch.
This is a good thing and a bad thing.
At least in the eyes of Ma Yiqun, the basic literacy of these people is sufficient.
Then, Ma Yiqun simply assigned a task.
Once the website is set up, the first thing to do is to enrich the library.
Novel websites are content websites. Without content, everything is useless, so you must spend money to recruit a group of authors in the early stage.
If it is a particularly wealthy website, it will definitely spend money to poach some famous celebrities, and even poach them batch by batch. In this way, they may not be able to stop them even if they are worth millions.
But Pei Qian did not choose such a path.
Although it costs a lot to play this way and the probability of failure is not low, the master is a master after all, and after being poached, he can instantly bring a lot of attention to the website.
Money means either poaching great masters or attracting people from the street. After thinking about it, Pei Qian decided that the latter would definitely have a greater chance of losing money.
After all, most of the famous masters have real talents and knowledge, and the probability of a master being born in the street is actually very low.
Any aspiring author, even if he is temporarily out of business, will definitely choose a big website like Infinite Chinese to pursue his dream and become a god with one book.
I wouldn’t go to a small website with an uncertain future just for a few hundred dollars more for perfect attendance.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Pei Qian decided that it would be safest not to dig out the great masters in the early stage, but to use full attendance to attract some desperate authors.
The early tasks of Ma Yiqun are mainly training and screening manuscripts.
These people know very little about online articles, and even some who have read online articles have not studied them in depth.
Some of the most basic concepts, such as coolness, rhythm, and subject matter, have to be taught step by step by a group of horses.
Only after they have been taught enough can they become qualified editors, help select manuscripts, guide authors in writing, etc.
Now, Ma Yiqun feels that it is time to report the current progress to Mr. Pei.
"Mr. Pei, the current situation is like this..."
After briefly introducing the current results, Ma Yiqun changed the topic: "Now we mainly encounter two problems."
"The first problem is that our current editors are not high enough and their understanding of online articles is not adequate."
"They always like to select manuscripts based on the author's writing style, and many of the selected manuscripts are unqualified online articles."
"I'm afraid it will be difficult to reverse this in the short term. I can only teach it slowly."
"The second problem is that the overall quality of the manuscripts we receive is low, let alone high-quality manuscripts. Many manuscripts may not even be recommended for testing on the Infinite Chinese website, let alone be put on the shelves."
"If a very small number of excellent works are put on the Infinite Chinese website, I'm afraid they will only get 500 per subscription at most."
"Of course, I'm not looking down on the 500 average subscription, I'm just stating this fact objectively..."
The group of horses said that they felt guilty.
After all, he has also written online articles. As an author whose first order is 30, there seems to be no reason to look down on others who order 500.
But logically speaking, if the best author on a website only has an average subscription level of 500, then this website is basically considered to be completely useless.
After all, this kind of author can get 500 subscriptions on a big website like Infinite Chinese Network because of the large number of readers. By the end of the Chinese website, the number will probably shrink tenfold.
There is actually no conflict between the two points mentioned by Ma Yiqun. In short, the author's level is not good, and the editor's review level is not good either. The accepted manuscripts are basically unreadable.
At present, the website has not been officially launched. Ma Yiqun mainly goes to some forums to contact some desperate authors. The website will not be officially launched until the number of manuscripts can almost support the website.
After listening to Ma Yiqun's story, Pei Qian looked very calm, as if "everything is under control".
"Do you have a manuscript? Show it to me."
Ma Yiqun took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Pei Qian.
It contains manuscripts that have been collected, some of which have been signed, but most of which have not been signed.
Pei Qian randomly clicked on a few manuscripts and looked at them.
After reading it, I only have one feeling, it hurts my eyes!
Most manuscripts cannot be read after a cursory glance at one chapter.
Not to mention things like fun and rhythm, many people have problems with even the most basic words and sentences, typos, misuse of punctuation marks, bad sentences, the logic of the first three chapters is confusing, and the theme is vague...
In short, the problems can be said to be diverse.
Pei Qian took a general look and found that these manuscripts that had been selected by Ma Yiqun to be signed could barely be regarded as generals among the dwarfs. If they were put on other websites, they would be destined to be thrown out of the public.
It seems that although Ma Yiqun’s first order is 30, he still understands the basic rules of online writing.
This was also within Pei Qian's expectation. After all, Ma Yiqun's initial subscription was low, but his public chapters were still well written and had a number of readers.
Seeing Pei Qian browsing these manuscripts with ease, Ma Yiqun couldn't help but sigh.
Mr. Pei is so patient, he can actually see through it...
After randomly selecting a few manuscripts, Pei Qian felt relieved.
If the manuscripts I receive in the future are of this level, then this website will be amazing!
Great, keep it up!
He calmly pulled out the USB flash drive and handed it to Ma Yiqun.
"It's not a big problem."
"As for the two questions you mentioned..."
"It doesn't matter if our editing skills are not good enough. We can just relax the review standards. Anyway, our current focus is on enriching our work library. People are just working full-time to sign contracts, so there is no need to be so strict."
Ma Yiqun looked hesitant: "But... Mr. Pei, the perfect attendance standard you set originally was only 1,000 yuan."
"The standard for perfect attendance on the Infinite Chinese website is 500 yuan. Some small websites give 1,000 yuan for full attendance, but only if they update 10,000 words every day."
"And our standard is to give 1,000 yuan for perfect attendance if you update 3,000 words a day."
"If the standards are further relaxed, I am afraid that a lot of money will be wasted in a month just for perfect attendance."
Pei Qian shook his head: "It doesn't matter. To support 500 authors, it's only 500,000 per month. It's not much money."
"We are a new website. If the attendance standard is not set higher, why would people come to us to write about it?"
"Besides, 3,000 words a day is actually not that easy for many novices to achieve."
"Don't worry, as long as we receive more manuscripts, great people will emerge."
The Ma group thought for a while, and it seemed that what Mr. Pei said made sense.
But this probability is too low...
Ma Yiqun thought for a while and then said: "Mr. Pei, there is another problem. The current work of most employees is not saturated."
"Because there are not many authors who submit manuscripts, the review task is not heavy. Even if our editors take time to guide the authors in their writing, there will be times when they have nothing to do."
Pei Qian waved his hand: "This is no longer a problem."
"If they have nothing to do, just let them develop some hobbies."
"Just like you, wouldn't it be nice to write books and entertain yourself when you have nothing to do?"
Pei Qian stood up and patted Ma Yiqun on the shoulder.
"A bunch of people, don't put so much pressure on yourself."
"Tengda's purpose has always been to work happily. If you have work, be busy. If you don't have work, just develop some hobbies. If you are too busy with work, recruit people. What a big deal."
"Don't think about eating a fat man in one bite, take your time."
Ma Yiqun nodded: "Yes, Mr. Pei, I understand!"
Originally, he was a little impatient. He felt that Mr. Pei had entrusted such an important job to him, but there had been no progress. Instead, he was burning more and more money, and he was a little out of control.
But now seeing Mr. Pei's expression of having everything under control, the horses felt inexplicably relieved.
Sure enough, following a good leader makes you feel at ease!