Chapter 56 Negotiating Cooperation
In Han Yue's office, we made a little fuss for a while and then we all had a good meal. Since I had the meal first, we finished it soon. I held my chin and watched Han Yue have a meal quietly.
"You, why are you looking at me?" She became a little shy when I saw her. She changed her sitting position and turned her body over.
I laughed, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore." I took a deep breath and said seriously to Han Yue: "I'll come here tonight, and I have something to tell you."
"Hmm?" Han Yue tilted her head and looked at me. Seeing that my expression was much more serious than before, she put down the lunch box in her hand, "You said."
I took a tissue from the other side of the table and handed it to her, and said, "On the way here I came, I noticed a large billboard in a department store outside, which belongs to you, Dinghui Group. In the advertising industry, everyone knows that Dinghui and Xingchen International are two giants. Basically, you are doing everything related to advertising and media, but you have their own unique advantages. Xingchen International is mainly online planning advertisements such as media, information flow advertising, and Dinghui's strength lies in offline hard marketing. Basically, you have rich resources for large outdoor billboards in CBD areas in first- and second-tier cities."
Han Yue nodded slowly and agreed with what I said, "Well, my homework is done well, and then, what do you want to say to me?"
I blinked silently and said in a hesitant tone: "What, you asked last time that we can cooperate together. That's right, our company happened to have a new project that has been launched for a short time, and it is expected to be released soon. I also know that Dinghui's business is very popular. I think we will reach a cooperation with you now. Can Mr. Han find a few outdoor billboards for the new project that I am about to launch here to promote?"
It was all fine when I said it before, but Han Yue couldn't help laughing at the back, "How many pieces? Mr. Cheng, do you know how valuable these billboards are? I ate a few pieces of meat you bought, but you just wanted a few billboards for me? You are too a profiteer!"
Although Han Yue is sometimes a little dumb, she will never be vague when encountering business matters. When she says this, I feel a little embarrassed.
I touched my nose and smiled and said, "Oh, I just said that, it's actually the same thing. It depends on whether President Han will give me this opportunity to cooperate."
Han Yue pursed her lips and thought for a while, slowed down a little, and said, "Well, let's do this, what about you, when you go back, you will pack me the documents and requirements of your project first, and I will also give you a document, including the geographical location of the billboard, the package quotation, applicable scenarios, etc.."
I scratched my hair without saying anything. Han Yue expressed her doubts and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Then what, there are many ways to cooperate, project cooperation, strategic cooperation, and investment cooperation. What I want is not to choose a billboard from you and buy a package. What I hope is that our two companies can achieve long-term cooperation and win-win results." Seeing that Han Yue did not interrupt me, and even looked at me with interest, I continued: "I'll tell you directly. Our new project is to independently develop a short video platform and enter the future hot industry, but you have also seen that a few days ago, after Wang Hao invested in Xingchen International, he announced that he had cooperated with "Huanyin", which held 8.4% of the shares. He will definitely have greater actions later. This is obviously a threat to our utopia. So, I hope we can cooperate."
I looked at Han Yue with inquiring eyes. She was silent for a while and said, "Then let's just follow what I said. No matter how you think we can cooperate, you still have to make a cooperation plan for me so that we can talk."
"That's for sure. I'm here to tell you about this matter first. I'm treating it as a reservation for this cooperation with you in advance. Dinghui's business is so popular. If someone takes it first, I'll lose a lot!"
Han Yue stroked her hair and said with a smile: "I'm always so poor." She took a sip of water and glanced at the time of her watch, "I won't tell you now. I have to continue rushing the documents. Don't come over and quarrel with me again~"
"Okay! I'll leave now. You'll be busy first. I'll have to pick up Qimin later. That's fine. I'll come to you with a cooperation plan the day after tomorrow. I'll leave first. Don't miss me too much. Let's see you in a few days!" While waving goodbye to her, I retreated and spoke, but I was so proud that I accidentally bumped into the door. I "hissed" and kept rubbing the back of my head. Han Yue was angry and funny when she saw this, and looked at me who was "escaped in the panic".
After leaving Han Yue, around nine o'clock, I sent Qi Min a message, and he said he would meet him at about half past ten:30. I thought for a while and sent him a voice message: "I'll go to the house we often went to to wait for you. You can come here directly later."
Qi Min said he was fine. I drove to the restaurant we had made an appointment with, ordered a cocktail, and then took out my laptop computer with me, intending to take advantage of the hour and a half of Qi Min's journey to think about the next cooperation with Han Yue's CITIC Group.
Actually, it’s not impossible for me to go back to the company to wait for Qimin, but I don’t want to continue to go back to the office. If I change to a relatively relaxed environment, maybe the inspiration will be better. When I was in college, I liked to stay out on the computer and find a store to do my own things quietly.
Not long after, I received the document sent by Han Yue to me, which means that she was finally finished. While I felt sorry for her, I felt the pressure: People who are better than you work so hard, and they are still the ones I like. So what reason do I not work hard? If I can reach a cooperation with Dinghui Group, even if Wang Hao has Xingchen International and Fantasy, our utopia will not be so badly affected by him next.
I sent Han Yue two messages, signaling her to go back early to take a shower and rest, and then I started to read the documents she sent and conceive a cooperation plan.
At 10:20, Qimin came ten minutes earlier than the time we had agreed on. As soon as he got off the car, he lit a cigarette while walking. He drove for so long, probably he was almost suffocated.
"Huh~" He threw me a cigarette, pulled a chair and sat down, "I'm almost suffocating. I smoked the first cigarette today. When I went out, I bought two packs of good cigarettes. But no one smoked. If they didn't take out the cigarette, I was embarrassed to smoke it myself."
"How are you talking? Is there any show?" I took the cigarette and glanced at him from the corner of my eyes.
Qi Min slowly spit out the cigarette and shook his head, "They have no problem, but I refused." He took a sip of wine under my confused eyes, and then said, "I asked for 12% of our shares at the beginning. Isn't this a big talk? Although we are short of money now, I don't agree to sell so many shares. In addition, they are just second-rate investment institutions. Don't you think of me as a fool?"
"I wasted your day."
"You can't say it's a waste, it's a process to go out to talk. This is not as simple as going out to buy vegetables in the vegetable market. Forget it, let's not talk about it." He looked at my computer and turned the computer screen over to him, "What are you doing?"
"Dinghui & Utopian Cooperation Plan?" Qi Min read out the title on the document.
I nodded, "Well, before coming here, I just left Dinghui, had a meal with Han Yue, and talked with her about our ideas about how we wanted to cooperate."
"Cooperation? What's your idea? Tell me."
Seeing that Qi Min was interested, I quickly explained: "Dinghui has advantages in hard-hitting marketing, such as shopping mall billboards, subway and bus billboards, and elevator advertisements. Since Wang Hao has won Star International and has cooperated with Huanyin, of course we must seize the opportunity to cooperate with Dinghui. If cooperation can be reached, we can at least reduce a lot of pressure when facing Wang Hao."
"Something makes sense." Qi Min nodded slowly, then asked in confusion: "Hiss~ No, hasn't our current Jiashi not made yet? Then even if we cooperated with Dinghui, there is nothing to put on for advertising."
I had a curve in the corner of my mouth, and I knew that Qimin would ask this question. I had thought about this question for a long time, so I answered his question: "Build momentum! In the mall, there is a saying that we can use, saying, "Does you be awesome now? What is important is that you want to make people feel that you are awesome!" What does it mean? My idea is to build momentum and lay the groundwork first, and at the same time speed up the development of Jiashi. After this momentum is available, when our Jiashi is ready, it will immediately accumulate a large number of users once it is launched." I paused for a moment, "However, doing this is also risky, with a lot of gambling elements."
Qi Min added what I didn't finish: "The risk is: this 'momentum' has been created, and people outside are waiting for this thing to come out with expectations, but once our products are not good enough and if they are not up to date, it will not only not only cannot accumulate the original users, but will also cause a great negative impact. Regardless of the result, this approach is an extremely sharp double-edged sword!"
"That's right." I was silent for a while, and put one hand on Qi Min's shoulder, "So, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!