Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 236 A Thousand People, A Thousand Faces; One Person, A Thousand Faces

When Chen Cheng arrived at the office building, Wang Xuan showed him several relatively suitable locations.

There is another property of more than 500 square meters on the west side of this floor. However, there is a company in between that property and the current property. That company is not large, only renting 200 square meters. The office building is a whole steel-concrete structure with load-bearing columns and no load-bearing walls. The entire floor of more than 2,000 square meters can be divided at will.

Wang Xuan's idea was to give the middle company some compensation so that they could move to other vacant properties in the building.

Chen Cheng approved of the plan, and he was even willing to pay more compensation to take over the entire floor.

While this method of spending money to clear out the site may seem extravagant and wasteful, in the long run, it is more beneficial than harmful to the company.

If a company's office space is relatively scattered, it will inevitably have to be divided according to departments. This will put management in an awkward position, as they will not be close to any department.

Management efficiency will decrease, and communication costs will increase exponentially.

If the entire floor belongs to your own company, opening up all the partitions and dividing all the physical areas according to function and department is definitely much better than a decentralized layout.

So he asked Wang Xuan to handle the matter, and the compensation standard was to give them six months' rent based on their current rented area.

He had just finished discussing the matter with Wang Xuan when he received a call from Qin Jianshe on his phone.

He felt a little resistant when he saw Qin Jianshe calling.

The last time the price of the indicator rose, Lin Zhenbang called very quickly. Now that the indicator has just started to fall, Qin Jianshe has called again.

Why is everyone so unwilling to take risks in business?

Although he was a little annoyed, he still pressed the answer button and asked with a smile, "Uncle Qin, you're so busy, why are you suddenly calling me?"

Qin Jianshe said with a smile, "Little Chen, how have you been lately? Are you busy with your studies?"

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "My studies aren't busy at all. I just skipped two days of classes this week. Is there something you need, Uncle Qin?"

Qin Jianshe chuckled and said, "Oh, it's like this. Uncle's business is having some difficulties. I stockpiled too many quotas before, which has basically tied up all my working capital. Now I suddenly need funds, and Uncle has no other choice but to sell these quotas at a low price. I was just wondering if you'd still be interested in taking these quotas back at a low price. Uncle won't lie to you, the price of quotas has indeed dropped a bit recently. The market price is around 200,000. If you want them, Uncle can lower the price a bit more for you."

Chen Cheng was speechless.

Qin Jianshe thought he was just trying to profit from a one-off deal by speculating on taxi license plates.

So he didn't hide anything and said directly, "Uncle Qin, I won't lie to you, I've invested all the money from selling quotas into other businesses, and now I can't take on any more even if I wanted to."

Before Qin Jianshe could speak, he quickly added, "But if you're in a hurry to sell, Uncle Qin, I can recommend a speculator from Wencheng. She was really keen to buy my Jietong Taxi back then, but you offered a higher price, so I sold it to you."

When Qin Jianshe heard him say that, he felt like dying.

If only I had hesitated a little more back then, wouldn't it have been better to have let those people from Wencheng take Chen Cheng's quota?

Now things are really messed up. I bought 80 of them from him at a high price, and the price has already fallen below the cost line. If I can't sell them quickly, I will not only lose all the profits I made before, but also suffer heavy losses on my principal.

However, how could the people of Wenzhou possibly accept quotas at this time?

They want to sell quickly, but prices have fallen too fast, and there's no market for them; nobody's buying them.

It is said that Wenzhou people have at least two thousand quotas. In the current market, it is difficult to sell two in a day. It would take forever to sell two thousand. How could they possibly buy back their own?
Qin Jianshe felt somewhat apprehensive.

What he fears most right now is the announcement of an increase in the number of available quotas.

Once this news comes out, the price of the indicator will definitely plummet to around 100,000, or even lower.

By then, I'll have really lost a lot of money; I'll lose at least ten million, including principal and interest.

He didn't know whether Chen Cheng had really spent all the money or was just fooling him, but he didn't have any other good options at the moment. So he could only plead with Chen Cheng, "Little Chen, I'm really in a bit of a predicament right now. Can you help me find a suitable seller? As long as the price he offers is okay, I can accept it. After the deal is done, I'll give you a 5% commission on the transaction amount!"

Qin Jianshe and Lin Zhenbang are not on the same wavelength. Qin Jianshe's experience is far superior to Lin Zhenbang's. Under these circumstances, forced buying and selling is simply impossible, and he would never even consider it. He can only try his best to find a scapegoat to take over before the policy is introduced. If Chen Cheng can really introduce such a scapegoat to him, he is willing to give him a kickback.

But Chen Cheng wasn't interested in his 5% commission at all, and besides, he didn't have the ability to find someone to take over at this time.

However, not wanting things to get too tense with Qin Jianshe, he readily agreed, "Okay, Uncle Qin, don't worry, I'll try my best to find a suitable buyer for you."

Qin Jianshe thanked him, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, Xiao Chen! Please call your uncle as soon as you have any news."

"it is good."

Chen Cheng casually agreed and then put the matter out of his mind after hanging up the phone.

In the past few days, the growth rate of Renren.com has remained high. The benefits of "Mice Love Rice" will not be fully digested in the short term, and the popularity of the cover song competition is also very high. As long as the popularity of this song remains, the popularity of Renren.com will not drop much.

However, two pieces of data made Chen Cheng sense a change in the trend. The first was that the growth rate of college students and college graduates on Renren.com was slowing down, and the second was that the number of middle school students and users with a middle school education over the age of 22 was growing rapidly.

Having worked in e-commerce for so many years, Chen Cheng is extremely sensitive to data analysis.

Because the entire campus network is based on real-name social networking, the authenticity of users' personal profiles is very high.

This makes it very easy to collect user attributes.

For example, those born before 1980 who did not fill in their university information are likely people who have never attended university and are unlikely to attend university again, as they are now of university graduation age. These users represent those who have dropped out of school and entered the workforce, and these people are actually the main force of the internet.

Those born after 1985 who did not fill in their university information are most likely high school students or high school dropouts.

The rapid growth of users with these two attributes means that Renren.com has actually begun to break through the "Renren" circle.

This in itself is a good sign that Renren has automatically begun its transition to Facebook.

But another piece of data made Chen Cheng feel a sense of crisis.

That is, the engagement of these non-college student users is significantly lower than that of college student users.

This low viscosity is reflected in multiple data points.

For example, these users have significantly fewer friends than university students; many have only three to five friends and haven't added any more. Furthermore, the average number of photos they upload is much lower than that of university students, and their posts, interactions, and membership rates are all drastically lower than those of university students. All this data points to one thing: they are most likely just there to join the fun on Renren.com.

The reason is that Renren.com is so popular now that these people feel that if they don't register an account to check it out, they'll seem a bit out of touch.

But after they actually registered an account and checked it out, they felt that the website didn't seem to have any appeal to them.

This situation is very awkward.

Given that, Chen Cheng would rather not have them join the school's intranet now.

Because at any time, getting a user who has given up on you to come back is much harder than getting a new user.

When these people arrive and find it uninteresting, a deep-seated subconscious thought forms in their minds: this place isn't fun.

The next time they hear others talking about this product, they will have a preconceived notion: Don't believe them, that place isn't fun, I already fell for it once.

Therefore, how to retain these users and continuously increase their stickiness has become a very serious problem.

Chen Cheng thought about it for a moment and figured out the biggest needs of these non-college student netizens when they go online.

In summary, there are only two things: games and making friends.

They actually prefer the casual, spontaneous way of making friends on QQ rather than the real-name system on Renren.com.

The system uses a friend search list, but instead of QQ numbers, it uses region, gender, and age to find online users of the opposite sex. It randomly sends friend requests to these users, and then starts chatting with whoever accepts. After a warm-up, the chat starts flirting, and once the flirting is successful, they start calling each other "husband" and "wife" and officially enter into an online relationship.

This requirement cannot be fulfilled on the school's intranet at present.

Users of Renren.com have a strong habit of not liking to add strangers.

They like to add their former and current classmates, or even alumni, even if they don't know each other, but at least they should have attended the same school.

If a stranger suddenly adds him as a friend and tries to flirt with him, it's probably okay for a guy, but a girl would most likely be very resistant.

After much deliberation, Chen Cheng concluded that the same product must be tailored to each individual in order to reach the largest possible audience.

Just like QQ, even though a user has added countless friends on QQ, they can show these friends a thousand different sides of themselves at the same time.

He could be a friend's family member, classmate, or friend, or even a few of his friends' online romantic interests. He could tell his mother on QQ, "Mom, don't worry, I'll study hard at school," while simultaneously telling his classmates, "I'm staying up all night tonight, skipping class to sleep tomorrow!" He could also tell a stranger online, "Honey, I miss you so much, I want to be intimate with you." He could even tell a stranger online, "Honey, I'm out of living expenses, can you lend me a hundred yuan?"

This is the flexibility of QQ: a thousand people, a thousand faces; one person, a thousand faces.

It would be difficult for Renren.com to achieve this because everyone uses real-name social networking, and there's a risk of being doxxed.

This is also the fundamental reason why Renren.com cannot become a product like Facebook in China. Chinese people are still reserved, and once they register an account with their real names, they dare not be too outrageous.

Indian netizens are different in this respect. Many Indian netizens, even with real-name accounts, dare to send nude photos to strangers of the opposite sex on Facebook, without any fear of the consequences.

Is it possible to create a community barrier among Renren users, with real-name registered users forming one circle and those who don't want to register forming another?
From now on, you can use your real name if you want, or not if you don't. As long as I control the algorithm internally, those who don't use their real names should avoid mixing with those who do. Everyone can do their own thing and keep to themselves.
Just as the saying goes, Xiaoming got into Tsinghua University, Xiaoli went to study in the United States, and I repair tractors in the factory. We all have bright futures.

So, we have an idea.

The first thing to do is figure out how to make people like Renren.com.

Chen Cheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration: How about adding an anonymous message in a bottle feature?

Anyone can throw and pick up a message in a bottle, which seems to depend entirely on fate, but in fact it all depends on the algorithm.

A message in a bottle thrown by a college student will not be picked up by a non-college student, and the reverse is also true.

A message in a bottle thrown by a man will not be picked up by a woman, and vice versa.

To ensure more accurate matching, the algorithm allows for age differences of no more than five years.

Each person has to create a unique nickname for the message in a bottle, and they can only see each other's nicknames. This is equivalent to bringing in QQ's "one person, a thousand faces" feature, so even those who are reserved won't feel any psychological burden.

However, once this game comes out, men will definitely be throwing messages in bottles like crazy every day, while women will likely be more reserved. This will create an imbalance in the number of messages thrown by men and women, and an awkward situation where women don't have enough bottles to catch.

It's unacceptable for a girl's bottle to drift to several boys at the same time; that would be too unseemly.

So, we need to find a way to stimulate girls' interest in sending messages in bottles.

How to stimulate it?
Let's give a gift!

Each person can throw a maximum of ten messages in a bottle and pick up a maximum of ten messages in a bottle each day, but these two are strongly correlated.

In other words, you have to lose one in order to retrieve one.

If you don't lose any of them, you won't be able to save any of them.

To encourage users to send messages in bottles, the system will randomly drop gift bottles into the "sea," which could be 0.1 or 0.99 campus coins, or even 5.99, 9.99, or 19.99. Of course, it could also be small accessories, clothing, or shoes from the campus show, or value-added services such as one-day, three-day, five-day, or one-month memberships.

Each person can try a maximum of ten times per day. During the initial promotional period, there was a guaranteed minimum of one bottle worth 0.1 school coins out of ten attempts. The probability of winning other prizes decreased exponentially as the value of the prizes increased.

Of course, if you want to fish ten times, you have to throw ten messages in a bottle.

Wouldn't this make the message in a bottle game more popular?

Moreover, with the algorithm in place, college students can be easily thrown away or retrieved; they are still college students and will not feel at all that many non-college students have infiltrated their ivory tower.

Non-college students certainly don't care whether the other person is a college student or not, as long as they can get along well.

So in this way, it's like living in the same world but different dimensions, everyone living here, but each doing their own thing and not disturbing each other.

Once you've started chatting and feel the other person is quite interesting, you can choose to unanonymize your chat. This way, the other person can access your profile. If you don't want to unanonymize, you can continue to use your "message in a bottle" nickname to communicate with the other person. It won't interfere with your online dating and flirting. Isn't that much more fun than searching for online members of the opposite sex on QQ and adding them one by one?
(End of this chapter)