I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 440: Meitu Kiss, with its 5060 million units sold in half a year, is ruthlessly exploiting consumers and generating astonishing profits!
The last working day of June.

At 8 o'clock sharp, the salaries of Senlian Capital employees arrived on time.

Outside the window, leaden clouds loomed, threatening rain, but the employees were in exceptionally good spirits.

Because there is a quarterly bonus this month, which can range from two to four months' salary.

Of course, for employees at companies like Yunsu, Kuaipao, and Orange Mobile, whose base salaries are too low, even if they receive double the base salary, they only earn an extra two or three thousand yuan.

Chen Yansen activated the system panel, combining 418017 strands of humanistic fire into 41 strands of immortal fire, which he then used to enhance his spiritual value.

In the blink of an eye, the number on the panel changed from 101.05 to 101.46.

It looks like there's very little change, and in reality, there really isn't anything significant.

Aside from improvements in the diameter of divine sense detection, the upper limit of the weight of objects controlled, and memory and comprehension, the only other thing was that the ring-shaped markings in his pupils seemed to have brightened a bit, radiating a cool silver luster.

When Chen Yansen looked in the mirror, he always felt that those eyes exuded a coldness.

So far, he has not discovered the actual function of these ring-shaped markings.

It is barely visible, and is more than ten times thinner than a strand of hair.

After the intensive training ended, he took a cup of cold brew tea to the French windows, looked at the gray sky, and suddenly remembered that the Virtual Academy would be on summer vacation tomorrow.

In two months, I will be a senior in college.

During his three years of university, he was so busy that he didn't even get to know all his professors.

In addition, he arranged for Meng Jie to intern at Luzhou Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Bank. He naturally understood Meng Zhenguo's little scheme.

With his connections in Huian Province, which bank couldn't he get into?
"Knock knock knock—!" A knocking sound rang out.

Chen Yansen habitually scanned the area with his divine sense, then replied, "Enter."

"Boss." Zhou Shouzhi, dressed in a light blue suit, pushed open the door and walked in.

"There's tea on the table, help yourself if you want some." Chen Yansen turned around and sat down on the sofa.

Zhou Shouzhi placed a document gently on the coffee table and said, "The first-week sales figures for the three Western European countries are out. The Green Orange series sold 14.6 units, the Orange series sold 5.1 units, and the Shining Orange series sold 1.2 units. Among them, the Aurora system accounted for 94.1% and the Aurora Future system accounted for 5.9%."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "The main problem is the application ecosystem. Products like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Amazon are unwilling to adapt to the Aurora Future system."

"It's okay. I can understand it from a business perspective. After all, there aren't many users, so it's normal for them not to take the initiative," Chen Yansen shrugged, not taking it to heart.

Despite saying that, he was secretly planning: once the market share of the Aurora Future System goes up, he'll give these bastards a good thrashing.

"The second batch of Mini Orange Smart Living Stores sold 31.7 units on the first day, with a total of 304 stores. Including the first batch of stores, there are a total of 478 stores."

"Daily offline sales have exceeded 50 units, but this represents a 14.6% decrease week-on-week, indicating that the market within our current operating area is approaching saturation," Zhou Shouzhi added.

"What about online? The decline is definitely even more severe." Chen Yansen chuckled softly, his tone confident.

The 618 shopping festival has just ended, and Orange phones achieved a single-day sales volume of over 270 million units across the entire network, indicating that user demand has already reached saturation.

If it weren't for expanding the offline sales network and combining it with the Cloud Speed ​​Service Station channel, the overall sales would have plummeted long ago.

It's worth noting that the Qingcheng D2, Chengzi C3S, and Yaocheng X1 have all been available for almost three months.

Generally speaking, the peak sales period for a new model is concentrated in the first three months, sales drop by half in the middle three months, and in the last three months, the average daily sales usually fall to one-tenth of the first day's sales.

Nine months is a critical period of life and death for most smartphones.

Either launch a new product or wait to die.

Even a giant like Apple has to release a new product every year.

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers typically hold one new product launch event each in the spring and autumn.

Regardless of whether there is a technological breakthrough or not, even if it's just changing the screen, changing the processor, or upgrading the system, it will be touted as a huge success.

How can you sell without hype?
"Compared to May, it is estimated to shrink by 18.6%, which I think is a reasonable decline." Zhou Shouzhi did not elaborate, only mentioning it briefly.

Chen Yansen didn't delve into it, because he looked at the sales reports every day and knew the sales volume of Orange phones like the back of his hand: 4300 million units shipped domestically and 760 million units shipped overseas, covering markets in Africa, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

At the current sales rate, the total sales volume for the year could exceed 100 million units.

In the domestic market, Orange phones are enough to easily defeat manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, Lenovo, TCL, and Xiaomi. However, in the global market, they still lag far behind Apple and are incomparable to Samsung.

He bought an industry report from a third-party consulting firm, which showed that Shanxing's global shipments in the first half of the year were approximately 1.5 million units, which Chen Yansen truly envied.

If Orange Phone can sell 200-300 million units a year, wouldn't overseas internet companies be eager to release Aurora Future Edition's app and fawn over it?
Building sales channels always takes time. Orange Technology has only been established for two years, and its poor overseas sales are only temporary.

Once Lao Zhou expands the market from Europe to Southeast Asia, Australia and the Americas, with Orange Mobile's solid strength, it will not back down even if it goes head-to-head with Samsung and Apple!

"Tell my colleagues in the overseas marketing department that if we can achieve the sales target of 100 million units, our performance bonus for the fourth quarter will be doubled."

Chen Yansen nodded slightly and, as was his habit, began to make empty promises.

"Okay, thank you, boss," Zhou Shouzhi replied with a smile.

Chen Yansen's generosity wasn't limited to senior management; every time he increased bonuses, the scope started from at least a large department or the entire project team, ensuring everyone received a share!

This united the entire company, making them work exceptionally hard to achieve results.

While the two were chatting over tea, Sina Weibo announced that it would add a Weibo Wallet feature in the next version, officially entering the mobile payment field.

Meilishuo and Mogujie have both transformed their businesses, shifting towards social e-commerce under pressure from Alibaba. They have intentionally reduced the exposure of their affiliate marketing e-commerce operations, reserving traffic for their self-operated businesses. While Pinduoduo is more friendly to affiliate marketing e-commerce, wasn't Alibaba doing the same thing three years ago?

After being terrified by Ma Liyun, some e-commerce affiliate marketers had no choice but to switch tracks and compete with Ali, Pinduoduo, and JD.com.

What's Worth Buying has benefited from this misfortune, with its daily active users continuing to rise, but its revenue growth has been very slow.

This is because the users who switched from Meilishuo and Mogujie are loyal supporters of the cashback model, while What's Worth Buying does not give users cashback.

Therefore, when users search for discounted products, they might think of "What's Worth Buying," but before placing an order, they might go to other shopping guide websites.

As a result, a shopping guide website in Shanghai called "52fanli" saw a surge in users and revenue, and also secured a round of financing, catching the wave of the times.

Zhou Shouzhi only stayed in Chen Yansen's office for twenty minutes before quickly leaving to rush back and handle the layout of overseas markets and the construction of sales channels in the domestic market.

A short while later, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the heavy rain that had been holding back for so long finally poured down, causing the air temperature to drop considerably.

Chen Yansen returned to his seat, turned on his computer, and looked through Yu Xianyang's research and development progress and design plans. Since they were consistent with his ideas, he felt relieved.

He is working on solving the baseband problem, but whether he can circumvent Qualcomm's patent barriers is uncertain.

However, after poaching some R&D personnel, the company has also accumulated some R&D achievements in protocol stacks, radio frequency, and algorithms.

The Tiangong A100 was the highlight of the autumn product launch, and also the beginning of Orange Technology's move away from Qualcomm and MediaTek, so Chen Yansen inevitably paid more attention to it.

In the blink of an eye, it was five o'clock in the afternoon.

At that moment, the rain outside the window stopped.

Chen Yansen pushed open the door, walked out, took the elevator directly to the parking lot, and then drove back to the Delta Villa District.

at the same time.

The main structure of the first phase of the Senlian Capital headquarters, located in Baohe District of Luzhou, has been completed, and workers are busy with interior decoration, road cleaning, and adding greenery.

The staff of Orange Technology's Engineering Management Department are also busy inspecting the quality of the project.

Every time locals pass by, they can't help but exclaim, "Wow! This building is so tall!"

Families with college students, especially those about to graduate, are eagerly anticipating the relocation of companies like Orange Technology, Pinbei, and Today Technology to Luzhou.

After all, Senlian Capital is known for its good treatment and benefits. The pay is high and the workload is light. Although there is overtime, it is not mandatory, and the overtime pay is in accordance with labor law, with a maximum of three times the normal rate.

There are meal allowances and housing subsidies. Many people have seen related videos and pictures online. As long as there is no waste, the company provides unlimited fruit, snacks and drinks.

With a monthly salary of 8,000, you can save over 100,000 a year. After two years of work, you can earn enough for a down payment on a house.

With a monthly salary of 15,000 yuan, one can save 200,000 yuan a year.

In other companies, with the same salary, after deducting accommodation, transportation, food expenses, and social insurance and housing fund contributions, one wouldn't even be able to save 50,000 yuan a year.

Therefore, although Senlian Capital's monthly salary level is not among the top in the market, it wins in terms of compliance with laws and regulations and has many hidden benefits.

Company employees are only allowed to join, not leave!

When netizens asked, they all said the overtime was too severe; when asked why they didn't quit, everyone gave evasive answers.

Resignation?

Only a fool would leave!
A few years ago, even junior college graduates could get into Alibaba, but in the last two years, it has become difficult even for graduates from 211 and 985 universities to get in.

It's easy to imagine that Senlian Capital's interview requirements will only get higher and higher in the future, so who would be foolish enough to resign voluntarily?
the other side.

Zhifubao claims that Yulibao's capital has exceeded 500 billion yuan.

However, compared to Yu'ebao's scale of over 3400 billion yuan, it is still a long way off.

In June's "Share 10 Billion Yuan in Experience Funds" event, the top-ranked player now holds over 100 million yuan in funds.

Second place: 9740 million!
Third place: 9690 million!
Clearly, businessmen still flock to have dinner with President Chen, making the competition extremely fierce.

The reasons are quite simple: Magic Camera has accumulated over 6000 million users worldwide and has repeatedly topped the download charts on Orange and Aurora Future app stores, the App Store, and Tencent App Store.

It has quickly become a rising star among China's internet technology companies!

The product became a hit in North America thanks to Mimo's video promotion.

Many people want to be the next Xu Jiujiu!

Even without the support and investment from Senlian Capital, a few words of guidance from Chen Yansen would be invaluable.

Meanwhile, Wu Hongxin, far away in Fujian, was beaming with excitement, his joy evident in his eyes. Meitu Kiss had achieved an outstanding sales figure of 67.2 units in its first month of operation.

Others might not understand, but he himself certainly did; the material cost was less than 800 yuan.

Chen Yansen made a lot of money, but he made even more!
The net profit per unit is close to 700 yuan!
"Women's money is so easy to make!"

Wu Hongxin muttered to himself.

After thinking for a moment, he called the heads of the marketing and branding departments to a meeting, planning to find more beautiful and popular celebrities to endorse Meitu phones.

The popularity of Douyin also made him see the potential of the short video market. While waiting for his subordinates to arrive, Wu Hongxin had the idea of ​​'plagiarism' pop into his head.

But then he thought again that Tencent's Weishi had only been launched recently, and if he followed suit and imitated it at this time, he would easily be crushed by the giants. So he forcibly suppressed his impulse and decided to focus his energy on the mobile phone business first.

But he had already thought of a name for the product—it would be called Meipai!
(End of this chapter)