Reborn as a female internet celebrity in a county town

Chapter 57 Help me take some artistic photos
"Brother Yuan, the company has purchased some action cameras and wireless microphones. I'll deliver them to you later."

"Teacher Mi, I have to go for a shoot this afternoon. It's quite a workload, with a total of six outfits... Also, have you seen the dance video I sent you?"

"Bi Xiaofang, the new clothes I ordered for those female live streamers have arrived. Come to the company to pick them up when you have time, and have them take turns shooting photos... Also, add their official WeChat account to their homepages, saying that we've started taking commercial orders for them, but we're not sure when the clients will make the payments yet... In addition, prepare a few sets of photos for them..."

Lin Lang hasn't talked to many potential stars lately, but the borderline projects that Bi Xiaofang is in charge of have been steadily growing. He has not only talked to more than a dozen borderline streamers in his own county, but also to quite a few from neighboring counties and even other provinces, and is preparing to entice them to come over.

Anyway, now that the company has money, it can rent apartments specifically for them, and Lin Lang is happy to let him expand the scale.

Take advantage of the good market conditions these past two years and generate more traffic.

Regarding the use of borderline traffic, he has several mature solutions, which not only include the mainstream monetization methods on the market, but also some hidden methods.

The core idea is that the business is operating under a sole proprietorship name, and all that's needed is to pay Dayu Media a traffic-driving fee.

As for the fees, he won't arbitrarily charge; he'll just give the normal price.

At the same time, he approached the content department of China Literature Group, especially the department responsible for operating new media novels.

New media novels, also known as "God of War's Son-in-Law," have a market worth tens of billions of yuan in China thanks to their extremely high paid subscription rates.

The traffic for new media novels comes from WeChat official accounts and website entry points.

The main traffic channels are major browsers and WeChat Moments.

The overlap between the traffic generated by borderline content and the user base of new media novels is very high.

The reason why new media novels are profitable is because the price per chapter is high. A novel with two thousand words per chapter requires a payment of one yuan to read, and a whole book can cost thousands of yuan.

The purchasing power of middle-aged and elderly people is very strong, and the traffic in lower-tier markets is the most profitable in the early stages.

Moreover, the revenue sharing for new media novels is relatively high. Generally, the party that publishes the content can take 90% of the revenue, while the content provider can only take 10%.

After all, others need to burn money to attract attention...

Lin Lang can save on traffic acquisition costs by using borderline traffic acquisition methods.

He didn't consider investing in additional traffic, as the risk was too great. He figured the existing traffic was enough, and he could improve the conversion rate through other means.

The framework for the novel website is already set up; all that's needed is to finalize the contract and find someone to provide the content.

Initially, we relied on our own private traffic to develop our business, and then we observed the situation to see if we needed to integrate with traffic owners or ByteDance.

The new media novel market is currently a blue ocean, and it's more profitable than many other traffic-generating channels.

Lin Lang knew of a company that made 200 million yuan in four years by publishing new media novels.

They still rely entirely on external traffic generation and have no private domain traffic at all.

However, they hire professional editors, something Lin Lang can't do.

Lin Lang simply felt that this way of monetizing traffic was cost-effective and wanted to get a share of the profits.

In a market worth tens of billions, earning a few million is much better than taking on other lead generation methods.

The current methods of attracting traffic are either scams, or they are easy to be held accountable afterward.

Alternatively, they might direct traffic to certain special apps, which doesn't generate much revenue; earning a few thousand yuan a month is the absolute maximum.

Whether it's gaming companionship or social interaction, these are basically things that young people like, but young people's money is the hardest to earn, and the platforms offer very low prices per customer.

Novel websites are great! A bunch of country bumpkins who've never seen the world, and new media novels are one of them. Next, we can use novels to drive traffic.

The average order value for attracting traffic through novels can reach 20 yuan per user, and even at the peak of promotions, the average order value has never been lower than 7 yuan.

……

In the afternoon, Lin Lang arrived at Mi Xiaofan's residence, where Mi Xiaofan was playing on her phone.

Her account isn't gaining many followers right now. After posting photos for two days, she's only getting a few hundred new followers each day, and reaching 100,000 seems like a distant dream. Lin Lang came over and took photos of six more outfits for her, enough to post for several days.

"Teacher Mi, is there any progress in dance?"

"Yes, I've learned it all."

"Alright, let's take a few pictures while we still have time."

……

An hour later, Lin Lang was very satisfied.

Mi Xiaofan has a background in dance, so the filming wouldn't be the kind of awkward or unnatural performance.

With her good looks and figure as a foundation, any dance she does is quite beautiful.

A good dance video should first and foremost be pleasing to the eye, without any discordant elements. It doesn't require a high level of professionalism, but it also can't be just random, aimless dancing.

As he was leaving, Lin Lang said, "I've sent you the content to be released today, Teacher Mi. Remember one thing: don't reply to private messages."

"Oh, are you posting photos again today? I heard that posting videos gets more data..."

After all, it's a short video platform, and the photo-sharing market is too small.

"Okay, keep sending photos."

Lin Lang didn't explain the reason, since it involved the company's core secrets.

"okay."

Mi Xiaofan had no choice but to agree for the time being.

After Lin Lang left, she sent a message to Yun Yiyi.

"Yi Yi, I feel like Lin Lang hasn't invested much in my account. These past few days he's basically just taken a few photos and posted them. He even had me practice dancing, and dance videos get a lot of views, but he won't let me post them."

Yun Yiyi replied, "That shouldn't be the case. Did you make him angry again?"

"No, I'm incredibly obedient. I do whatever he tells me to do. He sent me a dance video, and I practiced for hours without even eating... He was very satisfied with the dance himself, and it was basically done in one take."

This is why Mi Xiaofan doesn't understand.

Even though we have better content, Lin Lang keeps asking me to send photos. We took so many today, when will we ever finish sending them?
She only gains a few hundred followers every day. In the past, she would have been very satisfied, but now there's Yun Yiyi ahead of her.

Even at her worst, Yun Yiyi could still gain seven or eight thousand followers a day.

"How did you convince Lin Lang to sign the contract with him?"

"I... just treated him to a meal, but he ended up paying for it."

"It was just a meal? That shows Lin Lang is quite magnanimous. Don't overthink it. He probably has his own considerations. After all, this matter isn't easy to handle, and we don't understand it. Just follow his arrangements."

Mi Xiaofan: "..."

Was it just a meal?
Definitely not.

But she couldn't very well tell others that she had shown the document to Lin Lang in order to get his forgiveness for her previous rudeness.

But thinking about it carefully, she really hadn't left anything for Lin Lang these past few days.

He found Lin Lang's WeChat and sent him a message: "Lin Lang, are you busy tomorrow?"

"What, is something wrong?"

"Well, you're a really good photographer, and I'd like you to take some artistic photos for me, is that alright?"

(End of this chapter)