While I was thinking, 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 form the terminal.
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 a domain name for more than 300,000 yuan.
Because there is no "starting point" in this world, people who are rushing 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 troubles, hundreds of thousands were spent on preliminary preparations. It's almost done.
Then the group of horses started to get busy.
The first thing is to gather all his employees and assign work to them one by one.
These are 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, we wouldn’t have been unemployed right after graduation, waiting until now.
Fortunately, the attitude of these people is not bad, and the horses are not too picky.
He knows very well that it doesn’t matter whether Internet writing is relevant or not, and it doesn’t matter what your professional performance is. When you enter this industry, 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 qualities of these people are sufficient.
Then, Ma Yiqun simply assigned a task.
After the website is set up, the first thing to do is to enrich the library.
The website is a content website. 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 win even millions.
But Pei Qian did not choose this 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 can either poach great masters or attract people from the street. Pei Qian thought about it and concluded 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 on the street is actually very low.
Any aspiring author, even if he is temporarily in trouble, will definitely be able toI would choose a big website like Infinite to pursue my dream and become a god with a book.
I won’t go to a small website with an uncertain future just for a few hundred dollars more for perfect attendance.
So, 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 Internet articles. Even if some have read Internet articles, they 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.
After being taught enough, these people can become qualified editors, help a group of people 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 subject: "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 good enough.”
“They always like to select manuscripts according to the standards. The manuscripts are selected 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 change 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, let alone be put on the shelves. "
"For a very small number of excellent works, if you put them on Infinite, you can only get 500 per subscription."
"Of course, I don't look down on 500 per subscription. I am just stating this fact objectively..."
Ma Yiqun said so hard that he 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 cool.
After all, this kind of author can get 500 subscriptions on a large website like Infinite because of the large number of readers. At the end of the line, I am afraid it will shrink ten times.
The two points mentioned by Ma Yiqun are actually not conflicting. 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 street writers. 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’s expression was very calm, with an expression of “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 the collected manuscripts, some of which have been signed, but most of them have not.
Pei Qian clicked on a few manuscripts and looked at them.
After watching it, I only have one feeling, it’s so annoying!
The vast majority of manuscripts can’t be read after just one chapter.
Not to mention things like fun and rhythm, many people have problems with even the most basic word choice and sentence making, including typos, misuse of punctuation marks, and sick 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 were barely considered to be the generals among the dwarfs. If they were put on other websites, they would be thrown into the street.
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 first order was low, but his public chapters were still well written and he had a group of readers.
Seeing Pei Qian browsing these manuscripts with ease, Ma Yiqun couldn't help but sigh.
Mr. Pei is so patient that he can keep reading...
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!
Good, 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 enough, we will relax the review process As long as the standards are met. Anyway, our current focus is on enriching the work library. People are just trying to sign contracts, so there is no need to be so strict."
Ma Yiqun looked hesitant: "But...Pei. Anyway, the perfect attendance standard you originally set was 1,000 yuan.”
“The unlimited perfect attendance standard is 500 yuan. Some small websites give 1,000 yuan for perfect attendance, but they must update 10,000 words every day. "
"Our standard is to give 1,000 yuan for full attendance if you update 3,000 words per day."
"If we relax the standard further, I am afraid that the full attendance fee alone will cost a month. It’s a lot of money for nothing.”
Pei Qian shook his head: “It doesn’t matter. It’s only 500,000 yuan per month to support 500 authors.”
“We don’t have much money. It’s a new website. If the attendance standard is not set higher, why would people come to write for us?”
“Besides, 3,000 words a day is actually not that easy for many novices to achieve.”
"Don't worry, as long as you collect more manuscripts, a great master will emerge."
Ma Yiqun 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 question.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.
" Yiqun, 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. How big a 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 uneasy.
< p>But now seeing Mr. Pei’s expression of having everything under control, the Ma group felt inexplicably relieved.Sure enough, following a good leader makes you feel at ease!