Chapter Forty-Four: Deciding on a Strategy

  Still in the two-story small building that serves as the headquarters of Dream Technology Co., Ltd. As a conference room, this place is obviously a bit cramped, but fortunately, there are not many people in the company now. Fat General, Li Bing, Qian Ling, Liu Mei, and Su Zhen make up the current leadership team!

  Liu Mei was introduced to the company by Su Jin later on, after all, she managed the Writing Society, which now occupies a pivotal position on Dream Net, with about two-thirds of the authors in this society. If there were any accidents, it would be an unbearable loss for Su Jin.

  Su Jin was confident about his relationship with Liu Mei and thought that with her character, she would never do anything to harm their friendship. But what in this world is permanent? Isn't there a saying: "Husband and wife are birds in the same forest, when disaster strikes they fly separately!" Even husband and wife can be like this, let alone his current relationship with Liu Mei which was far from reaching that level, at most it was just an ambiguous relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend.

  So, to thoroughly bind the willow eyebrow and writing club to the chariot of dreams, they must be given their due benefits! "The world is eager for gain, all come for profit. The world is in a hurry for gain, all go for profit!" Shared interests are always the most stable alliance, eating alone has no advantage!

  On this point, neither Boss Huang nor Li Bing expressed any objection. What Boss Huang cares about is that the Dream Net can bring him a steady stream of bestsellers. As long as Su Zhan can guarantee this, he doesn't care about the company's internal affairs!

  Li Bing's idea is even simpler, his thoughts are still relatively simple, the biggest idea of coming here is to really help the students of Shang Xue find a way out. The addition of Liu Mei, to some extent, can also be said to have achieved his goal. So he will only support and will not oppose!

  When the time came, Qian Ling was quite picky about Liu Mei's joining, with a raised eyebrow and a tilted nose! The dating scene is like a battlefield, and Su Jin understood Qian Ling's thoughts all too well. However, he could only pretend to be ignorant since he was already feeling guilty. Fortunately, Liu Mei had a gentle personality and could tolerate Qian Ling's difficulties.

  "Well, Qian Ling has already told you the general situation. Does anyone have any ideas?" Su Zhen sat in the first position, leaning back in his chair, with no expression on his face.

  It's unknown since when, Su Jin, this seventeen-year-old youth, began to truly control this small company! Or perhaps outside, Li Zhuang was still his elder brother, or maybe outside, Li Bing was still his teacher, but in this small company, in this conference room, they all acknowledged the authority of this young man!

  "Actually, I think we're being overly sensitive. 'Rong Shu Xia' and 'Huang Jin Shu Wu', neither of them poses a threat to us for the time being! I just took a look, their traffic isn't even on the same level as ours!" Boss Wan said lazily, shifting his gaze away from the computer.

  Perhaps it was always mixed in the physical world, and Fat General was obviously a bit slow on network matters, and did not take the two websites seriously.

  "It can't be said that way, if you carefully browse through their historical data, you will find that their development has been very rapid, especially in just two months, they have already surpassed us in terms of pure development speed. Now the reason we still have an advantage is because our first-mover advantage is very strong. But if we don't make any changes, I'm afraid we'll be surpassed by them soon!" Li Bing said with a serious tone, his eyes fixed on the computer.

  "That's right, these two websites are not to be underestimated! They have their own unique aspects in both website design and management philosophy, posing a great threat to us!" Su Jin said seriously.

  "Really? Alright then, what's your idea?" said Fatong, blinking his two small eyes.

  Boss is very clear that he doesn't understand the internet, he's only familiar with the set in the real-world cultural circle. Professional things should be left to professionals, and amateur leaders are absolutely the most embarrassing way. So he never makes extra comments on internet matters, everything is led by Su Jin and Li Bing.

  Su Jin's gaze fell on Li Bing, he was very clear that this kind of thing would never be proposed by him with constructive opinions. Qian Ling and Liu Mei were limited by their age and experience, they wouldn't have any good solutions either, the most reliable one here was Li Bing.

  Li Bing lowered his head, pressed his hand to his forehead, and thought for a moment. He then raised his head and said: "This time, I think we should take two steps, the Wang Dao and the Gui Dao. Only by using both can we maximize our benefits! If we only use one, although we can get through this time, it will not cure the root cause and will be more troublesome in the future!"

  "What's the meaning of 'Wang Dao' and 'Gui Dao'?" asked Liu Mei with a surprised expression, her eyes filled with admiration. Indeed, he was worthy of being his own teacher - others couldn't even think of one method, yet he had two!

  Su Jin and several others also quickly focused their attention on Li Bing, wondering what brilliant idea he had.

  Li Bing smiled and said, "Actually, it's very simple. Let's talk about the cunning way first. I've looked at the situation of the two websites. 'Under the Banyan Tree' mainly uploads some traditional web texts, and pays attention to originality. While our main efforts are focused on fantasy and other themes. It can be said that we and 'Under the Banyan Tree' do not form a competitive relationship in essence."

  On the contrary, many of our advantages can complement each other, so I think we don't have to target 'Rongshu Xia', on the contrary, we can contact them for cooperation and form a strategic partnership! This is a win-win situation with no harm!

  As for the 'Golden Book House', its success mainly relies on relatively detailed scientific classification, and also widely pirated works that brought rapid development! For us, this is a natural enemy that must be resolutely suppressed!

  "My idea is to work on two fronts, one is to use our advantage in publishing to lure his resident writers! On the other hand, take him to court for plagiarizing our articles. As long as we control the scale and don't expand the scope, I believe it won't arouse public outrage!"

  "Beautiful!" Su Jie exclaimed in her heart, with unreserved admiration shining in her eyes. At the same time, she felt extremely certain about her decision to bring Li Bing over in the first place! Li Bing was absolutely a marketing genius!

  However, even if it's just a matter of controlling the scope, using this excuse to sue 'Golden Book House' would probably affect our reputation. Piracy is a tacitly accepted thing on the internet. Even if we focus our firepower solely on 'Golden Book House', other websites will likely feel uneasy, after all, today we can use this excuse against 'Golden Book House', tomorrow we can also use it against others, and when that happens, they'll probably support 'Golden Book House' due to the principle of "when lips are gone, teeth get cold".

  Everyone was shocked! Fat General actually made a constructive comment this time. In fact, business is all about communication. How could the fat general who has been successful in the real business world be bullied online? He didn't say anything before because there was no need to, after all, he just needed bestsellers and had no interest or need to get involved in the intrigue between internet companies.

  However, the Dream Network is now facing challenges, and as a shareholder with 20% of the shares, he cannot watch this group of inexperienced people jump into the fire pit! Li Bing may be a marketing genius, but after all, he has not been baptized by the market, and before that, he was always living in school. He only studied marketing theory, maybe after rolling around in the business world for five or six years, Li Bing will surpass Boss Huang, but now, after all, experience is lacking!

  As for Su Jin, even if he has experience of rebirth, can you expect a newspaper administrative staff who sits in the office all day to have strong market marketing capabilities? I can only tell you! Young man, you are thinking too much, just go wash and sleep!

  Boss Pang's words left everyone stunned, half a moment later, Li Bing came back to his senses and revealed a bitter smile: "It seems I made a mistake, didn't think it through thoroughly. This matter really can't be handled so rashly! If it wasn't for the fact that we've already lost everything!"

  "Hehe, it's not completely impossible, at least it's a thought. Ah, Teacher Li, don't you have the Wang Dao? What is the Wang Dao?" Qian Ling hastily said, seeing the awkward atmosphere.

  Li Bing's face showed a hint of bitter smile, saying: "Actually, Wang Dao is very simple, to forge iron one needs to be strong oneself! The rapid development of 'Huang Jin Shu Wu' relies on two things: first, the numerous pirated copies, and second, the detailed scientific classification! Simply put, his website design is well done! In comparison, our website design is somewhat lacking."

  If our website design doesn't even reach the level of 'Golden Book House', let alone surpass it, we have a huge first-mover advantage. 'Golden Book House' can pirate, we can also pirate, and we have our own original content, what are we afraid of!

  However, we are different from ordinary small websites. If it were an ordinary small website, they could plagiarize the design of 'Golden House', but if we also plagiarized, we would be ridiculed by our peers and the loss of reputation would be unbearable! But if we don't plagiarize, where can we find a design like 'Golden House' in such a short time?

  After listening to Li Bing's words, everyone fell into silence. Su Zhen's eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light, and he said: "However, how about this, the strategy that Teacher Li said to win over 'Rongshu Xia' is very correct. Let's do it like this, I'll prepare for a while, Fat Brother you book two tickets to Beijing, we'll go together to meet with Zhu Boss! As for the 'Golden Book House' and website design, let's put them aside for now, I'll think of a way!"

  Boss Wang was taken aback and said with some concern, "Booking a plane ticket is no big deal, but 'Golden Bookstore' and website design, you really have a way, don't be reckless!"

  "Don't worry, Fatty. You don't know me yet. If I say so, I must have my own confidence!" On the contrary, Su Zhen was quite confident at this time and said lightly.

  Everyone saw Su Jing like this, and it wasn't convenient to say much more. They chatted casually for a couple of sentences, knowing that Su Jing still had to think carefully about how to discuss cooperation with Zhu Weilian, so they all dispersed.