Chapter 301: Continuous Accidents and the Three Major Record Companies
What surprised Li Xiaofan was that underneath Guo Hanyue's weak and meek appearance, there was actually a fiery passion.
Like opening Pandora's box, out of control, the energy bursting out of Yueyue's body surprised Li Xiaofan secretly.
It can be said that people cannot be judged by their appearance!
That night, Li Xiaofan begged for mercy and surrendered after several times.
Li Xiaofan hugged Guo Hanyue, who was also sweating profusely, and laughed softly: "My dear, can you spare me tonight? If you continue to toss, I'm afraid that this big huanghuali bed will fall apart and Mengchen will be awakened by us. Already..."
"I hate it, so I'll spare you once..."
The satisfied Guo Hanyue soon fell asleep in Li Xiaofan's arms.
While Li Xiaofan looked at the moon outside the window, his thoughts were filled with thoughts. It turns out that love is mutual possession...
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After the opening of "Pacific Online Bookstore", the operation was basically smooth, and Li Xiaofan was very satisfied with the revenue in the first week after its launch.
Monday: S$81,000;
Tuesday: S$86,000;
Wednesday: S$92,000;
Thursday: S$103,000;
Friday: S$98,000;
Saturday: S$129,000;
Sunday: S$118,000.
The total revenue in the first week was SGD 707,000, with an average of SGD 101,000 per day, far exceeding Li Xiaofan's expectations.
Before the "Pacific Online Bookstore" was launched, Li Xiaofan learned some functions of Amazon and Dangdang Bookstore and "Douban" in his previous life, and asked Dr. Pan Zhanlong to allow users to rate each book in the online bookstore and leave messages to discuss the content of the book. It’s equivalent to opening up social media
S function.
In addition to the major series of "hot books" provided by the book company displayed on the homepage, "Pacific Online Bookstore" also displays the ranking of the best-selling books on the site in a prominent position on the homepage. In addition, based on the user's search for keywords, Made a ranking display of popular books on the homepage.
On this basis, Li Xiaofan opened the Yahoo Singapore site
S chat room and the backstage of "Pacific Online Bookstore". Yahoo Singapore
S chat room registered customers can directly log in to "Pacific Online Bookstore" with their registered user names.
In addition, users who spend money at the "Pacific Online Bookstore" will be given a free email address at the Yahoo Singapore site.
Coupled with a 10% discount on all books in the first week of opening, "Pacific Online Bookstore" quickly became popular in Singapore!
On Monday of the second week, Li Xiaofan convened a morning meeting to report and review the work of the previous week.
After the online bookstore project leader Dai Sha and the financial director Zhou Xiaoqing reported on the operations and revenue of the "Pacific Online Bookstore" last week, Li Xiaofan asked everyone a question: "Why did Saturday have the highest turnover among the seven days last week? "
Everyone started to analyze, and finally Liu Yanping's answer was recognized by Li Xiaofan: "Because it is a half-day shift in Singapore on Saturdays, everyone basically has no intention to go to work that morning. Moreover, not every Singaporean family now has Those who have access to the Internet, so I estimate that many company white-collar workers will take advantage of the opportunity to have access to the Internet at the company to do some personal things, such as visiting our Pacific Online Bookstore to buy some English tutoring books for their children, buying themselves a favorite novel, etc. of……"
"That's very good. From now on, we will start to increase the promotion of best-selling books and homework help books on Friday nights!"
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In the next few days, to Li Xiaofan's surprise, several of the most influential record companies in Asia at the time, including PolyGram Records, Warner Music, and EMI Records, came to ask for cooperation. At that time, all three record companies set up their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore.
At that time, PolyGram was the most famous and largest record company in the world before 1999, and was later acquired by the American Universal Music Group. At that time, PolyGram Group owned three giant European and American record companies, Deutsche Grammophon, DECCA, and Philips. Later, it acquired record companies such as AM, Motown in the United States, and Island in the United Kingdom, forming a European pop music production group. A large number of recordings and publications were popular among world music. European and American pop music popular with fans.
In the Chinese music scene, PolyGram launched the original MTV, PolyGram original hits, PolyGram Superstar best-selling hits, PolyGram Superstar Concert Series and other products, covering all of PolyGram's products at that time singer. At that time, the biggest sales were Jacky Cheung's albums, and there were also records and MTV's by Xu Xiaofeng, Alan Tam, Lai Ming, Vivian Chow, Beyond and others. There are also works by well-known singers at the time such as Priscilla Chan, Faye Wong, Shuyi Kwan, Huang Kaiqin, Hacken Lee, and Hung Jianhua.
Another giant, Warner Music Group, previously took control of Taiwan's famous local record company UFO Records in 1991 and is fully entering the Chinese music scene. Singers under the original UFO Records include Wang Jie, Tsai Chin, Aaron Kwok, Jiang Yuheng, Ye Qianwen, Su Rui, Zhang Yusheng, Chen Baiqiang, Lu Fang, and Lin Yilian.
EMI is one of the world's top five record companies. It was founded in 1897 and has a history of nearly 100 years in China. In the 1920s, the French Pathe-Marconi record company acquired by EMI established a branch in Shanghai. The reason why EMI is called "EMI" in China is the transliteration of the French company Pathe. Famous superstars and progressive musicians such as Zhou Xuan, Hu Die, Nie Er, Xian Xinghai, etc. all gathered at EMI. The singer Roman Tam joined 1 in 1979. The first record company signed by superstar Andy Lau when he started his music career was also EMI. In mainland China, Na Ying, Zheng Jun, Jie Xiaodong and others have all signed with EMI. There are also Faye Wong, Danny Chan, Zhang Yu, Eric Moo, Penny Pang, Tsai Chin, Wu Sikai, Zhang Qingfang, and Uker Li Lin who have all joined EMI.
The three giant record companies PolyGram, Warner Music, and EMI Music came to Li Xiaofan's company in their Asian branches in Singapore one after another. The purpose of the negotiation was twofold:
The first was to cooperate with each other to sell records and other audio-visual products through the "Pacific Online Bookstore".
The second was to cooperate with each other to promote their artists through platforms such as Yahoo Singapore and "Pacific Online Bookstore" to increase their popularity...
What surprised Li Xiaofan even more was that the Singaporean TV agency TCS also came to him.
The purpose of TCS's visit was for the final event of the "1995 Fourth Talented Newcomers" program to be held in December this year.
"Talented Newcomers" is a biennial "golden program" founded by the Singaporean TV agency in 1988, which aims to discover and select talented performing talents. At that time, it had a certain popularity and ratings in the Nanyang region.
At that time, many Singaporean film and television stars stood out from this audition program, such as the first champion Zheng Huiyu and runner-up Chen Lizhen in 1988, the second champion Zhou Chuming and runner-up Li Meiling in 1990, and the third champion Li Jinmei and runner-up Huang Xifang in 1993.
It was not until 2003 that audition entertainment programs such as "Super Boys", "Super Girls" and "My Style My Show" appeared in mainland China.