Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

August 28th, Tuesday…

Pei Qian took the car and prepared to head to Tengda experience shop.

He was so bored in the car that he took out his cell phone and looked at the netizens' discussion on Dawn Games platform happily.

Pei Qian could not help but feel refreshed seeing netizens say that this platform would definitely collapse soon and be despised by everyone.

So happy!

It had been a long time since he had such a smooth-sailing feeling in his heart.

In the past few months, he seemed to be able to hear the bad news that the industry had become popular every month. After suffering so many heavy blows, Pei Qian had even forgotten the joy of losing money in the beginning. He was a little used to the fact that projects were making money and becoming popular.

That was not good!

Humans had to be more courageous with every setback.

As long as he persevered, wouldn't he be able to see a turnaround like how he did now?

Take Meng Chang for example. If Pei Qian had given up on Meng Chang when he repeatedly received basic salary in the beginning and messed up the publicity plan, how could he have achieved today's success?

Speaking of this, Pei Qian felt a little proud.

All in all, the start of this cycle was not bad. As the first project in this cycle, Dawn Games platform gave the other projects a good start by incurring losses.

In the future, as long as he summarized his experience on the Dawn Games platform and entered other industries, the chances of losing money would definitely increase greatly!

Pei Qian had already planned everything for the future of the games platform.

After the bug search ended this time, the traffic attracted by the bonus would definitely dissipate very quickly. The negative public opinion that had accumulated previously would definitely explode.

Thus, the popularity of Dawn Games platform would definitely decrease at the speed of light.

Pei Qian was going to take this opportunity to continue allocating more money for publicity so that he could do regular publicity for the Dawn of Games.

However, his reputation was ruined after all. There were not many good games on the platform. No matter how much publicity funds he spent, it would all be wasted. It would not have a good effect.

Wouldn't that be burning money lying down?

Under optimistic circumstances, if the relationship between this platform and Tengda could be hidden for a year and a half, that would be a huge help. How many settlement cycles would he have to help Boss Pei?

It was not an optimal situation but should not be a problem to last for half a year. At the very least, he could maintain the current settlement cycle.

If one day, the relationship between the Dawn Games platform and Tengda was exposed, public opinion would probably reverse instantly. At that time, Pei Qian would move all of Tengda's games over and set a price that was lower than the official games platform. At the same time, he would change the share of the other game merchants to 10-90. The platform would only take 10%.

While minimizing profits, he could also organize more publicity events to burn money. He had to work hard to make the profits of the games platform negative for a period of time.

That way, he would probably be able to last for another year.

That was enough.

To Pei Qian, it would be perfect if the gaming platform could be maintained for two to three years without making money. As for what would happen in the future, that was too far away. It was not a problem that he had to consider now.

Pei Qian planned happily. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was a wise decision to let Tang Yishu be in charge of this gaming platform and Meng Chang for the publicity work.

He arrived at the experience shop just as he was thinking about it.

Golden Prosperity Square's entrance was as crowded as before.

Pei Qian was a little melancholic as he sighed silently.

This time, the big screen outside the experience shop was no longer a promotional poster for the GPL's Spring Competition finals. Instead, it had become the focus promotional poster for the GPL's summer competition.

Obviously, this big screen had become a huge promotional poster of the opposite GPL league venue. What's more, it was dynamic. It could be seen from afar. The publicity effect was simply not good.

Pei Qian really wanted to complain. I created this big screen for you, not for this purpose!

However, he was very worried that Tian Mo would ask, "What's that for?"

Pei Qian really did not know how to answer.

Forget it, forget it. That's all for now.

It was better to advertise for the GPL than to advertise for other merchants to earn money. After all, the GPL's influence was big enough and its popularity was high enough. There would not be a big difference whether they added the publicity from this big screen or not.

Pei Qian put on his mask and went straight to the experience shop to find Tian Mo hidden in the crowd.

After that, Pei Qian led him to a quiet cafe in Golden Prosperity Square.

As for why he did not say it in the experience shop…

Obviously, there were too many people.

The experience shop might also have a food and beverage area and a cinema area, but it was basically full all year round. Especially after the snack market became popular, the experience shop arranged for the food vendors to come over regularly. Many people would go to the food and beverage area to eat once they were tired of shopping. Thus, there were many people.

There were too many people and it was easy to be exposed. Thus, he found a quiet cafe.

Pei Qian looked around and saw that no one was around. He then took off his mask and took a sip of coffee.

Pei Qian was a little speechless as he looked at Tian Mo.

Three months had passed since the test run in the experience shop.

In these three months, the popularity of the experience shop had completely exceeded Pei Qian's imagination.

The only good news was that the experience shop was not making money.

Even though the experience shop also sold things, with Upwind Logistics around, most customers only watched and did not buy.

Of course, they might have ordered it online after watching it. That was unknown.

All in all, even though the experience shop was very popular, the actual money that it earned could only barely cover the various costs of normal operations. Sometimes, it even made a little loss.

At first, Pei Qian was very disappointed when he saw that the experience shop had become popular. However, after some time, he realized that the situation was not that bad.

If the first experience shop could not make much money, then wouldn't it be even less profitable to open more shops?

The marginal effect was diminishing!

Jingzhou could be said to be Tengda's base camp. It had many fans to begin with. This was Tengda's first experience shop. It was also located opposite the GPL stadium. It was understandable that it would be more popular.

If he opened more, he could open more first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Wouldn't he be able to incur losses?

After careful consideration, Pei Qian felt that he could not give up on the experience shop that was good at burning money. He had to open a few more to try it out even if he had to risk continuing to make money.

The contemplative Boss Pei made Tian Mo feel a little uneasy.

"Boss Pei, is there anything about my work that you're not satisfied with?"

Pei Qian laughed.

Nonsense!

There were too many things he was dissatisfied with. The most dissatisfied thing was why he could not dissuade customers.

However, he could not say it so directly. He could only vaguely say, "Yes, I can only say that there is still some room for improvement."

Tian Mo nodded slightly.

It was normal to have room for improvement. After all, he was just a layman in the sales industry. No matter what, he had too much to learn from Boss Pei.

"Don't worry, Boss Pei. You can point out all the shortcomings I have in my work. I'll definitely change it seriously! I'll definitely continue to learn more sales knowledge from you in the future!"

After a moment of silence, Pei Qian said, "There's no need to follow me."

Tian Mo: "Huh?"

Pei Qian was a little melancholic as he said, "I don't have anything to teach you anymore. Your next task is to open another experience shop in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou."

"Choose the best location, spend the most money, and recruit new employees. In short, start from scratch and do it again!"

"As for the employees of this experience shop in Jingzhou… inform them that only a quarter of all core employees will be retained. The rest will be sent, oh no, to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe. Each of them will be given an internet cafe. Choose one."

Pei Qian had thought about this plan repeatedly.

If he did it again, he did not believe that Tian Mo would be able to open the experience shop this time!

The reason why Jingzhou's experience shop was so successful was partly because of Tengda's long-term farming and accumulation in Jingzhou. On the other hand, it was also because of Liang Qingfan's outstanding location and design.

In fact, it might have been better if Tian Mo had been in charge of the experience shop from the beginning.

However, Tian Mo was a talent that could only be chanced upon on the streets after all. They had only found him after the experience shop was renovated. There was no helping it.

All in all, he would not let Liang Qingfan interfere this time. It should not be a problem to hand all the work to Tian Mo, right?

With Tian Mo's current ability, it would not be a problem for him to sell things in Tengda experience shop under the EASY difficulty. However, it would definitely be very difficult for him to open an experience shop.

What's more, he was unfamiliar with cities like Beijing and Shanghai. The chances of failure were even higher.

Apart from that, Pei Qian also planned to send all the old employees of the experience shop out this time.

After all, if he only sent one person-in-charge away, the experience shop might continue to operate according to the previous arrangements.

However, what if he sent all the core employees away?

The various Fish-Catching Internet Cafe branches had just made changes to the sales area. In the future, they would not sell any peripheral products from other parties. They would only sell Tengda's own products.

There were not many products to begin with. Coupled with the sales of these dissuading services, they should not be able to sell much, right?

Even if they sold some helplessly, the damage would not be as big as the experience shop.

If he lost three-quarters of his health in one go, perhaps the entire experience shop would suffer a huge blow and collapse?

Tian Mo was stunned.

"Huh? Boss Pei, that's not very appropriate, right?"

"I've just barely adapted to management. I still know nothing about how to open an experience shop! What's more, if I leave, who will be the branch manager of this shop?"

Pei Qian had expected him to say this. "The candidate for the branch manager is very simple. Isn't Zhuang Dong very good?"

"Zhuang… Zhuang Dong?" Tian Mo was even more shocked.

Others might not know, but how could he not know Zhuang Dong's situation?

The fact that he could survive as a salesperson in the experience shop without causing major damage to the experience shop was the result of him working hard to maintain the upper limit of his IQ!

"Boss Pei, Zhuang Dong is my brother. Of course, I have no objections to him. However… Can he be the branch manager?" Tian Mo looked confused.

Pei Qian smiled. "If you can be the branch manager, why can't he?"

Tian Mo: "Ah, this…"

He wanted to say 'Boss Pei, don't insult me', but on further thought, it seemed like there was no problem with what Boss Pei said.

He did feel that he was much smarter than Zhuang Dong though.

However, in the eyes of others, he probably would not be much smarter than Zhuang Dong even if he was slightly smarter.

On the other hand, Boss Pei had praised and biased Zhuang Dong many times. Obviously, he had found a certain trait in Zhuang Dong. This trait could be successful under Boss Pei's catalysis.