Endpoint Chinese Website Authors’ Training Class.

At noon, the authors sat around a long table eating Slackin’ Delivery food, all of them focused on the messages on their phones, occasionally replying with a few words.

Everyone was looking at the same group chat: Endpoint Chinese Website Authors’ Training Class (Main Group)!

The group had over sixty people, and almost all of them were online at the moment, keeping track of the data for Cui Geng’s new book.

“Already eight thousand? Brother Cui is amazing! Invincible!”

“He’s truly a role model for us all!”

“Looking at the current trend, breaking ten thousand subscriptions is already a certainty. Let’s see if it can push to fifteen thousand and raise the subscription record by a significant margin!”

“When will I have even half of Brother Cui’s abilities…”

Most of the content was just flattery, but there were also serious discussions, such as analyzing why Cui Geng’s book was so popular and whether there were any writing techniques worth learning and referencing.

This scene looked somewhat like a showcase of human confusing behavior, because most of the people in the group chat were actually in this room…

Of course, they had their reasons for doing this.

The training class was now in its second session, and the roster of participating authors had undergone some changes.

This time, the selection for the second session of the training class had been quite complicated, with unprecedented fierce competition.

Ma Yiqun was also quite troubled.

Some authors with good results seemingly should participate in this training class to identify and fix weaknesses and improve further, while also offering guidance to other authors with slightly poorer results.

And some authors with poor results should participate in this training class for a short-term sprint and improvement.

In summary, it seemed that all authors of Endpoint Chinese Website should come to this training class for some experience…

With difficult choices to make, Ma Yiqun had put great effort into selecting the roster for the second session of the training class, then appeased the emotions of those who weren’t selected by arranging them in advance for the third session’s roster.

However, some authors who had participated in the first session of the training class continued to participate in the second session.

Ma Yiqun hoped to achieve a “veterans mentoring newcomers” effect through this approach. With one-on-one guidance, they would more quickly grasp the Tenda spirit and master the learning rhythm of the training class.

So, many first session members, including Cui Geng, weren’t present. If people wanted to follow Cui Geng’s real-time updates, they could only chat in the group.

One author curiously asked: “Great Ming Yu, what was Brother Cui’s situation like in the training class back then? Why did he improve so quickly? You were there—can you tell us in detail?”

Other authors also looked toward Ming Yu.

“Yeah, Great Ming Yu, tell us exactly what happened!”

“I heard Brother Cui also got a position as an ‘observer’? Did he go to Tenda to gather material?”

Most of those asking were new authors.

These new authors hadn’t participated in the previous session of the training class, so they only knew that Cui Geng had gained some insights during the training class and his results had taken a leap, but they weren’t clear about exactly how he had gained these insights.

It was a good opportunity to ask someone who knew.

Ming Yu put down his chopsticks and, after a moment of silence, said: “This story is a long one. The most crucial part was probably Mr. Pei’s visit that day…”

He kept it brief, fully recounting the circumstances at that time.

Initially, everyone was in the small dark room, heads down typing, competing with each other on who could write more. Although the update volume increased, there wasn’t any qualitative leap.

But at that moment, Mr. Pei appeared!

Mr. Pei had already keenly realized that this model had certain problems, so he established a rule: the author with the most updates would rest for a day, while the author with the fewest updates would go receive Tenda spirit education!

This move seemed simple, but was profound in meaning.

After learning about the Tenda spirit, the incorrect ethos of valuing quantity over quality was promptly stopped.

Lost authors found their goals;

Slacker authors were filled with motivation;

Authors who only pursued volume could calm down and polish their plots;

Authors without plans began to learn how to seriously outline their stories…

The atmosphere of the training class was instantly renewed!

Finally, Ming Yu concluded: “In such an environment, Brother Cui writing a hit like ‘Butterfly Game’ seems to be due to his personal talent, effort, and the excellent material provided by Tenda Group—there’s a certain element of coincidence.”

“But even if Brother Cui hadn’t written ‘Butterfly Game,’ another hit would have appeared sooner or later because the overall standard of the website is constantly rising. As the water level rises, so do the boats—this is an inevitable result!”

“Fundamentally, it’s because Mr. Pei gently pointed in the right direction, immediately steering this giant ship toward the correct course!”

The authors listened attentively, their faces showing longing. Some even forgot to eat the food they had already picked up with their chopsticks.

Was it really that magical?

Incredible!

An author couldn’t help but raise his hand and ask: “So, Great Ming Yu, what exactly is the Tenda spirit? Does it have this power to transform something rotten into something magical?”

Ming Yu smiled slightly: “Hehe, it doesn’t just transform the rotten into the magical—it can also transform the magical into something even more magical!”

“But it can only be understood through experience, not explained in words. Everyone’s characteristics are different, so the Tenda spirit each person comprehends also differs.”

“If you want to know, then go to Tenda headquarters in person and see what your own Tenda spirit looks like!”

…

…

Arriving at the company entrance, Pei Qian took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, and then stepped in.

For some reason, he had the feeling of an elementary school student on the first day back from summer vacation—extremely resistant.

On his way to work, Pei Qian had already been stabbed once, seeming to have gotten off to a bad start.

However, Pei Qian didn’t have time to investigate Cui Geng now because he had a pile of matters at hand.

Lin Wan had already sent several messages saying that “BE QUIET” had completed development and needed Mr. Pei to determine the initial promotional strategy.

At Dream Realization Investment, He Desheng’s side had earned over ten million by selling the Study Master App project. He wanted to know what to do with this money now, as an investment company, letting money just sit in the company account seemed shameful.

Chang You hoped to confirm the matter of holding a launch event.

Other matters could be postponed if possible, but these three things definitely couldn’t be delayed because if any one of them wasn’t handled properly, the consequences could be severe.

So, Pei Qian still had to come to the office to make decisions on these three matters.

Pei Qian arranged times with the three people: Chang You from 2:00 to 3:00, He Desheng from 3:00 to 4:00, and Lin Wan from 4:00 to 5:00.

Perfect—resolve everything in one afternoon, quite efficiently.

…

At exactly two o’clock, Chang You arrived punctually.

“Mr. Pei, this time I wanted to confirm with you the general direction for the launch event. Once the direction is set, we can better prepare the presentation slides for the event…”

Pei Qian waved his hand: “I know. First, tell me how you’re thinking of organizing the launch event.”

Chang You thought Mr. Pei was pressed for time, so he quickly got to the most urgent questions.

“Mainly about where to hold the launch event, its scale, which aspects of the phone to specifically introduce in the presentation, whether we need to specially invite a spokesperson to attend, and so on.”

“I consider that we’re not selling many phones, and it’s a new brand, so renting too large a venue seems somewhat extravagant. But we definitely can’t be too modest either, as it might give people a bad impression of being ‘cheap.'”

“So, for the launch event, we could consider finding an average venue in the Capital or Magic City, just inviting more tech review media to attend.”

“Then I suggest we could appropriately ‘piggyback’ on Shenhua or Apple phones. After all, we’ve stacked so many good components in our phone, and in many aspects, it surpasses the flagship models of these two companies.”

“This is also a common tactic used by small phone manufacturers to challenge larger ones and gain attention.”

“As for a spokesperson… this costs money, so you should decide, Mr. Pei.”

Pei Qian fell silent.

Starting with such explosive questions posed a severe test to Mr. Pei’s abilities.

However, these problems weren’t difficult to solve.

For a launch event, it had to be done on a grand scale!

Because the initial investment in OTTO phones was just a few million, with only a thousand phones in mass production, and it wasn’t certain how many would sell.

Finding a large venue for a launch event would require spending a significant sum of money just on venue rental.

Moreover, they definitely couldn’t hold it in places like the Capital or Magic City.

It should be held in Jingzhou!

Inviting those tech media to come, reimbursing their round-trip tickets, providing food and accommodation—that would require another sum of money.

As for ordinary attendees, tickets would be given away directly in Jingzhou, absolutely free of charge.

Besides, even if the launch event was bigger and gained more attention, what then? It would definitely be a chorus of “excuse me,” with people knowing about the product but not necessarily willing to spend money on it.

“Piggybacking” was out of the question—Mr. Pei couldn’t afford to lose face and didn’t want that kind of attention.

Not only would they not “piggyback,” but they would also emphasize the phone’s shortcomings at the launch event!

Other companies’ launch events were all about driving sales; OTTO Technology’s launch event would be about dissuading purchases, giving countless reasons not to buy this phone.

As for a spokesperson…

There didn’t seem to be a need.

Although hiring a spokesperson would cost more money, what if this spokesperson had too many die-hard fans?

With only 1,000 phones in total, if such irrational fans rushed in and snatched them all up, wouldn’t that be awkward?

If they sold out and didn’t produce more, the system would not agree.

But on second thought, there weren’t many spokespersons with so many die-hard fans, so what about finding a spokesperson without many fans?

After considering for a moment, Pei Qian carefully chose his words and began answering Chang You’s questions one by one.

“Hold the launch event in Jingzhou, choose the largest venue, invite tech media to come, cover their food and accommodation. Give away tickets to the event—Slackin’ Internet Café, Headwind Station, Slackin’ Delivery, and so on. If customers are interested, give them a ticket.”

“Create some cool, grand scenes at the launch event, and prepare some small gifts for everyone attending.”

“In the presentation, we won’t ‘piggyback’ on any other manufacturers. You must abandon this bad habit from Hongcheng Technology!”

“We’ll only talk about ourselves, present as much content as we have, and finish early to rest early!”

“When presenting, use some technique. Briefly mention the excellent aspects of our phone, but focus on discussing our phone’s shortcomings.”

“Give consumers sufficient right to know, and never play word games!”

“As for a spokesperson… I haven’t decided yet. If it’s not urgent, let’s wait a couple more days.”

Pei Qian resolved all issues at lightning speed.

Chang You blinked his eyes, falling into confusion.

“Mr. Pei, are you sure you just said, ‘focus on discussing our phone’s shortcomings’???”