Losing Money to Be a Tycoon c1-883
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What the hell?! He’s obviously making something out of nothing. Can’t you tell?! Don’t you feel disgusted at all?!
He was paid to change his review!He really was! I can attest to that!
Does anyone care?!
Pei Qian was speechless. The audience was focusing on strange things, weren’t they? Why weren’t they thinking about why the writer changed his review all of a sudden? Why were they focusing instead on the advertisements in the movie?
Wasn’t this critic supposed to collaborate with the competitors’ fake reviewers?
The collaboration ended before it even began…
Pei Qian opened Gou Yan and discovered that the film schedule for Tomorrow is Beautiful was out. Tomorrow is Beautiful’s row piece rate had increased again!
It’s like nothing that Pei Qian had done was effective.
“Keep going, fake reviewers, my brothers! You’re fighting a lonely battle, but my heart is with you always!”
For some reason, Pei Qian felt bad for the fake reviewers.
Logically, he should hate fake reviewers because they were people who distorted the truth for their own selfish gain.
Yet, for some reason, Pei Qian felt that once those fake reviewers had come over to his side, they had turned into mantises trying to block traffic. One by one, they were being sent to their tragic deaths.
On the other hand, Boss Pei was the hostage who was tied to the car. He could only watch them get reduced to dust by car wheels while he teared and inwardly wished them a pleasant afterlife…
Pei Qian did not know why, but he felt like one of the main characters in a tragic romance story.
February 24th, Thursday, the third day of Tomorrow is Beautiful’s screening…
In Shenzhen…
After ending a meet-and-greet, the staff in charge of publicity for the film could finally take a break. Zhu Xiaoce collapsed onto his seat. “I’m dead tired!”
Zhang Zuting smiled by the side. “We’re doing publicity for a movie. That’s the way it is. You’ll get used to it, Director Zhu.”
Huang Sibo was dead beat as well. As he hammered his leg with one fist, he surfed the net for reviews of the movie.
“The comments are not bad overall. It looks like our movie has become famous.
“However, fake reviewers are obviously at work. I’ve checked three days in a row, but the film’s ratings have been consistently falling. Our rating on Gou Yan application is now 8.3.”
After some thought, Zhu Xiaoce asked, “Should we talk to Boss Pei about this? He just has to say a word to Boss Lin of Shenhua Film, and the latter would settle this for us, right?”
Huang Sibo pondered about it and then shook his head. “Of course, he can settle this for us, but we shouldn’t ask Boss Lin for too many favors. We’ve already bothered him enough with the advertising.”
Zhu Xiaoce nodded. “Yes, that’s right. This is our problem. What’s more, it wouldn’t hurt even if our ratings fall by less than 1 point. We shouldn’t bother Boss Lin over something as minor as this.”
Everyone fell silent. Only the sound of Huang Sibo hammering his leg filled the room.
Yet, all of a sudden, he slammed his fist on his thigh hard. “Holy sh*t!” Huang Sibo could not help but cuss.
Everyone turned to him, confused. “What’s the matter?”
“Quickly, look at this!” Huang Sibo handed them the cell phone.
They looked at Huang Sibo’s cell phone and saw a hot post. Its title was ‘Recording Tomorrow is Beautiful’s daily online ratings to see how psychotic the fake reviewers areupdated regularly’.
The contents of the post were quite simple. Tomorrow is Beautiful’s daily ratings on various websites had been captured via screenshots. For example, there were screenshots of the film having a rating of 8.8 on Gou Yan application at first but then subsequently dropping to 8.3. Obviously, fake reviewers were running wild.
The situation was the same on other websites as well. The movie’s ratings dropped at varying speeds.
However, one website was an exception.
On TPDb, Tomorrow is Beautiful’s ratings hovered around 9.1. It was extremely stable!
Chapter 429 - The Pride Only a Tengda Employee Knew
Chapter 429 The Pride Only a Tengda Employee Knew
Netizens who were following this post obviously also noticed this phenomenon. The TPDb had not changed like the other website so it stuck out conspicuously like a firefly at night.
“Strange, why did the ratings on this site not change at all?”
“Did the fake reviewers not notice this site because it is too small?”
“Impossible. The fake reviewers are not picky about who they work with. Several websites much smaller than this did not escape their evil hands. How could they just let it go?”
“Moreover, there are quite a few users on this website. You would be considered ignorant if you have never heard of it, alright?”
“Huh, what website is this?”
“Tengda Project Database, containing the ratings and evaluations of every project in Tengda Group. That includes every game and every physical store.”
“Tengda’s own website? Then, the ratings are probably locked… no wonder no fake reviewers can move it.”
“Absolutely not. If you pay attention to this website, you’ll find that the ratings would change. Most projects start off with a low rating and then gradually rise. Moreover, the ratings can be basically said to be objective and fair!”
“Yes, this movie is worth nine points!”
This post was originally intended to record the tragic attacks by the fake reviewers. However, the objective of the thread began to change as there were more readers and discussions.
It became ‘why are the ratings of the TPDb website not affected by the fake reviewers?’
There were different opinions, but not one of them guessed it right.
The ratings of TPDb were hidden from the beginning and were not disclosed at all.
The final ratings were calculated by taking different weightage of ratings of different parties including Tengda Senior Internal Evaluation, General Employee Comprehensive Evaluation, Authoritative Media Comprehensive Evaluation, Consumer Evaluation, and Netizen’s Evaluation.
This rating mechanism could not be said to be the most perfect. An evaluation was subjective after all. However, it could avoid the influence of fake reviewers and malicious reviews. Its final ratings were infinitely closest to what each work deserved.
Everyone who read through this post would find it interesting. Huang Sibo said with a smile, “I think these people would not be able to guess what the rating system is like even if they were to ponder about it for half a year.”
Zhu Xiaoce rubbed his chin. “Hmm… but would the audience question the objectivity of this website? It is our own website after all. We are both the players and the referees. It would definitely attract some rumors.”
The smile on Huang Sibo’s face widened. “There would definitely be audiences-oh, no — contrarians who suspect the objectivity of this website. This is unavoidable. The contrarians can always find inexplicable entry points.
“But… is this important? We don’t even need to explain these things.
“The credibility of the website could not be established overnight. It would only be established when enough projects appear for a long time under the netizens’ watchful eyes and fulfill the expectations of most people.
Cliy
“The TPDb website is Tengda’s internal assessment mechanism. It directly determined the bonus distribution of each department. Who would dare do any tricks under the supervision of Boss Pei? “One could only stand tall and strong without desires.
“This site will always remain objective and just as long as it did not have any desires and could not be bribed. To put it in another way, this site will become an industry standard sooner or later, as long as Boss Pei is around!
“Moreover, with the help of Tomorro
w is Beautiful, the TPDb website has now entered the vision of most ordinary netizens. This is a great start!
“Sooner or later, the ratings on this website would be the most authoritative rating platform and become the standard of various industries!”
Zhu Xiaoce gave it some thought. “Then, what if the other film review websites were to introduce a similar mechanism?”
Huang Sibo smiled and said with obvious pride, “I think this possibility is not likely since there are too many interests involved. I don’t think the other website owners can completely ignore their personal interests like Boss Pei does.
“Of course, Tengda would have moved the entire industry if other film review websites had established a similar mechanism where the fake reviewers can no longer operate. I believe Boss Pei will also be very happy if that happens.
“Anyway, no matter how the movie is reviewed on the other websites, it would always have a fair evaluation on the TPDb website.
“It’s the same for Tengda’s other projects. No matter how it’s being attacked or smeared by the world, TPDb will always be a safe haven. Here, projects will receive their due and fair evaluation.
“Boss Pei seemed to be saying to all the employees: ‘It’s okay. I can see all your hard work. I will not let anyone’s hard work go to
waste!
“I believe this must be one of the original intentions of Boss Pei when he created this website.”
There was a certain pride in Huang Sibo’s face that only Tengda employees could understand.
“Achoo! Who’s talking behind my back again….?!
Pei Qian rubbed his nose and continued to scan the web pages seriously.
He did not notice that TPDb had begun to gain visibility with the netizens because he was paying attention to something more important.
The advertisements in Tomorrow is Beautiful had been over-interpreted!
Originally, many audiences did not care about the advertisements. They only thought of them as meaningless backdrops to the movie. That was because the brands in advertisements were all original and had not collided with any existing advertisements. The logos were collated from several departments which were different from the logos existing on the market.
Therefore, no one would notice anything wrong with them at a glance.
However, more people seemed to think that the advertisements in the film had some other meanings when they went into an in-depth exploration of the film.
Some people watched the movie twice or thrice just to study all the advertisements clearly.
Everyone was surprised to find that the logos on these advertisements seemed very similar to Tengda’s existing industries after comparing them to the projects on Tengda’s website.
For example, the advertisements of a certain novel website in the movie were obviously made from Zhongdian Chinese Network’s logo.
The logo of a certain virtual reality entertainment room in the movie also had some strange similarities to the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe. One would not recognize it at first glance, but one would find it getting more familiar the more one looked at it!
That led to a keen interest in these brands by the audiences!
Some went to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, some ordered ROF system units… others went to Zhongdian Chinese Network to read web novels…
The one thing that threw Pei Qian into despair was the Fish-Catching Complex in Lincheng!
Pei Qian went there once when it started operation. He thought that Fish-Catching Internet Cafe 2.0 would at most have an attendance rate of 60 to 70%, but it was full on its first day of opening!
What would the situation there be then?
Imagine being someone who was a resident in Lincheng:
They came to the cinema one fine day. They casually looked at the comments on posts of ‘Tomorrow is Beautiful’, and they found a post titled ‘Deep Analysis of Original Brands in the Advertisements of the Movie’.
They found out in surprise that the industries written in the post-including the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Fish-Catching Take-Out, ROF Computer-Installation, Upwind Logistics, etc.—were all nearby or even at their doorstep! They would have the following options then:
One, they could go there and take a look. They could even buy something and take a photo as a memorial. The other option would be to control curiosity and go home to bed. It was very easy to know what most people would choose!
Pei Qian did not dare ask Xiao Peng, the person-in-charge of Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, about it because he was worried his poor heart could not take the reply.
He knew that it would be bad just by imagining it…
Pei Qian closed the webpage and stared out of the window in melancholy.
Forget it, it would be better to use the time to think about what other benefits he could give his employees.
Chapter 430 - Lu Zhiyao’s Interview, Help from an Eminent Person
Pei Qian finally decided on two directions after a friendly and harmonious communication with the system.
Housing and fitness…
In fact, Tengda had corresponding benefits for these two projects already. There were subsidies for renting a house and also reimbursements for the membership and a certain number of private training sessions.
The current amount of welfare seemed to be unable to meet Boss Pei’s needs anymore.
Pei Qian only had one feeling now: he made mountains of money but could only trickle the spending away!
Of course, it seemed to be a good idea for all the employees to share this pain together, but this sort of burden-sharing was obviously limited. Pei Qian wanted to buy a huge building to house all his employees. Obviously, that could not pass through the system.
Therefore, Pei Qian could only replace it with housing subsidies previously.
The system’s restrictions on employee welfare had gradually relaxed as Tengda Corporation became larger and was making more money.
He still could not give each employee a good lodging, but it seemed like he could use other ways to achieve this means.
Pei Qian had realized that the system had different restrictions on the method of spending money.
‘Charity’ was the most restrictive and only had a small quota every cycle.
‘Company benefits’ was slightly looser. The standards would continue to rise as the company expanded to cover all the employees.
‘Reimbursement’ was even laxer… even though an appropriate reason had to be found and must appear to be connected to the needs of the job.
‘Investment’ was the most relaxed. There seemed to be no upper limit on the investment funds. The most important restriction was to leave some room for profits so that the project had the possibility of making money in theory.
In some very special circumstances, the system would allow the investment even if there was a limited possibility of making profits; it was permitted as long as they could obtain an excellent reputation and social influence. For example, the documentary filmed previously by Huang Sibo and the loss-making Upwind Logistics. Therefore, there were a lot of restrictions when it came to welfare or reimbursement for housing benefits. It would be a four-person or two-person room at best. The standards were set up too high. However, if one changed their way of thinking and used the ‘investment’ approach, the requirements by the system were much looser.
For example, if Pei Qian were to use this money to invest in an apartment project, use the money to renovate it, and then set a price to rent out.
The system would not be too strict about it if he were to use some rooms as the staff dormitory.
It was just like the Fish-Catching Take-Out, which was a little more troublesome. He first had to make a take-out and then let the take-out provide his employees with work meals and then obtain reimbursement from the company.
It was even better if he could not rent the apartment out. Boss Pei could even make some money.
As to why he chose housing and gym…
> That was because both projects had a physical existence, which required repair fees and rents. The maintenance and operating fees were much higher. It might even increase the chances of making losses.
Moreover, Pei Qian could also change his place of residence reasonably!
His current place of residence was alright, but it was just an ordinary two-bedroom apartment. Pei Qian also hoped that his place of residence could become bigger and better as a hermit.
It seemed like he was rather far away from fulfilling his dream of making enough losses until he could buy a mansion.
Moreover, Pei Qian felt that he did not need to worry about buying a house with his own money. It wouldn’t matter if it’s his or not if he could live in it forever, wasn’t it? So what if it belonged to the company? Pei Qian added the two projects ‘apartment’ and ‘gym’ to the planning cycle of the settlement after some thoughts.
It was definitely not in time for this cycle.
On the one hand, there was only one month more to the settlement. It was too late to start these projects. The Thriller Hostel would not be able to be completed within this cycle. It would affect the settlement if he were to add more projects that couldn’t be completed.
On the other hand, it was because the payment of the movie was not so soon.
Generally, movies were released for one month before the box office could be determined. The box office revenue would then be settled from theater to theater. It would take anywhere from three to six months to complete the whole process.
However, there were ‘fast settlement and collection’ companies in the film industry. They were similar to the bank factoring businesses. They would assess the company in accordance with the box office and charge a percentage as the handling fee. It was similar to the ‘fast refund’ of many shopping websites to put it bluntly.