National Tide 1980.

Chapter 814 Buying the Edition Number

Ning Weimin's best technique in business cooperation is to act as a "real person" who is considerate for the other party and takes a lot of risks on his own initiative.

Even if most people meet him for the first time, they are often surprised by his young and handsome appearance, and doubt his ability to handle affairs.

But as long as the conversation starts, these people will soon be moved by his polite speech, convinced by his sincere terms, and it is difficult to refuse his proposal.

Take Zheng Mingming as an example, even though he was a little dissatisfied with Ning Weimin's close and pressing negotiation method, he was also very moved by the cooperation conditions he offered.

Zhang Qiang's mother and daughter were even more so, both of them were dissuaded by Ning Weimin's friendly attitude and considerate manner.

In particular, Ning Weimin has a decent identity, extensive connections, economic strength unimaginable by ordinary people, and insight beyond this era.

This makes him even more in the eyes of Zhang Qiang's mother and daughter, a noble person worthy of their hopes, and a Bole who has long been eager to meet.

You must know that in the mainland music environment of this era, no one has mature business operation experience, and no one has a clear sense of star creation.

Even Zhang Qiang’s mother, a professional musician, a violinist at the National Center for the Performing Arts, only regards group performances as the highest goal of her career, and she dare not even think about releasing a solo album.

However, it was too easy for Ning Weimin to provide Zhang Qiang with these opportunities.

In addition to his current performances at Maxim's Restaurant, Zhang Qiang will soon be required to perform at the Temple of Heaven Summer Book Fair.

And he is sure to help Zhang Qiang record his first solo album as soon as possible. Isn't Zhang Qiang mother and daughter overjoyed?
What's more, Ning Weimin is also very familiar with Zhang Qiang's vocal conditions and general history of fame, and directly pointed out to Zhang Qiang the most suitable style of music for her-disco.

Based on this, he intends to hire a professional makeup artist to provide services for Zhang Qiang's image, find a special person to arrange and change the lyrics for Zhang Qiang, and personally be responsible for finding relevant materials and songs for Zhang Qiang to learn from.

This convinced Zhang Qiang's mother and daughter even more, and regarded him as Zhang Qiang's guiding light.

Not for anything else, the main reason is that although Zhang Qiang was exposed to European and American music earlier, although he was exposed to his mother's work.

But neither she nor her mother had a clear understanding of the style of European and American music.

The imitation of European and American stars is still at a superficial level, and they copy what they like.

And almost all Zhang Qiang's mother used simple methods to help Zhang Qiang follow the fashion.

Regardless of Ning Weimin's understanding and knowledge of pop music, it is just basic common sense in the Internet age.

But in this era of poor information dissemination, his status has been greatly improved.

It shocked Zhang Qiang's mother and daughter as soon as he said it, and solved many doubts in Zhang Qiang's heart.

Every word he said had the effect of refreshing Zhang Qiang's ears and enlightening his mind.

Even chatting casually about the lace news of the European and American music scene can make Zhang Qiang dizzy.

For example, which song was good in Michael Jackson's childhood, what is the style of Madonna's music, how bleak the lives of the Carpenter brothers and sisters are, and "Dancing Queen" by the Swedish ABBA group was sung for the wedding of the Swedish king...

Naturally, Ning Weimin became Zhang Qiang's idol.

A squeaky, glistening waist... Oh no, an expert in European and American pop music.

Not to mention, Ning Weimin also took 1000 yuan as Zhang Qiang's living allowance, and left a video recorder and two European and American pop music videos for Zhang Qiang to watch.

At the same time, he also promised Zhang Qiang's mother that he could accompany Zhang Qiang to participate in any performances in the future, and promised that he would never force Zhang Qiang to sing songs she didn't like.

All these things made Zhang Qiang and her daughter regard Ning Weimin as a trustworthy person.

Let them have infinite longing and longing for the great changes in their future life.

So when Ning Weimin put forward his request - he hoped that within three years, he would be the sole agent for all Zhang Qiang's commercial performances and album recordings.

Zhang Qiang's mother signed the contract without hesitation, even though the clauses included punitive clauses to prevent breach of contract.

It was specifically stated that without Ning Weimin's permission, Zhang Qiang and her daughter could not agree to anyone's request for cooperation in music.

For nothing else, no one would have thought that Zhang Qiang's debut would be the pinnacle.

According to common sense, once Zhang Qiang becomes famous, no matter how you look at it, his star journey will not only last for three short years.

In this way, the contract of Queen of Electronic Music came to Ning Weimin.

He easily won the three years of Zhang Qiang's most commercially valuable youth, which has already been proven by history.

After that, of course, the actual star-making work began.

On the one hand, Ning Weimin took advantage of his power to recruit a make-up artist from Hong Kong City who was sent by Zheng Mingming to serve the models.

Go to set makeup for Zhang Qiang's stage appearance, determine the style of dressing, and teach her how to dress.

At the same time, Zhang Qiang and Cui Jian's plywood band were arranged to get acquainted with each other and rehearse together. Zhang Qiang was asked to choose songs, practice songs, and get familiar with the stage environment.

On the other hand, Ning Weimin kept in touch with acquaintances in the publishing house, looking for contacts in the audiovisual publishing house, and contacting the recording studio to prepare for the release of the album.

Not to mention, the "birth certificate" that Ning Weimin was a little worried about was actually much easier than he imagined.

The "Art" magazine, which has always maintained a close cooperative relationship with him, helped to match him and introduced him to Feng Chaonian, the general manager of the Beijing branch of Huaxia Records.

Soon, the other party gave him a gratifying reply, agreeing that he would personally contribute to record a solo music album for Zhang Qiang.

And the recording studio, people can also contact him for him, and the fee is also discounted.

It has to be said that Ning Weimin has not only gained the honor of the shareholders of Pilkardon, but also caught up with the good times.

Since 1979, the state approved the establishment of the Pacific Audio-Video Company and began to issue locally-made cassette tapes. The audio-visual publishing industry in the Republic has entered a period of vigorous development.

In that year alone, the Pacific Company made nearly ten million profits from a few tapes of folk songs and bel canto.

In the next four years, more than 300 audio-visual companies were successively established in the mainland to pursue profits like mushrooms after rain.

As a result, the huge mainland market not only accommodates so many audiovisual publishing houses, but also maintains a situation of insufficient demand.

Needless to say, this is a new industry, and money is easy to make, so the management model of audiovisual publishing houses is very loose.

Usually, audiovisual publishing companies contact popular singers by themselves.

As long as we agree with each other, we can release an album, and most of them are cover songs.

There are also performance groups that actively contact and cooperate with publishing houses in order to promote their main actors.

In short, it is easier to publish a tape than a book these days.

As long as the singer is a bit famous, it is basically a matter of hit it off with the audiovisual publishing house.

Even if the performance group wants to promote newcomers, if they are willing to contribute their own funds, it is not difficult to be responsible for their own profits and losses.

The rare thing is how to ensure enough song albums are supplied to the market. At present, the most troublesome thing for more than 300 video publishing houses is that popular singers have already recorded almost all of them, and they are all looking for suitable newcomers by themselves, and they are keeping an eye on the TV screens and major media outlets. party.

So Ning Weimin, who asked for personal funding to support Zhang Qiang, and set a circulation of 200 million as soon as it was released, although it is still a unique case, the operational model has already matured.

The contract templates of the Audiovisual Publishing House are all ready-made. As long as Ning Weimin pays the management fee and pays [-]% in advance, the matter can start.

In fact, as the person in charge of the audiovisual company, Feng Chaonian was just curious about how Ning Weimin ensured the supply of funds.

After all, the production cost of a tape that sells for five yuan and one tape is only three yuan, and two million tapes is six million.

With the 30.00% advance payment plus the management fee, Ning Weimin had to make up two hundred in the early stage, which is absolutely unbelievable astronomical figure for an individual.

Regarding this, Ning Weimin had already thought up a strategy, and told Feng Chaonian that he was actually just an agent recruited by some units that wanted to make extra money.

Because of the nature of their companies, those units are not easy to come forward, and they don't want to be famous, so they entrust him to handle this matter.

In fact, Ning Weimin was really not lying. The check he gave Feng Chaonian was indeed from a collective enterprise.

Coupled with the fact that he worked in the Pilkardon Company and had his own credibility, it was easy for Feng Chaonian to believe it.

What is going on?If it is broken, it is just a layer of window paper.

Ganqing Ning Weimin actually paid for the tapes to be paid by Pilkardon Company, Temple of Heaven Park and Tangong Restaurant.

In the name of the payment for the pre-ordered handicrafts, he made the decision for these three units, and first paid checks ranging from hundreds of thousands to the material equipment factory and the handicraft factory respectively.

Then he pays the audiovisual publishing house with checks from these street factories.

In this case, wouldn't the money be set out?
This is the benefit of being both a referee and an athlete.

(End of this chapter)