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Chapter 6 Annual Forum, Guest Invitation Tasks

Feng Maonan is the vice president of CPI Group. He sits in the capital branch and is in charge of the national edition project, as well as finance, personnel, distribution, office and other post-operation departments. He is the boss of the capital branch.

Feng Maonan is also the younger brother of Feng Jinsong, the boss of the group.

When Zhou Wenbin was chatting with Gao Yang about Dou Yong's post, Feng Maonan also noticed this post.

After watching for a while, Feng Maonan frowned, then called Wu Bo and called him to his office.

Feng Maonan asked: "Mr. Wu, which reporter from COMPAQ is in charge of contacting now?"

Wu Bo said: "It's the new reporter Gao Yang."

Feng Maonan frowned: "COMPAQ is the largest client of the National Edition this year, so it would be inappropriate to arrange a new contact?"

Wu Bodao: "Compaq's advertisements until the end of the year have basically been decided, and they are just arranged for implementation. Arranging Gao Yang to contact COMPAQ is also to let him adapt as soon as possible."

Feng Maonan said again: "This Gao Yang doesn't know much about the IT industry, and now it involves the invitation of speakers for channel forums. Can he take on this task?"

Wu Bodao: "At the invitation of the forum guests, Zhang Tao is still in charge of COMPAQ, and Gao Yang is just arranged to assist."

Feng Maonan thought about it: "This arrangement is fine, so let's do it this way."

At the beginning, Wu Bo wanted to introduce Gao Yang, but Feng Maonan disliked Gao Yang as a reporter in the mass media and had no experience in the IT industry, so he did not agree at first.

Later, Wu Bo insisted on recommending Gao Yang, and assured him that Gao Yang had strong adaptability and was an excellent reporter, so Feng Maonan agreed.

Now, Wu Bo is a little cronyistic, which makes Feng Maonan a little uncomfortable, but Wu Bo is the person in charge of the national edition project after all, and it is inconvenient for Feng Maonan to interfere too much with a reporter's arrangement.

Feng Maonan was suddenly concerned about the COMPAQ company contacted by the reporter, and Wu Bo was also a little surprised.

Back at his work station, Wu Bo thought about it, clicked on the intranet community, and immediately understood when he saw the anonymous post.

Wu Bo just snorted coldly, and he also suspected that it was Dou Yong who posted the post.

On October 10, Gao Yang, Zhang Tao, and Wan Hong went out early in the morning and all went to work by bicycle.

The 8-kilometer road is slow and leisurely, and it takes about 40 minutes to ride a bicycle.

Wan Hong has a vigorous temperament, stepping on his feet quickly, rushing to the front.

Gao Yang and Zhang Tao also followed all the way, and it took 25 minutes in the end.

In the previous life, Gao Yang tried it, and he could arrive in 17 minutes at the fastest, but he must be sweating profusely.

Three people walked into the office, it was only 8:50, and there was still 10 minutes to clock in.

Just as Gao Yang sat down at his desk, HR Hu Yan came over and brought Gao Yang a work card, two boxes of reporter business cards, a salary card, a mobile phone number card, and a 150 yuan mobile phone recharge card.

There is also a form for Gao Yang to sign.

Hu Yan sat down and instructed Gao Yang to log into the intranet of CPI Group, register, check in, and open an email.

After punching the card, Hu Yan confessed: "The initial password of the salary card is six zeros, you can go to the bank teller machine to change the password yourself. The temporary residence permit can be obtained within a week, and social security and medical insurance will have to wait for a few days. You don't have to worry about it. "

The phone number card is a GSM card starting with 139. Gao Yang changed the card, scratched off the recharge card, and entered the recharge code according to the prompt tone, and soon received a text message, and the recharge of 150 yuan was successful.

Gao Yang put away the old mobile phone card, and prepared to send it back to Jinyang with a copy of his ID card, and asked his old classmate Chen Sen, who was a reporter at Jinyang Metropolis Daily, to help close the account.

Mobile phones in this era are two-way charging. In the past in Jinyang, Gao Yang only used his mobile phone to return calls, and kept making calls, never chatting for more than a minute.

Now I have 150 yuan in phone bills in January, and it will still be 200 yuan after I become a full-time employee. I have a landline in the office, so the phone bills are more than enough.

For example, Wu Bo, who is now the general manager of the project, has a monthly subsidy of 600 yuan for phone calls, which is inexhaustible.

At this time, Zhang Tao came to inform that at 9:[-], the national version of the project held a meeting, and he was not allowed to be absent.

Some journalists who had to run away in the morning immediately went to Wu Bo to ask for leave with a bitter face.

But today's meeting is very important, Wu Bo refused.

Naturally, Gao Yang knew all these things, and it was only 20 minutes until 9:[-]. Smoking was not allowed in the workstation area, so Gao Yang got up and walked to the small meeting room next to the front desk.

As soon as he sat down, he took out the cigarette case, and another person came in.

Reporter Zhou Wenbin.

Gao Yang took out a red cigarette and handed it over: "Try this."

Zhou Wenbin took the cigarette with a smile and lit it, then took a look at the cigarette case in front of Gao Yang: "Sichuan tobacco, the taste is not bad, how much is this cigarette?"

Gao Yang said: "A box is 18 yuan, if you buy the whole cigarette, 160, or 158, I buy whole cigarettes."

Zhou Wenbin took out a box of three and five from his pocket: "I like to smoke this, and I buy it whole. Gao Yang, you speak Mandarin well, and you don't have an accent."

Gao Yang smiled and said, "It's not as good as you."

Zhou Wenbin also laughed: "I'm from the north. Seriously, you southerners speak Mandarin, and many of you have accents. Look at Wan Hong and Zheng Hai, they have very strong accents..."

In the previous life, Gao Yang had a good friendship with Zhou Wenbin, and later Zhou Wenbin switched to a public relations company, and the two were in constant contact.

At 9:[-], everyone sat in the large conference room in the workstation area.

Wu Bo sat on the stage, beside Zhang Tao, and Liu Jin, the manager of the advertising department.

The theme of the meeting was the preparations for the annual channel forum of the national edition of CPI this year.

In 1997, CPI held the first channel forum, inviting brand manufacturers and leading distributors to give speeches and on-site dialogues, and the audience were regional agents and distributors invited from all over the country.

The effect was very good, and the advertising revenue of the current special issue exceeded 100 million.

This year is the third forum, scheduled for November 11, and a special issue will be published on November 24.

There is still more than a month to go, today is considered a regular meeting, and the focus is on the invitation of guest speakers.

The task of inviting guests fell on the reporters again.

In addition, the salesperson in the advertising department not only has the task of running orders for the special issue of the channel forum, but also requires the marketing department of the manufacturer to cooperate with reporters in inviting speakers and other guests to attend.

After Wu Bo spoke a few words briefly, the reporters began to report their guest invitations and confirmation progress.

The situation is not optimistic.

CPI is the first of its kind in the IT media circle for the event planning form of the annual forum.Last year, many media began to follow suit.

Now, there are at least a hundred IT media outlets across the country, and most of them are concentrated in the capital.

Big brand manufacturers at home and abroad, such as IBM, HP, COMPAQ, MS, Intel, Cisco, ACER, Lenovo, Founder, Tongfang, etc., are all invited by the media forum.

The current strength of CPI is not bad, ranking third in the IT media circle, second only to Jishi and Zhongji.

Zhang Tao reported the progress of COMPAQ's guest invitation. Three months ago, after the original reporter Zheng Huajun resigned, Zhang Tao took over to contact COMPAQ.

Zhang Tao reported that he had already sent an electronic invitation letter to the head of COMPAQ's marketing department, and the invitee was the boss of the PC or server business, but he has not received a reply yet.

From the advertising department, He Xuemei, a salesman who contacted COMPAQ, said that within this week, they will try to send a written invitation letter to the marketing department of COMPAQ.

After Zhang Tao and He Xuemei finished their reports, Wu Bo looked at Gao Yang: "Gao Yang, you are now taking over the contact with COMPAQ, guests are invited to work, you should also find an opportunity to communicate with the other party."

Gao Yang nodded and said, "Okay."

After the reporters and salesmen had finished their reports, Wu Bo emphasized a few more words, requesting to speed up the progress and ensure that all the speakers attending the meeting were finalized before November 11th.

Gao Yang knew that this matter was not so easy. In fact, some important customers might not be able to confirm it a few days before the forum.

At 10:[-] in the morning, the meeting ended, and several journalists who had a press conference or interview in the morning hurried out to sign in and collect the transportation fee.

Gao Yang went to the small conference room to smoke a cigarette.

Later, Wu Bo, Zhou Wenbin, and advertising manager Liu Jin also came in.

Gao Yang handed the three of them a cigarette and lit one himself.

Wu Bo lit a cigarette and explained: "Gao Yang, you have just started working and you are not familiar with the situation. The guests invited by COMPAQ are mainly Zhang Tao who is in charge and you to assist. In addition, other companies you are responsible for contacting, try to invite a few Attend."

Gao Yang nodded: "Teacher Wu, I understand."

Gao Yang thought to himself, in another year, COMPAQ will be acquired by HP. This matter was once a big news in the global IT industry.

The current operating situation of COMPAQ will definitely not be very good. If you want to invite the important person of the other party to give a speech at the CPI channel forum, what are the pain points?
The current situation of this company needs to hurry up and study it carefully.

(End of this chapter)