Please make money.

Alia is optimistic: "The sales volume of the top models may be average, but I guarantee that no one can beat ours in terms of the models that sell in large quantities."

In 2015, the technology hardware industry has just begun to feel the signs of industry chain integration, and everyone has begun to consciously complement the relevant component suppliers.

However, due to the limitations of their capital chain, few people can invest money directly like Alia when there is a disagreement. They all discuss with the industrial chain.

Their expected shipment volume is only a few million or even hundreds of thousands of units. If the production line is fully operational, this amount is not even enough to cover the cost of a night shift. How could they possibly give us a low price?

Alia's order can make the production line start to smoke, so there is naturally a lot of room for negotiation. What's more important is that she pays first.

Pay first! Why would someone give money first? Oh my god! Is she doing charity?

Due to cost pressure and the urgent need to keep production lines running, many manufacturers even offer prices at cost.

Some of you may be wondering, won’t they make any money if they give them the cost price?

The answer is that it really doesn’t make any money…

In order to maintain the number of skilled workers and keep the production line running smoothly, they have done everything even at a loss.

As long as it can be run, you can always make it back in the future.

If we stop production for a period of time and cannot keep up with the industry, and all the workers leave, then we will be doomed.

The most extreme example is the glass manufacturing industry, which even comes with a debuff that causes the production line to be directly cooled and blocked after it stops working.

If other companies suspend production, they may only face production cuts and employee departures.

If a glass factory stops production, it is likely to face bankruptcy.

Because if the machine stops running during the production process, the temperature of the cellar will be lower than 1000 degrees Celsius and the glass liquid cannot be completely melted.

The semi-melted glass liquid cannot be taken out at all, causing the melting cellar to be blocked. The cooled glass sticks to the melting cellar and is difficult to clean.

If the factory wants to resume operation, it needs to restart the kilns and purchase new glass raw materials.

In other words, if the machine stops running, the original factory is scrapped. If you want to continue producing glass, the investment cost is equivalent to building a new factory.

Although other manufacturing industries are not as extreme, the investment required to re-recruit workers and rebuild production lines is also considerable.

Now, Ailia of the Ai Group has gone from being a sucker in the beginning to the CEO of Ai.

Everyone used to laugh at her stupidity after dinner, but now when they drink tea together they still sigh that she has some courage.

The industry is like a besieged city. People inside the city want to get out, and people outside the city want to get in.

Prime Minister Lei said that the financial industry is a zero-sum game and angrily denounced the financial magic of harvesting leeks.

The manufacturing industry laughs at Prime Minister Lei for not understanding the pain of stopping production and waiting for materials. How happy they are to make money just by moving their fingers.

Alia was nervous, but in fact Prime Minister Lei was more nervous.

The Ai Group is not listed and has no financial statements to disclose, which also means that there is absolutely no room for operation in the secondary market.

Unless the Ai Group issues some corporate bonds in the future, Mr. Lei can only provide all the help except help in this regard.

He had high hopes, but he could only watch Arya take her first steps forward. How could he not be nervous?

Sister Jing came over, found Alia, handed her a list of procedures, and asked Alia if she had any comments.

What could Alia have an opinion on? She glanced at the list and asked, "Have all the guests been invited?"

"Everyone has been invited, but admission hasn't started yet..."

A press conference is not actually the most necessary part of a product launch, but it is the most direct way to gain attention.

Otherwise, you can just put it on the shelves and sell it. There are so many products on the market and no one holds a press conference to announce them every day.

The electronics business department of the Ai Group never held press conferences for new products in the past, but this is the first time.

Ailia has seen the product renderings, and the texture is much worse than the real machine, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

The promotional video for the product launch conference is an advertising video, which was prepared long in advance. The advertising and marketing department has been busy with this during this period.

We had originally planned to rehearse several times, at least three times according to the process, but the problem was that the game department intervened and disrupted the plan.

Finally, Alia said there was no need to rehearse, just go ahead and say whatever you wanted to say, it would be okay to read the PPT and make mistakes.

If he really pronounced it wrong, then so be it. Sister Jing is the eldest lady’s biological sister. Who can do anything to him?

"Let the guests enter. Are there enough people?"

"That should be enough. It's almost time." Sister Jing glanced at her watch. It was just time for admission. "We sent out a lot of invitations. At least half of the art museum will be filled. It won't look so - damn!"

Sister Jing cursed, Alia frowned, and Prime Minister Lei looked at the sudden noise in a daze: "What happened?"

What's the fuss?

"Miss, there's a problem!"

The head of the advertising and marketing department came over quickly, sweat dripping down his forehead, "There are too many people!"

"what happened?"

"Didn't we send out invitations before? Miss, do you still remember our open day?"

"Open Day?" Alia realized belatedly: "The time when you smashed the refrigerator?"

"Correct!"

"No way..."

"In addition to those citizens, there is also a group of nearly 600 overseas fans who have just contacted us. They just got off the plane and are on their way here."

"Overseas fan club? Where did they come from?"

"The people over there are said to be all your fans, and at least half of them are professionals in the gaming industry."

Alia rubbed her forehead and remembered that Shigeru Miyamoto and others had asked her for permission, saying that some friends in the industry wanted to come to the press conference.

She had no objection. It was just a small matter to have more guests and more pairs of chopsticks to play with for a few days. She paid for the round-trip air tickets, so she asked Shigeru Miyamoto to make the arrangements.

Later, An and Yumiko asked if she had received such instructions. What was she busy doing at that time? She just dealt with it with "hmm, hmm, hmm".

"Six hundred people?!" Sister Jing was shocked: "We only invited three hundred domestic guests in total!"

"Come on, other guests, call the police - events with more than a thousand people need to be approved, and we have to prepare application materials... postpone it for an hour, hurry up and do it."

Alia looked around and realized that this venue was not suitable, so she had to find a way to solve the venue problem.

"Send the logistics guys over!"

"You, go contact Mr. Zhou from the advertising department. I need a venue that can accommodate 3,000 people, preferably indoors."

"You, go to the security department and bring half of the people here to maintain order. We need to move the guests to another place."

"It's an emergency!" Alia clapped her hands, "Five times the overtime pay! Brothers and sisters, hurry up! Get moving!"

……

……

After Aunt Zhou received Alia's call, she immediately contacted the largest indoor stage in Tianhai City.

Tianhai City's Starlight Stage was originally the Tianhai Gymnasium. Decades ago, it was even the largest indoor gymnasium in the country, accommodating nearly 20,000 spectators.

The renovated stage can accommodate 10,000 people, making it a model for the renovation of a large, multi-functional theater-style indoor stadium.

In the past, celebrities came here to sing, dance, rap and hold concerts, but I have never heard of anyone holding a technology product launch here.

The main reason is that there is nothing outstanding in the domestic technology product industry. In the past few years, it has been like a pot of warm water, without any ripples.

So when the Starlight Stage Exhibition Hall received the request from the Ai Group, it was a little uncomfortable.

After double checking that they were not planning a meeting or an exhibition, but a press conference using a large screen, I accepted the invitation.

However, the order was accepted, but the staff of the exhibition hall were still a little shocked when they looked at the frame of the large stage outside the window of the management office.

That thing is sixteen meters high and can be stretched to forty-two meters wide. You put your own products on it and let everyone criticize it. Are you serious?

How much courage does it take to make such a bright display? Can the home appliance seller be so crazy? A high-tech refrigerator? A fully automatic quantum nano future technology washing machine?

"Okay, stop complaining. This is a large-scale event that has been approved in compliance with regulations. You can do whatever you want. Forget selling refrigerators. You can even sell children's toys."

"If he can make children's toys to the level of holding a press conference, then I will become a casual fan, a die-hard fan."

Several cars of people rushed over, and the employees of Ai Group jumped out of the cars as if they were on fire and began to arrange various things with the venue staff.

There is a welcome area, an interactive area, a check-in area, a display area, it’s all a mess - there is even a tea break area.

The slightly plump Jimei, who had not appeared for a long time but actually went there to secretly lose points but to no avail, showed up, accompanied by a group of hotel staff to greet guests.

"How come I, the young boss of a hot spring resort chain, became the lobby manager of my little sister Xiao Ai?"

The plump Jimei put her hands on her hips and looked puzzled: "And there are also groups from Benzi. Do you think they are used to our northern style of scrubbing?"

"Anyway, our hot spring is cleaner than theirs..."

“That’s right—” The slightly plump Jimei nodded: “It’s just that there are too many people, six hundred people, tut tut tut.”

For a normal indoor event, two to three hundred people are considered large-scale. To arrange a press conference for three hundred people would cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.

The 300 people that Sister Jing had invited before was actually the normal number of people a company would need to hold an exhibition. If it was higher, the money would have to be significantly increased.

Yes, pay extra to hire people - the TV media will ask you for 5,000 per trip, which is a friendly price, and 10,000 is the market price.

The travel expenses for online media are one thousand yuan per station, and the price for print media is about the same.

This is just the channel fee for inviting people to come, and the price of writing the article is calculated separately.

But the problem is that Alia is the type who doesn't give travel expenses, so Sister Jing can only invite some new media.

There are not many new media doing reviews in the technology industry these days, and they are all unpopular. Sister Jing didn’t expect that many people would come to support them.

Besides the shortage of venues and service staff due to the large number of people, the most ridiculous thing is the shortage of printed materials.

When they come, you have to give them a guest card, a schedule, or an activity manual, right?

Hey! You don't get a chance! You just stare at the connection and don't know what to do next. It's a surprise to put it nicely, but it's not your place to put it bluntly.

Can this be played for the guests? Print more copies now!

The activity brochure is printed on 4 pages of A paper and printed and bound quickly. It is not too much to charge you yuan for each copy.

Alia couldn't solve these problems even if she spent money. She had to attack on multiple fronts with great difficulty. It took her an hour to get all the people here, and order became chaotic again.

"What do you mean?"

"…There's a concert tonight, so we're just there to cut in line."

"so what?"

"The fans are not happy about this. What kind of fake company is trying to take advantage of their idol? That's probably it."

Alia looked at the group of fans outside the exhibition hall and always felt that this plot was familiar.

The next step is for me to show off and slap the idol opposite me, then enter the entertainment industry and start a new Urban Dragon King copy, right?

But just when she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to talk to the idol on the other side about the philosophy of life, the fan club on the other side arrived.

What does a tour group of 600 people mean?

These people were put on a cruise ship and went to Siam, and the governor of the local state government had to go to the dock in person to greet them.

Even in China, this team has attracted the attention of local officials: Why are they here? Is there any international conference?

The simplest and most intuitive example is that even the delegation going abroad to participate in the Olympic Games cannot gather so many people, and only more than 10,000 people enter the Tianhai Airport port every day.

Ailia then met Aunt Cui, who was in charge of general affairs at Tianhai, in the car that came first.

"Sister Cui, why are you here too?"

"I should be the one asking this question, Xiao Ai, what kind of exhibition is this? Is it getting such a big international response?"

“…I’m confused too.” Alia kept scratching her head. “Just treat it as a tourist. Is there nothing wrong?”

"They all have business visas. Are there really no friendly merchants coming to Tianhai to invest?"

"Probably not?"

"Okay, let's take a look first - by the way, I'll take a look at your press conference too. Mr. Huo also sent us an invitation letter before."

Alia no longer understood Mr. Huo's strange ideas, and this was not the way to stuff food into his mouth.

The invitation letter for the new mobile phone product launch conference can also be forwarded to the official? His idea is quite unique, the light of domestic technology, right?

As they were talking, the noise of fans began to be heard again.

I don’t know if it was the scalpers who were causing trouble, but they seemed to think that Alia’s commercial press conference would lead to the cancellation of the concert.