Siheyuan: Xu Damao corrects his evil ways

Everyone thinks that getting rich this year is very easy.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement. In Hong Kong in this era, Xu Damao is a typical example of getting rich overnight.

Many young people regard Xu Damao as their idol.

But most people don't know how many tempting temptations Xu Damao has rejected.

For example, the thought of a businessman surnamed Huang paying money in exchange for a copyright that seems to be not very valuable at the moment is already a child's play.

Xu Damao did not feel offended. Instead, he smiled calmly and said: "Mr. Huang, there is no need to test. Hong Kong Island is not a barren land like Africa. It is in sync with the world.

So there is no need to bring up the idea of ​​​​picking up bargains here. It will only make me think that you are not professional enough.

In fact, before you, several Hong Kong big guys with properties in America have offered to cooperate with me.

The terms they offered were much more generous than yours, but the reason I didn't agree was that I wanted to cooperate with professionals.

I believe Mr. Huang, you know better than me the growth potential and market fit of these three sets of comics.

Therefore, I am unwilling to release the idea of ​​copyright, Mr. Huang, you should understand. "

After Mr. Huang heard what Xu Damao said, his expression was unnatural, but he did not turn his face on the spot.

He hurried over from there in a hurry, naturally for the purpose of picking up opportunities.

So there is nothing to be embarrassed about after being exposed.

Mr. Huang shook his head and said: "Mr. Xu, I admit that I underestimated you. But that's how business is. We won't do things that are unprofitable.

In particular, I have to use my channels and resources to market the two new characters, and then you tell me that their future can be without me. This is not in line with business logic and is not in line with our interests.

It can be understood that I am currently trying my best to help you win the market, but in fact when our cooperation period is up, you can kick me away.

That is quite uneconomical for us. ·······”

This is how business is done, you can argue for days just for a small profit.

But for Xu Damao, the advantage lies with him.

Mr. Huang's career is always with Amalika. He can't stay here for a long time. It is inevitable that he will not come in a hurry and go back with nothing in the end.

For Xu Damao, being able to talk is the greatest victory.

Xu Damao really wasn't bragging. During this period, many young people from wealthy families really proposed to cooperate with Xu Damao. They were willing to pay and send people to Amalika to help Xu Damao run his own magazine.

Some people even offer more tempting conditions than Mr. Huang.

But the biggest problem when dealing with those people is that the conditions offered by those people are their final bottom line. Xu Damao is not even qualified to negotiate.

This is completely unacceptable to Xu Damao.

This is also the secret of Hong Kong Island's wealthy families, or all the wealthy families in the world, to maintain their family's longevity.

Angel investing.

Wealthy families like to hold banquets and dances, not just for enjoyment.

This is also the best occasion for wealthy families to show off their connections and strength.

They exchanged the potential stocks they discovered at banquets and dances, and then selected suitable projects for exchange.

According to the parlance in the investment field in later generations, it is angel round investment.

In other words, if Xu Damao wants to make a fortune at this time, which big boss will he agree to cooperate with? The big boss will not actually provide money and people to run anything at the destination as stipulated in the agreement.

Instead, they consolidated resources and packaged Xu Damao and sold them to people who needed him and his comics.

For example, some big guys who focus on the cultural industry.

In the meantime, the conditions proposed by the angel round investment to Xu Damao were simply empty words.

The big guys who took over had the time and means to completely control him.

For example, if they delay you for several years until you lose your temper and can no longer survive, then they will offer you a new contract to sign.

In the new contract, you have changed from a collaborator to a worker.

Or there are some underhanded methods. If you can replace them, the big guys won't mind letting you disappear.

It's just so cruel.

Xu Damao is pretty good, after all, he has already established himself on Hong Kong Island.

So you can choose to refuse cooperation.

It can also be said that Xu Damao worked hard for so long just to get a qualification that can be said to be rejected.

But Xu Damao knows what capital he has. To put it bluntly, all his confidence lies in the magazine he cooperates with.

As long as the magazine develops healthily, even if the magazine's profits are somewhat damaged.

It was impossible for those big men to force him.

Other titles from the upper class, such as comics king, are completely worthless in the eyes of those people.

The partner chosen by Xu Damao rejected all wealthy families from the beginning.

If Xu Damao just makes a comic magazine, then naturally relying on a wealthy family is equivalent to riding on the highway.

The wealthy family will clear all obstacles for Xu Damao and help Xu Damao become famous quickly.

and then?
Then there is nothing.

For the subsequent commercial development, the copyright peripherals are equal to the remuneration Xu Damao gave those people.

Those wealthy families may give him the sweetness of some stock dividends in order to encourage Xu Damao, but those people will never give Xu Damao the right to conduct business operations.

What God loves to do most is to create another god, and then knock the other god into dust and let the other god crawl in front of him.

And Xu Damao probably knows how great the subsequent benefits of the characters he creates in the industry he is engaged in.

Therefore, he would rather go slower and harder than take the fast track to a wealthy family.

Just like the original author of Harbert, who would have thought that she authorized several movies and an industry chain worth hundreds of billions, but in the end she only drank some footwashing water.

The negotiations between Xu Damao and Mr. Huang dragged on for about half a month. In the end, both parties took a step back and signed a gambling agreement.

That is to say, on Mr. Huang's side, if Xu Damao's comics are vigorously promoted, the higher the market share and the greater the sales volume, the greater the interest Mr. Huang will have in the subsequent realization of copyright.

The copyright still belongs to Xu Damao, and Mr. Huang only enjoys a fixed proportion of the profit sharing for twenty years.

This can be regarded as Xu Damao deceiving Mr. Huang based on what later generations know.

Mr. Huang knows that comic book characters have a long lifespan, but to be honest, he thinks it is quite acceptable to live for twenty years.

He couldn't see that with the development of technology, the magnificent magical world in Xu Damao's comic world would be fully displayed on the big screen.

Naturally, we don't know how big the benefits are.

Even now, things like Batman and Captain America, although they have been popular for decades, their profits are just that, and sometimes, the companies that run them even lose money. To put it bluntly, comic companies in the West now send people to Hong Kong Island to learn the comics monetization channels of Xu Damao Magazine.

But unfortunately, they can't learn.

Xu Damao can quickly sell comic peripheral licenses, and the cheap labor in the mainland is a huge advantage.

It is precisely because of the cheap labor costs in the mainland that Xu Damao's partners have reduced their product costs to a minimum and seized market share in the entire Southeast Asian market with the help of the best-selling comics.

How can Western colleagues learn this stuff?
Among them, Xu Damao also sacrificed too many personal interests.

It can be said that if Xu Damao operates according to normal routines, he will become a multi-millionaire in at most two years.

This is not what Xu Damao predicted, but the prediction of those colleagues who analyzed Xu Damao's magazine management methods.

But Xu Damao also knows that if he abandons a certain agency and operates according to normal routines, maybe Xu Damao will no longer exist in the Hong Kong comics market.

Or perhaps, there is no such person as Xu Damao in Hong Kong Island.

Xu Damao promised Mr. Huang that the profit share would be up to 30%. This thing is interesting. Mr. Huang wants to get 30% of the profit. According to America's current population, one out of every five people must have purchased Xu Damao's comics.

Of course, there is also a guarantee. According to the current average sales of Fatty Blue in Hong Kong Island, Xu Damao will directly double it. That is, if the monthly sales volume reaches 100,000, then Mr. Huang will receive a 10% net profit share from the authorization of comic peripherals.

This seems very unfair to Mr. Huang, but again, the population base is different. In fact, compared to the millions of people in Hong Kong, the population of America is hundreds of millions. The difficulty has dropped more than a little.

If you really want to achieve this level of sales, it only shows that Mr. Huang's distribution channels have no ability at all.

Then, Xu Damao can also propose to end the cooperation.

Mr. Huang came across the ocean with the idea of ​​picking up leaks.

But in fact, Mr. Huang felt aggrieved.

This is much more difficult than when he fooled the new generation of comic book writers in America.

According to Mr. Huang, Xu Damao is a businessman first and a cartoonist second.

Xu Damao raised objections to Mr. Huang's statement. Xu Damao never thought of himself as a cartoonist, he was just a businessman, and everything was for the purpose of making money.

Of course, Xu Damao will also entrust a commercial investigation company to monitor comic sales from time to time in accordance with business rules.

This thing also eliminates the possibility of Mr. Huang’s fraud.

Anything could happen, and Xu Damao couldn't guarantee that everything would develop as he expected.

Just like Wanwan, since the agency authorization was put down, all kinds of piracy have been banned repeatedly.

Wanwan agents had various complaints.

But according to Xu Damao's investigation, the agent there is the largest pirate manufacturer.

There is no one left with this thing.

There are even times when Xu Damao has just given over the master copy, but before the original copy is released, pirated copies have already been released.

Xu Damao knew the reason why those people were so unscrupulous was because most of the Wanwan publishers at this time had various backend support.

It is simply impossible to force a lawsuit with them.

Xu Damao directly found an American research company to conduct a survey on the Wanwan comics industry.

Then, through the small media that carried the Western brand but reported gossip news, some reports were directly reported to them.

It should be said that it is of no use.

People still go their own way.

But Xu Damao doesn’t expect those people to change. The reason why Xu Damao wants to create influence from foreign media is not to expect them to change.

Just take the foreign media reports and let Wanwan's agent conduct a self-examination. Then before the self-examination is completed, the time Xu Damao gave to the parent company will be set back half a month.

This is the maximum that Xu Damao can do.

Although he could directly stop cooperating with Wanwan, in that case, the publisher would not be offended. The associations behind the publisher, as well as those with official seals.

He will use some means to retaliate against Xu Damao, but Xu Damao doesn't want to take a bullet.

This is true for people who have knives and guns in their hands. When they encounter problems, they don't think about solving the problems, but solve the people who discovered those problems.

Xu Damao's approach can be regarded as cowardice.

That is to say, he can't control the comics market in Wanwan, and he doesn't want to control it anymore.

Delaying the delivery of the master copy for half a month is to prevent Wanwan’s pirated comics from affecting the market elsewhere.

That's it, the publisher over there also sent people to protest.

There are also threats in words.

But this is Hong Kong Island after all, and behind Xu Damao is a certain company.

Xu Damao directly photographed more unexposed investigation materials in front of the other party, and then said to the opposite party, a high-ranking publisher with a corporate background: "You have to follow the rules, and I will follow the rules with you.

If you want to play tricks, we can also play tricks.

I've already given you a lot of face.

You said that when I exposed the fact that you gave black money to a certain legislator, you were the first to be unlucky? Or am I unlucky first? "

You get what you pay for. Xu Damao spent a lot of money to ask foreigners to investigate the matter, which made the publisher's top management shut up. His face was uncertain and his eyes were twinkling. I was analyzing the various pros and cons in my mind, and occasionally a fierce light flashed in my eyes. I guess I was thinking of those unseemly methods.

Xu Damao naturally gave a sweet date after a slap. He smiled at the other party and said: "Actually, the fact that the parent family is half a month late for you does not affect your interests at all.

As long as outside comic magazines don’t pass by, Wanwan will still be your agent.

At least during the cooperation period, I have no plans to change agents.

As for things like these, they are not what I want to create.

It was only when the investigation company investigated the piracy issue that they discovered it by the way.

I can only say that what you did was not covert enough.

These things can be brought back to you. If there is no backup, just make friends.

I have no intention of overturning anything. I just do business and make money.

I really want to play tricks, but you also know who I am and what interests I represent.

They're going to start a fire, and maybe they're going to come up with another cannon. "

To say whether Xu Damao was afraid or not, it should be said that he was both. At this time in Hong Kong Island, the other party was wearing shoes, so they should be the ones who were afraid.

But playing tricks and using black guns are also the opponent's expertise, so Xu Damao still doesn't want to completely offend these people.

So what Xu Damao said can be said to be a coward or a threat.

After all, it is half soft and half hard, which at least guarantees the other party's profits during the contract period. (End of chapter)