I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 143 Pre-sale: 120 million! Can I turn against you just because 360 ​​makes mobile phones?
"32.7 units?"

The next morning, Chen Yansen sat in the office and nodded with satisfaction after listening to the work report of the marketing department.

It seems that starting pre-sales before Xiaomi is a wise move.

Not only did it snatch the title of "King of Cost-Effectiveness" from Xiaomi, it also stepped on the heads of HTC and Sanxing, and grabbed a lot of traffic.

“昨日12小时累计预售20.3万台，今天截止到9点10分，又售出12.4万台。”市场部员工补充道。

"Okay, got it." Chen Yansen waved his hand, signaling the other party to leave.

Then, Wang Teng walked in, holding the computer and pushing the door open: "Brother Sen, are you looking for me?"

He thought Chen Yansen wanted to know the development progress, so he asked with a smile.

"What's the feedback on Aurora 1.2?"

After Wang Teng sat down, Chen Yansen asked.

"Based on user experience, the cleaning efficiency is more than three times that of the 1.0 algorithm. Even for a phone with 512MB of RAM, the smoothness can be greatly improved by flashing the system to Aurora OS."

Wang Teng replied with a smile.

"I want to transfer you to the marketing department. What do you think?"

Chen Yansen responded and then went straight to the point.

"Uh, Brother Sen, I'm a product manager..." Wang Teng subconsciously refused. In his opinion, he was a technical person and could not do the work of a functional department.

"You're only 24 years old. Don't set limits on your life. Your background and position aren't important. What matters is what you're suited for."

Chen Yansen ignored Wang Teng's refusal and continued to insist.

But I have never done marketing or anything like that, so I have no experience at all.

Wang Teng complained in his heart, looking helpless.

"I'm worried because there's no one I trust in charge of the main marketing department. Do you understand?"

Seeing that Wang Teng was a little resistant, Chen Yansen explained with a smile.

"Can I take care of product development work as well?" Wang Teng asked tentatively.

"As long as you can handle it, I don't mind." Chen Yansen shrugged indifferently.

"Brother Sen, what about the salary?" Wang Teng smiled and rubbed his fingers.

"Based on the salary of a marketing director, forget about getting two salaries," Chen Yansen said unhappily.

"Then I'll go get to work." Wang Teng knew when to stop and walked out happily.

He was confused and didn't know why Chen Yansen suddenly transferred him to the marketing department. If he was dissatisfied with him, the monthly salary of the marketing director would be at least 5, which was much better than his current income of 3.

Let's say I'm satisfied. I was doing a good job in the product position, but they insisted on transferring him away. Now I have to take on two jobs, which keeps me busy.

Chen Yansen didn't care what Wang Teng thought.

In his opinion, the fact that Lei Jun put Wang Teng in the position of general manager of Xiaomi's marketing department and general manager of the Redmi brand more than ten years later shows that Wang Teng has this ability.

While Wang Teng in 2011 was certainly lacking in experience and ability, he at least had potential in this area.

Lei Yijun can train people, and so can Chen Yansen!

The next day, the pre-sale volume of Orange mobile phones reached 23.4 units!

On the third day, which happened to be Monday, white-collar workers returned to the company, and pre-sales grew against the trend, exceeding 27.3 units!

the other side.

Cao Dahua and Zuo Hongyu, who are guarding the Orange mobile phone factory, are still waiting for news.

The pre-sale volume reached 71 units, and the delivery date of Orange Mall was scheduled for one month later.

"Brother Hua, has the defect in the rear cover assembly process been resolved?"

In the office, Zuo Hongyu picked up a cup of black tea, took a sip, and asked Cao Dahua.

"Yesterday the R&D center sent us the latest back cover design. I had the workshop test it out, and the uneven seam problem has been fixed. We're just waiting for Boss Chen to give the production order."

Cao Dahua was also drinking tea and said boredly.

Several processing orders received by the factory are almost completed, and more than 600 employees are about to go on vacation, so they are naturally anxious.

But Chen Yansen was cautious and had to wait for feedback from users of more than 300 engineering machines to confirm that there were no problems before he would start large-scale production.

"I don't know what's wrong with Mr. Chen's brain. Doing business is as easy as drinking water. We've been in this industry for more than ten years, but he has easily taken it over. Now even the bosses in Huaqiangbei want to switch to making smartphones."

Zuo Hongyu sighed and said with a smile.

A 19-year-old college student, who had his first exposure to the mobile phone industry, sold a staggering 71 units within three days of going online.

It’s easy for people to have the illusion that making a smartphone is easy and I can do it too!
Driven by this trend, brands like Little Chili Pepper, Banana, Little Guava and Litchi Mobile have registered, aiming to get a share of the "fruit" smartphone market.

Little did they know that the rash transformation would become the last straw that broke the camel's back for this group of people.

Smartphones seem simple. You can start making them by installing an Android system and assembling the supply chain. However, there are many more pitfalls in system optimization and hardware design than in copycat phones.

“Beep bell—!”

The landline on the table suddenly rang!

The two looked at each other, and Zuo Hongyu said, "Brother Hua, you take it!"

"Hey! Okay, let's get started!"

Cao Dahua picked up the phone and answered, then hummed a few times. The corners of his mouth grew wider and wider, almost reaching the back of his ears.

"Can we start work now?" Zuo Hongyu asked excitedly.

"Have the production manager follow the established production plan and arrange everything from the production supervisor to the team leader, layer by layer!"

Cao Dahua hung up the phone and announced enthusiastically.

He failed in making mobile phones and left Shenzhen in disgrace because he had a wild imagination and wanted to make smart phones in 2005. He went against the times and ultimately did not have a good ending.

As a result, only more than 1000 mobile phones were sold before the company went bankrupt. Not only did he lose all his savings, but he also lost Cao Dahua's confidence in making a comeback.

Later, he used his connections to get into Xucheng College and became an entrepreneurship instructor who spent his days drinking tea and slacking off.

"Okay, we are finally on the right track!" Zuo Hongyu showed a happy expression and ran out excitedly.

Before long, the entire A3 orange factory received production tasks.

The first phase will produce 100 million units! For workers, the more orders the factory receives, the more overtime they have to work, which means they can earn higher incomes.

"I only received 3500 yuan last month. Luckily, I didn't run away and persevered."

Li Yunzhu chuckled, feeling glad that he had made the right choice.

During the more than 40 days he spent at the Orange Mobile Phone Factory, he had the most comfortable time of his working career. He was provided with food and accommodation, and the food standard in the cafeteria was not bad either.

Overtime pay is calculated by the minute, and overtime pay for weekdays and weekends is actually paid according to the labor law.

He felt that the boss of this company was crazy. How could he make money if he paid such good wages to the assembly line workers?
However, he personally likes this kind of stupid boss very much. The work is easy and the salary is high. Who wouldn't be happy?

After receiving the instructions, the Orange mobile phone factory started production immediately.

After communicating with Zhang Jing, Cao Dahua decided to launch the second recruitment plan, recruiting another 600 people to maximize the production line's capacity.

For a while, a long interview line formed in front of the gate of the China-Saudi Arabia Science and Technology Park.

at the same time.

Users who received the first batch of engineering machines began to post pictures on the Orange Community and Weibo and share their experiences.

After all, it has flagship-level configuration and powerful performance, and all mainstream mobile games on the market can run smoothly.

Coupled with Aurora OS's personalized themes, icons and ringtone settings, users can have a lot of fun.

1999元能买到4.5寸、1+8GB内存、800万像素摄像头和骁龙S3处理器的智能手机，简直不敢想！

If you change to other brands, it will cost at least 3999 yuan!
The design of global gesture operation may be difficult to adapt to at first, but after getting familiar with it, you will find that the operating efficiency is significantly improved.

In addition, many people have found that the latest version of Aurora OS1.1 is more efficient in memory management and garbage collection.

Mobile phones with the same configuration will experience lag and screen delay after opening multiple apps, but Orange phones will not have this problem at all.

It will automatically clean up the underlying applications and junk files every 15 minutes based on the user's usage order.

At the end of the day, not only did the phone not lag, but even the heating problem was relatively minor.

This is because the back cover of the Orange phone is made of aluminum alloy, and with a heat spreader, it can quickly transfer the internal heat to the stainless steel back cover, and then dissipate it into the air through the back cover.

Greatly improved heat dissipation efficiency!
Of course, the Orange phone also has its shortcomings, that is, the 800-megapixel camera does not perform well in taking pictures, with poor imaging effects and slow focusing.

But when you think about the price of 1999 yuan, this flaw is completely within the acceptable range for users.

Some mobile phone enthusiasts and digital bloggers began to pay extra money to purchase engineering version prototypes in the Orange Community.

Pre-sale orders may require a waiting time of at least a week, or even a month.

The topic of Orange mobile phone is very hot, and if you want to get some traffic, you have to spend money.

After Chen Yansen learned about it, he smiled helplessly. In order to make money and carry on the humanitarian cause, he was much more prepared than Lei Yijun.

The funds he has on hand are enough to cover the material costs of 50 mobile phones. In addition, many suppliers are settled on a quarterly basis, so he does not have much financial pressure.

So I didn’t follow Lei Jun’s example and use “hunger marketing”, I just sold it directly.

With the Orange mobile phone factory's annual production capacity of over 500 million, there is no need to worry about production capacity issues in the initial stage.

But scalpers still appeared, which caught him off guard.

By the time he set off for Yanjing to attend Xiaomi's new product launch conference, the pre-sale volume of the Orange phone had exceeded 120 million, making it the first popular model in the second half of 2011.

FoxTao took this opportunity and its sales volume exceeded 3 billion in August, becoming the undisputed leader in the domestic shopping guide e-commerce industry.

Even Apple, on the other side of the ocean, was evaluating whether to give up a few percentage points of profit and use FoxTao's channels to sell their new products in China before the release of Apple 4S.

If an e-commerce website can sell high-priced goods, it means that its users are extremely valuable.

The outside world's valuation of FoxTao is also rising. Although everyone knows that this is due to the popularity of Orange mobile phones, every transaction order is real and cannot be faked.

"Vancl sold 600 million products on FoxTao last month. I thought the price was too high, and Vancl's sales representative said I didn't understand the product. No wonder they've only achieved 100 billion of their 20 billion sales target. They understand the product, but unfortunately they don't understand the users."

On the plane, Song Yuncheng complained softly.

"Chen Nian may not be suitable for sales." Chen Yansen commented lightly.

The reasons why Vancl was able to succeed were, first, it caught the trend of e-commerce, second, it had less competition, and third, it had the support of its big brother Lei Yijun.

But in the era when Taobao and Dong were frantically conquering cities and territories, it was no longer possible.

Gao Weilin sat aside, his attention completely focused on Lotte's reply email.

After learning that FoxTao’s monthly sales exceeded 30 billion, Lotte responded with the utmost sincerity and prepared to conduct an on-site inspection.

After Gao Weilin finished watching, he glanced at his boss, then put on his headphones and started watching the movie.

Work is important, but making your boss comfortable is more important.

He is not a person without foresight. After all, he has been working with Lotte for several months, so there is no need to waste time in reporting.

Lei Yijun couldn't help but take a deep breath when he learned that the sales volume of Orange mobile phone exceeded 120 million units.

He understood that Xiaomi could either take advantage of this favorable situation and soar to the top, or become a victim of Orange and become a foil.

"This guy is not kind. After returning from Xiaomi's R&D center, he founded Orange Technology. Tsk tsk tsk."

Zhou Hongyi, who was sitting opposite Lei Yijun, shook his head and commented.

"The market is so big, and I can't stop others from making phones. Luckily, Chen Yansen is a good guy. A friend is always better than a rival. So, should I turn against you just because 360 ​​makes a phone?"

Lei Yijun said generously.

"Really?"

Zhou Hongyi asked subconsciously. After seeing Chen Yansen's great success, he also had the idea of ​​entering the mobile phone industry.

A 19-year-old college student, whose previous industry was completely unrelated to e-commerce, could succeed. Why couldn't Zhou?

"..."

Lei Yijun stared at Zhou Hongyi, as if trying to judge whether his words were true or not.

"Old Zhou, you..."

After a long while, Lei Yijun asked.

"Just kidding, you don't take it seriously, do you?" Zhou Hongyi laughed it off.

(End of this chapter)