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

Chapter 57 Penguin's Strangulation, Users Exceed 100 Million (3K Reading Request)
The next morning, after having breakfast, Chen Yansen leisurely went up to the second floor of the Entrepreneurship Park.

I saw Zhuang Rui, Zhang Wenbo and Hu Yun lying on a mat, hugging each other in twos, in an eye-catching posture, and snoring loudly.

"Fuck! You three are invincible!"

Chen Yansen laughed in silence, but he was not in a hurry to wake up the three people. Instead, he took out his mobile phone and took a lot of pictures.

"Hey! Wake up! Put on your clothes. The customer service girl will be here soon. Don't scare her."

After the filming, Chen Yansen kicked Hu Yun awake with a wicked smile and shouted loudly.

"Fuck! I was clearly wearing clothes before I went to bed!" Hu Yun heard the noise and opened his eyes sleepily. When he found that he was shirtless, he shouted subconsciously.

"Zhuang Rui, you son of a bitch, why are you poking me with a stick in the middle of the night?" Zhang Wenbo rubbed his butt and said with an unhappy face.

"Tsk! Who poked you with a stick? You must be dreaming!" Zhuang Rui yawned and grabbed a black short T-shirt. When he realized what was happening, he immediately yelled at Hu Yun, "You're such a slob! You threw your dirty clothes on me."

"..."

Hu Yun was speechless for a moment and almost laughed out of anger, but he himself was not sure whether he took off his clothes himself or was taken off by someone else.

Chen Yansen glanced at Zhuang Rui, took a step back, and urged him, "Go back and wash up quickly, the room stinks."

"Hey, Brother Sen, guess what the final data was yesterday?" Hu Yun asked with a smile while putting on his clothes.

"I can't guess, tell me!"

Chen Yansen pulled over a chair and sat down, poured himself a glass of water, and then asked slowly.

He could see the data by simply opening his computer and logging into the backend, but Hu Yun and the other three had stayed up late in the Entrepreneurship Park after all, and he really didn't want to let them down.

“新客增量为8.1万，订单量6459单，总销售额是20万零1千6百元，毛利3万2千8百元。”

Hu Yun blurted out, obviously he had a deep memory of this set of numbers.

"Oh, not bad! Keep it up!" Chen Yansen smiled slightly and gave a casual encouragement.

These results are astronomical and unimaginable achievements for college students like them, but for Chen Yansen, they are just that. After deducting the costs, it is just a way to make a name for himself.

FoxTao’s real growth prospects still depend on new customer retention, first-order transaction rate and repeat purchase frequency.

Hu Yun sighed lightly. He could sense Chen Yansen's perfunctory attitude and indifference. Even though the other party was a freshman and he was a junior, he seemed to have never seen any expression of panic or surprise on Chen Yansen's face.

We are all eighteen or nineteen years old, why is there such a big gap?

The three of them put on their clothes, rolled up their mats, and walked slowly towards the dormitory.

About ten minutes later, Song Yuncheng walked into Room 206 carrying a computer. Ever since Fox Tao gave her a work computer, she has never borrowed her roommate's laptop again, and her design skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

"Mr. Chen, good morning!"

Song Yuncheng looked up and saw Chen Yansen. After hesitating for two or three seconds, he still greeted him.

"After the launch of the 0 yuan bargaining service, how is the customer service reception? Can Meng Xibo, Zhu Xiaopeng and the others handle it?"

Chen Yansen responded and then asked.

Hold on?
Song Yuncheng was slightly startled. Although she didn't quite understand, she could guess the specific meaning based on the context. She thought for a moment and replied, "It's a bit too busy during the peak hours of noon and evening, but during the low period of inquiries, we can still handle it."

"Tell Zhuang Rui to put the most frequently asked questions and standard responses on the access interface. This will reduce the workload of customer service. Then have Xu Xingxing post a job announcement and hire three more part-time customer service representatives."

Chen Yansen frowned, thought for a moment, and then gave her an instruction.

"Hire three more customer service representatives?"

Song Yuncheng was stunned and didn't understand what Chen Yansen meant for a moment.

"We need to plan ahead. We can't wait until customer service is incredibly busy before hiring people. We still have three days of training."

Chen Yansen explained patiently with an expression as if he was looking at a mentally retarded person.

"Yeah, I got it."

Song Yuncheng's pretty face turned red, and she nodded awkwardly. She took out her notebook and wrote down the two things Chen Yansen mentioned.

"B2C mall, website search, CRM merchant management system, payment license... Damn, there's really no rush. With just a few of us, I'm lucky to have made it this far without causing any major trouble."

Chen Yansen leaned back and muttered to himself, feeling both annoyed and confident that the road ahead was bright.

While his peers were still offering product discounts, he had already started giving rebates. When competitors followed suit and copied him, he set up brand groups to improve the platform's tone. When others were building brands and talking to merchants, he was playing with the industrial chain.

Always be one step ahead of others so that they don't have a chance to copy you.

Before long, most of the FoxTao team members had arrived. Each startup room had six desks, plus a refrigerator and a water dispenser, leaving little space.

If we hire more people, I'm afraid the newly rented room 204 will be full.

Because everyone is a student with different course schedules, some people arrive and some leave at random. Of course, seniors like Zhang Wenbo, Zhuang Rui, and Hu Li, aside from working on their graduation theses, spend most of their time at the Pioneer Park.

With the first user to receive an iPhone 4 becoming a trending topic, FoxTao finally gained some fame within the online community. The average daily advertising fee for the advertising team also increased tenfold, from 4000 yuan to 4 yuan.

The number of new website users is increasing like weeds every day.

On October 24, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 25, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 26, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 27, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 28, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 29, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
On October 30, the number of new customers on Fox Taobao increased by 97,000 per day!
In less than two months, Chen Yansen, through name voting and 0-yuan bargaining activities, plus more than 300,000 yuan in advertising, pushed the cumulative number of registered users of FoxTao to 109 million!
The number of daily active users is stable at around 6!
The daily order volume is about 9000 orders!
The highest single-day sales volume suddenly reached 280,000, just one step away from the goal of monthly income of 10 million.

However, Chen Yansen knew that the current achievements might be just a flash in the pan. If he could not retain users, these data would soon drop sharply.

October 31st, the last day of the month.

The second floor of the Entrepreneurship Park was filled with a gloomy scene. Compared with yesterday, everyone looked like a defeated rooster.

"Zhuang Rui, what did Penguin say?"

Chen Yansen's eyes narrowed as he asked, suppressing his anger.

"I've spoken with the security inspectors there, but they ignored the tactics you gave me, Brother Sen. They insisted that our link poses risks of information leakage and account theft, and that they can't unblock the IP and domain name."

Zhuang Rui rarely swore and replied angrily.

"Hold!"

Chen Yansen slammed the table and tugged at his collar. Shenzhen City Ma was so awesome that he could close the market just like that, and he had no way to stop it.

"How many new customers will there be today?" Chen Yansen sighed and asked Hu Yun.

"73% of our new customers come from the QQ portal. If this problem isn't resolved, the maximum increase in new customers will be around 5. Furthermore, the attitudes of Xiaonei, Weibo, and Qiandu are unclear, and they might even ban us."

Hu Yun replied seriously.

People in the family know their own business. The bargaining link on FoxTao is indeed like a piece of electronic psoriasis, sticking to all major social platforms.

"First, we'll fight a guerrilla war against the penguins by switching IP addresses and domain names."

Chen Yansen tapped the table rhythmically with his fingers. After thinking for a long time, he came up with a helpless solution.

"This is the only way." Zhuang Rui nodded and turned to do his work.

"It's a pity that I don't know Hao Rui yet, otherwise I could just ask him to pass on a message and this matter could be resolved in minutes."

Chen Yansen thought to himself.

Hao Rui is the executive director of Penguin Investment and Mergers and Acquisitions Department. In his previous life, he led the Series A financing of Feiyu Technology. The two have a good relationship and can be considered brothers who have gone through the same journey.

Alas! Even if I knew Hao Rui, it wouldn’t have helped. In 2010, he was still at Accenture and hadn’t joined Penguin.

"Oh my god! For now, I can only bear it and wait until FoxTao's daily active users reach a higher level and attract the attention of investors. Then I can try to find connections."

Chen Yansen closed his eyes, his thoughts in a mess.

Song Yuncheng on the opposite side secretly looked at him. This was the first time she had seen Chen Yansen like this, powerless, helpless, and irritable. She had thought that even if the sky fell, Chen Yansen would still be that bad and unruly person.

"Drip-drip-"

The office landline suddenly rang.

Xu Xingxing, who was sitting nearby, picked up the phone and greeted them skillfully, "Hello, this is Fox Tao. May I ask..."

Xu Xingxing suddenly stopped talking, she raised her head and waved to Chen Yansen.

Chen Yansen didn't want to answer the phone, but Xu Xingxing kept waving at him. He stood up with an unhappy look on his face, walked to the phone and said, "I'm Chen Yansen, the person in charge of Fox Tao..."

However, when he heard the other party's self-introduction, he frowned and continued to listen with a serious face.

Three minutes later, Chen Yansen hung up the phone.

He leaned against the table, looking at the campus scenery outside the window. He never expected that Fox Tao would enter the sight of the top hunter so quickly.

"Xu Xingxing, book two tickets to Shenzhen."

Chen Yansen took a deep breath. He had to go this time!

"Squad leader, besides you, who else is going?" Xu Xingxing asked, his face full of anticipation.

"Song Yuncheng."

Chen Yansen answered briefly.

"I?"

Song Yuncheng pointed at herself with an unbelievable look on her face. She had never heard that a UI designer who was also the head of operations and customer service team would have a business trip mission.

(End of this chapter)