Chapter 737: Have you eaten?
Faced with the domineering Meg Whitman, eBay executives remained silent.
At the beginning, when eBay was painting a big rosy picture for Eachnet, it said that killing Taobao would be as easy as an elephant crushing an ant. But now, the ant is alive and well and has even grown stronger, and the elephant is now a little overwhelmed.
Meg Whitman became even angrier when she saw that no one was talking. She immediately asked, "Are you all dumb ? Is the company paying you so much just to sit here and be wax figures?"
At the beginning, eBay came with a high-handed and sweeping attitude, with the purpose of copying their system and giving a little capitalist shock to Xia Country, which had just opened its doors to the public for more than 20 years. Therefore, the price of eBay's acquisition of Eachnet was not low, and the treatment of all employees was aligned with eBay, which was improved by several levels.
Seeing that Whitman was about to appoint troops, Shao Yibo could only step forward helplessly: "Dear Ms. Whitman, it's not that we have no solution, but we have made suggestions before, but eBay did not adopt them. In this case, why should we give our suggestions again? Is it fun to say it?"
After hearing what Shao Yibo said, Whitman frowned even more and asked in a deep voice, "Is that the free thing you mentioned?"
Shao Yibo nodded and said, "Now Taobao has attracted many small and medium-sized merchants to open stores there, which is different from our strategy of focusing on second-hand auctions, but this can actually be adjusted. After all, Taobao can find sellers, so can we. The problem is that Taobao is free, and we charge, so sellers are simply unwilling to come."
In fact, Shao Yibo's mind is very flexible, and he is very familiar with the market in Xia Country. Therefore, after Taobao made its move, he immediately learned all the "new moves" that Lu Yiming had come up with. As long as he followed them, he would still be able to win.
The only problem is that eBay headquarters refuses to provide it for free.
After all, small business sellers are very savvy. Taobao does not charge handling fees, but eBay does, and your traffic does not have a clear advantage. Anyone with a normal brain would know what to choose.
Meg Whitman was also helpless. After all, the free strategy would affect the entire body, and the headquarters would never agree to it no matter what.
But she couldn't just watch herself being defeated by Lu Yiming again, so she came to Xia Country this time to personally take charge of the situation, which was equivalent to her, the CEO of eBay, leading the army in person.
If it loses even in this situation, then eBay will not only lose the Xia country market, but even its development momentum will be cut short.
After careful consideration, Meg Whitman told Shao Yibo: "It's impossible to be free, but I can give you greater authority and higher discounts to let you attract people."
Shao Yibo has been immersed in this industry for many years, and Taobao has now become a successful example, so when Shao Yibo heard Whitman's words, he immediately understood that although eBay could not be free, Whitman's meaning was that they could compete with Taobao in spending money and adopt Taobao's method of losing money but gaining publicity.
No matter what, eBay is richer than Taobao, right?
At Alibaba headquarters, seeing that all the data were rising, eBay had already stopped its activities and there had been no movement for a long time. Lu Yiming said to Jack Ma, "The situation has been stabilized for the time being. I don't know what tricks eBay will come up with, but as long as we don't make any mistakes, there won't be a big problem. You keep an eye on this side, I have to go back to Baiyun City."
Although Lu Yiming is a major shareholder of Alibaba, in name it is still Jack Ma's company. It is not appropriate for him to stay here all day to give orders. After all, he owns so many companies. If he works personally in every company, even if he has 240 hours a day, it will not be enough.
Jack Ma said: "Mr. Lu, thanks to your help during this period, Taobao was able to expand so quickly."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "This is all thanks to everyone."
After returning to Baiyun City, Lu Yiming's pace of life slowed down. He slept until he woke up naturally every day, then went out for morning tea and a stroll, feeling very leisurely.
On this day, Lu Yiming passed by the gate of No. 1 Middle School and walked in. Listening to the sound of reading aloud coming from inside, he felt quite emotional.
Being reborn is equivalent to staying in this school for eight years. I have witnessed his transformation and growth. This feeling can be said to be very deep.
Just as he was walking around the playground, Lu Yiming suddenly heard someone calling his name. He turned around and found that it was Lin Yuzhen.
At this time, Lin Yuzhen was holding a cute child in her arms.
Lu Yiming was very surprised: "I haven't seen you for a while, and you've already given birth to a child?"
When Lin Yuzhen heard this, she gritted her teeth and said, "Lu Yiming, what are you looking at? This is my uncle's son, he's already over one year old!"
Lu Yiming couldn't help scratching his head.
Zhu Hanwen’s son?
Didn't he have a daughter in my memory? Did I remember it wrong?
Maybe. After all, Zhu Hanwen had already graduated from high school when he had the child, and family changes at the time left him with no time to take care of such trivial matters.
Then, Lin Yuzhen said angrily: "What are you doing here?"
Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and said jokingly, "Of course I'm here to relive my wonderful student days. Why? Can't I come yet?"
Although I haven't been here for a few years, there haven't been many changes in No. 1 Middle School. The staff dormitories are still the same, the playground is still the same, and there is no such thing as renovating the school as soon as you graduate, which gives people a heart attack just thinking about it.
Lin Yuzhen curled her lips and said, "Come if you want."
While Lu Yiming was teasing the child in Lin Yuzhen's arms, he asked, "How did you find time to go back to Baiyun City? What are you doing recently?"
Lin Yuzhen said: "I was filming a costume drama in the film and television city, but it was finished yesterday. I also took on a clothing advertisement for a local brand called Li Ren, which was introduced to me by my aunt."
After Lin Yuzhen's narration, Lu Yiming learned that the founder of the women's clothing brand Liren was an old classmate of Sun Jiatong, and the two had a very good relationship. Liren used to mainly deal with foreign trade orders, but now that it has accumulated some technology and channels, it wants to operate its own clothing brand, so it asked for Lin Yuzhen to be the advertising spokesperson through Sun Jiatong's relationship.
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Oh, so you have so many announcements? You've become a big star that everyone loves."
Lin Yuzhen was a little proud and said, "Of course, I am naturally beautiful."
As they were talking, Sun Jiatong came over with a basket of vegetables. Seeing Lu Yiming, she immediately said enthusiastically, "Hey, Lu Yiming, are you free to come to school today? Have lunch at my place. Your teacher Zhu always talks about you, saying that you are a busy person. I haven't seen you in several years."
Lu Yiming readily followed suit and said, "Okay, I haven't tasted Mr. Sun's cooking for a long time."
Lin Yuzhen couldn't help but roll her eyes and complained, "You took my aunt's politeness seriously. You are so shameless."
Sun Jiatong said quickly, "Hey, Xiao Zhenzhen, why do you say that? Lu Yiming has his own business now, and it's not easy to meet him normally. Of course, he has to stay here for dinner today. You guys chat first, and I'll go buy some food. Xiao Zhenzhen, you should have called me just now to tell me that Lu Yiming is here so I can buy more food."
Lin Yuzhen said: "He is not a cow, how much can he eat?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, “Teacher Sun, please don’t be so polite. Just eat something casually, otherwise I wouldn’t dare to come now.”
"Okay then, you guys chat first, I'll go upstairs to cook, and you guys can come up to eat later."
Sun Jiatong went upstairs with a basket of vegetables and said to Zhu Hanwen, who was writing a lesson plan in the living room, "Lu Yiming is here."
Zhu Hanwen suddenly raised his head, looked around, and asked, "Where is it?"
Sun Jiatong said: "I'm having fun down there with Xiao Zhenzhen."
"oh."
Sun Jiatong tied on an apron and started busying herself in the kitchen.
"We just chatted for a while, but I felt like Xiao Zhenzhen was resentful towards Lu Yiming? She was even arguing with him."
Zhu Hanwen said: "When do the two of them not talk like they are bickering?"
Sun Jiatong thought for a moment and said, "Yes, these two are just a pair of happy enemies. What do you think of them? Does Xiao Zhenzhen really like Lu Yiming?"
"How should I know? I actually hope she doesn't like it, then nothing will happen. Alas, I really don't understand the world of young people. It's hard for us to say such things. It would be so embarrassing if we were all wishful thinking and making groundless assumptions here."
"Too."
Half an hour later, Sun Jiatong shouted from the balcony: "It's time to eat!"
Lu Yiming and Lin Yuzhen came up with the child. As soon as he entered the door, Lu Yiming took a deep breath and said, "It smells so good, it's still a familiar smell, I'm drooling."
Sun Jiatong was very pleased to hear this and said, "I didn't know you were coming, so there weren't many dishes. You can just eat whatever you want."
Lu Yiming said: "No, there are so many. Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Sun."
Zhu Hanwen couldn't wait to start picking up the food: "Okay, let's eat quickly."
Sun Jiatong asked, "Would you like some wine?"
Lu Yiming waved his hand and said, "No, I never drink."
Zhu Hanwen said: "You don't drink when you go out for social events?"
Lin Yuzhen complained: "Uncle, now only others can entertain him, who dares to let him go to entertain?"
After saying that, she deliberately glared at Lu Yiming with a look that was both fierce and cute.
Lu Yiming laughed: "That's right, drinking and socializing with clients is usually handled by special employees, I don't need to do it myself."
Sun Jiatong smiled and said, "Oh, so that's the case. But it's true, you are the richest man in Asia, so there won't be many people you can entertain."
Later, Sun Jiatong said, "The Taobao you set up is really amazing. The products there are complete and affordable. I basically buy everything on Taobao now. It's just that this discount coupon is really inadvertent. I have to wait in time every day to grab it."
Lu Yiming quickly said, "How can I let you rob them? I'll ask the technical department to send you 10,000 coupons in a moment."
Lin Yuzhen raised her hand and said with a pout, "I want one too!"
Zhu Hanwen complained about Lu Yiming, "Why is your Taobao Mall full of women's clothes, shoes and hats? Your teacher Sun got a lot of discount coupons and now buys a lot of things every day that he doesn't use on weekdays."
Sun Jiatong asked unconvincedly: "Old Zhu, do you feel guilty for saying this? Did you not use the laundry detergent or the toothpaste?"
“Ah, this…”
Zhu Hanwen was defeated instantly and had to say to Lu Yiming: "It's all your fault!"
Lu Yiming: “…”
Not only did he eat the melon but he was also blamed for it. Who did he offend?
At this moment, Lu Yiming had an idea and said, "How about, Mr. Sun, you also open a store on Taobao?"
Nowadays, Taobao can be said to have just started, and the probability of making money by opening a store on Taobao is still quite high. Not to mention that there is Lu Yiming, if you just push it, wouldn't the income be much higher than the current salary?
After all, when they were in high school, Zhu Hanwen and Sun Jiatong were both quite nice to Lu Yiming, so Lu Yiming certainly hoped to return the favor.
Sun Jiatong asked in surprise: "Can I open a store too?"
She was not confident in her business ability. After all, she was just an ordinary English teacher and had never done business before.
Lu Yiming said: "I think it's no problem. It's actually very simple to open an online store. It's much more convenient than running a physical store. And you don't have to rent a store, so the cost is very low."
Sun Jiatong was immediately tempted. After all, she really wanted to improve her life. Especially after seeing the wide variety of goods on Taobao these days, her desire for money became even stronger.
"So what should I do?"
Lu Yiming recalled the conversation he had just had with Lin Yuzhen and said, " Aren't you friends with the boss of Liren Women's Wear? You can try to be the agent of the Liren women's wear brand and sell it online on Taobao, directly getting the goods from the factory. This way the cost will be very low. Plus, there is no water and electricity in the house, so the cost is even lower. What's more, Mr. Sun, you don't even have to worry about inventory squeeze. No matter how many people place orders online, you can pick up the goods directly from the factory warehouse at zero cost."
After listening to this, Sun Jiatong seemed to have opened the door to a new world: "Oh, right, why didn't I think of that?"
The founder of the LiRen brand is actually her old classmate. So getting the goods is just a matter of a word, right?
What's more, she is helping her old classmate to promote the products. The more she sells, not only will she make money, but it will also be good for the LiRen brand.
Then, Lu Yiming glanced at Lin Yuzhen and said with a smile, "Besides, there is a ready-made celebrity model here. The store needs to do print advertising. Teacher Sun, you see, now we don't even need to find another model, right? You have to make use of this resource. "
When Lin Yuzhen heard that this had something to do with her, she immediately glared at Lu Yiming and said, "Lu Yiming, you actually set your sights on me?"
She had a good relationship with Zhu Hanwen's family. Now that she has escaped poverty and become rich, if she can help Zhu Hanwen's family, she would certainly not refuse. Otherwise, she would not have agreed to sign a contract with Li Ren as the spokesperson at a friendly price.
All the links were connected, and under Lu Yiming's hands-on guidance, Sun Jiatong's Taobao women's clothing store opened.
The store homepage designed by Lu Yiming himself was fresh and elegant, with a reasonable layout, which stunned both Sun Jiatong and Lin Yuzhen.
Lu Yiming also taught Sun Jiatong how to load goods, how to communicate, and how to ship goods, providing a complete one-stop service.
After settling the store, Lu Yiming called Jack Ma directly and said, "I opened a Taobao store with that number just now. Please help me promote it."
Jack Ma quickly clicked on the website that Lu Yiming mentioned, and was shocked after taking a look: "Did you design this store? If you have this ability, why didn't you show it off before? I feel that the interface you designed is much better than that of the employees in the technical department."
Lu Yiming complained: "I have to do all this, do you have a bunch of lazy people on Taobao?"
Jack Ma thought about it and said, "It seems so. Mr. Lu, can you make this into a template and put it in the template library?"
“That’s no problem.”
Lu Yiming agreed casually, and then said: "But you must pay attention. It's fine to open the templates, and some good templates can be charged. This is also a revenue-generating project. But you must pay attention to the problem of stolen pictures, and don't blindly pursue empty things such as the number of stores. The most important thing for the platform is to provide good services, not only to serve buyers, but also to serve sellers, to provide all users with the best user experience."
Jack Ma quickly agreed.
After being featured on the homepage of Taobao Mall, Sun Jiatong's online store became popular immediately. Not only did the number of clicks begin to surge, but users soon placed orders in the backend. This was less than an hour after Sun Jiatong opened the store.
Looking at the order details in the background, Sun Jiatong was very happy. After all, this was the first item she had sold personally in her life, which was a brand new life experience.
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Congratulations to Teacher Sun on your success."
Lin Yuzhen also said with a smile: "I wish my aunt's business will be prosperous."
Sun Jiatong simply dropped his bowl and chopsticks and went to prepare the delivery.
During this time, many people also consulted on QQ.
In the era before Lu Yiming, Taobao used Aliwangwang, but now, Lu Yiming is a shareholder of the three BAT companies, so he naturally would not make it so complicated and directly use QQ as a communication tool, which not only saves money on developing Aliwangwang, but also can drive traffic to QQ.
While we were eating, many people started placing orders one after another. Someone even sent a private message on QQ, asking if there was any contact information for Lin Yuzhen, saying that he also owned a shop and wanted to have her be his model.
At this time, everyone hadn't even finished their lunch.
Sun Jiatong told Lin Yuzhen about this , and then said: "She is a girl, and she said she is your fan."
Lu Yiming teased, "I didn't expect you to be so popular now. You can easily meet a fan of yours online."
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door. Lin Yuzhen went to open the door and found that it was Sun Jiatong's next-door neighbor.
"Teacher Li, how come you have time to come and sit here? Have you eaten?"
