Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 61
“Have the monthly total sales results been released?” Director Li paced back and forth anxiously in the office.
Ever since the release of the fourth issue of Catcher in Song Dynasty in Wuxia, he had been waiting for that month’s total sales results. It had been almost a month since the serialization began, and the total monthly sales were about to be announced.
He was under tremendous pressure.
On one hand, they were facing the potential cancellation of the magazine. If the Guangzhou branch got canceled, many employees would face layoffs.
On the other hand, after five consecutive years of declining magazine sales and a mountain of unsold magazines in the warehouse, he had made a bold decision: to print one million copies.
If the magazine still couldn’t sell the copies and the inventory kept accumulating, it might face a faster closure, potentially affecting the branches in Nanshi and Shanghai as well.
Even Bao Huixin, who had worked with him to bring the martial arts magazine from its inception to its glory, couldn’t help but admire Director Li’s courage.
Not everyone had the guts to go all out after experiencing a decline.
Once it failed, it would inevitably speed up the magazine’s cancellation.
Li Ang had been unable to sleep day and night these past few days. On one hand, it was caused by high pressure, and on the other, by excitement.
Years of experience told him that it was an excellent opportunity and he must seize it, but the market was unreasonable. The final outcome was determined by sales volume.
From the first issue to the fourth, Catcher in Song Dynasty has been serialized in Wuxia for a full month now. From the first issue, it exceeded the first printing of 500,000 in one week. By the second and third issues, the first print of each issue had reached one million copies.
Since the fourth issue had been on the market for a week, the specific sales volume would not be released until next month, but the total sales results for the martial arts magazine that month were still available.
“How much?” Li Ang was sitting in the office. His hair had already been messed up by him, but he didn’t even notice.
The marketing staff didn’t care at all about their director’s image, but couldn’t hide their excitement when they reported, “3.2 million copies.”
As soon as the data came out, the entire martial arts magazine team burst into cheers of joy.
Director Li, who was nearly fifty years old, couldn’t help but excitedly wave his fist in the air, saying, “Yes, yes, yes” and then his eyes turned red again.
How long had it been since Wuxia magazine was first published?
Has sales reached this level?
How could the marketing department staff not understand Director Li’s excitement? Why shouldn’t he be excited? That was the first time since the late 1980s that their magazine’s monthly sales had exceeded three million.
Despite their decline before, the total monthly sales volume had dropped to 500,000, but even in the middle and later stages, their magazine could still maintain a monthly sales volume of 2 million.
But it had never exceeded three million since the 1990s.
The smiles on the faces of the marketing department staff couldn’t stop.
“The fourth issue has only been on the market for a week. Nanshi and Shanghai branches have just distributed the goods. The market feedback is not that fast. If we continue this way, total monthly sales next month will not be worse than this month.”
“Yes, yes, we have to strike while the iron is hot.” Director Li knew very well that the great fire in Catcher in Song Dynasty had a certain element of luck. First of all, it took advantage of the subject matter, and secondly, it took advantage of Justice Bao’s popularity. With the popularity of Justice Bao being broadcast all over the world declining, the popularity of Catcher in Song Dynasty would inevitably decline, followed by a decline in the sales of Wuxia.
But he could definitely seize the hurricane and ride on it. Before Justice Bao declined, he could quickly seize this fiery hurricane and let the magazine he founded once again move towards glory.
He calmed down, took off his glasses, wiped his eyes and glasses, put them on again before saying, “Wang Yong has signed a contract with Ning Meng. Ning Meng has sent over 40,000 words more than a week ago. Wang Yong also rushed to send a 15,000-word manuscript, and asked the receiving department to sort out the received letters. Wang Yong is in charge of Ning Meng’s manuscripts in Wucheng, so there is no need to worry about Wuxia running out of content for the time being.”
There were still 6,000 words left in their hands, plus the 55,000 words sent by Ning Meng and Wang Yong, making a total of 61,000 words, which could be serialized for three issues, giving them a lot of time.
The marketing department staff also happily asked, “Director, Ning Meng has replied to the email?”
Director Li had suppressed the excitement in his heart. Hearing that, he said angrily, “Reply to what email?” He originally wanted to say that Ning Meng was still a student who was locked up in school and couldn’t get out, but he thought better of it. Thinking about it, he held back and said, “I have left Wang Yong at Ning Meng’s place to be responsible for her manuscripts. I will go up and tell the finance department to give Wang Yong this month’s salary, plus a bonus with travel expenses, and call him back at the end of the month.”
Logically speaking, Wang Yong completed his task perfectly during the business trip, and it was time to return to the office. Just in case, it was better to have a lot of manuscripts.
“By the way, recruit people, go recruit people, didn’t various people from different colleges and universities just graduated?”
“Continue to recruit people, this time we will hire five, no, six. Once the new recruits arrive, first arrange for an office operator to sit in the office and answer the phone, especially Wang Yong’s call, and then give someone dedicated to checking and responding to emails.”
Due to the layoff boom, the policy of allocating and establishing jobs was canceled in 1995. At that time, there were many newly graduated college students who had not yet found a suitable job.
Ever since Ning Meng left an email address for Director Li, he had already understood that it was no longer the 1980s when submissions were purely handwritten. Since they left Yahoo mailboxes at the submission address, he had a hunch that in the future as the country developed faster, computers would be used more, and digital submission methods may become mainstream.
He thought of the recently popular contact information and SN, and quickly applied for it.
With the re-emergence of Wuxia and its impact on the martial arts market, many magazines of the same type had noticed the most popular magazine on the market. In fact, martial arts magazines had also noticed that the novel was written by a woman as a romance novel.
Because it was from the female protagonist’s perspective and the writing was delicate and different from previous martial arts styles, the editors of romance magazines quickly realized that the author of the article, Ning Meng, was probably a female author.
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