Chapter 48 Preparing for the Press Conference

Chapter 48 Preparing for the Press Conference

Chapter 48 Preparing for the Press Conference

For many staff members of Zhiyun Technology, the Spring Festival in 09 was no different from a normal working day.

The huge pressure of project development is transmitted to every employee. Even if they are not employees of the R&D department, in order to cooperate with the R&D department to continue research and development during the holidays, a considerable number of people have to be arranged to work overtime during the holidays.

The company's R&D department only took one day off on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but returned to work on the second day.

In order to coordinate with the project progress of the R&D department, even other departments, such as administration, supply chain, and production, have to arrange a considerable number of personnel to be on duty.

During the Spring Festival of this year, the lights on the 28th floor of the Insurance Building were brightly lit except on the first day of the new year!

Although there are generous overtime pays for working overtime during the holidays and the boss has promised generous additional project bonuses, many people still feel helpless as they see others taking a holiday to go home for the New Year, but they still have to work overtime.

When some employees called their parents in their hometowns to tell them that they could not go home for the New Year, many of them could not hold back their tears.

On the contrary, some parents will comfort them by telling them to work hard and not worry about the family.

Some parents would say, "It's rare to meet such a boss who is such a sucker. He pays you three times the overtime pay for working overtime during the Chinese New Year, and also gives you a large project bonus. Why would you celebrate the Chinese New Year when you can make money? You can take a break whenever you want. But if you miss this opportunity to make money from your boss, there will be no next time."

But no matter what, there is only one day off during the Chinese New Year, and the rest of the time we have to continue working or even stay up late. For many employees in companies, they feel helpless and even resentful.

After all, we are all human beings, not working machines... Even if you have money, you can't treat me like this!

Boss Xu, you have money, you can just spend it on me during normal times, then I will definitely be happy to work overtime... But during the Chinese New Year...

Ugh!
It's a pity that Xu Shenxue is not willing to let his employees work overtime during the Chinese New Year. You have to know that overtime work during the Chinese New Year will be paid triple the salary!

However, the smartphones of rival companies are about to be released, and if Zhiyun Technology does not work overtime to develop them, it will fall behind.

In this special and critical moment, we have to grit our teeth and pay triple the salary, and we have to give the project bonus!

Fortunately, after more than twenty days, the researchers who had bonus points in the scientific research system finally produced a prototype.

After the machine was developed, the employees who had been busy for more than 20 days and could not even have a good rest during the Chinese New Year were finally able to take a few days off, and the subsequent project bonuses were also received.

This is a 5 million project bonus, which will be distributed among the R&D department employees according to their performance. This means that many people can get an extra bonus equivalent to one month's salary. Some key positions and R&D employees with outstanding performance can even get a bonus equivalent to two or even three months.

During this month, employees in the R&D department, even the most basic coders, will earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, and most of them can earn 20,000 or 30,000 yuan!
After learning that they could take rotating days off and receive additional project bonuses, the R&D department employees, who had been somewhat resentful, felt relieved. They then started thinking about where to go during their shifts and how to spend their bonuses.

However, these ordinary employees can still take turns to rest, but Xu Shenxue and a number of middle and senior executives of the company have to continue working. On the day when the prototype was completed, Xu Shenxue convened a meeting of relevant company executives to prepare for the press conference.

In the conference room, Xu Shenxue put the prototype in his hand on the table: "This is the engineering prototype C1 that our colleagues in the R&D department have made after continuous hard work. You can simply try it out!"

The first person to pick up the phone was Marketing Director Ji Chenghe. He looked at the appearance of the phone again and again and said, "This appearance is good. It feels similar to 3G and much better than some other smartphones on the market. Especially the full glass cover and 3.5-inch screen, it feels very good!"

"If I remember correctly, there are no other smartphones on the market that are fully covered with glass and completely eliminate the physical button on the front. Even 3G phones still retain a physical button."

"This combination of three capacitive touch buttons and a full glass front is enough for us to find a lot of selling points to promote it!"

"Well, this front camera is also good. With this front camera, users can take selfies and even make video calls conveniently!"
"As for this, I think we can contact the QQ next door and see if we can focus on promoting the video call!"

"It's just that 300,000 pixels is a bit low. It would be best if our flagship model can increase the pixels of the front camera in the future, so that we can have better selfie quality and video call quality!"

Ji Chenghe turned on his phone and used it briefly.

He was engaged in marketing, and he only saw those selling points that could be highlighted. For example, after Song Changhai's suggestion, he found the mobile phone's cloud storage project and discovered that it could provide users with 500MB of free cloud storage space for storing photos, contacts, memos and other content.

This made him very interested, and after tossing and turning for a while, he said: "This can be used as a selling point!"

“In addition, I suggest that we add cloud storage expansion services to this item in the future, charging a monthly fee!”

After looking at it for a while, Ji Chenghe handed it to senior officials from other departments. However, they just looked at it casually. They were not like Ji Chenghe, who only looked at the selling points and market competitiveness.

In the end, after reading it, the people from Weiku Industrial came to a not-so-good conclusion. An Dayu, the general manager of Weiku Industrial, said: "Based on the material cost of the current engineering prototype, plus the subsequent assembly cost, the hardware cost is not low!"

Ji Chenghe said, "In addition to the hardware cost, we also have to add patent costs, system push service costs, research and development costs, and taxes. If we sell this phone for less than 2,000 yuan now, we will lose money. If we want to maintain a relatively optimistic profit, we have to sell it for at least 2,300 or 2,400 yuan!"

Xu Shenxue had anticipated the high cost and price: "The high cost was something we had expected. The cost of making smartphones is already very high, so the price naturally cannot be too cheap!"

"But the specific pricing still needs some discussion among us!"

As he spoke, Xu Shenxue turned his gaze to Ji Chenghe: "How is the preliminary research of the market department? What is the pricing of domestic smartphones?"

Ji Chenghe said: "We have done many market researches before, not only for online but also for offline channels. The overall situation is similar to our previous expectations!"

(End of this chapter)