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"That account is probably just a name, but it can't really promote traffic."
"The focus is still on campus promotion. I will replicate our experience in promotion at Peking University and Tsinghua University in your schools."
"But before promoting it, you must first obtain permission from the relevant department of your academic records. If that doesn't work, you can manually review it. If that doesn't work, you can just report it for preparation."
"If we can't get the license smoothly, we can promote it in the form of a club, just like we did at Peking University and Tsinghua University."
"We may need some assistants to help, and the cost of these will be included in the promotion costs."
"Then we'll do this, then that, then this, then that..."
"..."
In this way, it took Wu An about an hour to share his ideas with everyone.
"I can't rely on my own strength. There must be some things I haven't considered. If you have any ideas, please bring them up."
After saying that, Wu An moistened his dry throat with water and looked at everyone nervously.
Comments…none.
The first thing that came out was everyone’s applause.
"Thanks for your hard work."
"Wu An, you are so detailed. Do you think we are children?"
"However, there are some details that we have not considered."
"..."
Seeing that everyone thought there was no problem, Wu An breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, there was a heated discussion.
Although Wu An had done a good job in planning the promotion, there were still some flaws when one person integrated everyone's ideas. After the applause, everyone raised a lot of opinions, which Wu An wrote down one by one.
Later, those who were responsible for the promotion of their own schools were still worried and prepared their own promotion plans based on the actual situation they understood.
Originally, Wu An asked everyone for help, fearing that he would trouble everyone. But when he saw that everyone was so serious, Wu An felt a rare touch of emotion.
"Then thank you all for your hard work!"
He thanked everyone sincerely.
However, this thanks was met with disdain.
"We are here to make money. We are hoping that Boss Wu will share some of the money with us when he becomes rich in the future. Wu An, do you think we are working for free?" Wang Jiarong said first.
Chen Anna behind him also echoed: "That's right."
Wei Yuanyuan snorted: "I just want to see what you can do."
Tang Xiyue said casually: "I can treat it as a part-time job practice, it's quite interesting."
In short, everyone just wants to be mean.
Wu An naturally understood what everyone meant.
"It would be best if everyone thinks so." Seeing this, Wu An simply became heartless.
But next, there is a more important problem to solve.
"Have you noticed that the APP of our platform has not yet been named?" Wu An straightened his expression and asked.
As soon as the question came out, everyone was stunned.
"Ah this."
"Yes."
“So, what should the app be called?”
In fact, Wu An already had the answer in his mind.
After whetting everyone's appetite, he said:
"——Then, let's call it a group!"
#122 Group
Before deciding on the name of the APP "Baotuan", Wu An thought about many names.
At the beginning, I wanted to use the company name "Hua'an", but after thinking about it, I felt that although this name is romantic, users cannot intuitively associate it with the function of the APP.
Then, I fell into endless thinking.
For example, name it after the place where the idea originated: Tsinghua University and Peking University Dating and Learning Platform.
——This name is too long and hard to remember, never mind.
For example, just roll your face on the keyboard and come up with a random name: Interest Party.
——It feels... too ordinary.
Or use a more ambiguous name: confidant.
——This name seems like a hookup app.
And this name, that name, and this name...
……
It was not until Wu An thought about the time when he and his friends were starting a business, and everyone was united together because of their interests and ideals, that he thought of the word "grouping".
I checked the name and trademark rights online and found that it was still usable, so I was immediately attracted to this name.
Baotuan, this name is good.
It meets the definition of a "real-name friendship and learning platform" - finding people with common interests, learning and improving together.
……probably.
In fact, if possible, Wu An would like to think about it again.
But Wu An didn't have much time to think about it. He just took it out if he felt it was suitable.
When Wu An thought of this name, he also consulted Li Yuhua.
As for things like naming...the young lady doesn't bother with that.
He made an "Hey Hey" sound and said to Wu An:
"Then, let's call it a group!"
Wu An: “…”
Li Yuhua looked distressed for Wu An: "If you can't think of it, don't think about it. I don't want you to be so tired."
Wu An: “…Not bad.”
Since it was Li Yuhua's concern, Wu An accepted it without hesitation.
Although Wu An vaguely felt that Li Yuhua was avoiding being named, he couldn't force her.
After all, naming is really a headache.
In this way, the name "grouping" was established in Wu An's mind.
Just now I asked everyone what ideas they had, which was just a hint. Wu An doesn't expect everyone to come up with other good ideas.
If you guys come up with other names that would be even better.
Sure enough, when Wu An announced the name "grouping", everyone applauded.
"Holding together?! This name is great!"
“I think it’s OK!”
“It’s a great name, very fitting.”
"……good?"
"..."
As expected, no one had any objections.
So, the name of the APP was decided to be "Baotuan"!
……
After everything was ready, Wu An's small entrepreneurial team took action.
Wu An returned to school and published the "Grouping" APP on the platform of "High Quality Human Friendship Learning Club", which quickly gained popularity among members.
The group's APP retains the previously somewhat crude functions of the mini-program, but the interface has become more refined.
In the past, when there were no apps, people preferred to use the computer web version of the platform because the web platform made using open source front-end architecture was beautiful and easy to use.
However, WeChat mini-programs are relatively crude, and they conflict with WeChat chat functions and cannot be hung in the background. Apart from posting a "recruitment" message, they are rarely used.
Now that the community has an APP, its functions are exactly the same as the web version. In addition, the APP has new features such as positioning and taking photos and posting them, which has greatly increased everyone’s enthusiasm for using it.
Within just a few days of the APP being released, there were already more than 500 active users from Peking University and Tsinghua University alone.
After the novelty of using it wore off, the daily user activity decreased instead of increasing, and because of the promotion by APP users, the number of downloads became more and more.
Senior Lv Ying was also very supportive. After learning that Wu An had developed the APP and was going to invest money in promoting it, she volunteered to take on the task of "marketing manager" and took the initiative to contact the school's society federation, gaining the school's support, which led to a rapid increase in the activity of the "Baotuan" APP.
In just one month, the APP had several thousand active users per day.
When the promotion of "Base Camp" was going smoothly, Chen Anna, Wei Yuanyuan, Tang Xiyue and Wang Jiarong also completed the preparations for the promotion on campus.
However, compared with Wu An and his colleagues' simple promotion model with school support, it is much more difficult for our school to promote it.
——The school will not support apps produced by companies other than those in the school’s entrepreneurship incubation base.
To this end, everyone promoted it according to Wu An and his team's original club model - first applying to create a club, then inviting handsome men and beautiful women to set up stalls, inviting them to join the club, and then downloading the APP.
Tang Xiyue, who had the most social practice experience, made a good start.
Acting like a professional manager, they paid people to manage their school's clubs and APP registration applications, and then innovatively organized several large-scale events in their school community.
Without spending much money and without relying on the school's resources, they increased the number of daily active users in their school to more than 2,000 in just one month.
Chen Anna followed suit and formed a club with her roommates. She found a few handsome guys to help her distribute flyers and buy small gifts to give out. As more people registered for the app, she also organized some activities. After a month, the number of active users reached more than 1,000.