What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 94 Fermentation
“Not all industries are suitable for Internetization.”

"This is a conclusion I came to after getting in-depth exposure to the Internet dating industry."

"I founded a project in June this year and sold it to a well-known company in the Internet dating industry in early October. Then, I joined the company until I actually left in November."

"I'm going to tell you everything I saw and everything I subsequently investigated."

“First, there is an overabundance of false information in the industry!”

“Second, the website maliciously conceals or even deceives!”

“Third, mainstream brands create and sell anxiety!”

“Fourth, the wrong performance mechanism forces employees to sacrifice the interests of customers!”

“Fifth, customer information has been seriously leaked and even frequently transferred and sold within the industry!”

The pinned article of Bai Xiaosheng is signed by Yu Xing, which lists the five sins of the entire industry. But it is not just a list, he also attaches the cases and evidence he obtained one by one.

"In November, I met a female client at a company's headquarters. The contract she signed was for a service fee of 11 yuan, a service period of four months, and no fewer than six appointments."

"However, among the four people she has met, one is planning to get pregnant before marriage, one is suggesting that she doesn't want children after marriage, and the other two are extremely unreliable. The answer she got was that she didn't express in advance that she didn't accept getting pregnant before marriage or not wanting children."

“This is completely contrary to the high-quality resources and high success rate promised before the contract was signed.”

"There are still many similar cases, please see the attached document at the end of the article for details."

"If you are a potential customer, you are attracted by the dazzling array of success stories, you click on the website with the desire for love and the fantasy of having a family, you register an account, and then you will be harassed by online information, you will meet salesmen who call themselves teachers, you will be bombarded with phone calls, you will be induced by offline one-on-one, and you will see opaque but expensive packages."

"You think the person sitting in front of you is a beautiful woman who has returned from studying abroad or a highly educated young man, but in fact, the person sitting in front of you may already be married. For details, please refer to Case 18 in the document."

"You are 25, and the person on the other side is 52. For details, please refer to Case 31 in the document."

"You finally regret it, but the salesperson takes out the contract and crosses his legs. For details, please refer to Case 8 in the document."

"When I learned all this and more, it was hard not to wonder, can the business model of the Internet dating industry really be sustainable?"

"I think the answer is obvious, very obvious!"

"But before that messy answer comes, as someone who was once barely a member of the industry, I am willing to expose the problem for everyone to see."

“Perhaps, not all industries are suitable for Internetization.”

“Note: Pseudonyms are used in all cases, but many clients are available for confrontation.”

In fact, the article written by Song Yufeng was not too sensational, because there were very solid real cases as annotations under the article.

The article was published at 9 o'clock sharp, and in just five minutes, there were already many comments below it.

After nearly two months of hard work, Bai Xiaosheng has found that although college students still account for a large proportion of the employees, there are also many working employees. This time in the morning is the time to relax after arriving at the company. Some of them casually click on the website to see the experience of new employees, but see the "five sins" at a glance.

Then, the post was sent to my colleagues.

Colleagues pass it on to colleagues, friends pass it on to friends, and the link is transferred to forums.

Many people have not been exposed to the Internet dating industry, but they all know what it is and how to have some fun on a boring morning.

Bai Xiaosheng's current settings allow visitors to browse, but commenting and downloading attachments require registration. Unfortunately, the case details in the article are all in the document, which has led many people to register with the intention of watching the fun.

Register, download, and open it eagerly.

Wow, a pure text TXT document is actually 120KB in size!

Anyone familiar with TXT encoding will immediately know that there are roughly 40,000 to 50,000 Chinese characters in this document!

Good guy! !

I am too lazy to open work documents, but I study the melon documents word by word!

As of the time when Bai Xiaosheng published the post, the number of registered users of the entire website was 26587. In the three hours after the post, this number increased by 3, which is almost equivalent to a week's work results.

In other words, the total number of users has exceeded 3!
"Brother Xing, the effect is really immediate!" Song Yufeng has been restless since the post was published. By noon, although he was amazed at the effect, he also felt worried about what consequences would arise.

The post was published and the effect was very good!
What are the consequences?!
"Chairman, why aren't you smiling?" Yu Xing could see Song Yufeng's mood.

Song Yufeng forced a smile and said, "Brother Xing, I saw the content of our post on the campus network..."

Yu Xing nodded and said, "This is not surprising. We already have many college students as users."

The way college students react and express their support is to forward the posts to the more influential campus network, and it is estimated that workplace users will take similar actions.

"Why aren't they making any moves?" Song Yufeng was worried about the target of this attack. Although no names were mentioned, the mainstream brands were those three. What's more, it was easy to find out who acquired the boss's company.

"We are just a small website, and the effect needs to ferment." Yu Xing estimated, "Now at most the public relations department will hold a small meeting, wait and see. This is both a sprint and a verification for us."

The sprint is an attempt to achieve 5 registrations for Bai Xiaosheng as soon as possible to verify whether the prototype of Bai Xiaosheng's platform is established.

Bai Xiaosheng is positioned to discuss workplace topics. Of course, negative topics are always more likely to make users speak out, but this is a design theory, and specific practice will depend on such verification.

Perhaps it was because people had more time to watch the fun during lunch break. At two o'clock in the afternoon, with the appearance of more comments, the number of registered users of Bai Xiaosheng increased by nearly 2000.

At 2:30, Yu Xing received a call from his old boss at Zhenai.com in his office.

He called his cell phone, left the office and walked towards a meeting room with better sound insulation.

But during the transfer, Wei Jialan's angry voice had already attracted the attention of the employees.

"Yu! What do you want to do!?"

Yu Xing did not answer immediately. He waved at the employees, signaling them to work with peace of mind.

Song Yufeng rolled his eyes at his workstation, picked up a document, and muttered, "I have something to report."

He walked into the conference room.

Lu Haiying, who was not far away, saw the chairman's actions and also stood up and walked towards the meeting room. Well, she wanted to see what the chairman was going to report.

Other employees had no such freedom of action, but soon a lively discussion broke out.

"Mr. Wei, what do you mean?" Yu Xing pulled out a chair in the conference room and asked casually.

Wei Jialan asked angrily: "Mr. Yu, what do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Yu Xing saw Song Yufeng and Lv Haiying walking into the meeting room, turned on the external speaker, and clicked record. "I just pointed out the problems in the industry, and I didn't mention your company by name."

Wei Jialan laughed in anger: "You didn't mention anyone by name, did you? Should I thank you? You stole our company's user information! You are breaking the law!"

"I didn't write any company, and all the names that appear are pseudonyms." Yu Xing said confidently, "How come it's your company's user information?"

Wei Jialan was even more confident: "I can tell at a glance whether those cases are from the company!"

Yu Xing was about to fight back when he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Lu Haiying next to her almost couldn't hold back her laughter.

Wei Jialan hadn't noticed anything was wrong yet. Seeing the silence on the other end of the line, she became even more angry: "Do you know what you are doing? You are causing trouble, and you are causing trouble for yourself!"

Yu Xing sincerely asked, "Boss Wei, you identified the case where I used a pseudonym as a client of your company. Don't you think there is something wrong here? Is this how you treat your clients? Who is the real problem?"

Wei Jialan was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

She directly ignored this anomaly and said in a tough tone: "Yu Xing, delete the post immediately and apologize immediately, otherwise, your website will not be able to operate!"

"Even if I want to delete it and apologize, someone in the company will disagree." Yu Xing said calmly, "Song Yufeng, the chairman of our company, won't let me delete it."

Song Yufeng opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He thought that Brother Xing could not mention him at this time... Wei Jialan frowned and said, "Who is Song Yufeng? Are you a gang? What do you want to do? Do you want PR fees?"

"Song Yufeng used to be a reporter for NetEase. He is a tough guy." Yu Xing showed the chairman's resume. "He just couldn't stand the fact that NetEase was doing the same business as Guiai.com, so he directly criticized NetEase and resigned!"

Wei Jialan was so angry just now that she was confused. When she heard this, she remembered where she had seen this name.

She sneered and said, "Whether it's Song Yufeng or you, Yu Xing, I advise you to stop now and don't make the situation too ugly!"

"Boss Wei, why don't you understand?" Yu Xing sighed, "You are the ones who have made the industry look so ugly. If I don't stand up today, someone else will stand up tomorrow."

Seeing that the other party was not letting up at all, Wei Jialan said coldly: "Just wait for the lawyer's letter! Just wait to be sued!"

Yu Xing put down his phone and said to the chairman, "Get ready to receive the lawyer's letter. We'll set up a special section on the website to post lawyer's letters."

Song Yufeng was a little uneasy: "Wei Jialan seems to have reacted quite quickly."

It was worrying before there was no movement, and it is still worrying now that there is movement.

Yu Xing shook his head: "It's all done, the hard part is still there."

Song Yufeng: “…”

Yu Xing reminded him: "Don't be so cautious, your girlfriend is watching you."

Kong Huilin from Penguin has joined Bai Xiaosheng and is currently in the stage of familiarizing herself with the business.

Song Yufeng could only nod silently.

Before Yu Xing could say a few words, the chairman's cell phone rang.

"Unknown number." Song Yufeng picked up the phone and did not answer it immediately.

Yu Xing said simply: "Foreign voice."

Song Yufeng cleared his throat and clicked on the external voice after the call was connected: "Hello, hello, I'm Song Yufeng."

"Hello, hello, Mr. Song, I'm Chu Xiaoxia from Zhenai.com." The female voice on the other end of the line was gentle and soft, introducing herself. "I noticed an article on your website that talks about the online dating industry. Can you delete it?"

Song Yufeng was so stubborn that he said, "No."

Chu Xiaoxia said patiently, "Mr. Song, it is like this. We believe that there are some inaccuracies in this article, but it does remind us. The company is currently conducting self-examination and self-correction. Instructions were also given at the meeting this afternoon to ensure that the interests of users must be protected."

She said pitifully, "Boss Song, it's not easy for us to do our job. Please understand us. We have really started to work. Isn't your post also for the good of the industry?"

Song Yufeng turned his gaze towards the boss.

Yu Xing shook his head slightly.

Chu Xiaoxia didn't get a response, so she pleaded in a soft voice, "You can keep the post. I was assigned to negotiate with you today. Otherwise, I will report to you again when the company's picketing shows results."

She continued, "Boss Song, I'm also an employee. Please have pity on me. I need to make some progress on my work today. How about this? I'll apply for a brand management fee from the company this afternoon. Can you take a look at our business arrangements first?"

Song Yufeng looked at his boss again, and his spine was about to explode. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yu Xing reach out and snatch the phone.

Yu Xing hung up the phone directly.

Then, he looked at Song Yufeng coldly: "What do you want to say to her?"

"Well, I didn't want to say anything. My mind seemed to be blank." Song Yufeng said honestly, "Brand management fees are public relations fees. Zhenai.com has one hard and one soft. I don't know how much the public relations fee can be given."

Yu Xing sneered: "One hard and one soft?"

He looked at his second-in-command, Lv Haiying, and instructed: "Don't pay attention to such talk, and don't follow the other side's rhythm to discuss. Always maintain our position. If we relax our tone, we might be accused of blackmail. How dare you ask for brand management fees?"

Lu Haiying nodded seriously.

Song Yufeng realized it later and broke out in a cold sweat.

"You used to be a reporter, don't you have this level of vigilance?" Yu Xing glanced at Song Yufeng with dissatisfaction and warned him, "Being tough is not only about protecting the company, but also about protecting yourself."

Song Yufeng's mouth was dry and he nodded vigorously. At this time, he had to get hard even if he was not hard!

He said in a somewhat dry voice: "Is there someone squatting downstairs right now?"

Yu Xing hesitated for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be that serious, but I think they must have recorded it, and they even found a girl with a nice voice. Don't worry for now, they are not penguins."

Compared to Baixiaosheng, Zhenai.com is a big company, but its power is far inferior to that of real giants.

However, it is hard to say whether they have any local connections, so it is always better to act with caution.

"You can go out now." Yu Xing said seriously, "Xiaoying and I have something to talk about. Remember, the world is dangerous."

Song Yufeng went out silently.

He was still a little scared, so he walked to the window and looked down.

What's that guy squatting and smoking doing?
Hey, why is that person who is turning around at the intersection looking left and right? Ouch, he is looking this way!

Song Yufeng licked his lips, feeling a little unsure.

He sat at his workstation, looking at his phone and then the website.

Obviously, this attack is still fermenting, which can be seen from the increasing number of comments. Moreover, a key point is the authentic TXT document, which brings a refreshing feeling to the onlookers.

Just when Song Yufeng was in a daze, he suddenly heard the voice of his girlfriend Kong Huilin.

"NetEase reposted and reported it!" Kong Huilin came over and said in surprise, "NetEase reported it! Brother Feng, was it you who contacted them?"

Bai Xiaosheng wanted to amplify this action through the media.

As a former employee, Kong Huilin contacted her former employer Penguin but received no response.

NetEase is also my boyfriend’s former employer. Although there were some disturbances before, it is still quite extraordinary that it reported the news so quickly this time.

Upon hearing this, Song Yufeng clicked on NetEase and saw the relevant report in the most conspicuous position.

He was surprised and delighted: "I didn't contact them, why did NetEase report it?"

Song Yufeng immediately went to the conference room to inform his boss of the good news.

Yu Xing affirmed the feedback from the media: "NetEase's report is a good thing. It not only expands the influence, but also brings a layer of protection for public opinion."

He pondered for a moment and then slowly guessed, "Do you believe in reports based on morality? If there is no profit motive, NetEase might be trying to take advantage of the situation."

Lu Haiying immediately understood what was said.

Song Yufeng understood the meaning a little later.

NetEase does have an Internet dating business, but its market share is very low and it is completely unable to shake up the industry landscape. Therefore, it previously tried to find a new entry point in the form of dating contracts and even integrated its businesses for this purpose.

However, the operation was ruined by Song Yufeng and Yu Xing.

If the industry changes this time, can NetEase take advantage of the opportunity to grab the meat?

Lv Haiying looked at his senior brother: "Senior brother, do you think NetEase still has thoughts about love and marriage? How will it move?"

Yu Xing repeatedly considered the NetEase business he had learned about before, and pondered the issues of his own criticism and the Internet dating industry. Finally, he slowly said: "If I were the person in charge of the relevant business of NetEase, I am afraid that this time it would fall on the real-name system."

This is his speculation, and I don’t know if it can be verified.

However, no matter what, NetEase's featured coverage did add fuel to the flames and further expanded the impact of Bai Xiaosheng's attack.

(End of this chapter)