Chapter 34 : Learn to Mobilize the Power of the People
Chapter 34: Learn to Mobilize the Power of the People
Back in his seat, Guo Shuai still looked confused.
"Hey, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"Why are you giving money away to that kid for free?"
Chen Fan did not answer this question, but stared at Guo Shuai instead.
"How much money do you have left on you?"
"Huh?"
Guo Shuai put his hand in his pocket and patted it down.
He took out a wad of change.
"A little over 120 yuan."
"Give it to me first."
Chen Fan took it directly without counting and put it in his own pocket.
"Plus the amount you lent me before, I'll pay you back 10,000 next time."
Guo Shuai shook his head.
"But you still haven't answered my question."
Chen Fan opened the webpage and pointed to the comments on the forum for him to see.
"What does this mean? Is this the work of our opponent?"
Chen Fan nodded, "Very likely."
"So what's your plan? You want to find people to smear their website?"
Chen Fan shook his head.
"Not just that."
Next, Chen Fan explained his plan in detail to Guo Shuai.
Compared to spending money on promotion, he could never be their match.
Since that's the case, he had to change his approach and think of another way.
Since the opponent is actively trying to smear Yuming.com even when they clearly have the advantage,
What does that mean?
Guo Shuai immediately said, "It means he's insecure."
"He also knows that his website is not as good as yours, so he's worried that your website will become a threat in the future."
Chen Fan snapped his fingers.
"Since the opponent has made a move, we naturally don't have to be polite either."
Guo Shuai scratched his head, a little confused.
"But... do you really think you can defeat them by relying on these random internet users you've gathered? What if you end up losing both money and soldiers?"
Chen Fan smiled.
It seems Guo Shuai still hasn't realized the power of internet mobs.
Next, Chen Fan also explained in detail to Guo Shuai what an internet mob is.
Guo Shuai listened with a vague understanding.
"But even if what you say is true, you didn't have to give him so much money, right?"
"Five mao per person is too much, I think one mao is enough."
Chen Fan was amused.
"We don't have time."
"And in order to quickly build an internet mob, we must invest heavily from the start."
"Trust me, as an internet cafe receptionist, he encounters the most people every day. The price I offered is definitely not high."
Seeing that Guo Shuai still didn't quite understand, Chen Fan had to continue guiding him.
"Don't think of these people we've gathered as temporary workers."
"Once we gather them into a QQ group, think of them as your guild members in a game."
"From now on, you can post bounties in the group at any time and have them work for you."
"Believe me, in this era, if you have an obedient internet mob at your command, you can sway the winds and summon the clouds on the internet."
Guo Shuai listened with a vague understanding.
"Regardless, I'll listen to you. If you say do it, then let's do it."
That's how good friends are, even if they don't understand, they'll support you unconditionally.
Next, Chen Fan took Guo Shuai to a few other internet cafes.
Using the same method, they talked to the managers or receptionists and gave them each a separate QQ group.
To avoid trouble, these QQ accounts were selected by Chen Fan from the new accounts he had registered previously.
No one knew the accounts belonged to him.
Moreover, the QQ groups he gave to each internet cafe receptionist were all different.
Within a day, Chen Fan had sent out more than twenty QQ groups.
Guo Shuai accompanied him the whole way, but to be honest, he still didn't quite understand what Chen Fan was trying to do.
He also felt this method was too childish and might not be able to attract many people.
If he were an internet cafe receptionist, he could easily collude with classmates and friends to bring in a few dozen people. After joining the group and getting paid, they could just quit the group and run away. What could Chen Fan do then?
Of course, Guo Shuai didn't voice these concerns. He just silently accompanied Chen Fan from one cafe to another.
As evening fell, Chen Fan had sent out 24 QQ groups.
"That's about enough. Let's see the situation tomorrow."
"If these internet cafe managers deliver, two hundred people gathered within three days would barely be enough."
This was what Chen Fan thought, but he completely underestimated the power of these internet cafe managers and receptionists.
Within a day, the QQ groups never stopped receiving join requests.
Some clever receptionists, who were part of many game groups, directly posted the ads in various game groups, solemnly inviting everyone to join and make easy money.
Some netizens joined out of sheer curiosity.
So the next day when Chen Fan came back to White Birch Forest and went online, he was stunned by the constantly flashing messages in the QQ groups.
Originally, Chen Fan thought that if the 24 QQ groups had a total of one to two hundred people, that would be good enough.
But in just one night, the largest group already had over 200 people, and the smallest one had over 80.
The White Birch Forest receptionist walked over mysteriously.
"Did you see? I helped you bring in over 150 people."
Chen Fan smiled: "Great work."
Seeing his hesitant look, Chen Fan smiled and took out 80 yuan from his pocket.
"Here's 80 for you."
The young man's eyes lit up, as if he didn't expect Chen Fan to actually give him money.
He excitedly took the money and before leaving, he looked at Chen Fan expectantly and asked,
"If I help bring in more people later, will there be more money?"
Chen Fan smiled.
"Of course, until the end of this month, as long as you can bring people in, my word is good."
The receptionist's eyes brightened.
"Great, it's a deal then."
After the receptionist left, Chen Fan used a dizzying speed that left Guo Shuai stunned, to quickly set chat restrictions in all these groups.
Then he sent a message in each group.
"In half an hour, this group will issue a money-making bounty task."
"Before the task begins, please nominate three group admins."
After saying that, Chen Fan lifted the chat ban.
Instantly, a torrent of chat messages gushed out.
"What's going on?"
"Money-making bounty task? What task? What money?"
"Isn't this a gaming group?"
"There's really money to be made?"
"Where is the group admin? Can someone explain?"
Chen Fan silently watched their chats.
Sure enough, out of curiosity to find out what the mysterious group admin was up to,
the netizens in each group did nominate three admins.
Chen Fan assigned admin roles to the three nominated in each group.
He looked carefully, and in almost every group, the internet cafe receptionists or managers became group admins.
Chen Fan didn't care who became the admin.
He directly invited them all to join an admin group.
Next, Guo Shuai witnessed firsthand how Chen Fan operated the entire process.
Chen Fan first held a meeting with these dozens of group admins.
He briefly explained the process of the bounty task.
The task was actually very simple, summed up in one sentence:
Post comments.
As long as you know how to go online and type, you can easily participate.
And Chen Fan's requirement was simple.
All comments should talk positively about Yuming.com as much as possible.
Worried that these people might not understand, Chen Fan even took the initiative to provide 10-15 sample comments as templates.
He specifically instructed that if they couldn't write their own, they could just copy the templates.
Just as Guo Shuai was looking confused, feeling that Chen Fan's approach was a bit childish.
Chen Fan suddenly said to the admins in the management group:
"Tell everyone in your groups that as long as they make an effort to leave comments, everyone will make good money."
"Each comment must be at least 10 characters."
"Five fen per comment. No upper limit!"
"For the group admins acting as management, you get a higher level salary, ten fen per comment you post."
"Alright, everyone can now go back to your groups and explain the task clearly to your members."
Guo Shuai sat beside him, staring at Chen Fan in amazement.
"Isn't this... a bit too childish?"
Yet Chen Fan just smiled, stretched lazily, and patted Guo Shuai's shoulder.
"Young man, remember! Learn to mobilize the power of the people."