Chapter 54 Milk Tea and Domain Names Bloom

Manager Liu of the research institute said that he wanted to send a big gift, but he still kept it secret.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a magazine!

And it's so sharp.

Although "Chinese Food" is not a best-selling magazine, its publisher is the Capital Food Research Institute, which is the vane of the domestic food industry.

This magazine has naturally become the only authoritative magazine publicly issued in the domestic food industry. It has a deep cooperative relationship with the National Education Channel, Yanjing TV, and Donghai TV. It is the latest and fastest authoritative information in the domestic food industry.

Such a magazine reported an article "Pearl milk tea, do you still dare to drink it?" "The influence of the article can be imagined.

Zhou Buqi snatched the magazine and began to read it, and found that the article really criticized pearl milk tea in a serious way.

For example, the ingredient of "pearl" is starch, which has no sweet taste. In order to make the pearls more delicious, merchants have to soak them in saccharin water for a long time to increase the sweetness. If the pearls are soaked for a long time, toxins will be produced.

For example, fruit-flavored powder, pearl milk tea will add a large amount of fruit-flavored powder additives in order to pursue a better "fruit flavor". Excessive absorption will cause great harm to the liver, kidneys and other organs of the human body. Chemically synthesized pigments are more toxic and fatal to the human body. Laxative and carcinogenic hazards. Long-term intake of food containing fruit flavor powder will also have adverse effects on children's intellectual development.

Another example is creamer and cyclamate, which also have their own shortcomings.

If a cup of milk tea only ingests a certain part of it, the human body can self-regulate and eliminate toxins. If the five poisons are present, it will really seriously damage personal health.

In fact, there have been many negative reports on pearl milk tea in the society.

For example, a girl had a long-term stomachache. She went to the hospital for an examination and found a tumor the size of a billiard ball in her stomach. The parents were terrified, but after some inspection, it turned out that the girl had been drinking pearl milk tea for a long time, and a large amount of undigested "pearls" had accumulated in her stomach.

For example, a child drank pearl milk tea and got his throat stuck; for example, a girl drank pearl milk tea, which caused intestinal obstruction; for example, some unscrupulous merchants also used plastic to make "pearls" in order to pursue the Q-bouncing feeling.

With the semi-official and authoritative magazine's statement, this trend is bound to intensify.

At the end of the article, the topic is also pointed out.

He said that the Capital Food Research Institute has cooperated with ten universities including Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing University of Technology, Beihang University, Beijing University of Technology, and Beijing Foreign Studies University in order to let people across the country drink real milk tea. Flavored milk tea brand, creating a safety benchmark for local milk tea!

Refuse pearls and focus on fresh fruits.

After reading this article, Zhou Buqi was overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the amazing talent of the author.

This is the master!

Write commercial soft articles smoothly and naturally, without trace. It suppressed its opponents, praised itself, and played the banner of a local national brand, responding to the policy call.

high!

It's really high!

Well, as soon as this report comes out, it will definitely attract the attention of the relevant media. It is impossible for Yuanwei Milk Tea to keep a low profile.

With the two big hats of national security and national brand, the development of milk tea shops will be particularly smooth in the future.

Zhou Buqi turned over the back of the magazine and looked at the price, 4 yuan 5.

OK, not too expensive.

He took out his mobile phone and called Manager Liu: "Manager Liu, this gift really surprised me."

"Haha, each takes what he wants, and each takes what he wants." Manager Liu laughed heartily a few times.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Manager Liu is here, if I purchase this magazine in large quantities, what is the wholesale price?"

"You want to buy a magazine?"

"right."

"How much do you want?"

"Let's get 5,000 volumes first."

Manager Liu's heart skipped a beat, and he groaned slightly.

He also has the common problem of state-owned enterprises, thinking that Zhou Buqi is taking the benefits of publicity for nothing. As a college student, he doesn't want to show it in real money, so he uses this disguised method to give benefits.

Manager Liu is in charge of the R\u0026D department, and the wholesale of magazines needs to be connected with the magazine agency. These are two departments.

Zhou Buqi's multinational magazine directly approached him, which could only explain one problem - Manager Liu could make a profit from it.

Earning 1 yuan per book is 5,000 yuan, equal to his two-month salary.

Manager Liu's mood became better and better.

I feel that this young man is very mature and developed.

"Okay, I'll communicate with the magazine later. 5,000 copies, the purchase volume is not small! At least half of the magazine's sales." Manager Liu said with a smile.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Well, I'm not in a hurry here, just get ready before the National Day."

After finishing the call, Zhou Buqi felt that every cell in his body was beating happily.

Don't feel too good about stepping on the trend of the policy of the times at the initial stage of entrepreneurship.

Then, he went back to the computer and read the email again.

The authenticity of the email should be fine.

In terms of time, the famous American news website reddit will be launched next year.

The question is, how much is the domain reddit.com worth?

There is no uniform standard for this.

Reddit is not a word with actual meaning, which is different from words such as choice and car. In other words, reddit is a word invented by entrepreneurs.

If Zhou Buqi’s asking price is too high, causing the negotiation to break down, the other party can change a word, change a domain name, and call it reddat.com or reddet.com, which will have little impact on entrepreneurs.

Zhou Buqi's interests will be seriously damaged.

The other party offered a price of 50,000 US dollars. This price must be low, and there is room for negotiation.

Zhou Buqi couldn't figure out the standard, so he checked the information online.

After reading a lot of news, I finally saw the information on facebook.

Just last month, Facebook’s financing arrived. After Zuckerberg got rich, the first thing he did was to buy the domain name of facebook.com.

Before that, facebook's domain name was thefacebook.com.

In order to buy the domain name facebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg, who is only two years older than Zhou Buqi, spent $200,000.

After reading this news, Zhou Buqi knew it.

The word facebook is less original than reddit.

This is the case with domain names. The more original words, the lower the price, and the more meaningful words, the higher the price. For example, the domain name car.com is worth tens of millions of dollars.

From this point of view, the domain name of reddit.com is worth less than $200,000.

Zhou Buqi pondered for a long time before replying a brief email: "250,000 US dollars, how about it?"

The other party didn't move, Zhou Buqi took the newly bought fruit by Wang Dalong, and under his gaze with a resentful expression, he left the dormitory and delivered it to Wu Yu.

Half an hour later, he came back.

To my surprise, the other party replied to the message!

Yep, it's late night in the Eastern Hemisphere and early morning in the Western Hemisphere.

The other party's email was also very concise: "It's too high, up to $100,000."

Zhou Buqi scored 135 in English in the college entrance examination, and his level is not bad, so I replied to him: "A few days ago, facebook.com sold for 200,000 US dollars. The word reddit is shorter than facebook, and the price should be higher. Steve, I Expect a fair deal."

The two founders of Reddit are Steve and Alex. Unlike Zuckerberg, they are college graduates who got start-up funding from YCombinator early.

So, they have money.

"Dear Zhou, that's not how the accounts are calculated. Facebook already has a scale. Our website is not yet online, and we have more freedom. $100,000 is an appropriate price."

"No, Steve, the price is too low."

"Our funds are limited."

"Then I'll take a step back, $200,000."

"No no, it's too high, and I think we have a disagreement on the basis of our negotiations."

"..."

...

After more than an hour of overseas mail communication, the two parties finally reached a consensus on the price.

"Zhou, you are a business genius. From your profile, you should also be a college student, right? With this $150,000, I hope you can also succeed in starting a business."

"Thank you, Steve."

"Looking forward to the future, we have the opportunity to meet."

"Me too."

...

Both parties are science and engineering geeks, and there is a language barrier, so they really can't use too many negotiation skills, it is probably hard work.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi succeeded.

Sold the domain reddit.com for $150,000.

This is the first time he manipulated the domain name business, and he got off to a very good start.

It also greatly relieved his current financial pressure.

Opened MSN and saw that Julia Wen was also online, so he sent a message: "Teacher Wen, are you still awake?"

JuliaWen: "Well, I'm looking at the information of the real estate agency."

Zhou is not angry: "Did you find the house?"

JuliaWen: "No, there is a shortage of bachelor apartments, and the nearest one is outside the Fifth Ring Road. I don't want to go that far."

Zhou Bu was angry: "If it's really not possible, let's have two rooms and one living room."

JuliaWen: "Let's talk. Are you okay?"

Zhou is not angry: "Yes, I remember you have a fax machine in your office, right?"

Julia Wen: "Yes."