Chapter 15
This was the most people the company had since its founding.
Jiang Juyou sat at the main seat in the conference room, with people from various departments sitting separately. Today was so grand precisely because new trainees had arrived, and so had new employees.
"In the future there will be more and more trainees, because they are still children, I hope the security team pays more attention. There is nothing now, but after gradually gaining fans, there will be people who want to sneak in, so you have to pay more attention on a daily basis."
"Another thing is that starting tomorrow, the trainees will move into the dormitories. It's not safe enough for the kids to just live together, so far there are eight trainees total, split into two dorms. People from the new artist management team can apply to live in the dorms if they currently have no residence."
As the performance date drew nearer, there were more and more areas that needed to be improved. Jiang Juyou had originally thought they could get by with a streamlined staff until the company started making money, but later realized it was impossible.
Because this broken system didn't issue tasks anymore, which meant she had to wait until the next task to get that 2 million yuan, but Jiang Juyou didn't even have time to pay attention before the money was almost all spent.
So before hitting rock bottom, she had to start making money.
The first step to making money was improving the company's staff structure. Finance and legal affairs were still temporarily handled by the system, so what remained were the administrative, A&R, new artist management, marketing, and performance departments.
The administrative department was responsible for logistics and HR, the A&R department was responsible for the artists' stage performances, album planning and such, the new artist management department was responsible for discovering and managing trainees, the marketing department was responsible for planning advertisements, marketing publicity, commercial agents and the like, and the performance department was fully responsible for business related to planning concerts.
Because they were short on people, the departments weren't divided very finely, and each department had a lot of responsibilities. Plus Jiang Juyou's words, the entire company had a total of 30 people.
After recruiting so many people and dividing them into so many sections, the emphasis was still on that concert venue.
Jiang Juyou had never studied management or operations, but she also knew income without expenditure couldn't last long. While other entertainment companies desperately promoted their artists, Jiang Juyou had more than just artists to make money.
She had her own venue, her own planning team, which meant she could act as both the host and undertaker for local concerts, keeping both points in her grasp. With that, a single concert could earn at least 1 million.
When she first calculated this amount, Jiang Juyou grinned foolishly with drool for half a day, eager to hold concerts every day.
"The performance department should contact other artists to see if any artists want to hold concerts... The A&R department should continue collecting songs, and prepare to perform soon, so the performance department should hurry and come up with a stage plan as soon as possible. The new artist management doesn't need to be said, you need to go out and discover trainees, but those who enter the company after August won't participate in the first month-end evaluation, there's no time."
While meeting above, it was also lively below.
Ever since Jiang Juyou came to the practice room to inform them more trainees would be joining, two weeks had passed. They were quite apprehensive at first, and had even heard from Teacher Liu Jiaya that the company had signed new trainees, but they never saw anyone after just hearing about it.
Today, they got to see everyone at once.
"Ah! Because of exams!" Pei Luming nodded in realization after hearing their explanation.
These three new trainees who'd joined had already signed their contracts two weeks ago, but it happened to coincide with their final exams, so they were only coming now.
It was also because of them that Gao Xiayu and the others found out they'd be moving into the dormitories starting tomorrow.
But Yao Shuo was more concerned about something else. "You have to learn a lot of things now, my brain feels like it's going to explode. You poor things, we've been studying for almost a month now."
"That's why we have to live in the dorms. I'm already prepared," said the new face.
Another boy who was a little shorter raised his hand and said, "The teacher said I don't participate in the first month-end evaluation." When he said this, the others all stared at him in shock and asked loudly, "Why?!"
The boy squeezed his hands, seeming somewhat shy, "I have a play to perform this summer, once a week, and I still have to make time for rehearsals with that crew, so the teacher said I don't need to participate in the month-end evaluation this summer, but I still have to attend class."
Yao Shuo listened enviously, "So nice... I feel like I don't have enough time now. I thought two months would be easy, but July is already half over and I've only prepared two stages."
"Then you should tell the teacher you won't participate this time," Chi Qiaochong sneered at him.
Yao Shuo: "...Just saying."
This guy, really.
Gao Xiayu looked at the time and interrupted the group who still wanted to keep chatting. "Alright alright, let's practice first!" He said, then looked to Chi Qiao and told him, "Chi Qiao, teach them the basics of warm-up and rhythm first."
"OK!" Chi Qiao took off his hat, preparing to warm up.
They had just assigned separate practice positions when the door to the practice room opened. The eight people looked over at the same timeβ
"Good morning teacher!" Greetings sounded from all around, those newbies were watching the situation.
Liu Jiaya had just brought the new teachers from the new artist management department to get familiar with the venue. She didn't want to disturb their practice originally, but seeing they hadn't started yet, she brought the people in to get acquainted.
"Have you all introduced yourselves already?" Their familiar Teacher Liu Jiaya stood at the very front, while the others followed behind her.
The little chicks automatically gathered around Gao Xiayu when they heard the teacher ask this, and obediently nodded.
Liu Jiaya looked at her watch for the time, "Just in time, you're all here. I was going to tell you after practice ended... Your practice progress is very slow right now, and you're already spending 3 hours round trip on the road, so the company has prepared dorms for you. Remember to call your parents after practice ends to inform them about this. Come tell us if your family disagrees, if they agree you can go pack your things and move in tonight."
The boy who said he had to perform a play this summer raised his hand, "My family agrees."
"Mm... Yang Yuzhen right, I know your three families agreed already. Come to the office next door during lunch break after eating, someone will bring you to choose beds then."
"Ok, thank you teacher!" Yang Yuzhen obediently put his hand back down.
Pei Luming looked at the three of them enviously, seeming eager to make a call.
After speaking with the trainees, Liu Jiaya pointed at the people behind her, "These are the new teachers in the new artist management department. Remember to greet them when you see them in the future."
"Hello teachers!" The kids immediately bowed after hearing this.
The newcomers on that side also nodded stiffly.
Liu Jiaya added, "Teacher Ge Mu has been transferred to the performance department, if you want to see him you'll have to go to the third floor now."
"Alright, continue your practice. Remember to come to the office next door after lunch." Liu Jiaya said, then tilted her head at the people behind her, signaling for them to open the door and head out.
As soon as the group turned around, the eight little chicks chorused again, "Goodbye teacher!"
The door shut.
Pei Luming: "Ohβwe're pretty in sync!"
He said this while turning back, only to find the people around him had vanished, all running to find their phones.
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Ge Mu, who had been transferred to the performance department, was entrusted with important tasks. As soon as the meeting dispersed, their department immediately started a small meeting to assign tasks.
There wasn't a single newbie in their department, each had struggled in the entertainment industry for at least three years. Looking at this lineup, it was clear how urgent the company's business needs were currently.
Ge Mu sat in front, flipping through the venue's data while pointing the way for the employees under him, "Our venue can hold over 2,700 people, basically a small-scale concert. Aside from artists' concerts, we can also host birthday parties. Not just artists, performances from other arts groups work too."
"Everyone make a list for me first, we'll reconvene in the afternoon to screen them one by one."
"Because we have month-end evaluations every month, we have to keep that last day open, other times are fine. Remember to note clearly any that fit within this time frame and requirements."
"The stage songs are already confirmed, lighting team please give me a plan as soon as possible. If you need to see the choreography, you can ask the minus one team for a video."
While Jiang Juyou was now sitting in her office looking at the accounts with worry, "Plus the leftover money from before... After deducting the salaries of the employees and teachers, and the various expenses during the performances at the end of the month... There are only 80,000 left..."
Originally it wouldn't have been so little, but she was blown up by the mine she had buried herself.
That day after checking it over and over again and confirming there were no loopholes, she submitted the APP. But the next day she regretted it, because her ideas had changed.
If she wanted to earn money before the task came out, she would have to take on some other performances as the organizer. In that case, the ticket price should not have been like that, because even if she agreed, the talent agency would not agree.
So Jiang Juyou gritted her teeth and submitted a modification fee, changing the ticket price to an adjustable state, and limiting the annual VIP membership setting only to artists under Random Entertainment. Purchasing tickets for performances by other artists does not require membership.
There were other parts she wanted to modify, but she really didn't have the money, so she had to leave it alone.
Now when Jiang Juyou looked at the balance, she wanted to cry, because she felt she could modify that APP eight hundred times in the future.
Just like the opening report she had pieced together with great difficulty, Jiang Juyou didn't want to look at the software a second time, but the more she didn't want to face something, the more it came at her.
"Ding--"
"Task: Promote the Galexy World APP and have 100 registered users."
Jiang Juyou: "..."
She had given it an excessively cute and catchy name originally. Now no matter how she looked at it, it turned her stomach.
Ugh!