E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 226: Episode 226: Hectic Exhibition Event 4

Chapter 226: Episode 226: Hectic Exhibition Event 4

Beautiful things always attract attention, and soon the square was crowded with onlookers. However, everyone collected their gifts and brochures in an orderly manner, nothing like the frenzied scramble of the elderly men and women in the morning.

By lunchtime, the number of people had increased, and although the plan was to take turns eating, after assessing the situation on site, Zhou Xueyin decided to have the guys buy lunch back, and everyone took turns eating out of the wind.

In the afternoon, Schroeder Company’s staff also blended into the crowd to inspect the situation. They were very pleased to see the bustling crowd and the busy figures of Zhou Xueyin and her team, so they didn’t say much, just took a few photos and left.

In the afternoon, the forecasted level 1-2 wind, for some reason, turned into level 3-4 wind.

Plus, the area they were in was quite windy, and in an instant, the wind likely exceeded level 5 or 6.

The strong wind made the pull-up banners run all over the square, and several girls in dresses were chasing after them.

"Sisi, let’s take down the pull-up banners. This is a bit too dangerous. It wouldn’t be good if it fell and hit someone," Zhou Xueyin said, somewhat worried.

"Let’s take them down, take them down. With Beijing’s crappy weather, the wind blows after noon and only stops at sunset. For safety’s sake, it’s better to put them away..." Liu He also agreed.

However, as they were packing up the banners, some unflattering poses were captured by those with ulterior motives and posted online: Placing pull-up banners on a windy square, dressed so indecently! People nowadays really do anything for attention.

They even included pictures of everyone chasing after the pull-up banners and taking down the booths.

Soon after, Zhou Xueyin received a call from Schroeder, "Xiaozhou, what’s going on? Why is it said online that our wedding dresses are indecent? What are you doing at the scene?"

"Huh? The wind has picked up, and we are packing up the pull-up banners. These people really have too much idle time on their hands... Don’t pay attention to those comments. Once the official content is released, they’ll shut up!" With years of experience on the Internet, Zhou Xueyin was resolute in ignoring these pointless comments.

"Can you release the content from the scene tonight? What if their comments gain the upper hand? Is this how your company does things? So not thorough. How can we continue to work with you in the future?" the other party persisted relentlessly.

"How about this, we’ll post some unretouched photos from the scene on our main account now? Just to shut them up? What do you think about that?" When someone is paying, you have to listen to them.

After hanging up, Zhou Xueyin found Wang Simo, "Simo, go change your clothes and then head to Third Pole to find an internet café, and post some of the photos first; the client demands that they see the content presentation right away. There are some negative comments online..."

"What a bunch of people with nothing better to do!" cursed Wang Simo, changing clothes and heading to the internet café.

Zhou Xueyin checked the time; it was already close to 4 p.m. "Jixiang, how much dessert and drinks do we have left? How many materials are still available? Take stock. We’ll pack up soon."

"Desserts and drinks were gone long ago, these people kept coming around in circles to get desserts, like they were free, just grabbing desperately..." Jixiang said, helplessly.

"That’s good... Better all gone, no waste," Zhou Xueyin said, satisfied. "I was wondering why there was no one left, okay, let’s pack up! Get changed, and I’ll see you back at my place... Great job everyone! For dinner, we’ll have a big feast at American Leopard!"

Zhou Xueyin gave instructions while also calling Wang Simo to inquire about the situation. As long as the content was posted, she didn’t care about the rest—it was the client who was in a rush to see it, and whether the effect was good or not was another matter.

The next day, Zhou Xueyin drove to return the dresses, wedding gowns, and display racks back to the store.

Lending them had been very straightforward, but the inspection during their return was fraught with problems.

The store manager was extremely dissatisfied with the returned wedding dresses: "Miss Zhou, look at this wedding dress. What did you do to it? It’s dirty! And these formal dresses, how come they are torn? The zippers are broken!"

"The zipper was already broken when we borrowed it... I spent a long time trying to fix it but couldn’t. Besides, we mentioned that the display would be outdoors, and it was bound to get dusty. Forget it, just tell me how much—how much is the cleaning fee?" Zhou Xueyin was too lazy to fuss with them.

They just wanted to find a pretext to demand money, didn’t they? That was their usual tactic to overcharge. Hasn’t their unreasonable behavior been exposed online? Anyway, this was just a one-off deal with them; even if offered a lot more money next time, she wouldn’t promote for them again.

Everyone thought that once the event was over and they’d posted on Weibo, their promotion was done. However, no one expected that this was just the beginning of Schroeder torturing them.

[Hey, the Weibo post you made isn’t performing well. How about this? For the next month, could you post something about Schroeder Crystal Wedding Dress every day? Our requirements are not high, just one post a day!]

Since they had to post content anyway, mixing in an ad here and there didn’t make much difference, agreed!

[Your event didn’t bring us much traffic, huh? Promote some more!]

Isn’t posting daily enough promotion? How much more do they want? They’re not offering any incentives, yet they expect people to fall into their trap. Dream on! Zhou Xueyin complained to herself, but in the email, she still replied: Ok, we’ll figure it out.

[Someone’s bad-mouthing Schroeder, handle it! Delete the comments, delete the content!]

Oh, come on, must you be so unreasonable? There’s freedom of speech on Weibo, and it’s their own content on their own Weibo accounts. We’re just account managers, how can we delete it?

Zhou Xueyin was really annoyed by the liaison: [Dear, if you want to delete content from someone else’s Weibo, you’d better go complain officially, we can’t do that!]

[You can’t? Why not? Didn’t you take our company’s money? Doesn’t that mean you should provide complete service and after-sales support? Now that we’ve seen unfavorable comments about our company on Weibo, aren’t you supposed to help us delete them?] The other party demanded unreasonably.

"TMD, so what if you paid?! You begrudgingly gave such a small sum. It’s a miracle we didn’t lose money on the event. And now they keep pestering us with one demand after another, even expecting us to delete others’ Weibo posts? Who the hell do we think we are to have that power? They must be out of their minds!" Zhou Xueyin finally couldn’t take it anymore and cursed out loud in the office.

"Let them call Weibo’s official support to delete the content. Besides, if some people praise, others will criticize. If Schroeder doesn’t want to be bad-mouthed, they should stop tricking and deceiving people!" Li Jinian said irritably.

"I’m not kidding, their company is super stingy! Other wedding dress brands shower customers with discount coupons and reductions during promotions. What do they offer? It’d be a surprise if they don’t trick you into spending money! They say they are an international brand, but is this how international brands deceive people?" Liu He also chimed in.

"Anyway, they already paid the final installment, and the contract expired. If they come back asking for after-sales, I’ll just play dead..." Zhou Xueyin flipped through the contract, which had just expired yesterday, giving her a legitimate reason not to deal with Schroeder anymore.