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Chapter 241: Chapter 207: Starting QQ Export Chapter 241: Chapter 207: Starting QQ Export Inside the room, Cheng Zhu saw that Hu Yan said she was coming to Hang City for a few days of travel and even sent her a Hang City travel guide.

“You never know, we, as online friends, might accidentally bump into each other on the street,” he joked.

“Even if we did, we wouldn’t recognize each other, haha!” Hu Yan joked along with him.

Neither of them really felt like they would encounter each other, as Hang City was just too large, two people in such a big city were really too insignificant.

“So it seems you look nothing like your self-portrait,” Cheng Zhu teased.

What’s the difference between this and an overly Photoshopped selfie?

“Not at all, not at all, it still resembles me, but of course there’s artistic processing involved! How can a normal person look so seductive? Look at those big, fat hips, that’s not something normal people can have,” Hu Yan said.

Cheng Zhu laughed, thinking she probably had a point.

He guessed the resemblance between Hu Yan’s self-portrait and her real self was probably about as accurate as the wanted posters in those melodramatic historical dramas compared to the actual fugitives.

Girls who draw themselves to look prettier and with better figures, it’s only normal.

He reckoned even if he used these self-portraits to find her, he probably wouldn’t be able to identify her.

After chatting a bit more, Cheng Zhu paid the fee for the three “seller’s show” comic images.

Furthermore, he transferred an extra 888 to Hu Yan as a bonus for her hard work rushing the drafts and maintaining quality over this period.

This extra money was not agreed upon beforehand.

So Hu Yan was rather happy to receive it.

“Enjoy your trip, have fun and relax. You might be busy again after you get back,” Cheng Zhu typed.

“Thank you, sugar daddy!” she replied after receiving the transfer.

To be honest, she, an artist whose talents were fully invested in creating sultry drawings, managed to make so much money continuously over these past few months, thanks to clinging firmly to Cheng Zhu’s “thighs.”

Other clients at most offered sporadic orders.

Unlike him, his orders were steady and he was generous with money.

More importantly, this job brought Hu Yan unparalleled joy, made her feel like her talents and strengths were useful and even improved quite a lot!

She actually had always admired Cheng Zhu, more of a spiritual resonance.

Rich, capable, innovative, generous and most importantly… he knew how to create sultry content!

–Without my sugar daddy, the path of sultriness would be as eternal as the night!

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The night deepened, and after saying goodnight to Lin Lu, Cheng Zhu went to the bathroom to wash up.

After showering, he lay in bed in the shape of the character “wood,” phone held aloft in both hands, starting to plan his time for the near future.

A good master of time management always has a plan in mind.

“The focus for next week is cross-border e-commerce.”

“Sheep” doesn’t need to be rushed, we’ll test it internally again.”

“Then, it’s the milk tea shop.”

The decoration of the milk tea shop was progressing smoothly.

But this did not mean that Cheng Zhu had no other work to do during this time.

When selling milk tea, one had to think about what to sell, right?

Those who can make milk tea are a dime a dozen.

The so-called milk tea recipes can also be obtained through various means.

But what he intended to create was definitely not the kind of milk tea currently popular on the market.

Take Hey Tea as an example, they always claimed to use real milk and real tea, pioneering cheese tea and thereby creating a whole new industry for specialty drinks.

Indeed, although called milk tea, a lot of it truly didn’t use real milk, let alone real tea.

Cheng Zhu had spoken with someone who started their own milk tea brand in his previous life.

The other party indicated that the milk tea industry was becoming increasingly competitive, with everyone constantly trying to innovate.

Visit any mildly popular milk tea shop, and from time to time they will introduce some new products to try out.

Some new products might be sold for a few days and then pulled because they aren’t well-received by the market, while others might suddenly go viral, skyrocketing the milk tea shop’s popularity!

Innovation is actually hard, but imitation is quite easy.

The barrier to entry for making milk tea is not that high.

You’ll find that after entering the era of the new tea drinks, actually, every milk tea shop… sort of sells the same stuff.

Like when succulent grapes were all the rage, you’d find all the leading new tea drink shops started selling succulent grapes quickly.

Later, it was the same with coffee; after Luckin’s coconut latte became a hit, various coffee shops also started featuring coconut lattes.

As this thought crossed his mind, Cheng Zhu suddenly remembered: “Coconut lattes weren’t around in 2014.”

However, even if different milk tea brands are selling the same product, the taste is always a bit different due to variation.

That’s perfectly normal because the raw materials are different.

The fruits will be different, the teas will also vary.

And it’s indeed unnecessary to make everything taste the same; that would, in fact, diminish competitiveness.

Cheng Zhu’s advantage lay in his knowledge of which products would go viral, understanding which products had a high market acceptance.

All he needed to do was to lead his team to create them, then promote them through his own marketing strategies.

Cheng Zhu put down his phone, sank into thought.

He knew very well that to create internet sensation milk tea, marketing was indeed very important, but one can’t rely solely on marketing; there has to be a truly distinct product.

Otherwise, marketing alone wouldn’t cut it.

If marketing were truly enough, he would just randomly purchase a milk tea shop and hype it up.

So, while the shop was being decorated, he had to start recruiting, to form a team, then provide creative ideas and concepts, and begin product development.

Eventually, to launch novel milk tea that the market had never seen before!

He had to deliver a combination punch!

“The milk for the tea, the fruits, the tea… all these have to be chosen carefully.”

“Doing food business, one has to be responsible for the customers since it’s something they consume, otherwise it’s bad for one’s karma.”

“And as a trendy shop, once we get famous, we’re certainly going to be scrutinized.”

“Food hygiene is the most basic thing, can’t be sloppy,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.

Based on all this, he realized he might need to rent another place.

The machinery for the milk tea shop definitely needed to be purchased early so that they could start developing drinks.

The shop was still being renovated, so they would need to find a place to store the machines.

“Or, should I just rent a place at the apartment where Ning Bao and Baby Lu stay?” Cheng Zhu began to consider the feasibility.

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The next day, after getting up, Cheng Zhu contacted several manufacturers to purchase machines for making milk tea.

Besides that, he also began looking for staff, building his own milk tea team.

After a busy morning, Cheng Zhu headed to the Persistent Visit studio in the afternoon.

He still had time to think about expanding the product categories in his shop.

“It’s only 2014 now, everyone is still relatively conservative, the sales of small toys haven’t picked up yet, and the market size is completely incomparable to what it will be in a few years.”

At present, his main focus of work was still cross-border e-commerce.

Now that seller’s show and comic images were all sorted, once the products were listed, he would start operating them.

“Oh right, I must take the time to reward Ye Zi,” he just remembered this.

Ye Zi had been tirelessly taking photos recently, and after the shoot, she had to edit them.

He didn’t know what Ye Zi’s mindset was when doing this work.

As for him, he found image editing quite annoying, feeling it was time-consuming and tiring, and could lead to eye pain later on.

Besides, Cheng Zhu didn’t need to settle any model fees with the foreign model.

In exchange, Ye Zi had to take private photos of the Franco-Chinese mixed-race Liu Jiani.

Well, letting this 75E experience what it’s like to be a QQ model.

But these pictures wouldn’t be posted online. It’s about the process, not the outcome.

Cheng Zhu couldn’t quite understand why this bisexual vet enjoyed such things so much.

One part of her wanted to try seducing Ye Zi, while another part actually wanted to try being a QQ model for once.

–Hey! Just for kicks!

Because of this, Ye Zi would be busy for the next few days, seemingly having to shoot Liu Jiani for three consecutive days.

At this moment, Cheng Zhu sat in his office, starting to set prices for the newly listed products in his cross-border e-commerce store.

He had carefully calculated each product’s pricing.

While controlling his own gross margin, he also strived to ensure he had an absolute price advantage.

After all, he sold in bulk for export, which was a different concept from Taobao retail.

His buyers were essentially business people.

The mindset of a business person was utterly different from that of a pure customer.

After getting everything sorted, he leaned back in his chair, feeling pretty impressive.

“I, Cheng Zhu, am the number one person against internal competition and price wars in China!”

“I’m going out to raid foreigners, to hit the foreigners!”

“Let them know how terrifying the phrase ‘made in China’ can be!”

He had just looked up and even found a funny thing.

Some of their stores’ popular products were also being sold abroad.

That is to say, people abroad were also copying Persistent Visit’s designs.

Some were exact replicas, while others had small alterations and then became their “original” creations.

This kind of thing was actually commonplace and the same in every country.

Even some high-end luxury brands would indulge in plagiarism.

Not to mention affordable QQ lingerie.

The environment was like this everywhere and no different.

Cheng Zhu was not surprised by this.

But when he saw their selling prices, he became completely unconcerned.

“It’s time to shock the foreign merchants with a little pricing shock!”

I, Cheng Zhu, fire the first shot in the international QQ lingerie industry’s price war!

Now, that would cause a shake-up in the industry!

Of course, this would still need to be combined with some operations tactics for export.

Luckily, Cheng Zhu was also knowledgeable about this.

He initially made his fortune in domestic e-commerce and then shifted to exports as the domestic market became harder to compete in.

When the competition in exports increased, he joined the ranks of live-streaming sales.

He managed to catch several trends, and although he never caught the last train, he always boarded midway.

Not like now, in 2014, when the trend was just beginning.

He first stood up to water his fortune tree, his gaze pausing on the scratch card Lin Lu had given him.

It’s my turn to show off!

–You have one “Dressed or Not” overseas order, please check.

Immediately after, Cheng Zhu began operating on the computer.

The prices he set for the products, the novel designs yet to be copied, and his many operating tactics, were all his bullets!

Each one was dangerous, each one deadly!

This hotshot, after firing the gun, might even blow on the barrel and nonchalantly ask you: “Are you OK?”

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