100: Chapter 10 Promotional Plan

Chen Guangke was stunned.

"Yes, I'm inviting you, is that not allowed?"

Wu Ya swallowed hard. She shook her head like a rattle drum and said, "No! I'm not going. There must be a trick to this!"

Beside her, Shen Yan laughed triumphantly.

Who told Old Chen to always argue with Xiao Wu before.

Now it was great; he didn't even have a place to pursue the person he liked.

Chen Guangke was also on the verge of collapse.

If possible, he wished he could use a time machine to go back and change how he interacted with Wu Ya.

Whether he could successfully pursue her was another matter.

At least he wouldn't be suspected of having ulterior motives just for inviting the person he liked out for a meal.

Looking at Shen Yan, who was smiling maliciously, and Chen Guangke, who looked like he was about to cry, Wu Ya found the situation bizarre.

"What are you two doing?"

"Why are you both acting so strangely?"

Chen Guangke forced a smile and said, "I invite you to dinner, and you think there's a problem with that? Then I'll invite you and Old Shen to dinner together. That shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Wu Ya nodded without hesitation: "Then that's fine!"

Chen Guangke almost fainted from anger on the spot.

...

At a barbecue restaurant near the company.

Chen Guangke was grilling meat with a grim expression.

"What's wrong with him?"

Xiao Wu asked Shen Yan in a low voice while eating the barbecue piled up like a small mountain in her bowl.

Shen Yan coughed, holding back a laugh, and replied, "Maybe he remembered something sad."

Saying that, he picked up his chopsticks to grab some meat from the grill plate.

"Smack!"

His chopsticks were knocked away.

Chen Guangke glared fiercely at Shen Yan.

"This is the meat I grilled. If you want to eat it, go grill it yourself!"

Wu Ya frowned and put the meat from her bowl into Shen Yan's bowl.

"It's just a piece of meat? Do you have to be so stingy?"

"Forget it, forget it. Put down the tongs and I'll grill."

Chen Guangke completely lost his spirit.

He listlessly transferred all the meat from the grill plate into Shen Yan's and Wu Ya's bowls.

"Fine, fine, you two eat! Hurry up and eat. Since I'm in the mood to treat you today, you two eat to your heart's content!"

Shen Yan truly couldn't hold back anymore; he burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha hahaha!"

Wu Ya was even more confused.

She felt that Chen Guangke was truly strange today.

But she couldn't pinpoint exactly what was strange.

"What riddle are you two playing behind my back?"

Chen Guangke glared at Shen Yan again.

"Nothing, I just don't like looking at Old Shen."

Shen Yan cleared his throat and dropped the smile from his face.

"Right, right. He just doesn't like looking at me."

"Alright, let's talk about something serious. Regarding the software launch, what are your thoughts?"

Chen Guangke and Wu Ya exchanged a look and said in unison, "Just launch it directly, right?"

Shen Yan shook his head.

"Just launching it directly isn't enough. We need to let everyone know that this software exists."

Chen Guangke understood what Shen Yan meant. He put down the tongs, picked up a piece of meat, and put it in his mouth: "So, you mean we need to allocate some budget for promotion?"

Shen Yan nodded and put down his chopsticks.

"Exactly. Not only do we need to promote it, but we also need to spend every penny where it counts."

"Our budget is limited. We can't promote this software as extensively as Chen Ling and the others. So, I wanted to ask if you have any reliable promotion plans."

Wu Ya thought carefully and then replied, "Celebrities have a huge influence. Why don't we invite a celebrity to promote it for us?"

Before Shen Yan could speak, Chen Guangke preemptively rejected the plan.

"That's definitely impossible. Think about how high celebrity endorsement fees are nowadays!"

"Even if we empty out all our company's money, we might not be able to afford a celebrity."

Wu Ya was dissatisfied. She felt Chen Guangke was exaggerating.

"You're talking about A-list stars. Can't we just invite a minor celebrity with a lower endorsement fee?"

Chen Guangke rolled his eyes.

"Why are they A-list stars? Isn't it because their influence is high!"

"What's the use of inviting an unknown minor celebrity to promote for us? People don't even know that celebrity, so how would they notice the endorsement?"

Wu Ya got a little angry. She pouted and put down her chopsticks, saying, "Then you tell me! What good promotion plan do you have?"

Chen Guangke puffed out his chest and replied, "The internet is so developed now, and many people are doing self-media. Why don't we invite internet celebrities to promote it for us instead!"

This time it was Wu Ya's turn to reject Chen Guangke's plan.

"Heh! Do you think internet celebrities are cheaper than celebrities?"

"Inviting one influential internet celebrity costs at least several hundred thousand. If we invite a few more, our company's budget will be gone!"

Chen Guangke retorted unconvinced, "That's still better than inviting a celebrity, isn't it?"

Seeing that the two of them were about to start arguing again, Shen Yan quickly said, "Actually, what you both said has merit and can be useful, but our company's budget is really not high."

"I plan to spend only one million yuan on promotion costs, so neither the internet celebrity nor the celebrity plan will work."

The expressions of both of them changed after hearing that.

"Isn't one million a bit too little?"

"Nowadays, to promote something, it's hard to make everyone aware of our software without spending at least five million..."

Shen Yan sighed.

There was no other way; the budget was limited.

Even if the promotional effect wasn't satisfactory in the end, it couldn't be helped.

"It's fine, just do our best. As long as we can maximize the use of this one million budget, that's enough."

Since he had said that, what else could Chen Guangke and Wu Ya say?

Seeing them both fall silent, racking their brains over the promotion plan, Shen Yan picked up some meat for both of them and said, "Alright, today is a good day. Let's not think about work matters."

"I just wanted to mention this matter to you. As for how to solve it, we can discuss it tomorrow."

That's what he said.

But Chen Guangke and Wu Ya simply couldn't let the matter go.

"No! Since we don't have anything else to discuss, we might as well talk about how to handle this promotion expense right now."

Shen Yan was torn between laughter and tears.

How could these two have a stronger sense of career than him?

"Fine! Then today counts as overtime for me. I'll have the Finance Department process overtime pay for you later."

Chen Guangke stepped on Shen Yan's foot.

"Get out of here! Didn't you keep saying the budget wasn't enough? Why are you always talking about giving us raises?"

Shen Yan spread his hands and admitted frankly, "Well, you two are working so hard, and besides giving you more money, I don't have any other way to reward you."

As the two of them were discussing, Wu Ya came up with a plan.

"Hey!"

"I think we don't necessarily have to invite internet celebrities to promote it. We can make the promotional video ourselves!"

Shen Yan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Oh? Tell me more."