237: Chapter 237 Su Yang is going to poach people!

Chapter 237: Su Yang is Going to Poach People!

Of course, besides Niu Zhitong, other early-signed influencers at Spark Media were showing similar situations!

For example, when Su Yang first performed a deduction for Dai Jiaying, she was expected to break through to two hundred thousand followers on Douyin within a year.

In fact, she has already reached 2.5 million followers on Douyin now!

Moreover, her accounts on Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have also gained a certain number of followers.

Additionally, Jiang Yan, Li Xiang, Gong Zihao, and Yin Wenyu have all developed significantly better than they did during Su Yang's first deduction!

After interviewing another batch of newcomers at Meijia, Su Yang, who had nothing else to do and no other plans, asked Yu Siying about the number of signed influencers in the company.

Due to Su Yang's instructions to slightly lower the signing standards, the number of ordinary signed influencers at Spark Media has now exceeded 300.

What is an ordinary signed influencer?

Anyone not personally signed by Su Yang with a base salary of ten thousand yuan is considered an ordinary signed influencer of Spark Media.

Roughly speaking, the company provides them with guidance, sets development directions, gives them a small amount of promotional resources, and helps them find advertisement orders to increase their income.

For some full-time self-media influencers who seem to have potential or a certain fan base, the company is also willing to give them a base salary of one, two, or several thousand yuan.

If they perform better than their peers, they can receive a certain tilt in company resources and a slight increase in their base salary!

These full-time individuals who can receive a salary at Spark Media...

Can be considered official employees of Spark Media, or at least they are recognized as official employees by the system!

Part-timers don't count!

At this stage, Spark Media has already established a firm foothold in the MCN field and has very sufficient funds.

Su Yang intends to slightly increase the number of these ordinary signed influencers.

If done well, these ordinary full-time signed influencers who receive a base salary at Spark Media can also become a significant growth point for his employee count!

Don't look down on them just because they might not reach a million followers.

Even with a few hundred thousand followers, they can still achieve a monthly income of over ten thousand yuan!

And just because they can't reach a million followers in one year doesn't mean they can't do it in two or three years!

Su Yang occasionally pays attention to them or performs a deduction on their development prospects every once in a while!

The way Spark Media signs ordinary influencers is roughly similar to the 'gu-rearing' operational style of ordinary MCN agencies.

However, it is much more ethical than ordinary MCN agencies.

After all, many MCN companies sign influencers on a massive scale, signing thousands or tens of thousands... and after signing, they provide no guidance, no resources, and certainly no base salary, leaving them to develop on their own.

If any of those thousands of signed influencers actually develop, the agencies jump out to reap the rewards!

Spark Media's operational method for ordinary signed influencers is more similar to that of large, formal MCN agencies.

The benefits are even better than those large MCN agencies, and the contracts are more lenient.

For instance, sometimes some merchants or other MCN agencies will directly contact an influencer and pay them to run an ad.

When signing contracts, many MCN agencies require their signed self-media influencers not to bypass them to take other commercial orders!

To avoid breaching the contract, they have to give the MCN agency the cut stipulated in the contract.

Not getting any support yet still having to share a cut with the agency... this makes influencers feel like they're losing out big time!

On Spark Media's side, they also take a certain cut from external commercial orders that ordinary signed influencers find themselves.

But the cut is actively reduced!

They also help them audit the qualifications of those merchants, help them sign contracts, help them pay taxes, and help them maintain relationships with merchants or other MCN agencies!

Most signed influencers are quite young and lack social experience, knowing nothing about giving kickbacks...

As a result, they receive fewer and fewer commercial orders!

Spark Media can also take the opportunity to connect with other merchants or MCNs!

Despite Spark Media constantly having people poached by other MCN agencies, it still collaborates with some of them.

As for those merchants who like to advertise online, naturally, the more connections the better!

Spark Media was originally in the online advertising business anyway!

“By the way, what are the names of those two companies that poached our people and didn't pay the liquidated damages?”

Su Yang realized he seemed to have forgotten to ask for the names of these two MCN companies.

Yu Siying replied over the phone: “Shangsi and Yihe. The lawyer's letters have already been sent!”

“And their addresses?”

Yu Siying asked warily, “Boss, what are you planning to do?”

“I'm a bit free and bored, so I want to find some trouble for them!”

Su Yang still wanted to sell people; he had to retaliate against these MCN agencies that wouldn't pay!

“Boss, this is normal business competition. Don't do anything reckless!”

“What are you thinking?” Su Yang said, caught between laughter and tears. “I am a law-abiding citizen!”

“Really?”

“Of course it's true!” Su Yang replied. “I just want to investigate these two companies and see if I can poach some of their people.”

“Alright then!” Yu Siying also trusted Su Yang relatively well. “Shall I send the addresses to your wechat?”

“Good!”

Not long after, Su Yang received the addresses of the two companies from Yu Siying.

Both companies were local MCN agencies, and neither was as large as Spark Media.

Among them, Shangsi Media was located right in the MCN Industrial Park!

If they couldn't even afford a few hundred thousand in liquidated damages, what resources could they possibly have?

Su Yang didn't even know why those two signed influencers ran off with them!

Early the next morning, Su Yang parked Chen Li's car near the entrance of Shangsi Media. Through the car window, he watched the employees of Shangsi Media enter the company...

As he watched, he used his Investigation skill to see what the quality of Shangsi Media's employees was like!

If he encountered a relatively excellent employee or a signed influencer with good prospects...

He would record them in his little notebook!

After one round, Su Yang had recorded the names of six Shangsi Media employees in his notebook.

He had observed nearly two hundred employees of Shangsi Media, and these six were the most outstanding!

They either possessed Proficient-level professional skills...

Or their abilities were very comprehensive, and their levels weren't low either.

They were simply jacks-of-all-trades, versatile hands!

From editing to directing, from photography and videography to traffic injection, and even makeup—they were all quite good!

These were the kinds of talents Su Yang liked very much. The more, the better!

And they would surely be easy to poach.

Many of them clearly didn't look old, at most in their early thirties, yet they possessed quite good professional skills... weren't they all developed through hard grinding!

As for those jacks-of-all-trades, those versatile hands... Heh, they were mostly 'Old Oxen' who held multiple positions!

Old Oxen~ Which boss wouldn't like them?

However, Su Yang still gave it some thought and crossed out a photographer whose morality attribute was below forty-five.

After nine o'clock, Su Yang returned to the company and handed the list to Yu Siying: “These are people from Shangsi. Try your best to poach them!”

“Okay!”

Yu Siying glanced at the list and thought to herself that the boss's efficiency was truly high!

He only asked for the company name yesterday, and today he's already finished investigating Shangsi.

“Is there any difficulty?”

“If it's poaching ordinary employees and lower-to-middle management, with our Xinghuo's benefits, there's absolutely no difficulty. Boss, you have no idea how many people in the park want to join our Xinghuo now!” Yu Siying said with a smile. “Before, we didn't poach employees from other MCN agencies in the park because we didn't want to offend them too much... Now, it seems it doesn't matter anymore!”

“That's fine then!”

“I don't know if they've signed non-compete agreements. If they get sued, we might need to pay compensation.”

Su Yang said indifferently, “Money is not an issue. If they get sued, they get sued!”

He had plenty of money now; how much could those employees possibly cost him in compensation?

So what if they were sued?

He'd just treat it as training for his legal team!