352: Chapter 352 Acquiring Mingxuan Media! From a near-client to a subsidiary!

The domestic psychological counseling industry was currently in complete chaos, and no benchmark company had emerged yet.

If he wanted to work in this industry, he definitely had to learn from and draw reference from abroad.

After all, their psychological counseling industry had been developing for many years, and their various systems were relatively mature.

Of course, psychological counseling suitable for Europeans and Americans was not necessarily suitable for his own countrymen.

There were differences in the national character and cultural background of both sides.

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However, human nature was always universal; everyone's joys, angers, sorrows, and happiness were not that different.

The psychological counseling practitioners Su Yang hired back were all his countrymen.

They had all received their basic education domestically since childhood and had almost all gone abroad for further studies only after graduating from university.

They also had the ability to localize psychological counseling.

Besides this, Su Yang had also hired experienced psychological counseling practitioners from within the country.

He hoped that both sides could learn from each other's strengths in terms of knowledge, concepts, and consulting services!

However, to recruit these talents working abroad, Su Yang had also paid over ten million in relocation allowances.

He also gave them quite substantial annual salaries!

But he didn't care!

He had so much money that he couldn't even spend it all.

Moreover, he could guarantee that the people he poached were all graduates from prestigious universities, highly educated elites with rich work experience, and were all talents he urgently needed.

Poaching people from domestic companies might make him feel a bit embarrassed.

But poaching from abroad, he truly had no qualms.

These people could all be considered the future business foundation of Shangxin.

After talking with Wu Kai, Li Guorui, and the others, Su Yang arranged for them to join Shangxin.

Li Guorui would serve as the head of the Psychological Counseling Training Department.

Another person who returned to the country with Wu Kai, Chen Tao, would serve as the Vice President of Shangxin, assisting Lu Chengjun in his work.

Adding in Hu Yue, whom Su Yang had interviewed and poached a while ago—someone who had long been engaged in management work for domestic psychological counseling companies—Shangxin now had one General Manager and two Vice Presidents.

However, Hu Yue had not yet arrived in Rongcheng; he hadn't finished handing over his work with his old employer.

Judging from Su Yang's Business Deduction, the combination of Lu Chengjun, Chen Tao, and Hu Yue was reliable.

Thus, Su Yang's Shangxin Psychological Counseling Company now had forty full-time employees!

Among them, there were over ten administrative, operational, and management personnel.

There were about thirteen experienced psychological counselors engaged in psychological counseling services.

This included the two psychological counselors originally from Meijia Housekeeping, Spark Media, and Yanhu Vocational School.

These two psychological counselors were transferred by Su Yang to Shangxin Counseling, and from then on, the psychological counseling services for Yanhu Vocational School would be outsourced!

The two psychological counselors from Yanhu Vocational School, one male and one female, were both relatively young and had professional backgrounds.

The oldest was no more than thirty years old.

Su Yang had consulted their opinions, and they were both willing to transfer their jobs to Shangxin to receive further training.

They had also been quite unhappy working at Yanhu Vocational School before.

Besides having to do psychological counseling, they also had to teach mental health classes.

In addition to mental health classes, they also had to do administrative work.

If a student had psychological problems, they were also held responsible; they were essentially beasts of burden!

The others were all recruited by Su Yang—Master's and PhD graduates from prestigious domestic universities who possessed talent in psychological research or counseling services.

For those with research talent, Su Yang would consider placing them at Yanhu Vocational School.

For those with talent in psychological counseling services, Su Yang would train them well.

After all, a dozen or so professional psychological counselors were definitely not enough!

Su Yang admitted that ever since he could see other people's talents, he had gradually developed a penchant for collecting talent!

Just like collecting cards, he found it somewhat addictive.

Just as Shangxin was in the midst of integration, the acquisition of Mingxuan GG was also nearing its end!

In the end, Spark Media purchased a total of 90% of the shares held by Longxing Group and Mingxuan GG Chairman Ji Zihang for 23 million.

Then, they bought the 10% of shares held by Mingxuan GG General Manager Wang Haolin for 2.3 million!

Wang Haolin would continue to serve as the General Manager of Mingxuan GG, and the other management personnel would remain unchanged for the time being.

The reason for the acquisition in the name of Spark Media was also to facilitate integrated management.

Mingxuan GG specialized in offline advertising and had long-term cooperation with many local enterprises.

Spark Media specialized in online promotion, and the two inherently had a lot of complementarity.

Su Yang also considered that in the future, if he opened a modeling agency, an agency company, or went to shoot TV shows, movies, make music, or organize local idols... he could stuff them all into Spark Media, and by then, turn Spark Media into a large group company as well.

If all these companies were scattered and split up one by one, he would get a headache just looking at them!

As for whether Yu Siying's ability would be up to the task by then, it would depend on her speed of progress.

[Ding~ Detected that you have acquired an Advertising Company. Mingxuan GG is a subsidiary of Spark Media and can share Spark Media's special buff, but will not receive achievement rewards again... Merge?]

"No!"

The businesses of both sides were indeed complementary, but Spark Media's buff was not suitable for Mingxuan GG!

[Ding~ You now own an Advertising Company, you have your first employee, you receive achievement reward: 1 Charisma Point; the Advertising Company under your name can obtain a permanent buff.]

[1. Improvement in communication skills with clients, 2. Improvement in publicity and promotion effects, 3. Improvement in advertising creativity probability, 4. Improvement in market insight ability, 5. Improvement in team cooperation and project management ability...]

Su Yang first chose the improvement in publicity and promotion effects.

[Ding~ Mingxuan GG under your name receives the special buff: Publicity and promotion effects +15%!]

[Ding~ Your Mingxuan GG has over ten full-time employees, you receive achievement reward: 2 Charisma Points; the Advertising Company under your name can obtain a new permanent buff.]

[1. Improvement in communication skills with clients, 2. Improvement in advertising creativity probability, 3. Improvement in market insight ability, 4. Improvement in team cooperation and project management ability, 5. Improvement in advertising planning and execution efficiency...]

Su Yang hesitated for a moment and chose the improvement in communication skills with clients.

[Ding~ Mingxuan GG under your name receives special buff: Publicity and promotion effects +30%, communication skills with clients +15%!]

Subsequently, Su Yang added the 3 Charisma Points to his physical attributes... He was truly becoming more and more handsome!

After acquiring Mingxuan GG, Su Yang personally took Yu Siying for a visit.

And following his habit, he announced in front of all the employees that he would give each of them a raise of one thousand.

For those who didn't have social security, the company would also help purchase it for them in the future.

This earned Su Yang and Yu Siying the favor of almost all the employees!

The employees of Mingxuan GG all expressed strong welcome for the acquisition by Spark Media!

As for the General Manager Wang Haolin, he was also smiling and applauding with the employees offstage.

He wasn't a shareholder, so naturally, he expressed support for the boss giving all employees a raise.

After employees' income increased and social security was purchased for them, it would be easier for them, the senior management, to manage.

If employee wages were relatively low, turnover would be very high, which was also unfavorable for the stability of the company's business.

The only thing that made him feel somewhat emotionally conflicted was that, in the future, he would actually be managed by Yu Siying.

Previously, he was clearly half a client to Spark Media!