"Can't rely on backdoors, just have to go through the official process then!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yang felt awkward again. There was indeed such a thing in the chat record, but he didn't take it seriously. Coincidentally, he received a New Year's greeting call from a friend and talked for a while, so he overlooked it.

"Uh, okay, my bad! I apologize to you, I'm sorry!"

Zhang Yang was straightforward; he apologized when he was wrong, without any hesitation.

"Tsk! Just moving your lips and wanting to move on with a simple apology? No sincerity!"

"Then what do you want?"

"Treat me to a meal, at least a Haidilao meal. Eat until you're broke!" Lin Nianwei said viciously.

"Okay, you arrange the time later! I'm not afraid of gaining weight; eat as much as you can!" Zhang Yang shrugged and agreed.

"You..." Lin Nianwei was so angry that she bit her silver tooth tightly.

"Haha, just kidding with you! You didn't gain any weight over the New Year, still as fit as ever!" Zhang Yang, seeing the other upset, hurriedly tried to make amends.

"Not going to chat idly with you anymore! Just starting work now, since I'm in this position, I can't take the salary for nothing!

I have some serious business about company development and media direction that I want to discuss with you!" Lin Nianwei put away her smile and her tone became serious.

"Okay! If you have any good ideas or suggestions, let's hear them!" Zhang Yang nodded and his tone became restrained.

"Before joining, I had a few exchanges with President Zhao and got a preliminary understanding of our company's main business!

Broadly speaking, our company's main business has three parts: production of factory fishing bait additives, operation of self-media video accounts, and online sales!"

Lin Nianwei spoke eloquently, very competent and concise when it came to serious matters.

Zhang Yang nodded: "Generally correct, but you missed a company subordinate laboratory, which is currently under Yu Dong's charge, and he was also present at the meeting! You continue!"

"There's research and development, production, promotion and attracting leads, sales, the entire business cycle is running perfectly.

All other setups are fine, but I think that limiting self-media accounts to just the 'underground fishing world' might narrow the path a bit!

Given the company's current scale, it can certainly explore more content directions!

Before joining, I casually discussed the current situation of domestic sport fishing and fishing gear industry with my dad and a few uncles.

Overall, the market size of 'underground fishing' and competitive tournaments is too small, it's a good entrepreneurial entry point but the development ceiling is too low!

The number of people fishing domestically, as counted, is over fifty million, this market is very large, but the commercial underground fishing and competitive tournament crowd together is not even one percent!

Now that the company's framework is set up, and the content production model of self-media is extremely stable, you can definitely consider more development directions!

Okay, having laid this all out, here's the conclusion.

My final suggestion is, additionally develop fishing videos in wild and lake environments, as this is the major direction for the domestic sport fishing industry.

If just aiming for quick money, it's fine, but if the company wants significant development, this is an unavoidable major industrial direction! Currently, without exception, all reputable fishing tackle brands domestically follow this!"

Hearing Lin Nianwei's words, Zhang Yang was slightly taken aback, and he started to ponder.

As someone who has lived twice, Zhang Yang's perspective and depth in viewing issues are far beyond ordinary people's.

Lin Nianwei's words were actually very accurate; to make the first bucket of gold from scratch, choosing 'underground fishing' as a new category is indeed quite good, with high profit margins, less competition, and rapid initial capital accumulation.

But even by the future year 2021, 'underground fishing' isn't considered mainstream in domestic sport fishing, as the vast majority of anglers still focus on lake and wild fishing.

That Lin Nianwei could think of these things right from her first communication shows she did her homework and her insights are very accurate.

Like how a casual complaint from an adjacent angler before the New Year led Zhang Yang to immediately start an online sales channel campaign.

While Zhang Yang has a visionary mindset, it doesn't mean he is omniscient and omnipotent,

Knowing something in your head and remembering to act on it still has a gap in between.

Last time, it was a casual complaint from a neighboring angler that clued Zhang Yang in, and this time it was Lin Nianwei's words that reminded him.

"You're right! The self-media section indeed requires exploring more content!" Zhang Yang nodded after probably three seconds of silence.

"What do you plan to do?" Hearing Zhang Yang getting persuaded so crisply, Lin Nianwei instead became somewhat surprised.

In her perception, Zhang Yang is a person with strong opinions and self-ideas.

She had already prepared to continue arguing her viewpoint, even finding more evidence, but Zhang Yang didn't give her the chance, easily being persuaded.

"You mentioned that 'underground fishing' and competitive fishing can only be considered as a development sidetrack, so naturally, continue developing new sidetracks, even main tracks, to broaden the company's product system and self-media content!" Zhang Yang spoke with clear logic.

"More specifically?"

"First get the self-media content of wild, lake, and river fishing going! Then rely on these customer bases and private traffic to develop more series of fishing tackle products!"

Hearing Zhang Yang's idea, Lin Nianwei's eyes lit up. His words were almost exactly the same as the opinions she got when discussing with her father in private.

This is the Zhang Yang she remembers: sharp-minded, understanding everything with a single hint!

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? You look distracted?" Zhang Yang scratched his nose, looking at Lin Nianwei with a puzzled expression.

"Oh, oh, nothing! What you said is pretty good! That's what I meant too!"

There was a hint of imperceptible panic in Lin Nianwei's steady gaze, as if her thoughts had been seen through.

"Then let's keep it at that for now, I'll later call a meeting with the production team and hire someone!

The 'underground fishing world' side with three on-screen guests is basically enough; I'll personally handle the filming of wild and lake fishing!"

Zhang Yang spoke as he took out his phone, preparing to call a few other key members for a meeting.

"Then you go busy, I'll head back!" Lin Nianwei greeted and turned to leave the office.

After stepping out of the room, Lin Nianwei, who had a professional expression just a second before, now bit her silver tooth in frustration.

"That stinky brat, I've reminded him so much, but he starts calling to arrange work before the conversation even ends, he doesn't know how to be considerate of my emotions at all, just a wood block! Hmph!"

...

After this conversation, Zhang Yang soon put the formation of the new team on the agenda.

Just after the New Year, the temperature was still quite low, and there weren't many filming tasks at the 'underground fishing' side, so hiring new cameramen and support staff was fairly simple.

Zhang Yang was already accustomed to Xiao Yi's filming standards so Xiao Yi was temporarily assigned to Zhang Yang's team. For the 'underground fishing world' production team, hiring one or two more photographers and video editors would set up the team functionally, as the company was currently well-funded, this wasn't an issue.

After discussing related ideas with old Zhao, he managed the specific hiring tasks, and Zhang Yang only needed to wait for the results.

However, once the new year's development direction was decided, just having personnel was not enough, corresponding product support was also needed.

Thus, Zhang Yang personally drove to the laboratory led by Yu Dong.

After several rounds of significant capital investments, the laboratory has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before, with new instruments not to mention, and the control group laboratory alone, after upgrades and expansions, covered a total area of more than eighty square meters.

Various metal racks, fish tanks of all sizes, a complete water supply and circulation system, along with other supporting equipment, the total investment in the laboratory was in the high six digits, nearing seven figures.

"President Zhang, you're here!" Yu Dong was taking data records in the room when he saw Zhang Yang arrive and looked up to greet.

"Are you busy? I want to discuss some new product development with you, is it convenient now?" Zhang Yang was very polite to Yu Dong.

"Wait five minutes, why don't you go to the lounge for a cup of tea, I'll finish up here!" Yu Dong, true to his engineering nature, did not have any intention of abandoning his work to entertain Zhang Yang.

Five minutes later, Yu Dong came to the lounge and sat across from Zhang Yang.

"Any new ideas? Let's hear them!"