Last night's indulgence was just a small adjustment in the busy work for Eric, and he didn't mind the $1 million check that he signed. After all, just like the arithmetic problem he posed to Giselle, compared to the sky-high wealth he now owns, $1 million to him is not much different from $1 for ordinary people.
But this check is definitely another concept for girls.
After sending Eric out of the apartment, Quss Gauff immediately turned to Giselle, looked expectantly at the check in her hand, stretched out her small hand and said, "Giselle, it's really 1 million dollars, let me Would you like to have a look?"
Giselle opened Qus Gauff's little paw, and said, "Of course it's true. Could it be that Eric will sign a fake check to me?"
Quss Gauff didn't dare to grab it, and returned to the bar by the window, but she still didn't forget to correct Giselle and said, "This is for all of us."
Giselle sat down at the bar again, shook her head and said, "No, 800,000 of it belongs to all of us, and the other 200,000 is my and Ale's pocket money, you just heard."
Qusi Gauff rolled her eyes and said tentatively, "Are you and Ale going to share the 800,000 with us?"
"Of course," Giselle said, "We both played games last night."
Amid the conversation between the two, another girl opened her eyes and sat up. When she saw the check in Giselle's hand, soon, amidst the excited screams, all the girls woke up one after another, and they didn't even have time to put on their clothes. , They all gathered around the bar and surrounded Giselle in the middle, discussing one after another.
"Wow, a million."
"Eric really redeemed the bet."
"How much can each of us share?"
"Looks like there's still a shopping trip going on?"
"What about the private jet?"
"Stupid, of course the private jet is at the airport, so it can't be parked in the house."
"..."
Looking at the chattering girls around her, Giselle suddenly remembered Eric's last words when he left.
Since she just debuted, even with Eric's support, she can't reach the top circle of the industry at all. From a few sporadic contacts, she also realizes that Cindy Crawford, Linda It is impossible for Evan Greenstadt's established supermodel circles to accept them.
Most of the girls around her are similar to her in age, and they can also be said to be a group of newcomers with more potential in the industry, which is why they can play together. That being the case, why doesn't she build her own circle, and, of course, she must be what Eric calls the 'big sister'. As long as Eric can support her all the time, her future development will definitely not be limited to just being a supermodel. Then, these girls around her will definitely be able to help her by then.
After quick calculation, Giselle stretched out her hand and patted the bar, glanced around, with the usual momentum when adjusting Alexander, and raised her voice: "OK, shut up."
The girls paused for a moment, and sure enough, they stopped talking tactfully.
Giselle was very satisfied with the effect, and said: "Eric has promised to honor the $800,000 private jet to travel around the world. If everyone's passports are fine, we can go anywhere in the afternoon."
Amid soft cheers, Giselle continued: "However, you should know the rules. First of all, no one is allowed to talk about what happened last night. Otherwise, believe me, Eric is just a phone call, and the brokerage company immediately I will terminate the contract with you, and your career will come to an end."
Although Giselle felt that Giselle was a bit pretentious, the girls still nodded obediently.
Even if they are not very old, but they can get the contracts of elite and IMG international modeling agency giants, of course, this group of girls can't be young children who don't understand anything. It won't do them any good if the news of last night is spread. After all, those models in the circle who dared to jump out and expose some things basically disappeared later.
However, someone immediately objected: "Giselle, if you don't say anything, the company won't allow us to travel?"
This is indeed a problem.
Giselle thought for a moment, and some bold ideas came to her mind, and said: "In this way, I will call and chat with the company's BOSS in person. As long as they arrange it, even the agent who is directly in charge of us will not be able to ask any questions. matter."
"Giselle, will the bosses listen to you?"
"Of course, Eric said it when he left. If they disagree, he will ask directly."
Giselle nodded resolutely, seeing that the girl beside her was still a little hesitant. She also knew that in their eyes, the top management of the brokerage company was probably the unattainable controller of the entire industry, but she didn't bother to explain.
From Eric's interest in her and Alexander, the two major brokerage companies responded to the two of them with almost care, and we can see how influential Eric is. Apart from other things, let’s take the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which has become a training ground for supermodels. Any model agency that wants to send its models to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will have to go through Eric.
"Giselle, I thought, can I get my share of the money directly, I mean, I'm short of money recently, and I still owe the rent."
The voice of the girl who spoke was a little low, with a little anxiety of lack of confidence, but it was Fernanda Tavares.
Giselle was already very dissatisfied with her performance of catching Eric's attention last night, and said: "Of course, I will give you your share, but you can't travel around the world with us."
Fernanda Tavares felt that Giselle was dissatisfied with her, but if she was just kicked out of the small circle, her loss would be obviously greater, so she shook her head decisively: "Forget it, I don't want it anymore."
Giselle was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and showed her generosity in a timely manner: "Smart choice."
The girl who originally had a similar thought was dismissed when she heard the conversation between the two.
The cash of more than 50,000 US dollars is of course a huge sum of money for them now. If they can get it, they will definitely not spend it all in one go. But they are still young, between money and opportunity, of course they know how to choose.
Seeing that everyone was fine, Giselle sniffled, stretched out her hand in disgust and grabbed a few notes from Fernanda's naked buttocks, squeezed them, and said: "You look and smell like a bunch of natives who just ran out of the Amazon jungle, go take a shower and clean up here."
There are always too many bathrooms in western-style apartments, and the girls finally realized their embarrassment at this time, laughing and laughing, and quickly got into different bathrooms.
Satisfied with confirming her status as the eldest sister, Giselle picked up the phone on the bar, found the address book, and began to dial the numbers of the bosses of the brokerage company.
Due to work, the girls basically have multi-national passports, so they flew to Tokyo in the afternoon, which is the city Giselle wants to go to the most.
Although compared with ordinary people, girls have much more opportunities to go abroad, but they are basically fashion shows during the fashion season. They are busy for more than ten hours a day under the arrangement of the company, and then sleep in bed. There is no travel at all. This is the first time they can indulge themselves.
Eric also roughly understood what had happened in the subsequent phone call from Elite CEO John Casablanca, but he just laughed it off.
He originally wanted to use a week to determine the specific plan of Marvel Pictures, but it turned out that a week was not enough, and there were too many things to discuss. Marvel Studios is related to Firefly's film layout for at least 20 years in the future, and Eric is unwilling to appear hasty in any matter, so he stayed in New York until late April.
On the other hand, both Firefly Electronics and Amazon's teams are very strong in execution. Three days after the hunger marketing plan was confirmed, the plan began to be officially implemented.
Due to capacity constraints and hot sales, the price of Fireflyer players in physical retail stores has basically risen to $329. This is determined after Firefly Electronics stopped supplying several retail stores that wantonly increased prices. the rule of. Even so, Fireflyer in physical retail stores is still in short supply.
In this case, Amazon launched a rush-buying plan for 5,000 Fireflyers every three days at the original price of $299, which immediately attracted the attention of a large number of consumers.
According to Yahoo statistics, in early 1997, the number of Internet users with online payment behaviors in North America had reached 5 million. Although it is still insignificant compared to the total Internet user base, this number is unmatched by all other overseas regions.
Therefore, it took only two and a half hours for Amazon to hold the first round of panic buying, and 5,000 Fireflyers were sold out.
With the joint efforts of several companies, a large number of media in North America have reported on this.
Then, the second round of panic buying took place, and the time was cut in half.
The third round was turned into 10 minutes.
Hunger marketing is not a novel marketing method, but this is definitely the first time it has been put on the table on a large scale to form a social topic.
With the help of this hot topic, more and more people, no matter whether they are interested in Fireflyer or not, have inevitably noticed this epoch-making music player product, and potential consumer groups who were still on the sidelines have also been on the sidelines. Into this panic buying craze.
When Fireflyer's fourth round of buying starts, there is only one minute left in the whole process. Amazon's online store page even got stuck due to the influx of too many customers.
The popularity of online sales has also stimulated physical sales. Although the price is $30 higher than that of the Amazon store, due to the shortage of products, most retail stores sold out quickly after putting the new Fireflyer on the shelves. A large number of scalpers have emerged from other places.
Immediately, some media began to question that this was a joint hype between Amazon and Firefly Electronics, and the sales volume of the online store Fireflyer was far less than what was announced to the public.
Amazon quickly clarified that without disclosing the privacy of customers, it directly published the transaction records of each snap-up on the homepage of the website.
The fact that Fireflyer is always out of stock will inevitably arouse disgust from some users. Firefly Electronics also spares no effort in its public relations. It not only explains the cause and effect of Fireflyer's production capacity limitation in detail on the Yahoo portal, but also opens a special The product homepage reports various product-related news and news to users in real time, such as the preparation progress of the new Fireflyer factory, and conducts some interesting and rewarding interactions with fans from time to time.
Under this close and tacit cooperation, the brand image of Fireflyer has gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of consumers, and Amazon has also become the biggest external beneficiary in this process. Due to the popularity of hunger marketing, Amazon’s single-day traffic is short It rose by 50% in two weeks. Jeff Bezos decisively changed the original plan and took advantage of this opportunity to introduce more product types.
In addition to Firefly Electronics and Amazon, the online music store in charge of Yahoo has also achieved remarkable sales results.
Even if Yahoo Music Box does not have Fireflyer, the purchased music can be played directly on the personal computer, and even has a burning function. Therefore, after the sale of the Yahoo Music Store and Fireflyer at the same time, the "Titanic" digital soundtrack album, Driven by the albums of singers such as Super Boy and Madonna, it took only 5 days for the Yahoo Music Store to sell a total of 1 million songs. This data far exceeded the expectations of everyone in the industry. Before that, even the most Bold predictions also indicated that it would take at least two months for the Yahoo Music Store to sell the first one million songs, but in fact, this process only took 5 short days.
According to this sales speed, Yahoo Music Box can achieve at least 70 million US dollars in sales revenue in the first year. It has to be said that this data is still very obvious for promoting the overall revenue of Yahoo Networks. After all, before the IPO, Yahoo definitely needs a better annual earnings report.
The sales data of Yahoo Music Store far exceeded expectations, and the most tense is undoubtedly the major record companies. After all, the CD burning function provided by Yahoo Music Box software almost directly destroyed the original ecology of the recording industry. Before that, the average price of a music album on the market was around $20, but the Yahoo Music Store halved the price at once. Even if according to the sharing rules, the product company's share of about US$7 per digital album from the Yahoo Music Store is not much less than the profit obtained from selling a physical product, but several major record companies are still on the verge of a formidable enemy.
Two weeks after Sony issued that statement at the beginning of the month, Sony Records, together with two other record giants, BMG and EMI, filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Federal Court to request a ban on the production and sale of MP3 players on the grounds of spreading piracy. (To be continued.)