After talking to Lao Wai, Xu Tingsheng didn't talk about it in depth, because it was actually just a thought that came to him suddenly, and he didn't have a deep and specific plan for a while.
The factors that triggered Xu Tingsheng's idea actually came from Lao Wai and Li Linlin. Li Linlin was working as a tutor. In fact, in this era of university campuses, there are many students who are engaged in tutoring either to subsidize their living expenses or to train themselves. The vast majority are girls.
Because of the previous "imprisonment incident", safety issues have become the biggest fear and hidden worry of student tutors (even the parents of students who hire tutors). This is also the reason why Lao Wai and Li Linlin had a dispute.
Lao Wai, who knows how to program, is looking for a job, and Li Linlin is going to be a tutor, who is afraid of being unsafe... The combination of several points makes Xu Tingsheng have a burst of inspiration and come up with this idea.
That night Xu Tingsheng went back to the river bank residence and spent the whole night sorting out and analyzing his thoughts in detail.
The most referable example is New Oriental. At this time, New Oriental may not be as famous as it was later, and Mr. Yu has not frequently walked on various podiums and become a mentor in the minds of countless people. However, it is gradually moving towards an educational institution. Training behemoths on the road, and by the day.
In Xu Tingsheng's memory, New Oriental will be listed in the United States in 2006, three years later.
New Oriental's education and training is more focused on the university level, serving for studying abroad and professional skills development. Xu Tingsheng does not think he has the ability to compete with it in this market.
Moreover, his advantage is not here.
In Xu Tingsheng's memory, there is a training market that may not be inferior to the training at the university level, or even surpass it. Extracurricular training for primary and secondary schools, tutoring training covering academics in middle and high schools, extracurricular specialty training for elementary and early childhood, and so on.
This market seems to have always been in a state of chaotic warfare, stragglers and guerrilla fighters, whether it is education and training companies, individuals or training schools, most of them are limited to a certain city or place.
Until 2015, there was no real behemoth in this market.
Xu Tingsheng wanted to become this behemoth, use the power of the Internet age to break through geographical limitations, and build a huge education and training empire.
In this area, until 2015, he has an advantage, although this advantage cannot be exposed too clearly.
Useless is a scholar? … Xu Tingsheng, who taught for 4 years in his previous life and was obsessed with education for half his life, now feels that this sentence may be wrong. This market is actually unimaginably large, and Mr. Yu has already proved with his experience that this...scholars can do it, and even only scholars can really do it.
With the development trend of education in the next ten years in his hands, Xu Tingsheng can do... perhaps more.
Xu Tingsheng has found a new direction for himself, and it is a direction that he is really interested in. His plan for mutual education is very deep, far-reaching and huge, but as far as he is concerned, there is actually very little he can do.
The first step he has to do is to establish a platform, cultivate users, improve user experience, and then establish a reasonable and efficient operating mechanism. For now, his experiment will be limited to Yanzhou.
Xu Tingsheng did not tell Lao Wai about his long-term vision. He found Lao Wai the next day and explained his ideas to Lao Wai through the framework of a tutoring intermediary platform.
"If it's just a two-way choice platform like you mentioned, it's actually not difficult technically. I'll ask Master and a few brothers for help, and I'll be able to make a trial run platform for you in about half a month. Question The reason is...there are so many intermediary agencies out there, and some people in schools are also doing it, and parents don't understand this model and are not used to it...I'm worried that we may have no customers."
Lao Wai expressed his worries.
Xu Tingsheng smiled and said, "Leave me to worry about advertising. I think we have several advantages over those intermediary agencies you mentioned. The first is convenience, as long as we can access the Internet. In addition, we have evaluations that they don't have. Mechanism, star system, and... safe, reliable, free... "
"free?"
"Yes, it's free for both parties at the moment. In the future, at least it will be free for the tutor forever..." Xu Tingsheng didn't tell Lao Wai what he thought in his heart. What is needed at present is only the user base and the improvement of user experience.
"This investment is not as big as you imagined. I can afford it." Xu Tingsheng added.
When Xu Tingsheng said that, Lao Wai stopped talking. He also heard Xu Tingsheng admit on the spot at the last meal that he came from the poorest county in the poorest city in Jianhai Province. His family farmed and opened a small shop... On that day, he shamelessly escaped from the order.
However, the later encounters made Lao Wai faintly feel that Xu Tingsheng might not be a poor boy like everyone thought, he was very casual in food and clothing, but he was always generous with his daily spending, and he never cared about asking his classmates to eat. However, even Lao Wai's medical expenses this time are all paid in advance by him, and he rents a room off-campus, buys a computer...it seems very easy...
Now Xu Tingsheng said: This investment is not as big as you imagined, and I can afford it.
Lao Wai found that his estimate was still shallow. Well, since Xu Tingsheng has made up his mind, Lao Wai is naturally willing to accompany him, not to mention that he has an inexplicably strong confidence in Xu Tingsheng, even if he doesn't, he will help him just because of the kindness he had a few days ago.
"It's okay, Xu Tingsheng is here."
This sentence was said by Lao Wai at the time, and it was said to Li Linlin, but it was also said to himself. It contained trust and gratitude... These words will always remain in the hearts of Lao Wai and Li Linlin.
Next, Xu Tingsheng explained to Lao Wai his vision and needs for the platform in detail.
What he wants to build is a two-way choice platform.
First of all, students or social personnel who seek tutoring should disclose their own information as detailed as possible, such as the most basic name, household registration, ID number, student number, etc... Of course, this part of information can adopt a privacy setting, except for the background audit of the platform Except for personnel, it will only be disclosed to the other party after the two parties have reached a basic intention.
What must be displayed publicly are colleges, majors, certificates, college entrance examination results, etc., and everything needs to be well documented.
Then there is the display of the tutor's tutoring performance. In this regard, Xu Tingsheng plans to establish an evaluation mechanism reflected by the star system. On the one hand, it will give parents a more intuitive basis for selection, and on the other hand, it will also facilitate the tutoring staff to be firmly tied to their own. on the battleship.
This system originated from Xu Tingsheng's imitation of Taobao.
From the perspective of security and credibility, the information from parents is obviously more important. The information of parents and students must be extremely detailed, such as parents' work units, ID card information, household registration information, and children's schools and classes. , student number and so on.
Of course, some of this information can also be set to privacy settings, which are only disclosed to the platform background reviewers and interested parties.
On this basis, the tutors announce the direction of application, and the parents announce the employment requirements, two-way selection.
In Xu Tingsheng's current plan, there are actually three people. He is responsible for throwing money and doing publicity, the old man is in charge of technology, and Li Linlin handles background information.
Of course, this is only for the present, for the sake of future development, Xu Tingsheng plans to rent the vacant third floor of the river bank residence, and use it as an office for mutual education in the future.
After explaining the matter clearly to Lao Wai, Xu Tingsheng took out 30,000 yuan.
"That's too much." Old Wai said.
"I said that I will pay you and Linlin... Of course, your salary is not that high, mainly because of your master and brothers. We can't make people work for nothing. How and how much you pay, you can figure it out... I trust you."
Xu Tingsheng patted Laowai on the shoulder. Apart from Xu Tingsheng's own small group, Laowai and Li Linlin would be the first two newcomers to join his career team. People don't need it, and people don't doubt it.