Chapter 13: 013

Chapter 13

At this stage, the company didn't have much money left. If they wanted to recruit more trainees, either Jiang Juyou would have to go out and find them, or the two from the new member group would have to go out and find them. Jiang Juyou thought for a moment - with this weather, going out would mean certain death for one or both of them.

"...We still need to upgrade." Jiang Juyou sighed.

There was only one path ahead of them, which was to complete the system tasks and upgrade to the next level as soon as possible. That way, she would have more loan amount available to use.

Jiang Juyou looked troubled. "Going around in circles, we still have to finish that software first."

She had originally wanted to drag it out for a while, so she could thoroughly research everything and hopefully complete all the design in one go. Otherwise, if they had to make changes or add new features after launch, she would have to spend money.

Although it wasn't her money, when money was tight it would be deducted from her account, and just thinking about this made Jiang Juyou's expression turn constipated.

When Jiang Juyou dragged her heavy body back to the office, the other three had their heads lowered, hugging their phones and slacking off. Seeing Jiang Juyou come in, they frantically signaled each other and scrambled around in panic.

Jiang Juyou said plainly: "It's fine, you don't have any work to do at the moment anyway..." As soon as she finished speaking, the three of them smiled awkwardly, but they did visibly relax.

The next second, they heard Jiang Juyou continue: "But now you do."

The three turned to look at her in unison.

"We're running an idol training company, so we can't wait until debut to improve all the features and functions. That includes fan interaction platforms and such, which you're definitely more familiar with than me, so I wanted to get your thoughts and ideas on what software you currently use, if there's anything we can reference or improve on."

Jiang Juyou had already done some research beforehand, but there was still a difference between researching something and getting feedback from actual users.

She walked over to the desk, pulled up a chair in front of them, and took out an iPad to record all of their feedback.

Li Yao was the most excited. Hearing this, her eyes lit up. "We're making our own software?"

Jiang Juyou paused. "...Yes, I'm planning to hire an outsourcing company to develop one. The monthly evaluations don't require payment for now, but in the future they definitely will. For ticket sales and such, I still want to keep control of that ourselves."

At the mention of ticket sales, all three lit up, scooting their chairs closer as they started chattering loudly:

"Tickets must be under real name registration!"

"Don't give scalpers any chance!"

"I want one-on-one chats too! Me too! Me too!"

"Can we get professional designers for the merchandise? Don't just design a bunch of ugly stuff!"

"Concert tickets especially need strict oversight!"

"Don't add too many paid features, really, too much can cause backlash!"

"Can the one-on-one chats be cheaper?"

"There should also be a space for fans to chat with each other!"

"I really have no other requests, just make scalping impossible!"

"Enhance the concert experience!"

"Yes, yes! Kick out anyone who violates concert rules!"

"Release tickets in batches!"

Jiang Juyou: "..."

Her head hurt.

"Okay, okay, slow down! One at a time!" Jiang Juyou hurried to calm down the three who had been driven mad from being fans.

"Tickets for each price tier will open in six batches, with 10-minute intervals between each batch."

"Unable to select seats. Seats will be randomly assigned after selecting ticket price tier."

"Audience members can link up, and if matched, neighboring seats can be arranged. Up to 5 people can be linked."

Jiang Juyou became more and more amazed - she really had talent for this industry.

Next was setting the pricing for each area.

Despite being called a theater, it was more like a small venue. There were a total of 2,789 seats inside, divided into floor and balcony sections.

Only some of the floor section was open right now, because there was a Y-shaped extended stage. There were spots in front and on both sides of the floor section, but only the seats directly in front of the Y-stage were open currently.

The venue was three-sided seating, with tiered seats. Jiang Juyou had gone to take a look before - there weren't many spots with obstructed views since it wasn't a large venue.

"So how much should it be priced at?"

Domestic concert pricing was generally inflated - tickets started at 500 RMB at least, but domestic concert tickets were mostly monopolized by scalpers. Trying to buy a 500 RMB concert ticket was as difficult as winning the lottery.

Their situation here was also different from other places. With monthly evaluations basically happening once a month, pricing too high would drain fans dry, but pricing too low also didn't seem profitable.

After struggling over it for a bit, Jiang Juyou asked the system aloud: "Can ticket prices be changed afterwards?"

"It's possible, with payment of a fee." The system answered her.

"..."

Profiteer.

She brought up the seating chart of the venue and pondered for a while before dividing the seats into four zones. The seats in the inner field were divided into two, with the front four rows closest to the stage priced at the highest value of $580, while the seats behind were $390.

The front four rows of the stands were $199, while the remaining seats were $89.

After all, students still made up the majority of fans, and they didn't have much for monthly living expenses, so pricing too high would weigh on her conscience.

Although she had a conscience, it wasn't much, because she made the concert for members-only purchase, which further prevented scalping.

Members could only join annually for $599 per year.

To purchase concert tickets, one needed to become a member a month before ticket sales, otherwise they would be unable to buy tickets.

Apart from being able to purchase tickets, Jiang Juyou also planned to include some other content. Those were of course included in the $599.

With this sorted, everything else would be easy to operate. She just needed to copy other concerts' rules, since the rules weren't settings and could still be amended later.

However when Jiang Juyou looked at those rules, question marks popped up above her head.

"...Filming or photographing the concert is prohibited during the concert?"

"Why?"

"Bringing light sticks is prohibited?"

"Why is that?"

"Fighting and causing disturbances is prohibited..."

"I can understand that."

Regarding concert rules, she had directly copied them verbatim. She couldn't really understand many of the rules, but if her predecessors made those provisions, there surely must have been unpleasant experiences in the past.

Jiang Juyou didn't understand, but would heed the advice.