Chapter 215 Operations

After returning to his residence, Wang Wenhong opened his notebook and just made a one-page plan, folded his arms around his chest, pondered for a while, and then dialed Xie Shiqi's cell phone.

Xie Shiqi was recently worried about the decrease in the number of students in the dojo, and when she received a call from Wang Wenhong, she was at a loss.

She and Wang Wenhong are only limited to the cooperation in "Soul of Chess", and have no intersection other than that. Therefore, it is rare for Wang Wenhong to deliberately talk to her on the phone.

"Mr. Xie, please give me the addresses and contact numbers of all the Go dojos in Hongchuan." Wang Wenhong said straight to the point, "You should have one, right? With Teacher Xie's prestige in Hongchuan, those dojos should take the initiative to contact me. The teacher is in touch, right?"

"Eh?" Xie Shiqi blinked her eyes, not knowing why, "Do you want the phone number and address of other dojos?"

"Well, please hurry up if you can."

"Then... please wait a moment."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Wenhong came to the bookshelf, found the latest 11 issues of "ic future", and tore "ic future" apart without hesitation.

"Soul of Chess" has at least 150,000 volumes in a single week...it must be completed!

Wang Wenhong gritted his teeth and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. Before he knew it, his shirt was soaked with sweat.

The twelfth chapter of "Soul of Chess", "Sprout", with the publication of the new issue of "ic future", its popularity has picked up slightly. In the latest issue of "Little Book", it won the seventh place.

In the 12th episode, Kaga Tetsuo and Tsutsui Kohiro, who participated in the middle school Go competition, achieved one win and one loss in the team competition, and all the pressure was concentrated on Xiaoguang.

Xiaoguang lived up to expectations, and with the help of Zuowei, he helped Haze Middle School defeat Haiwang Middle School and became the champion of the middle school students' North District Go Tournament.

Immediately afterwards, someone pointed out that Xiaoguang was not a student of Haze Middle School, and the organizer disqualified Xiaoguang and others from the championship in accordance with regulations.

Readers spoke highly of this statement, and the letters from readers also proved that "Soul of Chess" is recovering, but the ranking has not improved significantly.

"Hey, Xiao Wang, it can't go on like this. The seventh and eighth places should not be the rankings that "Soul of Chess" should be. The magazine has spent so much energy, and it must produce results. Let Teacher Shen think about it." Solution." Hook patted the table and looked at Wang Wenhong opposite.

This storm-like roar had no effect on Wang Wenhong. He kept typing on the keyboard with both hands, and never took his eyes off the big screen.

Just as Hu Ke was about to get angry, Wang Wenhong's computer made a "ding dong" sound, and an email was received in his mailbox.

Wang Wenhong clicked on it immediately, then glanced at the content of the email, leaned forward, his eyes seemed to be nailed to the screen.

"What's wrong?" Hook asked.

"The cover of the first chapter of "Soul of Chess" has been designed."

"Huh?" Hook quickly turned around and glanced at the screen.

The background color of the cover is white, and the background is a transparent chessboard with black and white chess pieces placed on it. The only character Zuowei is placed on the left side of the cover.

"Black and white represent the black and white chess pieces, which are more in line with Zuo Wei's image. The cover is simple and gives readers a clean feeling." Wang Wenhong explained while forwarding the email to Shang Haozhi.

"Well, not bad. Hey...Xiao Wang, can't you hear me?" Hook asked in surprise.

"I'm very busy right now, so I don't have time to explain your question." Wang Wenhong downloaded the cover and turned on PS at the same time.

Hook looked depressed and couldn't say a word for a long time.

At this time, Shang Haozhi replied to the email with only one word - but.

It took Wang Wenhong more than half an hour to make a promotional poster for the pamphlet based on the cover of the pamphlet and the color pages drawn by Shen Xin before, and forwarded the poster to Shang Haozhi, then took out two copies from the folder and printed them out form, stand up.

"Where are you going?" Hook asked quickly when he saw Wang Wenhong who was about to leave.

"Sales department." Before Wang Wenhong's voice fell, he had already left the editorial department.

"Go...to the sales department?" The muscles on Hook's face twitched twice, "Are you stunned? What are you doing in the sales department?"

Wang Wenhong took the elevator to the sales department upstairs.

Every salesperson is busy, looking through the phone book while negotiating with each other.

Jiang Zhongze, the manager who was sitting at the far end of the office, had a gloomy expression, and the boredom in his heart was written on his face without any concealment.

Wang Wenhong rarely interacts with the sales department.

The editorial department is responsible for the quality of the comics, while the sales department needs to sell the booklets.

At first glance, the two departments have no intersection. In fact, the relationship between Shang Haozhi and Jiang Zhong is not very good.

The reason is simple. The editorial department thinks that the comics that can be published in separate volumes are of good quality, so they want to print as many volumes as possible, but in fact this is not the case. The effect was not good, but the upper management ignored these objective factors and put the blame on the sales department.

"The manga is so popular, why can't the booklet be sold? It must be because you didn't do it well."

Every time he heard these words, Jiang Zhong had the urge to resign.

"Soul of Chess" is almost the same situation.

According to the previous small book, the score of "Soul of Chess" is stable around the fourth place, and the first edition of 300,000 copies is not bad. But in the last few episodes, the ranking of "Soul of Chess" can be called a "disaster", how could it be possible to sell 300,000 copies.

Shang Haozhi tried his best to resist all opinions, and even offered the position of editor-in-chief as a guarantee, but the senior management could only agree.

As a result, the first print run of 300,000 copies of "Soul of Chess" was confirmed, and the life of the sales department became difficult in an instant.

Half of the salespeople went out to negotiate with bookstores in Hongchuan, and the remaining half contacted bookstores in other places.

But the sales volume is hard to be sure. Before the booklet is actually released, no one can determine its final sales volume.

Jiang Zhong was very depressed in his heart. Recently, he lost a lot of hair.

Wang Wenhong went straight to Jiang Zhong's desk, staring at the old man over half a century in front of him, "Manager Jiang, I am Wang Wenhong, the editor-in-chief of "Soul of Chess."

"Ah? You are the editor in charge of "Soul of Chess"?" Jiang Zhong was sulking, and when he heard Wang Wenhong's self-introduction, his anger rushed to his forehead, "Why don't you stay in the editorial department and go to the sales department?"

Wang Wenhong pretended not to hear the dissatisfaction in Jiang Zhong's words, and put the form in his hand in front of him, "Manager Jiang, just look at this form and you will know."

"Pretending to be a ghost."

Jiang Zhong frowned, picked up the form, and read it roughly. Most of the anger on his face disappeared. After reading the form word by word again, his mentality calmed down.

"Wait... What do you mean, let us communicate with the Go Dojo and invite them to promote and sell "Soul of Chess"?" Jiang Zhong rubbed his chin, his face finally regained his composure.

This method does work.

"I'm not asking you to communicate with the dojo. In fact, I have already contacted 10 dojos in Hongchuan. After reading the comics of "Soul of Chess", they agreed to display and promote "Soul of Chess" in the dojo. Next, we You can communicate with chess clubs and Go classrooms. Try to broaden the readership of "Soul of Chess" as much as possible, Manager Jiang, what do you think?"

Jiang Zhong rubbed his chin, nodded slightly, "...you can give it a try."

The two looked at each other, with smiles on each other's faces.