Energizing

After a lunch break, Lu Zhou became somewhat familiar with the four new members.

Dong Junda, a playful guy from Northeast China, who also enjoyed playing Warcraft, chatted endlessly with Fang Qiang, just like two brothers.

Pan Feiwen, who wore glasses, appeared more refined, occasionally adding a few words to the conversation when familiar topics came up.

Zhou Wen, a handsome young man who could rival Lu Zhou in height and appearance, well, Lu Zhou felt that Zhou Wen might be slightly inferior in comparison.

As for Wang Zhengye, he didn't talk much and didn't leave a significant impression on Lu Zhou.

In the afternoon, Lu Zhou arranged for the four new members to familiarize themselves with the documentation and program framework of the advertising alliance, while Fang Qiang went to arrange broadband and landline telephones.

Looking at the dream ship setting sail, Lu Zhou was filled with hesitation and pride.

Currently, although the program framework of the advertising alliance had been established, the main program still needed time to be filled.

Firstly, the entrance to the Dream Grain advertising, the corporate website, and the module for advertising access by merchants needed to be resolved as a matter of priority before market promotion.

Of course, Lu Zhou couldn't passively wait for advertisers to come knocking on their door either when it came to advertising sales.

Speaking of the Internet, it was inevitable to talk about the gaming industry.

Games were a vital part of the Internet, serving as both an entry point for traffic and an exit point for monetization.

In the era of mobile internet, numerous mobile games included advertisements to showcase their own or advertisers' game applications, thereby attracting traffic for other games and generating revenue.

Games that needed traffic redirection often incorporated means of direct profitability, such as in-app purchases.

Undoubtedly, most of the game developers in the market were Lu Zhou's target customers.

Lu Zhou could extract information about game developers directly by writing programs to fetch data from search engines and some business directories, which would then be handed over to the interns responsible for marketing to contact them.

Lu Zhou had also made contingency plans. If they couldn't find advertisers, they would make preparations on two fronts.

Firstly, they would expedite the development of the application store mentioned when fooling Song Wenhui. In the initial stage, they would promote the application store to some top developers, allowing the developers to promote their own application stores. Later, they would use the application store as a promotional case to persuade other developers.

Secondly, Dream Grain would integrate with Brother Gu or Baidu's CPM advertisements and then provide them to developers in the form of an SDK to resolve the urgent issue in the short term.

Although CPM paid-per-click advertisements had low income, it was still better than Dream Grain subsidizing developers continuously.

If, under these three-pronged efforts, the Dream Grain advertising alliance still couldn't take off, Lu Zhou would have to doubt whether he had been reborn into a parallel world.

Of course, subsidizing developers to promote their own application stores also carried certain risks. Promoting applications developed in a short period of time might result in poor application quality, causing the money spent on promotion to go down the drain.

2:00 PM in the afternoon.

After careful consideration, Lu Zhou finally decided to proceed with the development simultaneously. He reviewed the entire plan and called for a short meeting with the four individuals studying the documentation once Fang Qiang finished his task.

Lu Zhou quickly listed several key points on the whiteboard, making it easier for the others to understand. "Alright, everyone, let's have a brief meeting. The main purpose is to explain the company's current situation and the work plan for the next two weeks."

Zhou Wen nodded awkwardly to express agreement.

Lu Zhou continued, "In addition, after the development tasks for the next two weeks are completed, I will adjust your positions accordingly, so that you can familiarize yourselves with multiple development environments in the shortest possible time. I hope that in the future, every backbone of Dream Grain will be a full-stack engineer familiar with most of the product line processes and a product manager familiar with the product's business logic. Within a year, Dream Grain will give each of you enough opportunities to independently handle the development and operation of an entire product line."

Except for Fang Qiang, who followed Lu Zhou because of his familiarity with him, the primary reason the other four came to Dream Grain for an internship was because of the internship salary.

Currently, Dream Grain offered an internship salary of nearly 3,000, which was comparable to the salaries of some formal employees in traditional industries even in 2010.

During the interview and the subsequent process of studying documents, they also saw that Dream Grain, led by Lu Zhou, had technical expertise. The work experience at Dream Grain could add a significant highlight to their internship experience, providing them with a good stepping stone when looking for positions in big companies one or two years later.

Now, Lu Zhou promised them enough learning time to familiarize themselves with the entire process of project operation, and even entrusted the entire project to them after a year.

It's important to note that without five or six years of experience in a large company, it would be impossible to reach the position of a project manager.

If it were a person who had worked for one or two years in society, most of them would probably scoff at Lu Zhou's words, considering him just a small-time boss making empty promises.

But for the few individuals who hadn't gone through the trials of the real world, Lu Zhou at this moment was like their patron.

As for Fang Qiang, he had long fallen into Lu Zhou's trap. Making 100,000 in a week, if it weren't for Lu Zhou asking him to keep a low profile, he could boast about it for a whole year.

Of course, Lu Zhou had the confidence to fulfill his grandiose promises.

Lu Zhou looked at their reactions and felt satisfied. This was the effect he wanted—getting them excited and motivated.

Lu Zhou also shouted in the spirit of the occasion, "Great! Let's go to the battlefield! Let's get to work!"

Everyone responded in unison, "Yes!"

The shouting startled the nearby classmates who were playing games in their dormitories.