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Chapter 1256: Chapter 1112: Excellent Business Model (Please Subscribe!)
After professionalization,
Extras had security.
They wouldn’t go hungry after a meal.
Looking at the long term,
it is also a prerequisite for the healthy development of the industry—iron-clad Film and Television Cities, flowing extras, behind them, the bitter hardships of many. Given this, the threshold here has been raised.
To prevent everyone from coming over to "realize a dream."
Just to play around and leave.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
Everyone has the right to experience life.
"I’ll just experience it for two or three days, then go back to work and add to my life experience." There isn’t anything wrong with that. However, for many, making a living is a serious issue.
After a while,
they arrived at a circular single-story building, resembling a piano lid with several ring-shaped designs on top, which looked quite visually appealing, especially stunning when the lights are on at night.
This is an Experience Museum.
To put it simply,
it’s a cinema with several 3D and 4D experience halls and a giant screen hall that normally operates publicly. At this moment, there are few visitors here, as most people come for tourism.
And Tang Kai didn’t plan to make money from this.
It was purely... for fun.
A semi-public welfare project.
For a local tyrant like Tang Kai,
what to build was completely a matter of mood; just a few million, nothing compared to his company’s half-day profits. Sometimes, he made millions of RMB just from having tea in the afternoon and going fishing afterwards.
In front of the Experience Museum was a huge Artificial Lake, more of a fountain than a lake, with water barely knee-deep. The sign said "No washing feet in the water," yet people could still be seen going in.
And groups were even forming.
"Manager Chen, doesn’t anyone manage this?" Tang Kai frowned.
"Previously managed, but they couldn’t control it; many wouldn’t listen to persuasion. Later, they just arranged for someone to watch over to prevent accidents, mainly to keep children from frolicking and causing trouble," Chen Xing said with a bitter smile.
"Be cautious with safety."
Tang Kai also knew it was unavoidable.
This reminded him of the Myanmar Economic Zone.
Violation?
Fine.
Simple as that. After a few times, hardly anyone dared to mess around.
But here,
they didn’t have the authority to fine.
Even if they fined,
people might not accept it, refuse to pay, act shamelessly, create a fuss, what more could you do to them? At that moment, a phrase popped into Tang Kai’s mind: Only strict laws can control people; morality can’t control others, only oneself.
"Uncle, how about we set up a bicycle rental here?" Seeing the crowded wide road, Tang Qing suddenly had an idea.
"Bicycle rental?" Tang Kai asked, puzzled.
"Yes, the Film and Television City is so large, walking is tiring. We could introduce high-quality, simple-structured bicycles for people to rent," Tang Qing thought of shared bicycles but didn’t plan to do it.
Of course.
Not that he thought it was bad.
Actually,
from his heart,
the sharing economy is a very good business model.
But,
it depends on the environment.
Think about it.
A ride for one RMB, same as the bus fare; a bicycle can make one RMB a day, paying for itself within a year even with various monthly passes and discounts, achieving a decent profit.
Even if the sharing economy is problematic later on,
it cannot hide the fact that it is an excellent business model, like the shared umbrellas. He had heard an interesting story where the cost of the umbrella was eighteen RMB, and the deposit was twenty.
Those who took them didn’t return them, and the company still made a net profit of two RMB.
Of course,
the accounts didn’t really work out that way, it was just a bit of fun; after all, even if the shared umbrella company made two RMB, its operating costs and tax issues probably meant it still lost some money.
But it was also an interesting exploration.
Would the sharing economy still be losing money in the Myanmar Economic Zone?
Impossible.
Try damaging things on purpose.
Try taking them home as a private car.
At the same time, one cannot deny one thing, that is the social value it brings.
The emergence of shared bicycles.
Greatly facilitated people’s lives.
Also exercised the body.
After work, some people saw the weather was nice and felt it was good to ride a bike home.
This phenomenon.
Has social value.
Among "cost-effective, convenient, eco-friendly, and healthy" transportation tools, shared bicycles are rightfully the leader, it’s just a pity that many people squandered a good hand.
Tang Qing also considered whether to get into this.
On second thought.
If it was for social value, it would be better to distribute one to everyone, but if they did, deciding whom to give them to would be a big issue, and if it were limited to Qingyan City, then this matter... should be handled by the Qingyan City government.
Otherwise.
It might invite sarcastic remarks.
The uncle and nephew continued to stroll around.
The Film and Television City was really large, with so many sets, they would have to walk all day, so they only viewed some of the larger sets, leaving the smaller ones for another time.
After all, it wasn’t far from the manor.
...
The next day.
Tang Qing arrived at another project of to Sky Eye.
The Dream Foundation.
It was located opposite Jinghua Square, the entire building had been renamed Dream Building, managed by the Dream Foundation, and at this time, a small portion of the floors had already been occupied.
They.
Were all beneficiaries of the Dream Fund.
Here.
There were some dreams deemed ’worthless.’
Because they couldn’t be massively transformed into economic benefits, such projects, even after angel investors read the summaries, they would turn around and throw them into the garbage can, only valuing returns and investment profits.
Here, they only valued the dreams.
For example, someone wanted to create a website to gather volunteers for environmental efforts, regularly organizing volunteers to clean up garbage in areas not covered by sanitation workers.
For example, someone wanted to create a product that integrated with gym treadmills, giving points for every kilometer walked or run, and once a certain amount was reached, a tree would be planted in the desert.
...
Here.
This was the incubation ground for these ’boring’ yet ’endearing’ dreams.
To help those who had nothing.
The Foundation relieved them of future worries.
They saved on office space fees, server rental fees, and even solved their wage issues, thus, the only cost left was themselves.
The most valuable, was also themselves.
And these.
Didn’t even consume much data.
Unlike live broadcasts and video websites.
That was truly burning money.
Ordinary people watching videos might think they aren’t spending money, but the video providers were paying high data fees to operators, and these fees were genuinely high, despite reductions.
By the year 2017, when 4G coverage was almost complete.
1G of live broadcast data cost about twenty cents.
1G of on-demand data cost about ten cents.
Compared to surfing the internet on mobile phones and computers, this wasn’t expensive. But, for websites visited by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, this price was very high, essentially burning money.
For instance, a live streaming platform.
With fifty thousand people online simultaneously.
Then.
How much data would be consumed in a month?
Almost over eight million G, about 1.6 million RMB, and this was just for fifty thousand concurrently online, if this number were higher, the corresponding cost would be even more astonishing.
Currently.
Building data centers.
Only saved on data storage costs, not a cent on data fees.
Therefore.
Comet Video.
Since it occupied half of Huaxia’s online video market.
Currently, just the data fees paid to the three major operators every month exceeded thirty-five million RMB, adding on their purchases of extensive film and television copyrights, Comet Video constantly maintained a marginally profitable state.
It can be said.
Video websites were the ’highest barrier’ startups.
Every moment was truly ’burning money’.
Whether it was live streaming or video websites, without capital in the billions, it simply couldn’t be afforded.
