I Can Meet with Dead Scientists-Chapter 323 - 192: First-Day Sales and Unexpected Incident (6.4K)

December 3, 2022.

Saturday.

Eleven o'clock in the evening.

Xu Yun, Tian Liangwei, Zheng Zu, and other board members or department leaders of Huadun Biotech have all gathered at the company's headquarters.

The conference room has temporarily been transformed into the 'Combat Department,' responsible for coordinating all aspects of this sales event.

Actually, according to the last chapter... ahem, the previous plan.

The original release date for 'Mite Dead' was set for December 3rd at midnight, meaning it would officially launch at 0:00 today.

However, Xu Yun and the team suddenly realized during the final verification process that December 3rd was actually International Day of Disabled Persons.

Considering the limited attention on such public days, 'Mite Dead' would inevitably lose a considerable portion of topics and traffic on its launch day.

This kind of heat-stealing behavior is unnecessary and inadvisable.

Therefore, after a second discussion by the board, the company finally decided to postpone the release date by one day.

That is, it will officially start selling at 0:00 on December 4th.

After all, December 4th is not that special.

If one insists on saying it.

It's that on this day 22 years ago, Yanjing formally decided to bid for the Olympics and succeeded in the bid on July 13th of the following year.

Also, two years ago, on December 4th, Pan Jianwei and Lu Chaoyang's team successfully developed the "Nine Chapters" quantum computer, dominating the hot search list for a while.

Other than that.

Historically, this day has been fairly uneventful with no major news.

At this moment.

Inside the meeting room.

Gu Qunqing is holding a business tablet, presenting the final report to Xu Yun and others:

"Dr. Xu, Dean Tian, there is just one hour... oh no, only 59 minutes left until the product launch."

"All our offline channels are all set and ready for the real deal."

"Regarding logistics, we have reached a quarterly cooperation agreement with EMS, and tonight EMS has arranged an urgent transfer schedule, which should ensure the rapid shipment of the first batch of products."

Xu Yun nodded:

"Thank you for your hard work."

'Mite Dead' is currently being sold 100% online, with logistics on the JD platform naturally handled by JD's Lu Zhou Warehouse, while Huadun Biotech needs to select logistics for those on Taobao. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Currently, there's a saying on the internet.

It's that Huaxia only has three types of express, namely SF Express, JD, and other couriers.

The first two need no introduction.

Although each has its controversies, occasionally some black stories surface, yet they are indeed the top two logistics companies nationwide.

As for the remaining couriers, the various brands are somewhat mixed.

The worst among them is undoubtedly a certain four-character courier, which basically never receives praise online, while the remaining ones have their pros and cons.

If a choice must be made.

EMS, Yunda, and Shentong should be the top three.

To be truthful.

Among all couriers, the most desired choice for Xu Yun and others is obviously SF Express, but the shipping cost of SF is just too high.

If 'Mite Dead' could sell for 40 yuan, it would be alright, and even Debon Express could be chosen.

But with the current price of 19.9 yuan and a manufacturing cost of 7.8 yuan, the profit margin is quite limited, so SF Express had to be temporarily excluded from the list of candidates.

Over the past few days.

After multiple negotiations by Gu Qunqing, the company finally reached a consensus with EMS.

Both parties agreed on a monthly settlement of postage costs at secondary EMS partners' rates, with the agreement valid for one quarter.

Once the valid period expires.

Both parties can decide whether to continue the cooperation based on the actual sales situation of the product.

Then Xu Yun glanced at the time and said to Gu Qunqing:

"Aaron, how about the preheat?"

Gu Qunqing swiped a few times on the tablet and handed it to Xu Yun while explaining:

"The preheating officially started a week ago. We placed a soft article in the market, and the reading volume was quite good."

"The social media preheating started after 6 pm tonight, after all, the morning was still the promotion period for International Day of Disabled Persons—although the top search was still some celebrity's romance scandal, shamelessly."

"In any case, since 6 o'clock, Weibo has already provided a data stream, although the cost... tsk tsk, is indeed not low."

Xu Yun didn't speak, taking the tablet and glancing at it.

The tablet presented all the data from each channel in the form of images and text on a chart, making it very intuitive to read.

The expenditure highest on the list was the self-media end, with a cost of about 200,000 yuan.

More than a week ago.

Gu Qunqing and others contacted several public accounts through self-media channels, introducing the harm of the cockroach species in the form of soft articles.

The articles did not directly advertise 'Mite Dead,' but all mentioned Ke Da's pest extermination live broadcast.

During the dissemination of the soft article, many people also recalled this big event from over a month ago.

Additionally, they invited a few well-known insect video accounts to test the effect of 'Mite Dead.'

Now that the thesis and patent have already been approved, and the product is about to launch, Xu Yun and others no longer worry about leaks.

The item after the self-media end was the social port.

This part of the expenditure is quite terrifying, significantly higher than the self-media, reaching over 600,000 yuan.

The bulk of it was naturally occupied by the Weibo hot search.

Although Weibo is currently flooded with all kinds of ghosts and monsters, some people knock down Emperor Huang in one punch, it is indeed the social media platform with the highest daily activity at present.