Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again

Chapter 709: Chapter 255: Meeting Old Ma and a 10-Year Deep Collaboration with Taojin!

The day after returning from Lin’an, Su Zelin gathered Yang Fen and Kang Baohong for a meeting.

But this time, besides the three pillars, the manager of the online sales department, Li Weicheng, was also present.

The latter is in charge of the company’s online sales.

Shortly after New Era was established last year, the online sales department was born.

As the name suggests, the purpose of this department is to expand the internet market and online sales channels.

The appointment of this online sales department manager is quite interesting to talk about.

At that time, Su Zelin gathered a group of target candidates, saying there was such a new market and asked who would like to become the manager.

The moment he said these words, almost everyone was reluctant.

Because they were originally at the deputy manager level in other departments.

The offline situation at New Era was thriving, and all departments were quite popular.

However, almost no one was optimistic about this so-called online sales department. After all, the department was only responsible for a small online store, and at that time the transaction volume of the entire New Era was pathetic. What use could a well-operated online store possibly have?

No future!

At this time, a young man stepped forward—it was Li Weicheng.

He was among the very few high-ranking employees who saw a bright future for the internet market and had a keen eye for this field.

Su Zelin had interacted with him before and had long suspected that Li Weicheng would most likely be the chosen manager. However, Zelin still wanted to see if this young man had not only the vision but also the courage and fortitude.

The result did not disappoint him, so Li Weicheng became the online sales department manager.

The talent promotion by the company has a habit.

They like those who have a strong interest in their field, ideally almost fanatic, even if their qualifications and abilities are temporarily lacking.

There is a saying that passion creates excellence, passion leads to creativity!

He very much agreed with these words.

Almost everyone who achieves extraordinary accomplishments in a field is a madman who dedicated their entire life and time to it, like Jobs of Apple, or Lei Buzi of Xiaomi.

Only if you love this field, will you be highly motivated, driven, and full of ideas.

Li Weicheng was just like that, although he was working for a small online store, the transaction volume was pitifully low, and currently, he only earned a basic salary without any commission; yet, Li Weicheng remained full of energy, constantly devising ways to optimize the online store’s page, heavily promoting it, and even when he bought small items on Taobao, he would take the chance to advertise New Era’s online store in the reviews—this was the manifestation of wholehearted commitment.

Because he believed that these were just temporary, he needed a little more patience until the internet economy developed.

"Last year, New Era’s total transaction volume reached 34 million, but what is noteworthy is the striking growth of this figure since the launch of the third-party tool, Wealth Treasure. Additionally, according to New Era’s end-of-year announcement, the seller of the first online transaction completed using Wealth Treasure was our New Era’s online store..."

In the conference room, Li Weicheng was reporting on his work.

Later media would spread that the first transaction on New Era happened in October, and it was a cross-border transaction.

This claim is actually inaccurate.

New Era was already online in May, and by July, it had 16,000 users. How could it have possibly gone five months without a single transaction?

In fact, as soon as New Era went online, Mr. Ma had employees bring some items from home to sell online, things like phone cards and small toys. A female employee even put a Longquan sword up for sale, and it was snapped up soon after by one of the founders, one of the eighteen co-founders of New Era.

This was the true first transaction of New Era!

However, at that nascent stage, New Era was a bit like what would later become Xianyu, with no need for verification or deposit to sell things, and both parties were skeptical of this transaction method.

Sellers feared not receiving payment after dispatch, and buyers worried about not receiving goods after payment.

As a result, consumers viewed New Era with doubt and caution, and some even thought Mr. Ma was a fraud, making purchases on New Era rare.

So it wasn’t until October, when what would become a future e-commerce giant launched Wealth Treasure and the "secured transaction" model, that consumer confidence in online transactions was secured.

Regarding the media’s rumor about the first transaction in October on New Era, accurately speaking, it was the first transaction completed using Wealth Treasure!

The pioneering seller was named Cui Weiping, someone who had studied abroad in Japan and was quite receptive to new things. He had an idle second-hand digital camera he intended to sell, so he listed it on New Era to try his luck.

And the buyer was a university student from Northwestern Polytechnical University, named Jiao Zhenzhong, who took an interest in the digital camera and found the camera Cui Weiping was selling to be both fairly new and inexpensive, which sparked his interest.

But both parties were quite hesitant at the time, and it took the customer service’s earnest persuasion to successfully complete the transaction.

Later on, this transaction order was hung up in New Era’s headquarters building for commemoration, becoming a milestone in history.

Why did New Era’s actual first transaction remain unknown, while the first transaction with Wealth Treasure became widely known?

First, the true first transaction was an internal affair, involving company employees selling among themselves, which was not impressive enough for promotion.

More importantly, New Era needed to promote Wealth Treasure and convince people of the security of this third-party payment tool, so they made a big deal out of the first online transaction completed with Wealth Treasure.

However, this time Cui Weiping was scooped.

New Era became the first to register Wealth Treasure and the first seller to complete a transaction, with Su Zelin closely following its launch, registering at the fastest speed, and quickly selling a computer through it.