Chapter 161 Wasting Money, the More the Merrier

Currently, the live streaming content on Rabbit Tail Live is mainly divided into two categories. One is the knowledge popularization content in cooperation with Useful App. These scholars both stream live and record videos, and they don't want to go to other platforms, nor do other platforms have much motivation to poach them. The other category is the rebroadcast of e-sports competitions, which has already formed a fixed audience. Without streamers, there's no way to poach them either.

Of course, some streamers who are not satisfied with the status quo will still be poached, but for now, these streamers were not the main content of Rabbit Tail Live in the first place, and not its core competitiveness.

President Pei's attitude has always been that you can poach whoever you want, I will never stop you. The contract is completely open, and they are free to come and go.

Therefore, the streamers who remain after all the poaching are basically hobbyists, streamers who are fueled by love. They are already used to the environment here, and Rabbit Tail Live is not stingy, giving money quite generously, so it has entered a relatively stable state.

Although the prices offered by external platforms to poach people look very high, there are also many additional clauses. If you are not careful, you will be tricked and have nowhere to complain.

Therefore, many streamers still decided to stay in their own little corner and focus on operating, maintaining a relatively free state.

The audience is even more so. Those who could not adapt have already left, and the audience who have adapted to hanging up in focus mode or learning mode every day have an explosive stickiness to the platform. How easy is it for other platforms to take them away?

Of course, it is also very difficult for Rabbit Tail Live to grab the audience from other platforms.

In the stage when other live streaming platforms are frantically burning money in a big war, they will not set their sights here. Rabbit Tail Live is like becoming an isolated island, far away from the land of strife.

Pei Qian pondered that the time should be about right.

The reason why he insisted on withdrawing from the money-burning war before was that he was afraid of burning money at that critical juncture. What if he quickly defeated other platforms and burned them into giants?

After all, most of the live streaming platforms at that time were just starting out and were relatively immature. Pei Qian was afraid of accidentally overdoing it.

Now, Waiwai Live and Wolf Fang Live have emerged, with money and streamers, and an audience... They are already two very powerful behemoths.

After a period of observation, Pei Qian has also determined that Rabbit Tail Live is safe.

In this way, he can safely burn money for Rabbit Tail Live without worrying about accidentally hurting friendly businesses or suddenly becoming profitable.

Of course, he still has to carefully consider where to start in order to spend the money without disrupting this balance.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian felt a little regretful that Chen Yufeng was not around.

If Chen Yufeng was around, he should be able to help eliminate a wrong answer. Anyway, any direction Chen Yufeng wants to develop in is definitely wrong.

But now it is a holiday after all, and it is not good to call and disturb him.

However, he can also ask his good brother Ma Yang. After all, the two have worked together for so long, and Ma Yang is a person who is easily fooled, so he must have heard many suggestions and ideas from Chen Yufeng.

After a little consideration, Pei Qian said: "Lao Ma, if a large sum of money is given to Rabbit Tail Live again, where do you think Chen Yufeng would spend this money? And where do you plan to spend this money?"

Hearing this, Ma Yang temporarily stopped chewing and took a sip of his drink before saying: "Chen Yufeng will definitely take the money to poach more scholars to give lectures, and may even create a 'Rabbit Tail Open Class' or something. He has been talking to me about this, saying something like... leveraging comparative advantages to build Rabbit Tail Live into a real knowledge platform."

Pei Qian nodded, this was indeed something Chen Yufeng would do.

Now Rabbit Tail Live only has these two major directions. It is difficult to come up with new tricks for the event live streaming, so it can only continue to enrich the knowledge content and engage in differentiated competition.

Well then, this wrong answer can be eliminated.

Since knowledge content is the strength of Rabbit Tail Live, then this strength should be abandoned, and weaknesses should be used to challenge those large live streaming platforms.

In this way, the probability of failure will be greater.

Pei Qian nodded: "Sure enough, it's still the same low level. What do you think?"

Hearing this, Ma Yang obviously got excited: "I think we shouldn't be cowards, we have to fight to the death with big platforms like Waiwai Live and Wolf Fang Live! Why don't we burn money to poach their streamers too!"

Pei Qian was silent for a moment: "Well... your idea is right, but the specific approach still needs to be discussed."

Logically speaking, this method is quite capable of burning money. After all, the contracts on Rabbit Tail Live's side will not bind the streamers. It is easy for other platforms to poach Rabbit Tail Live's streamers, but it is more difficult for Rabbit Tail Live to poach the streamers from other platforms.

Poaching them at a high price, and then being easily poached back, this back and forth is indeed spending money like water.

But the key problem is that the issue of liquidated damages is not easy to handle.

Some platforms set very unreasonable liquidated damages for their streamers, basically astronomical prices. Rabbit Tail Live cannot possibly pay this money.

First, if it is an individual example, it can be discussed, but if a large number of streamers are poached and liquidated damages are paid, the system will definitely not agree; second, Pei Qian himself does not want to give money to these live streaming platforms for nothing, because he has no good impression of these live streaming platforms.

With this money, wouldn't it be nice to give welfare to the audience on his own platform?

What's more, poaching big streamers may have a wide and far-reaching impact. The movement is too big, and it is easy to bring a lot of heat, which is not in line with Pei Qian's direction of "making a fortune in silence."

Pei Qian took a sip of his drink and said, "It's actually meaningless to poach streamers from other platforms. In my opinion, instead of poaching streamers, it's better to discover streamers."

"Go online and find people who have the hope of becoming streamers, or new streamers who are currently just hobbyists and have not signed long-term, formal contracts with other platforms, and gradually absorb them into our platform."

"In addition, this fund can also be used to expand publicity and develop new functions for the website."

As the saying goes, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Divide this money into three parts, one part to cultivate streamers, one part for publicity, and one part to develop platform functions.

And the so-called "cultivating streamers" just looks good, but the actual result will definitely be minimal.

Because Rabbit Tail Live will not sign the kind of contracts that bind people's lives, and the streamers are free to come and go. Most of the streamers who are cultivated will be poached by other platforms.

After cultivating for a long time, it will mostly cultivate loneliness.

Ma Yang nodded, deeply agreeing: "Well, Brother Qian, you still think clearly."

"But... what kind of platform functions are you talking about specifically?"

Pei Qian said haha, how the hell would I know!

I just said that casually, if I had specific ideas, wouldn't I have told you already?

"You think about it yourself." Pei Qian said, "The only requirement is that it should not be related to the current academic content."

He is not particularly worried that Ma Yang will come up with any particularly explosive ideas. After all, the function of the platform is ultimately to serve the streamers. If there are no particularly excellent streamers in the first place, what is the significance of new functions?

As long as it is not related to the current academic content, there should be no major problems.

Ma Yang's long face was full of confusion, and he was obviously clueless at the moment.

"Brother Qian, I really can't think of anything... Why don't you arrange a helper for me? I think Chen Yufeng is sometimes too stupid, and the ideas he comes up with are all bad ideas. I need more opinions."

Pei Qian was drinking juice and almost sprayed it out.

Good fellow, Lao Ma, you actually dislike Chen Yufeng?

Okay, as expected of you.

But on second thought, Lao Ma's suggestion is indeed worth considering.

As we all know, Lao Ma's ideas are easily influenced by others, and basically anyone can fool him.

When Lao Ma was first in charge of Rabbit Tail Live, he almost made some wrong decisions that would make the platform profitable several times because of Chen Yufeng's fooling.

Letting Lao Ma only hear one voice in his ear is ultimately a very unsafe thing.

Moreover, Pei Qian just happens to have someone on hand who is in urgent need of being "assigned"...

Thinking of this, he had an idea.

"What you said makes a lot of sense. In this way, I'll transfer another person to help you."

"How about Hu Xianbin from the game department?"

When Ma Yang heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his long face: "Really? That's great!"

"Although this Hu Xianbin's wisdom is less than one ten-thousandth of Brother Qian's, he is still a promising talent among the people in charge! But... isn't he the main designer of the game department? Transferring him to the live streaming side, is this considered a demotion? Is it not appropriate?"

Pei Qian waved his hand: "Hey, what promotion or demotion, we Tengda don't pay attention to this, it's just a different position."

"Every employee should be prepared to be transferred to other positions at any time!"

"Moreover, his various benefits and treatments will be improved compared to before."

"He's just here to help for a while. How to arrange his work in the future can be discussed in the long term. It's not like he's locked in with Rabbit Tail Live forever."

In fact, Pei Qian is also a little worried. After all, Hu Xianbin is someone who has been the main designer of a Tengda department. His ability among the people in charge can be considered relatively top-notch. If he comes to Rabbit Tail Live, will he make Rabbit Tail Live popular?

But seeing that Hu Xianbin will be released back to the mountains in another month, in order for Yu Fei to continue to stay in the position of main designer, he must find a home for Hu Xianbin as soon as possible.

After thinking about it, going to other places is just as risky, and there are no good positions, so I had to arrange for him to go to Rabbit Tail Live.

On the one hand, Rabbit Tail Live is now managed by three people. Ma Yang, Chen Yufeng, and Hu Xianbin can restrain each other. Ma Yang is caught in the middle and is constantly being brainwashed by the two, which may cause Rabbit Tail Live to fall into a state of uncertainty; on the other hand, if Pei Qian finds that the situation is not right, he can find a new home for Hu Xianbin and transfer him away in time.

In short, in the current situation, it is a relatively reasonable arrangement.

Since Yu Fei has already taken over, and the effect is not bad, then there is no way that Hu Xianbin can return to the Tengda game department!