Club recruitment lasted four days, not ending until Sunday, and Wang Yan gave speeches for all four days.
On the first day, he completed his task, finding twenty part-timers along with several work-study students assigned by the school, for a total team of twenty-five part-timers.
On the second day, he was purely advertising. He had a batch of computers delivered from Liu Qiangdong and displayed them onstage, while also holding a prize draw. Every computer buyer could enter the draw, with three Nokia phones and seven Sony Walkmans as prizes.
On Sunday night, the fourth day, Wang Yan had sold more than three hundred desktop and laptop computers combined, drew the prizes on the spot, and brought the event to a successful close.
The commissions were not fixed. Different configurations meant different costs and prices, and sales volume also mattered. Altogether, Wang Yan made seventy thousand yuan from this round.
Of course, that did not account for the costs. The stage construction, equipment rentals, prize-draw phones, and Walkmans had all come out of his own pocket, leaving him with just over forty thousand yuan in profit. Still, that was enough to feed his current crew boxed meals for two months...
Without question, Wang Yan's speeches on the Beiqing athletic field were a massive success.
Before this, he had been a nobody at Beiqing. After the speeches, he became famous.
As he walked around campus, students pointed him out to one another. Not to criticize him, of course, but to say, "That guy is Wang Yan," letting more people know of this legendary figure.
He truly was legendary. In the days after the event ended, his background had spread all across the school. Everyone knew he was an orphan who had struggled desperately to get into the Academy of Fine Arts