Chapter 54: Pursuit
After its initial success at Rongcheng University, Lin Guangdong's Campus Consumption Magazine had, over the ensuing months, expanded from eighteen pages to twenty-five. Monthly advertising revenue had exceeded five hundred thousand yuan, with eighty regular advertisers. The magazine was also expanding rapidly, beginning to establish itself as the leading consumer guide at several major universities.
During a phone call with Su Can, Lin Guangdong said, "Following your proposal, we've started working on the next phase of market expansion. Heh, we're already quite influential, though. Apparently, some students at the University of Finance and Economics, the University of Science and Technology, Rongcheng University, and Jiaotong University have been collecting our magazine and selling copies for three to five yuan each. They certainly have business sense. After all, the restaurant coupons inside are worth more than that."
Su Can laughed. "Good work, Mr. Lin."
"Don't call me Mr. Lin anymore. I'm hardly qualified to be your teacher now. In this field, you could be mine. Your proposal was excellent. Working with the universities' Student Unions has really given us wings. Some universities are even contacting us on their own initiative now-the administrations, that is. They want to run recruitment ads in our magazine."
"Oh, right. There's something else. Besides Rongcheng Daily, Ge City Commercial Newspaper Group has sent people to approach us, too. They want to acquire us and have asked us to name a price." Lin Guangdong fell silent for a moment before bringing this up. Of course, the representatives of these two traditional Rongcheng media companies had put on airs, treating Pineapple Media's Campus Consumption as some insignificant little magazine that had happened to strike it lucky. Naturally, Lin Guangdong could not tell Su Can any of that.
Su Can considered it before saying, "Stall them as