Chapter 062: Continuing the Brainstorm

Lin Luyao was vigorously nodding her agreement with He Suzhen’s proposal one moment, only to be swayed into Su Zhenxin’s camp the next by her compelling arguments.

“Our little friend here is already bewildered by all this,” Tang Xiao remarked with a laugh as she caught sight of Lin Luyao’s torn expression, nodding to both sides. Her laughter lightened the somewhat tense atmosphere in the conference room, drawing everyone’s attention to Lin Luyao.

Flushed with embarrassment, Lin Luyao wished she could disappear into the floor.

“Luyao, do you have any thoughts?” Chen Xujia directed the conversation toward Lin Luyao, hoping to give her a chance to speak. When Lin Luyao shook her head, she turned to Cheng Li instead, “What about you, Lili? Any ideas?”

Cheng Li was just as lost as Lin Luyao, replying hesitantly, “I… I haven’t thought of anything yet.”

“Could we… perhaps assume equal traffic for everyone, and then use click-through and conversion rates to predict sales?” For the past two days, Lin Luyao had been poring over the topics Wen Chuan had given her, many of which involved predicting future trends in stock prices or exchange rates. As a result, her mind was filled with click-through rates, conversion rates, and forecasting.

She had drifted off for a moment, but somehow managed to blend these two concepts together and put forth her hypothesis. If all products received the same amount of traffic, there would be no issue of big brands versus niche ones—they would all be on a level playing field. Then, by analyzing sales data from regular days and major promotions, alongside these two metrics, they could predict this year’s promotional sales. This would allow them to easily define the product pool.

“That would require programming, wouldn’t it?” Tan Fang asked, seeing no immediate logical flaws, but not being skilled in programming himself, he turned to Cheng Li for her opinion. “Lili, what do you think?”

As Lin Luyao spoke, Cheng Li couldn’t help wondering why she hadn’t thought of this approach herself. When Tan Fang asked for her opinion, she replied after a brief consideration, “In theory, it’s feasible.”

“How long would it take you to put together?” Chen Xujia inquired.

Cheng Li hesitated, “At least four or five days, I think.”

“That’s too long,” Chen Xujia replied regretfully. The preheating for the promotion would start next Friday; by Monday at the latest, they needed to finalize the basic pool so the content and channel teams could plan their campaigns accordingly.

“Xujia, why don’t we use price and traffic as benchmarks, dividing them into high, medium, and low categories—making nine segments in total? Then we can select the first batch of products from each segment,” He Suzhen suggested, pushing her glasses up and proposing a compromise.

“As for the prediction method Luyao and Lili mentioned… it might be too challenging for us to handle alone. Perhaps after this round of promotions, we could arrange a meeting with the algorithm team and discuss it together.” Everyone agreed that this was a sound idea, and the proposal was unanimously approved.

By the time they left the meeting room, it was already past eleven-thirty. The group took a short break, and as soon as the clock struck twelve, they gathered their things, ready to head downstairs for lunch.

“Xujia! Xujia!” Just as they were preparing to leave for lunch, a voice called out from behind.

The newcomer was a man in his late thirties, wearing a collared shirt under a suit, jacket draped over his arm, and a backpack slung over one shoulder. He looked as if he had just rushed back from outside.

“Xujia, come with me to a meeting.”

“Right now?”