Roland also asked Viglaf the answer to this question, and the Temple of Kord monopolized the business.
The Kord Temple is a government-run institution, and the priest Kord only owes allegiance to Beowulf and Natasha, which is the basic reason why they can sit on the throne of the lord, but unfortunately they did not play this trump card well.
Reverend Kord was a missionary, and the production of magical items was incidental to the needs of the faithful and to reflect the benevolence and generosity of the temple, and they set the price of magical items very low, and the profits they made were only enough to maintain the temple's operating costs.
Roland admired the noble character of the Reverend Kord, but from a business point of view it was completely stupid.
Since the temple has a monopoly on the market for magic items in the city, and since the market situation is in short supply, it is reasonable to take advantage of the good situation to increase profits and bring supply and demand to a new equilibrium.
Of course, considering the maintenance of the moral image of the temple, it is not a good idea to raise the price directly, so Roland offers a more clever way to play in his operation plan, separation of rights, hunger marketing.
First of all, he asked the magic item shop operated by the temple to close with immediate effect, claiming that it was to adjust its operation to match the competition so that more and better goods could be stocked up on for the contestants.
Secondly, the Kord Temple was reformed and the property rights of the religious and commercial sectors were separated.
The former is established as a non-profit public welfare organization, because it can no longer obtain profits from the commercial sector, and can justifiably accept donations and gifts from believers; The latter formed a new company to conduct business independently, with direct control by Beowulf and Natasha, or could sell a part of the shares to the city's celebrities and magnates to form a community of interests.
Finally, the restructured commercial department will be relocated to the inside of the competition center, and a row of storefronts, known as boutiques, will be set up to display the best magic equipment as a façade, and priority will be given to the service of the contestants during the competition.
Since the commercial sector operates independently from the temple, there is no need to carry moral pressure, and all magic items are repriced according to changes in market supply and demand, and it is not a big problem to quadruple profits.
In the process of the above-mentioned restructuring, there will inevitably be resistance, if it is a privately run store, each store owner has its own interests, and it is very troublesome to interfere with its business operations by administrative order, and there will be many complaints regardless of whether it is profitable or lost.
The good thing about the temple shop is that it belongs to a "state-owned enterprise", and Beowulf can justifiably "give policy guidance" to it whether he is a lord or a bishop.
The priests who run the shop are similar to the civil servants in the system, and the property rights of the shop are not owned by them, and making money or losing money has nothing to do with them, so they will not be particularly resistant to the reform, and obeying the orders of the superiors is politically correct.
Through the restructuring of the temple, Roland opened up a new source of income and moved closer to the profit target.
Article 3 of the profit plan also needs to be implemented with the help of the government's public power, and in order to create a good image of the city and prevent tourists from falling into fraudulent gambling scams, legislation should be issued to prohibit private gambling and crack down on underground casinos The prohibition of private gambling is not the same as the prohibition of gambling, in fact, the patron saint of the Kitlanders Kod has a "competitive" priesthood, there are always winners and losers in competition, and there are winners and losers to bet, and the prohibition of gambling is inconsistent with people's beliefs.
Therefore, Roland suggested that the gambling houses in the city be nationalized and run by the commercial department of the Temple of Kord.
Since the god of competition can also be called the "god of gambling", gambling has a certain degree of religious ritual color, and it is reasonable to belong to the temple management.
In addition to the general government-run casinos, it is necessary to set up a public welfare gaming organization, exclusively sell lottery tickets, and all the profits are used to subsidize the city's education, sanitation, medical care, defense and other public utilities, so as to occupy the moral high ground to buy the hearts of the people, and then crack down on black casinos It is famous.
In the fourth article of the profit plan, Roland plans to catch the contestants and shear the wool, and suggests that the competition system be revised and a point system be established.
The winner of the qualifiers receives 1 point; Advance to the quarterfinals with 2 points; 4 points for advancing to the semifinals and 8 points for advancing to the finals; Won the championship with 16 points. 1 point can be exchanged for 1,000 gold coins, and the winning team will earn 31 points, which is equivalent to 31,000 bonuses for each team.
The referee shall allow both participants to pledge points as bets, and the winner will take all the losses.
In front of tens of thousands of spectators, how could the contestants refuse to bet and lose their ambitions These points are snowballing towards a handful of winners, and it would not do the tournament organizers any good if they were to exchange them for gold coins, so they had to try to keep them.
To be precise, to be precise, to consume it.
The point of exchanging points for gold is not the point, the point is that points can be exchanged for magic equipment directly in the Arena's boutiques, and it is cheaper than buying them with gold.
The discount doesn't need to be too big, those players who need to replenish magic items to cope with the next competition usually have no channel to go to other cities thousands of miles away to buy, since the points can be exchanged for the required items, and there are some discounts, then what is there to hesitate There are also some players who don't need to shop urgently, but when they see others buying, they have to worry that they will run out of stock when they need it in the future, which will affect the performance of the competition, so there will be shopping motivation, plus there is a little discount to lure them, so what is there to hesitate about Therefore, the tournament will pay the prize money to the participants in the form of points, return to the tournament operating account through gambling and consumption, and generate a large amount of profit in the process of the above transactions, so that the tournament is one step closer to the goal of profit.
The last and most important income is of course the admission fee.
Vigraf once told Roland that in previous tournaments, the seats were divided into two grades: the first ten rows of VIP seats, and the others were economy seats.
In Roland's view, this pricing strategy is too crude, and the division of the target customer group is not clear enough.
Roland believes that the price ladder should be divided more carefully according to the viewing experience of different seat areas, so that the difference between similar prices is not too large, which can create a hint to the audience, a kind of consumption inducement: I want to buy a 4th class seat, but considering that the 3rd class seat can see more clearly and give a cup of tea, the price is not too expensive compared with the 4th class seat, so why don't I spend more money to buy better service The ticketing issue is complicated to talk about, and Roland does not analyze it in the plan, but only provides a general idea.
He deliberately sold a pass here, leaving a hole card as a backhand.
If Beowulf and Natasha are interested in this, it is not too late to talk about it in detail when they meet in the future; On the other hand, if he writes every step as meticulously as a textbook, then the other party may only use his plan and kick him away.
Of course, he felt that this was unlikely, and that the Beowulf couple should not be so narrow-minded, but as the old saying goes, you must not have the heart of harming others, and you must not have the heart of guarding against others.
In the final analysis, a person's destiny should be controlled by oneself, rather than relying on the virtues of others
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