Chapter 505 - It’s About Time to Open Branches! (1/2)

April 30th, Saturday…

Pei Qian had lunch and left for Deposit Fitness.

He had told Zhang Yuan before that he would find a coach for the club. However, where should he look for the coach…? Pei Qian really had no idea.

A professional esports coach would definitely not do.

That was because GOG was a relatively new game. Pei Qian had heard that some famous teams were planning for GOG, but generally, there was still not enough popularity for it to be formalized.

In other words, everyone’s standards were still rather low at this initial stage.

Clubs would definitely do their due diligence on whether this game would be able to continue its popularity or not whenever they want to open a subdivision for it.

Would it not be wasted money and effort if they opened a subdivision and plonked money into training only for the subdivision to be dissolved?

GOG was having a war with IOI now. Many clubs had the same thinking: choose from the winner. They only needed to cultivate one team for these two MOBA games.

Therefore, even if they had GOG subdivisions currently, they were not much of a force. At such a time, a professional coach-even one that was not outstandingly-would be able to bring transformational changes to the team.

Zhang Yuan might not know esports very well, but he was not dumb. The coaches he sought would definitely not be half-baked. If he were to add on the mysterious luck that Boss Pei had and promoted an SSR player or coach from the team…

The results would be very undesirable.

Therefore, Pei Qian had to find a coach that he was satisfied with, and that same person had to make Zhang Yuan shut up.

Hmm…

That was too difficult!

It was such a headache for Pei Qian. However, luckily, he told Zhang Yuan that he would let him know in two weeks so it was not too urgent.

Pei Qian walked into Deposit Fitness. It was a weekend as well, but there were obviously fewer people than there were previously. Pei Qian was taken back for a short while before realizing what happened. He could not help but be delighted

Many clients from last week had been successfully dissuaded!

The payment method of Deposit Fitness left no room for hesitation to join their membership. It could be fully refunded anyway.

However, not everyone could strictly follow and persevere with the plans.

Once they could not persevere, they would be persuaded to ‘be refunded’ and would not be able to join again in the short term.

Therefore, that had successfully dissuaded many clients!

That announcement did attract some clients, and some of them did join the memberships based on that. However, what was the point if they could not persevere?

Pei Qian could not help but feel proud of his intelligence. Other than that, there were some slight changes to the Deposit Fitness as compared to the previous week. There were now three service personnel in the gym. That was only one person responsible for distributing the wristband, attending to the front desk previously. The personal trainers would also do a bit of introduction and bring the clients around.

There were more of such personnel now; three of them were permanent staff and were on shifts.

One was in charge of the front desk, responsible for welcoming the guests like recording the clients’ information, distributing towels, wristbands, water, etc.

One of them was in charge of administration, daily office work like personal trainers’ schedules, and linking up with Fish-Catching Take-Out.

The last one was a planner who was responsible for arranging daily schedules, creating custom-made training plans, analyzing current client information, etc. Of course, the demarcation between these three roles was not that well-defined, they would help each other out at times.

“Boss Pei.” The front desk was the first to notice Pei Qian.

“Good day, Boss Pei.” The administrative executive was arranging the fitness meals with two personal trainers at noon.

“Boss Pei.” The planner stood up and nodded politely from his work on the computer.

Pei Qian smiled lightly and nodded. He gave these planners a little more notice because… the true identity of this planner was a spy, one of the 18 Manage Loss Trainees!

The Manage Loss Trainees address Pei Qian as ‘senior’ privately. However, they would still address him as ‘Boss Pei’ in the public.

Wouldn’t it reveal that there was a mysterious department otherwise…?

The positions in the gym were all based on shifts. This Manage Loss Trainee might be a student, but he did not have many classes. Moreover, the Deposit Fitness was just a few steps away from Handong University, which made him confident that he could take on this job.

The planner from Deposit Fitness was a position that the other gyms did not have. That was because the setting of Deposit Fitness was different from the other gyms.

Guo Licheng suggested to Pei Qian that they should create an app to let their clients book appointments so that they could control the number of people in the gym at once. It would also be able to optimize the arrangement of scheduling.

For example, if there were more clients on Thursday, then they would not entertain other clients who want to come on Thursdays. They would urge them to choose another day. It seemed like they were still quite some time away from completing the app. It was currently done by the planner.

However, there were lesser people in the gym now, a lot less than the maximum load the gym could take. Therefore, it did not really matter now.

The current position of the planner could only do preliminary planning. There was no need to go down to the day and time. Pei Qian arranged for this Manage Loss Trainee to be a planner so that he would be able to know the more accurate information about the gym, so that he would know how far away the gym was from becoming profitable.