1977: The beginning of the blind date with the daughter of the king
Chapter 595: A groundbreaking membership system!
Chapter 595: A groundbreaking membership system!
“Everyone, my membership system may be a little different from what you expected.”
“It’s not just a membership where you eat, drink and have fun at the club.”
“According to my concept, members of this club will enjoy the highest level of services and privileges!”
At this time, Li Changhe smiled and said to everyone present.
“Services? Privileges?”
“what do you mean?”
He Houzhao looked at Li Changhe curiously at this time.
“To put it simply, I hope to provide services to members not only with this club, but also with many of our industries, including real estate, hotels, shopping malls, etc.”
“I hope to create a high-end privilege card with integrated resources. This card symbolizes identity, wealth and status.”
“In addition, I will set up a professional service team in the club to provide one-on-one service to all members, and they can provide members with any help they can within the scope permitted by law.”
“Arranging yachts, organizing parties, international flights, ordering clothing from global luxury brands, etc. In short, it is all-weather and all-around.”
“In addition, you should know that in addition to Hong Kong Island and Macau, I also have some businesses in Europe and the United States, so I will also build a number of private clubs in cities such as Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. When the time comes, we will form an alliance with the clubs in Hong Kong Island and provide members with global services as much as possible.”
What Li Changhe said was actually the service model of the Black Gold Centurion Card to be launched by American Express Group in the future. However, now, let alone Hong Kong Island, even in the world, there are very few such exclusive privileged service models.
Even American Express has not yet developed such an extremely distinguished service system.
So, when Li Changhe finished talking about his idea, everyone present was dazzled.
Their wealth is not among the highest in the world today, but it can be said that they are at the top of the list. Otherwise, they would not be spending money like water tonight, spending tens of millions of dollars in one night.
However, even if they are rich, they seldom have an adequate service system. The service privileges of these people are more dependent on the family business. For example, when Guo Ling came to Hong Kong Island, he relied more on the various services provided by their family’s branch.
An important point here is that their family company’s resources and status in Hong Kong Island are limited.
It is just as the old saying goes, once you leave your own base, you have to lie down like a dragon or crawl like a tiger outside, because after all, the city outside will not pamper you.
The idea proposed by Li Changhe just helped them solve some of the problems they were currently facing.
To put it bluntly, Li Changhe provides services to club members based on his own network of relationships.
But what if every club member was like this?
They use their own network of relationships to form connections through this club?
Does that mean that their networks in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia can also participate in this huge network and provide privileges and services to all members?
For them, all they have to pay is a little money and some existing networks of relationships.
Most importantly, these relationship networks hardly involve their core relationship networks.
It turns out that the other party’s real intention is to exchange and integrate their network through this kind of club. What a bold and amazing idea!
“Vic, your idea is brilliant, but I have a question. What will the club use to provide this privileged service?”
“How do we prove that these are members of our club and recognized in the various venues you are talking about?”
“If you can’t solve this problem, I think it will be too troublesome to implement your idea.”
He Houzhao said to Li Changhe seriously.
Li Changhe nodded gently: “I know, so I have considered it.”
“I believe you are all familiar with credit cards. They are a type of credit card issued by a US bank. They allow you to spend money in advance and sign accounts in your name.”
“My idea is to use credit cards as the club’s membership system. For example, we design a special credit card that is unique to our club, and then this card can be circulated around the world.”
“Currently, the largest credit card company in the United States is Visa, which is a credit card service system launched by Bank of America, a subsidiary of the California consortium.”
“Bank of America is currently working with Standard Chartered, so I can ask Visa to design a membership credit card that is unique to our club and then issue it through Standard Chartered.”
“In this way, our members will theoretically have the ability to make global payments. They can pay by credit card wherever Visa and Standard Chartered Bank are located.”
“In addition, I think our credit cards can also have a very strong payment limit, such as a loan limit starting at 20 million US dollars. Of course, the specific limit, I think we can discuss an appropriate range at that time.”
Since Li Changhe proposed this idea, he naturally had a comprehensive plan in mind, and the California consortium also provided him with help to perfect the plan.
Not to mention Visa, even the famous American Express has a close relationship with the California Consortium, because American Express and another bank in the California Consortium, Wells Fargo, were almost integrated in the past.
The two parties were founded by the same group of people. They first jointly established American Express Group and later established Wells Fargo. However, as the business expanded, the two companies each delved into different industries, but they are still connected privately.
At this moment, after listening to Li Changhe’s words, everyone present had a clearer understanding of Li Changhe’s power.
This famous little Baosheng can even handle things with Bank of America and Visa.
With the endorsement of Visa, Visa’s European and American payment system, plus Standard Chartered Bank’s Asian and African payment system, theoretically, this bank credit card can indeed be used globally.
If we also take into account that all their industries can achieve mutual credit, then in the future, whether in Hong Kong Island or in Europe and the United States, they will have a more convenient and more powerful privileged service system.
“Vic, your idea is really to my liking.”
“I’d like to be the first to apply to join!”
Guo Ling said with a smile at this time.
For him, the idea proposed by Li Changhe not only created a privileged service system for them, but more importantly, it gave them a unique personnel force of their own.
In this way, some of their actions can be freed from the family’s control, and they can provide various high-end services without using family personnel.
That represents another kind of “freedom”
“It would be the best if Mr. Guo is willing to join.”
“This club system is just an idea of mine at the moment. I certainly hope more people will join, because in this way, our service system will be more complete.”
“But on the other hand, because the services we provide are too high-end, it is also destined that we cannot introduce a large number of members on a large scale.”
“After all, high-end service resources are limited and it is impossible to benefit everyone.”
“So I think there should be clear requirements for membership. Financial strength, status, and industrial resources are all important.”
“If everyone is interested, then I think we can have a serious discussion now. Of course, in my opinion, everyone present is naturally qualified enough to join.”
“Maybe we can be the first batch of founders and jointly establish this club.”
Li Changhe said with a smile.
“Of course I’m interested!”
Naturally, everyone present was very interested in hearing about this novel model.
Although they played with Mai Shunming, they were more interested in his identity as He Wanqi’s son. In fact, in this era, those who could take out tens of millions of dollars to gamble were definitely the core figures of the family group.
After all, if he was just a playboy, it would be impossible for him to spend so much money on entertainment just relying on his family status.
Therefore, these people have sharp business judgment and can see at a glance that Li Changhe’s club has great potential. Once it succeeds, it will be one of the top wealthy family clubs in Asia, and the network of relationships contained in it is unimaginable.
So they chose to join without hesitation.
Li Changhe also saw the advantage of their status, so even if it was the first time they met, he was willing to invite the children of these wealthy Nanyang families to join.
In the following discussion, everyone present expressed their opinions and soon made the simplest templates for various rules and regulations.
Includes the various resources provided by the club, as well as the industry range of the initial recognition membership system they provide.
Guan Zhilin, who was standing aside, felt as if she was listening to a mystery as these people casually spoke out information about the top business groups in Hong Kong Island and various regions of Southeast Asia.
Once again, she witnessed the power of these top families.
Of course, what she understood more clearly was Li Changhe’s current power. After all, no matter how powerful these people were, Li Changhe was still the core in the end.
So that night, Guan Zhilin worked extra hard and served Li Changhe comfortably from head to toe.
Only after the two of them finished their exercise did Li Changhe look at the girl with a chuckle.
“You’re acting so well tonight, is there any intention behind this?”
“Dear, can I join your member?”
At this time, Guan Zhilin was lying on Li Changhe’s body and spoke softly.
She just listened to it for a while in the afternoon and was dazzled.
Private jets, luxury yachts, the world’s top restaurants, hotels and accommodation systems, this is definitely the most luxurious service system.
For a young girl like her, just thinking about the treatment that kind of travel would provide was enough to make her excited.
“Of course not!”
“I have a great use for this club. The selection of members must be pure. You are not qualified.”
Li Changhe refused without hesitation.
“Oh!”
Hearing Li Changhe’s refusal, Guan Zhilin felt aggrieved, but she did not dare to refute.
“But I’ll give you a secondary card later!”
“For the next members, each member will have three to five secondary card quotas. These quotas do not occupy commercial resources, but can enjoy the consumer service system.”
“So you can enjoy the private jet and other things you’ve been looking forward to!”
Li Changhe then gave the other party another surprise.
A secondary card is definitely necessary. After all, humans are social animals. Everyone has their own relatives, friends and loved ones, and they also need to enjoy some resources.
Therefore, Li Changhe will definitely add a secondary card system in the future, but the most core business resources will not be accessible to secondary card holders.
What’s more, women and children are the main consumers. With the secondary card system, the spending limit of these members can also be increased.
Why not?
“Really?”
After hearing what Li Changhe said, Guan Zhilin opened her eyes wide in surprise and looked at him.
I thought there was no hope, but unexpectedly, there was a surprising answer.
“My dear, you are so kind!”
Guan Zhilin was so excited that she could only respond to Li Changhe with a more passionate attitude at this moment.
In the following few days, Li Changhe, He Houzhao and others quickly set up a company and used this company to control their club.
At the same time, these people also proposed suitable candidates to serve as the backbone members of the company and began to prepare for the next club system.
After arranging all these, Li Changhe prepared to go home again.
But before going back, he still had to talk to Lin Yuan again.
“This club is a really powerful idea. Once you successfully form it, I think its power will be beyond imagination, not to mention in Europe and America, at least in Asia.”
“In a sense, it has a similar effect to the financial groups in Europe and America and the management associations in Japan.”
“Of course, it’s also useful to us!”
Lin Yuan has been gaining experience overseas this year, so he naturally saw the potential of this club at a glance.
Apart from anything else, the network of relationships here is the top-notch network that the country needs most at the moment.
“This is exactly my goal. Through this club, I will slowly filter out the connections and families that can be used by us.”
“It’s just that you are not suitable to participate in the initial establishment. After all, you have a special identity. But after the club is established, I will work with He Houzhao and others to recommend you. Then the club will invite you and you just need to agree.”
“Then some of our contacts can be carried out openly.”
Li Changhe spoke softly to Lin Yuan at this time.
“I see. I get it then. I’ll join when the time comes.”
“By the way, why are you going back so soon? Didn’t you just go back a few days ago?”
Lin Yuan asked Li Changhe curiously.
Li Changhe had never returned home so frequently before.
“I have some things to do when I go back. A relative is getting married, and my uncle’s baby is about to be born. I have to be there.”
“Besides, I don’t have any plans overseas this year, so I don’t have to stay in Hong Kong Island all the time. I might as well go home and feel comfortable.”
Li Changhe said softly.
“Okay, wait a moment, I’ll arrange it right away.”
As Lin Yuan was preparing to make a phone call, he began to think.
marry?
Have a baby?
Those who can allow Li Changhe to go back in person are obviously very close to him. This is a good time to do favors!
However, how to contact him is a problem. After all, he is in China, and it is not easy for him to contact Li Changhe openly.
Need to study it!
(End of this chapter)