CH 8.9

「And, try making it like this」

「Fuwaaa…..you really know a lot.」

After finishing our work at the shopping district, Usano and I came to our school’s computer lab.

I taught Usano how to make a homepage in a hands on format.

Even so, given today’s connection speeds and specs, it’s difficult to display even a single image.

Should we set up a counter too?

I no longer remember when this culture disappeared.

I miss the days when the number of website visitors can be viewed.

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The fact that the internet is not widely used means that there are not many people who can see it.

I don’t think it’s naïve to think that you can attract customers just by creating a website.

I thought about doing it myself on “Harekirin” and “Zwei-chan Channel”, but those sites don’t exist yet.

I don’t know if this will work but it’s one of the milestones.

We just have to do everything we can.

「Alright, that’s about it.」

The production is quite simple but the important thing is that Yui and Watanabe’s pictures are on the site so I don’t need to go into details.

Considering the connection speed, this is rather better.

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By the way, in college school festivals, it is a standard practice to invite entertainers.

Few high schools have the budget to do so but this year, they are planning to invite a local FM radio DJ.

As a radio personality, the DJ invited can be considered as popular.

He is a popular oniisan among the middle and high schoolers because of his sharp love advices.

As a member of the executive committee, it was my role to contact him.

Let me take advantage of my position.

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I sent a postcard to the radio personality.

The content was to thank him for coming to the school festival and to mention that high school students even set up their own website dedicated to the festival.

At the time, such activities were rare and the story had a good chance of being picked up by the late night radio station.

Of course, I put a picture of Yui and Watanabe on it.

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Two days later, my postcard was picked up by the radio just as planned.

My first radio postcard in my first life was dedicated to a voice actress I liked that time…..can you blame me for it?

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In addition to that, I asked Yui and Watanabe to wear two uniforms that Hatori had made for them, giving them priority over the drama club, and went to the shopping district.

Our purpose was to put up posters in stores that are willing to cooperate with us.

By having them come with me, we could avoid the stores saying “We’ll put up the posters later”.

If that would be the case, I am certain that they would forget about it.

The strategy worked and we were allowed to use the most conspicuous areas of each store and windows facing outside.

Yui’s captivating atmosphere was enough to make adults nod their heads in approval.

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On top of that, walking through the shopping district wearing uniforms that looked just like Yuri Miller’s was a great publicity stunt.

Watanabe is very useful in these situations.

She casually chatted with people on the street saying things like “I’m working part time there so please come by” or “I’ll be there on the day of the school festival”.

This kind of natural communicative ability is difficult for me, a loner at heart, to imitate.

Don’t get me wrong, I can do it too but it’s quite stressful.

It’s amazing to be able to do it naturally.

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Yui and the others were also asked to hand out tissues in their part time jobs.

This was purely to attract customers to Yuri Miller and the expenses were paid by Yuri Miller.

This was an imitation of the maids handing out tissues in Akihabara.

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In addition, I had the website become Yui and the other’s online friend diary.

They posted pictures of small things that happened during the part time jobs and preparation for the class.

This was a time when blogs were still a novelty.

In addition to the girls’ cuteness, their rarity, and the publicity they received on the radio and the shopping district also helped and the number of views at the counter increased a lot.

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Then came the promised date for the double sales.