Chapter 280: Overseas Expansion of the School Intranet
Time is invisible and intangible, just when you don't pay attention, it has quietly passed by you, maybe you have waited, but, what can you do?
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, July came to an end. The Russian version of the intranet has also been produced, and Tang Wenwen specially came to report on the overseas development of the intranet.
Since the last half-year summary meeting, Jiang Hui has not paid attention to the affairs of the school intranet for a while, and the school intranet has basically entered a period of stable development. During this time, Tang's article focused on attracting overseas users.
"Jiang Dong, as of yesterday, the number of overseas users on the school's intranet finally exceeded the 5 million mark, and it continues to increase," Tang said.
All regions of Asia have large populations, and the total number of university students is still very large. There are more than 10 million college students in the island countries, 3 to 4 million in South Korea, more than 1 million in Baodao, 200,000 in Hong Kong and Hong Kong, more than 10 million in India, 2 or 3 million in Vietnam, and more than 10 million in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines combined. All that adds up to nearly 40 million people. If you include Russia, which straddles Asia and Europe, and other regions outside of Europe and the United States, there are almost 50 million college students.
The number of international users of the school's intranet of 5 million is a drop in the bucket compared to these 50 million, and it can also be said that the future is immeasurable.
"What is the distribution of international users now?" Jiang Hui asked.
"The island country has the largest number of users, with nearly three million, South Korea has about one million, and other places such as Baodao have more than a million," Tang said.
"In this way, the main users are distributed in East Asia, and South Asia should also increase its promotion efforts, especially in India, before the local imitators appear or have not yet risen to seize the market. Now we only have island countries and Hong Kong offices, right?" Jiang Hui said.
"Yes, preparations are underway to upgrade the constituent companies," Tang said.
"To speed things up, the island country branch is mainly responsible for the business of the island countries and South Korea, the Hong Kong branch is responsible for the treasure island, Vietnam, Indonesia and other regions, and the India branch is also set up to be responsible for the business in South Asia and the Middle East," Jiang Hui said.
"Understand, I'll start the relevant arrangements immediately, in addition, at present, many games of Radiant Games, except for "Happy Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies", most of the others are as long as the mainland can be played, are we considering letting Radiant Games cooperate with the launch of the international version of each game? In this way, the game can drive the increase in the number of international users in the intranet, and after the number of registrations increases, the function of the intranet with its own publicity attributes will help us quickly seize the market," said Tang.
"You don't have to worry about this, Guanghui Games is a web game, and the task for the next two months is to prepare the English version, Japanese version and Korean version, among which the English version of "Defend the Carrot" and "Angry Birds" are basically ready and ready to be launched," Jiang Hui said.
"It's still Jiang Dong, you are thoughtful, then I will go back and arrange it immediately, and the English version of these two games will be launched at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon," Tang said.
"On the island side, try to make SoftBank also make more efforts, they also have a share of the intranet, although the current three million users are not small, but compared with the more than 10 million students in the island country, it is still far from enough, I hope that the intranet can win the island market first," Jiang Hui said.
"Okay, I'll ask Liu Wenfeng to coordinate with SoftBank to see how to increase support for the school's intranet. However, last week, I heard Liu Wenfeng mention that SoftBank intends to make additional investment, probably because he saw the rapid development of the school's intranet and wanted to take more shares in the early stage," Tang said.
"Don't worry about the B round of financing, wait for the valuation to rise again, now I estimate that the venture capital will also give a valuation of about four billion, if the number of international users in the school intranet can be equal to or even higher than the number of domestic users, then the valuation can go to at least six or seven billion, so Mr. Tang you have to come on", Jiang Hui said with a smile.
"Jiang Dong, you can rest assured, by December this year at the latest, the number of international users of the school intranet will definitely exceed 15 million, but the school intranet is estimated to be unprofitable in the next six months, and I plan to increase investment in promotion," Tang said.
"No problem, except for the funds for the construction of the data center, you don't have to touch it, you can spend the monthly profits in the future, and I don't want to rely on the intranet to make money in the next year," Jiang Hui said.
Not to take money out of the school intranet in the next year, this is Jiang Hui's true idea. For campus SNS websites, the most important resource is the number of customers, as long as the number of customers goes up, there is a way to improve profitability at any time, and the valuation of the website will also rise. Jiang Hui's goal is to have at least 30 million users on the school's intranet this year, and strive to exceed 40 million, then at least 50 million in the first half of next year, at least 70 million in the second half of the year, and more than 100 million users in 2006, and then prepare to go public.
The school intranet is open to college students in the Celestial Empire, which is mainly due to the fact that the cultural level of different netizens in the Celestial Empire is relatively different, and if the registration permission is opened to all personnel, it is estimated that it will affect the user experience. However, in island countries, South Korea, treasure islands and other places, because the admission rate of universities is already relatively high, Jiang Hui is considering whether to adopt the differentiation of registration authority from the mainland.
"Old Tang, how about you say that we are opening up the registration rights of the intranet to all netizens in the island countries, South Korea, treasure islands, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Singapore?" Jiang Hui said.
Hearing Jiang Hui's words, Tang Wenwen's eyes lit up and said: "Jiang Dong, this idea is absolutely amazing, I think it is completely feasible, these places are all economically developed areas, and the educational qualifications of netizens are generally relatively high, so it is completely possible to consider opening the registration permission of the school intranet to all netizens, and it will not have too much impact on the experience of existing users", Tang Wenwen said.
"Well, since you think so too, then let's open the registration rights of the island nation first, and then open up a few other regions after seeing the effect," Jiang Hui said.
"Okay, Jiang Dong, I plan to go to the island country branch for a period of time in the near future to keep abreast of the feedback from users after the opening of registration permissions," Tang said.
"Okay, the personnel of the island country branch, in addition to the headquarters to send a part of the staff, the marketing personnel we should try to use local employees, only the island country people know the island people best," Jiang Hui said.
"Understand, Jiang Dong, you just wait for my good news", Tang Wenwen said.
(End of chapter)