Chapter 108: Autohome [Ask for Collection, Ask for Recommendation]
Urgent need for support, collections, and recommendations!
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Originally, the Autohome website was only established in June 2005 and belonged to a website owned by Shengtuo Media.
But after just a few years of development, and the blowout of the automotive industry in the Celestial Empire, in 2011, this car website has become the world's most visited car website.
According to statistics in November 2011, the car website had more than 4.6 million visits per day, and more than 61 million visits per month, and 59% of the time spent on the Autohome website by car Internet users in Tianchao.
So as Jin Xiaoqiang, who has the heart to make his car bigger and stronger, how can he ignore this car website?
Although this car website has the nickname of the car trust home and the car black home in later generations, this does not prevent him from sitting firmly, the fact that the Tianchao automobile website portal.
This website provides a variety of services closely related to cars for the majority of car users to buy, use and maintain cars, and it will have a great impact on the car culture of the Celestial Empire.
And as the fame and traffic of this website increases, there will be unlimited business opportunities.
At the beginning of the establishment, maybe this website still needs to look at the faces of major car suppliers, but after becoming famous, I am afraid that major car sellers will have to scramble to have a good relationship with him.
Otherwise, the editor will be unhappy and hack you on one of your models, and I'm afraid that the sales of your car in the market will have to drop by one to two percentage points.
This Zhang Chi was originally the head of this website, and it was he who relied on his own ability to bring this website to the height of the Tianchao Automobile Portal.
And this Zhang Chi is still quite a capable figure, he graduated from Harvard's business school, and has worked in large companies in the United States and Canada.
This is exactly what Jin Xiaoqiang values, and at present, Zhang Chi is the chief operating officer of the index directory website, but the website has always been in a half-dead state, and the operation can neither be said to be good, but it cannot be said to be bad.
In his last life, it was Zhang Chi who facilitated Google's acquisition of this website, and he himself went to Shengtuo Media and founded Autohome after receiving a large share of the funds.
And in this life, Jin Xiaoqiang was the first to take the lead and directly won the index website, but he didn't want to keep this project, what he wanted was Zhang Chi.
To be honest, at the beginning, Zhang Chi was not very interested in Jin Xiaoqiang, a wealthy nouveau riche, in his opinion, Jin Xiaoqiang was just an upstart who did not understand Internet culture.
Maybe he has some expertise in his field, but when it comes to website management, he thinks he's the master.
After the website was acquired at the beginning, Zhang Chi's first thought was to hang up the crown, but after a long talk with Jin Xiaoqiang, he was moved by Jin Xiaoqiang's concept.
To be honest, as a senior talent who has studied in the United States for many years, he has his own cognition and attitude towards cars, especially after watching the car developed by Jin Xiaoqiang and going up to experience it a few times.
Although he is not an insider in the automotive industry, he is sure that the car will be popular with consumers as soon as it is launched on the market.
Then Jin Xiaoqiang threw him the idea of his plan to create a special car portal, you must know that this year, this idea is still a blank in the Internet field of the Celestial Empire.
Zhang Chi was immediately attracted by Jin Xiaoqiang's proposal, and then Jin Xiaoqiang encouraged his lotus tongue to describe the prospects of this autohome to Zhang Chi, and described a lot of wonderful prospects according to the business model of Autohome in later generations.
Under such a tempting situation, where can this tension be endured?
Moreover, Jin Xiaoqiang also said at the time that this car home is just his first step in the Internet field, and he will also get involved in the field of mobile phones and mobile communications, and even the computer field in the future.
You must know that mobile phones and computers are inseparable from the trend of the Internet, and listening to Jin Xiaoqiang's meaning, he will also create several professional mobile websites and computer websites on the basis of Autohome.
With such a grand idea and an atmospheric boss, where can Zhang Chi still hold it?
Although the young man in front of him did not exude any royal spirit, his thick and solid checkbook, as well as his sincerity and philosophy, really moved Zhang Chi.
In the end, without much thought, Zhang Chi agreed to defect to Jin Xiaoqiang's command.
This time, Wang Jiao came to the capital, on the one hand, to preside over the matters of investment promotion and franchise chain, and on the other hand, to work with this Zhang Chi to set up the shelves of the Autohome website in the fastest time.
Strive to be before June 10th, at this Beijing Auto Show, and Jin Xiaoqiang's Huayang Power and Huayang Automobile, launched to the market at the same time.
As a top student who has studied in the United States, Wang Jiao and Zhang Chi are very similar in concept to those who have studied in the United States, especially in the area of Internet publicity.
Now it is rare to meet such a generous boss, and they all feel that they are lucky to be three lives.
Of course, Jin Xiaoqiang was not stingy with the preparation of Autohome, and directly threw 100 million yuan of funds at Zhang Chi, asking him to recruit troops and build a website.
He even paid out of his own pocket to buy a three-story commercial building in the Pacific International Building near Zhongguancun as the headquarters of the Internet company.
In recent years, the land price in the capital has not been as terrifying as that of later generations, but just these three floors still cost Jin Xiaoqiang no less than 30 million oceans.
Zhang Chi has been in the network circle in the capital for many years, so he has considerable connections and interpersonal resources, and now many people have heard that Zhang Chi found a big financier and directly threw him 100 million yuan and asked him to make a portal.
So when Zhang Chi said that he wanted to recruit people, many of his former friends and graduates majoring in the Internet came to vote.
In less than half a month, the website shelf has been built, and all that remains is the design of the network, as well as the recruitment of some people with automotive expertise as editors and commentators for the website.
There is only two months left for Zhang Chi and Wang Jiao, and they must get the investment promotion and franchise before June 10th, and the car home will be built, and then there is to prepare for participating in this Beijing Auto Show.
You must know that this time, it is the first time that Huayang Power, as an automobile manufacturer, has appeared in front of the Tianchao and even car consumers all over the world.
So this first shot must be a hit and fire!
And Jin Xiaoqiang was after explaining the task, he became the big shopkeeper, and went straight to Germany with some technical people.
Their first new car of Huayang Power, challenging such a big event as the Nürburgring, as the chief designer of this car, how can he be absent?
And this trip to Germany, not only to let their cars participate in the Nürburgring test, but also a very important job, is to send their cars to Volkswagen's car crash laboratory for crash tests.
To tell the truth, when Jin Xiaoqiang established Huayang Power, he had already reserved a place for the collision laboratory at the old steel plant, but this collision laboratory could not be established in a day or two.
And the most important thing is that at present, domestic consumers have some blind worship of foreign consumer goods, especially in automobiles, many people think that foreign monks will chant scriptures.
The scores and safety scores given by the European Crash Lab have a great impact on some consumers.
After all, the safety of a car is also an important consideration for potential consumers when buying a vehicle.
At present, some models on the domestic market, especially joint venture cars, have been tested in European crash laboratories and have obtained certain scores.
However, at present, there is no domestic car of its own brand that dares to take it to Europe to participate in the crash test, after all, this experiment is very risky.
If you get good results, it is of course worth talking about, but if you mess up, it is not only this car that will lose face, but the entire car company.
But Jin Xiaoqiang is not afraid, as an 'expert' who has been ahead of the current world's automobile knowledge for more than ten years, and has obtained a large number of special steel smelting methods from Nato Shenxing, as well as high-precision CNC machine tools.
Jin Xiaoqiang is quite confident in the production of cars in such a combination of advantages, his design concept ahead of this era, as well as the body made of special steel, and those body parts processed by high-precision CNC machine tools, Jin Xiaoqiang is not worried at all that the car he designed will not pass the test in the Volkswagen collision laboratory.
If you really can't pass the level, then I'm afraid there is a ghost!
By the time Jin arrived in Germany, the Belgian driver had been settling in at the Nürburgring for days in their Edo sedan.
At this time, the driver Derek was already impressed by the Yidong sedan produced by Huayang Power.
At the beginning, he didn't believe that the Celestial Empire could build any good cars, but he couldn't erase the face of Bosch, so he agreed to help test drive, but after only a few days of running-in this car, he fell in love with this car completely.