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"The cost after binding is $1.59 for one month, $4.79 for a quarter, $8.49 for half a year, and $15.99 for one year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

How much does it cost $15.99 for a year? That's equivalent to a 20% discount on the basis of two $9.99, but also, since it's a preferential package, a 20% discount should also be given. After quickly thinking about it in his heart, Lin Zheng was quite satisfied with the price, and said: "In principle, there is no problem, in this way, entrust the relevant company to do a survey to see if such a price can be accepted by everyone." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Benier hurriedly agreed, and felt a lot more comfortable: his suggestion could still be accepted by the boss, and for Benier, who urgently needed to prove to Lin Zheng that he was not a vegetarian meal in the corpse, Lin Zheng's move was of great significance!

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To Lin Zheng's surprise, after Mellon Bank left, no bank was willing to have in-depth exchanges with ICQ, which is obviously not optimistic about ICQ's implementation of fee-based services, otherwise these money-sensitive guys who are as sensitive as cats and fish will definitely rush up;

This is not the most strange thing for Lin Zheng, the most strange thing for Lin Zheng is that he originally thought that after the news of ICQ's launch of the paid service spread, AOL would definitely take this opportunity to lash out at ICQ's approach, but the development of things is diametrically opposed to what Lin Zheng envisioned.

This is not normal!

As ICQ's biggest competitor, Lin Zheng instinctively wondered if there was any conspiracy brewing in AOL, or was it only after Benier's reminder that Lin Zheng could be considered to have reacted to why such a strange situation appeared in the market: In this era, Internet companies have a hard time, and the only way for everyone to make money is to appear as an advertising platform, but compared with traditional advertising media such as TV, newspapers and even radio, the new advertising platform of instant chat software cannot be recognized by the market. Poor poor advertising revenue.

Lin Zheng agrees with this, ICQ is one of the very few Internet companies that can make money, but even ICQ, in terms of advertising, the income obtained is only barely to maintain the financial balance of the enterprise, and the second AOL is even more miserable, if it is not for the care of several companies under their own, they can get tens of thousands of dollars in advertising fees a year.

If this is the case with AOL, it is understandable that other live chat software companies are having a hard time.

ICQ's current move can be regarded as exploring a new profit channel for all instant chat software service providers in the world in addition to advertising, if ICQ can succeed in doing so, it means that the market can accept this way of making money by value-added services, and everyone will have one more way to make money, who will not get along with money? Although everyone hates ICQ, this does not prevent everyone from forming a high degree of tacit understanding at this time: never pull ICQ's hind legs.

figured out what was going on, so Lin Zheng couldn't help but sigh: I'm afraid there are big differences within Mellon Bank about this, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be so inactive.

But it doesn't matter, Lin Zheng believes that these guys will regret it in the future, but in order to be able to slap these bastards' faces hard, the top priority is to ......

"Lao Bei, how are we doing? In our forum, did ICQ users have a big backlash against our account security service? ”

"Boss, we're doing the final debugging to ensure that we can go online at 0:00," Benier's voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little tired, but more excited and excited: "Users have always been supportive of our approach, and they think it's worth paying a little bit to keep their accounts safe." ”

"Very good, I'm waiting for good news from you......"

After taking a deep breath and hanging up the phone, Lin Zheng opened the ICQ forum: As the place with the highest concentration of ICQ users, the news that ICQ will launch an account security service has been the main content discussed by users in the past few days......

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It's already 10:30 p.m., but Paulson doesn't feel sleepy at all, and even his favorite "Warcraft" on weekdays doesn't have the heart to play, a pair of gray-blue eyes glance at the time in the lower right corner of the screen from time to time, and always feel that today's time is too slow - he is waiting for 12 o'clock.

At 12 o'clock, it is the time when ICQ officially launches the ICQ account security service.

As a student at MIT, Paulson has the characteristics common to all science and engineering students: he is relatively shy and does not have a very strong ability to communicate with people, and as a student who was admitted to MIT with high scores, Paulson is one of the "leaders" - as long as he stands in front of the girl, he is nervous and does not know how to speak.

But Paulson is a young man, seeing other lovers in pairs, Paulson is extremely envious, and hopes that he can have a relationship of his own in college, but his damn behavior habits make Paulson pessimistic about his love, and he even once felt that it was an unattainable luxury to meet a beautiful girl and talk about a vigorous love during college.

But the emergence of ICQ gave Paulson a whole new world, and Paulson was pleasantly surprised to find that in the world of ICQ, he swept away his usual taciturnity, not only knowledgeable, but also humorous, and in less than half a year, he met his lover...... Although they had not met in person, and they only chatted through ICQ, Paulson was already immersed in his own happy world.

But Paulson also has his own worries, he knows very well that the security level of ICQ is not high, and a guy with a little hacker knowledge can easily steal his ICQ account, well, or steal anyone's account, Paulson, who has regarded ICQ account as his most valuable asset, of course does not want to see this happen, although he has memorized the girl's account backwards, but his ICQ account not only has the familiar girl, but also many other friends, Do you want to write down everyone's account number? God, it's so painful!

Paulson firmly believes that ICQ should do something about it, especially the pitiful appearance of several stolen guys in the school some time ago, which makes Paulson careful: even if he spends some money for this, he can accept it......

Subconsciously refreshed the page, and the somewhat absent-minded Paulson was suddenly shocked: It's out!

Don't get me wrong, it's not 12 o'clock yet, it's not the account security system that has been officially opened, it's the introduction of the functions and fees of the account security system.

Paulson, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly looked at the past, and the monthly fee for applying for the account security service was $0.99, less than $1? It also costs only $9.99 for a year, less than $10?

Not bad! Paulson, who originally thought that the service fee for the account security service launched by ICQ would be very high, was immediately greatly relieved: the annual fee is only less than $10, which is nothing at all, and anyone can afford it, but ...... What is this membership?

I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw Paulson, who purchased membership and account security services at the same time and cost only $15.99 a year.

"ICQ will provide more value-added services to members, and the value-added services opened in advance include custom avatar function, nickname font color customization function, and 200 people super-large group function......" Paulson read softly, looking at the introduction of the custom avatar function "For example, setting the lover's photo as your own avatar", her eyes suddenly lit up: "If I set Jenny's photo as my avatar, Jenny should understand what I mean, right?" ”

Although ICQ said that more membership functions will be opened in the future, in the opinion of otaku Paulson, this membership function has no practical significance, but he also admits that if members and account security services need $15.99 a year, this money is still well spent: in this day and age, what can $6 buy? It's not more than $6 to give a little gift to the girl you like or go out for a bite to eat with her?

Inadvertently glanced at the time, damn me! It's already 00:00? Paulson hurriedly refreshed the page, and after a while, the previous page changed......

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"Paulson, I heard that you applied for ICQ account security last night? Is it true? At noon the next day, Paulson's roommate, Washington, whispered to Paulson.

"That's right." Paulson nodded, he knew that Washington had met quite a few beautiful girls online and had a good chat with them, and this guy cared a lot about his account.

"How much?"

"$0.99 a month, $9.99 a year."

"Wow, that's expensive?" Washington apparently didn't think the price was cheap, and frowned.

"It's less than $10 a year, is that expensive?"

"Dude, isn't this price expensive?"

"I think it's okay." Although Paulson is not rich, he really doesn't think that the service fee of $9.99 a year is very expensive, to tell you the truth, who is short of this money, not to mention that if you think it is expensive, you can pay it once a month, you need $0.99 a month, who can't take this money?

"$0.99 a year, $9.99 a year? Oh, God! I'm not going to give the money I earned from my hard work to these damn capitalists, and I'm just as happy to talk to my cute little girls without this account security," Washington said, turning on his computer demonstratively: "Look, even if I don't spend a penny, I'm still having a good time, why don't I spend this money on the girls I like...... Yes? Oh, God! ”

Without warning, Washington suddenly screamed.

"What's wrong?" Paulson's screams startled Paulson.

"My account," Washington gritted his teeth, pointing to his computer, "I can't log in......"

Can't get on? Paulson casually opened his ICQ account and logged in easily: "How come? I'm going to board it here, huh? Could it be that there is a problem with your network? ”

"How can there be a problem with my network? You see, my web page can be easily opened...... Hit ......"

Speaking of this, Washington was suddenly stunned and glanced at Paulson: "! Lao Tzu has been stolen! ”

Is there a second explanation for the situation other than having their accounts stolen and passwords tampered with by the damned number thieves?

Looking at Washington, who was sad and indignant and kept cursing how he was reluctant to spend even $0.99, although he knew that he was happy and hated at this time, Paulson was still in a happy mood: his $15.99 was worth it!

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For a whole day, Lin Zheng didn't step out of his office.

For a whole day, he spent the day observing the popularity of the account security system through ICQ's database system.

The situation is better than Lin Zheng's expectations, and also beyond the expectations of all ICQ executives, from 00:00 to 22:24, more than 120,000 ICQ users have applied for account security services.

This is not the most surprising to Lin Zheng, what surprised Lin Zheng the most is that he originally thought that in the face of this new thing, I am afraid that the majority of people who try to apply for a one-month account security service will be the majority, but the actual situation is not the case, the number of users who apply for a one-month account security service is less than 3 percent, and the proportion of opening a quarter and half a year accounts for 50, and the number of users who choose to open for a year even exceeds 20, and about 4 users choose to open account security and membership functions at the same time. The database system automatically counts today's revenue as high as dollars.

A brand-new paid service, before the day has passed, more than 120,000 users have applied for the paid service, and the revenue on the first day is as high as more than 840,000 US dollars?

As soon as this number came out, not only Lin Zheng was extremely excited, but Benier was even more excited, and the whole person was swinging, and he kept saying to Lin Zheng: "Boss, we sent it, we sent it ......"

"We sent it!" hugged Benier hard, and Lin Zheng nodded heavily!

The best result that everyone predicted before was that more than 10,000 users could be opened, but now, this number is more than 10 times more than what they predicted!

How can everyone not be excited about this result?

Today, even the first week, the first month, ICQ users are still skeptical and skeptical about this service, there are many people who open the service, but there are actually more people who wait and see, which Lin Zheng knows, Benier knows, and the staff of ICQ also know that after a period of time, everyone has personally experienced a little bit of this account security service, and this service will become the most important source of income for ICQ!

In terms of ICQ's huge user scale, even after the peak period of growth, it can basically maintain the scale of 6 to 80,000 new users per day, and after one year, counting the renewal of old users...... can't be counted, Benier suddenly felt a dizziness in front of him: this year's net income is hundreds of millions of dollars!

It's too easy to make money!

Looking at the red-faced technicians who were also excited, Lin Zheng announced loudly: "Everyone has worked hard during this time, and everyone has quadrupled their bonuses this month!" ”

As soon as Lin Zheng's words fell, a group of technicians who had been waiting for the boss to announce the bonus suddenly cheered: "Long live the boss!" ”

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Lin Zheng's prediction still went wrong, he thought that the first day of 120,000 people could be opened because the service was just opened, and then the number of new users should gradually slow down, but the next development of the situation gave Lin Zheng a huge surprise: the number of new service users every day is not decreasing, but is constantly increasing, from 120,000 to 125,000, 130,000, 140,000...... A week later, that number had reached 180,000!

More than 180,000 new ICQ account security service users are added every day?! After this number came out, Lin Zheng suddenly wanted to slap his two mouths to sober himself up, although it was slightly different from the situation some time ago, among the new users now, the proportion of users who chose to open 0.99 US dollars / month is gradually rising, accounting for more than 40 of the number of new users, but considering this huge base, this number is still too amazing.

Lin Zheng was still shocked, but Mellon Bank was already eager to crash into the wall and die.

Although ICQ's account was opened at Citibank, Mellon used its own channels to find out the daily income of ICQ's newly opened service, and the directors of Mellon Bank clamored for someone to take responsibility for the fact that they were missing out on a cash flow of more than $400 million a year.

In less than a week, Tim. Sloan, the CFO of Mellon Bank, is like staying in Africa for two years without food and clothing, and the whole person is haggard and standing in the face of Mellon Chairman Robert Brown. Kelly stepped forward and said bitterly: "Mr. Chairman, this time it was all my mistake, and I am willing to take all the responsibility for this matter." ”

Robert. Kelly sighed and patted Tim. Sloan's shoulder said, "Hey, man, you don't have to blame yourself so much, we all know it's not your fault, who would have thought that so many people would be crazy about spending money?" ”

Speaking of which, Robert. Kelly smiled wryly at Tim. "You know, when I was younger, I dreamed that if every American gave me a dollar, I would be a billionaire, and my dream didn't come true, but now it seems that this dream has come true in this little friend of ours," Sloan said. ”

But isn't it, from a certain point of view, what Lin Zheng is doing at the moment is indeed a game of "everyone gives me $1 and I will become a billionaire", everyone used to think that this was just a child's dream, who would have thought that now Lin Zheng, a bastard, would have turned all this into a reality?

Robert. Kelly is smiling wryly, Tim. Sloan was also smiling bitterly, and he was wryly smiling at what Lin Zheng said when he left Lin Zheng's office one day: I hope Mellon Bank will not regret it.

At this moment, he still clearly remembers the ridicule of Lin Zheng in his heart: This is Mellon Bank, whose total assets are hitting the $200 billion mark! Will Mellon Bank regret it? Joke!

But now, only a week has passed, Lin Zheng's words are still in his ears, but he is really starting to regret it. Sloan felt that Lin Zheng's original words were like a resounding slap in the face...... That guy must be smiling very proudly, right?

"Your Excellency, Chairman, I decided to try again." Shake your head and get the thoughts out of your head, Tim. Sloan vs. Robert. Kelly Road.

"You're still going to give it a try?" Robert. Kelly looked at Tim steadily. Sloane asked in a deep voice: "You should understand that Citibank must have already made a move, and they can't just let such a high-quality customer go untouched by the danger of losing it." ”

This is the truth of the truth, although ICQ has the world's largest user base, but the financial situation is very average, at best it can only be said to be a potential stock, Citibank attaches importance to them, but it can only be said that it is a general attention, but now it is different, in just a week, ICQ has fully proved to Citibank that it is no longer a potential stock, the original potential stock has broken into a butterfly, if at this time, Citibank does not know how to seize ICQ this golden pig, Their management should have been out of class in unison.

"I know," Tim. Sloan smiled wryly and nodded, of course he knew that those Citibank guys weren't vegetarians, "But do I still have a choice now?" ”

yes, now Tim. Is there a choice for Sloan? Listen to Tim. Sloan said so, and Robert . Kelly followed with a wry smile: although when the work of persuading Lin Zheng was arranged, it was not Tim. Sloan took the initiative to ask for help, and it was said that the board would not reach him, but now the situation is different, and someone has to step up.

Slapped Tim hard. Sloane's shoulder, taking a deep breath, Robert. Kelly said with a solemn face: "Okay, you go, I also promise you that if someone initiates an impeachment case against you, I will do my best to help you fight for it on the board of directors...... After all, you are the CFO of Mellon Bank, and it is not your job to negotiate with others, and you have always done a good job in your job. ”r1152

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