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The cancellation of three years of dividends and this year's rewards means that he only has a little annual salary to take this year, and his income has been doubled in an instant, how can this make Benier's heart not feel painful? It's just for Benier's-like expression, but Lin Zheng pretended not to see it, who made you make a mistake?

Nodding his head and saying, "Very good, now let's talk about how to deal with this matter: first, the company immediately makes an account retrieval system." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Although he was depressed, Benier's thinking was a little more agile, and when he heard Lin Zheng say this, his spirit was suddenly shocked, and he hurriedly asked, "Account recovery system?" ”

"Well, in my imagination, this account retrieval system is divided into two parts, one part is in the user's place, guiding the user to set up the account retrieval problem, for example, we set up several questions for the user to set a specific answer, and then through the user's designated email or phone can retrieve their account; The other part is on our side, the company has set up a set of dedicated servers to back up the data on all accounts on a regular basis, I think this backup time is a week cycle, as long as the user loses the account within a week after the account is retrieved, they can restore all their data from a week ago, without worrying about their friends being deleted. ”

"Good!" Benier's eyes lit up, and he realized the benefits of doing so: What do ICQ users hate the most? In addition to being stolen, the most hateful thing is the friends in your account! It was deleted by others, but now, as long as you apply for account protection, even if the friends in your account are deleted, not only can you get it back through the prosecution system. Even the friends inside can be recovered, which is equivalent to the money in his wallet being stolen by a thief but being found untouched. How much of a temptation is this for users?

Cautiously asked Lin Zheng and asked, "Boss." Should we make this feature a feature that only members can enjoy? ”

Listening to Benier say this, Lin Zheng is also a little moved, none of these instant chat software on the market today has account prosecution and data backup functions, ICQ will be the first in the world, even if ICQ sets this function as a privilege that only members can enjoy, I believe that there will be many users who choose to become members in order to ensure the security of their accounts, but after some weighing, Lin Zheng still shook his head and said: "No, the account protection function is ICQ's new, comprehensive basic function for all ICQ users." We don't decide whether or not to give our users this feature just because they're a member or not, their account is equally important to all users. ”

"Huh?" Hearing his boss's words, Benier suddenly sighed, but he had just made such a big mistake, so he naturally didn't want to anger his boss, so he had to nod dejectedly: "Okay, you have the final say." ”

But I didn't think that Lin Zheng's words were not finished, so I just heard him continue: "So all ICQ users. For $0.99, you can add an extra layer of insurance to your account. ”

That's right, every account, whether he spends money to top up as a member account or a regular account. For $0.99, you can secure your account for free? Come on! This is America! I've got you covered with such a great value, is it expensive for less than $1?

$0.99? Benier was stunned for a moment. Then he gave Lin Zheng a thumbs up and said with great admiration: "High! ”

Such a new feature. In fact, the technical difficulty is not high, it is just a database system with a relatively high security level. Can you earn $0.99 on one account? Benier finally knew why he could only be a working boy, but this young man was his boss: why didn't he think of this way of making money?

Again, in terms of the current user scale of ICQ, even if only 10% of users apply for account security protection, it will be a net income of tens of millions of dollars that year.

Thinking of this, Benier suddenly thought of one thing: "Boss, is this $0.99 a year?" ”

Well? Hearing Benier say this, Lin Zheng didn't react at once: A year?

Lin Zheng didn't think much about it when he made the decision to charge a service fee of $0.99 for ICQ's value-added, but now when he heard Benier say this, he immediately reacted: Yes, why can't this money be collected once a year?

Insurance, utilities, property management fees...... So many fees are paid on time, and Americans have long been accustomed to this payment method, so what's wrong with collecting the security fee for my account once a year? Anyway, no live chat software has such a value-added service before this, and it has created a precedent for itself, and it is not up to you to decide how to collect money? His only concern was......

"Benier, do you think AOL will follow us in doing this, which may not only further lower the price, but even free of charge?"

"It can't be!" Benier said categorically without thinking about it.

"Huh? Why? ”

"It's a great initiative that you've developed a new source of revenue for all the companies that want to back up and retrieve their data, because you're a boss! It's not just instant chat software companies, even for all Internet companies, it's a great news," looking at Lin Zheng, Benier's attitude was unprecedentedly serious and sincere: "Boss, please believe me, no one will get along with money, regardless of whether they compete with us or not, they will definitely stand on our side and fully support us in the treatment of account security service fees, and the price of $0.99/year will definitely become a recognized fee in the industry." ”

Also, how hard Internet companies are living now, Lin Zheng is very clear about this, such as yahoo! For all Internet companies, no company can refuse the emergence of such an income, for ICQ's initiative, all companies will only raise their hands in agreement. Thinking about this, Lin Zheng also smiled, "Okay, just do it, a service fee of $0.99 a year...... If it's too expensive, you don't have to spend this money! ”

After a pause, Lin Zheng thought for a while, and added: "Well, by the way, in order to make our users feel that the $0.99 is not in vain, all users who have purchased our account security service, we provide an additional chat history roaming function, as long as it is a member, his chat history on machine A can also be seen after logging in to machine B." ”

"Chat history roaming? Good idea! Benier's eyes lit up as he listened.

Speaking of Internet companies want to survive, many times the school is not technology, but creativity, such as the roaming function of this chat history, Benier knows, in fact, many people have such troubles, half a day on the machine of the unit and friends said something, and so on at night when I get home from work and use the computer at home to chat with friends and then continue the previous topic, some details can not be remembered, at this time I think it would be good if I could see the chat history on this computer at home, but there is no such technology, but is this chat history roaming feature difficult? It's not hard at all, it's just that no one can think about it.

The boss gave two ideas in succession, which almost swept away the problems that ICQ is facing now, and Benier couldn't sit still any longer, stood up and was about to go out: "Boss, I'll arrange it." ”

What is arranged? Of course, I will spread some news first, and at the same time blow AOL.

"Don't worry, tell me how the communication with the bank is?"

"Banks?" Benier was stunned at first, and then patted his head with annoyance: "Look at my brain, I almost forgot such a big thing...... Boss, the Merlong Bank wants us to put the account that collects membership fees in their bank, and as long as you agree, they are not only willing to pay us $5 million a year, but also provide us with an interest-free loan of $50 million per year for a period of 2 years. ”

"Meilong Bank wants to cooperate with us?" Lin Zheng was stunned for a moment, and finally understood that he was in Bill last night. Gates was at home when Tim. Why is Sloan so enthusiastic: where are they looking at the little expense they are going to buy in the United States, but they are interested in the business of ICQ! But why didn't this guy tell himself at the time?

Want to make a good impression on yourself this way? It's not impossible.

For a fee-based business with a population of hundreds of millions, even if only one out of 10 people is willing to use ICQ's paid services, how huge will that be? What is the annual cash flow from this?

Just one of the simplest "chestnuts": how many domestic banks in China are red to death by Alipay? Why, isn't it because there is a large amount of cash on this Alipay account every day?!

What era is this? It's a time when cash is king!

"$5 million plus $50 million in interest-free loans to get such a large sum of money? Mellon Bank is really a good calculation," Lin Zheng shook his head with a smile: "Tell Mellon Bank and let them show some sincerity." ”

Compared with Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, five banks in the United States that occupy the top five banks in the U.S. banking industry and have total assets of more than $7 trillion, Lin Zheng would rather cooperate with Mellon Bank, which has total assets of less than $200 billion. (To be continued......) r1292

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