Chapter Seventy-Six: Wolves Eat Meat and Dogs Eat

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Hong Kong Island, an Oriental Pearl on the south coast of mainland China, is known as the world's three major financial centers along with New York and London.

Eastern and Western cultures blend and collide here, this is the paradise of capitalists, the free port of international travel capital, and the eye of the storm of the 97 Asian financial crisis.

In the eyes of financial practitioners, this is a nondescript market, and the interdependence of real estate and finance has become the pillar industry of the local area, which will eventually cause social imbalance, which will affect and limit the development of the city.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Chen Bo, and there are many reasons why he came here.

The Mai Dong Walkman is about to be launched on Hong Kong Island, and the work of Ant Search's Hong Kong Island branch cannot only rely on emails and reports to do remote command, and it is also necessary to go to the Chinese University to discuss a small cooperation.

At the international airport in Chek Lap Kok, Hu Bufan was already waiting at the exit early, and when he saw a familiar face coming out, he immediately greeted him.

"Extraordinary, I've gained weight again, it seems that the sea breeze here is more nutritious than Pengcheng's." Chen Bo joked to Hu Bufan with a smile that he is also a veteran employee of Sky.com, and he is a Lingnan native, and there is no barrier to language communication and lifestyle, so after the sale of Sky.com, he was arranged to be directly responsible for the branch of Hong Kong Island.

"This shows that our company's welfare is good." Hu Bufan's brain turned absolutely fast.

"As far as you're smart, let's go, go and see your luxurious office."

Compared with the mainland, the roads on Hong Kong Island can be described as sheep's intestine trails, and there are basically no spacious roads except for the cross-harbour tunnel. There are more than 7,000 buildings on the land of 1053 square kilometers, which is the city with the most skyscrapers in the world, and most of them are slender bamboo tubes.

It is not an exaggeration to describe this place as an inch of land, Hong Kong people love to buy houses when they have money, and they are not soft on investing in real estate, whether they are rich or celebrities.

Although Hong Kong Island is a thriving economy and a free port, car brands from all over the world can be found here, but the number of cars in the city as a whole is not high. Well-developed public transportation is enough to meet the needs of citizens, after all, leaving the island is equivalent to going abroad, and the car can only be used in the city. Compared to Yanjing and Shanghai, the traffic congestion here is not so serious, it is much better.

It's not that Chen Bo hasn't been here, but he doesn't know that much, Liu Qing's former owner is here, but she was poached before she got acquainted, and she can't talk about how familiar she is. And Li Ziqiang grew up here since he was a child, so he naturally knows everything and knows everything, so he took the initiative to take on the job of this tour guide.

From Chek Lap Kok through Yau Tsim Mong District through the West Kowloon Tunnel, and further east is the Sheung Wan area, which represents the culture of the old port, still maintaining the old and dilapidated style, and can vaguely see the style of the past, and behind it is the towering and out of place modern Central Financial Street.

As long as you can think of any bank, you can find it here, even if it is familiar in the mainland. The most distinctive landmark building, the Bank of China Tower, can be seen in countless Hong Kong movies, and even overshadows the headquarters of HSBC not far away.

But their entourage was going to the center of the Changjiang Group across the road, which was the headquarters of Li Chaoren's Changjiang Industrial Group. But it doesn't mean that they will use all of the building, and the vacant floors are rented out.

Although Li Chaoren is the richest man in China and the idol of many people, Chen Bo has nothing to do with him, even if he meets him, it is estimated that the most he will say hello is, and people don't know you yet, you have only seen him in the media, that's all. Neither financial nor influence is of an order of magnitude.

The group entered the elevator, and Hu Bufan pressed the floor number of 64.

"It's bad luck to choose this floor." Chen Bo said casually, in fact, he has never deliberately paid attention to the so-called metaphysical feng shui and homophony.

"Hehe, I studied music when I was a child, and this 4 is the homonym of "hair". But Lingnan people are still more taboo about this, and they all choose the number 8 or 6. Guess what company is on the 68th floor? Hu Bufan glanced at Liu Qing as he spoke.

"Well, let me guess." Chen Bo saw it in his eyes, deliberately pretended to ponder, and said, "It should be Goldman Sachs' Asia-Pacific headquarters." ”

"Hey, how do you know!" Hu Bufan didn't speak, but was surprised by Liu Qing who was standing beside him.

"Since I was a child, I have liked to watch the stars at night, and I can pinch and calculate, and it is difficult for the deity to be able to defeat the deity." Chen Bo smiled, pretending to be a god, although he knew that he was lying, he still bluffed Liu Qing for a moment.

Several people were talking and laughing, and the elevator also reached the corresponding floor, after all, it is the headquarters of Cheung Kong Industrial, and the elevator cannot be slow, both stable and fast.

Walking into the company and bypassing the front desk, the office area is full of large glass curtain walls, and the sea view of Victoria Harbour is indeed a good place. The usable area is about 500 square meters, which is really small compared with the mainland. But the rent for this place is higher than the rent for an entire floor of the Kerry Centre.

The main data center is the maintenance and operation of the data center, and the technical level is mainly responsible for the retrieval and optimization of traditional fields, and the advertising sales are all entrusted to the distributors, with a share ratio of six to four.

Hu Bufan was about to summon all the employees to come over and introduce Chen Bo to them, but he stopped him, "It's not majestic to come here, it's not too late to have a small meeting to understand the actual operation situation." ”

"Okay, please come with me!" Hu Bufan brought Chen Bo, Li Ziqiang, and Liu Qing into the conference room, while the two security assistants who accompanied him stayed outside the door.

The scene is obviously prepared, the projector has been turned on, and the corresponding PPT document is projected on the white screen.

Hu Bufan, who got Chen Bo's indication that he could start, did not talk nonsense, and went directly to the topic: "From last year to now, the branch has been established for 10 months, less than a year. The traditional version of the search engine has gone from 500,000 searches per day at the beginning to about 4 million searches per day now. Among them, the data distribution is 1.2 million times on Hong Kong Island, 950,000 times on Taiwan Island, 620,000 times in Singapore, 560,000 times in Malaysia, and about 640,000 times in other places such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Japan. ”

There are 25 million Chinese in Southeast Asia, plus about 30 million in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and the Japanese side is ignored, and it is estimated that all international students use ant search. With a total of 55 million Chinese-speaking people and 4 million search volumes, one in every 12 people uses the Ant search engine.

This frequency is not high, of course, there are more factors, in China there are QQ, there are Firefox, as well as Foxmail and other traffic portals to support, in order to achieve a higher amount of data. And here, with nothing, 4 million searches is already a good result.

"What about the English and Japanese versions?"

"The English version is slightly better, Southeast Asia used to be mostly British colonies, and English is used more frequently. Yesterday's data showed that it just exceeded 800,000, and the Japanese language was only about 100,000. ”

Chen Bo nodded thoughtfully, the operation must keep up, the overseas products are too single. Tencent QQ's lack of overseas expansion is a problem, it seems that it still has to rely on Fox live to come out and charge, after all, he has a congenital gene, that is, the multilingual version of Foxmail.

"In the first half of this year, the total advertising revenue was 17 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them, Hong Kong Island accounted for 7.8 million, Taiwan Island accounted for 4.3 million, and other regions shared the remaining 4.9 million. It is expected that the annual revenue is expected to exceed 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and the half-year net loss will be 6 million Hong Kong dollars. ”

"Well, it's only your first year, and you're already doing very well. There is no rush to make a profit, and we must ensure market share. I came here to understand the main situation so that I could make adjustments. At present, it seems that the first problem is the single product, which we need to solve. The second is the complex linguistic environment in Southeast Asia, although English and Chinese account for a large proportion, but Southeast Asia has nearly 500 million people. During the Anti-Japanese War, Southeast Asia was our money bag, and it will have to become our cornucopia in the future! ”

"I will continue to work hard to live up to Mr. Chen's expectations!" Hu Bufan said on the spot.

"Don't pack the ticket yet, you have to find a way to solve the problem of difficult operation. Don't think about the Japanese part, I will ask Zhang Xiaolong to send someone to be responsible for the promotion of Foxmail and Firefox, and you have to cooperate with each other. In addition, we will continue to increase our efforts to recruit advertising agencies and train them on how to expand their clients. What are the benefits of using a search engine? To be able to obtain business opportunities, is to connect China and Southeast Asian countries of business opportunities, so that all agents are equipped with professional website technicians, to help small and medium-sized customers to build and maintain the site, profit we at most to 6 percent, only 4 percent. ”

"Isn't it a little too much?" Hu Bufan said with a frown.

"If you want the horse to run, you have to eat grass, the wealth is moving, how to let them work hard to expand the customer source if you don't give them enough benefits. Of course, to increase the share ratio, it is necessary to let them improve their service and performance, let him taste the sweetness and then compete for the ranking, and eliminate the system at the end, and the company with the worst performance will be directly disqualified as an agent. If you can't do it, get out, the mall is originally your life and death, wolves eat meat, dogs eat shit, this is the law of nature. ”

Sales is different from technology, it is necessary to work hard to get opportunities, it is necessary to give heavy pressure to break out, although Ant Search does not have its own sales team, but it can manage the sales team, so that more people, more companies to serve Ant Search.

"You should know that the company has set up a new data center in Kuala Lumpur. This is not to deny your ability to work, but to better serve users, and you will still be responsible for the business and related operations of the traditional and English versions in the future. Let Feng Cheng deal with other small languages, the two of you have known each other before, and I hope you can work together this time. ”

Suddenly, a data center was added in Southeast Asia, and even if he didn't say it, he would definitely have some big things in his heart. One of the purposes of Chen Bo's arrival was also to dispel his doubts and let him relax and continue to work.

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Some book friends said that the problem of 3000 per day is really not that the green onion doesn't want to change it, and hoards manuscripts.

If you chase it from the beginning, you know that I have a minimum of 2 chapters a day, and I am busy at work after the year, and I have to work overtime on weekends.

This is my first book, and there are some places where the plot is quite bad, and I can't bear to look back at it, and even have the urge to be a eunuch, but I still can't help but want to live up to the book friends who continue to chase more.

Thank you for your company.