Chapter 9: The Birth of the Meme

Another task given to them by Chen Bo is to poach people, and now Silicon Valley is full of bankrupt Internet companies and unemployed talents. Chen Bo does not need to operate, and what he lacks most is technical personnel. The Chinese market is different from the foreign market, and the operation mode there is not suitable for the domestic environment.

As long as there are technicians who are willing to come to Huaxia, the conditions are not too harsh, Chen Bo can accept them, especially at the engineer level.

When Pangu Technology Co., Ltd. was officially listed, it only invited the leaders of the district government, industry and commerce, and taxation authorities. After all, it is impossible to look down and not look up to see that you don't even understand this bit of etiquette when you are doing things in other people's land, and there are no fewer discounts in this industrial park.

Unexpectedly, Li Shusen once again became an uninvited guest, rushed over near noon, and after cutting the ribbon, he briefly visited the situation of each company and gave the new group some encouragement.

When Li Shusen got the news, he really didn't expect that several network companies would be formed into group companies so quickly, which is of great significance. According to common sense, there are many group companies in Pengcheng, and there are many factories doing electronic processing. Ping An Insurance, China Merchants Group, Huawei, and China Resources are not well-known big companies and brands.

But none of those were established when he was in office, and Pangu Technology Group is at the forefront of the Internet, and it is a representative of the phenomenon and a high-tech enterprise vigorously promoted by the state. As the deputy mayor in charge of economic development, he will definitely set an example in supporting the central government.

By the way, it also brought some media, mainly the local economy-oriented official media, which is definitely not as good as the people's livelihood newspapers and periodicals in terms of attention, and it is limited to the local area, mainly highlighting Li Shusen, leaving little space for Pangu. But Lao Mo is full of red light, but it's also his company, even in the face of old friends in the business circle, there is light on his face, you still play industry? I'm all on the Internet, you know? That's high-tech!

The good thing is that the Information Industry Bureau has sent a golden plaque, and the high-tech demonstration industrial base can be regarded as a layer of gold plating for the new group. Chen Bo naturally doesn't care about those false names, who do they show them? Industrial companies need these, the Internet only looks at data traffic and user experience, those things are useless, users only look at whether you are easy to use or not, it will not look at what awards you have won and what support you have had.

There are even some entrepreneur directories and entrepreneur clubs that specialize in DM magazines, and they have taken the opportunity to find them, and as long as they pay, they can be listed in their magazines, and they can immediately be packaged as a top rich man and a successful boss. However, these people were all driven away by Chen Bo, and they are not a leather bag company, so they like to find whoever they want.

After all this, it was mid-February, the temperature in Pengcheng was gradually warming, and Chen Bo in Tencent was holding a meeting with the management team to discuss the next plan. Now that Tengxun belongs to Pangu Technology Group, he naturally can't continue to hide his smuggling.

Chen Bo took the lead and said, "Huaxia Mobile has now agreed to open the SMS port for Tencent to use. ”

Ma Teng was very happy: "That's great! But he hesitated a little and said, "But will this affect the business of Sky.com?"

"No, the data released by the Huaxia Internet Information Center believes everyone has seen that in 2000, the number of personal computers has exceeded 15 million, and the number of Internet users has reached 32 million. And doubling this year is not a problem, such a big cake can't be eaten by just one sky net. Moreover, there is still a lot of untapped business area. Chen Bo paused for a moment, and then said, "I don't know if you have noticed that the mainstream users of Tengxun have begun to tend to be younger and younger. From the previous college students and white-collar workers, it is gradually spreading to junior and senior high school students, and there are more and more female users. ”

"Middle and high school students don't have mobile phones, so how do you motivate them to subscribe to SMS packs?" Zeng Liqing put forward a different opinion.

"The basic living conditions of having access to a computer are good, even if they don't have a mobile phone, but their parents do, don't underestimate the psychology of children's curiosity and comparison."

Chen Bo's words are not random conjectures, the hot QQ attracted many students to call frantically to charge Q coins back then, this kind of case is not a minority, and even became a hot topic in society for a time.

"For example, horoscopes that girls like, gossip news, psychological tests, etc., are absolutely popular. I will arrange for someone from Skynet to guide the specific operation. It takes a month to see results, but only if you do a good job of operation. ”

Although everyone has never done wireless business, with the successful case of Sky Network in the past, it is better than not making money now. Moreover, Huaxia Mobile's port is now only open to companies in internal testing, so we should also cherish this opportunity.

"In addition, the SMS version of wireless QQ, Huaxia Mobile will also open a house to us. Specifically, I have won 8.5, mobile only 1.5, 1 cent, 1 cent, 1 SMS fee, we can earn 8 points 5. And it will be in the main business menu of Monternet, I think the future profit point will definitely be higher than the SMS value-added business. ”

Huaxia Mobile occupies more than ninety percent of the country's mobile phone users,That magnitude must be much stronger than Huaxia Unicom,After Tencent cooperated with Huaxia Unicom last year,There is a maximum of tens of thousands of income per month,Not enough for the maintenance fee of the server。

The two plans proposed by Chen Bo now are like double insurance for wireless business, which is absolutely profitable, and others are watching QQ step by step to the present, just like looking at their own children, and now they can eat and drink spicy food immediately, how can they not be happy.

The domain name of Tencel has been replaced, which Depp bought from an American photographer for $100,000. At the beginning, he took advantage of the Internet fever and applied for it mainly to show the photos he took, and he could also invest. Brother Xiao Ma once consulted, but the other party offered $2 million and it was gone.

Depp sent an email to contact him directly in his personal name, saying that he wanted to use it for his personal website. The photographer saw that the dot-com bubble had burst, and that the Internet company was in the news of its collapse every day, and since the domain name could not be sold and the buyer was an American, he quoted a price of $100,000 plus a $10,000 handling fee.

This top-level domain name, spelled simple and easy to remember, and Tencent QQ is the same name, for brand building is a very good role, website traffic has also increased a lot, but the current web content is still too simple, there is a lot of information or copy other websites.

Before, there was no money and no one. Now, regardless of whether you make money or not, you have to recruit all the website operators and editors to operate the content, especially the QQ forum, which will also become a hot land in the future.

Chen Bo also reminded Chen Yidan that QQ's graphics and text trademarks should be registered in every category, and some defensive domain names should also be preemptively registered, although Li Xingping has been taken under his umbrella, but he may not jump out of qq168 and Chery QQ one day to rub hot spots, and it is also convenient to protect rights.

When the meeting was about to end, Zeng Liqing hesitated a little and said, "The annual membership we launched at the end of last year now earns a few thousand yuan per month, so I think it's better to cancel it." ”

"Cancellation? No, fly legs are meat too, and I insist that there's nothing wrong with being a member. Ma Teng shook his head.

"Lao Zeng, what did you do at that time?"

QQ member? Did you start doing it so early? Chen Bo was a little puzzled in his heart, it shouldn't be, isn't QQ membership very popular?

Zeng Liqing said the details, and he understood, and blamed him for not paying attention to the business situation on Tengxun's side. At the end of 2000, QQ released an annual membership plan with an annual fee of 120 yuan. But the business has been carried out for two months, and only a few thousand yuan have been collected so far.

"I think this idea can be adjusted?" Chen Bo muttered, "Members want to provide differentiated services, do you think we can add more personalized services, such as QQ emojis?" ”

"What is a QQ emoji?" The crowd did not understand at all, and were even confused.

Chen Bo casually took out his mobile phone and entered a few character expressions on it, :-) This means a smile, :-( And this represents seriousness. If you are not familiar with the culture of the Internet, you will not understand the meaning of this expression. Rao is them, the big names in the Internet industry, and after reading it, they may not be able to guess which one is which.

"We can make expressions in the form of pictures, which must be cute, playful, and interesting. Such as smiling, laughing, cute, bad smile, etc. In the beginning, only members can send it, so others will have the urge to join the membership when they see it fun. When there are more users, we will open this expression and then launch other differentiated services. Chen Bo said.

Brother Xiao Ma thought for a while and then said, "I think it's okay, this is more in line with Internet culture, and you can use pictures to express a mood state when chatting, which can increase the fun of chatting more than simple text." ”

Chen Bo said again, "How to do it, when the time comes, you will make your own ideas, and I will also give an opinion." For a fee-based service like a membership, we should highlight his noble status even more. For example, the avatar and font color in the friends list should be clearly distinguished from others, and as long as you are online, you can be at the top of the friends list. There is also the current fee problem, a one-time annual fee of 120 yuan, which is a huge amount of money for many young people. In some ordinary towns, the monthly salary is only a few hundred yuan, which is very unreasonable. I suggest changing it to a single month system, 10 yuan per month, and members have corresponding discounts for quarterly, half-yearly, and year-round members. ”

Now it is mainly to sell annual cards, find a general agent to underwrite to him, and then he will promote it layer by layer, and finally into the hands of consumers. In this case, it looks like an annual card of 120 yuan, but in fact, it is less than 100, and you will lose a lot invisibly.

After all, there is no online third-party payment tool, and the operation of e-banking is cumbersome. Now that fixed telephones have basically become popular, and mobile phone users are increasing year by year, it is better to directly withhold and give a certain fee to the telecommunications bureau and Huaxia Mobile, and they will be very happy. Moreover, Brother Xiao Ma has some connections with the Telecommunications Bureau, so he is naturally no stranger, and this win-win cooperation is still easier to talk about.