Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1369 Good Omens

It's the end of the year, and Zhou Buqi sits at the headquarters of the capital.

Domestic matters are basically not reported to him.This just shows Zhang Yiming's ability and responsibility.Not reporting it means that Zhang Yiming has taken responsibility for the matter.

The presidents of many companies are very fucked up, and they report to the chairman of the board on big and small matters. If they don't report in person, they will also send the document to the chairman's office and ask the chairman to sign it.

When the chairman signs, it means that he has informed and he has taken responsibility.

Zhou Buqi hadn't realized this before.

When he went to Hong Kong Island some time ago, he visited the richest man Li, and learned several tricks from him-businessmen have no territory, tax-based business, hard work without making money, not signing, etc.

"Not to sign" does not mean never to sign. In terms of financial and personnel appointments, the chairman still needs to sign.Non-signature refers to business operations.

One thing, if you can do it, do it, if you can't, don't do it.

To confirm the right is to determine the execution right in hand.

No one is doing things, and there are people who don't know the details pointing fingers at the side. Once the power is delegated, the power should be given in place. Don't give half and take half, don't be awkward and restrict too much.If the right is confirmed, you can do things freely, be more likely to succeed, and avoid shirking responsibility after doing something wrong.

Zhou Buqi used to feel that he had to do his best and work harder, so he had to sign dozens of documents every day.Now there is experience.

No wonder the bigwigs in Hong Kong are so leisurely, playing golf every morning, reading newspapers in the morning, having a massage at noon, drinking tea in the afternoon, having a massage in the evening, and socializing in the evening. (regular massage)

It turns out that their management mechanism is more advanced.

So after returning to the headquarters, Zhou Buqi immediately adjusted the mechanism of Ziweixing.

Unless it is project expenditures of more than 1 million yuan and personnel changes above M6 that require his signature, he doesn't care about other things. It is enough to reach the level of Zhang Yiming, He Yang, and Xu Liangjie, and he is not allowed to report to him.

However, some important things about overseas business will still be reported.

Zhou Buqi was going to Shanghai to pick up Wen Zhixia, Ning Yaxian and the others, and they were going back to the Northeast to prepare for the New Year, so they received two news from Japan and the United States respectively.

First came a call from Tang Binchen.

"Ameba wants to do something."

"What?"

"It is the local social networking site we invested in before, which is blog and SNS in nature. YikYak relied on them to help us introduce human relationships in the early days."

Zhou Buqi said: "I know, what am I going to do?"

Tang Binchen said: "They also want to launch a sub-site like Twitter, and they want to compete with YikYak in the market."

"Isn't it?" Zhou Buqi felt a little unbelievable, "I remember that we got 32% of the shares? Is this a turnaround?"

Tang Binchen coughed a few times, "The main reason is that the other party wanted to introduce YikYak's resources and traffic, and I didn't agree."

Zhou Buqi laughed twice.

This is not surprising.

YikYak didn't do it before, relying on celebrity users and traffic introduced by other people's Ameba website.Now YikYak has grown bigger, with more celebrities stationed on the site and more active users.

As a result, they don't pull out a penny and don't help others develop, how can they not be angry?

But it's the right thing to do.

Now YikYak is already the second largest website after Yahoo Japan, and its resources are far more important than Ameba.How can we easily and casually share resources?

Why?
YikYak imports traffic from Yahoo Japan, which costs $1 million a year.

Tang Binchen said coldly: "They have approached me several times, but I rejected them all, and then they issued an ultimatum, saying that they will build a similar website."

Zhou Buqi was relatively calm, "What about the shares? How to solve it?"

That's the most important thing.

Last year, in order to obtain the resources and traffic of Ameba, Ziweixing recruited a lot of people. Later, it invited former Sony president Nobuyuki Idei as a consultant, and he came forward to help them reach the deal.

Ziweixing invested US$2.4 million to buy a 32% stake in Ameba's listed parent company.

It stands to reason that the second largest shareholder can at least get 3 board seats.But in fact, I only got one, and I was suppressed enough.

But even if it is suppressed, 32% of the shares are still very important shareholders, and they can call for a general meeting of shareholders at any time.

If it develops to that point, it will be a big trouble.

Ameba is a listed company, and the stock price will inevitably avalanche if there is trouble, the existing board of directors and controlling party obviously do not want such a thing to happen.

Therefore, even if they turn their faces, it is impossible to tear their faces apart in a commotion.

Tang Binchen said: "Maybe it will be repurchased."

Zhou Buqi was very happy, "It's a good thing! Last year I invested 10 billion US dollars back and forth to expand the Japanese market. Now it's all right, and I can get a lot of money back."

"Um……"

Tang Binchen remained silent.

Zhou Buqi said coldly: "Throw it away when you're done using it. It's what you want. As long as you give a suitable premium, you can sell it! And it's a one-time transaction, and there will be no default."

Tang Binchen said in embarrassment: "I'm afraid that it will not be easy to deal with face. They helped us to make YikYak. When we do it, we will turn our faces and deny people when we turn around."

Zhou Buqi didn't care, "It's just a small broken company, what face does it have? Of the Internet companies in Japan, only Yahoo has face. Establish a stable cooperative relationship with Yahoo Japan, and everything else is easy."

The big boss said so, Tang Binchen didn't want to say anything, and couldn't help laughing, "Our business...is really unscrupulous, buying stocks at low prices, and using other people's traffic and resources for free. Wait for YikYak to do it. After getting up, not to mention the slightest feedback, but also to sell the stock back at a high price, making a big difference in price.”

Zhou Buqi said happily: "It's no wonder we, they are honest and obedient, should we sell stocks? Tell them, either redeem at a premium, or turn around and sell directly in the secondary market. They want to imitate YikYak They are at a loss for doing a similar website."

Tang Binchen took a deep breath, "Okay, then do this!"

Zhou Buqi felt very cool.

Damn!

It would be great if the overseas market is as friendly as the Japanese market, not to mention the help, but also to offer money.This wave of business is really profitable.

Good omen!

Sure enough, it is a good sign, and the letter from the United States is even more exciting.

The US version of Helo for ios will officially land on the Apple Store on the 30th of this month!
Half a month earlier than expected.

Zhou Buqi directly made an overseas call to Lu Qi, "Helo is going online, is there any competitor?"

"No."

"not even one?"

"Neither MSN nor Google Talk has developed an ios version. Only Yahoo Messenger has developed it specifically for the iPhone, but it is also a traditional product thinking in the feature phone era. You know, Yahoo Messenger is not used by anyone."

Lu Qi came from Yahoo, so he knows it all too well.In his view, the existence of Yahoo Messenger means that it does not exist. After Helo goes online, there are no competitors.

Therefore, we must seize the time to go online, and seize this track as soon as there is no similar product in the market.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Have you done the promotion plan?"

Lu Qi said: "I made several copies, but I didn't agree, they...the promotion budget is too high, it's my fault."

Zhou Buqi understood what was going on as soon as he heard it.

Ziweixing US company is not actually a start-up company. A start-up company starts from scratch, develops, grows, and grows little by little.

The company under Lu Qi's management is different. It doesn't start from scratch. It is equivalent to a half-startup and half-mature company. The managers under it are not "experts". They used to be executives of other big companies.

Executives from large companies have advantages and disadvantages.

The disadvantage is that it is not as economical as a startup company, and you are used to being extravagant. A random marketing plan may cost millions or tens of millions of dollars in budget.

Zhou Buqi doesn't really care about this.

If you can do it with a lot of money, it is also a huge success.

Of course, if you can spend less, it is better to spend less.

Lu Qi smiled and said: "I have communicated with Zhang Yiming, and he gave me an idea, which I think is very good."

"Oh? What idea?"

"He said that Ziweixing has a product called Weidian software in China."

"Yes," Zhou Buqi knew too well, this is a product he brought out with his own hands, "it is a built-in product of Weidian Security Guard."

Lu Qi said: "The profit model of Micropoint Software is, first, the software download service, and charge the software manufacturer a service fee according to the number of downloads. The second is the advertising revenue."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Ranking the software, so as to charge advertising fees. There are bidding advertising rankings, and there are special recommended advertising positions. This is the profit model of all such software stores. What classmate Yiming told you is The similarity between Micropoint software and the Apple Store?"

"There is no advertising service in the Apple Store yet."

"No?"

"It may be that there are too few apps in the Apple store. There is no need to advertise, and all apps will get a lot of recommendation opportunities. I plan to go to Apple to help them start their advertising business."

Zhou Buqi laughed loudly, "Okay! This idea is good!"

If it is a conventional Internet marketing plan, it is nothing more than advertising on Yahoo, Google, and Facebook to guide users to download Helo on the iPhone.

Not to mention the high cost of advertising, the effect of advertising mobile apps on the computer side is as bad as it is.

Is it okay to spend your money directly on the knife's edge?
Go to the Apple Store to buy advertising space!
This is the most direct and effective marketing method.

If Apple can tailor a few eye-catching and eye-catching advertising spaces for Helo, as long as users open the Apple Store, they will pay attention to it immediately, and the recommendation effect will come out.

Apple in later generations can stand at a market value of 2 trillion US dollars, mainly relying on the Apple Store.There are two main revenues for the Apple Store: one is advertising revenue, and the app has to advertise and buy recommendations for promotion; the other is Apple tax, and the consumption in the app is charged.

Now, Ziweixing helps Apple to start the advertising business of the Apple Store, and the two parties can be regarded as a strong alliance.Apple relies on Helo, an excellent product, to lay the cornerstone of its advertising business, and Helo relies on Apple's advertising recommendations to promote rapidly.

(End of this chapter)