Reboot 2003

Chapter 4 004: A small goal
For a reborn person, if he wants to make money, he can always find a way. The difference is only the length of time. Even if he doesn't know anything, he will always buy Bitcoin.

If the time limit is to be shortened, it may be necessary for the reborn person to have some knowledge in a specific field, but it will not be particularly difficult.

In contrast, if the reborn person himself is only eight years old, the problem is really a bit tricky.

After all, normally, if you can’t directly gain the trust of your parents, you can only confess your identity as a reborn person, and then let your parents operate on your behalf. Even so, there are many inconveniences... In most areas of human society, adults are the basic unit of social production.

However, in this era, there is indeed an emerging field in front of us that has nothing to do with age, and that is the Internet.

After all, across the network cable, who knows if there is an eight-year-old elementary school student on the other side of the screen?
Coincidentally, Chen Qin was a practitioner in the Internet industry before his rebirth. Although in his previous life in 2003 he was still playing marbles in the pond pit in the school forest, the Internet industry itself is not an industry with a long history.

In 2003, this year is called "the first year of the Chinese Internet". Because of the subsidence of the bubble crisis and the first wave of huge traffic brought by SARS, China's Internet officially began to set sail in 2003.

That's why Chen Qin needs to borrow some money to come to the Internet cafe. Now that he has touched the computer, he has to achieve a small goal first.

That means you have to settle the internet fee first...

There is no way, although he already has the money to go online for the first time, but other than that, he is penniless, and he is even in debt of ten yuan.

And if he can't think of a solution today and tomorrow, his first venture will probably be declared bankrupt the day after tomorrow.

In addition, he has to find a way to earn some savings. Speculation opportunities like Bitcoin are not common. Most of the time, financial games have to pay tickets to enter... Of course, this issue can be considered later.

If you want to make money now, you must first consider where the money will come from.

Speaking of this question... Chen Qin actually hasn't thought about it carefully.

After all, since he was reborn, he felt that he was as muddleheaded as a primary school student. He could only think normally after touching the computer. Just now, his brain came out as soon as he got hot.

But he probably knew that this line of thinking should be right, and it came all the time.

If you want to make money, you should first think about what stage the industry is in now.

The so-called 'a pig on the cusp can go to heaven' is certainly not a joke.

On the other hand, if you want to do future things in mainland China where adsl broadband is not yet popular, and most domestic entertainment users are Internet cafe users...

Not to mention the most profitable short videos and live broadcasts, even Facebook and 58.com are enough.

So... what is the current outlet?

Chen Qin looked at hao123 on the screen and thought about it carefully.

The aftermath of the dot-com bubble of 2003 has not yet passed, and the so-called 'dot-com bubble' occurred in 2001-2002.

The development of the Internet in this period is actually not unhappy, but this industry has gradually exposed some problems, that is, the lack of liquidity——

Of course, capital investment in the Internet is not for charity. Those search engines have hundreds of millions of traffic and tens of millions of QQ users. Even so, they can’t make money, so what’s the use of investing?

In order to solve the predicament, the prehistoric Internet elites have been groping for a long time. As a reborn person, Chen Qin certainly knows the ready-made answer. Now that the industry is gradually recovering in 2003, the answer to this question has actually been clearly revealed——

This year's Internet trend is to make money, because investors' money is not easy to cheat, and now all the companies that survive are companies that can make money on their own.

Qq will launch a qq show this year, and qq pets and qq games will also be launched in full swing.

Ali will launch Taobao this year, and in the next two years, it will compete with eBay for users in the c2c field until it completely drives the other party out of the Chinese market.

Baidu's bidding business has been around for a while, and 2003 was the first year Baidu achieved profitability...

This is the struggle experience of the future Internet giants in their infancy, of course these are not important.

The important thing is this trend - in the Internet environment around the world, there are three main outlets for the Internet today.

One is an SMS service, one is a game, and the other is an advertisement.

So if you want to make money now, you still have to start with these three industries...

Of course, Chen Qin knows the reason why he can't eat too much, so he will choose one of these three industries to start with.

The threshold of SMS service is not low, which is a means of monetization when there is already traffic.

In contrast, Chen Qin himself is a practitioner in the game industry, and the first thing that comes to mind is of course games.

In fact, I just watched it when I came in. Seventy to eighty percent of the people in this Internet cafe are playing games, and today Internet cafe users are the most important part of the Internet users of Tianchao, and online games are indeed a lucrative industry that has emerged.

2003 happened to be the year when the legend became popular. Chen Qin would probably have a little trouble to create a legend by himself, and now it is difficult to make money as an agent of Dianka.

But lying on someone else's body and being a parasite is an easier way. He has probably heard of the popularity of the legend back then, how much a ruling could sell for tens of thousands, and how many tens of thousands a top-level number could sell...

It's just that the trading of virtual items in the online game market is not very popular today.

Back then, Shi Yuzhu was obsessed with legends, and when he was pk'd, he asked his subordinates to find an Internet cafe owner, and bought a 70 large size, which only cost 3000.

Afterwards, I still couldn't beat it, and under Chen Tianjiao's guidance, I bought a set of top-quality equipment, which only cost [-]...

This kind of price seems a bit strange now. In fact, it was after 05 that the legendary equipment cost hundreds of thousands.

In addition, game cheating is not so easy to do...'Game cheating is very simple' itself is just an arbitrary conclusion from the perspective of non-practitioners through the program-as a program, a game itself is equivalent to a black box device with its own operating logic and protective shell, and profiting from it with cheating is equivalent to picking a lock with a wire.

Although in principle, the wire for picking the lock is only a little thinner, and can be inserted into the small hole that the designer does not want the user to do, but for the lock picker, knowing where the lock is, which lock is hiding the treasure, and how to pick it without being discovered by the owner of the lock is the most important core technology of the plug-in.

If you want to open a studio now, the best choice should actually be to go to the beautiful country market on the other side of the ocean.

Now, the legendary "Diablo 2" of Meilijian is very popular in the European and American markets. Although it has not yet reached 1.10, a SOJ, which is regarded as a general equivalent, has been sold for more than three dollars on the IGE platform.

And after the release of "World of Warcraft" next year, rich and lazy European and American fat houses will support a large number of Chinese game gold farmers. At that time, the American server wow can make a lot of money even if it is hand-made gold.

It's a pity that Chen Qin doesn't have much capital, he can't afford a point card, and he can't afford a Diablo 2 CDKey.

In this case, the remaining choice is only one option, which is advertising.

Internet advertising is not a new concept. As early as the last century, this industry has become the lifeline of major portal websites with traffic.

Today, bidding rankings, advertising alliances, pricing platforms, and third-party distributors have all taken shape. In 2003, a large number of portal websites and search engines will make profits through advertising.

And even so, the annual Internet advertising market is growing at a rate of more than 50%, and in this trend, the biggest profit is of course the owner of the traffic, but advertising marketing services is a way to make money with a lower threshold... To explain it in popular words, it is to be a second-hand dealer.

After a rough look at the situation of the major websites, and then checked the information on Baidu, Chen Qin almost already had a plan.

Today's Internet advertising is still very rudimentary, with no b-things such as crowd portraits and big data, and the advertising platform is also very rudimentary. Whether it is providing customized services or providing marketing plans to advertisers who have no idea how to start, there are very good market prospects.

To do this business, the first step is to promote your products.

Now Chen Qin has no money on hand, but there is a basic cost-free promotion channel for Internet advertising, and that is email advertising.

Just do it.

Chen Qin first gave himself a famous name——

American San Diego Advertising Company.

As an advertising agency, the name must be high-end. Of course, there is another reason for this, that is, Chen Qin himself is only a primary school student and has no account to collect money.

Therefore, pretending to be a foreign company and letting customers transfer money to PayPal is a more convenient way. Alipay and WeChat payment have not yet been invented, and there is no other choice for online transactions. Moreover, PayPal can receive and pay even if there is no credit card activation. It is a financial product suitable for elementary school students without cards.

After registering PayPal, Chen Qin went to the Internet to find a logo of a non-profit organization, and added the word "San Diego" below it with a drawing software, and the company was "opened".

(End of this chapter)