Chapter 99 Return to Beijing
Qin Shaoyan and Xiao Ma visited each other in a joyful atmosphere and said a few auspicious words.
After hanging up the phone, Qin Shaoyan picked up his chopsticks and started eating dumplings while thinking about Penguin's listing.
Seeing how anxious Xiao Ma is, it will probably happen in June or July this year.
For the future famous Penguin Empire, early penguins had an embarrassing problem.
How to make money?
As a chat software, Penguin has never found a suitable way to make money.
In the early days, we continued to burn money and the number of users continued to grow, which turned out to be a burden.
Little Ma wanted to sell the penguin several times, but he was rejected after looking around.
When IDG invested, the senior partner took the team south for inspection. It is said that they sat that night and kept asking Xiao Ma how to make money with this thing.
Until the early hours of the morning, Brother Ma finally choked out, "I know everyone likes this thing, but I don't know who to collect money from."
After joining the Monternet plan, Penguin began to really make money.
In 2004, the vast majority of Penguin's revenue still came from Internet value-added services, and the proportion of advertising was not worth mentioning.
Why is Penguin going to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market? The United States does not recognize Penguin’s story and believes that chat software has no profit model.
The popularity of the online game market has caused Internet companies to embark on a journey to make money.
In particular, Shanda and NetEase have made a lot of money from online game business, making other Internet companies jealous.
Penguin also wants to find new profit growth points and push up its market value.
It was just the first wave of testing the waters and I was fooled. The Korean online game "Triumph" I was acting as an agent went down very fast.
At this time, Penguin was very anxious. He wanted to get a share of the online game market, but he was also afraid of being cheated again.
So when the big pie of the Counter-Strike online game fell on their heads, Penguin was confused internally.
Damn it, is there such a good thing?
Counter-Strike is now the undisputed king of FPS, and this golden brand name alone has considerable value.
When Ren Yuxin told Brother Xiao Ma and several senior executives, their first reaction was, you won’t meet a liar, right?
Who is Qin Shaoyan? He said he could do it if he could do it?
Ren Yuxin vowed to talk about Mr. Qin’s glorious deeds, including Mr. Qin’s connections in V agency and his record-breaking sales in the United States.
There is also the golden keyboard that is "No. 1 in Chinese gaming". These are things that cannot be real anymore.
In order to verify Mr. Qin’s background, Penguin also asked someone to make inquiries in the United States.
When he learned that "Plants vs. Zombies" was quite popular in North America and even continued to break sales records, Penguin no longer had any doubts.
In particular, Mr. Qin went to the publishing office to hold a meeting with the leaders to discuss how to take China Games to North America to cooperate with V Agency.
Is it true that the leaders have certified it?
After confirming that Mr. Qin had many connections in V Agency and that Mr. Qin had strong production capabilities, Penguin couldn't wait to sign the contract on Mr. Qin's hand.
That’s why Xiao Ma personally called me to say New Year greetings and test the sincerity of cooperation.
Qin Shaoyan's mood here is more subtle. Brother Xiaoma is so anxious, which makes him very embarrassed.
In the next few days, apart from lying at home waiting for feeding, Qin Shaoyan was just thinking.
The Chinese New Year is short-lived. After a few days of vacation, Qin Shaoyan has successfully turned into a disgusting person and had to pack up early to prepare to return to Yanjing.
When setting off on the journey, amidst the serious instructions and daily nagging from his parents, especially his father’s constant instructions, “You must learn well and follow the right path.”
Qin Shaoyan patted his chest and promised that he would abide by the law and embark on the journey. Return journey.
After returning to Yanjing, Qin Shaoyan first went back to the company for an inspection and gave big red envelopes to the programmers on duty.
After making sure that there was nothing wrong with the company, I turned around and went to visit Brother Dong.
In order to successfully hold the exhibition match after the new year, Brother Dong did not go back to his hometown during the Chinese New Year this year and lived directly with his brothers in the company. As soon as Qin Shaoyan entered the door, he saw Brother Dong with a haggard face and counting the goods.
"Brother Dong, happy New Year." Qin Shaoyan came up and gave Liu Qiangdong a hug enthusiastically, "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Dong."
"It's okay, it's okay." Liu Qiangdong was still in a good mood , although I am a little tired now, everything is moving in a good direction.
Qin Shaoyan took out a red envelope from his arms and handed it to Brother Dong, "Here, give me a red envelope for good luck."
Liu Qiangdong took it with a smile and gave it to Qin Shaoyan with his backhand. Sent one.
Qin Shaoyan couldn't laugh or cry, "This is creating GDP, right?"
"What's the point of p and not p? Let's get some luck." Liu Qiangdong took out the bill of goods and handed it to Qin Shaoyan, "Mr. Qin, come here Take a look, this is something that will be put on the store after the year. "
"Well, MP3 is a bit too much, reduce it a bit." Qin Shaoyan crossed out some small things with a pen, "You need to prepare more computers."
“When the semester starts, we will organize a discounted computer campaign for bringing computers to campus. Students will definitely have a need to buy computers. The value of computers is not low, and the total amount will be considerable.”
Liu Qiangdong asked Said: "How many computers are prepared?"
"Let's build 10,000 units first." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "The school should be able to digest it."
Liu Qiangdong thought for a while, "Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei should be able to handle it."
"If it doesn't work, I will expand the campus network to the northeast, and add three provinces." Qin Shaoyan cautiously estimated the market. It was his first time doing it, and no one had a bottom line.
"In this way, I will conduct a small survey on the website in a few days to see how many people are willing to buy a computer, so that we can have a rough estimate."
"Okay "This method is good." Liu Qiangdong praised, "It is convenient to do business online on campus. The students are very high-quality and there are not so many weird things."
"High quality means high quality." Qin Shaoyan warned again, "Our after-sales service must be good to satisfy customers."
Liu Qiangdong nodded, "I have hired a dozen more maintenance masters , As long as customers have problems, we will repair them as soon as possible."
"We will set up an online customer service to help students solve some minor software problems," Qin Shaoyan suggested, "Some people are the first. If you are new to computers for the first time, you can handle some minor problems by yourself. You don’t need to go out of your way to fix them.”
“You can create a QQ group and let users join in,” Liu Qiangdong added. One sentence.
Speaking of the QQ group, Qin Shaoyan remembered the agreement with Brother Xiao Ma, picked up his mobile phone and sent a message to the other party.
"I have arrived in Beijing, and Penguin is welcome to visit at any time."
Brother Dong glanced at it, "Who are you sending the message to?"
"To the QQ boss." Qin Shaoyan replied casually He said, "He asked me to meet him after the new year to talk about promoting the campus network."
"Mr. Qin's connections are getting better and better now." Brother Dong joked, "If Qin It would be nice to know the president of Lenovo. We can negotiate a preferential price.”
“…”
Qin Shaoyan suddenly smiled and said, "I will definitely get to know each other if I have the chance. Maybe we can win together."
"Brother Dong, the volume of goods we will definitely not get is small in the future. It is best to work with a few computers." The brand signs a long-term agreement and gives them more discounts."
"Okay." Liu Qiangdong nodded, "I will talk to them separately and try to get more discounts."
"Yes. , you can cut more." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "We have the final say on what computers students buy in the future. I don't believe they won't be interested."
The two were chatting enthusiastically, and Qin Shaoyan's phone rang. I picked up the phone and saw that it was Xiao Ma's phone.
Qin Shaoyan answered the call smoothly, "Hello, Mr. Ma."
Brother Ma didn't waste any time and said straight to the point: "Mr. Qin, I'll go there tomorrow, is it convenient?"
( End of chapter)