Blooming America

Chapter 267 "Popular Software"

Yes, "Popular Software" and "Popular Games".

Is there a better plan than this?

Catherine was suddenly energetic.

A magazine may not be a big deal, but what if your own magazine is like the "Forbes Ranking" in the game industry? Is this amazing?

This is what Catherine wants to do.

Since there were no such talents in the company, Catherine had to recruit people. She also invited Donald, a shrewd advertiser, over.

"Donald, what do you think of our plan?"

Catherine Hua spent a whole day in perfecting her schedule. Isn’t it cool to open a Forbes in the electronics world?

Donald took Catherine's plan and looked at it carefully. Catherine needs the other party to give a promotion plan, and Catherine needs to promote this magazine's efforts. After Donald was invited by Catherine from her father, he has been in charge of network promotion activities. He is everywhere helping Catherine find advertisers to prepare for the future network age.

——If the advertisement can be pushed into the network, it will be very helpful for the cost reduction, and the cost reduction can counteract the network and make the network promote faster.

The more people who enter the Internet, the more money advertisers need to pay—of course, their advertising is getting better and better—at the same time, the cost of the Internet will be further reduced, and at the same time, it will stab jī in turn. Others enter the world of the Internet. This is undoubtedly a very beautiful thing.

Catherine opened the graphical version of the operating system and browser, a large part of the reason is also because of this.

Today's computers are not yet able to meet the lowest-end entertainment needs. This is not just about games, but also music and movies. These people have always been in the future, and they are also a very important part of netizens.

But before this year, it is still very difficult to enter the digital age. The development of hard disks has always been lagging behind. As for solid-state hard disks and flash memory... that is something that even has no shadow.

"Well... the overall plan seems to be very good. If everything goes smoothly, there is no problem in promoting these two magazines."

Catherine noticed that Donald’s expression did not seem to be very good, and he went on to say: “But imitators always exist. If we don’t catch the user firmly in the first time, it’s bad for us. In other words, the consequences are disasters."

Catherine suddenly woke up.

Yes... If your magazine is taken by a hostile company, such as IBm, wouldn't it be a tragedy?

In that way, even if your company can still dominate the market, the authority of "rating" has disappeared, which is very bad for you.

"I think computers are popular with people, and video games are also popular with people. But I don’t think people are so enthusiastic about electronic products. If you really want to publish a magazine, I suggest you combine these two This magazine is combined into one. Software and games have a certain user base. If you put them together, your magazine’s data will at least look much better than it is now."

It seemed like this, Donald immediately saw the weakness of Catherine's "grand plan".

"Um...it seems to be the case." The other party made a lot of sense, and Catherine agreed very much: "That's it. We launched a "Popular Software" magazine in which equipment and games are each accounted for. Half of them are mainly created for the current computer skills, which can make people work more conveniently...and the other half is the score of the game and the outlook for the game. It is best to have some game skills and secret strategies. ..."

Although Donald has a good understanding of the Internet, Catherine's ideas are really the same. He can only try his best to judge what Catherine's whimsical ideas are trying to express.

"Maybe we should open a theme park or something? Hmm... It's too slow to pay back this time, forget it."

Although Disney Amusement Park is very popular, it is also very slow to return to the original. This kind of meaningless thing waits until there is more money to do it-this is an investment of tens of millions.

"I think if we really need to rate software and games for other companies, I think the status of this magazine should be a rating company like Standard & Poor's. It needs to be fair, fair and open... Of course, for Our company itself, this company should be beneficial, but if the bias is too serious, it is not a good thing."

Donald’s opinion is of great reference value, and Catherine nodded: “In that case, our reputation will be completely ruined. So this rating agency should have little to do with our company-on the surface.”

"Yes, and our most important thing is to occupy this market in the shortest time. As for the other things, they are just means. Means are very important, but we can't make mistakes in the grand strategy." Donald reminded.

"Yeen, that's it"

With Donald's advice, Catherine started things more organized.

First, it is natural to recruit a group of enthusiastic players, which is very important.

Since it has been decided that the two magazines will be merged into one, the other side also needs to keep up, and that is the software aspect.

This aspect is best to handle, you only need to select a few software projects in the company to come out. Then speak their words in more popular language as much as possible, instead of letting the other person look up and look at each other at a loss.

In addition, it should be the most important part of this "Popular Software" magazine-rating.

Catherine's point is for this, if you forget it, it will be bad.

For now, the number of software and games are limited. Catherine decided to make this magazine a monthly magazine. Now hundreds to thousands of software are born every year, but it is still different from the world of information explosion that Catherine came to.

Catherine decided to select the ten most valuable software from all software every month, and then select the best software of the year.

The magazine will also retain a dedicated page to view the ratings of the top 100 software.

The value of software is not static, but based on a software version, update frequency, usage, support, and even the technical support staff behind the software. These comprehensive factors add up to be loved by people as a software. the reason.

This solution is also Donald’s suggestion.

If you want your ranking to be fair, you must be rigorous.

And most importantly, such a rating method is also in disguise urging manufacturers to continuously improve their software, allowing the entire industry to develop on a good track.

In addition to the software part, the other half of the magazine is naturally the game part.

Although Catherine had an idea for "Popular Games", she felt that this should not be realized until the entire rating method and the entire magazine were recognized.

There are a lot of people playing video games, but Catherine has no guarantee on the number of "core players".

On the other hand, the software industry is mostly focused on commercial applications, and the base number of the two passes is somewhat small. But if they are brought together, the number of people will be considerable.

In this part of the game, Catherine recruited many enthusiasts for the game.

In fact, it is not easy to find this group of people.

First, what Catherine needs is a game player who can put forward various opinions on the game and discover the game’s bugs; secondly, they must have enough cultural literacy to make the things they write credible—although In the back there are editorial checks; in the end, their self-control also needs to be strong enough to not fall into the game. Video games are addictive, which is very important.

Catherine advertises for the whole country. This is the case. After the group, only 20 people were recruited by their company.

For now, this is naturally enough, Catherine can only be particular about it, and he was originally prepared to give Blizzard’s trial players, Catherine can only temporarily put it down, it must wait until there are enough manpower in the future. Row.

Among these players, the vast majority are college students who have just graduated, and the oldest is not too old.

The rating of games is much simpler than software. There are many factors to evaluate a game, and the popularity of the game is the most important one.

Only a game that is recognized by the public is a good game, and Catherine has always believed in this.

In addition, the most important aspect of evaluating a game is the playability, story, graphics, music, etc. of the game. And things like bugs can also make the score drop.

Regardless of whether it is a game or a software, "Popular Software" uses a 100-point system. The highest score for a game is points, and software and games with lower scores ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ will not be on the list.

"Ning Que Wu Lan", Catherine has always believed this.

"Popular Software" is "ft" in English. Although it was only a temporary intention, Catherine has perfected the whole plan. The first issue of the entire magazine is scheduled to appear this Christmas.

Because this magazine can't have too much involvement with her company, Catherine did not have a magazine to become a subsidiary of aRk.

Although the magazine has not yet started selling, Catherine has already thought about who should be the .1 in the software product-nux.

This pL, which was specially opened by Catherine for IBm, is now very popular. Calling it .1, there is absolutely no problem.

Catherine believes that IBm will be very happy...

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Sorry, the phobia of dense objects made my whole body itchy today. I scratched my body with blood stains. The inspiration has disappeared completely. It is really uncomfortable. There is one more to make up tomorrow...