Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: December 9, 2002}

{Location: United States}

At 13:30 noon, the car driven by Jennifer appeared outside the hotel lobby door on time. Ning Zimo sat in the passenger seat leisurely and contentedly, making Jennifer, who had rushed over in a hurry, get angry.

"Boss, I think it's time for you to learn to drive."

"What's the matter? Is it boring to be a driver?"

When Jennifer heard this, her temples jumped unconsciously, feeling like she was being defeated.

After a pause, Jennifer said, "I don't find it boring to be a driver. I just think that if you learn to drive, you can go wherever you want, and you will feel freer."

Seeing that there were no cars ahead, Jennifer turned to look at Ning Zimo and said, "Boss, you must have some hobbies of your own and your own space."

When Jennifer turned around, she only saw her boss's side face, but not his expression.

Looking at the street scene going back outside the window, it felt like a long time had passed before Ning Zimo murmured, "I used to like games and football, but it seemed like it was a long time ago. But now that I have started to get busy, even I

Don't know where the end point is.

Whenever I travel, I usually sit in the back seat if I want to talk about business. Now, except for talking time, I spend all other time thinking. For people like me who tend to think about things as soon as they sit in the car,

He is not a qualified driver at all.

So, for the sake of others' safety, if I'm in the car, I'd better sit quietly and think about something."

Jennifer drove a black Honda car, which was fairly well sealed. Ning Zimo's words all reached her ears in the unobstructed confined space.

For some reason, Jennifer's mind suddenly flashed into her mind. When she was at Beibao, she always saw him sitting busy in front of the monitor.

As his employee, she didn't know what to think. As his friend of the opposite sex, she didn't know what to say.

Although she had seen him and Winnie playing around and having fun together, she had rarely seen him truly happy except that time.

There are probably some people who really belong to a relatively different group in this world. They can blend into this world, but most of the time they are the most lonely ones.

people and people,

It seems,

really do,

no the same.

Putting all the miscellaneous thoughts in her mind behind her, Jennifer reached out and picked up an elastic hair tie from in front of her and handed it to Ning Zimo:

"Boss, your hair is too long, you should tie it up."

"Hey, okay," Ning Zimo's face changed instantly.

Ning Zimo happily took over the elastic hair tie and tried it with great interest, but for a long time he didn't know how to tie up his hair.

Jennifer saw his child-like movements in her peripheral vision and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Boss, I'll teach you later."

"Okay~~" Ning Zimo was extremely reluctant.

This thing looks simple, but why is it so complicated?

***+***

When the knock on the door rang, Meg Whitman sat straight up on a stool and quickly checked her appearance before answering.

With her voice, the office door opened. There were three people standing outside the door, one of whom was the capable young man in the episode she just recalled.

When I saw him again after half a year, his hair had grown a lot, and it was tied back, revealing a handsome and cold young face.

She thought he must be very popular with young girls, but then Whitman thought about his serious and rigid look the last time she saw him, and she suddenly felt that not many people could approach him.

Meeting his peaceful eyes, Whitman stood up and walked out of the office desk to greet him.

"Ning, please come in~~ We haven't seen each other for a while."

The secretary was surprised that her female boss could be so kind. She quickly made way for the passage at the door and let in the men and women behind her, mainly the young man.

When they were sitting on the sofa and chatting, she asked at the right time, "What would you two like to drink?"

The young flower-growing man didn't even raise his head when talking to the female boss, and the beautiful secretary next to him smiled at him.

"A cup of vegetarian coffee, a cup of water, thank you."

…

"Ning, last time you talked about the 100 million times brand commerce department plan corresponding to the [Trading Assistant]. After our discussion, it has been officially implemented in July." Jordan introduced enthusiastically, "We have already tried it in the United States in July.

We have launched a brand plan and supported some high-quality sellers to join the ranks of brand sellers.

Your suggestions at that time really helped us a lot, which allowed our sales in the first two months of the fourth quarter to be 2% more than the annual increase. Correspondingly, buyers responded quite well to the brand plan.

"

Jordan grinned happily, "Since the merger of Beibao and Yibao, we have done very well after concentrating our efforts. It is not in vain that you invested so much energy in Beibao."

Jeff Jordan is the general person in charge of Yibei National War and the vice president of Yibei. He had seen Ning Zimo at the negotiation table when Beiba was sold to Yibei. He had just seen Ning Zimo shortly after his arrival.

Also joined the talks.

Ning Zimo met the gaze of the Vice President of Yibi and said with a smile, "I saw it, Jordan. I am also a buyer user of Yibi now. I can feel that there are many new products after the integration of Beibao and Yibi.

change."

Although this sentence was against his will, Ning Zimo still blurted it out.

After a pause, he continued, "So this time, the skrpe cooperation plan I mentioned to you in advance is to consider whether we can provide more help for Yibi's brand plan and even more buyers and sellers on Yibi platform.

.”

"Yes, Ning, this is what we are interested in." Jordan showed his interest.

Ning Zimo took the opportunity to take out his notebook from his bag and raised it, "Maybe we can connect to the projector and let me explain it to you in detail."

Jordan turned to look at the big boss, Whitman, and when she nodded, he stood up enthusiastically, "Let's go, let's go to the conference room to talk in detail."

…

Before leaving Zhonghua, the last skrpe user data Ning Zimo saw was 1,528w. Not counting the increase in early December, skrpe grew by more than 5 million users throughout November. This was gradually stabilized after the novelty of the new skrpe version went online in November.

came down.

Compared with the 3 million new users in October, the growth rate of skrpe users in November 2002 increased by an additional 66%. The third and fourth servers also arrived as scheduled, and the fifth server is under preparation. It is expected that

It needs to be officially launched in the United States before Christmas.

After the new version of skrpe was launched, the growth of paid users from PC to phone completely exceeded Ning Zimo’s expectations. On the first day of launch, there were 5,000 new cross-border paid users, and the cumulative growth increased to 50,000 on the last day of November, while ordinary paid users

The number of users has also increased to 80,000.

The total turnover of 367w not only slapped Ning Zimo in the face, but also made the skrpe team excited. Because after excluding the revenue share of 118w paid to telecom operators and the overall operating cost of skrpe of 60w, skrpe actually had 60w in November.

Net income of 1890,000 US dollars!

Moreover, this month’s profit, excluding the historical investment after skrpe was launched, turned out to be a profit of 790,000 US dollars!

skrpe has actually made a profit. How ungrateful was the skrpe team in the previous life?

"So, in addition to continuing to sign cooperation with telecom cloud providers, my main purpose of coming to Yibi this time is to discuss with Ms. Whitman the business of providing online service support to Yibi merchants." Ning Zimo pointed to the investment.

The ppt on the screen said to Whitman and Jordan.

Whitman looked at the content displayed on the projection screen, which showed the user growth and market response after the new version of skrpe was launched. Although her face remained normal, she was surprised in her heart. She was not surprised by the young man's creativity, but

I am surprised by the operational ability of this young former COO of Beibo.

She has been paying close attention to this instant messaging product since skrpe was launched, not because of anything else, but because the founder of this software is the young former COO of Beibao. He used to be involved in the launch of Beibao.

Each project has successfully led the Beibao team to avoid billions of times the impact.

"But the silent purchase rate of our Yibi buyers is quite high, and it has become a habit for buyers to use on-site messages to contact sellers. Therefore, Yibi's demand for instant messaging is not very big." Whitman is still clear-headed.

She hit the nail on the head, "So, Ning, although we are happy to maintain contact and contact with you, the significance of implanting the skrpe online contact plug-in you mentioned in Yibi is not as important as you said."

"Ms. Whitman, you are talking about the current situation." Ning Zimo nodded along with Whitman's words.

Before Ning Zimo came, he had deduced the problems that might be encountered in this negotiation.

The key point Whitman mentioned so far - silent purchasing, is indeed the main reason why they do not implement skrpe.

Silent buying refers to the behavior of buyers purchasing directly without contacting the seller when shopping on e-commerce websites.

The biggest difference between Jingdong and Taobao in the previous life is here. Compared with Taobao's high online consultation rate, the silent purchase rate of Jingdong users is quite high.

Of course, this is related to the fact that Jingdong did not provide online consultation from the beginning. The billion times in this life also followed this route, although they insisted on going this way in the previous life. But business often creates all kinds of inconveniences.

possible!

In order to convince Yibi to walk into the hole he dug, why didn't Ning Zimo make adequate preparations?

"Ms. Whitman, the product categories involved in Yibei's start-up from auction have always been in a smaller range. Although new categories have been added over the years, the expansion of electronic product categories other than simple household products has greatly increased the seller's

The difficulty of customer service is gradually increasing.”

Ning Zimo switched to the next page of the ppt. The prepared content displayed on it made Whitman frown.

For the first time, she discovered that when she really came into contact with this young man who was beginning to take charge of his own business, his well-prepared entry points hit people's hearts!

"Compared with quality complaints in the supplies category, complaints about the use of emerging electronic products must remain high. If a buyer discovers a usage problem during the use of electronic supplies, it is actually difficult to resolve the doubts using only text messages. If so,

If the buyer returns the product, it will be a loss for both the buyer and seller and even Yibi platform.”

After a pause, Ning Zi silently looked at the two Yibi executives who nodded unconsciously and continued, "With the development of technology, people's needs for daily necessities are becoming more complex, and the services provided by sellers must also be improved."

Corresponding adjustments can keep up with the technological boom of the 21st century.

In the development process of e-commerce, the increase in product categories has only expanded the platform business. However, standardized service methods and changes in quality are also important hardware conditions.

If the online instant messaging customer service plug-in provided by skrpe is implanted into Yibi transactions, there will be no increase in operating expenses for the Yibi platform, and skrpe will provide all service support.

For sellers, they can also optionally provide upgraded customer service services. For these paid services, we only charge a certain share of the revenue after charging hundreds of millions of times."

"Since this is a multi-benefit thing, should we have the courage to try it?"

Spreading his hands, Ning Zimo looked calmly at Whitman opposite.

However, his voice seemed to exude some ultimate temptation.