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The next day, Zhou Buqi went to Xiaonei, held a high-level meeting, and made several important decisions.

The first is to cooperate with Dangdang.com to promote a wave of group buying sales of must-read books during the holidays; second, cancel the one-time feedback behavior of sending shoes, books, and big treasures, and change it to a long-term one. Welfare gift; Third, pay close attention to and start negotiations with Taobao on the position of the main advertisement on Xiaonei.com, but the advertisement space should be reduced.

The current Xiaonei main advertisement is very ugly. It is a large banner that fills the screen and is as wide as 4 centimeters.

Last year, Xiaonei signed an advertising contract with Taobao at the expense of some user experience because of the lack of profitability on Xiaonei.com. Now it is different, Xiaonei.com has enough confidence.

According to Zhou Buqi's request, reducing the 4 cm wide advertising banner to 1.5 cm wide will significantly improve the look and feel.

Of course, if the advertising space becomes smaller, it will lead to a reduction in advertising costs, which is basically a linear relationship.

During the meeting, Zhou Buqi kept secretly watching Shi Jinglin.

She had a calm expression, took notes seriously, and nodded slightly from time to time, showing nothing unusual. It seems that he really doesn't want to pursue the matter of being beaten.

Good thing!

After the meeting, Zhou Buqi went to Friends.com by car.

On the way, he asked, "Brother Luo, do you know a reliable bodyguard company? I need 20 bodyguards. They can't be ostentatious celebrity bodyguards, but they must have solid capabilities."

While driving the car, Luo Hualei asked calmly, "How long?"

"Before the Spring Festival, two months."

"Are you going to work at the end of this month?"

"Yes, it mainly protects Dongfang Weidian, as well as a few senior executives from Youyou. It's not a big problem for college students, and they usually don't leave the campus."

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Luo Hualei said lightly.

Zhou Buqi nodded.

The pool of anti-virus software is not clean, and there are all kinds of dirty methods. As soon as the micro-point anti-virus is launched, it will definitely arouse the public outrage of the entire industry.

You must protect yourself.

In contrast, he has cooperated with JD.com and conducted group buying mobile phone activities many times, but he has never felt such great pressure.

After going to Youyou.com, Zhou Buqi first went to see the internal test of the page game Friends Buying and Selling, and he was quite satisfied with the operation effect.

"Is the operating pressure okay?"

"The server has been expanded. It shouldn't be a big problem to have 30 million people online at the same time."

"That's good." Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied.

Zhang Yiming shook his head, "However, next year we will have to spend a lot of money to purchase equipment."

"Um?"

"Friends.com has developed to the present, with a user scale of 29 million, more and more data is generated, and management is becoming more and more difficult. It is necessary to use high-end IOE equipment, and there have been many data loss cases recently. This will not only Affecting users will also affect our data processing system."

"IOE device?"

Zhang Yiming coughed lightly, and explained: "I is the server of IBM, and our server is fine at present. O is the Oracle database, and we need to purchase better and more advanced database management services. E is the high-end storage equipment of EMC. Come back up."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "How much does it cost?"

"That's it for this year, next year... At least 5 million will be spent on this business."

"Not much."

"It's dollars."

"hiss!"

This time, Zhou Buqi felt a little pain in his flesh.

Friends.com has achieved such a large volume, and the infrastructure expenditure is a sky-high price. Including broadband fees and computer update fees, the annual expenditure is at least 50 million yuan!

More importantly, by next year, Friends.com will launch a blockbuster product!

"Buying and selling with friends" is just a stepping stone. The next "parking space grabbing" has been completed and has entered the stage of art design. There is also the real highlight-Happy Farm.

At that time, the number of visits will only increase.

Infrastructure spending will only get bigger.

"There are quite a few advertisers in contact with Friends, right?"

"Too much!"

Zhang Yiming said joyfully and helplessly.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Let's stick to it for a few more months. In June next year, Friends.com will start advertising. It will definitely not work if we continue to spend money like this."

Zhang Yiming expressed his understanding.

He is also under a lot of pressure. Xiaonei is making a lot of money every day, but Friends.com has to rely on Xiaonei to support him... Fortunately, after another half a year, he will be able to stand up straight.

The loyalty of Friends.com users is definitely not as high as that of Xiaonei.com, but the volume is larger.

If it is advertised, it will not be much worse than Xiaonei.

The two returned to his office.

After taking his seat, Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice, "Friends buy and sell, it will be online on time at 12:00 noon on December 1st, no problem?"

Zhang Yiming smiled, "Yes."

"That's good." Zhou Buqi nodded, "The installation volume of Micropoint Security Guard has reached 30 million. It is conceivable that once Micropoint Antivirus goes online, it will definitely cause a wave of downloads."

"Will the security guard pop up?"

"Yes, the pop-up window will jump to Friends Network to download Weidian Antivirus."

"Weipian Antivirus goes online at 12:00 noon, right?"

"Um."

Zhang Yiming thought for a while, "If this is the case, I think the friend trading should go online earlier, why not in the early morning. If something goes wrong, the technicians still have time to adjust. At 12 o'clock in the noon, there will be a lot of traffic coming in, not necessarily Can move around."

"Okay, you can deal with it." Zhou Buqi waved his hand, and suddenly thought of someone, "By the way, Tang Binchen works part-time here, how is it doing?"

"It's very good, the technology is very strong. There are many ideas, and I also participated in the design of grabbing parking spaces."

"Focus on training, our social games will go overseas, maybe it depends on him."

...

Xiaonei released the wind, and eBay was really interested.

The vice president in charge of marketing personally led the team and flew to the capital from Shanghai to start a meeting with the Xiaonei team.

It seems that they very much hope to seize the advertising resources of Xiaonei.com and form a countermeasure against Taobao.

Not only agreed to Xiaonei.com's request to reduce the length of the main business advertisement by more than half, but the conditions offered were also favorable enough.

Three sets of cooperation plans were given in one go.

One of the very attractive plans is to give a guaranteed advertising fee of 5 million yuan per month, and an additional advertising fee of 10 yuan/1000PV.

According to the current contract between Xiaonei.com and Taobao.com, once Xiaonei.com reduces the advertising space, the order will become 7.5 yuan/1000PV. The conditions offered by eBay are far superior to Taobao.

Of course, today's Taobao is not what it was a year or two ago.

Just got $1 billion and is rich too.

In the past, Taobao was very embarrassed because it couldn't grab the advertising space of the three major portals; now, Taobao is unambiguous in terms of bidding, and is extremely optimistic about the traffic resources of Xiaonei.

Hearing that Xiaonei.com and eBay were in contact, Sun Tongyu, the president of Taobao, immediately called Zhou Buqi and asked, "Are you in contact with eBay?"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "You can't blame us, we've been in touch since the summer. Didn't you say that you didn't intend to renew the contract? Xiaonei is always looking for another partner, right?"

"You know the competitive relationship between Taobao and eBay?"

"I heard it a little bit."

Sun Tongyu almost died of anger, "Student Zhou Buqi, what you're doing is a bit out of character!"

Zhou Buqi refused to accept his softness, "How did you say that? Your intention to renew the contract is indeed too late."

"The main advertisement of Xiaonei.com must be given to Taobao!" Sun Tongyu didn't want to go around with him anymore, and immediately expressed his attitude very seriously, "Don't worry about the price, Ali won't take advantage of college students."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I'm relieved. In business, of course, the one with the highest price wins. Of course, as an old partner, Taobao must be the priority at the same price."

"My work here... is a bit troublesome. I suggest you come to Hangzhou and let's finalize the details of the contract." Sun Tongyu's tone was obviously lacking in energy.

Zhou Buqi didn't delve into it, thought for a while, and said: "Not for a while, wait until after December, just... December 12, see you in Hangzhou, how about it?"

"The current contract expires at the end of December, it's better to be early so as not to delay each other." Sun Tongyu suggested.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "It can't be delayed, it's just an advertising contract, without so many details. Since it's a cooperation, it doesn't matter who makes more and who loses."

After finishing the call, he waved his arm.

It can even be used by Alibaba, and this is a conspiracy, and the other party has to accept it if they don't accept it. This feels so comfortable, and this is the embodiment of strength!

Not strong enough, not even qualified to negotiate.

For him, the most important thing during this time is the launch of Weidian Antivirus.

After this matter is settled, go to talk with Taobao.

After announcing the incident, Shi Jinglin came to her door.

"I'm going to Hangzhou too!"

"What?"

Zhou Buqi felt dizzy for a while.

Shi Jinglin remained expressionless, and said firmly, "I said, I also want to go to Hangzhou to participate in the advertisement negotiation with Taobao."

"It's such a small thing, what are you going to do?"

"Last time, you hit me with a stick."

"Well……"

Zhou Buqi was a little dumbfounded.

Well, the time has finally come. He tried hard to persuade: "Isn't the group purchase of mobile phones starting on December 5th? You are busy during that time, so don't go there."

Shi Jinglin was unmoved, and said flatly, "You hit me with a stick."

Zhou Buqi rubbed his forehead, "Aren't you still responsible for the preparation of Weimi.com and the welfare section, how can you have so much time?"

Shi Jinglin's face became even colder, "You hit me."

Zhou Buqi said angrily, "I said, are you finished?"

"You hit me, are you justified?" Shi Jinglin looked at him mockingly, "You haven't apologized to me yet."

Zhou Buqi sighed, and said in a low voice: "Shi Jinglin, we have to separate our business and private matters. Let's settle private matters in private. This is a business matter..."

"If you promise, I will forgive you."

"You really don't get in! If you talk to me again, believe it or not, I'll beat you up again?" Zhou Buqi slapped her as if he could slap her from four or five meters away.

Shi Jinglin took a deep look at him, her expression became colder and colder, her face seemed to be covered with frost, but she didn't mention that matter anymore, and said calmly, "I want to participate in the negotiation, and it's also for business."