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With the development of Ziwei Star to its current scale, Zhou Buqi has to adjust his management strategy and further decentralize power. Especially for domestic business, we don’t need to track the process, just look at the results. Let He Yang, Xu Liangjie, and Zhang Yiming take on more responsibilities.

The stability of Helo gave Ziweixing a soul for its business in the domestic market, which is regarded as stable.

Next, focus more on overseas business.

Early the next morning, Zhou Buqi called the driver and went to Jinmen.

Chatted with Tang Binchen all the way.

"YikYak's registered users have exceeded 5 million, which is not very satisfying. I don't think we should just rely on Yahoo's static marketing, but we should move it up."

"How to say?"

Tang Binchen said: "Facebook's business in Japan is not going well, because there is Ameba, its blog site, which has most of the celebrity blogs and personal pages in Japan. This is a huge attraction. I chatted with Wang Xing and Chen Tong. , They said that if Weibo wants to be successful, it must follow the celebrity route. Just like the Sina blog.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, use the influence and attractiveness of celebrities to acquire new users."

Tang Binchen sighed: "It's not easy to gather all the local celebrities. We don't have the resources in this area, even Softbank. Yahoo Japan's blogging business is far inferior to Ameba."

"What do you think?"

"Cooperate with a local brokerage company and go to..."

"inappropriate!"

After listening to half a sentence, Zhou Buqi interrupted him.

Tang Binchen was a little surprised, "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Don't talk about Japan first, let's talk about China. Weibo is going to be a celebrity strategy, what do you think should be done? Find a brokerage company or an intermediary company to contact one by one?"

"Hmm..." Tang Binchen choked for a moment, "The situation is still different. Behind Weibo is Youyou.com, and Chen Tong even has a lot of celebrity resources on Sina Blog."

Zhou Buqi said: "Strategically, we must be generous. I still say that the Japanese market is determined to win. I know that blogging is a business under Ameba, and the main media business is still an SNS website similar to Friends. In the short term, it is true. More competitive than Facebook. However, I believe that Ameba will not have an easy time under the impact of Facebook."

Tang Binchen said: "Indeed, I heard that many people have been poached."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's right. Facing the aggressiveness of the Silicon Valley giants, Ameba must be tense and uneasy. Especially now that the global economy is on the verge of collapse, it is even more serious. This is an opportunity. You go to Ameba and come to the door Let’s talk. Ziwei Xing is willing to help.”

"ah?"

Tang Binchen was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Buqi continued: "If I remember correctly, Ameba didn't purchase the open platform of Friends.com, did it?"

Tang Binchen said, "No."

"That's all right. Ziweixing can help Ameba in all aspects, from business to strategy, from resources to funds, and help them resist Facebook. Help them survive the cracks between the Silicon Valley giants and the financial crisis."

"this……"

Tang Binchen took a deep breath.

It can be regarded as feeling the courage and confidence of Boss Zhou.

YikYak wants to do celebrity strategy, the best way, of course, is to ask Ameba for help. Just like Weibo, if you ask friends.com for help, you can easily create a celebrity route.

But the problem is that YikYak is a website run by a group of foreigners, and Ameba may not be willing to help.

Even if you are willing to help, you have to kill them severely.

It's better to go directly to brokerage companies and intermediary companies to operate.

Boss Zhou's solution is very ingenious, directly changing the positions of the host and the guest!

It should not be YikYak who is looking for help, but Ameba! Under the double impact of Facebook and the financial crisis, as long as there is no foresight, Ameba must be worried and distracted, and many people have been poached away.

If Ziweixing offered to help at this time, it would definitely be a piece of cake from the sky.

The Youyou network under Ziweixing has a high degree of overlap in business with Ameba. The difference is that Friends.com has higher technical content, and more and more novel ways of playing.

Ameba is very traditional, monotonous and rough, and does not even have an open platform.

Zhou Buqi asked, "Ameba isn't on the market, is it?"

"No. Ameba is a holding subsidiary of CyberAgent. CyberAgent is a listed company, but Ameba is not."

"How much is the valuation?"

"It shouldn't be too high. The market value of CyberAgent is less than US$5 billion. Ameba has no advertisements, and it seems that it has not made a profit. I estimate... US$1 billion is not bad."

Zhou Buqi said bluntly: "It doesn't matter, since you are sure, go up and do it! You can study it over there, come to talk with Ameba, and discuss in-depth strategic cooperation with Ameba. We want to get as many shares and voting rights as possible. Well, the bottom line is 25%, to enter the board of directors. Ziweixing will provide Ameba with relevant experience, technical achievements and excellent products in operating Friends.com to help them compete with Facebook."

"At least 25% of the shares..."

Tang Binchen took another breath.

Even if it is a strategic investment, the price will be much lower than that of wind investment, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Previously, the group had already allocated US$500 million to its Japanese business, and it seems that it will continue to add more.

What a waste of money!

If this is the case, and the business in Japan cannot be done, then he should really commit suicide in Tokyo, and go back to the country to see the elders in his hometown without words.

"What do you think of my plan?"

"It's pretty good, that's..."

"Um?"

"It's just too much money."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Investment, after taking over, we must actively promote Ameba's listing. Try to cash out the money within 3-5 years. In the short term, Ameba is stronger than Facebook, but in the long run, Facebook is still more powerful. Japan’s Internet is not closed, and under the global connection, Facebook, which has more powerful user resources, must be more attractive.”

Tang Binchen gritted his teeth, "Okay, I understand."

Zhou Buqi gave a soft "hmm", "After taking down Ameba, the development of YikYak can be smoothed all the way. This matter must be done well. Um... as soon as possible, preferably within a month or two." It's settled."

At this stage, Friends.com's open platform is still very competitive.

However, 2008 is the first year of the "application center", and all major platforms have launched their own application centers, that is, open platforms. Apple also launched the Apple Store this year.

Facebook saw that the open platform was a rotten street, so they stopped hiding it and directly open sourced it.

Once open source, Friends Network's open platform is not attractive.

We have to make a time difference, and use the reason of helping Ameba build an open platform for free to complete the strategic shareholding as soon as possible.

YikYak's global business development, in addition to its own conditions are strong enough, there is another factor, the strength of competitors is not strong. If the competitor is strong, try to weaken it.

The U.S. side is already in operation, and Twitter has to be held back.

Same here in Japan.

As long as strangers socialize, there will definitely be local websites similar to Twitter appearing in Japan. Among them, the most likely to succeed must be Ameba.

Just like the domestic market.

Why can Sina Weibo beat all other Weibo competitors? This is not a first-mover advantage. There are at least a dozen or twenty microblog sites launched earlier than Sina Weibo.

The reason is Sina Blog!

Sina Blog is the number one in the industry. Transforming to Weibo, it is easy to complete the diversion of celebrities and realize the development of new businesses. The celebrity route is a key factor in the success of this type of social media.

In the Japanese market, of course it is Ameba.

If there is no strategic investment in Ameba, Ameba will definitely launch a Twitter-like business in a year or two.

At that time, Ameba, who has celebrity resources in hand, is likely to complete a counterattack and surpass YikYak.

This uncontrollable risk should be ruled out in advance.

Turn Ameba and YikYak into "family".

If Ameba really wants to build a similar website one day, Ziweixing can use internal stumbling blocks and black hands to obstruct it everywhere, just like it handles Twitter.

In addition, there is another important reason.

Strangers have a larger social scale and a wider range of topics, but their trust is not high. Social acquaintances are more polite, friendlier, and more trustworthy.

This is the reason why Moments can do e-commerce, but Weibo can’t do e-commerce.

In other words, Ameba's SNS business is more suitable for e-commerce drainage than YikYak.

Recommending products to friends will definitely have a higher success rate than recommending products to strangers.

Liu Qiangdong has already opened up.

After the seventh day, I will go to Japan to investigate the e-commerce market.

Seeing that he was about to arrive in Jinmen, Zhou Buqi hung up the phone, his thoughts changed rapidly, and he thought of Teacher Han Yan's white, tender, soft, warm and plump body.

What a rare treat!

The charm and amorous feelings are really not what little girls like Yang Mi and Jiang Bingjie can bring.

At this time, Lao Zhang called, panting, "Xiao Zhou, where are you!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Happy New Year, I'm working."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "The Chinese New Year is still going to work, come to Sanya, I am playing beach volleyball here, the sun is so good, and bikini beauties are also nice. Come on vacation and relax?"

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "It's not necessary to relax, I still like to be tight."

"You are young, you... Forget it, love will come or not! I went to play, and I died!" Lao Zhang hurried, panting, and it seemed that his physical strength was exhausted.

Zhou Buqi secretly despised him.

Soon, I received a text message from Teacher Han Yan: "I'm getting on the bus and will enter the city in half an hour."

Zhou Buqi was serious for a while: "I'm coming soon, shall we go to eat first, or go shopping?"

Han Yan: "Let's open the room first."

Zhou Buqi: "Alright, I will help you satisfy your hunger."

Han Yan: "Bah, I don't know who is greedy."

Zhou Buqi: "Mr. Han, let me inspect you this time. Be good, be gentle, and be good. If you do well, I will keep you with you for a few more years. If you do not do well, you may have to break up. "

Han Yan didn't respond.

After a minute, the text message came back: "Are you tired of this?"

Zhou Buqi: "I'm not tired, it's just... I have a lot of choices here, and I can only choose the best."

Han Yan: "You really have a lot of women."

Zhou Buqi: "Yes."

Han Yan: "Then what should I do?"

Zhou Buqi: "Just listen to my arrangement, I will spend more time training you."

"I don't."

"Then there's no way."

"Little rascal."