The average number of visitors per day exceeds 50,000. Not only Elizabeth, but most people will not easily believe this number, but it is already an indisputable fact.
Since the emergence of personal computers in the 1980s, North America alone has accumulated tens of millions of users. These are the important foundations for the successful promotion of network services. After Clinton took office, he stepped up the promotion of the information superhighway plan at the government level. .
However, the most important thing is that the graphical interface browser that appeared two years in advance has lowered the threshold for ordinary people to explore the Internet world. In addition, the content support provided by the Yahoo portal and online services such as free e-mail have made Internet services no longer limited. Focusing on professional computing personnel, it began to expand to the broadest user base, so Yahoo has today's user scale.
"If you have to explore the reason," Eric replied after hearing Elizabeth's doubts, "it's similar to the appearance of televisions in the 1950s and 1960s. People found that they could observe the world through a small box, so they chose to buy it." , investors saw the profit, and they also set up TV stations to provide content, and gradually formed a very large industry. The current situation is that the computer network can not only observe the world, but also communicate with the world, and the relevant software and hardware conditions are also It has been accumulated for more than ten years, and once it starts to explode, the expansion is of course very rapid."
Elizabeth said: "But it's impossible for the traditional paper media industry to be eliminated because of this?"
Eric nodded and said: "Of course not, but it will be far from being as beautiful as before."
Elizabeth suddenly smiled and said: "Then what should I do now? I told my old man, bah bah, I mean, I told my dad that the newspaper industry is about to decline, so we should not buy it? Do you think he will because Do a few words of yours change an ingrained opinion?"
Eric spread his hands and said: "Then, in the second half of the year, Firefly will sort out this part of the assets and sell them publicly. News Corporation will come to participate in the bidding. In business, Firefly will sell to whoever bids the highest price."
Elizabeth felt that this was the only way to go, so she went back and told her old man what Eric had said. Even if it doesn't affect his final judgment, at least News Corp. will not bid so aggressively out of this scruples when bidding.
"One more thing," the two were about to leave after talking, when Eric called Elizabeth again. Dao: "You don't want to disclose the scale of Yahoo's user data."
Although Yahoo, Internet Explorer and Hotmail have been closely watched by the industry since they were just launched, on the one hand, the industry has only seen that the three companies are burning money without any output; on the other hand, these three companies have never made it public. Only after publishing any data of the company can it maintain a silent expansion posture for several consecutive years. Although many people have realized that the user scale of the three companies is already very large, but without specific data, it is not enough to stimulate the awakening of too many people. If the data just now is publicly disclosed, many industry giants will realize what it means to have a total user scale of 20,000 and an average of more than 50,000 visits per day, such a huge user base. Even if there is no profit prospect for the time being, it is definitely a field with broad investment prospects, and a large number of competitors will be attracted to this field at that time.
Elizabeth stopped and asked, "Can't even my dad say it?"
Eric nodded solemnly and said, "Especially you can't tell your old man."
Elizabeth hammered Eric angrily, but still agreed: "I know, but these things should not be hidden sooner or later, right?"
Eric clenched his fist confidently, waved it lightly, and said, "As long as there is another year to plan, the chips in my hand will be enough to crush any competitor!"
Portal websites and online mailboxes are relatively easy to replicate. But as long as the instant messaging software developed by Steve Mitnick is popularized, combined with other means such as the technical barriers of the IE browser, weaving into a huge user network, it will be like a black hole to attract all new Internet users. Suck it in.
The Matthew effect of the strong in the Internet industry getting stronger and the weak getting weaker is very obvious. Once a behemoth in a certain field is formed, it is difficult for similar companies to compete with it.
Elizabeth couldn't help but stared at Eric's calm and confident side face for a few seconds, and felt Eric's eyes move, and quickly avoided, saying: "By the way, you just said that I would recommend you A Yahoo editor-in-chief?"
Eric saw Virginia waving at them outside. Walking outside with Elizabeth, he asked, "Do you have any good candidates?"
"I don't know if it's a good candidate, you can only judge for yourself," Elizabeth said, "You know about Vanity Fair, right?"
"Well," Eric nodded, and then remembered someone: "You don't mean Tina Brown, would she be willing to leave Condé Nast?"
The portal website has just emerged, and Eric can only choose talents from traditional media, and this person must have a strong enterprising spirit and an unconservative personality, otherwise it will be difficult to accept the new field of Internet media. In the original time and space, Tina Brown has successively led many magazines such as "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker" to the peak through a series of innovations. She should only be in her early forties now. These necessary personalities are not lacking, and they are exactly the foundation of her career. In the peak period, if this woman can really be recruited to Yahoo as the editor-in-chief, it would be a good choice.
It's just that in my memory, Tina Brown left the position of editor-in-chief of "Vanity Fair" magazine and directly transferred to another magazine "The New Yorker" under the Condé Nast Publishing Group as the editor-in-chief.
Elizabeth said: "Tina just resigned from "Vanity Fair" at the beginning of the year. We are still familiar with her. I saw her at a party two days ago. Condé Nast plans to let her become the editor-in-chief of "The New Yorker", but Tina still has no choice. In hesitation, she is not a person who likes to repeat, if there is a better option, I think she would not mind to try it."
Eric said: "Then leave me a call later."
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As night fell, the manor villa was brightly lit inside and outside.
Since it was a birthday party, it naturally started with blowing out the candles, and everyone tried their best to coax the two little guys who had just turned one year old. Hawaii, who was already able to call her mother, watched the people around her pointing at the candle on the cake in front of her, seeming very impatient. Finally, she simply stretched out her little hand and grabbed the candle, which was regarded as extinguishing the candle, causing a burst of laughter. Little Kevin was frightened by a circle of strangers and burst into tears. In the end, the candle was blew out by Emma who was eager to try.
Finish dividing the cake. The party has officially begun, tables are filled with grab-and-go dinners, and guests start to gather in twos and threes, sitting or standing.
Eric walked through the crowd with a glass of red wine to greet the guests, and was continuing the topic of movies in the afternoon with Pierre Clarke and others from Merrill Lynch. Joanna walked up to him suddenly and gently tugged on his sleeve.
"Sorry, excuse me," Eric nodded to several people, and then came to the side with Joanna. Asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"
Joanna just said softly: "Eric, come with me."
Eric followed Joanna into the villa with some confusion, and went upstairs through the hall full of guests. Joanna pointed to the bedroom and said, "Vicky is crying, go and persuade her, I don't know what to say."
Eric stopped and asked, "What's going on, wasn't it fine just now?"
"About Kevin," Joanna said, "Xiaxia was able to talk more than a month ago. Kevin can't say anything, and just now..."
Eric almost understood when he heard half of it, smiled helplessly, and said, "Go down and entertain the guests, I'll do it myself."
Pushing open the bedroom door, he saw Virginia bending over to change the diaper of the little guy lying on the bed. Eric walked over and leaned on the big bed casually, looking at Virginia's reddish eye circles, He said: "There's no need for this. Boys develop later than girls. Einstein was only three years old before he could speak, and the little guy is only one year old. What are you in a hurry for?"
"Everyone thinks Kevin is stupid, they just don't say it." Virginia felt her nose sore, and seemed to be crying again, handed the little guy to Eric, and said, "Hug He, maybe you won’t like him when you grow up.”
"What nonsense?" Eric glared at the woman. Holding the little guy in his arms, stretched out a finger to tease his son, staring wide-eyed Kevin saw the finger dangling above him, grabbed it and put it in his mouth, the few just grown The little deciduous teeth gnawed and itched.
Seeing the intimacy between the father and son, Virginia felt a little relieved, pulled one over and sat on the side of the bed, and suddenly sighed with regret: "I should have chosen a caesarean section in the first place, and Kevin must have been absent for a long time. Oxygen does that."
"Didn't you test Kevin's IQ to say there is no problem?"
Virginia said: "How can such a young child be accurate."
Eric realized that the woman who accepted death could not turn the corner, so he had to whisper to his son lying beside him: "Baby, learn to speak quickly, if you don't speak, mother will not like you."
The little guy stared at Eric with round eyes, as if he didn't understand Eric's words, and seemed to understand it again.
Eric looked at his son like this, and tentatively said, "Come on, call Dad to listen, follow me, Dad"
After a short period of silence, the little guy in his arms suddenly uttered a short syllable: "Papa"
Although the pronunciation was very vague, Eric and Virginia could hear them clearly in the quiet bedroom. Virginia stood up suddenly from the chair with a look of surprise on her face, never There is no sadness just now.
"Let me just say, this little bastard is definitely pretending to be stupid." Eric suddenly laughed, turned the little guy over and slapped the little butt lightly, and said: "And he is waiting here to occupy I am cheap, and I have to shout out before I will speak out."
Although Eric didn't use any force in his hands, the little guy still started crying immediately. Virginia quickly snatched her son from Eric, coaxed her son with a doting face, and He unceremoniously blasted the 'culprit' who made his baby bump cry out of the room.
When Eric went downstairs, Joanna greeted him nervously.
"It's okay," Eric smiled and told Joanna what happened just now, and Joanna also breathed a sigh of relief: "Now Vicky can finally rest assured."
"She just cares and messes up," Eric said with a laugh.
Most of the guests in the villa were female guests. Eric and Joanna had a few words and were about to leave. Chris' girlfriend Emily came over and blocked Eric's way.
"You can't just throw me a sentence and lose everything. I've already contacted a lot of models, and now I'm short of your plan."
Eric smiled and pointed outside: "You still have the mood to worry about this."
Emily showed an annoyed look, but she couldn't complain that Eric brought Jeffrey: "Chris will explain to Jeffrey, we just bought ltd, and we are so busy every day that we almost don't have time to sleep, You can still take care of getting married there. Don't change the subject, okay, you were the one who encouraged us to buy Ltd, so you can't let it go. "
"I never planned to let it go," Eric said, "It's just that I haven't had time recently, you don't know this, and even if I tell you my plan, you can't do it yourself, I have to do it myself, and you can only cooperate."
"I can't do anything. It's important for you to disclose it first. At least I can prepare in advance."
"I'm going to direct an annual Victoria's Secret runway myself."
Emily was a little disappointed, and retorted: "Is that all? How could I not be able to do this? It's not like you didn't come to New York Fashion Week last year. I personally operated the fashion show in Brighton, and now Victoria's Secret also has The annual new product release show."
"Of course there are more than that. I want to gather first-line supermodels from all over the world to walk the show, invite the most popular pop singers on the spot, and use all-round media marketing channels such as newspaper preheating, magazine promotion, TV live broadcast and online discussion to make the fashion show an event. The fashion carnival makes Victoria's Secret a popular symbol attracting worldwide attention."
Although Eric only revealed a simple idea, Emily's jaw almost dropped from the shock of Eric's huge idea, and she stammered, "This...how much will it cost?"
"First of all, my personal director's fee needs to be at least 10,000 US dollars, which is still a discounted price." Eric joked, and then said: "What we should value is how much money this marketing strategy can make for the company. Rather than spending money, I guarantee that it will be absolutely insignificant relative to the expected future benefits.” (To be continued.)