Hollywood Hunter

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After dinner, I talked with Janet's parents about some recent things. At more than nine o'clock, the Simons and his wife did not return to their own villas and stayed in the mansion directly.

In the bedroom upstairs, Simon came out of the bathroom after taking a bath, and saw Janet, who had put on her pajamas, holding a pillow in her arms, standing beside the bed and staring intently, saying, "I will sleep with my aunt tonight."

Simon paused a little, and soon continued to wipe his wet hair with a towel and nodded with a smile: "Okay, after being squeezed by you for so long, I happened to rest for one night."

Janet did not move, still looking at Simon fixedly.

Simon casually pulled the towel on his head slightly forward, keeping it in front of his eyes and continuing to wipe.

Janet wrinkled her nose, seeing the man come to hug her body, and subconsciously catered up, and because of the pillow in the middle, he also probed his face and kissed him cooperatively.

"good night."

"OK, good night."

I promised this, but my heart was more distressed.

little bastard.

Really let me go with my aunt.

Even if you cheated me.

Or, just whispering and pressing people on the bed, I don’t know anything.

After Simon said good night, he released Janet and hung the towel. When she saw that she hadn't moved, she didn't say anything. She just reached out and took the pillow from the woman's arms and threw it on the bed. She grabbed Janet's waist and continued to put The woman was also thrown on the big bed, then threw herself up.

However, after more than an hour, Janet still let go of the sleeping man and quietly left the bedroom of the two.

The next day is Sunday, February 3.

Since leaving Los Angeles on January 20 until now, the couple has taken a two-week break.

In the cabin of the Boeing 767, after the plane took off, Simon had been sitting in the front cabin reading room to read the documents accumulated during this time, Janet sat across the chin and looked at his husband, all kinds of small emotions in the bright eyes fluttered. .

Simon actually knew about the quiet departure of Janet last night.

I just don’t know what Veronica and Janet said.

Now the woman does not speak, and Simon does not take the initiative to pick up a certain topic.

I really don't know how to deal with it.

Opposite the desk, Janet looked at his man for a long time, and finally sighed softly. He couldn't understand what was going on.

The aunt was obviously bullied, and even turned towards him.

It's the same as myself.

Is it just because of last time?

Janet couldn't help but touch her wrist.

Little bastard.

You are such a devil.

Silently decided to come to Melbourne as little as possible in the future, at least, he should not be allowed to come alone.

Helplessly relieved, Janet picked up a folder on the desktop and looked at it, and looked down.

This is the incremental statistical bodyguard for AOL online trial users in January.

Janet is also aware of the trial program carried out by AOL, but, looking at the 2.3 million user appointment installations in the folder and the actual number of official installations of only 810,000, Janet couldn’t help but be surprised by the opposite side. The folder asked, "Why is there so much difference?"

Simon raised his head and glanced at the document. He had just read it and said, "It is mainly a manpower problem. For this trial, AOL prepared a total of 5,000 formal and temporary installation personnel on the east and west coasts. According to the original expectations, It can roughly complete the installation of 1 million users per month. In fact, things are more difficult than expected, and there are many problems. You can look at more specific numbers. Of the 810,000 installation users, 390,000 are from Bell Atlantic In the area of ​​operation, this is Bell Atlantic’s initiative to cooperate with us to solve problems such as line equipment, and also hired some employees for this purpose."

Simon said, feeling in his heart.

The move to acquire Bell Atlantic in advance,

AOL just signed a 10-year exclusive agreement with the three major regional operators last year, so Bell Atlantic is also unable to get involved in Internet access services.

A few months later, seeing the sudden outbreak of Internet access users, the number of subscription users in a month exceeded 2.3 million, and the three major operators obviously began to regret signing the original agreement.

You know, users try this kind of activity for free, and all major telecom operators actually get involved, but no one has experienced such a crazy number of user reservations.The number of appointments in just one month, if all completed, is already equivalent to one-tenth of the total number of users of the three major operators.

The users of the three major operators have indeed been able to achieve this after decades of accumulation.

In the past month, the three major operators have even found that some users have deliberately transferred from other small telecommunications operators in the region to their own subsidiaries in order to get a free trial opportunity, which is even more surprising.

The US telecommunications industry has a very open competitive environment, and a city may have several telecommunications operators.Of course, the main reason is to lease AT-T's giant line networks, and then develop its own telephone business.Regional giants such as Bell Atlantic, Bell Pacific and NYNEX have always wanted to squeeze these small operators out of the market, just because they often have lower charging costs than themselves, which is often difficult to achieve.

Now, AOL, which is also attached to them, unexpectedly promoted this matter.

The top executives of the three major operators probably all understand that trying to match the expansion of AOL is also very conducive to the increase in their number of users.

However, the reason is to understand that it is not so easy to really promote it.

No one wants outsiders to build a villa that is more beautiful than their own house in their yard. Even if they can’t stop it, even if the other party pays for it, even if such a ‘villa’ appears in their yard, many tourists may pay to visit. It is also difficult for the head of the household to persuade himself to cooperate unpretentiously.

Of course, after the formal takeover of Bell Atlantic in January, this company has become a member of the Westeros system, but management such as Raymond Smith can do this.

The other two, Bell Pacific and NYNEX, are not so reluctant.

The agreement originally stated that in addition to developing a line network, if you want additional support, AOL will need to pay more.

Because of the huge amount of capital invested, AOL management even implemented this free trial plan with an unsuccessful and benevolent mentality. Naturally, it is impossible to invest additional budgets for these operators.

In the end, it caused the situation that the first month of 810,000 installation users and 390,000 were from the actively cooperated Bell Atlantic operating area.

In the cabin study room, after listening to Simon’s explanation, Janet continued to turn over the information in her hand and quickly asked again: “The budget of $100 per household is too low, can it be achieved?”

Simon Road: "100 US dollars, 20 US dollars for labor costs, 30 US dollars for network costs, and the last 50 US dollars for equipment and software costs, but this is based on the data that is expected to eventually become official users."

In this free trial program, AOL mainly hired and trained 3,000 temporary installation employees from some university campuses. According to the standard of piece-rate charges, the installation fee is $20.The home phone penetration rate in the United States exceeds 90%. This trial plan is also selected. It must be a user of the three major operators. No additional lines need to be set up. Only the phone terminal of the user’s home can be equipped with equipment to access the computer. .

In terms of equipment and software, it is mainly a modem, an interface network card plugged into the motherboard, a network card driver, and browser software.

This set of equipment and software is actually very expensive, with a total cost of approximately US$200.Once the trial user does not correct, AOL will take back these devices.Even users who are cancelled after the regularization will be the same in the future.

Because the recovered equipment can be reused, AOL gave an average budget of $50 at a conversion rate of 25%.

Speaking carefully, this actually means a book game.

In the final analysis, AOL is facing too much financial pressure.

It is also because of this, despite having 2.3 million terrorist appointment users, AOL management has no intention of increasing the number of workers.On the one hand, it is not easy to achieve, even if those temporary workers have been trained, on the other hand, naturally because of cost.

Moreover, it is also necessary to consider whether this heat is only temporary.

Hastily added a team of workers, once the user trial enthusiasm has cooled down, it is also trouble.

Next, AOL plans to achieve more than 1 million monthly installations as expected through a more reasonable screening and allocation of reserved users.Then, three months after the IPO, the market will give AOL a very good valuation.

On the other hand, feeling the difficulty of queuing to get a trial opportunity can also promote the trial user to a positive degree to a large extent.

After all, things that are too easy to get are not always cherished.If you wait in line for more than a month, and finally become a trial user, after one month expires, look around and maybe some people are still waiting hard. The thoughts of giving up will definitely fade away.

Speaking carefully, this is actually a kind of alternative hunger marketing.

After a 17-hour flight, when I arrived in Los Angeles, it was still Sunday morning on February 3 because of the time difference.

Continue to rest until the next day, Simon flew to San Francisco again early in the morning on Monday.

This time it was for work.

The housekeeper Alice Ferguson continued to squeeze on Simon during this time, and finally came up with two business plans, two business plans that Igrid, AOL, and even Bell Atlantic attach great importance to.

Two business solutions, one is an online payment system and the other is an online software store.

The former is actually similar to the later PayPal, the latter is equivalent to the APPStore of the Apple mobile phone in Simon's memory.

Moreover, the two business plans actually complement each other.

Eaglet has been exploring reliable commercial profit channels. The World Wide Web software is one aspect. It has achieved initial results under the management of Carol Bartz in the past year.

In terms of portals, in addition to advertising, Jeff Bezos has also been considering other ways of making money.Although the cooperation between the software department and the network department is very smooth under Simon's forcible reconciliation, it is simply not realistic to rely on the software department to feed the network department in the short term. If the dependency is really formed, the portal is not destined to last.

The female butler received inspiration from Simon. The continuously improved online payment system and online software store let Jeff Bezos see hope, and even let AOL and Raymond Smith of Bell Atlantic see the implications. Business potential.

The Igret headquarters near Stanford University.

In the conference room, high-level officials such as Simon, Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz, Steve Case, John Chambers, and Raymond Smith sat on both sides of the conference table, listening to the housekeeper Introduce your business plan in front of the projector and answer all your doubts.

"...If you want to build an online payment system, you can't do without corresponding products. Therefore, we must build a complete online consumer ecosystem. The online software store is the most important part of it. The market for computer application software The potential is only evident from the development of Microsoft and Oracle in the past few years..."

"... Moreover, there is never a shortage of excellent commercial software in the market, especially some small professional applications with strong professional nature, which restrict their development mainly through sales channels. The same is true of PC games with increasing market size, many Professional software designers can produce a product of no less quality than professional game companies in private, but because of various restrictions, they are also unable to distribute and sell the game..."

"...Now Igrid has an unparalleled channel advantage. Using the World Wide Web platform, we can cross the mainstream Apple Macintosh system, Microsoft Windows system, traditional DOS system and other operating system platforms. With this Online advantage, we can easily distribute and sell application software, computer games and other products to these platform users at a very low cost, and the company can extract from it and divide it into..."

"...In addition, after the online payment system is completed, using this system, we can further promote online payment, online retail and other businesses..."

The female housekeeper constantly switched the PPT, and continued to talk for twenty minutes, and finally stopped.

Everyone waited patiently for this beautifully short-haired girl to drink a few sips from the glass on the table, and Raymond Smith first asked: "Alice, you just said that the online payment system's User accounts are bound to a physical credit card. Have you thought about the difficulty of achieving this goal? Over the years, commercial banks have struggled to enter the American Express card payment system, and they have not succeeded. Similarly, how do you Ensure that commercial banks will open payment interfaces to us?"

Hearing this problem, Alice Ferguson swept around in the conference room, and finally fell on Simon for a moment, saying: "The entire Westero system, including Bell Atlantic and Universal Pictures, which just completed the acquisition, annually The cash flow reaches tens of billions of dollars, and the demand for commercial loans is also very considerable. I believe this is a customer that any commercial bank needs to strive for. If such a customer proposes to fight for an online payment interface, I don’t think there is too much. Difficult."

Everyone heard this answer in a daze, and immediately smiled.

I did not expect the answer to be so simple and straightforward.

Even a little rude.

Indeed, if a small company without roots wants to build such an online payment system, it is only the bank that is enough to make the business plans of these small companies dead.

However, Igrid has the entire Westeros system as a support.

It is really easy to do this.