Chapter 825 Insurance for $0.99 per Year
The cancellation of three-year dividends and the cancellation of this year's rewards means that I only have a little annual salary this year, and my income has been doubled instantly. How can this make Benier feel pain like a knife? It's just that Benier's expression of eating shit, but Lin Zheng pretends not to see it. Who made you make a mistake?
Nodded and said, "Very good, let's talk about how to deal with this matter: First, the company will immediately create an account recovery system. ~"
Although he was depressed, Benier's thinking became a little more agile. When he heard Lin Zheng say this, he was shocked and asked quickly: "Retrieve the account system?"
"Well, in my imagination, this account retrieval system is divided into two parts. One part is for the user, which guides the user to set up an account retrieval problem. For example, we set up several questions to let the user set a specific answer, and then you can retrieve your account through the email or phone number specified by the user; the other part is that our company sets up a group of special servers to regularly backup the data on all accounts. I think this backup time is a cycle of one week. As long as the user retrieves the account within a week after the user loses the account, he can restore all the data from a week ago without worrying about his friends being deleted."
"Okay!" Benier's eyes lit up, and he immediately realized the benefits of doing this: What do icq users hate the most? In addition to being stolen, the most hateful thing is that the friends in their account have been deleted completely by others. But now, as long as you apply for account protection, even if the friends in your account have been deleted completely, they can not only be retrieved through the prosecution system. Even the friends in them can be retrieved, which is equivalent to the money in their wallet being stolen by the thief and then being retrieved intact. For users, what a temptation is this?
He asked Lin Zheng carefully: "Boss, should we set this function as a function that only members can enjoy?"
Lin Zheng was also a little moved when he heard Benier say this. None of the live chat software that exists in the market today has account prosecution and data backup function. IQ will be the first in the world. Even if IQ set this function to a privilege that only members can enjoy, I believe that many users will choose to become members in order to ensure the safety of their accounts. However, after some trade-offs, Lin Zheng shook his head and said, "No, the account protection function is new for icq, which is comprehensively oriented to all icq users. We will not decide whether to give them this function just because our users have become our members. For all users, the importance of their accounts is the same."
"Ah?" Hearing his boss's words, Benil sighed immediately, but he had just been made such a big mistake, so he naturally didn't want to anger his boss, so he had to nod his head down: "Okay, you have the final say."
But I didn't expect that Lin Zheng had not finished speaking, and he continued: "So all icq users can add an insurance policy to their account as long as they spend $0.99."
That’s right, for every account, whether it’s a member account or an ordinary account, you can protect your account for only $0.99, free? Please! This is the United States! I have provided you with such a great service, is it expensive for less than $1?
$0.99? Benier was stunned for a moment. Then he gave Lin Zheng a thumbs up and said in great admiration: "Gao!"
Such a new feature. In fact, the technical difficulty is not high. It is just a database system with a relatively high security level. But one account can earn $0.99? Benier finally knew why he could only be a worker, but this young man is his boss: Why didn’t he expect this way to make money?
As for the current size of IQ users, even if only 10% of users apply for account security protection, they would have had a net income of tens of millions of dollars that year.
Thinking of this, Benier suddenly thought of one thing: "Boss, is this $0.99 a year?"
Hum? After hearing what Benier said, Lin Zheng suddenly didn't react: one year?
Lin Zheng didn't think much about the decision to charge a service fee of US$0.99 for the value-added IQ, but now he heard Benier say this, he immediately reacted: Yes, why can't this money be collected once a year?
Insurance, utility bills, property management fees... so many fees are paid on time. Americans have long been used to this payment method. What's wrong with collecting the insurance fee of my account every year? Anyway, no real-time chat software did not have such a value-added service before. I created a precedent. It's not up to you to decide how to collect money? The only problem he was worried about was...
"Benier, do you think AOL will follow us to do this, which will not only further reduce the price, but also be free?"
"This is impossible!" Benier said decisively without thinking.
"Hmm? Why?"
"Because boss, you have developed a new source of wealth for all the companies that need to backup and retrieve information. This is a great innovation! Not only live chat software companies, but also for all Internet companies," Looking at Lin Zheng, Benier's attitude was unprecedentedly serious and sincere: "Boss, please believe me, no one will be unable to get over money. Regardless of whether they compete with us, in terms of charging account preservation service fees, they will definitely stand on our side and fully support us. The price of $0.99 per year will definitely become a recognized fee in the industry."
Yes, Lin Zheng knows how hard it is to live now. There are only a few Internet companies like yahoo!, icq that can make money. Most Internet companies are in a loss state and need external funds to maintain it. For all Internet companies, no company can refuse such a revenue. For IQ's innovation, all companies will only raise their hands to agree. After understanding this point, Lin Zheng also smiled, "Okay, just do it like this, the service fee of $0.99 a year... If you think it's expensive, you can't spend this money!"
After a pause, Lin Zheng thought for a while and added: "Well, by the way, in order to make our users feel that the $0.99 is not spent in vain, all users who have purchased our account security service will provide an additional chat record roaming function. As long as they are members, their chat records on machine a can also be seen after logging in with machine b."
"Chain records roaming? Good idea!" Bernier's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this.
Speaking of Internet companies, they often take the exam to take the school, but not technology, but creativity. For example, the roaming function of this chat record. Benil knew that many people actually had this trouble. They talked to friends on the machine of the unit for a long time. When they came home from get off work at night, they used their home computer to chat with their friends before continuing the previous topic, they couldn't remember some details. At this time, they thought that it would be great if they could see the chat record on the computer at home, but there was no such technology. But is the roaming function of this chat record difficult? In fact, it is not difficult at all, but no one can think of it.
The boss gave two ideas in succession, which could almost wipe out the problems facing IQ now. Benil could no longer sit still and stood up and walked out: "Boss, I'll make arrangements now."
What to arrange? Of course, we should first spread some news and at the same time, we should attack American Online.
"Don't worry, tell me how you communicate with the bank?"
"Bank?" Benier was stunned at first, then patted his head with annoyance: "Look at my mind, I almost forgot such a big thing... Boss, Meilong Bank hopes that we will put the account that charges membership fees in their bank. As long as you agree, they will not only be willing to pay us $5 million a year, but also provide us with an interest-free loan of $50 million a year for two years with a total amount of $50 million a year."
"Meilong Bank wants to cooperate with us?" Lin Zheng was stunned for a moment, and finally understood why Tim Sloan was so enthusiastic when he was at Bill Gates' house last night: they didn't like the little expenses they planned to buy a property in the United States, but they liked the business of IQ! But why didn't this guy tell him at that time?
Do you want to leave a good impression on yourself in this way? It’s not impossible.
What a huge number would it be for a paid business with a population base of over 100 million, even if only one out of 10 people is willing to use IQ's paid services? How big will the cash flow it will bring every year?
Let me give you the simplest "Chestnut": How many domestic banks have made Alipay jealous? Why? It’s because there are a lot of cash on this Alipay account every day?!
What era is this? This is an era where cash is king!
"I want to get such a large amount of funds if I have a $5 million plus a $50 million interest-free loan? Bank Mellon is really a good plan," Lin Zheng shook his head with a chuckle: "Tell Mellon Bank and let them show some sincerity."
Compared with Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, five banks in the United States with a total assets of more than $7 trillion, Lin Zheng would rather cooperate with Meilong Bank, which has a total assets of less than $200 billion. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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