Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 250 Not enough people?You can borrow it!

"Mr. Li, Li Xingping from hao123 rejected our offer."

"You didn't tell him the value of his shares after Baidu went public?"

"I told you, he said he would think about it, but he didn't expect that after he thought about it, he was blocked by Century Zongheng."

"Century Aspects?"

An elegant man looked surprised. He thought that with tens of millions, he could definitely win over a person with no academic qualifications. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a failure.

"Then let's continue to discuss the acquisition of the remaining websites with high traffic, and integrate them together, and we can almost catch up with the traffic of hao123."

"This...several others have also been acquired."

Seeing that the strategic investment department's always capable confidant looked a little hesitant, Robin Li guessed in his heart, right?

"Or Century Aspects?"

The other party nodded and did not speak.

"Okay, I understand. Let's go down first."

Robin Li waved his hand and asked the other party to go out, and then rubbed his head with regret and headache. He knew the traffic pool of website navigation better than anyone, and wanted to take it over to add more chips for the listing.

Century Zongheng doesn’t make games, why are you here to get involved?What is Chen Hao’s intention?

He couldn't see through this young man.

Forget it, I am lucky to get it, but I am going to lose my life. Baidu has the important tool of search engine. No one will be killed if it is missing. Let's do the preparations before going public first.

Then Robin Li began busy preparations for listing next year.

In the afternoon, an unfamiliar phone number called.

"Hello, Mr. Li, I am Chen Hao from Century Zongheng. I wonder if you are interested in cooperating?"

Ten minutes later, Robin Li said "think about it" and hung up the phone with a stern expression.

After all, if someone robs you of something you get, you will be extorted from it. If you go in and out, you will make less money, and no one will be happy.

The intention of the other party is obvious. Baidu is currently the leader in the search field. Baidu is now highly recognized by netizens and occupies 70%+ of the search market share.

In the past, these website navigations were basically operated by individuals. Website navigation websites such as hao123 also considered their own traffic. In the past, the search engine entrances above provided free traffic to Baidu.Things are different now. The owner has changed. Capital is in charge and interests come first.

Moreover, the top four website navigations are currently in the hands of Century Zongheng, which has absolute say. Therefore, the other party called and said that it did not plan to continue to attract traffic to Baidu for free. The cooperation this time was not for money, but to continue to provide Baidu with website navigation. Search services are exchanged for some traffic drainage privileges and placements from Baidu’s advertising alliance, which is mutually beneficial.

In fact, as early as 2002, Baidu established the Baidu Alliance;

In 2003, Google's advertising promotion program AdSense was launched. In the context of the search ecosystem, the Baidu Search Advertising Alliance platform emerged at the same time.

If PPC is just an intervention in sorting search results, then the advertising alliance uses precise matching of search engine keywords to provide advertisers with targeted traffic in Baidu content to collect a share.

The webmaster gets traffic, and Baidu gets a share of the revenue, a win-win situation!

This is also Chen Hao's purpose. He is looking at Baidu's traffic pool to install a booster for the online promotion of Century.com and the upcoming Century Youyuan.com and 4399 Mini Games.

After hanging up the phone, although Xiao Li said he would consider it, Chen Hao was not afraid that the other party would not agree. After all, now is not like later. Although Baidu seems to occupy most of the search field, it is far from stable.

Outside the rear, there are giants such as Google and Yahoo watching covetously, and inside, there are searches launched by portals such as Sina, Sohu, and NetEase waiting for opportunities.

Finally, he expressed that if Baidu does not accept cooperation, then he will replace the search engine on hao123 with other parties, such as Google, Yahoo, and NetEase. The implication is obvious.

Therefore, Chen Hao is not worried that Robin Li will not agree. After all, Baidu cannot afford this risk.Sure enough, the next day, Robin Li called and agreed to cooperate.

The two parties then arranged for relevant personnel to discuss specific matters and then signed an agreement.

Baidu provides free advertising and keyword traffic at important locations for Century.com, Century Youyuan.com, and 4399 Mini Game Network.

The Century series continues to ensure that only Baidu's search entrance is located directly above the website navigation. At the same time, Baidu ranks first in ranking.

The traffic is benchmarked against each other, and the party that is deficient needs to make up the corresponding price difference, etc.

However, the scale of 4399 is still too small now. Promotion without preparation will only waste traffic and fail to retain people.

Li Xingping gave Cai Wensheng the responsibility for the 4399 mini game. After the latter learned that his boss was going to promote it, he directly approached Chen Hao to report the situation.

The past was not as good as it is now. If there are people with money and resources, development must be accelerated, but it will not be able to catch up with the promotion node on the 1st of next month.

When Chen Hao saw that the current 4399 website mini-game talent was about to exceed , he understood and quickly called Li Wu, Li Xingping and Xu Pengkun.

Beidou Fluorescence Studio has currently completed the development of three flash social games, leaving 15 people to be responsible for subsequent updates and maintenance. The remaining dozens of technical teams have all allocated resources to fill the ammunition library for 4399 mini-games.

Regardless of the popular flash games currently on the market at home and abroad, I directly copy them. In addition, I am developing some small games independently.

At the same time, he asked Xu Pengkun to also pay attention to the well-known small teams that develop flash on the market, and directly recruit them if they find good ones.

Finally, I called Li Fang to inform Li Fang to control the promotion order. Century.com and Century Youyuan.com will be promoted first, and 4399 will be postponed.

This time Chen Hao plans to work hard both online and offline before the new product is launched. Once the online products are completed, he is ready to start working hard offline.

Nowadays, there are only 500 people in the offline promotion team of Century Zongheng, and there are tens of thousands of Internet cafes across the country. It is still a drop in the bucket to fully carry out ground promotion nationwide.

But it didn't bother him.

Chen Hao dialed the second number.

"Hey, Mr. Shi, how is Zhengtu R&D going?"

After chatting for a few words, Chen Hao hung up the phone and took a flight. A few hours later, he arrived at the headquarters of Giant Century Network in the Magic City, where Shi Yuzhu had been working recently.

Chen Hao ran to Shi Yuzhu's office, and the two communicated face to face for several hours. Then they ran to a restaurant and chatted while eating.

What to talk about?Let’s talk about game mechanics, profit models, and online game ecology.

As for the effect, anyway, Shi Yuzhu's two eyes were like two light bulbs in the dark night.

It was as if Chen Hao had opened the door to a new world, and the other party almost spoke to his heart.

He just wants to create a game world where rich people can do whatever they want.

Here, money is the boss, money is everything, and for this reason, some in-game rules can even be broken.

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. I, Old Shi, have never convinced anyone, but in the field of online games, Brother Chen, you are the one!" After saying this, he gave a thumbs up.

Chen Hao also raised his thumbs and exchanged business blows, "There are specialties in the technical field, and in the field of marketing, Lao Shiqian is also the same."

Of course, during this trip, Chen Hao pointed out the development direction and trend of the journey just casually and did not forget the business.

Early the next morning, Chen Hao returned to Beijing. This time, in addition to himself, he also brought back sales from Giant Group.

(End of this chapter)