In the next two days, Europe and the United States slowly entered the weekend with the time in Asia.
Not only have WeChat's value-added services not declined, but they are spreading throughout the world in an extended manner.
In three days, the four cute emoji packs sold an extremely high sales volume of 200 million U.S. dollars, and the expansion of personal space and friend circle space reached as much as 800 million U.S. dollars.
With such a total sales of 1 billion, on the one hand, people have seen the madness of these "boring people", on the other hand, many traditional industries have once again looked directly at the charm of online commerce.
"An online instant messaging software can sell 1 billion US dollars worth of value-added services in three days. It's faster than Microsoft, and faster than Apple and Fairy. I'm afraid the only ones that can compare with it are the oil fields of the oil tycoons! Gentlemen and Madam
Guys, I want to officially announce to you! The great era of online trade is coming with great momentum!!"
The central point of this article from a famous commentator in the Wall Street Times represents the voice of investors and wealthy people.
Similarly, because of this extremely strong sales data, the domestic media made a fuss, treating WeChat Company as a star like Fairy Company.
Some newspapers and magazines even compared WeChat's value-added service charges to Penguin's Q.Q membership charges back then, and then satirized Penguin for seeking its own demise, while WeChat was the powerful and domineering company.
All right.
These newspapers and magazines were also paid, and they must have been done by Penguin's opponents.
Of course, let’s go back and say that Penguin’s membership fee is indeed a bad move.
When they had no money to maintain operations, they actually wanted to charge every registered Q.Q user at first. Later they found that this was not possible, so they could only strip away some normal functions for ordinary users, and then use these functions that should have been used by ordinary users.
All the rights that everyone can enjoy are given to paying members, such as game privileges, function privileges, email privileges, etc.
This stingy behavior directly suppressed the development of Penguin. If China didn't have a second powerful enough instant messaging software, they would have collapsed long ago.
The mentality of worrying not about scarcity but about inequality is not only shared by Chinese people, but also by foreigners.
The biggest difference between WeChat and Q.Q is that its functions for ordinary users are powerful enough. Without value-added services, it will not affect any communication. You will not be able to kick people if you pay them faster.
Class privileges.
Value-added services are just additional functions beyond the normal use of WeChat. They are the kind that you can enjoy more if you have money. These are understandable. Anyway, I don’t need your "Four Cute Emoticons" and "Space"
"Extended functions". You can still use various functions of WeChat comfortably.
As for the rich, needless to say, there is comparison everywhere, there is vanity everywhere, and there is always the practice of spending money to buy enjoyment.
The only reason why they spend money is that the value-added services launched by WeChat are so good that many people can't help but buy them.
It doesn't matter if you don't buy it.
According to the statistics of WeChat Company, in the past three days, due to the sensation and reports caused by the value-added service, the total number of downloads of WeChat Company soared by 100 million, reaching 300 million, and active users directly exceeded 100 million.
Reached 110.49 million!
There were 20.49 million active users added in 3 days, which is incredible!
There is no need to mention the number of registered users with total number of downloads. That is meaningless, but in just over a month, the number of active users has reached 110.49 million. WeChat is definitely an achievement that is limitless!
Especially in the past few days, as reports continue to heat up and people have various discussions about value-added services, it has stimulated people's interest in WeChat and WeChat value-added services.
Statistics show that among the 110.49 million active users, the proportion of those who have purchased value-added services is basically maintained at 16%, which is in line with the proportion of ordinary users and VIP members of general software.
Even after this month, these active users no longer have so many value-added service subscriptions for next month. Calculated based on the safest 8% ratio, there should be at least US$400 million in value-added service subscriptions. Based on this alone
At one point, the WeChat company's revenue and expenditure will be balanced, and it will still make a lot of money.
Such an estimate is based on the assumption that the number of active WeChat users will not increase, but is this possible?
There is only one software in the world that can use the Internet alone to make instant voice calls, send photos, and chat online with multiple people. Even Skype can only make voice calls, and its user stickiness is much lower than that of WeChat.
Much smaller - just making phone calls, not being able to communicate as you please anytime, anywhere. Of course, it won’t have much stickiness. You won’t want to log on to WeChat all day long to see news, photos, videos, etc.
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Therefore, even the most cautious analysts have estimated the number of active users for WeChat at 500 million, and the most optimistic ones directly exceed 1 billion.
There are only over 100 million active users now. With the number of users increasing tenfold, how much should value-added services be sold for?
Such a huge space of imagination directly makes almost all well-known funds and venture capitals salivate.
But it is a pity that when WeChat was launched with great momentum, most people knew who the people behind WeChat Company were.
Xiao Qi, who is listed in the Fu Run rankings, has a wealth of 62.8 billion US dollars, and everyone in the financial circle looks at it as a joke.
Behind WeChat is Xiao Qi, who has at least hundreds of billions of dollars. Will it still be short of money? Will it still be willing to introduce funds?
Damn it!
How did such a big piece of fat fall into Xiao Qi’s hands again?
Everyone was envious and jealous.
They thought of Xiao Qi's other woman - Tang Mingxiang.
The super genius girl who sold Chosegirl was also said to be Xiao Qi. Because of Xiao Qi’s support, she had such a large amount of funds to run Chosegirl, and finally left the business with a fortune of US$43 billion.
At first, some people laughed at her for giving up the golden hen for money, but in September no one said this anymore. By October, some people began to praise Tang Mingxiang, thinking that her vision was extremely sharp and vicious.
——Affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, Chosegirl's valuation has dropped all the way to 35 billion US dollars, which is only 74% of the previous highest valuation peak of 47.5 billion US dollars! It is not even more than the two times Tang Mingxiang got from Chosegirl, which totaled 43 billion US dollars.
Both women are so powerful, Xiao Qi is so lucky!
PS: The second chapter is just a reflection. What we need is not all kinds of impetuous business, but the connotation behind business. More than 80%-90% of the profits in the smart electronics industry have been taken away by others. Companies such as Xiaomi have also
What is there to pursue? When will you develop a leading technology of your own and show it to us, okay?