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Chapter 99 Eager to try
The best way to monetize e-mail is to send advertising emails, or "spam", but the word "spam" has not yet been coined.

In order to reduce operational pressure, and to make Hotmail look valuable and attract big-name customers to take over, it is imperative for Hotmail to send advertising emails.

"If the Hotmail e-mail box starts to be commercialized, it will further enhance the strength of the Double-Click Company!"

Irene said excitedly to Song Yang, no one knows what kind of chemical reaction will be produced by the combination of double-click and Hotmail.

But what is certain is that starting from the sending of the first advertising email, double-clicking the Hotmail mailbox will create a new history!
Owning Hotmail, currently the world's largest e-mail box, double-clicking on the company's performance, at least next year will definitely look quite impressive.

Song Yang listened to Irene's words, then looked at her a few times, "Irene, would you like to go to San Jose?!"

Hearing these words suddenly, Irene's complexion couldn't help changing, and all kinds of thoughts flooded into Irene's mind for a while, and she didn't know why Song Yang said this suddenly.

Seeing Irene's expression, Song Yang knew that she might be thinking of something else, "This is not to make you leave the Double-click company, the ICQ project will start in the next half year, and I need someone to manage this project!"

"In the future, I will double-click the company's business, and I plan to divide it into two parts, one part is the American local business, and the other part is the international business."

"Double-click won the local business in America, which definitely requires Ryan to manage it. If you want to stay in Double-click, you can be responsible for overseas international market business!"

Double-click company cannot do without Ryan, at least at this stage. Double-click needs Ryan, a sales genius, to increase revenue. Double-click company must have a place for Ryan.

If the name is not correct, the words will not go well. Ryan will definitely become one of the executives of Double-click Company. Basically, Double-click's business in America will be managed by Ryan in the future.

As for the international business, it is much more complicated, and it is impossible for Ryan to have so much energy to manage it. Song Yang is going to hand it over to a special person.

Of course, this is also a small trick. If Ryan is responsible for all the local and overseas affairs of the Double-click company, then he is the only one in the Double-click company. Song Yang does not want to compete with Kai Wei Ryan for Double-click Company control nonsense!
Hearing this, Irene couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, knowing that Song Yang had listened to the "slander" of some people, such as Greg, and wanted to drive her away. Everything he did was useless.

"After arriving in San Jose, I will nominate you on the board of directors and let you join the board of directors of Double-click. In the future, you will still be in charge of the affairs of Double-click, but not only Double-click!"

Double-click is now a typical family business. Although the WPP Group has sent people from Martin Solo and Yahoo to join the board of directors of Double-click, Song Yang and Greg, relying on their equity, still firmly control Double-click. The board of directors, WPP Group has always been quite critical of this, thinking that double-clicking the board of directors is an empty shelf.

For WPP Group's protest, Song Yang is of course good-natured, and in order to make the next double-click sprint to go public, Song Yang decided to let Ryan, Irene and others join the board of directors, and even if necessary, Song Yang can also Put Gallo or something on the board.

Song Yang will not follow the old path of Wang An's company. Wang An is just too impatient. An ordinary director or general manager, but if you hold the equity in your hands and replace the board of directors with your own people, won't it be possible for the company to follow its own baton?

Song Yang wants Irene to go to San Jose. Double-click headquarters will recruit a professional manager to form a joint executive president with Ryan to jointly manage Double-click.

But Irene is still representing Song Yang, and goes to dock with the Double-click company to handle some affairs. In name, Irene has a higher status, but she is no longer in charge of the trivial matters of Double-click. In fact, the influence of Double-click is definitely Weakened a bit.

At this time, Irene was also at war with heaven and man in her heart. Whether to stay in Double-Click Company and become the co-CEO of Double-Click Company with Ryan, or to go to San Jose and help Song Yang again, this is nothing more than a life choice for her .

It's easy to stay in Double-Click, then Irene may become the co-president of a listed company, and at the age of less than 30, she may achieve a level that countless people in America cannot reach in a lifetime!
And if she goes to San Jose, it means that she gave up the chance to reach the sky in one step, betting that Song Yang will arrange a new one for her in the future, which is far better than double-clicking on the position of co-president, but it is also possible that the ICQ project will fail, and the double-clicking position will also fail. He was robbed by someone, and the last game was empty, and he got nothing.

Song Yang didn't urge Irene, but just picked up some documents that Irene brought over and looked at them. Double-click company had nothing to say, the Internet continued to be hot, and double-click company's revenue also increased. Currently, the monthly revenue has exceeded [-] million dollars.

It’s just that the profit is a bit stretched. Many orders are on paper, and the money has not been recovered. There are even small websites that double-click the company. Money back.

But in order to make the accounts beautiful, these orders still have to be done. The only way is to get back all the lost money after listing. This is how it is played now, not just double-clicking one, everything is to create demand, there is a bubble There is a market, it’s not shabby to cut leeks...
Hotmail mailboxes are also very hot. After breaking through 100 million users in America, not only did they not stop, but they took the trend of autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves. With a single-day growth rate of 15 users, they won 100 million users in six days. , officially among the ranks of Internet products with 200 million users.

Also overseas, Hotmail is also performing very well. There are more than 70 users of Homail in French, German, Spanish, Japanese and other versions. This is currently the best performing Internet product in America overseas!
Now the number of users of products in the Internet industry ranks ahead of Hotmail, leaving only a few old Internet companies such as Netscape, Yahoo, and Infoseek. It can be said that Hotmail is making history every day.

It seems that the situation is of course very good, but in fact, the pressure on the Hotmail mailbox server is getting bigger and bigger. Song Yang is a little fortunate that he has given up many overseas agency rights, otherwise the server fee alone will make Song Yang Yang couldn't bear it anymore.

Hotmail mailboxes are now supported by the millions of dollars that Wang An Company invested in at the beginning. The increase in users is of course a good thing, but the cost of servers is also increasing sharply. Coupled with labor costs, etc., a group of agents overseas Fang also complained every day.

Therefore, it is imperative to launch advertising mail. Song Yang only hopes that after the opening of the advertising mail business, those agents such as France Telecom, Telefonica, and Siemens will have a little bit of conscience to give Hotmail some advertisements. Revenue sharing, don't be too dark-hearted.

After thinking about it for a while, Irene raised her head and solemnly said to Song Yang, "I am willing to go to San Jose!"

Irene decided to take a gamble. If she loses the bet, she still has the identity of a double-click board. If she wins the bet, then she may get much more than she does now. How long has it been since Song Yang made his debut, and he has created a number of industries such as Double-Click, Hotmail, ICQ, etc. Who can say for sure that Song Yang will not launch new industries in the future, which are far better than Double-Click?

Song Yang looked at Irene and nodded. For Irene, Song Yang felt that it was easy to use. Once Irene came to San Jose, he could directly take over the ICQ business. I don't know when it will be. Of course, Irene's appearance is also quite good. Song Yang said that he is definitely not a superficial person who only cares about appearance...

"I will stay in Houston for the next few days. Double-click here to find a manager who will take over you as soon as possible. In addition to overseas management experience, you must also have certain experience in going public!"

Song Yang confessed to Irene. After listening to these words, Irene understood that double-clicking would also speed up the cutting of leeks. No, it was time to go public.

With experience in managing overseas affairs, and experience in listed companies, such a professional manager is also a favorite in Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but Song Yang feels that if he has to double-click now, he can be regarded as one of the "giants" of the Internet. Such a professional manager should be somewhat attractive.

After the double-click company announced through the headhunting company that it wanted to recruit a professional manager and the corresponding requirements, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

The WPP Group, of course, is very supportive of the Double-click Company's move, and immediately recommended a number of "talents" for the Double-click Company, and several of them have experience working in the WPP Group and its brands. To use this to increase the influence of the double-click company.

On the other side of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, after seeing Double-Click’s requirements for professional managers, they immediately understood that Double-Click was preparing for listing.

Regarding this news, many professional managers on Wall Street were eager to try it for a while. Just like the Internet industry now, Double-click Company is also regarded as a small Internet giant. The valuation of Double-click by investment banks and institutions has also exceeded one 2000 million US dollars, the valuation will be higher after listing.

Not many professional managers on Wall Street can resist working in a company with a valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars!
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