Chapter 1353: Charge or Free is a Question (71/78)
"After being controlled by foreign owners for many years, the Los Angeles Times has returned to the hands of locals."
On the breakfast table the next morning, Andy couldn't help laughing and shook her head as he looked at the front page headline of the Los Angeles Times "Who is Andy Smith?".
The statements made in the video conference of the new owner yesterday afternoon made the editors of the Times completely relieved, and welcomed the new boss who was not short of money. The newspapers no longer worried about the terrifying shadow of layoffs. Everyone was looking forward to the time when the Times returned to their glory soon.
"What news makes you so happy?" Charlize, wearing a silver-gray two-piece silk nightgown, walked into the restaurant with a little lazy look, leaned over and kissed Andy first, reached out to grab the newspaper and read it.
"Gee..." Charlize giggled while watching the report and jokingly raised his eyebrows at Andy, who was having breakfast: "These guys really can please and curry favor with the new boss. Haha, it's too much to praise you!"
"They are just explaining the facts." Andy accepted all the books shamelessly, shrugging and saying that it looked like this.
"Hehe, if I remember correctly, you are from New York, when did you become a local in Los Angeles? Tsk tsk, even your past dark history is portrayed as a valuable asset during the growth of geniuses... it's really unbearable!"
Charlize joked, and looked like he was rubbing his arms with goose bumps and feeling uncomfortable.
Andy looked at the expression of pride for his achievement on Emperor Sai's face. When she complained about her inappropriate complaints, she smiled and said, "Have you received the new script? Is it okay?"
"Well, don't worry, although the role she played is somewhat similar to my experience, I have already walked out of the shadow and will not be entangled. I also hope to challenge it, and maybe there will be a breakthrough." Charlize naturally knew what Andy said. The role she was going to play in the new script "The Burning Plains" was because she could not extricate herself from the shadow of the sins she accidentally committed in her childhood, which was extremely similar to her childhood experience.
"To be honest, I don't want you to star in this movie, but Robert Freman thinks you are the most suitable and wants to send this movie to the Venice Film Festival next year." Andy said with a gentle look, reaching out and gently stroked the rosy cheeks of Sitson.
"Haha, don't worry, I'm not that fragile. My heart is already full of little Laura, and I don't have room to carry those gray memories!"
"Ahem, it's too much. Where is me? I should have my place!"
"hehe."
"What do you mean by hehe?"
"hehe……"
In the bright and spacious conference room of whatsapp company, Andy, sitting on the first seat, leaned lazily on the boss's chair, with his hands crossed his fingers in front of him, looking at his subordinates who had already become a quarrel with headaches.
Nothing else, Vatzip, who has been running for one year for free, divided the company's subordinates into two major camps because of whether they choose to charge fees. Whether they are free or charges has become a big problem that Andy has to face.
Vatzip has now developed into a global phenomenon. Nearly 90 million people use its services to send text messages and photos for free. It can be said that no social tool has ever developed so rapidly. Faebook now has only 1.2 billion users. And more importantly, nearly half of whatsapp users respond to messages every day.
Therefore, once the fee is charged, it will undoubtedly bring great profits to Vatipu, which has been investing in the development of Vatipu, which has been making money, begins to make profits.
But the key to the problem is the payment method. Users can only pay through credit cards or electronic platforms. This will cause inconvenience to some people who do not own credit cards or do not accept payment on electronic platforms. Andy is really speechless. Americans have always been questioning the security of electronic payment.
Another thing is to use the US dollar fee to complete real-name login because the credit card login data is real-name.
Everyone likes free things. Once the fee is charged, it will definitely make Vatzip lose many users. Although Vatzip, which is in the development period, is very popular now, if you really want to charge, you will definitely lose a large part of the users.
If you want to say that the app that hates Vatip the most is wireless operators, with $5 billion in SMS revenue in the past year. These operators have made a lot of money by charging each SMS.
If you don’t want to make money, how is that possible? Andy Smith, who can’t get up early without profit, will not miss any opportunity to make money.
However, he also knew that now was definitely not a good time to charge, and for his third-party payment platform plan, Vatzip will continue to be free.
"It seems that Starbucks' acquisition must be implemented!"
After making a decision, Andy coughed twice, which made the entire conference room quiet. She leaned forward and placed her hands crossed her fingers on the conference table. After looking around for a week, she said to her subordinates: "First of all, I reiterate that our company is not under pressure to make money at the moment. I hope you can gain 500 million to 1 billion users in the next three years.
As for the company's profitability issue, I have considered it a long time, but at present, it is not the time to come up with it. Because our user base is still too small, so don't rush to make a profit. We are still a new company, and we must calm down and continue to develop and promote."
As the developer and owner of Vatzip, Andy Smith has made a statement, and his subordinates will naturally not say anything. The charging party also hopes to give the company a profitable means to increase the market value of Vatzip and prepare for the first round of financing in the future.
However, it seems that the big boss of his family does not seem to be prepared to raise funds.
After the meeting, Andy sat alone in the conference room, frowned slightly, and the pen in his hand was quickly writing on a piece of paper.
The public account uses the public account platform to conduct self-media activities. Simply put, it is to carry out one-to-many media activities to obtain income by helping companies communicate with users.
This is the service project that Andy is preparing to launch after Vatzip has enough user base to create a better user experience and form a different ecological cycle. By applying for a public service account, merchants can form a mainstream online and offline interactive marketing method through secondary development and display of the merchant’s official website, membership, push, event, registration, sharing, business cards, etc., and Vatzip, as a service provider, can charge these merchants and companies that apply for public account.
Chapter completed!