[ps: An extra chapter will be added tomorrow.]
August 3, 2001, morning.
"Brother-in-law, as of now, our oo's installation users have exceeded one million!" One week after oo officially went live, Leng Zhimeng excitedly reported this shocking number to Huang He.
Frankly, if Tengda knew that oo's installation users were this number, they would probably jump up and down and immediately research countermeasures all night.
After all, it took Tengda a full year to go from 1 installation user to 1 million installation users, but oo only took a week. This catch-up speed was more terrifying than a high-speed train.
Of course, Tengda didn't know. Their focus was entirely on foreign instant messaging software, and they didn't take domestic competitors seriously at all.
This wasn't arrogance, but a result proven by history. After 2000, there were no opponents in China that could challenge QQ, unless a transmigrator appeared.
"But this number has a lot of inflation!" Huang He shook his head. "These 1 million are just installation users. 95% of them are installed and registered, and among them, 80% have never been launched after installation."
"So, everyone must not be misled by this data. Our actual registered users are only 200,000... Among these 200,000 people, only 30,000 log in every day, and the highest concurrent online users are only 4,800. This is the current reality of our oo. We have nothing to be proud of!" Huang He said solemnly, looking at the current situation very clearly.
Overall, oo's development speed was actually quite fast. Three million consecutive login users in a week was a data that QQ also took more than three months to achieve. oo achieving this result under QQ's strong pressure was already very good.
However, this data was not enough to defeat QQ, nor was it enough to make QQ even glance at oo.
"But brother-in-law, I haven't counted the data for Coral oo yet!" Leng Zhimeng said. "Now, among the more than one million active users of Coral QQ, 300,000 have become common users of oo and QQ. These are all active users who log in every day!"
"But in their hearts, they are still QQ users and cannot be counted as ours!" Huang He tapped Leng Zhimeng's head. "What I care about most is the data for oo Farm. How is it doing now?"
"It's doing great!" Leng Zhimeng chuckled. "Brother-in-law, have you ever farmed before? Otherwise, how would you know that our users like farming so much? Now almost all oo users are oo Farm users, and on average, each oo user pulls in 0.385 new users for me every day. They just want their friends to help them steal vegetables, and these users are basically active users. If they continue to grow at this speed, we can surpass Tengda's active users within three months!"
Surpassing Tengda in three months sounded like a tall tale, but it was actually a strict mathematical conclusion.
Currently, there are 30,000 active users. At a rate of 1.385 people per day, on the second day, it becomes 41,150 people, on the third day, it becomes 57,540 people, on the fourth day, it's 79,700 people, and on the twenty-second day, it becomes 28 million people. It won't take three months, it can surpass Tengda in one month.
Of course, this viral growth speed will slow down over time and cannot be maintained at this rate. Surpassing Tengda in three months is entirely a daydream, but it is very possible to acquire over a million active users in three months. In this way, oo will also have the qualification to directly compete with Tengda head-on.
"Also, brother-in-law, do you know what the hidden huge advantage of oo Farm is?" Leng Zhimeng asked with her arms crossed.
"I don't know!" Huang He shook his head. He really didn't know!
"Let me tell you, among all oo Farm players, the proportion of female players is as high as 58%. More than half of oo Farm users are female players!" Leng Zhimeng said excitedly. "Moreover, the activity of these female players far exceeds that of male players. Half of the male players choose plants that take more than six hours, or even 24 hours, to grow, which don't require much attention."
"But female players are different. They calculate very meticulously because they found that plants with shorter growth times have higher daily output per unit of land!"
"So during the day, they choose plants that mature in one or two hours and are able to log in on time to snatch the crops. When they are about to go offline, they plant those that take more than ten hours. Anyway, they calculate very precisely to maximize their profits, which many male users cannot do!"
"Is that so!" Huang He nodded. Hearing Leng Zhimeng say this, he also remembered that in school, the ones who played stealing vegetables the most crazily were indeed women. Men's interest was not as great as women's, because a game that requires operation every few hours is really difficult to activate men's greatest interest.
But it was different for women. They liked these settings... Of course, what women liked even more was stealing vegetables, especially the vegetables of women they disliked. That was the most enjoyable.
"Brother-in-law, this way, the proportion of female players in oo is very high, at least much stronger than QQ currently. This is an advantage for us. It's a pity that I don't know how to use it to activate this advantage. We can't say that oo has more female players, right?" Leng Zhimeng said with some distress.
"What you said is very important!" Huang He's expression also became a little excited. He hadn't noticed this point at all himself. He didn't expect Leng Zhimeng to have thought of everything. It seemed that Leng Zhimeng could indeed be a qualified CEO.
At the same time, he also had to ponder how to use this advantage that Leng Zhimeng mentioned. Female users are a supreme weapon to attract male users!
"By the way, brother-in-law, Mom said you haven't been back for a long time. She went to the vegetable market this morning and bought three pairs of fresh pig kidneys, and asked you to come home for dinner tonight!"
"Okay!" Huang He nodded. Now the factory had basically returned to normal. Even the factory that had stopped production had started working.
Because the demand for blind boxes from all over the country was increasing, the consumption of leather goods in stock was also quite large, but it was definitely enough.
However, the problem was that there were not many works by Italian masters. So Huang He started two production lines to produce some master works.
In addition, some people reported that the products in the blind boxes were too monotonous. So Huang He asked people to start the handbag production line specifically to produce women's leather handbags.
This was a production line that Huang He had built before he transmigrated. The entire production line cost more than 30 million yuan. At that time, Huang He was full of confidence and planned to enter the women's handbag market.
Because according to Huang He's observation during his studies abroad, as Chinese people became richer, women's handbags would become the largest product line in the entire leather goods market. Entering the handbag market now had excellent prospects.
It must be admitted that the previous Huang He's business vision was absolutely not bad, but his actual operating ability was a bit lacking, his grasp of risk was a bit lacking, and he took too big a step. As a result, the handbag production line declared bankruptcy as soon as it was built, and not a single handbag was produced.
As the blind boxes became popular and the capital was relieved, Huang He planned to officially start the handbag production line, produce a small batch of handbags, and add them to the blind boxes, so as to open the women's market for the blind boxes.
Coincidentally, both oo and blind boxes had reached a point where they needed to tap into the female market.