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Chapter 155 Let the era of CRBT come sooner

After signing a contract with Huang Bo and leaving him satisfied, Qi Wei called Song Bin, his music director, into his office.

"How about the few people I asked you to pay attention to?" Qi Wei asked.

Although Song Bin has been busy with his record work during this time, he has always taken what Qi Wei told him to heart.

After thinking briefly, he replied: "That Li Jiang just graduated from Tsinghua University and is now a network engineer in the Bureau of Radio, Film and Television. I have contacted him many times and sent invitations to him. As you know, singing is only for him. hobby, he is still hesitant to engage in the music industry
The lead singer of the band No. 43 on Baojia Street, their band is preparing their second record, and they have no idea of ​​going solo for the time being, so they declined directly."

Things didn't go as smoothly as I imagined.

Qi Wei nodded after understanding the situation, and said: "These people are not bad, with good creative ability. You also know how important a musician with creative ability is. I am a good example. I hope to give them An opportunity to play, they also need to be willing to give themselves this opportunity, just keep in touch, don’t need to be too attentive.”

Qi Wei only remembered this when he met Huang Bo by chance this time. It would be best if they could come, and they wouldn't feel any regret if they couldn't come to Qi Wei.

With the success of his career, he doesn't really care about many things that Qi Wei used to care about.

Take Huang Bo as an example, if he hadn't met Qi Wei by chance this time, he wouldn't have deliberately sought him out.

When Li Jian and Qi Weigang started their record company, they really wanted to bring more like-minded people on board.

But now, Qi Wei is becoming more and more successful, and more and more "like-minded" people will take the initiative to join him.

They no longer matter.

Of course, the icing on the cake is still there, and Qi Wei doesn't mind the company becoming better.

After explaining, Qi Wei left the company, and at night, Qi Wei went to Gao Yuanyuan's apartment.

In the study, Qi Wei sat in front of the big head computer and operated.

The door of the study was opened, and Gao Yuanyuan walked in with a fruit plate with a smile on her face.

"Come on, take a bite."

Gao Yuanyuan stuck the cut watermelon on the plate with a toothpick and put it in front of Qi Wei's mouth.

Qi Wei stared at the computer screen, and bit his mouth forward.

"Mmm, it's so sweet!" Qi Wei praised sincerely.

It is now July, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Even if the temperature drops at night, it still makes people feel unbearably hot.

Eating some chilled watermelon is definitely a treat.

Qi Wei turned his head to look at Gao Yuanyuan, seeing her smiling sweetly, couldn't help but kissed her on the lips.

He licked his tongue triumphantly and said with a smile: "You are still sweeter."

"Really?" Gao Yuanyuan smiled more happily, shrugged her willow eyebrows and said seductively: "Then remember to eat me at night."

She was always bold when she was alone with Qi Wei.

"Don't worry, I will never forget."

Looking at her dressed coolly, who was faintly visible inside, Qi Wei swallowed and made a look ready to move, "Hey, I'll eat you when I'm done with work, and I'll be done with it soon."

As he spoke, he continued to operate on the keyboard.

Gao Yuanyuan sat obediently beside Qi Wei, feeding Qi Wei from time to time while eating watermelon, while watching curiously what Qi Wei was doing on the computer.

As soon as Qi Wei arrived at Gao Yuanyuan's apartment, he rushed to the study to turn on the computer.

Gao Yuanyuan originally thought that Qi Wei would open the novel website to read his novels, but found that this was not the case.

Qi Wei first opened his mailbox, opened a file, and downloaded a software according to the above steps.

"Honey, why didn't I find out that you are so easy to use the computer before." While waiting for the download, Gao Yuanyuan asked in surprise.

"I have so many advantages, and you haven't discovered many. Let me tell you, this computer will become a trend in the future, and it will become an indispensable thing in our life. You have to study hard." Qi Wei said with a smile.

"Yeah, I've been learning. Now I use a computer to write novels, and I've started to upload novels myself." Gao Yuanyuan nodded obediently, and stuffed another piece of watermelon into Qi Wei's mouth.

"You can't slack off." Qi Wei reminded.

Gao Yuanyuan wrote such a long novel, and uploaded a total of less than [-] words. This is still under the supervision of Qi Wei and someone to help her polish it.

Really. Qi Wei didn't know what to say about her.

"I know." Gao Yuanyuan stuck out her tongue cutely.

After a while, it was finally downloaded.

After a somewhat cumbersome installation operation, a square and very original interface appeared in front of Qi Wei.

Very familiar feeling, but also a little strange.

It was the instant messaging software developed by Qi Wei asked Xiao Ma.

It has to be said that Brother Xiaoma's team still has some skills. In less than a month, Brother Xiaoma developed the initial version of the software.

Qi Wei successfully registered a "666666" account, and after sending a message to Brother Xiaoma's account, there was a reply soon.

It was a success.

Qi Wei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart for a moment, then showed a satisfied smile, and then called brother Ma.

After the call was connected, Qi Wei gave himself advice as an experiencer:

"How should I put it, I feel very good, this software is good, but now, there are several instant messaging software on the market, we want to push it to the market, in order to be competitive, I think you can use the software Optimize it again, let it take up less memory, and you all know the current Internet speed, and the slow download speed, I was a little impatient when I just downloaded it."

As soon as I said this, Ma and the others immediately understood that, not to mention the era when the network card would be scolded for a few years after downloading a movie, the speed of dial-up Internet access is even slower at this time, and downloading something is usually only a few kilobytes per second.

If the software capacity is slightly larger, the waiting speed for downloading will be extremely fast.

Now, under the same functional software, the smaller the capacity, the more competitive it is.

"Okay, I've written it down." Brother Xiao Ma on the other end of the phone nodded his head, and someone next to him wrote it down.

Qi Wei thought for a while, and continued: "There is also this interface. I have seen several similar software. The interface is all gaudy, and there are advertisements, which are dazzling and annoying. I think the interface is so simple. Simple is good”

Brother Xiao Ma suddenly became a little worried, and said: "If there is no advertisement on the interface, a large amount of advertising revenue will be lost."

The only profit points for the software that Brother Xiaoma can think of now are advertisements and future membership fees.

Qi Wei shook his head directly, and said with a smile: "Advertising revenue, can you compete with those portal websites? You can't compete. With the current base of netizens, the amount of advertising that merchants invest in the emerging industry of the Internet is limited. , The cake you can get from it is too little. With this advertising fee, can you guarantee the balance of income and expenditure? It can't be guaranteed. If this is the case, what does it matter if there is less advertising fee?

The key now is how to attract more users, have a huge user base, and only with traffic can we do more things.”

"Can you do more?" Little Ma looked a little puzzled.

In later generations, for a long time, he didn't figure out how to realize the huge user base, and as the user base continued to increase, the operating expenses also continued to increase, and the long-term loss almost made him sell Penguin for the price of cabbage. .

Qi Wei pretended to ponder for a while, and then said: "I didn't think about it now, I just thought that on my novel website, users usually register with email addresses, but I think that if you have more users of this software, you can also use it. Your software registration"

Qi Wei just mentioned a little bit, unwilling to say more.

In fact, Qi Wei, who has the memory of later generations, is very clear about Penguin's development route and some of its profit methods.

Of course, with the current domestic Internet user base of less than 200 million, some profit-making methods of later generations will not work now.

But Qi Wei didn't want to tell brother Ma in advance.

Qi Wei is vigilant.

If Brother Xiaoma knows Penguin's profit method, it will be easier to get investment from other places when the funds are tight, and he will not rely on himself as much as he is now.

This is good now, and I have a better chance of keeping or increasing my shares in the future.

Brother Xiao Ma fell into a short thought, and he couldn't figure it out for a while, so he nodded and let people remember what Qi Wei said.

He also hopes that after the launch of his software, he can attract more users. The more users, the better. As for the increased development and operating costs after the increase in users
There is no more money, isn't there still Qi Wei's big water hose?

Brother Xiao Ma was not bothered, and suddenly made a request with some embarrassment:
"The software needs to be promoted when it's launched in the market. I think it will be easier to gain popularity if there is a popular spokesperson to help promote it."

The meaning of this statement is obvious.

In fact, Brother Xiao Ma was able to attract enough investment when he started the company. The reason why he asked Qi Weila to invest was because of Qi Wei's popularity.

At this time, the domestic Internet is in an era of barbaric growth, and the software developed is all borrowed from the United States. Even if there are innovative things, it is easy for others to learn from them.

When everyone's skills are similar, it is difficult to widen the gap.

If a piece of software wants to be successful, it is more important to publicize and promote it.

Qi Wei got it right, and replied with a smile: "Do you know that my endorsement fee is very expensive, at least a few million a year, can you afford it?"

Qi Wei was telling the truth. At the beginning Wahaha offered Qi Wei a million-dollar endorsement fee, which shocked many people's jaws. It was a great success, but in the end, everyone thought it was Wahaha's smart eyes and knowledge, and took advantage of it.

Of course, Qi Wei also knows how to measure, and knows how to reciprocate. He has become more famous, and he didn't ask Wahaha to increase the endorsement fee.

But as for other merchants looking for Qi Wei's endorsement, Qi Wei would not look straight at them without a million endorsement fee.

Qi Wei couldn't help laughing when he thought of the later generation Xiao Ma and others chatting in women's clothing to attract users.

Brother Xiao Ma and the others on the other end of the phone didn't know what was going on, so they also giggled like hehe.

Qi Wei suppressed a smile and continued: "Okay, I still like your software very much. After all, it is also my career. I can offer you a friendly price. When the time comes, if you need my cooperation, just give it to me." Call up"

"We can't afford the friendship price." Xiao Ma replied awkwardly.

"Well, otherwise, if you help me with another job, it will be regarded as giving me an endorsement fee, what do you think?" Qi Wei suggested after thinking for a while.

"Of course, I don't know what you need us to do?"

"Well, what I asked you to do for me, um, is to develop a CRBT software."

Qi Wei organized his language a bit and continued: "What is a ring tone? It means that when you call a user's mobile phone and wait to be connected, what you hear is no longer the ringback tone of "beep." Instead, a piece of music is used instead."

Qi Wei said something long-winded, and Brother Ma probably understood what it was.

Brother Xiao Ma discussed with his technical partners, and then replied:
"This CRBT software should be a communication service, which requires cooperation with a communication provider. This is a bit troublesome and may take some time."

"If it takes time, I can relax until the end of the year. I hope to see a result by the end of the year. If you have any financial difficulties, you can mention it to me, and I can help you solve it."

After finishing the phone call with Brother Xiao Ma, Qi Wei felt relieved immediately.

Not only because it feels so good to call Ma, but also because he wants the era of ring tones to come earlier.

Since his rebirth, Qi Wei has been paying attention to market changes.

The past two years have been the peak of the domestic record market. From next year, the record market will gradually decline.

There is no other reason, it is because of rampant piracy.

With the innovation of piracy technology, piracy will become more barrier-free, which will make piracy more rampant, so rampant that it will cut off the survival of physical records.

Of course, there is still a market for physical records before the millennium, and genuine records can still sell to a certain extent.

But if you want to go to the next level, you can only expect a miracle to happen.

Qi Wei needs to plan ahead and find a way out for his music career.

If the CRBT era can come earlier, there will be an additional channel for monetizing song copyrights. With the addition of these double buffs, the value of music will be greatly increased.

And Qi Wei, who has mastered this channel, will gain more voice and become a pivotal figure in the record industry.

Qi Wei Ke remembered quite a few divine songs on the Internet that could "sell [-] million each" in the CRBT era.

What "Mouse Loves Rice" and "Two Butterflies" are so familiar, Qi Wei has already restored these songs and registered their copyrights.

These songs can be sung by Huang Bo and others. Of course, the big head must belong to the company.

If the era of CRBT comes earlier and these songs can be realized earlier, then Qi Wei will have more sufficient funds for business planning,

There is no need to rush to explore the European and American music markets.

The more associations, the brighter the smile on Qi Wei's face.

The more excited I am, the more restless I feel.

He couldn't help but kiss the beauty around him.

Gao Yuanyuan was a little caught off guard, but immediately responded with the highest enthusiasm.

"Snapped!"

The computer case was knocked down by the entangled two people.

There is no power failure, but the magnetic head of Quantum 2.1G hard disk was shocked and lost its protection, fell off, and soon touched the spotless hard disk, making abnormal noises similar to knocking sounds.

"Click, click, click."

The rotation speed of the hard disk is as high as [-] times per minute. Even if there is a little physical contact, it will be damaged very quickly. A large number of scratches gradually appeared on the body, which interfered with the rotation of the magnetic head, and some harsh metal friction sounds appeared, and the magnetic head gradually lost its vibration regularity due to the scratches. , stuck together with the cracked platter.

"What is the taste?"

Qi Wei sniffed, smelled a little burning smell, left Gao Yuanyuan who was slumping her chest, followed the smell, and finally found a wisp of green smoke wafting from the case, quickly unplug the power cord.

If the hard disk is broken, it will be broken. Anyway, there is no important content in it. Qi Wei can't repair it. At worst, replace it.

After a long time, Gao Yuanyuan, who came back to her senses, looked at Qi Wei affectionately, licked her lips, and looked at Qi Wei with appealing eyes, as if she knew the taste and wanted to challenge.

Tonight is still a long night, and we have to fight on.

(End of this chapter)