Chapter 80
Chapter 80 From Corsica to Paris
Currently, American Internet communities and forums are not yet popular, but there are many places that need to use e-mail.
On the day Hotmail was launched, the company personnel who had business dealings with Double-Click Company first came into contact with the Hotmail mailbox, and Double-Click Company opened the mailbox by issuing invitation rights.
Eric is a member of a small company in Silicon Valley. After opening the Hotmail mailbox, he started to use the Hotmail mailbox. After all, it is really convenient to use.
After making phone calls with several clients, they were also invited by Eric to enter their Hotmail mailbox. Before he knew it, Eric sent out all the five invitation rights in his hand.
By the time I get off work, Eric and other company personnel have already started using Hotmail mailboxes with their customers. Not to mention the functions and memory size, only one URL is needed to log in to the mailbox on any computer. , which is powerful enough for Eric and the others.
Just as he was packing his things and was about to leave the office, Eric suddenly received another call. After hearing the voice on the phone, Eric couldn't help saying, "Hotmail invitation right?"
The call came from a partner who wanted to "borrow" a Hotmail mailbox invitation right from Eric, and turned on the computer again. Eric, who was about to send an invitation right, suddenly saw five invitations in his Hotmail mailbox. Yards, it's all used up.
There is no way, Eric can only borrow one from his colleagues. What Eric did not expect is that he asked several people in succession, and even used up the invitation codes, some for customers, and some for friends. Opened a Hotmail mailbox The five invitation codes are not used at all!
Eric never thought that one day, he would struggle for an invitation code. After struggling for a long time and making a round of phone calls, Eric finally got a Hotmail email invitation from a person who just opened Hotmail code.
Looking at the Hotmail mailbox on the computer screen, Eric suddenly realized that since he started using this Hotmail mailbox, in less than an afternoon, he has pushed this mailbox to no less than seven or eight customers and followers. friend.
The right to invite is used even more cleanly, and it is enough to start "borrowing". Eric suddenly felt faintly that the method of implementing the Hotmail mailbox seems a bit special!
Stanford University, which has the closest relationship with Silicon Valley, also had this scene. From the afternoon onwards, in Stanford University, the words "Hotmail" and "right to invite" suddenly appeared more and more frequently.
Even the phenomenon of pulling people's heads has begun to appear. Without Hotmail's painstaking promotion, when the first person from Stanford University started using Hotmail, the "Hotmail invitation right" suddenly became popular.
Stanford University is not the last one. When a university starts, it means that the entire American university circle has begun to have Hotmail mailboxes.
Curiosity killed the cat, and the same is true for people. The half-covered method makes people who have access to Hotmail mailboxes but cannot use them feel very itchy.
In the Houston Harbor Building, Song Yang stayed in the office of the Hotmail mailbox since the Hotmail mailbox went online.
"Currently there are 3100 registered users of Hotmail, and the number of website visits is still increasing!"
Towards the afternoon, Wesley reported to Song Yanghui, feeling somewhat lost in his words, which was completely different from what he had expected. Today, Hotmail also invested a lot of connections and funds in promotion. As a result, until now, only So point registered user.
On the day of launch, more than 3,000 registered users were not considered low in this era, but Wesley knew that Double-click Company, Wang An, Yahoo and other companies had invested a lot of resources, and this achievement was really not considered How qualified.
"It's just the beginning. Your technical department must determine the server and solve the problems with the mailbox!"
No matter how he feels in his heart, Song Yang must not show any dissatisfaction or worry on his face, otherwise the Hotmail mailbox project department will basically collapse.
In fact, Song Yang was also a little nervous. The promotion method he made for the Hotmail mailbox, the link attached to the email and the registration method of invitation rights, are really ahead of the curve in this modern age. Song Yang is not sure whether it can be accepted.
"Double-click the message from the cooperative company, and ask the Hotmail mailbox to provide a batch of invitation codes!" Irene, who came up from downstairs, said to Song Yang.
Hearing this, Wesley's eyes raised a little anticipation. If he wants the invitation right of Hotmail mailbox, it means that someone is using Hotmail mailbox. This is undoubtedly good news for Wesley today!
Song Yang thought for a while, and said to Wesley, "Give the partners of Double-click the company a batch of invitation rights. In addition, on the official website of Hotmail, a batch of invitation rights will be issued every day, but not too many. The right to invite must be published on the official website and shared with users!"
In the evening, Song Yang ate a fast food in the office building, and then waited for news from Wesley to see how many registered users Hotmail would have today.
But it was almost midnight, and Song Yang didn't wait for Wesley to come. Just when Song Yang was about to go there in person, he saw Wesley rushing in.
"Boss, there are more than 8,000 registered people!" Wesley said to Song Yang excitedly.
Song Yang was also taken aback. In the afternoon, only more than 3,000 people had to register. After a few hours, it more than doubled? !
Since the afternoon, the growth rate of Hotmail mailbox users has been increasing, and the growth rate has continued to increase, which is why Wesley came in half a day.
"The number of visits to Hotmail's official website is increasing, and the frequency of registered users using Hotmail mailboxes is increasing, and there are also European users!" Wesley said to Song Yang.
Song Yang nodded and poured a glass of water for Wesley, "I said, don't worry, Hotmail is the best email in this era!"
When Wesley left, Song Yang unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. The success or failure of the Hotmail mailbox project may not hurt Song Yang, but if it fails, the follow-up plans may be disrupted. .
"Hotmail, a new Internet e-mail brand, registered more than 8,000 users on the first day of its launch. This is a new e-mail product with a lot of creativity!"
The next day, media in the technology industry reported on the performance of Hotmail on the first day of its launch, but they did not pay too much attention to the reports on Hotmail, and there is still no large-scale promotion of Hotmail in the media, and it is still on the Internet. spread among users.
On the second day after its launch, Hotmail mailbox was published in the "Oakland Tribune", one of the four major newspapers in San Francisco.
"Hotmail is a brand-new modern e-mail, which is very popular among young Internet users!" This is a report from the Auckland Tribune. On this day, the number of registered users of Hotmail exceeded 17,000 in a single day.
And if someone collects it, in the past few days, the American technology media will find a very interesting phenomenon in the report on the Hotmail mailbox.
Like the Paris media, when they reported that the King returned to Paris from Corsica, he would find that there are similarities.
On the first day, the media in Paris wrote about Napoleon as a "monster from Corsica". On the second day, he was an ogre king. He became General Napoleon, and Napoleon, who returned to Paris on the sixth day, became His Majesty Napoleon in the description of the newspaper.
Now the same is true for American media. The Oakland Tribune's coverage of Hotmail mailboxes is also constantly changing.
From the first day of reporting, it was just a new e-mail. At that time, there were less than 10,000 registered users of Hotmail.
"Hotmail is changing the office industry in America, it is sweeping the office industry in America!"
This is the third day of reports about Hotmail. On this day, Hotmail has acquired 20,000 users in a single day in America, which is almost equivalent to the total number of registered users in the two days since its launch.
"There is reason to believe that Bruno Song is the genius of the Internet in this era. Hotmail is becoming a phenomenal product. From Stanford to Harvard, from Massachusetts to Princeton, the sound of hotmail is being heard." On this day, Hotmail registration It took less than a week to reach 100,000 users.
"Hotmail will enter the Canadian market today. It has gained 70,000 users in Europe, and now it is beginning to conquer global Internet users!"
The Oakland Tribune's touting of Hotmail mailboxes is no longer concealed, because Hotmail mailboxes are located in the United States, and it took less than a week for Hotmail mailboxes to go from zero to 100,000 users, and it took less than three months to go from 100,000 to 200,000. sky!
In Europe, the situation is also overwhelming. The old European aristocrats who have always looked down on the American brand cannot resist the storm of Hotmail mailboxes.
Not only the Oakland Tribune is touting Hotmail, but the entire American media suddenly start to touting Hotmail overnight, and Silicon Valley is suddenly driven into a frenzy because of Hotmail.
(end of this chapter)