Chapter 80 From Corsica to Paris
Internet communities and forums in America are not yet popular, but there are many places where e-mail is needed.
On the day when Hotmail went online, people from companies that had business dealings with DoubleClick were the first to come into contact with the Hotmail mailbox, and were activated for the mailbox by DoubleClick through invitation.
Eric is a member of a small company in Silicon Valley. After opening a Hotmail account, he started using Hotmail. After all, it is really convenient to use.
After talking to several clients on the phone, Eric also invited them to log into his Hotmail mailbox. Unknowingly, Eric had sent out all five invitation rights he had.
By the time get off work, Eric and other company staff and their clients had already started using Hotmail. Regardless of its functions and memory size, just a URL was enough to log in to the mailbox on any computer. This was powerful enough for Eric and his team.
As Eric was packing up and preparing to leave the office, he suddenly received another call. After hearing the voice on the phone, Eric couldn't help but ask, "Hotmail invitation rights?"
The call was from a partner who wanted to "borrow" the invitation rights of a Hotmail account from Eric. Eric turned on his computer again and was about to send an invitation, but suddenly he saw that the five invitation codes for his Hotmail account had all been used up.
Eric had no choice but to borrow one from a colleague. What he didn't expect was that after asking several people in a row, all the invitation codes had been used up. Some were given to clients and some were given to friends. The five invitation codes for opening Hotmail mailboxes were not used at all!
Eric never thought that one day he would have to struggle for an invitation code. After struggling for a long time and making a lot of phone calls, Eric finally got a Hotmail invitation code from someone who had just opened a Hotmail account.
Looking at the Hotmail mailbox on the computer screen, Eric suddenly realized that from the time he started using this Hotmail mailbox, in less than an afternoon, he had already passed this mailbox to no less than seven or eight clients and friends.
The invitation rights were used up completely, and they had to be "borrowed" to be enough. Eric suddenly felt that this method of promoting Hotmail mailbox seemed a little special!
The same thing is happening at Stanford University, which has the closest ties to Silicon Valley. Starting in the afternoon, the words "Hotmail" and "invitation rights" suddenly appeared more and more frequently at Stanford University.
There was even a phenomenon of recruiting people. Hotmail didn't have to spend much effort on promotion. When the first person from Stanford University started using a Hotmail email account, "Hotmail invitation rights" suddenly became popular.
Stanford University is not the last one. When one university starts, it means that Hotmail email has begun to appear in the university circles throughout America.
Curiosity kills the cat, and the same is true for humans. The half-hidden approach makes people who have access to the Hotmail mailbox but cannot use it extremely itchy.
In the Houston Harbor Building, Song Yang has been staying in the Hotmail office since Hotmail went online.
"Hotmail currently has 3,100 registered users, and the number of website visitors is still increasing!"
Towards the afternoon, Wesley reported to Song Yang with a hint of disappointment in his words. This was completely different from what he had expected. Hotmail had invested a lot of relationships and money in promotion today, but up to now, there were only so few registered users.
On the day of the launch, there were more than 3,000 registered users, which was not a low number in this era, but Wesley knew that today, DoubleClick, Wang Laboratories, Yahoo and other companies had invested a lot of resources, so this result was not very satisfactory.
"It's just the beginning. Your technical department needs to confirm the server and solve the problem with the mailbox!"
No matter how he felt in his heart, Song Yang must not show any dissatisfaction or worry on his face, otherwise the Hotmail email project department would basically collapse.
In fact, Song Yang was also a little nervous. The promotion method he developed for Hotmail mailbox, which included links in the emails and invitation registration, was really advanced in this modern era. Song Yang was not sure whether it would be accepted.
"Double-click the message sent by 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 lit up. Asking for the invitation rights to the Hotmail mailbox meant that someone was using the Hotmail mailbox. For Wesley, this was undoubtedly good news he had heard today!
Song Yang thought for a moment and said to Wesley, "Provide a batch of invitation rights to the partners of DoubleClick Company. In addition, issue a batch of invitation rights every day on the official website of Hotmail mailbox, but don't issue too many. In the future, the invitation rights of Hotmail mailbox must be released through the official website and shared with users!"
In the evening, Song Yang had a quick meal in the office building, and then waited for news from Wesley to see how many registered users the Hotmail account would have today.
However, it was almost midnight and Song Yang still hadn't waited for Wesley. Just when Song Yang was about to go over there in person, he saw Wesley rushing in in a hurry.
"Boss, the number of registered users has exceeded 8,000!" Wesley said to Song Yang excitedly.
Song Yang was also stunned. In the afternoon, there were only 3,000 people who registered. After a few hours, the number more than doubled?!
Since the afternoon, the growth rate of Hotmail mailbox users has been increasing, and the growth rate has been increasing, which is why Wesley took half a day to arrive.
"Now the number of visits to the Hotmail official website is increasing, the frequency of registered users using Hotmail mailboxes is increasing, and European users have also appeared!" Wesley said to Song Yang.
Song Yang nodded and poured a glass of water for Wesley. "I told you, don't worry. Hotmail is the best email service of this era!"
After Wesley left, Song Yang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although the success or failure of the Hotmail project would not cause Song Yang any serious damage, if it failed, all subsequent plans would probably be disrupted.
"The number of registered users of the new Internet email brand Hotmail exceeded 8,000 on the first day of its launch. This is a new email product with a lot of creativity!"
The next day, media in the technology industry reported on the performance of Hotmail on its first day online, but they did not attach too much importance to the reports on Hotmail. Although Hotmail was not promoted on a large scale in the media, it continued to spread among Internet users.
On the second day after its launch, Hotmail was featured in the Oakland Tribune, one of the four major newspapers in San Francisco.
"Hotmail is a new type of modern email service that is very popular among young Internet users!" This was reported by the Oakland Tribune. On that day, the number of registered users of Hotmail exceeded 17,000.
If someone has paid attention to the reports on Hotmail by American technology media in recent days, they will find a very interesting phenomenon.
Just like the Paris media's reports on Emperor Napoleon's return to Paris from Corsica, you will find that they are similar in nature.
On the first day, the Paris media described Napoleon as "the monster from Corsica", on the second day he was a cannibal, on the third day he was a thief who stole the country, on the fourth day they started calling him by his name, on the fifth day he became General Napoleon, and on the sixth day Napoleon returned to Paris and was described in the newspapers as His Majesty the Emperor.
The same is true for the American media now. The Oakland Tribune's coverage of Hotmail is also constantly changing.
When it was first reported, it was just a novel email service. At that time, Hotmail had less than 10,000 registered users.
"Hotmail is changing the American office industry. It has taken the American office industry by storm!"
This is the third day of reporting on Hotmail. On this day, Hotmail attracted 20,000 users in America in a single day, which is almost equal to the total number of registered users in the first two days after its launch.
"There is reason to believe that Bruno Song is the genius of the Internet of this era. Hotmail is becoming a phenomenal product. From Stanford to Harvard, from MIT to Princeton, the dripping sound of Hotmail can be heard." On that day, the number of registered users of Hotmail exceeded 100,000 in less than a week.
"Hotmail will enter the Canadian market today. It has already gained 70,000 users in Europe. Now it is starting to conquer Internet users around the world!"
The Oakland Tribune no longer hides its praise for Hotmail, because in America, the number of users of Hotmail increased from zero to 100,000 in less than a week, and from 100,000 to 200,000 in less than three days!
It was also unstoppable in Europe. The old European aristocrats who had always looked down on American brands were unable to resist the storm brought by Hotmail.
It wasn't just the Oakland Tribune that was touting Hotmail. All of the media in America suddenly began to tout Hotmail overnight, and Silicon Valley went crazy over Hotmail.
