46: Chapter 46 Sales Exceed 100 Million in Half a Day

This number rang in his ears.

The teacup wobbled in Lao Ma's hand, and a few drops of tea splashed out, landing on his dark grey suit trousers.

He did not wipe them away.

Lao Ma slowly placed the teacup on the table, leaned forward, and stared at the mobile phone on Xiao Ma's desk, as if trying to find some flaw within that device.

"How much did you say?"

Xiao Ma repeated it for him.

"One hundred million."

"Sales for half a day."

The person on the other end of the line confirmed again.

And hearing the confirmation from the other side,

Lao Ma couldn't help but take a deep breath.

His mind was spinning rapidly.

Half a day, one hundred million.

How many years did Taobao take to achieve single-day sales exceeding one hundred million?

Five years or six?

Even now, Taobao's average daily sales have long exceeded one billion, and during holidays like the New Year, they can even surge to several billion, or even nearly ten billion.

But that was built over how many years of infrastructure, logistics systems, and merchant ecosystems?

How long has Douyin Mall been online?

The number of products is pitifully small, there isn't even its own logistics system, and the scale of merchant entry is not even one-tenth of Taobao's.

Relying on this so-called Livestream E-commerce.

Half a day.

Exceeding one hundred million?

Lao Ma's throat moved, but the smile he had worn for years was completely gone.

His stop at Tencent this time was indeed partly to watch the show; after all, Tencent hadn't suffered such a big setback from Weikan in many years.

Back when Tencent launched its full-network promotion, who knows how much capital was poured into it, yet Weikan didn't even make a splash.

But he didn't expect.

That today, it would actually involve him!

Xiao Ma leaned against the sofa armrest, watching Lao Ma's expression, the corners of his mouth curving upward involuntarily.

He was very satisfied with this reaction.

But after smiling, he also had his own silence.

This number was indeed very exaggerated.

He had to admit it.

Qin Mo, this person, had an overly exaggerated commercial intuition.

From Short Video to livestreaming, from livestreaming to e-commerce, every step landed on a node that others hadn't even had time to see clearly yet.

And every step was taken accurately and ruthlessly.

He even had a feeling.

This person was almost catching up to him when he had just developed OICQ.

But it was only almost catching up.

After all, the landscape of chat software in the Great Xia is already established; it is impossible for any other new chat software to emerge and affect the dominance of QQ.

Lao Ma's Alipay and Tencent's QQ are the two most solid foundations of the two major buildings, and they are the existences least likely to be impacted or affected, each ruling over its respective domain.

Meanwhile.

Lao Ma stood up and tugged at the hem of his suit.

"I still have some things to do, I'll be leaving first."

He didn't say another word of polite pleasantries and turned to walk towards the door.

His pace was much faster than when he arrived.

He had to go back and see if Douyin Mall truly had the potential to threaten Taobao.

Xiao Ma did not try to keep him, simply picking up the invitation on the table and casually tucking it into the folder next to him.

The office door closed behind Lao Ma.

...

Meanwhile.

The battle report poster issued by the official Douyin Weibo account.

Soon rocketed to the top of the Weibo hot search list.

The poster design was simple and direct, with a line of bold numbers printed right in the center.

"Douyin Mall's first Livestream E-commerce event, half-day sales, exceeded one hundred million."

Below it was a line of small text.

"Thank you to every user for your trust and support, thank you to every merchant for your full cooperation. Recording a beautiful life, Douyin walks with you."

After this battle report was posted, the comment section was flooded with tens of thousands of comments in less than ten minutes.

The first trending topic was: Douyin livestream sales exceed 100 million in one day.

Immediately after, the clip of Lao Qie eating a shoe on the livestream hit the seventh spot on the hot search.

The topic was: This shoe can really be eaten.

Then came: What is Livestream E-commerce, at number eleven on the hot search.

Clicking into the comment section of that Weibo battle report, the popular comments were all uniformly shocked.

"I was just scrolling through Douyin to slack off, but ended up buying three pairs of shoes while watching."

"I never knew you could buy things on Douyin before. Today I accidentally clicked into that livestream room, spent several hundred, but I feel like I got a bargain."

"I'm the same. I didn't plan on buying anything at all, but the way that streamer was eating the shoe was just too funny. I placed an order while watching."

"Have you guys noticed that buying things while watching a livestream feels completely different from browsing Taobao? Browsing Taobao requires you to go and look for things yourself, but watching a livestream is the streamer showing it to you, and the price is indeed cheaper."

"This is Livestream E-commerce. It feels even better than buying based on pictures."

...

Inspur Technology.

Qin Mo flipped through the battle report data from beginning to end, his expression unchanged.

Zhao Lei stood in front of his desk, still clutching his phone, obviously having just finished sending a message.

Lin Xiao was also nearby; he had been rarely excited just now and had also sent voice messages to other colleagues.

"Boss, the first day's battle report data is out."

The excitement in Zhao Lei's voice had not yet faded.

"Half-day sales exceeded one hundred million. We only used half a day to achieve what Taobao took years to do."

He paused.

"The operations team is getting tired hands from answering merchants' calls. From the time the battle report was released until now, the backend has received over two thousand merchant entry applications."

"And many of them are big brand manufacturers. Before, when we took the initiative to talk to them, they couldn't be bothered, but now they are all calling to ask if they can cut in line."

Qin Mo leaned back in his chair.

"When is the previously scheduled livestream sales slot booked until?"

"The end of next month."

Zhao Lei answered quickly.

"But at this current rate, next month won't be enough either."

Qin Mo put down the pen in his hand and glanced outside.

"Open up the livestream sales permissions for regular influencers."

His tone was brief.

"Merchants can also directly contact all influencers and streamers for collaboration through the Influencer Plaza."

"No distinction between top-tier and bottom-tier; those who want to do Livestream E-commerce don't need to go through us anymore."

"But for all livestream sales rooms, we will take a percentage commission."

Zhao Lei was stunned for a moment.

"Boss, if we do this, doesn't it mean opening up the floodgates for Livestream E-commerce?"

"Yes."

Qin Mo nodded.

"With explosive results on the first day, we should let all merchants and all bloggers come and play."

"Let there be enough people who can sell goods, and enough merchants willing to supply them."

"Only when more people join in can the label of Douyin E-commerce be thoroughly recognized by the public."

Although Douyin Mall created quite a record with the help of livestreaming, Qin Mo knew very well that relying on this alone to threaten Taobao's position was not enough.

In his previous life.

The only shopping software that surpassed Taobao was Pinduoduo. After all, Douyin is not a pure shopping software, and even with a built-in mall, it cannot shake Taobao.

Meanwhile.

Hearing Qin Mo finish speaking.

Zhao Lei didn't say anything more and made a few notes on his phone.

"There's one more thing."

Qin Mo handed a document to Zhao Lei.

"The localization of the overseas version of TikTok has been completely finished, and it will officially launch today simultaneously."

"Keep an eye on it."

During this period, with the expansion of Douyin, Qin Mo had already been pushing for the localization of TikTok overseas several months ago.

Zhao Lei took the document and opened it to take a look.

"Boss, can TikTok really replicate its domestic success overseas?"

"The internet ecosystem of every country is different. Will the Short Video format face acclimatization issues abroad?"

Qin Mo did not answer immediately.

He knew that TikTok would not just avoid acclimatization issues abroad.

In his previous life, TikTok rampaged through the global market, with download numbers trampling Facebook and YouTube underfoot.

It once became the hit software with the highest number of global users and daily active users.

But it was precisely because of this that TikTok would later be targeted.

If one were to say.

Domestically, Douyin at most only had to face the sniping of companies like Tencent.

But when it reached the overseas market.

What TikTok had to face were truly state-level measures.

That was the truly difficult battle to fight.

But it is still too early to talk about this.

TikTok has just started, and it is not yet time to worry about this issue.

He stood up and walked to the window.

"Let's push forward with TikTok normally for now."

"For Douyin Mall and Livestream E-commerce, keep a close eye on merchant entry and after-sales processes."

Zhao Lei nodded, put away the document, and quickly left the office.

Qin Mo stood up and looked out the window.

Although Douyin still has some explosive features not yet launched, such as local group buying, group streaming, mini-programs, and so on.

But these are just the icing on the cake; Douyin can indeed enter a period of stable development for now.

The main focus of Inspur Technology next.

Will be placed on the league of legends that is about to enter internal testing.