As the network marketing success, millet phone has increased steadily in the Chinese smartphone market sales. Recently, the reporter interviewed the millet Technology CEO Lin Bin, he showed us the company's current situation and future prospects.
Q: How millet phone sales?
A: As of July of this year, millet mobile phone sales reached 26.11 million units, with sales of 33 billion yuan in the first half 2014, full-year 2014 we plan to sell 60 million mobile phones, I think this program is very easy to implement.
Q: Samsung and Apple have recently released a new product, they will have an impact on mobile phone sales millet Why?
A: I think it will not affect our sales growth momentum remains strong. For now, this year, 60 million shipments goal difficult to achieve. Millet mobile phone shipments per month recently reached 6,000,000, October-December may be a breakthrough 6,000,000.
Q: millet phone whether it is possible to reach annual sales of 70 million units?
A: This is indeed our desired goals, but may not realize.
Q: What's 2015 plan?
A: Before our phones often out of stock, but now we can make most of the products continue to supply, consumer demand remains high, and we hope next year mobile phone sales can improve 50-100%.
Q: millet most of the market share of all web-based marketing, which is what the idea is?
A: In the pre-Internet era of traditional industries, companies often spend hundreds of millions on television advertising, but can not determine how much advertising will let consumers know and buy your products.
We carried out a detailed market research, rather than blindly advertise, if your product is really good, he will naturally be popular, the effect of word of mouth better than any advertising. In the Internet era, the propagation velocity of the message more quickly, we are committed to do our best products, users microblogging platforms like to commend our products, naturally there will be more people know millet phone.
Q: Many Chinese companies are copying millet business model, what you respond to this?
A: Our business model covers the hardware, software, network services and online marketing four elements, and therefore not so easy to be plagiarized.
Q: Why is your product so focused on the hardware?
A: Consumers buy goods through the network more attention to quality, they are afraid of the Internet to buy a bad product, if our products have the slightest problem, will cause a great impact on our reputation. So our hardware vendor requirements to be higher than the Samsung and Apple.
Q: Do you have how kind of development in the field of software?
A: millet phone system MIUI, Android-based in-depth optimization, more in line with people's habits, CEO Lei Jun and I as well as many mobile phone engineers believe that user feedback is the most important, so every Friday will be the system based on user feedback update.
Q: millet is known as "China's apple", but think of your own company's business model is more like Amazon, how do you think of?
A: This is our great relationship network services, our business model and online sales of Amazon Kindle have many similarities, we provide services for MIUI system users, still shop selling our rice rabbit mascot, all these make our sales more complete industrial chain.
Q: Why are you so inclined to network marketing?
A: Internet sales channels than traditional save 30-40% of the cost, but also allow consumers to buy cheaper and better products.
Q: There are rumors that millet will be involved in real estate, which is true?
A: Not really, our current products are only involved in mobile phones, tablet PCs, TVs, set-top boxes and routers.
Q: You say you plan to open by the end of the mobile phone market in 10 countries, we are able to disclose more news?
A: Our business model is more easily achieved in the success of the country meets the following conditions: a huge population, the rise of e-commerce and carrier forces just not strong enough. Currently millet has entered the Indonesian and Indian markets, the following may enter Brazil and Russia.
Q: Do you microblogging marketing in India is not feasible in these countries, you have any better way?
A: In India, we sell through their online store Flipkart, and we through Facebook and Twitter for marketing in India. Our overseas business has just started, by the end of 2014, sales in overseas markets will probably account for 5% of our overall sales.
Q: Have you ever thought develop the Japanese market?
A: Our current effort to develop the Indian market, the Japanese market is more saturated, and therefore do not yet considered.
Q: There is no public offering plan?
A: There is no IPO plans millet, we do not want to be too hasty. Alibaba Group took 15 years to achieve IPO, while millet only 4 years old. So we should at least be accumulated over 10 years of experience, we want to make my business bigger and stronger, like many Japanese companies that continued for 100 years.
As of the end of our full year results will be profitable this year, we will also achieve profit in the hardware business.
Q: Can the company's internal control system to keep up with rapid development in recent years?
A: When the company has just set up, and I CEO Lei Jun on a mutual commitment to build a world-class business, the company set up early so we let PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm of high reputation for our management, we have improved by a lot of effort our internal control system.
Nanjing DingYing Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.