Many people hate working for a boss and aspire to own their own business. They think not only the potential for monetary success but the independence. But the problem is amounts of choices are overwhelming. Nowadays, internet café business is increasing very globally. Everyone thought that internet café is a very easy business to get on and profitable, but although this business is “inexpensive” to start up, there are still many failures too and not everyone can do it efficiently and successfully. Before start this internet café business, you should think up a business plan so that you can do it successfully. Well, here are some tips to start up the internet café business and you can take it as a reference.
Tips to start an internet café business:-
(i) Choosing the correct location, décor and design for your Internet Café
To choose a strategy place is very important and it will help you increase the income faster. Examples for the strategy places will be better if around the school and college area, or with the larger population of housing area in a place and others.The décor and design should be giving the user-friendly feeling for the users and make them feel more comfortable and keep on coming back.
(ii) Offer the nice food and beverage to the customers
The better choices of food and beverage should be bread and coffee. Nowadays more youngsters like to hang out at the Internet Café for many hours and they do not have afford to buy expensive food and they prefer cheaper and can easy fill their stomach. So the best choice is bread which is cheap and also can easier fill up your stomach. Besides coffee, others juice and can drink also very suitable for those youngsters who like to drink sweet beverage.With the good food and nice drink, the customers can have more comfortable feeling towards your Internet Café.
(iii) Determine the charges for computer time
Make a reasonable price for those users who do not have larger income, so that they can have afford to pay the computer time they have used.
(iv) Determine the efficient wireless or LAN online setting
If your Internet Café online speed is very slow, no people will like to come to visit your Café again. So choosing the LAN online setting is also very important, so that the users can enjoy the fast online speed to download files or play games without lagging.
(v) Choose the effective way to promote your Internet Café.
Minimize the money used to advertise your café and get the larger publicity. The most common ways is to use the word-of-mouth from the customers to help you promote your café. Besides that, you also can do some flyers, print ads or others to promote your café.
(Source of reference: The Internet Cafe Guide, accessed on 4th Feb 2010, URL : http://www.internetcafeguide.com/)
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-david-
