Weekly Poll Results 4

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Hi it's me again Jason here, and as usual you know what I'm here for. On this week poll quiz is about 'What is the lowest price you ever experienced in I.C? the choices given is RM 0.50, RM 1, RM 1.50 and RM 2.



As usual the normal rate of I.C price in the market is RM 2 and many people think is normal. Most of the I.C i experienced myself are also RM 2. However the lowest price i ever experienced is also RM 1.50. Based on my analysis, the result came up to be RM 1.50 are the majority who experience it with this rate. With this rate, the I.C should be very big I.C with lots of computer. That's their target way of earning profit.

On the other hand, RM 1 with the result of 25% is also supported however is very rare that this I.C would offer this rate. It usually happens on a promotion or events. RM 1 is the lowest price indicated in the quiz however RM 0.50 with 0% are not supported. Based on my research, RM 0.50 usually happens when a new I.C has open business. It's also rare with this rate. I.C owners will either pick free gaming time or with minimum fee RM 0.50 when they just open business.

Lastly RM 2 is also supported with 25%, the reason why is also 25% is because that RM 2 is a normal rate in the market price and not many people experience lower price than this. It is obvious that RM 2 doesn't make any impact in the market price.

Well that's all for my poll this week and today is the 1st day of Chinese New Year and i would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year, Bye.

Tighter Laws for Internet Cafe

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Happy holidays to you all. I am filled with the holiday's spirit makes me a bit lazy,hahaha but i still going to carry out my responsibility.

Remember i posted a post titled Enforcing the Law? Well i do because i did it. Anyway, this new post is also about the law only it is a different article. It is not the same because the old post talked about enforcing the law but this one talks about tighter laws.

From what i read, there are differences between the laws before and the ones that are to be executed. My last post they are telling the Internet Cafes to close by midnight as a concern to the teenagers that are pestering near these cafes even after midnight. Now they put up new laws where these cafes can only operate using the ground floor of buildings. No more two storey Internet Cafes.

According to Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin, cyber cafes operators are banned from using tinted windows so that their cafes can be seen from the outside. It is so that people can see what is happening inside to make sure there are no illegal activities being carry out inside the cafes.

Alcohols and cigarettes are both a no-no inside the premises. According to the article, operators need to keep record of the time of all their customers in and out of their premises and they need to also send the names of the students that went and use their services to the students' schools.

Any of the operaters that does not comply with the guidelines will and shall be blacklisted. Not only that, their names will be sent to all local authorities and they will not be allow to open this type of business in any part of Malaysia.

It seems that cyber cafes laws are getting tighter but still, a lot more has been neglecting these guidelines,that's one thing i am sure of. One thing i am not sure of is that whether these laws have been enforced or not. Anyway....this is the end for my post, enjoy this holiday people and thank you to all.

Internet Cafe software

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Happy Chinese New Year guys...!!! Gong Xi Fa Cai... Hope you all enjoy the holiday... This time I want to talk about the Internet Cafe software. Discuss on what types of software that Internet Cafe used? Well, here are the examples of the software in other countries:-

1. Hotspot software – This is the software used for charging the WiFi billing to those who use the Internet Café’s wireless supply. This is a “no client installation” software which means that the users no need install any software of this. This software will redirect the users to Internet Café’s login page to sign in or pay before getting the Internet access. This software required the bandwidth management which is very useful in controls time and also the bandwidth usage for unlimited user accounts and also can connects multiple WiFi hotspots to the same database. This software can help the owner to accept the credit card payments with more than 70 payment gateways.

2. Internet Café software – This is a server and client based software. This software is used to counting the time usage and charge for the cost that you fixed in the Internet Café. Internet Café software can help to control the game console and limited the customer activities the way you want to set. For examples, hides desktop icons, the Windows button, the access to the system and others. This software can easily help you to manage the customers’ account, security, games and program usages. This software supports many 30 languages and is deployed in more than 170 countries. In addition, Internet Café software can change the skin to match your preference.

3. Print manager software – This is a centralized print control. You can automatically supervise the printer in your Internet Cafe while your customer is using it and then you can price the process. This software is also suitable for libraries, schools, corporations and others.

4. Bandwidth manager – This is also a “no client installation” software. Bandwidth manager can help you to control the download and upload rates for every computer in your network which can help to make other computer work with the same speed because when downloading some files, the computer will steal most of the connection speed then other computers will face the low speed connection. This software can help you to reduce your overall bandwidth requirements which in another word is saving your money. In addition, it also can filter websites, shares Internet connection, and integrates with third-party software using API.

(source of reference: World Leading Internet Cafe Software and WiFi HotSpot Billing Software, accessed on 10th Feb 2010, URL: http://www.antamedia.com/)

This is so far I can share with you.
Happy Chinese New Year again...
Have a nice day...
-david-

Weekly Poll Result 3

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Hi guys, it's me Jason as usual. Well on our poll last week, not much response on the quiz poll. Then we try to understand the situation of our weaknesses however we still hope that all our viewers would spend sometime giving and comment on our weaknesses on our weekly poll. On the previous week poll, our question asked on 'Do you often visits Internet Cafe?'

Before I go for more information on our poll, lets view the chart results first and understand the situation.



As you can see on the chart, 63% says that they visits I.C depending when they plan outing with their friends. I realize that, even myself visits internet cafe based on the same reason. First thing is social interactivity and gaming purposes. To all my viewers, would you agree on my statement as i stated? If there is comment or feedback feel free to share with us as a topic discussion.

Second and third is the same results on the 1st answer and the 2nd answer that is once in a blue moon and everyday. Both results are even as in 15%. Some people who are I.C-holic as we call it, will visit I.C often as in everyday. They would spend most of their hours there playing either alone or with groups. Why it is so? I believe that most of the player who plays game are more interested on LAN game such as Dota, Call of Duty Left 4 Dead and etc. However the obvious part that people doesn't visit I.C is because of they do not play games or interested with I.C.

The curious part that there is no respondent who respond saying that they visits I.C 1 week 1 time. In my experience I did before thus I realize that i do not visit I.C alone. I do visit I.C at least 1 time in a week. not many people are doing so because either their visiting it at least more than 1 or just better not go.

Now comes the last result that is visiting I.C more than 1 time in a week. It is true based on my research by looking it myself in I.C, I am able to see the same face at least minimum twice in a week. people who do so are usually people who are already working and they would spend their time after working hours in I.C. Purpose are also common as in gaming purposes.

Wow again is coming midnight and as usual coming to my bed time. Well I hope my results are sufficient based on my research I did. Again please don't hesitate by leaving your comment and fedback. We would be glad hearing information's from you.
Got to go now. Nights~~

Common Mistakes in Business

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Helloooo readers....how's health? Wish the best of health to you all

I believe you all read the post Mr ducky did. well that post is tips on starting your own internet cafe business. He did well on that. So my post related to his in a way because mine is talking about some common mistakes that people did when they started their own internet cafe.

People always say that the first impression matters most right? lets say you opened an internet cafe and for the grand opening, you gave free try-outs. You know people, some just want to compare the new one with your newly opened and some just want to get the free internet surfing, no matter what the reason, you still need to impress these people. If on the free try-outs, these people who came face problems like PC not working or have to restart, cannot connect to server or many other reasons, your first impression gone just like that.

So what you need to do is to make sure that your PCs are made of a good brand of hardwares. A brand that people know it's reputation. That's one, another one is slow PC. Please make sure that you don't buy slow PCs, always get the fastest PC in the market for your internet cafe because people that visit internet cafes expect to have a fast flowing experience and if you fail to do so, you are gonna lose to the competitors. This one can fall into the bad maintenance problem because bad maintanance also can cause your computers to slow down.

Always keep up with competitors and get the latest softwares and hardwares to make sure that your internet cafe can maintain its performance thus keeping the customers to come back.

Another common problem in internet cafes is smokers. These smokers can enter to the non-smoker area but non-smoker would not go to the smokers are because they hate the smokes. So it is better to just make your internet cafe a non-smoking one because the amount of non-smokers are larger than smokers when it comes to visiting an internet cafe. Majority counts and failing to do so keeps your customers away.

One major common problem is the lack of computers. You know that most of the people that goes to internet cafes always in groups, rarely alone because 'the more the merrier' so it is your duty and responsibility as the owner to make sure that these customers that are in groups can always get their PCs because when their happy, you are happy. Always make sure that there are always computers available for your customers. Customer satisfaction is gold. Hahaha....

what i just post is only a few of the problems but i focus on the most common so that you readers won't be reading through a whole lot more. So this is it for this week and i'll be back for next week...Thank You


(Source of reference :Internet Cafes Common mistakes URL: http://www.ccautosoft.com/internet-cafe-guide/internet-cafe-common-mistakes.php accessed on 4 february 2010)

Start your own Internet Cafe Business

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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/)

Have a nice day...

-david-

Weekly Poll Result 2

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Hey guys its me again Jason on duty. Well my post is always like soldier style right? Haha It's going to change soon. Ok lets straight to the point. As you all know that im the person in charge on the poll session and I am gladly to announce the result for previous week. Again I would like to thank you all our readers for participating our weekly quiz and feel free to give more of your feedback to let us improve and serve you better.

On our previous week question was about 'What's your main purpose visiting Internet Cafe? This question is very interesting and the feedback was better then before. Our choices of answers are gaming, net surfing, socializing, and no internet at home.

This are chart on our results on the pass week.


As you can see on our chart, most of the response supported that their purpose of visiting Internet Cafe is because of gaming. Why gaming? The result proven 34% and no internet connection 23%. Internet Cafe was once created not for gaming purposes however at came up with a trend when all the youngsters this days has no internet at home, so they visit Internet Cafe for gaming purposes. Basically gaming and no internet at home is basically related to most of our answers however depending on the readers reason for visiting Internet Cafe.

Another reason that also was supported 2nd most at 26% is because net surfing. Internet Cafe was created for net surfing and till now the trend is there. People visit Internet Cafe either they do their work, or net search for information, facebook-ing, checking mails, twitter and many more sites. Reason? They also might not have internet at home or they just don't want to be home. Haha

Last but not least, social purposes at 17%. Ok social purposes mean that people actually plan to go to Internet Cafe to social with their friends or online friends. A lot of teenagers now this days visits Internet Cafe with big groups of friends because there is 1 special advantages that they are able to socialize. LAN games are the main reason because at home, people are just playing alone and it's going to be bored. However in Internet Cafe is a whole different thing where they can meet up and play side by side. If based on socializing through net, is similar to net surfing.

Wow guys, it's very late now and I'm kind of tired now and going off to bed as usual. Well I'm calling of duty now. Bye