How To Start A Cyber Café Business Part One

How To Start A Cyber Café Business Part One

Do you have an interest in cyber café business? Cyber café business is a good and lucrative business. If you really hav passion for this business and you are innovative, you will take it to a greater height.
A cyber café business can be very profitable in an area or state that are lacking the internet. Most especially in my country Nigeria where Internet is part of the major problem people are lacking. To win big in this business, you just have to be different;  I mean you have to make a difference in order to stay ahead of your game.

How To Start:
Before starting a cyber café business, you will need to find an ideal location for your business. Make sure that, the place where you want to base your business on, must be spacious so that there will be enough space for computers and people who will patronize you.
Never make the mistake of renting or buying a business location (shop or store) that’s not spacious because most people who start this business do make this mistake. If you really want to enter the cyber café business with full spirit, you must be ready to give it all what it will take to turn it into a successful business.

Things You Need: You will have to get desktop computers like Pentium 4 desktop computers or laptops, depending on your budget. Make sure you get computers that are fast and not computers that will make customers feel sad when using it.
You will need a fast ISP (Internet Service Provider) that will give you access to the internet. Consider getting access from a fast and reliable ISP that will give you the best you want. So that people who are patronizing you will have the guts to come back for your services.
The fact is that an ISP is the soul of a cyber café business, because if you don’t get access from a fast and reliable ISP provider, your cyber café business will not grow. After getting the ISP you want to get access from, you will have to find a plan that will suit you. Because there are different internet plans that will be shown to you, all you have to do is to find the one that will suits you.
You will have to set up the business location (store or shop) that you bought or rent. Get a carpenter that will help you with the furniture that will be needed in the cyber café. Also you will need a computer networker who will help you crimp cables that will be slot into the computers so that they can be access from the main computer (domain). And it will be able for customers to surf the internet.
Connect all the power supply (electricity) in a neat way in order to avoid any hazard. If your cyber café is in an area where you don’t have sufficient power supply. Make sure you get a good generator that will serve you. Not generators that won’t last long. So make sure you get a good generator.
You should setup up your business location ( shop or store) in a way that, it will attract customers. Your cyber café environment must be clean and neat. If you have the money, you can fix air condition in it so that people will feel relaxed when surfing the net. All this things are what attract people to patronize you. I’m sure you will want your cyber café store or shop to look attractive? So you must give it a good look.

Offering of services:
Now, you will decide on how you will offer your services to customers. To do this, you will have to think on how it will help you and your customers. I’m sure you will want to reap the fruits of your labour? So sit down and plan how you will render your services to customers in a way that it will help you and your customers.
Planning how you will charge your customers for the services rendered depends on you. You might want to charge per hour or per minutes. You can charge $2 per hour or more. But you must make sure that each have segment. Take for instance, You charge $2 per hour, the next charges will be $4 per 2hours, $5 per 4hours etc depending on how you want to offer your services.
Remember to create space for people who might want to use their personal computers and not your computers to surf the internet. Many customers don’t like the idea of using the cyber café computers to surf the internet. So create space for people like that. And charge them for the services that will be rendered to them.
You might also want to expand your services to people who want to browse from home, people who will not love to come down to your cyber café to browse due to one thing or the other. But to do this, you need a wireless hub that will give them access to surf the internet. Find Internet engineers who can help you with it. You just have to discuss the matter with them and they will tell you how they can be of help.

Note: To offer the services of browsing from home, you must watch the area you want to offer this type of services to because the people who are living in the area where your business is based might be illiterate. I mean people who don’t know the use of the internet.
The best is to ask people who are living in that area if they would love to patronize this offer and know how much they are willing to pay for it. Most people might be waiting for someone who will bring up this idea, so if you are ready for this business, you must be ready to relate with people in order to know if they would love the idea or not.
Promotion Of Services:
To notify people that you are around, I mean to notify people about your business, you can create a banner and handbills that will help speak about your business. You should also tell people you know, about your new business. Also tell them to inform their friends to come around if they want to surf the internet.
Make sure you try to satisfy every customer that come around so as to fight for the word of mouth from them. If the speed of the internet connection is fast and the price you charge for it is a reasonable amount, customers will help you spread the word about your business.
The three things you should always fight for is:

1. Fast internet connection
2. Reasonable price
3. Satisfy your customers.

If you are able to do that, believe me, your business will grow.

Speak Your Mind:
Are you willing to start a cyber café business or what do you think about the business idea? Feel free to share your opinion by commenting below. Thanks so much