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Real World Business — Running An Internet Cafe — Part 5

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Top 5 things to consider when starting your own Internet café:
Pricing and promotions:
Know how much you’ll charge for your services. Studying the market will play a great role here. If the price is right then people will avail of your services. Some owners often use pricing as a tool to have an edge over other [...]

Real World Business — Running An Internet Cafe — Part 4

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Top 5 things to consider when starting your own Internet café:
Hardware, software and other utilities:
– Consider first what services you’re going to offer. For example:

If you would only provide Internet services such as web surfing, chatting, etc., then you could go for the low-end or the average specifications for your computers. The Internet doesn’t [...]

Real World Business — Running An Internet Cafe — Part 3

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

3. Location
–Here you have different options to choose from as long as your market is available. Some go for the residential areas, which I believe would best suit businessmen-wannabes with limited funds. You could even start your Internet shop at the expense of your own backyard. Just see to it that there is enough [...]

Real World Business — Running An Internet Cafe — Part 2

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

This is Part 2 of a 5 Part series. Part 1 is here:

Top 5 things to consider when starting your own Internet café:
2. Study your niche/market

See to it that there is a great demand for an Internet café in your area. Obviously, the urbanized areas are the ones you would target. Well, the [...]

Real World Business — Running An Internet Cafe — Part 1

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Nice treat coming up this week, folks.  One of my neighbors, Arvin, is an experienced Filipino businessman.  He has real-world experience setting up and running an Internet Cafe, or as it’s also commonly called in many areas of the Philippines, a Computer Shop. I’ve been studying the subject of living in the Philippines for nearly [...]

Top Ten Skills _Not_ To Go To School For … Part 2

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Here’s Part 2 of yeaterday’s article on technoogies you mght wnat to avoid when goingto school in the Philippines. Part 1 is here:
6. C programming As the Web takes over, C languages are also becoming less relevant but C++ and C Sharp are still alive and kicking.  A school that teaches only “straight” basic C is [...]

Top Ten Skills _Not_ To Go To School For … Part 1

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I decided to make this post because I’m working on a decent list of the Top Ten Computer Schools in the Philippines, to accompany my recent Top Ten Articles, Top Ten Art Schools in the Philippines and Top Ten Business Schools in the Philippines.
There re a LOT of computer-oriented schools in the Philippines and it’s [...]