Cyber Cafe Business Ideas

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1. INTRODUCTION

We are living in the era of the internet, where all things are directly or indirectly related to it. So there is no need to explain the benefits of opening of this cybercafe business. the most valuable thing and abundantly available facility now is providing internet, as all work is dependent on it, this business has directly become one of the basic need of today’s world. Also the percentage of cyber café is growing day by day due to availability of user and earning profit. But apparently smartphones has become like a hurdle in the progress of cyber café business. 

What is cybercafe?

The cybercafe is the place which provides internet facilities with computers in a place with hourly access and demands fees or charges for the duration any customer spend on that computer. it is basically for the people who don’t have internet at their place or computer. Usually students and corporates access this internet café’s.

Types of cybercafe business:

There are various types of computer café opened up in Indian cities, town and even in every village. This causes to solve the problems of normal people having facilities related to online service and internet issues. Following are the types of cybercafe business:

• # Internet café only: only providing internet services.
• # Online and offline service café: these cafes provides gaming and online internet services both.
• # Gaming cybercafe: providing only gaming services.
• # Café (coffee and internet): that’s strange but now cyber café also converted into coffee cafeteria. Or we can say they mix up  the cybercafe with cafeteria.
• # Combo cybercafe: this cybercafe has maximum facilities like form filling, ID Card generation, internet providers, Gaming zones, Xerox machine, scanners, printers etc.

Advantages:

• # Reasonable price access to internet.
• # As a gamer you need not have to installed all the games in your computer you can access it in café also.
• # Internet speed is maximum in café so time is not wasted in buffering.
• # If you don’t have computer, then there is no need of buying it as you can access café easily.
• # The instructors in the café helps you to internet solve problems if you struck at any point.

Disadvantages:

• # Risk of leaking of personal information or your confidential work information.
• # In case you use online banking or card number access in the internet café there is risk of stolen of bank information and may empty your bank account with that card number access.
• # Youngsters my get addicted towards gaming.
• # Other disadvantage is that if you need to access internet urgently and cafes are closed then there is no use of them.
• # Also, if you have lot of work to do you can’t spend a day on that internet café, it’s not possible to sit that much time.

2. CASE STUDY

Following are the case studies of the business of cybercafe business:

CAFÉ CLASSIC INTERNET & COMPUTERS:  This is Hyderabad café which become successful and started earning profit due to its customer service. This café started earning so much because of the owner’s skills to handle customer politely and make customer satisfaction, also they provide very good accessories for the gaming purpose this impress customers.

CYBER CAFÉ WITH GAMING ZONE: This internet café is situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The reason behind its success is that they keep their rate reasonable and also provide friendly atmosphere to the customers. Also, they keep their timing for more hours than the usual timings.

3. BUSINESS IDEAS’S SWOT

i) Strength

• # This Cyber café business doesn’t need your extra efforts to earn profit, just you have to administrate the café.
• # As the computer cyber café business is service provider business type, you have to just maintained the internet facilities.
• # The services which makes internet café successful is adding exam form, agriculture documents procedure, bank loans forms, filling services along with up-dation of various government identity proof card’s like voters card form filling, pan card form filling, passport form filling, etc.
• # Starting a computer café doesn’t required lot employees even 2 or three are sufficient to managed at initially.

ii) Weakness

• # there is big risk in running this cyber-café business.
• # Due to availability of dongle and broadband in lesser price than before and having smartphones at everyone’s, cyber -café business is at lowest.
• # The charges for the per hour are very low as it doesn’t make you earn much profit .

iii) Opportunities

• # during the time of admissions of graduates and higher secondary students and also masters students mostly summer time ,there is lot of opportunities for the internet café to earn as they demand for online form and procedure and cap round list and all related documentary.
• # Having xerox machines adds double advantage to the cyber café business.
• # During exams there is lot of chaos at internet café for the study notes and print outs and also during the results hours for the printouts of markets.

iv) Threats

• # Major threat for the cybercafé business is smartphones and internet facility in almost every home, causes it to diminished this business slowly.
• # Also, every company, offices, coaching classes, schools, college, has its own printers and internet, this effects that customers count to decrease.
• # Increase in the cybercrime also affects the cybercafé business.

4. OPERATIONAL PLAN OF RENT BUSINESS IDEA 

LEGAL NEEDS

As per the Indian Norms:

• # Registration of cybercafe
• # Trade license
• # Non objection certificate
• # Identification proof of customers (having photo of user)
• # Login Register of user (date, time, place, PC No., duration)

5. FINANCIAL PLAN

• # Location
• # Computers
• # Internet facility
• # Licenses
• # Insurance
• # Printers, scanners, xerox machine, etc
• # Chairs or siting stools
• # Furniture for computers and accessories
• # Partitions for privacy
• # Electricity supply with invertor facility is must
• # Cooling system is must as for machines generates heat
• # Thumb, finger and biometric scanner

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