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Setting Up an Internet Cafe in Your Home With A Minimal Capital

Are you an OFW who will be finishing your work contract and will be returning home soon, a retrenched employee, a pensioner,or an entrepreneur who have save a small amount of money and would want to go into a small time business, putting up a small internet cafe in your home will be very ideal for your hard money if you have only a small budget.

This is only for a backyard internet cafe set up in the home, in your vacant lot, in your receiving room or in a vacant garage. You will save your money on renting space. But if you have a vacant lot in the province it will be a big advantage for you.

If you had a wide space for your internet cafe. I recommend 10 or more units of computer. It is because mostly gamers play in groups and they play LAN (local area network games) like DOTA in 5 vs. 5 players or 4 vs.4 set up.

1. How much will be  the starting capital ?  - Let us say for example with my own Internick Cafe?
2. The capital was : 80,000 (eighty thousand pesos ) for 8 computers, cheap? but I recommend more capital than that amount.
3. What are the computers I bought? They are surplus computers I bought from Openpinoy.com you will see if you go their site they sell good second hand computers with 30 days warranty, computer spare parts, as well as branded brand new computers.
4. The PC specification is Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, 512MB video card of 128MB hard disk storage : 80G    
5. If you want to save on electricity consumption, I recommend that you will buy an LCD monitor, open pinoy are selling them also. LCD flat monitor uses less electricity of course surplus ones cost less
6. You will have to purchase also a router ( 4 ports will do ) but I recommend an 8 port router D-link DI-604 was the easiest to set up so that you can share your internet connection.
7. A hub (network switch) with 8 ports will be an additional if your router has only 4 ports.
8. Purchase also LAN cable for your networking. I recommend the branded ones. This cable last longer and you will not have problems with your network disconnection.
9. One unit of printer if possible an All in One Printer ( meaning you can print, photocopy and scan)
10. A DVD writer - if  you will offer CD burning services

 Hardware:

1. 8 units of PC or desktop computer - Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ or higher 1 GB memory Video Card 128Mb or higher 80GB of Hard Disk with USB ports in front ( if you are buying in package : keyboard and mouse are already included as freebies)
2. 8 units of LCD flat monitor.Router
3. Hub
4. LAN cable
5. 1 unit of An All in One Printer ( colored and black) recommended Canon or Epson
6. DVD writer - if you will be offering CD burning, an additional income
7. 8 pieces of  headsets
8. 4 pieces of web cams
9. 8 pieces of mouse pads
10. 1 piece usb stick flash driver
11. 1 piece Card reader
12. 1 Electric fans
13. 8 Chairs - recommend purchase durable mono block

• Purchase a licensed Microsoft Home XP operating system - enable you to update and patch hot fixes.
• Purchased a licensed Anti Virus Software such as ESET NOD 32 or you can start with free trial but they will expire in 30 days.
• You can also purchased an Internet Cafe timer (optional), you will need 1 dedicated PC for this set up, ( 1 PC that will act as a server) it will automatically shut down your computer when the time is finished for the renter, that is  the advantage but the disadvantage is you will be spending 1 computer for this purpose, an addition to your electric bill, in my internet cafe, I do it manually I just write in a piece of paper the time the user ends.
• If you don't know how to install programs you better learn it early to save money on overhead expenses, because  there are a lot of troubleshooting especially if your internet business had a lot of customers, and your knowledge in maintaining a computer will be a very valuable resources.    

Software :

1. Windows XP Home or Professional version
2. A good anti Virus
3. Mozilla Firefox
4. Google
5. Yahoo Messenger
6. Microsoft Office 2007 
7. C Cleaner - clean your computer from junk files and its free
8. You tube Downloader - for downloading videos from youtube

Games :     

1.  DOTA (Frozen Throne)
2.  Garena
3.  War rock
4.  Counter Strike Source
5.  Counter Strike Extreme
6.  NBA Live 2010
7.  Crazy Kart
8.  Battle Realms
9.  Yuri's  Revenge
10.  Cabal Online P.H
11.  RAN online

This list will be dependent on your customers preference, you have to uninstall some of this games when your customers are not using it to optimize your computer's memory efficiency.

Like every business, the site or location of your internet cafe business success depends also with location, you will be successful if  your location is near the school, government, business offices and near the street where there are always human traffic.

Our residence is near two schools and my kids are also playing LAN games which our users are also playing. My kids are also DOTA fans and they have tournaments especially during weekends and these contribute to the success of bringing customers to our home internet cafe.

I will post some more tips and guides regarding setting up the networking connection of a home internet cafe. Hope that this post will help you, please comment or click here to let me know of your  inquiries or feedback or use our forum so I can improve my tips and guide in how to make our computer make money and improve our lives.

Setting Up your Blogger

Now that you had made your first post or if you have not experience it yet or  you had doubts if you had set your blog correctly the first time. Here are some simple step, I hope that this will help you getting started.

1.  Log in to your blogger dashboard. If you forget your password  you can still ask blogger to send it to your gmail account.

Home Cafe Internick Cafe Dashboard

• After you had log in to your blogger dashboard click on settings you will see the settings tab in your screen and they are :

Setting A Neighborhood Internet Cafe Our Story

Internick Cafe, we are an internet cafe situated in a home, our vacant sala, we started last Sept. 2009 we are located in San Isidro, Tala Caloocan City. and have been almost 2 years in this internet cafe business. We have survived our small business going back to those days we remember when we set up our internet cafe, we thought that it will not last long that this would be just a temporary livelihood. But the internet cafe shop was a source of income. Not only that its a fountain of friendship, we have made a lot of friends locally and abroad in friendster later on with the latest and popular facebook, we enjoy our internet a lot, our broadband connection is supplied by SmartBro Plan 999,  some said its a slow broadband but I was lucky I've got a stable connection with them. I have no big problems with Smartbro. I only have 9 units of Pentium 4 PC, one all in one Canon printer. Our computer rental is just 10.00/hour I think we are one of the cheapest internet rental be it an internet or playing LAN games.

I put up this blog to help others especially my kababayan Filipino or their relatives abroad who wants to set up an internet business that will help them to have a livelihood or an income. I tell you this business had been good to my family, maybe If you will land to my blog while you are browsing, searching for how your computer will help you earn money. This will be an inspiration for you to start. I hope that I can give you some tips,knowledge in my own little ways how to make computer or computers help you earn money   
     

Make money on line by blogging

If you are a beginner just like me, we will start with free things and blogging is one of them. There are two platforms that are popular blogger and wordpress, and they are free. You can use your firefox browser to go to their website

I started this blog and in setting this up I just followed their directions. I don't know if I am doing it right so what, I believe that we will learn from our mistakes. I made 3 post regarding my internet cafe

Paypal link to ATM, and how to lift the limit with out a credit card

Maybe you had experienced a problem of linking your new paypal account to our local bank and you had landed on our blog, when you are searching in the internet of how to link your paypal account to your chosen bank.  in order for you to  lift the limit amount when Paypal asked you for a credit card to assign but you don't have a credit card. So here are the easy steps my friends, because it happened to me when my sister send me money through Paypal. I had tried using my BDO debit card assuming that my ATM card had a Mastercard logo, that when I assigned it in my Paypal it was accepted but it took me 2 weeks of asking my son to passed the ATM card but still no funds appearing, only then I googled and found out in the internet that Union Bank have an EON card. Yes! my friends, if you are wondering how to lift the amount and assigned to withdraw from a local bank your Paypal funds,

Welcome To Internick Cafe

Please Welcome to Internick Cafe, your home internet cafe. I will not be an original one, you will find home internet business rental all over in the Philippines. We had been in this family business for almost 2 years now. We started last September 2008. and I tell you a simple internet set up will help you earn some money, not that big of money, enough to pay your electric, broadband bill, and a daily source of living, a source of knowledge, enjoyment and your Personal computer can help you, earn a living. On my post or pages I will tell you how to set up an internet cafe, based on my experience, the ways and means. Maybe you can help me too. You can share also your experience. and if you have problems regarding how to set up your internet cafe. You have come to the right place. I am here to help you in my own little way. Join with me read through the pages of my blog how computers will improve our lives and how to make our computers earn money for us.