Thanks papa Mon ^_^

For shop owners, a good customer service is very important and be observant to what your customers are doing. Yung bang di ka pa tinatawag lumapit ka na to give assistance.

Don’t also forget to have this energy bar for gamers. The CHOCO MUCHO CHOCOLATE BAR. This is very popular here in Binan as most ICafes has this for sale.

Most cafes present the image to a stranger that they are not wanted … think about how open and inviting you business looks to a first-timer. The ‘exclusive gamers-club’ idea is good business, except that if you don’t attract new blood your business eventually dwindles and dies.

In 9 years I have never yet been welcomed personally and shown to a station the first time … employees are always behind a counter, obviously busy with other things and only tolerant of, not welcoming to clients.

Some of this, of course in my case is because people are naturally shy of foreigners, but hey, you want business, welcome people. Business owners always moan and complain about costs and competition … being nice to new people is easy … and it costs not one centavo.

Even in big chain operations like Netopia franchises I never see management software being used effectively … rentals are typically managed by hand written notes on paper. This often makes the customer uneasy about how he is charged, and it certainly, in the long run, costs the business owner money. Why have sophisticated management software and then not use it?

Cafe? Like food and drink? There are ‘computer shops’ who actually serve (and profit) from this? Heck of a concept … hardly ever done in my experience … big opportunity missed.

A CR? You mean as in a place that has been actually cleaned within the preceding week (not just rubbed with a dirty mop) and has a seat on the toilet and even a roll of toilet paper … and actual soap to wash your hands before going back to touch the never-cleaned keyboards?

Wow, now _that_ would be a true ‘comfort’. As an outsider who doesn’t know how things really work, my fertile imagination suggests that those employees always standing behind the counter ignoring the customers could do things like clean the place in their spare moments … but, of course, I am a dreamer.

Anyway, didn’t want this to sound too negative, but this is how strangers see many “computer shops”. Some things cost money to fix, other merely require a little caring.

I hope we see more on this subject.

Have a nice day and hope to seeya often here in gmtristan.com

Oh my goodness yes, I should have mentioned that too … but my comment was already too long.

Netopia seems to use a proprietary brand of cheap keyboard that was dreamed up by an industrial designer who was good with graphics but didn’t know how to type.

The keys are diamond shaped, the lines between the keys all point to the center of the top of the keyboard instead of being parallel … I’m a fat-fingered clumsy typist anyway but on those Netopia things … it’s horrible. I’ve computed in probably 12 different countries … since long before there were even PC’s … and I have never seen a keyboard like this. Even Japanese I-cafe keyboards where each key has as many as 6 different functions are nothing like as difficult as the Netopia “things” … the keys are shaped normally and you just follow the letters in English and forget about Japanese special functions … piece of cake if the keyboard is normal shape and size.

Keep up the good work!