What kind of staff for your cyber café business.

There are two ways you can go about this. You either employ experienced staff, who have worked in a café or business center before or you take in young people who have not yet gained admission into a tertiary institution and know how to use a computer. There are advantages and disadvantages to both types of staff.

The experienced staff will probably begin to steal from you as soon as you employ them. But your cyber café business will be run with minimum of headache. While the inexperienced staff will have to be taught almost everything you know about cyber café business. Things like; how to scan documents, how to resize images, how to scan for antivirus, etc. but they will not start to steal immediately they are employed.

One very important thing you must consider when employing your staff is the distance where they live to the café. Preferably , people who live very close to the café because of transportation cost.

Salaries for staff range from N7,000.00 to N10,000.00 per month. Newly employed staff are set at the lower end of the salary scale while old or exceptional staff are set at the top.

When starting your cyber café business, you need to employ as few staff as possible.  If you are conversant with computers, employ just one staff. Then as the business grows you can employ more. If you are not computer literate, then employ somebody who is and learn from that person as quickly as possible.

However, there is one aspect of your café that you will need an expert at. The maintenance of your café network. The café network simply means how the computers are interconnected to the server, router , switch and the internet. And maintaining your network is going to be your biggest headache. If you don’t handle your network properly you will lose your customers. It is one single thing that can destroy your investment in a café business.

Don’t worry. I’m going to show how I handle mine even though I’m not a network guru.