Everyone want to start their own business, but what is stopping them? it could be financial constraints, business ideas, time constraints, resource constraints... it could be anything. In this current world, where everything has become online and with very cheap internet, you can start doing business from you home with very low investment and good profit. There are many ways listed below to do home based business.
Home » Archives for February 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Home Based Business - Where to begin from
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Learn Saxaphone - Music Class
The saxophone (sax) is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841. Its costly compared to other instruments. Chennai is proud to have the greatest sax player Kadri Gopalnath. Many of them want to learn sax, but they do not know where it is taught. I have listed some of the sax coaching places in Chennai
- MADRAS SYMPHONY #12,first street,thiruvalluvar nagar,kilkattalai, Chennai-117 9941902699
- Rhema Music Cultural Centre No.1, Spartan Avenue, Mogappair , Chennai 26560289
- Rock & Rock Light Music Orchestra 83, Near Grand Residence Hotel, Arcot Road, Porur, Chennai - 600116 -66424892
- Jeevalaya 28 A, Near R C M Schoolm 9th Street Lazer Nagar, Avadi +(91)-(44)-66245948
- Lakshman Sruthi Musicals Pvt Ltd Ashok Nagar,Chennai-600083
- Musee Musicals Pvt Ltd Mount Road, Chennai-600002
- Elyon School Of Music Kilpauk, Chennai-600010
- Carnatica Interactive Music Solutions Pvt Ltd Nungambakkam, Chennai-600034
- Issai Aalayam Chrompet, Chennai-600044
- Maithri Vidhya Kandhram Music School Saligramam, Chennai-600093
- Shridi Sairam Musical Instruments Store Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090
- Laya's Centre of Fine Arts 9940628808, 9940268808
- Srishti’s Carnatica 13, Krishnabai Street, I Floor Gokulam Colony, T. Nagar, Chennai 17 42124130, 9444018270
- Natyacharays School of Music & Dance New-16, Old-12A, 2nd Street Sakthi Nagar, Choolaimedu, Chennai Ph: 23741154,9884455286
Friday, February 5, 2010
Hotel business - Where to begin from
Hotels are the hot business in this computerized world. Although there are many hotels in the city, we still do not get seat when we enter into. So anyone who wants to start small eat-out can consider starting a hotel at small level and then develop big. I have listed some of the things which you need to consider when you start a hotel. QUALITY and SATISFACTION are the two mantras which you should keep hearing when you are in this hotel business.
b) Strategy Ask the question "why my hotel?" within yourself, which will give you an strategy. There are different customers you have to attract, families with kids, couples, businesspeople, tourists? A good combination of amenities, atmosphere, location, and services will attract your customers. You might have to forgo certain customer target markets in order to make your service offering perfect for your most desired customers.
c) Planning Sit down and write down answer the questions listed below
- What is your product or service?
- State your company's goals and objectives.
- Marketing Plan
- How will your company differ from your competitors?
- Who your customers are?
- Who is your market?
- How long will this market need your product?
- What are the characteristics of your average customer?
- Who is your competition?
- What competitive advantage do you have over your competitors?
- What is the best way you plan to sell your product or service?
- How will you sell your product or service?
- How will you promote and market your product or service?
- Who are the employees of your business?
- What are their credentials?
- How does the business make money?
- How do you price your product or service?
- what inventory, raw materials and supplies the business uses.
- List your supplies and supplier.
- How easy or difficult is it to obtain supplies?
- Are their prices steady and dependable?
- State all of your business licenses.
- How will you finance your business?
- How will you manage your finances and what needs to be financed.
- Where will your finances come from?
5) Hospitality Mindset Finally, you must have a sense of how you want your guests to be treated.
Government complaints
In the recent years, Tamilnadu government has gone online in almost all its departments. The most useful one is the online bill payment facility for all the taxes government collect. The website where you can pay tax are in my other blog Pay Bill Online - Where to begin from
Pay Bill Online - Where to begin from
As we know, private organization adopt to modernization very soon, so this online bill payment comes as one feature for private organization. You cannot see a private organization which does not have online payment option. Real surprise is TamilNadu government transformed most of its division to have online payment feature.
What is online payment: This is an option where you can login to your banking website, check for bill payment and pay your bills directly from bank account. This is real fast and one big advantage is your payment is recorded and noone can question you for arrears.
Governemnt Department and website for various services are listed below. There are about 150 services which TamilNadu goverment offers through online to avoid queue and easy maintainability, so make use of them to the fullest extent
http://www.tn.gov.in/services.html
http://www.tn.gov.in/services2.html
http://india.gov.in/howdo/service_list.php?state=TN
Avoid Queues, Save Time :)
Start Internet Cafe - Where to beginfrom
When you say Internet Cafe, its not only providing service for browsing, but it means a lot. There are many failures and many successes in this business, most important thing is to learn business pattern from successful cybercafes and also learn why some of them failed.
Self Planning
If you are well planned to start your business, then great. You only have to organize your thoughts, project expense to be bared, financial capital, project adequate running cost, sketch down month by month progress of how the business would run. If you think all these requires a great amount of time, then you have to shift to Internet Cafe Franchise
Franchises
Franchises already have a business model to run your internet cafe. Its more important from whom you take franchise, they should be well recognized and already reached to public. They have set of rules and plans which you should follow. The only disadvantage is you end up paying a little more amount for setting up your business but at the same time, you gain recognition and you pull customers from day 1.
Some checklist to consider before you start your internet cafe business.
- Choose correct location, interior like furniture, wall decorations, and design for your Cafe should be appealing.
- Choose correct location, interior like furniture, wall decorations, and design for your Cafe should be appealing.
- You can offer branded Food & beverage services, coffee counter
- Determine what to charge for computer time Type of computer equipment to purchase.
- Check if you can provide WiFi network otherwise even wired network is also fine, but remember WiFi or wired, it should work most efficiently for an Internet Cafe.
- Check best deals for peripheral equipment: printers, photocopying, faxing, scanners, telephone services & more
- Offer fee internet classes which will attract elder people
- Issue pamphlets on browsing, basic computer classes
- Issue free teaching for making calls to foreign countries
- Make money with computer LAN and Internet gaming Video conferencing, digital camera services, Resume services
All the best for starting your business.