Hello and Howdy!! They call me.... The Kelimeister!! HA!

[KeliTheGuitarMomma]

Well here is a little bit about me... you can all call me Keli... Thats my name. I am from a small grease-spot-in-the-road town called Onia (pronounced Onie) Arkansas, in the Ozarks. I am quite the musician... guitar, piano, drum machine, I sing and write my own songs and poems. (nothing published yet, but I'm working on that ) Down to business. My husband and I (His name is Johnny) we want to start a Christian Internet Cafe and Grill in the city closest to where we live. Mountain View Arkansas is a town of about 3000 people and with several surrounding rural areas. Altogether the total of people is about 15-20000. Many don't have home computers, or don't have internet access. We want to provide that to these communities, and there is nothing like an internet cafe anywhere around here. Not for 150 miles anyway... we'll provide internet, basic computer applications, copying, printing, faxing... as well as prepaid VISA cards so that people can buy, download and burn songs and movies to disc, discs that they buy from us. We also want to have a restaurant there as well. Burgers, steaks, the works. Coffee, cappuccino, soft-drinks and virgin mixed drinks too. We want half of the place to be computer stations (about 20) and the other half to consist of tables, chairs and booths for people to eat, chit-chat, or wait on a computer. On Friday and Saturday nights we want to have an amateur musician, poet, and artist night... seeing as how we have sooooo much local talent. We are still in the planning stage as of now... I am coming up with a business plan (demographic) as I type this. (I'm a pretty good multi-tasker.) We want this to be a Christian environment... everyone is welcome, but we want to keep it clean, safe, wholesome and fun for everyone. It will be a good way to draw the communities together to socialize and have a good time. Let me know what ya'll think of my idea. I need all the feedback I can get. I am so excited to be a part of this community!!!!

[pboychuk]

Welcome to YE! You seem to be doing a great job eliminating the stressful part of business and are running a business you truly enjoy to run and be a part of. Congratulations on that.

[Bill Moran]

Hi Keli

Welcome to YE

Have you thought about advertising in the local Church magazines? PM me with your answer

Bill Moran - UK based

[MichaelMelen]

Heh, I actually always wanted to start an internet cafe.
Where I live / where i'd like to start it, everyone has computers and internet.
even with that though, I thought it would be a "cool" place for people to hang out.

Then Wifi came along and people were able to go to Starbucks with their laptop

Looking forward to seeing how your business goes!

[KeliTheGuitarMomma]

Thank you all for the feed back and the welcome. I really really look forward to being a part of this community!!

Keli

[Silverion]

Excellent idea based on your observations on the environment you live in as well as the conditions. I am predicting you will need to have a lot more than 20 computers to satisfy the demand.