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Finding Free Restaurant Wireless

October 1st, 2009 No comments

Free restaurant wireless and other technology has made this a great time to become an entrepreneur. You don’t have to have an office anymore, you can work out of your home. We’ve become a mobile society: laptops, cell phones, and free restaurant wireless service allow us to work from anywhere.

This means you don’t even have to work out of your home if you don’t want to. For the price of a cup of coffee and the use of some free restaurant wireless, you can take advantage of a nice workspace, see people, and still get some work done. This is especially beneficial to new entrepreneurs, because for about $90 per month, you can have your own office space, as compared to the $300 – $500 you might spend for a small office in a big suite, plus utilities and Internet. And you still have to buy your own coffee.

Choose an independent coffee shop or small cafe and support your local community. Not only do the big chain coffee places charge you for your wifi, but only 13 percent of every dollar you spend stays in the community. Nearly every coffee shop and cafe offers free restaurant wireless, plus 70 percent of every dollar you spend stays in the community. So stick with the independent coffee shops and restaurants, and help out your community.

However, it’s important that you find a location that has stable and fast free restaurant wireless. Over the next few weeks, visit a few places, and see how often the cafe wifi slows down, hangs, or just drops you altogether (it happens if too many people are online at the same time). Check out the SpeedTest.net website and see how fast the free restaurant wireless is. Stick with the places that are fast and reliable, even if they’re a little farther away from home. The time you spend getting there will be more than made up for by the time you save by having faster wifi.

We know a lot of small businesspeople and entrepreneurs who frequent coffee shops and bistros for their free wifi. For one thing, it’s a great place for meetings. You can find a place that’s centrally located, and when you’re finished, stick around and take advantage of some of that free restaurant wireless to check your email or prepare for your next meeting.

Another recommendation we have for using free wireless for new entrepreneurs is to become a regular at one or two coffee shops. For one thing, you get to know a lot about the place, and some of the important things, like when their cafe wifi is most likely to be jammed up with other entrepreneurs logging on. When do they fill up, making it harder to get work done? Where are the best seats near the electrical outlets? And how fast is their free restaurant wireless?

Another benefit to becoming a regular is that as the staff gets to know you, they’ll start doing little favors for you, like watching your computer when you run to the restroom, or let you sit for a few hours without sighing loudly because you only had one latte and a biscotti. You’ll also become known to the other regulars in the restaurant. Get enough people in your network to start coming there, and you’ll be able to tap into a healthy network of other entrepreneurs who are also showing up for the free restaurant wireless.

One of the best things about being a new entrepreneur is just getting out and meeting people. While you started your own business so you could keep your own hours and work out of the house, nobody said you have to spend every single hour cooped up in the same place day after day. In fact, that’s one of the reasons you started your own business, was the freedom to work wherever and whenever you wanted. So break up the scenery, try something new, and visit some of the coffee shops or little cafes in your town. It’s a great way to meet new people, see another part of the city, and get some work done to boot.