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Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
Got a little dilemma, and need help.

I've got a new customer, who's soon opening an office supply store. In conjunction with it, is a smaller section of the business that will have computers and wi-fi services.

They don't sell computers, but have them there, available for people to use, to do research, homework, geneology, etc.; and they have wi-fi.

The store is semi-divided inside, and has separate entrances. I'd like to identify this area on the front window, with as few and SIMPLE wording as possible. Any suggestions?

I'd like to make it clear that this is a place for them to come, to do computer work; not buy things.
 
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
 
So, it's an internet cafe... without food!
 
Posted by goddinfla (Member # 1502) on :
 
When you're finished shopping please feel free to use our complimentary computer and wi-fi lounge.
 
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
 
Complimentary Internet & Wifi Here
 
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
 
free wi-fi
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
Thanks guys.

I'm not really to familiar with the "internet cafe' concept. Is this something that a customer normally pays for (pays for time on a computer), or is this something a business provides for free?

I've got the impression that whatever they're going to be doing, they will charge for it.
 
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
 
Dale in Florida. Internet Cafes are online gambling joints. They have found some sort of loophole in the law.
If I understand it correctly, You by tokens of some sort or chances, play an online sweepstakes then convert your points for cash when you are done. Because it is a "sweepstakes" they circumvent our highly regulated gaming laws. These places are on the shady side 'round these parts. You see about what you would expect. Down trodden souls who can't afford this sort of fun. It is sad really.
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
That is truly sad, Bob. That also is not what's going to be going on here.

I'm just trying to keep the wording on the windows as concise and simple (like many around here), so customers will know exactly what they do, and come in.

For whatever reason, their head office came up with about the dumbest name, for a business, ever. Do you know what "ORBICULAR" means? Have you ever even heard the word before?

Neither will their customers; so I've got to explain it (simply), on the windows, before they drive on by.

[ March 30, 2013, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Dale Feicke ]
 
Posted by Chuck Churchill (Member # 68) on :
 
Wi-Fi Service Inside
 
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
 
Why put "inside"? Would you think that they provide it on the sidewalk?
 
Posted by Chuck Churchill (Member # 68) on :
 
I thought if Intel thought they needed to say "inside" then a wi- fi service should also.
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
How about: PC Use
-------
Wi - FI
Available

I can't figure out how to say it any simpler.
 
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
 
We have Orbiculars. Google it on our complimentary WIFI.
 
Posted by Bob Sauls (Member # 11321) on :
 
Sorry Dale, I could not resist.
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
Is your wi-fi in stereo, or monaural? It does make a difference, they say.

The way, what I typed is posted above, is not what I wanted to have it appear. It should've been centered and balanced.
 
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
 
PC USE.....in mendenhall would have people believing your POLITICALLY CORRECT))))
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
And..............the joke would be on them!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted by Ricardo Davila (Member # 3854) on :
 
or·bic·u·lar
/ôrˈbikyələr/

Adjective

Having the shape of a flat ring or disk.
Having a rounded convex or globular shape.
 
Posted by Ricardo Davila (Member # 3854) on :
 
How about ?


"FREE INTERNET SERVICE INSIDE ( BYOL )"


P.S.- BYOL = Bring your own laptop.

[ April 02, 2013, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: Ricardo Davila ]
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
I don't get the idea from them, that whatever they're going to be doing is going to be free, Ricardo.

The way they define "orbicular" is : surrounding or encircling or encompassing. Their meaning is that they will have pretty much anything you need in the office supply realm.

But there are so many more plainer, more understandable definitions of what they're trying to do.

Go figure....it takes all kinds..........

Hey....maybe I could do a large version of the definition in vinyl, and stick it on the front window. That way, customers would know what they're going into the store for. How's that?

[ April 03, 2013, 02:29 PM: Message edited by: Dale Feicke ]
 
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
 
So they use the word "orbicular" and then want a simple, easy to understand way of letting the public know they have computing services for use inside?
 
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
 
No, David, that's ME wanting to tell people on the street simply what the h--- they do, or no one will know, but them.

[ April 03, 2013, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Dale Feicke ]
 
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
 
Orbicular...
= the shape of my stomach! [Wink]
 


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