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How to Locate Vending Machines
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If you are interested in the prospect of starting your own vending machine business you probably have several questions. One that should be a priority is how to locate vending machines. It involves much more than simply finding an empty space where you can put it.
How to locate vending machines requires you to take a look around and identify the best spots where you can make a profit. You need it to be some place that plenty of people will walk by it on a regular basic. Try to avoid secluded areas as well as those that are only going to make you profits during a particular season of the year. For example vending machines at the local swimming pool only offer the potential for sales three months out of the year.
Even though you have found the places where you want to place your vending machines, you first have to get approval. This can prove to be a harder feat in some instances than you might think. Be prepared to offer a good presentation on why you think it would be the perfect location for a vending machine.
You will also need to be willing to negotiate a price in order to place your vending machine in a particular location. This can be a set fee that you and the owner agree upon. You might want to consider offering a percentage of your sales instead of a flat rate. Either one of these options can work well as long as both parties agree to it.
Most owners won’t object too much to you placing vending machines in their vicinity when it will generate more income for them. They may have specific requirements about what you can offer though and when you can stock your machines. Make sure all of this information is going to work well for you before you commit to it.
The more time you spend researching how to locate vending machines the right way, the less time and money you will waste in the long run. Don’t be in such a hurry to place your machines that you blindly put them anywhere you can. Take your time to discover the very best options available to you. This way you can work hard to negotiate a deal with the owner of the location.
One common mistake you want to avoid when you are thinking about how to locate vending machines is working with a locator company. While the concept may appeal to you, these are very ineffective means of engaging in a successful vending machine business. They don’t offer you the services that they claim to so you won’t end up with a good location for your vending machines.
In recent years the number of scams involving these types of vending machine locator services has continued to rise. They are known to take your money before you realize what has happened. You won’t get any benefits from them in exchange and that can make it very difficult to pursue your ideas for being self employed as a vending machine business.
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Ever sine we published our first vending book a few years ago, we have been bombarded with readers and their locating horror stories
It is disheartening to see how many unsuspecting, eager new vending owners are totally devistated by their dealings with unethical vending locating companies.
A little insider information is usually all that stands between a frustrating vending locating company situation, and an agreement that puts the power in the hands of the vending machine owner.
We searched high and low to find a legitimate resource to recommend to our previous readers. We wanted to find a resource that would teach new operators what information they needed to know to protect themselves from vending locating scams, and the information they need to start to find locations themselves. We couldn't find a single resource we could endorse!
Find out the ONE LITTLE THING that was missing from ALL the resources we evaluated!
After starting out our vending adventure completely the wrong way, we turned lemons into lemonade and worked for years to build a large, profitable, full time vending company. To read more of that adventure, why we wrote our first vending book, and why that FORCED us to write this to warn people about vending locating problems, (click here)
Rob Farnham
(veteran vending company owner and author of "Locating Vending Locations")
(Don't make the same mistakes we did! Of course, feel free to make your own new ones!)
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