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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Location Guidelines For Vending Business Expansion

Your goals for a vending machine business may or may not be the same as any other person or organization. While some people look at vending as a part-time, parallel income opportunity, others start a vending business on a full fledged basis. The common factor in both types of vending is that it involves hard work and professional treatment.

Like any other business, vending also needs to be taken one step at a time. It’s not a “get rich” scheme which will provide extraordinary rewards as soon as your vending machines start operating. You need to be careful about the vending machine selection, products, location and maintenance to get the desired results.

Location is a key factor for starters as well as existing vending businesses. Every place will not generate high level of income but a few may have huge potential. Basically, it is a matter of your creativity and strategic ability. You should be able to convince business owners of existing locations to try your vending machines and tap new locations too.

Good quality vending machines such as Planet Antares Vending machines will start giving good returns within the first year of investment. Once your vending machines start making profits, you should think about finding new locations for new equipment. You may even have to relocate some of the machines if they are not generating adequate returns. Areas with limited population cannot be relied upon for a long period of time. Eventually, you will need to shift to higher potential regions. This may even need a change in vending products as customer preferences will differ in different areas.

Seasons will also have an impact on vending locations. So will holidays. Customer traffic will differ at various places at different times due to these factors. Sometimes, relocation may even result in lower sales than the previous place. Critical factors may have been ignored, new premises personnel may be ill-performing or there may lesser customer demand for chosen products.

There is no foolproof way of estimating the success of any single location. It depends on the efforts of the vending operator and effective matching of the machine, customer preferences and products. The more locations you can find, the higher will be the probability of sales and profits. Another important issue is the commission to be paid to business owners to keep your vending machines. This can be minimized by negotiation and teaming up with a charity.

Like any other venture, your vending business will also require a lot of determination, planning and timely implementation for its success.

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