10-13-2008
How To Find Big Vending Machine Locations - My Vending Machine Location Secret Revealed!
Here is a big question. What vending locations give the best results?
Obviously there are some of the big hitter ones, like the public areas where – Schools, recreation centers, places like that. Arenas where people seem to frequent the most.
Any kind of business that has a continuous stream of traffic going in, but those are also harder to get and find.
I have always found that local businesses like offices and factories are big locations. Those are places that I have seen great results with.
It does vary and it hinges on the make up of the people at the location.
When you are prospecting a location you should take a look at a few things. First you should take a walk around the building to see how many cars are in the parking lot. This should give you an idea of how many employees work there. Also try and find out if the company had already had a vending service on their premises and if so what was the reason for termination of the vending service?
When you are scoping a location you will take a look at a few things. First you will take a walk around the building to see how many vehicles are in the parking lot. This will give you an idea of how many employees work there.
Also try and find out if the company had already had a vending provider on their premises and if so what was the reason fortermination of the vending provider?
I always do this because I want to know if I am going to be setting up machines at a location that has potential or is it going to be a dud location and not make me any income.
I am all for servicing local businesses in myarea but at the end of the day I have to turn a profit at each location.
So if I don’t then I will keep sourcing out other locations for thatvending machine until it makes me a profit. Another thing to consider when looking at a location is look at the make up of thepeople that work there. Are the people in the age group of 21 to 35?
You could sell a lot more pop and chips there. When you get into the staff members that at a location that are into say their 40’s and 50’s, some of them are looking for more healthy varieties of products. This is because the older crowds are more health conscious.
I have always thought that the younger crowds buy the most snacks. For the most part, the higher traffic locations are ones where there is more walk through traffic.
Say, for example like a trucking company where truckers are coming in and out.
Also let’s look at inside versus outside locations.
Inside locations in my personal point of view are the best. I have had a couple of outside locations before at a few storage
facilities.
There was time, I made good income there because there weresteady people coming in and out of there all the time renting their trucks and getting storage, but because it was outside, I also opened up myself to the danger of vandalism.
Yes, I had a great run for a while, but then ultimately the machine got broken in to. I
reconditioned and kept it going and then they broken in to it again.
One even had a security gate and security cameras and they still did it. I have always found inside locations, like factories and offices to be the best.