How to Start a Vending Machines Business

Beverages, Candy, Snack Foods, Miniature Toys

Vending machines provide an excellent home-based business opportunity

The vending machine business allows you to be your own boss. You decide the amount of hours you want to work at this business, based upon the number of vending machines that you own. Your employees are the vending machines themselves. Of course, you can hire others to work with you. You
 can service your vending machine route yourself, maintain the vending machines yourself, restock the vending machines yourself, and/or you can hire others to do this work for you or to work along with you. You can locate places to put your vending machine yourself, and/or you can hire others to find the locations for you. 

To help you find locations, you can also ask the owners of the places, like restaurants or schools, where you might want to place your vending machines, what type of vending machines they are interested in and what type of items they'd like stocked in the machines. This is not necessary, however, it might also help you to find locations. As for schools, if you have vending machines that can provide healthy snack foods, for example, instead of the junk foods, then you might contact schools in your area, informing them that you have vending machines that provide healthy food items, which they might want to include along with the general junk food vending machines. If you can not find a vending machines company that has a stock of these healthy snack food items, then you can purchase them yourself from healthy snack foods stores online, then instead of the junk snack foods, you can substitute these healthy snack foods. 

Perhaps a toy store might want to have toys in their vending machines, then you can stock the vending machines for toy stores with miniature toys. 

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hello. I am going to buy a rocket styled 1inch gumball machine. I am in need of some information on where i could put it, and some tips. ANyone?

Posted on 06/15/2009 at 5:06:21 PM

soda machines are great to start with. you can find great machines online, and it have a great return. i think if you want to try it out then try triple head vending machines with bum balls and bulk candies, you will save and product to return is well, as long as you have a good location.

Posted on 05/25/2009 at 1:05:09 PM

i tought of a business plan that you can purchase 100 used tripple head machines for about $50 each in the usa and locations are about $50 as well (jayne from vending locators network is a good one i hear ) so you are looking at a total investment of $10 000 for 100 machines (used) and locations and lets say makes on average $15 per month each thats a $1500 a month income (about $1000 after paying cost of product and a commision) wich i think $12 000 a year is not a bad return on a $10 000 investment (and $15 is me playing it safe i average about $23 a month on my machines) Just an idea for starters ,i didnt do it this way but i now buy 10 machines and 10 locations at a time for about $1000 so multiply that by 10 , even if you had to finance the $10 000 for 5 years with a payment of $200 a month is still $800 a month of net income while repaying the loan and all cost. Hope this helps anyone who might be interested (check out ebay for machines ultravends and vendstar usua

Posted on 11/18/2008 at 1:11:01 AM

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Posted on 11/10/2008 at 10:11:17 AM

Your perspective is completely negative....ofcourse you won't be successful if thats the way you view things. There is always risk, but where there is risk also lies much opportunity

Posted on 09/29/2008 at 11:09:27 AM

Check out YoNaturals healthy vending machines. Organic and natural vending is where the money is going to be! I just started working with them in a few schools and offices. Once you can get your foot in the door the money is DEFINITELY there.

Posted on 09/25/2008 at 11:09:24 AM

Just started my own Vending business. Which books did you read ?

Posted on 08/22/2008 at 5:08:18 AM

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Posted on 10/07/2007 at 5:10:00 PM

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Posted on 10/07/2007 at 4:10:00 PM

how much do businesses usually charge to place the machines or do they?

Posted on 10/07/2007 at 4:10:00 PM

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