In the vending business and in procuring vending locations, there are lots of ways to proceed so you need to try to focus on the most important things first. Inevitably, the first three things to focus on and in this exact order are locations, locations and, you guessed it, locations. As you will discover, vending locations always come with vending location owners and vending location owners all come with excuses, reasons, preconceived notions about vending profits and myriad other "good reasons" to delay or turn you down completely on locating your machine in their business.
Whether you intend to start by buying an existing vending route and then attempt to expand that route or you decide to start fresh and develop a route within an area with which you are familiar, until you see your locations growing and the route expanding, you should proceed with caution. Especially if you know of a route for sale, or know a lot of business owners in a given area, or plan to use a vending locator to secure additional locations to expand your route, either of the above options may be a very logical way to proceed.
As noted above, finding the vending machine locations you want and then talking the business owners who run those businesses into letting you use their establishment for your vending machine location, are two completely different things. No matter how well you know the local business owner you are trying to sell on your machine, you must remember he is focused on growing his business, not helping you grow yours. Even if the business owner is a pretty good friend, securing a new vending location from him may be more difficult than you expect.
In fact, there are times when presenting a vending machine location to a friend can even work against you in that your friend may expect additional perks from you because you are friends. Certainly, you want to focus on what's in it for him and for his business as he allows you to use his vending location for your machines. Paying him a generous commission is never an economical way to secure a candy machine location, for instance, because there really usually isn't enough activity or profit in that type of vending location to be able to afford to share the profits.
You need to exhaust all of the arguments you have for why or how your candy machine location can be good for this business' growth or be able to explain how your machine has better selection, better candy or is less expensive to operate than the machine you are trying to replace. What is in it for the business owner, his business or his customers? Perhaps you can fit a machine with multiple selections or even many more selections, into a vending location where the existing machine offers just one type of candy or product.
The aggressive vending machine entrepreneur may want to hire a vending machine locator to secure vending locations for his machines. Especially as his route begins to expand and his personal contacts begin to be exhausted, a vending locator brings new possibilities to the table through contacts of his own, prior local area vending placements he has made, and a completely different presentation as to why the business owner may want to allow this machine into his business.
A vending machine locator may already have placed a machine in several locations along your vending route and be on a first name basis with an owner you have never met. He may be able to offer a package of machines of which your candy machine location or soda machine location is only part of the package. He may have numerous other options to present to a business owner that you do not have or have never thought of at all.
As convincing location managers to let you place your machines on their premises is his main function, a vending machine locator may simply be better at making all of the necessary assertions in the right order than you are and just be able to convince more owners to say yes. He may also be a stronger closer or spend more time, be more patient or be more objective than you. There is also no question that two people contacting businesses can make more contacts and secure more locations than one person.
If you decide to use a vending machine locator for your vending route, obviously not all vending machine locators are created equal. Ask for references, actually check them and try to find at least a couple local references if possible. The more localized your reference is it usually means the vending locator has to give a reference he might be less certain about than usual and thus you might get a more unbiased evaluation than otherwise. Happy vending machine locator hunting!
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