All About The Vending Business

More and more of our vending stops are asking us to stock more healthy snack. We have found something that has been a big benefit to us to help us stock “healthier snacks” It is a program called “Fit Pick”. It is a national program that was developed by the National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) [...]

Tags: Fit Pick|BBB Vending|healthy snacks|healthy choices froma vending machine

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 Financing equipment for your business can be complex.  We have just received  an email from a company we have done business with in the past. They  sent us a wonderful detailed short eBook  called  Equipment Leasing 101. Financing your business is a  critical area of managing your business and you can learn more about it [...]

Tags: Direct Capital|financing equipment|how to pay for vending equipment

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5-hour Energy is a flavored energy shot made by Innovation Ventures. The company’s invention  of the 2-ounce shot in 2004 sparked a wave of “energy shot” drinks. People choose 5-hour Energy over 9 million times a day… That a lot of shots. 5-hour Energy has about 12 percent of the overall energy drink market, which [...]

Tags: 5-hour energy drink|5-hour energy|BBB vending

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I just love this idea. GreenaidVending offers gumball machines that don’t dispense a toy, gum, candy… nothing as ordinary as that. Greenaid gumball machines dispense seedbombs…. Seedbombs are a mixture of clay and compost material and seeds. Seedbombs are a great way to combat the many forgotten grey spaces you encounter everyday: from sidewalk cracks, to vacant lots [...]

Tags: Greenaid Vending|BBB Vending|reuse gumball machines|seedbombs

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I love old vending machines… Some of them have such style and such class. I am not talking about the old beat-up ones that should be replaced. I am talking about the ones from years past.   Art-O-Mat shows what can be done with those old cigarette machine. I love everything about those old vending [...]

Tags: Art-O-Mat|BBB Vending|vending southeast Michigan|reuse old cigarette machine

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Once you have a business you will be asked to donate to many organizations. What I am about to share with you is coming from many years of raising money for a local group where I live. When I would ask for a donation and they said “no” I never took it personally. Most of [...]

Tags: donated item|basketof goodies|donation requests

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Setting a machine to dispense a free vend at random is nice a nice way to reward someone for making a purchase. What normally happens when someone receives a free vended items is they make an additional purchase, because the money was already in their hand. Several years ago we got T-Shirts with the Hershey’s [...]

Tags: free vend|free item from vending machine

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Just for a moment lets pretend that a serious injury has landed you in the hospital and you are unable to speak. What would happen to your route? Sure it would be OK for a bit but we all know how important service is. No service means no money coming in. Who would know where [...]

Tags: BBB Vending, mapquest|map out your route

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If your in business… You need Business Cards. When your just starting out, may I suggest you print your own business cards in small amounts. Let me explain my reasoning for this. Your just starting out and you are working with just a little capital. Office supply stores like Staples and Office Max offer you [...]

Tags: BBB Vending, branding|brand yourself|make your own business cards

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According to Beverage digest, Diet Coke out sold Pepsi cola in the US for the first time in 2010. These figures were just released in March. This is the break down #1 Coca-Cola  1.6 Million cases sold in 2010 #2 Diet Coke   927 Million cases sold in 2010 #3 Pepsi         892 Million cases sold in [...]

Tags: BBB Vending, Diet Coke challenge

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