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Inputs to make your vending business work. A special insight on Planet Antares Vending solutions

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Investing In Planet Antares Vending Machines

You may want to earn some extra money or start a full fledged business with total returns coming to you. Whatever the reason for your entering the vending industry, this presents a good opportunity to earn substantial income. You don’t even need to be highly trained or professionally qualified to get started.

Usually, people have to rent or purchase the vending machines required by them to setup a vending machine business. Your expenses include the vending machine and products price as well as the commission paid to the premises owners, where the equipment will be located. The remaining amount of revenue will be pure profits. The more the number of vending machines, the more money you can earn.

To keep intone with the current trends, you can select a vending machine which dispenses healthy food items and beverages like water and juice instead of soda. If you offer healthy snacks and drinks, your vending machines will be welcomed by many vending locations which were previously using high calorie snack vending machines or unhealthy products. Schools and college campuses are great options for healthy products vending machines.

When you decide to invest in a vending machine, keep various factors in mind. These include the features of the vending equipment, its size, color, stock holding capacity, repairing methods and potential problems which may occur during use. Usually, good vending machine suppliers like Planet Antares Inc offer a wide range of vending machines for sale or renting, branded products and after sale services like locating, refilling and maintenance of machines.

A vending machine can be operated mechanically or run on electric power. Even though using an electrical machine is recommended, you can also go for cheaper models that are mechanically operated. If you plan to buy a used or refurbished machine, look for any broken or non-performing parts before you actually purchase it.

The value of your investment must be ensured. When you go for a vending machine purchase, test the technical support staff for business knowledge and skills. A reliable company will offer prompt solutions and support whenever you face any problems with the vending machines.

An important factor for determining the success or failure of your business will be the location of the vending machines. This in turn, depends on the target customer’s preferences, products being dispensed and the expected business profits. Your presentation must be able to convince the business owners to install the vending machines in their premises. In exchange for that, you may have to pay some commission as part of sales revenue to the premises owner.

Locations with heavy customer traffic and high-end places will enable higher product pricing. If your vending machine is located in a hotel, more money can be earned than a vending machine placed in a convenience store.

All in all, investing in vending machines is a good way to earn more profits with less effort.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Cold Beverage Vending

Cold beverage vending in the U.S. has always been popular. People always have the need for a cold drink, especially on a hot summer day. Vending operators that have placed beverage vending machines in locations always experience high sales. This of course happens if they have placed the vending machine in the right location.

Planet Antares offers cold beverages as well as snacks in their vending machines. This kind of combination works well in most locations because when customers buy snacks, they would usually have a cold beverage with the snack as well. Cold drinks in vending machines have found their way into a wide range of locations populated by just about every identifiable demographic group. There are locations where the customers would like to maybe see diet cold beverages. If this happens in your Planet Antares vending business, it means that you would need to offer regular cold beverages as well diet cold beverages. People in locations always have different tastes and vending operators have responded to this market evolution by increasing the pace of new product development and making better use of sales analysis to tailor cold drink menus to suit a wide scale of tastes.

Having a Planet Antares cold beverage and snack vending business would mean that you would need to offer customers all varieties of drinks, which would include new flavored carbonated soft drinks, diet twists, juices, energy drinks and bottled water options. Offering this mix in your vending machines will mean that you are catering to the masses. Certain beverages would be preferred over other beverages in different locations. To maximize your profits, you would need to make sure that the quantity of the products in each machine matches with the locations demands. Category management can play a significant role in such situations. This system would allow you to maximize your profits by offering a profitable product mix for each location.
A glass front Planet Antares vending machine will also maximize the profits of the merchandise in the vending machine. When you introduce new beverages in the vending machine, the interest of the public will be generated because the new beverage will be visible while in the machine. In order to maintain that interest of the customer, you can continue to rotate new items in and out, although it will always be the core items like Coke and Pepsi, which will always sell the most.