Attention Vendors Nationwide: Consider Piranha for all of your vending machine equipment needs. We offer New and used vending machines of all varieties and will ship to any business location in the U.S. Give us a call for more details and check our inventory for different makes and models.
Prepare Your Vendor For Summer!
It’s hard to make your Vendor exciting sometimes, especially if you are a longtime Vendor to a business. Here are a few simple tips that involves minimal cost to make your Vendor exciting again to your loyal customers!
Upgrade your vending machine by adding LED light strips. This is a simple way to illuminate your glass front Vendor and make it attractive to the eye. A typical life for LED light strip is right around 100,000 hours and they are pre-wired for easy installation. This is a cost-effective way to instantly brighten up your selling space.
Make your Vendor MDB by putting a compatible, newer bill validator and coin changer. Wipe down your parts so they can work efficiently when they accept dollars and coins. Having clean equipment that are free from dust and particles will eliminate the bills from getting stuck.
Give your vending machine a whole new look by wrapping it with artwork! Take a look at a sample we just recently did for a customer! You can design your vendor to look like anything you want to attract more sale traffic!
If your vending machine has a live display area, make sure it is clean and attractive and the label is faced correctly. Remember, nobody likes to buy drinks or snacks out of a dirty vending machine! You want to make sure your sample displays are clean and shiny!
Change up some products in your vending machine. Take out items that are not selling. Ask around the office and find out what your customers would rather see in your Vendor. Try and accommodate your customers as much as possible and you will see your sales jump this summer.
Good Vending Machine Habits
Once a vendor secures a profitable location, a special relationship starts between the vendor and the business where the vending machine is located. It is up to the vendor to provide quality, consistant service to keep all the potential vending machine users happy for years to come. Here are a few tips for the vendor to build that special relationship!
Make sure you visit your location at least once a week. You want to be consistant with this especially in the beginning of building a relationship with your location. You want them to feel that you are around to ensure that your equipment operates properly every single day.
Take a few minutes to talk to the people that work at your location. Ask them what they would like to see in your vending machine. Make sure someone in that business knows your name and contact information. They need to feel comfortable with their vending person. Building that personal relationship will help them feel confident in purchasing food and drink products from your vending machine.
Always keep your vending machine equipment clean. Wipe down the entire machine before you walk away from it. Your vending machine is your store. It needs to look clean and attractive so it can sell food and drink products for you 24/7.
Being a vendor is so easy that anyone can do it! It’s has been a strong industry for so many decades. Don’t hesitate to look into this business…contact Piranha and get all the secrets to a successful future!
Let’s Do Some Math On Vending!
If you are thinking about getting into the vending business, you need to start by doing some calculations. The greatest thing about becoming a vendor in your area is the flexibility of how involved you want to become. It is possible to be a part time vendor, or a full time vendor. In other words, you can be as small as you want or as big as you want! You are completely in control in how you run your vending business. You can have just one location with one vending machine, or you can service 500 locations with 750 vending machines. It’s all up to you.
It takes an average of 10 minutes to service a location. How many locations can you handle??? Let’s do the math!
If you have 10 locations to service on a weekly basis. You are looking at an average of 1 hour 40 minutes of actual work time. Look at the businesses that you will be servicing and calculate in the driving time and also time to get your vending supplies. On an average, you can run a nice size vending route for just a few hours of work each week!
The vending business is literally great for anyone to get involved. If you are looking to supplement your income, YOU CAN DO THIS! Sit down and draw out your plan! Give us a call and get ready to invest in a better future with unlimited return!