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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Identifying New Vending Locations – Planet Antares

Expansion is part and parcel of every business. Vending is no exception to this fact. In fact even though vending business is started on a small note, every operator dreams to expand it over a period of time. Every operator has two options when it comes to expansion. You can either add new machines to existing ones or go expand your business by going in to new locations.

Choice of expansion depends on available funds and most importantly your scale of operations. However, operators reach a stage where is becomes imperative to look out new and prospective locations. In this situation, operator may find new locations all by him or take the assistance of a professional vending locator.

If you want to go by the first method and find new locations on your own, you can resort to these methods. Flyers are ideal while searching new locations. Flyers carry information about the services offered by the operator along with his contact details. However, a lot of care needs to be taken while designing them. Flyers need to be short and informative. Flyers is one of the best methods for collecting information like existing operators in the locality, most commonly used models of vending machines, their prices, services offered and other information that impacts the success of your business. Operators should keep on distributing flyers until they identify the most profitable location for installing their machine.

Another way of identifying new locations is by advertising. But before investing in advertising, operator needs to be very careful. Huge amount is spent on advertising expecting good returns on investment and good returns would mean generating good leads and thus identify prospective locations. So, operators need to be very choosy while investing their hard earned money.

Once you collect leads, it is up to the operator to close the deal on location. One point that we would like to reiterate before closing is to choose the right place that is capable of generating huge revenue.

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