My DHL guy came again today and I prospected him about my business. He actually inquired about my business first and I moved into him stopping at a lot of businesses when he drops off packages. I then offered him $30 for each machine he placed. He was excited about that prospect and said he will stop by after he finds me my first location. I may have to start shipping more stuff! If this works we may all have a new way of finding locations.
This lady my mom knows owns 7 auto/tire shops in town. Anyway, it's hard to get a hold of her so I decided I would send her a package.
I went to Wal-Mart, picked up photo quality printer paper, a binder, a bag of M&M Peanuts, regular M&M's, and a small bag of Roasted Peanuts.
At home I printed out high resolution pictures of the machines I have to offer. I also wrote her a letter and attached my charity information. I then put some gumballs in a zip lock bag and hooked it onto the binder. I also hooked the M&M Peanuts/M&M's/Peanuts to the binder. I made it very presentable. Then I took some wrapping paper, wrapped it up, put a bow on it, and dropped it off in the mail. Let's hope it works. She may get it tomorrow!
Oh, Kyle, I also sent you two bags of Runts via Priority Mail. Total is $20 even for the two bags and shipping. That's not too bad considering. Two bags of runts vend out $80 of candy. You can just send the check to my return address.
Not much else happened today. Check out the forum it's growing!
Oh yes, there was one other thing. Wal-Mart carries this fake surveillance camera for $8. It even has a motion detector in it so when someone walks by it starts blinking. I may bring back my machine to the laundry room and bolt this camera up, haha. What do you guys think?
Rob
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My name is Robert. I graduated from the University of Central Florida with my B.S.B.A. My specialty is business finance. After my first 10 machines find homes and I get this business down I'm going to leverage as much money as I can to buy more machines. You can call me the Candyman. - Cataloging my experiences from Day 1.
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- Robert Neil Patterson II
- Naples, FL, United States
- An entrepreneur at heart; I have owned many businesses through out my young life. Before vending I was a PowerSeller on eBay with sales exceeding $20,000 a month. I did this while in college so it was sort of a mess. Anyway, it's risky, scary, and a lot of work, but fun. It's not as easy as people make it seem. I have also written a book on Stock Options. It's called Stock Options 101. I have sold over 200 copies on eBay for $3.99 (I don't sell it anymore) and if you want a copy I will be happy to send it to you. It is in PDF form so I can email it to you. Obviously, I have traded stock options before. I like risk and love great reward. I think one reason I like the vending business is because it's a risk for me to go in and sell. By the way I have 100 of my own bulk machines in Naples, FL. Check out http://www.kickstartlocations.com/forum for my Bulk Vending Forum!
4 comments:
Sounds good Rob. I like that camrea idea. I think that would be a good to keep your machine safe. Maybe put a sigh up stating: "surveillance cameras in use".
Thanks for the runts. I will sent you a check as soon as thay arrive. I am excited about them. I need more machines, so that site needs to be up SOON!!!!
Thanks Again Robert.
K.G.
Ops, I forget to mention I had a bank location, been there for 1 month today, had 50 cents in it. CRAP.
K.G.
50cent was at the bank? was there a hostage situation? :p
Rob
No. Just a sucky place. However I have a few tricks. :-}
K.G.
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