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Big Reds Rambling


BigRedvender

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Well The I chatted with the guy he does in person locating apperantly has around 20 locations set up in the Omaha area. 40 bucks a spot and he will do in bundles of 10. I might give it a try end of October. I am debating between that and going with First Choice again for 4-6 locations this next month.

Will probably run the route again the 28-1st of Oct. Looking to see how it dose. The 8 spots I just got in fremont will have about 6-7 weeks on it and the rest will have about 5 when I run it. I have two vendstars ready to place the last of them I pulled out a couple from my check cashing places because of the lower perfomace. I went with just GB so I plan on checking them quickly but not doing a collection on them this month. I plan and trying a EOM on them I will probably Swap a canister or two also at a couple of my stops to try something diffrent. I did that at one stop last month and hope it helps a little bit.

1 grossed 240 last month spent about 30 bucks to fill machines so the net was $210.00. I hope to be close to $400.00 this month. Looks like I am starting to make a little money now at least. After I get stock for the 5 way rack and a couple of new coin mechs, I need to work on getting a couple of my smaller toy setups stocked and placed around the area. After that I should start showing an ok amount of cashflow. I am getting close to it now.

I have a new route book set up so it should help keep track of sales and things a little better. I also worked on a spreadsheet with all my locations cost of the machine and locating fee and what the sales are for the time there. I also added a column for total sales for the year to date. On the end of it.

I have been using Open Office but recently bought MS Office and put it on the computer also so been moving a lot of my stuff over to excel. I do know Man I need to take a course in it again. Last spreadsheet course I took was the old Lotus 123 Before IBM bought it out and ended up killing the brand.

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Sounds good... I have been usgin vendtrak since my route now has over 75 machines bulk and full line. I went to vendtrak when I got up to about 45 total. Man it is a huge time saver and well worth the $19 a month in my opinion. Save yourself the trouble with excel and use a proven system that will give you all the tools you need to expand in the future. Now that your cash flow is increasing the $19 a month should not kill you. Just my two cents...I never thought I would pay for vendtrak but after trying it out for the free trial period I could not imagine going back to my old route book and excel forms. It prints off route sheets for you, and it will even help you optimize your routes for fastest and most efficient travel. good luck keep up the good work.
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Great info man. Glad to see someone just starting out and doing well right off the bat; inspiring to me since I am about to make my first big purchase of machines and get them located. Keep us updated!
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