treadmill Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 On 1/18/2017 at 8:35 PM, bhumphrey829 said: Quick update, kind of stoked. Just got my 200th location. Took 1.5 years to get there. Plan on having at least 300 by the end of this year Are you planning on placing until you get to 300 or are you going to do it in stages i.e. place 25 and then remove slow ones and relocate those and then maybe do another 25 and so on until you reach 300? Quote Edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 I am constantly placing and pulling. I try and do my route in 4 days, mon, tues, thurs, and fri. On those days I am swapping out boxes and pulling slow accounts. I try to place at least one for one but most of the times I try to place 2 new ones if I pull one. On Wed I just take 5 boxes out and find 5 new locations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrybrooksvendall Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I am constantly placing and pulling. I try and do my route in 4 days, mon, tues, thurs, and fri. On those days I am swapping out boxes and pulling slow accounts. I try to place at least one for one but most of the times I try to place 2 new ones if I pull one. On Wed I just take 5 boxes out and find 5 new locations. I know about the slow customers...I just ordered my next bundle of boxes from Cameron. It's definitely frustrating when you have major shrinkage. Basically someone is living off of your dime... So I will be pulling some accounts if things don't change soon! Sent from my Z987 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrybrooksvendall Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Are you planning on placing until you get to 300 or are you going to do it in stages i.e. place 25 and then remove slow ones and relocate those and then maybe do another 25 and so on until you reach 300? Quote Edit I think that would be the easiest way if you concentrated on a small number of customers and replace slow ones.Sent from my Z987 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 15 minutes ago, jerrybrooksvendall said: I know about the slow customers...I just ordered my next bundle of boxes from Cameron. It's definitely frustrating when you have major shrinkage. Basically someone is living off of your dime... So I will be pulling some accounts if things don't change soon! Sent from my Z987 using Tapatalk Yeah, it's a thin line between pulling too soon and leaving too long. I give them at least 3 or 4 warnings unless it's just really bad (35% or more), but the first thing I do if it's pretty short the first time, I cut back on the candy. I usually give 5 in a small box. I cut it back to 3 the first time it's short. After that they get no candy until I get 3 services in a row of 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD Snacks Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, jerrybrooksvendall said: I know about the slow customers...I just ordered my next bundle of boxes from Cameron. It's definitely frustrating when you have major shrinkage. Basically someone is living off of your dime... So I will be pulling some accounts if things don't change soon! Sent from my Z987 using Tapatalk Yeah this is my hardest issue with honor boxes. I don't mind turn around as much as the stealing. It's hard for me to not get upset knowing someone is deliberately stealing from me. But the costs of the boxes keeps me going, since it's so easy to get a boxes vs bulk machines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bhumphrey829 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2017 Weekly update: 219 locations; Grossed $1,288.50 Avg $19.55 Theft ran 12%; serviced 72 boxes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 On 06/02/2017 at 1:37 PM, Harvending said: End of the week count how much money you collected, and how many bags of candy you bought, and what they cost. This is all you need to know. To keep up with loss, (example a box holds 100 Mints cost $7.00 should collect $33.00.) What is the lowest profit your willing to make on this location? Thank you Harvending, this is a great idea! I'm not selling mints, it's Kerr's candy. I'm not sure if this is just a Canadian company or not, maybe it is. The candy will weigh different amounts depending on the mix but I should be able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Okay, I'm an idiot. I meant that message for someone else but sent it to Harvending. I'm sorry. Thank you for your time, Harv, I'm not sure if I'm going to weigh the candy or not, but I will keep an eye on the profit. I plan to pull a box if it makes less than $10. 15 hours ago, Journey said: Thank you Harvending, this is a great idea! I'm not selling mints, it's Kerr's candy. I'm not sure if this is just a Canadian company or not, maybe it is. The candy will weigh different amounts depending on the mix but I should be able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 On 06/02/2017 at 6:01 AM, Lake Cities Vending said: Sounds like you are doing mints, 3 for $1.00. I weigh mine. I set my scale to grams and weighed mine and made a chart, 1 to 100. I weigh to fill and weigh when I pick them up to see whats left. Grams break it down to smaller increments than ounces. Lake Cities you were the one I was responding to in my first post--thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 Weekly update: 220 locations. Grossed $1,437.00 Avg $18.70 per box; theft ran 9%; serviced 80 boxes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumball guy Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 On 2/17/2017 at 6:04 AM, bhumphrey829 said: I am constantly placing and pulling. I try and do my route in 4 days, mon, tues, thurs, and fri. On those days I am swapping out boxes and pulling slow accounts. I try to place at least one for one but most of the times I try to place 2 new ones if I pull one. On Wed I just take 5 boxes out and find 5 new locations. This is truly the formula for success in the honor box game. Always locating, pulling and re-locating and expanding. That is why Mr. Humphrey is tearing it up and maintaining such a great per box sales average. Goes to show what hard work and a great game plan can get you. Thanks for sharing your journey with all of us. I look forward to hearing about you hitting the next milestone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bhumphrey829 Posted March 1, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2017 8 hours ago, gumball guy said: This is truly the formula for success in the honor box game. Always locating, pulling and re-locating and expanding. That is why Mr. Humphrey is tearing it up and maintaining such a great per box sales average. Goes to show what hard work and a great game plan can get you. Thanks for sharing your journey with all of us. I look forward to hearing about you hitting the next milestone! Thanks for the kind words. It's true persistence is the name of the game, along with thick skin. You have to have thick skin to be able to deal with theft and losing accounts, and all of the other stuff that goes along with this type of business. The sooner you learn it's just part of the game, the sooner you can just let all of the negative that happens in the business and just keep focused on the positive and always keep moving forward. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrybrooksvendall Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Thanks for the kind words. It's true persistence is the name of the game, along with thick skin. You have to have thick skin to be able to deal with theft and losing accounts, and all of the other stuff that goes along with this type of business. The sooner you learn it's just part of the game, the sooner you can just let all of the negative that happens in the business and just keep focused on the positive and always keep moving forward.I like one of the rejections I got from a tanning place... She actually told me "it's not in the budget" lol give me a break!Sent from my Z987 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 Weekly update. 218 locations. Grossed $1,447.00 Avg $19.00 per box, theft ran at 12% Serviced 76 boxes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Weekly update: 229 locations. Grossed $1,438.00, avg $20.55 per box, theft ran 10%, serviced 70 boxes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Share Posted March 17, 2017 Weekly update: 230 locations. Grossed $1,480.00 avg $18.00 per box, theft ran 9% serviced 82 boxes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bhumphrey829 Posted March 25, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2017 Weekly update: 234 locations. Grossed $1,591.00; avg $19.80 per box. Shortage ran at 9%, serviced 77 boxes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted April 1, 2017 Author Share Posted April 1, 2017 Weekly update: 230 locations; Grossed $1,455.00 Avg. $20.70; theft ran 12% serviced 67 boxes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Weekly update: 229 locations. Grossed $1,663.00 Avg. $21.05 per box; Theft ran at 6%. Serviced 79 boxes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bhumphrey829 Posted April 14, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 14, 2017 Weekly update: 225 locations, grossed $1,561.00, avg $20.81 per box, theft ran at 8% serviced 75 boxes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treadmill Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 1 hour ago, bhumphrey829 said: Weekly update: 225 locations, grossed $1,561.00, avg $20.81 per box, theft ran at 8% serviced 75 boxes. Any negative feedback from the price increases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bhumphrey829 Posted April 15, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2017 5 hours ago, treadmill said: Any negative feedback from the price increases? Not yet. I haven't serviced any of the ones I left the notes on. That starts on Monday, but no one has called to have me remove any boxes yet. I started with locations, that were slow or higher theft so if they ask me to remove the box, it's no big loss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flintflash Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Price increase? What price did you go to and how did you go about letting your accounts know ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhumphrey829 Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 On 4/19/2017 at 5:22 PM, flintflash said: Price increase? What price did you go to and how did you go about letting your accounts know ? I went form $1.00 to $1.25 and I jut left notes on each box stating that due to product price increase we are forced to raise our prices to $1.25 as of ..... and I would put the date of next service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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