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Cash Locations: A step-by-step guide to securing the best money-making locations for your vending machines

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It is no secret that vending, like real estate, is a location game. You can have beautiful, state-of-the-art vending machines. But if you put them in bad locations, they won't make any money for you. Conversely, you could still make money if you put old, run-down machines in great locations. The challenge is finding these great locations that will make you lots of money. Ronnie Talent is an expert in this area, having grown his business to 428 machines in only 18 months.

While most books on vending include a chapter or two on how to get great locations, Cash Locations is the first book devoted entirely to this important subject. Here are some of the topics covered in the book that I found to be most valuable for someone running a vending business:

* The basics of sales for people who don't have any previous experience in sales. (The book also includes lots of advanced techniques for people who have experience selling.)
* Scripts that you can use when talking to locations.
* Techniques for getting referrals for potential locations for your machines from almost anyone you talk to
* How the ideal place to put a machine varies for different types of machines
* Examples of other types of creative, location-specific products you can sell in your machines
* Case studies of real people who have succeeded in vending (and how they did so)
* Examples of flyers that you can give to businesses


I strongly recommend this book for anyone who owns a vending business. For someone who is just starting out in vending, I recommend first reading both Talent's other e-book, Vending Jackpot, and Vending Business-In-A-Box. (Full disclosure: I wrote Vending Business-In-A-Box.) (Both of these books will help you to avoid scams and to get your business off to a fast start.)

If you are considering going into the vending business or already in it, this is the book to get. You can save yourself a lot of time and money by following the advise that is given here. I just got into vending on a part time basis and I saved myself over $6,000 by following the authors advise.

I was ready to spend about $7,500 for 20 machines from a business opportunity I found on the internet. I bought 13 machines on ebay and am placing the machines myself and I have only spent about $1,300.

Thanks again Ronnie for your great easy to follow advise.

Very practical, no hard selling, all very realistic content. I picked up many techniques on ways finding my own cash locations - good book.

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I have just started and really enjoy the book but sometimes its a little confusing. At one point it is talking about whether to buy new or used machines and it doesn't say. It talks about how you will place the machines. It also doesn't seem professionally edited. There are a lot of typos.

It's just about locating- but it covers some stuff I hadn't thought about. It's worth it if you don't want to use a locator.

Good information, but is very spread out,could have been much shorter. It's written like a bunch of magazine articles. Great information, but a lot to print out.

This eBook is well written. The author specializes in bulk vending and offers great info for those persons wanting to get in to that area of vending. Basic tenets hold true for any business. I was hoping it would include more tips for snack machines that don't have ties to charities.

I bought this product based on the positive reviews it recieved. I was horrified with it. On the first point their is very little writing per page. This is owing to the fact that the margins are large, there is a huge blank space at the top of each page, and the whole book is polluted with pointless drawings. Secondly, the writing is fluff and there is very little usable information. Third, $20 is a rip-off of the highest order.