Start Your Own Vending Machine Business: Collect Monthly Full-Time Income on Autopilot by Building a Vending Machine Empire | The Complete Beginners’ Guide | Includes Inventory & Routes Spreadsheets Paperback – July 20, 2022

This is a go-to resource for anyone interested in starting a vending machine business. Beginning with the history of the industry, Liam Buckley outlines the fascinating pathway to owning a profitable VMB. What I liked most were the dedicated chapters on legalities and AI-driven inventory management, which ensure you are-well informed about the legal side of the business and equipped to succeed in this AI-driven era.Also, you can download a super useful spreadsheet where you can calculate all cost related expenses and profit projections of yours machines, which I think I will use a lot.

This book walks you through step by step on how to start your own business. I liked that the book spent an entire chapter on legalities. This may seem boring, but if you break the law or don't have the proper permits, you will not be in business long and not successful. The book also cover how to decide what kind of vending machine to buy as well as how to buy and store your inventory. This book sets you up to build an empire of vending machines. I thought this book was well done.

Liam Buckley’s book details the history behind vending machine businesses (VMBs) and provides an easy how-to guide on starting your own VMB. You will learn how to purchase a vending machine, what products to sell, and the best locations for a vending machine. You will also gain insight on the legalities and bureaucratic procedures of owning a VMB, which I found very helpful. Overall, this is a great resource for those who want to make passive monthly income while maintaining their full-time job.

This book discusses the pros and cons to this and even explains how to get into it. You need to pick a location, what items to put in your machine, this book suggests food and beverages and even how to finance. The easiest way is to buy already established routes, choose your employees, and learn the maintenance on one. You will also need to get license and learn the regulations etc. This book has a lot of information for starting your own business of vending machines.

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This book is terrible. It’s like a beta version of AI wrote it. It’s redundant and has so many unnecessary fluff words in every sentence. The first 3 pages say the same thing over and over in different words. It’s vague and never really gives you anything you couldn’t look up. I genuinely don’t understand how people liked it.

It certainly made it harder for me to believe in the author’s expertise when sentence fragments are running amuck and it is stated that “18.28 BILLION vending machines exist globally” and that the US contains “6.9 MILLION machines and that represents 30% of the global market”. I can read between the lines and see that 18.28 million machines was the intended number, but if I can’t trust the accuracy of these numbers, I’m going to be especially skeptical of and operating figures/revenue estimations provided - which is the stuff most of us are interested in. The book isn’t without value, it’s just harder to trust when practically every page is in desperate need of an editor.

My best friend and I have kicked around the idea of owning vending machines. This book actually answered a lot of our questions on the logistics of how this actually works. This talks about everything from getting the vending machine to products to licensing and even employees. Great overall view on what it takes to run the business successfully.