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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

How to Improve Customer Satisfaction Level

The establishment of a vending business chiefly depends on location for vending machine placement and product selected for vending operations. Once you have the perfect location then the focus should be on stocking products and attaining total customer satisfaction. A vending operator’s success depends upon the customer satisfaction level he is able to achieve. Providing good quality products and services are the only way by which a good customer satisfaction level can be achieved. For a fruitful business it is important to satisfy your customers’ needs. Here are few tips to improve the customer satisfaction level:

1) Quality Products: An operator should always provide better products to its customers as compared to its competitors. Quality products always attract new customers and also help in retaining a regular client.

2) Attractive Offers: To attract new customers an operator should keep introducing nice and attractive offers time to time.

3) Working on Feedbacks: It is very important to keep working on the feedbacks regularly. This practice can help in providing better services to the customers and can help achieving a good level in client satisfaction.

4) Surveying Regularly: By doing regular surveys you can easily understand what do your customers like and need. If whatever they want and need is provided, it becomes easier to attain a good customer satisfaction level that can help you in increasing your profits.

5) Fault Free Vending Machine: It is important to have a fault free vending machine installed. It is advised to buy a brand new vending machine and as a vending operator you should never purchase old or refurbished vending machine. Fault free vending machine ensures no trouble to customer. With a faulty vending machine, you will surely lose your vending customers.

Any business is dependant on its customers. By following these few strategies it becomes easier to provide better services to the customers that help in achieving good revenues.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Growth Perspective in Planet Antares Business

The vending business is one of the most rapidly increasing businesses in the US. The growth of vending business can be imagined through its sales that touched $40 Billion mark in the year 2007, and the business has grown ever since. Over the past two decades vending has proved to be one of the most revenue generating business, even in the shorter run.

The demand of beverages and fast food (Snacks) has increased swiftly in the recent past because of the changing lifestyle and varied odd office hours, and is increasing day by day. To meet all requirements and demands, vending machine manufacturing is also increasing with the same ratio. These machines are time saving; easy to use; round the clock available; provide fresh, hygienic and healthy food, offer more refreshment choices, and these features make vending machines so popular. These machines have successfully established themselves in the market.

Growth and profit perspectives have become brighter in the vending machine business. Vending business has grown, in terms of technology, product choice and services that have increased the chances of more earnings in the business. With evolution of the vending industry many machines have been invented time to time to meet the requirements of the customers and distributors. From holy water vending till now everyone has witnessed growth in the industry. Vending machines from Planet Antares have changed from single product vending to machines with high capacities, which enable them to house and vend a large number of products.

Product and location selection are the vital factors responsible for the growth of a vending business. In vending business you are bound to get revenue, and growth is definite if the selection of place and product are appropriate. Making this step right, there’s no possibility of a downfall in your vending business.

The vending industry is steadily progressing, and one of the main reasons for this is technology. The changes that have occurred have not only made vending more effective but also more convenient. This leads to a pleasant experience by customers, and a larger profit to the distributors eventually enhancing your growth.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Healthy Products in Vending Machines

The satisfaction that customers get from vending operators in terms of quality products is one of the reasons of increasing popularity of vending business these days. And for an increase in sales, vending operators must make sure that the best is delivered to their customers. Vending machines are very popular among people who want a quick break from their hectic schedule or the ones who look for fast, easy and a delicious meal. So to provide delicacies that are healthy in all values, it becomes the responsibility of the vending operator to maintain quality of the products they vend in their vending machines.

Sanitation, hygiene and freshness of a product are few factors that make a customer stopover at the same vending machine again and again. For increasing the sales and to retain a customer, it becomes very important for the vending machine operators to take care of the following steps:

Sanitation: Operators must ensure cleanliness of the machine. Along with cleanliness, maintenance of sanitation near the vending machine becomes equally important for the vending operators for an enhanced sale of their products. An operator must check, identify and rectify problems like seepage, sewerage near the machine, overhead condensation and dispersing off wastage or residue. A neat and clean machine may attract a lot of customers.

Stock: The machine must be loaded with sufficient stock time to time to meet the requirements of the customers. It is essential to keep stock of quality products for better sales. An adequate amount of stock enables the customer to get his required stuff and reduces the chances of any customer going empty handed.

Freshness: It is a vital part of the vending business to make sure that the products stocked in the vending machine are fresh and not obsolete. Operators must regularly check expiry dates of the products and take care that the expired goods are replaced with the fresh ones immediately. In fact they should even replace the one that is not in demand.

Apart from these, maintaining levels of temperature for particular products and to ensure a power back up are some of the other important steps necessary for better working of your vending business. Few actions like satisfactory service, quality products and proper attention towards sanitation and stock, can help in the success of vending business, but are ignored often by the vending operators leading to a downfall in their business.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Advantages with Planet Antares Vending

Though Planet Antares has many feathers to its cap including being the only patent pending product manufacturer for ‘Office Deli’, the biggest advantage of starting your business with Planet Antares is that it is one of the leading and the most trustworthy vending companies in US. Since it’s inception in the year 1987 the company has grown to capture the top position in the industry and has maintained it ever since. Over the past decades into the vending machine business, the company has invented some of the best vending machines, the latest being ‘Office Deli’.

Planet Antares provides contemporary vending machine solutions to vending operators and has distributors’ network spread across the country. Some of the features of Planet Antares vending machines are that Planet Antares vending machines are robust and compact and come in attractive and lively colors. Planet Antares machines are contemporary which are equipped with the latest features and are loaded with state-of-the-art technology. The vending machines manufactured by Planet Antares can be used to vend multiple products—Liquid or solid. But apart from these features some of the advantages that make Planet Antares stand poles apart from other vending machine manufacturers are that Planet Antares ensures that their vending operators generate higher revenues by providing them complete guidance. And if the vending operators face any problems Planet Antares’ personal coach is there to tackle and suggest solutions to the problems.

With outstanding ratings from Dunn & Bradstreet, Planet Antares is a world-class organization. Apart from being a world-class organization, with over $500,000,000 in equipment and services sold, Planet Antares, is one of the largest and the most successful business opportunities in the United States and Canada. With a vast experience of more than 20 years into the vending business, thousands of distributors have been placed successfully in these places.

Starting up a business with Planet Antares is definitely an advantage in itself. With a wider vision, better knowledge and contemporary vending machines Planet Antares is definitely the best choice to begin and establish your vending business.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Vending An All Time Favourite Business

Most of you might not be aware of the fact that Vending has a very long history. The very first vending machine was invented 215 BC by a Greek Mathematician. This machine was used for dispensing holy water in Egyptian temples. As people started accepting these machines, commercial coin operated machines were introduced. This was sometime in 1880’s in London and this machine was used to sell post cards. This was just the beginning and thenceforth there was no looking back for this industry.

More and more entrepreneurs are lured towards this business because of the guaranteed returns it promises. Operators are even prepared to invest any amount of money in order to harvest huge returns. Some of the benefits of this business are discussed below:

• Vending is perhaps the only business that allows you to earn money right from the day of installing your machine.

• This is not a business that is influenced by seasonal variation. You have almost the same demand throughout the year. So operators need not worry about season and off season.

• Starting a vending business is very easy. It does not demand specialised skills or huge floor space for installing the machine.

• In a vending business, most of the promotion is carried through word of mouth and hence operators need not spend money on taking up promotional activities. In case you vend branded products then you need not worry since these products are popular across the globe and their sales happen automatically.

• There are no set working hours and operators can work at their own convenience.

• You need not employ any sales personnel, no need for any franchise fee, no royalties and there are no set boundaries on the market for operating your business.

• Profit margins are very high in this business.

• An operator can expand his business without taking any loans and advances by reinvesting the returns on his existing machine.

All these benefits are prime reasons behind increasing demand for this business.

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