Locations Search

We are still searching for a location for two or three soda machines. The kids and I visited another six potential locations today. We are finally see a little hope. Two of the apartment complexes that we visited do not have soda machines. Now we have to progress to actually procuring the location. So far I have four very good possibilities and another three or so potential locations.

I learned a hard lesson recently. I had a location that I thought was in the bag, but I lost it. I talked to the office staff and sent them a thank you letter. Almost immediately, they called me back to meet the complex manager. I meet with her and she was very happy with what I had to offer. She just had to get the final OK from the district manager. They had a location on the property and everything ready. I called back the next week like we agreed and they were still waiting. I thought I had the location secured, so I stopped looking for locations. I called back every 3-4 days and it was always the same answer. One day I called back and the person who answered the phone said that they already had a soda machine on the property and that they didn't even know the manager that I had talked to. Somehow I had lost that location. It was a great location with almost 300 apartment units and a lot of people without vehicles. I still do not know how I lost the location. How did someone get a machine on location while I was still talking to the manager? I am still trying to find a location for that machine that was supposed to go into that complex. Now I will keep looking until each machine is on location and generating money.

So, even though I have a few good leads, I will keep looking. None of the leads have said move in this week yet, so we keep going. I would rather have to go out and buy several more machines and build several more cages than have to still be looking at the machines in our back yard in March.