15 Essentials Tips for Your Vending Side-Hustle

By Vicki May Thorne

"15 Essential Tips for your Vending Side-Hustle" is your guide to streamlining your business, prioritizing tasks, and yes, making more money in your full-line vending business. 

Author, Vicki May Thorne, writes with authority borne of first-

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nutrabot LLC
• Release date: Dec 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781736228319

Vicki May Thorne

Vicki May Thorne is the owner and operator of Nutrabot, a boutique vending business, based out of Tulsa, OK. After nearly 5 years of first-hand experience and successfully selling her business (during a pandemic no less), she whipped up "Tiny Tips for Your Vending Side-Hustle" to share her hard-won insights. Vicki is also a collegiate writing instructor, a grant writing consultant, and a contributing author. She has written for This Land Press, TulsaKids Magazine, and Buzzfeed. She was included in the anthology, "Voices From the Heartland, Vol. 2" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). She lives in Tulsa with her husband, 2 high energy sons and grouchy Boston Terrier.

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15 Essential Tips for your Vending side-hustle

Vicki May Thorne

Nutrabot, LLC

Copyright © 2020 by Vicki May Thorne.

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Vicki May Thorne/Nutrabot, LLC

5303 E 27th Street

Tulsa, OK/ 74114

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15 Essential Tips for your Vending Side Hustle/ Vicki May Thorne. —1st ed.

ISBN 978-1-7362283-0-2

CONTENTS

Foreward 6

Tip #1 9

Tip #2 12

Tip #3 16

Tip #4 18

Tip #5 20

Tip #6 24

Tip #7 26

Tip #8 28

Tip #9 30

Tip #10 32

Tip #11 34

Tip #12 36

Tip #13 39

Tip #14 42

Tip #15 44

FAQ 46

To my boys: this is how you turn lemons to lemonade! Finish strong.

To my executive coach, Rebecca Gebhart: appreciate all your support, encouragement and agreeing that it’s just like me to sell my business in a pandemic!

To my folks: thanks for your unwavering encouragement and wise advice to ‘break up the set.’

Foreword

At first glance, vending is a simple business: stock a vending machine with soda and chips, refill as needed, collect