It is well-nigh impossible to earn substantial money, say $300.00 dollars a month, and up, just stumbling along. All of those paid-to-surf deals and reading e-mails for pennies a mail, have been overexposed, and scandalized, such that people just don't believe in them anymore.

The thrill passed out of those types of online businesses a long time ago.

If you want to succeed as an online entrepreneur, you have to set goals for yourself. Write out a business plan, even if it's just a few short lines on a notepad. What is it that you want to accomplish? What kinds of businesses interest you?

Then you have to study, and read till your eyes ache. Learn all you can, from whatever sources that you can.

Most of all you must have determination and patience. Even wealthiest online entrepreneurs { so-called internet gurus } had to start from same place everyone else had to start. -- The beginning.

You're going to make mistakes. So keep a positive attitude and refuse to let temporary setbacks take you out of game.

Finally, be proud of yourself. Because you're running an online business.

You're not a hobbyist who's going to settle for just a few extra bucks. You want big cash. You deserve it.

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Lots of capacity and lots of selection is way to go. If you are looking at a bubble front soda vending machine that has 12 selections and 500 can capacity (not including bottles in this example) you don't have to fill up machine until it's totally full.

You might be able to get free soda vending machines if you know where to look. This was too late to save my business but I knew of a bottled water company that gave away free soda vending machines (that were good ones too!) with very reasonable restrictions on operator.

You can get 27 cases of 24 cans of soda into a 1994 Pontiac sunbird. I don't recommend this at all. A car is not a good vehicle to use for transporting soda and I would expect that a van is likely best vehicle to use even though I never used a van when I had my business.

I needed better storage space. Apparently cans of soda will "pop" seal in warm conditions like a top floor storage room that get really hot in summer.

But number one thing I learned about soda vending machines was that having a relationship with a company that was an authorized distributor for several machine manufacturers was a reliable way to avoid vending scams. Although this lesson was to late for me having a relationship with a local authorized distributor is best way to educate yourself about all types of vending machines.