I was hooked and it was great. My first location generated a return for me of nearly $5,500.00 in first year. That figure takes into account commissions that I paid bar for each pack of cigarettes I sold in bar. My sales in 1996 averaged 300 packs of cigarettes per month with a $2.00 margin.

If I had purchased my first vending machine directly from a wholesaler and found that location myself I likely would have saved myself over $5,000.00 and paid off that cigarette machine within first year.

But finding locations for a vending machine can be difficult and time consuming. A vending business opportunity company ( Rip-off Bizop Vending Company ) can sell you a vending machine with a location for your machine. You’ll pay substantially more for it, but they take headache out of starting a business by providing a perfect combination of vending machines with a location so you can start earning revenue immediately. It’s perfect lure for instant home based business.

Mike Corbin's website http://www.no-vending-secrets.com challenges would be entrepreneur's to think differently about vending and avoid the vending business opportunity scams entirely!

Some will argue that "I don't want to have all my eggs in one basket". To those people I say, diversification is fine, but only after you have achieved solid success with your initial business. A premature attempt at diversification will quite likely cause a loss of focus and actually slow down your success rate.

If your main marketing vehicle is a website, you can fairly easily leverage your initial success and effectively promote a few other complimentary and closely related home based business propositions from same website. However, it is important not to go overboard and offer too many choices to visitors to your website. If you do, there is a good chance of confusing your visitors to point where they will take no action and you have, in effect, diluted effectiveness of your website.

Whatever you decide to do, you will need to stick with it for a reasonable length of time (give it at least one year) and put in a solid and sustained effort. Stay focused and don't get discouraged. As much as you would like it to be, starting and developing a real home based business is certainly not an instant gratification situation.