Are You Online To Earn Money Or Just To Have Fun?

Written by R.M. Blackledge


"Are You Online To Earn Money Or Just To Have Fun?"

R.M. Blackledge ©Copyright 2005

Okay, you're online now and you've made a decision that you want to earn a few extra dollars just likerepparttar people do in all of those late-night infomercials.

Congratulations, you've just gone throughrepparttar 100194 same basic decision-making process that thousands, if not millions, of home-based entrepreneurs have done before you.

Believe it or not,repparttar 100195 manner in which this first fateful conclusion is arrived at often times determines whether or not each home-based business will succeed or fail. { at least, untilrepparttar 100196 entrepreneur acquires a better understanding ofrepparttar 100197 online business game, through painful trial and error. } Unfortunately, many people go online with a vague, undefined notion that they are going to earn some extra money for themselves, without really realizing, exactly what they've gotten themselves in to.

That kind of lack of focus can doom an online newbie before they even get started.

The first rule of online home-based entrepreneurship is that it is not a hobby. Okay, it can be a hobby if you want to put up a personal site, place a few banners ads, and maybe earn twenty or thirty dollars a month in commission, just as something fun to do. These individuals we are not addressing. Such persons regard being online as just fun, because their personal site is meant only to impress a few friends, and serve as a conversation piece. Or even as a convenient place to post some juicy gossip!

If you are online withrepparttar 100198 express intent of earning money, then you are an entrepreneur, not a hobbyist. You can never approach your online business as a hobby. This applies whether you're intent is to work at your online business full-time or part-time.

There are millions of commercial websites online now, andrepparttar 100199 internet is extremely competitive. In fact,repparttar 100200 commercial side ofrepparttar 100201 internet is like a war-zone. Duck your head, or you might get hit by something.

What I learned About Soda Vending Machines

Written by Mike Corbin


Soda vending machines come in all shapes and sizes butrepparttar most common style arerepparttar 100193 stand-alone full sized machines.

Soda vending machines have lots of capacity. Even my old one that I paid too much for had a capacity of over 500 cans with 7 total selections. That's a lot of soda which also means that it could be possible that you don't have to visit a location too often if you are looking to vending as a part-time business.

The large capacity of these machines coupled with reasonable product costs and retail price can produce a decent business with healthy margins. I was paying an average of $.40 for a can of soda (tax and deposit included) and retailing that same can for $1.00. So with a $.60 margin multiplied by 5 machines each selling 200 cans of soda a month = a pretty nice little monthly return that doesn't require a lot of work becauserepparttar 100194 machines have lots of capacity!

In theory at least.

Here is what else I learned about soda vending machines...

All soda machines plug into a wall because that's howrepparttar 100195 compressor works to keeprepparttar 100196 soda cold.

Older machines may not be multi-price! They may have a coin mechanism insiderepparttar 100197 machine but that doesn't mean that you can changerepparttar 100198 price of your product easily. If you insist on starting your vending business by dealing with Rip-off Bizop Vending Company because they give yourepparttar 100199 location with your machine, askrepparttar 100200 salesguy to show you how to changerepparttar 100201 price of your soda machine.

Newer soda vending machines can sell bottled product that is either glass bottles or plastic. The glass bottles don't break.

Soda vending machines that allow you to changerepparttar 100202 price of any selection isrepparttar 100203 way to go. A can of pop where I live sells for $1.25 and bottle of juice will sell for $1.65 and up and both can be sold side by side out of a vending machine.

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