How To Start a Vending Machine Business from Home

Americans spend about 20 billion dollars a year buying snacks from the four million 640,000 vending machines located throughout the United States in this video I'm sitting down with the owner of a few of those vending machines and get this he is only 19 years old he's not only earning money from his vending machines he's also documenting it all for YouTube making more money from his businesses than most people who are twice his age so I want to show you what it is that motivates him what inspires him what keeps him going and how he got started with this business where he buys his vending machines from and some of the horror stories that he's encountered while running his vending machine operations so without further ado let me introduce you to Jaime hey what's up

how's it going good why don't you tell everyone a little bit about who you are and what it is that you do it's kind of interesting a little bit different than what people are used to hearing about yeah so my name is Jaime I'm 19 years old I live over here in Dallas Texas and currently I do a few different things mostly the main things I do run a vending machine business I go out put vending machines and you know other people's businesses and every week every two weeks I go and collect the money that's basically how it goes pretty fun that's you know got me interested so I started that business also right now I currently do YouTube as well I've been doing that full-time as well as other you know small little side hustles but pretty much image it you know so you're actually making

money just putting up vending machines like that yeah yeah how did you get into that and see the vending yep so uh actually I came across a video of somebody else doing it as well I saw their video they went out collected their money from their vending machines and I was like that's pretty cool you know they're making money only working one or two days a month you know going out and collecting the money so I was like you know what let me give it a try I went out that same day I bought my first machine it took me I wanted to get started I didn't know anything about the business I did my research and I mean it's being pretty good ever since been doing it for about eight months now so

where did you learn everything YouTube right yeah everything online you can find everything on YouTube these day uh pretty much everything what about before that though were you doing anything before that was just like did you just jump into this attic kind of nowhere um yeah I pretty much just jump into it before that I was I started the summer after I graduated high school so I want my main plan was to get into real estate that's what I wanted to do right after I got out but you know I saw the video came across to it out of nowhere and I just jumped into it but before that I had a regular job you know I worked at a doughnut shop and I quit a few months after and just been doing this full-time ever since nice well congratulations on

doing that thank you curious about these the vending machines where you get them from there's a lot of places you can get them from I get them locally you can order them online from companies but I get them from you know Craigslist I could I buy them used I don't buy new machines because new they are very expensive brand new I only buy use you know but pretty much we offer up anywhere you can buy you things there's pretty much better machines you can buy and how much how

machines you can buy and how much are they use ones used they can go anywhere from like I bought machines for a hundred dollars before so actually means you can buy them very cheap just depends you just gotta be lucky you know up to maybe 1500 at the most used or brand-new they can be able to like seven thousand dollars Wow yeah for one machine and how long does it take you to

recoup that money it depends on a lot of things also you know the location is the main one if you have a somewhere you put the machine in and that location makes a thousand a month profit from that has maybe like five hundred so just depends the location you know how do you how do

the location you know how do you pick those locations it's um I mean it there's not really a location like go for cuz any location can be a hit or miss you know there's a locations with a bunch of employees that I've heard stories that they barely sell anything you know so you don't really know which one's gonna be good which one's going to do bad you just go and find the location you know ya see from there how many do

you have a lot of them now a lot of the machines not a ton I have like 12 machines no 12 locations about almost 20 machines cuz I have like two machines in each one so was like one for snacks one for drinks yeah once that snacks or drinks

does better in general yeah but which one does better from both or I'm just saying like do people buy do you see that people will tend to buy drinks more or snacks more is it just no really no pattern I would say drinks for sure drinks yeah the cheaper you know iced over here every state is different but over here the normal price it's like 75 cents for a can of coke you know but I do sell a ton of soda especially now in the summer it goes by really quick I bet yeah and then um so I'm kind of curious

you're obviously have to stock these machines how often do you do that where do you get the snacks for them and how much time does that take you to do all that mm-hmm so I my busiest location I'll tell you how much that one makes a thousand a month that's a that's considered a really good location you know an average location makes about I would say 300 maybe 400 the most that's normal you know but a thousand a month that's considered good that one I only go once a week so once a week it takes me about it's an hour drive it's a bit of a drive so it also you know matters how far away they are but it doesn't take long to restock maybe 30 minutes if I do it quick 45 at the most i buy my product from sam's i know that not every state has the stamps I do get a few comments on my videos people don't really know what Sam's is kind of like BJ you have BJ's you know I buy all my product from there and I know a lot of people like that have a big better machine business they have suppliers that just come and drop off everything but you know I'm not really that huge yet so do you want to hit that big maybe

I'm still thinking about it I do plan on moving out of state maybe in the next couple years so I want to decide if I'm gonna keep the business on my celly start another one over there I'm still deciding but maybe one day you know cool

so and now the reason I know about you is because you had a couple of videos that kind of blew up went viral and I think it's like the thumbnail is you like in front of a team with like the stack of yeah I want to hear about that

like why you decide to make the videos what anything you want to share about that yeah so I posted my first video five months ago five or six and at the time I posted my first video there was actually like two people already making videos about vending machines and you know their business but you know there wasn't much people doing it until I posted my first video because I saw them doing it and I was like you know what let me give it a try I had past experience with editing videos and talking to a camera so I didn't start off you know being kind of shy I posted my first video and it just blew up like I don't know why maybe the thumbnail could have been a good reason but my first video hit a million views so it's been good ever since that was your first video hey Darlene yeah first video whoa that's pretty sick and I

think you have some videos also on your channel talking about YouTube as well right like when I do it yeah I have a few videos people because I mean ever since I started making videos about my vending machines I've always told people how much I make from it then I started you know going on YouTube people got curious how much do I make on YouTube so I made a few videos about that so what I'll do is underneath

this video I will link up your channel anyone who's watching wants to check it out he has some really awesome videos about the vending machines also some fun videos that are pretty fun to watch so check those out and if you subscribe let us know in the comments that you subscribed and put like the number that you subscribe so you're like me you're over 100,000 but let's say someone subscribes and you're like 120 second thousand put that number down below so that we know and then like 5 years people can come back and say hey I subscribe to him back then before he has got a million so thank you so much yeah so let's go back to the

vending machine so I'm really curious about these just like in general over the course of a month how much time do you spend on the vending machine part your business I would say I don't go to I mean probably the smartest thing to do would be to go to all of my locations in one day to minimize the amount of work I have to do throughout the week but I don't really do that just because I make videos about it so I would just go to one location one day or two at the most that way I can keep making videos but since I do that I do pretty much have to work two or three days a week in my bending machine business and that's everything from going to Sam's buy more product I'm going to the location resolving the machine I recently I'm buying another machine right now so I'm gonna go make a bit about that but it's um yeah I mean I'm always working on it since I have to make plays about it do you think anyone

could do this Ben thing yes for sure anybody can do it I'm currently working on a small project that I'm gonna be putting out but anybody can do it doesn't matter if you're a team doesn't matter be a full-time job as long as you have one free day a week you know he can do it or maybe even a couple hours cool I

think I want people would be afraid to buy something like a machine upfront and like know that you know maybe it'll take a while to get their money back did you feel that way when you started yes I did because the very first machine I bought it was a combination and I think I got it for 2,500 my first machine and that was a lot of money especially you know for my first machine I was 18 at that time so it was basically all my savings I had and I was like what but if I just lose all this money what am I gonna do with it but what I did my research before I started everything I you know I found that I looked into what locations were good what machines were good machines you got to actually do your research on those because you there's a lot of machines out there that you know aren't good have a lot of problems so as long as you do your research first it should be good you know but you can't quit also like if you buy the machine and put it on location it doesn't do a whole lot you know just don't quit go put it somewhere else have you ever run

into like any major problems or stories got crazy stories nothing too crazy I've had a employees break try to break into my machines somebody you've probably seen like it you know in movies say tape a dollar put the dollar in pull it back with the plate I still have that dollar I kept it as a memory I have it somewhere I'm not sure where but somebody did that it broke the bill except they're in the machine so I didn't take any more money I think I spent like $200 on it putting another one in so I took my machine out of that place I had another location where I think it only made five dollars in a whole month I got rid of that location but nothing too crazy so far you know it's just normal so you're obviously pretty young

8 19 now right yeah and a lot of people who are older than you haven't been able to start their own business even like their own side hustle how do you think it is that you were able to start so young and see some success while others feel like they're being held back and don't know how to get over that hurdle yeah I feel like it all comes down to motivation you know you got to find what motivates you like what do you want and use that motivation as you know something to help you get out there and do something for yourself for me my motivation is to just one day be able - you know support my family and not have to worry I don't come from I can hire a high income family we never struggled for money well we never I never had two things you know other kids had so that's what motivates me you know one day I want to be financially secured but it could be different for everyone else you know if you want to help somebody else just gotta find your motivation basically cool and then I was

like to ask this question what's the best investment that you've ever made my best investment I'm not sure I mean maybe into my belly machine business I spent a lot of money into that I'm currently upgrading all my machines to upset accept credit card readers so moving on from like I'm still gonna accept cash but now they do take credit cards Apple pay but yeah just into my been in business for the other side cool

so between the vending machines the YouTube is this what you want to do with the rest of your life or do you have other plans bigger plans or just this but bigger yeah I for sure have a lot of things I want to do in life the business the vending machine business hopefully I can keep it for sure I won't run it myself maybe later on if I can grow it big have somebody else you know run it for me YouTube for sure I do want to grow that's my main goal right now to just keep doing YouTube and maybe one day he don't be up there I do want to start different businesses more online businesses that way I don't have to go out and spend time you know being out there but specifically I'm not really sure yet I just know that you know hopefully one day I can do something bigger yeah well you've already had a lot of

success so definitely seem like the personality type that will find a way to make something work what um what advice would you give anyone who's looking to start either their own vending machine business or their first site hustle probably the main tip I would give you know you might hear it a lot but it's just not to give up you know it if you bring it back down to me I have to actually I'll tell you I didn't tell you this but whenever I got my first location I bought the Machine already placed in the business you know I'm somebody else I was getting out of the business the day after I bought that machine the manager told me I had to take the machine out you know so I spent 2,500 on the machine next thing you know they want the machine out of there so I didn't know what to do you know I was actually like nervous I was scared because I spent a lot of money I don't have a garage to put it in I didn't have a storage unit so I was like what am I gonna do so literally for the next three days because I had one week to take a machine out at seven days for the next few days like four hours a day I called a whole bunch of different businesses I went to you know I went door-to-door talking to a lot of people and I've I found a new place but you know if I wanted to give up and not try that hard you know maybe right now I wouldn't have my vending machine business be doing YouTube you know so it all comes down don't give up that's my biggest advice I would give cool so just I think I have two questions left the first one is with the two iPhones down there I mean I got a new phone recently because I mean YouTube I had an Android back then and I recently my camera for YouTube broke and I didn't have something to record for like a couple days so it's like I couldn't use my njoy because the quality isn't really that good so I got an iPhone the other one I got it for my girlfriend as a gift but that's pretty amazing that you're able

to do that because it sounds like before you weren't able to yeah no I think uh before yes I said I was working in a donut shop I was like making like twelve hundred a thousand a month yeah I'm pretty grateful well congratulations and then I was watching one of your videos and I gotta ask because I don't believe it uh-huh is it true that you put your milk in the cereal bowl before this cereal yes weird no understand why that's a problem you know that way you don't put a lot of milk into the ball okay sometimes I used to put the cereal first but then I would have a lot of milk left over and I don't finish it off so you first put the milk the amount of milk you want to use and then the cereal

all right guys if you are still watching I gotta ask you to do two things first I'll put that video down below where that happens and second let us know in the comments what you do first milk first or cereal first and let us know in the comments section and you have anything else you want to say before we close this out that's pretty much it thank you to everyone that watched thanks to Paul for having me on here and I hope everyone has a great rest of your day thanks so much for your time I appreciate it yeah you have a good one so I hope you guys enjoyed that interview as much as I did I know this is a little bit different than the normal content I have on this channel but after I heard his story and saw what he was doing I had to share it with you guys because I thought it was absolutely awesome what he's doing and if you do want to hear more about him like I said I will have his YouTube channel linked up down below and I'll love it for you guys to go check that out so guys thanks so much for watching if you want more interviews with entrepreneurs such as Jaime doing different things in different industries let me know in the comment section down below I have a lot of good friends doing some crazy interesting things that are much different than what most people think of and they're making money doing it so I'd be happy to share that with you guys if you're interested but let me know in the comments section otherwise give this video a thumbs up if you love the content and subscribe to the channel and I'll see you next time bye for now