Tag Archives: vending machines
A White Knight comes to save our vending machine dilemma
Those of you who follow Ideate’s adventures closely know that there are several themes that seem to reoccur on our hallowed pages, for example: iBurst, banking issues, e-commerce, PR, Zebras, coffee, small business owners, viral marketing and making your life easier.
Perhaps the most popular, and unexpected, was the focus on vending machines. It all started with [...]
More vending machine madness
Maybe it’s our education system, or it could be the heat. Either way the vending machine mayhem is out of control. On Friday I got two pearlers from some entrepreneurially-minded readers, so I figure it’ll be easier to publish questions and answers for everyone to read.
The first email:
“I have read your article about vending machines more specifically about [...]
More Vending Machine Madness…
Surely. Surely. Surrrrely this must be a joke??
Someone’s got to put a stop to this now.
After last week’s dig at Die Burger, I think our SERPs for ‘Vending Machines’ must be overheating.
This, hot off the press…
The email reads as follows:
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Hello,
My name is Rick,I’m looking for VENDING MACHINES to order.I need this machines for [...]
Knowing how to read is not a prerequisite of being a sales person at Die Burger
About 2 yrs back Andrew wrote a post about a vending machine stand. It took a short while before the first enquiry came in ‘how much do your vending machines cost?’ Andrew dutifully replied that Ideate is really a blog and we don’t sell anything, especially not vending machines. A few days later the next [...]
Introduction to a Vending Machine business
Last week we attended the “BizOpps – Business Opportunities & Franchise Expo” held at the CTICC. It was the first year that it’s been held in Cape Town, so attendance by exhibitors and visitors was a bit slim, but there were a couple of interesting bits that we got from it, which I’ll attempt to [...]

