Chris Koerner breaks down five vending and attraction businesses with high margins. A cologne spray machine makes $6k a month from one location at 88% margin. A cotton candy vending machine costs $7.5k to $9.5k and can pull $2k to $10k monthly, with 97% margins on $0.30 servings.
Here are the five most brilliant and profitable vending machine ideas I've ever seen. Starting with number five.
This guy invented a vending machine that disinfects motorcycle helmets. It only cost a few bucks and the Profit margin is 86%. Imagine putting these at gas stations, along scenic routes, motorcycle dealerships, repair shops.
Better yet, you can market this as a disinfectant for shoes and put it outside gyms and shoe stores because that market is a hundred times bigger than the helmet market.
This guy invented a vending machine that spray sprays cologne for $2 a spray with 88% profit margins. Supposedly there's a grocery store in Kazakhstan that makes six grand a month from one machine. If you really wanted to get smart with it, you'd put a QR code under each bottle where people can scan it and buy it with an affiliate link that's drop shipped from someone else's website. You do no work and you make 15 times what you'd make on one spray. You could put these outside of bathrooms, movie theaters, restaurants, gym entrances, walkable outdoor shopping areas. It's a brilliant business idea.
This is a fully automated cotton candy vending machine. Profit margins are literally 97%. This is a brilliant business because it's so visual. The cotton candy is made at the eye level of the child. So as the machine owner you want those videos to go viral. And as the parent of the child that wants the cotton candy, you're going.
To buy it for them.
Ten serving of cotton candy costs 30 cents in sugar and the best thing you can do is to secure the location before you buy the machine. Visiting in person is the most effective. These machines make between two and $10,000 a month and they cost about $7,500 to $9,500 up front.
You will not believe how much money this guy makes with this rotating platform off Times Square. Before I tell you that, let me tell you how you can reverse engineer Jake's business. Jake is an immigrant from Tajikistan. He moved here with nothing but a dream, bought this rotating platform on Amazon for 2 grand and set up shop with a permit right outside of Times Square. His worst day ever was $200 and and his best day ever was $4,000. But he averages two grand a day. Tell me that America is no longer the land of opportunity. Here's how you copy his business. Buy a platform like this. Go find a downtown area or a national park or an outdoor shopping area and set up shop. Learn to sell.
Look at this friggin thing right here. One of the best business ideas I've seen in years. It can make you a thousand bucks a day. It draws a crowd, it's innovative and it's not very well known yet. Here's what it is and how you can profit. It is a water free surfing simulator. What a brilliant business idea. The best marketing is a spectacle. Remember those Power bank fans at the mall kiosk where you put your arm out and they try to push you over? Total scam. Total spectacle. That's why they sold. This is a spectacle. It draws a crowd and gets people to watch. And guess what? Everyone in that crowd is thinking, I could do that. I bet I could do it better than he could. Charge 40 bucks for a two minute ride. These should be in every mall in America. Every outdoor shopping area. See, malls do something that most landlords won't and that's a month to month lease. So if you get one of these things, put it in a popular mall.
Not a dying mall.
Plug the sucker in, start charging 20 to 50 bucks a pop, 30 bucks a pop, six riders every hour, 10 hours a day is $1,800 a day and your only overhead, Your lease and your one employee that's manning the attraction.
The full business plan for these right here.
