Vendingpreneurs — Advisory Strategy Call

You Just Did Something Most People Only Think About.

Here's how to make the most of your advisory strategy call.

You're Confirmed. Your advisory strategy call is booked.
Your calendar confirmation with date, time, and link is headed to your email now.
Your advisor will be researching your market before the call. Come ready with your real questions — this time is built around you.
Meet the Founder

Mike Built This So You Wouldn't Have to Figure It Out Alone.

Before your call, watch this. Mike breaks down exactly how the business model works, what makes a location profitable, and why people with full-time jobs are building real routes with this system.

People Just Like You Are Already Building

Teachers, parents, retirees, people with full-time jobs. Watch a few of them talk about what getting started actually looked like — and where they are now.

Entrepreneur
It's not sexy, but it gets the job done. I wanted something scalable at my own pace, recession resistant, and a real tangible asset — not another digital play that could disappear overnight.
Tom ran a digital marketing agency for 7 years and watched AI start eating into his business. He wanted a hard asset that wasn't dependent on an algorithm — something he could scale on his own terms.
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Tom Canterino
Digital agency owner → Vending operator
Corporate / 9–5
I didn't want a company determining my career trajectory anymore. I wanted to own that — and have control over where I was going.
Evan came from investment banking and legal compliance. He had the résumé, the income, the stability — and still felt like he was building someone else's dream. He joined Vendingpreneurs to start building his own.
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Evan Thammahong
Investment banking compliance → Vending operator
Family Business
My 12-year-old son listened to Mike's entire presentation and said "hey mom, I think that's something I could do." How as a mom can I stifle that?
Sandy was burning out in manufacturing — 50-hour weeks, tension coming home, no time for family. She brought her son Joe to a conference thinking she was dragging him along. He ended up pitching her on vending. They built it together.
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Sandy & Joe Bramsen
Manufacturing manager → Building with her son
Pre-Retirement
I needed something to do when I retired. This was a perfect fit — I could do it on my own schedule without having to answer to anyone.
Joe spent decades in the car business and was heading into retirement. His wife was still working. He couldn't just do nothing. Vending gave him something to build that fit entirely around his life — not the other way around.
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Joe Natoli
Car industry veteran → Building retirement income
Blue Collar / Self-Made
I watched my money go up every summer and dwindle every winter for nine years. I needed something I could scale that worked year-round — and didn't disappear when the season changed.
Jesse built a food truck from scratch, ran a construction company, and never worked a nine-to-five in his life. He found vending the same way he found everything — by doing his own research, watching, waiting, and then going all in when he was ready.
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Jesse Lee
Food truck owner + construction → Vending operator

The Questions Everyone Asks Before They Book The Call.

We'd rather you ask them here than wonder about them after.

This is the #1 question we get and honestly, it's the right one to ask.

Here's what most people don't realize: seeing vending machines everywhere isn't a sign the market is full. It's often a sign the market is being done badly.

The dirty secret of this industry is that most vending operators are terrible at their jobs. Machines that run out of stock for days. Products nobody wants. Locations that haven't been touched in weeks. You've seen them. That's not competition. That's your opportunity.

When you go through Vendingpreneurs you're entering as a trained, professional operator who knows how to find the right locations, stock the right product, and actually show up. The bar in this industry is embarrassingly low. You clear it just by being reliable.

Some markets are wide open. Some have lazy operators you can outperform immediately. A few genuinely need more time. We'll tell you which one yours is. Honestly.

"People always talk about, is the market saturated. I will tell you guys this right now... out of the 48 locations I have, I took over 20 from existing operators."
— Anthony K, currently operating 48 locations

Honestly? Yes. You could. A lot of people try that first. Then they find us.

Time. Most solo operators spend months figuring out what our members learn in the first few weeks — not because they're not smart, but because they don't know what they don't know yet.

Money. The most expensive mistakes happen at the beginning: wrong machines, wrong locations, contracts not in your favor. Our members skip those bills entirely. Someone here has already paid them.

Momentum. This is the one that actually kills most people who go it alone. They hit a wall in month two and have nobody to call. Here you have a group of operators who've been exactly where you are.

You're not paying for information. You're paying to compress the timeline, skip the expensive lessons, and have people in your corner when you hit your first wall.

"Because you're going to make mistakes. In the community, we've all made the mistakes already, so you can draw off of everyone's experience. Learn from everybody else's mistakes, and you have the resources."
— Joe Natoli, currently operating 15 machines

Don't try to convince them. Invite them to get informed.

Skepticism from people who love you isn't an obstacle — it's a sign they're paying attention. They've seen the same "passive income" headlines you have. They're protecting you.

Anthony's wife wasn't just skeptical — she was scared. So he didn't try to sell her on vending. He showed her what he was actually buying into. Not a course. A support system. A community of operators who'd already made the expensive mistakes and would pick up the phone when he hit a wall.

When she understood that, something shifted. She's the one who eventually said: "If you just go back to another W-2, what happens in two years when you get laid off again? We'd be right back to square one."

"We lost money on a house flip in 2021. So when Graham came to me with another business idea I was cautious. But the more I looked at it the more it made sense. The research was there. The system was there. And honestly? It felt safer than the house thing."
— Katie and Graham, currently operating 16 machines

We'd be more concerned if you didn't ask this. Your skepticism isn't a flaw — it's wisdom.

We tell you what it actually costs. What it actually takes. Before you spend a dollar. On your advisory call you'll hear realistic timelines, real startup costs, and what month one actually looks like — not just month twelve.

You're never the only person who's faced your exact problem. Inside Vendingpreneurs you have direct access to operators across dozens of different markets. Someone has already solved whatever you're going to run into.

We tell you if it's not right for you. If your market isn't ready, your budget isn't there, or the timing is wrong, we'll tell you. We have turned people away. We'd rather do that than put someone in a program they're not ready for.

Our calls are informational first, always. Nobody on our advisory team uses pressure tactics. You won't be given a countdown to decide. If you want to bring your partner on a second call, bring them.