Automatic Age

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®erious mistake to keep all your eggs in one basket.
The most
terC‘6SS^
°P erat ° rs today are those who limit their routes to a
rritory as compact as possibble where they can give the best
VlCe and include every possible machine. Ball gum and pea-
uts a r
the are
provided you keep buying the latest models as
ones
°nes wear out, but while servicing these routes you can
. & as
as well wake up to the possibilities of many other good m a-
chii
llles which will make you good money and can be looked after
d,0ng with the others.
If We were an operator we would look through the pages of
see A U T ° M A T I C A G E and buy one machine of every kind we
0l^ ac*vertised. W e would try out those machines, and try them
k Sensibly.
Pick locations with reasonable judgment, always
in mind that a certain machine will not go at all in one
w
ng
Cation where it will be a winner in another. Move them around,
t e r j ^ 8rn a chance; then if you find a machine is not good for your
thj
y ° u can discard it or trade it to some other operator. In
s Way you show a progressive policy and you gain experience.
cangame ’ ^on ^ ^ a little loss destroy your nerve. A ny big man
/
^a^e a loss without wincing. You made money before or you
uidn’t have it to lose, and if you made it before you can make
1 again.
It is by constantly experimenting that you find out where the
ne illerS are’ anc* ky being game you can make enough on one win-
1 to pay the insignificant loss on a half a dozen.
Just a personal word along this line. When we started the
^ SO M ATIC A G E we did it on a pure gamble. There was not
s .e P^son in a thousand that could see it at all. Other publishers
lc* that any fool who would spend time and money getting out a
® *in e for vending machines was plum crazy.
Can you imagine
to
Wou^ have happened had we gone into our bank and asked
borrow money to start a penny peanut and ball gum magazine.
y> We would have been laughed out of the bank and would un-
■j. ul:>tedly have lost our business standing with them. Gentlemen,
^ took nerve. It is alright fo r everybody to say now that it was
w P lia n t idea after it has been demonstrated, but three years ago
6 Were the laughing stock of the publishing fraternity.
t\y* ^ ° W
£ a m e; buying a new kind of machine once or
Ice a month won’t bust you and in the long run you will hit
le winners that will make you rich.
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