300 scored leads across your metro, a 1:1 strategy session to pick the first twenty, your state contract filled in, and six months of VendBuddy Growth. Each one is built by hand, which is why there are only ever a few open.
“Can I run this with a full-time job?”
That question came up five times in ninety days and it is nearly always asked by the person this page is written for: funded, busy, capable, and entirely willing to do the work — but with maybe six usable hours a week and no appetite for spending three of them on a spreadsheet.
For that person the bottleneck is never understanding. It is that every step of starting has a long, low-skill front end — building the lead list, working out which twenty to walk into first, adapting a template agreement to your state — and those front ends are exactly the hours a full-time job does not have.
It does not stop you. It stretches you. The month of list-building becomes three months of evenings. The first twenty doors become the twenty nearest your house rather than the twenty most likely to say yes, because choosing properly required an analysis you did not have a Saturday for. The placement agreement stays a generic template because adapting it felt like a lawyer question and you never made the call.
None of those is a catastrophe on its own. Together they turn a ninety-day start into a nine-month one, and somewhere in month five most people quietly stop. Not because it did not work — because it never got a fair run at working.
A second opinion at the moment it matters. Every operator hits two or three decisions in the first ninety days where the answer is genuinely situational: whether the gym on the corner is worth the commission the manager wants, whether to buy refurbished or new given the drive to the nearest dealer, which of two venue types to concentrate on given who is actually in your metro. A document can tell you how to think about those. It cannot look at your list and say “start with these twenty, and here is why not those”.
300 scored leads across your metro, built around the venue types you are targeting. A 1:1 strategy session to choose the first twenty doors and the order to walk them. Your state placement agreement, filled in for your business. And six months of VendBuddy Growth on your account, so the list keeps rebuilding itself after these 300.
Every part of it is assembled by hand by one person, which is why there are only ever a few open and why it takes several business days rather than arriving as a download.
One thing does arrive the moment you buy: a START-HERE welcome PDF and the complete operator document library — every guide we sell, all ten documents, roughly 92 pages. That is deliberately framed as a bonus rather than as part of the price. You are paying for the 300 scored leads, the session and the filled-in agreement; the library is what stops the first week being a week of waiting.
The thing that makes 300 different from 50 is not really the number. It is that at 300 you stop having to think about the list at all for the first several months, which is what changes the behaviour of a person with six hours a week. Fifty leads worked properly is roughly a month of Saturdays and then a decision about what to do next. Three hundred is a quarter of not having that decision in front of you, which matters far more than it sounds like it should when the reason things stall is decision fatigue rather than effort.
It is also the most expensive thing we sell and it is the wrong purchase for most people who read this page. If you have not spoken to a single location yet, this is the wrong first thing to buy — and we would rather say that here than take $997 from someone who has not yet found out whether they can stand doing fifteen pop-ins. Ninety days is the plan this is built around, not a promise, and we make no representation about placements, income or timelines.
Assembled by hand after purchase. Allow several business days for the lead set; the session is booked around your calendar.
Six times the volume of the Fast-Start list and built around the venue types you say you are targeting rather than a generic sweep. Scored so the ordering means something, and sized so you are not back at a blank spreadsheet after the first thirty conversations. This is the deliverable the hours actually go into.
The part no document does. We go through your actual list and pick the first twenty doors together, with the reasoning made explicit — why those venue types in your metro, what order to walk them in, and which of the 300 to deliberately leave until later. Written follow-up so you are not relying on memory of a conversation.
The seven-section plain-English agreement with your business details completed and the clauses set for the commission structure you have decided on, rather than a template with brackets you still have to interpret. Still not legal advice — have a local attorney review it before you rely on it, which is true of any agreement from any source, and takes ten minutes once the thinking is already done.
Six months of the Growth plan on your account, so the list-building continues under your own control after the 300. Use the same email at checkout as on your VendBuddy account and it activates automatically, or redeem your licence key at vendbuddy.io/redeem.
The only instant part. The welcome PDF sets out what happens next and when. With it comes every guide we sell — all ten documents, roughly 92 pages: the getting-started checklist, the 50-state distributor list, the glossary, the walk-in pitch script, the pitch checklist, the placement agreement, the complete launch guide, the movers directory, the supplier directory and the property-manager follow-up templates. It is a bonus while your custom work is built, not the engagement: the 300 scored leads, the session and your filled-in agreement are what the $997 buys.
| The other way | What it costs | What you are left with |
|---|---|---|
| Doing all of it yourself | $0 and 60–100 hours | The same components, spread over months you may not have, with nobody to check the two or three genuinely situational decisions. |
| A locator, repeatedly | $400–$1,500 per placement | Machines placed and no method, no list, and no software. At five machines you have spent more than this and own nothing. |
| Buying the documents instead | $69–$97 | Everything except the list, the session and the hours. For most people reading this page, the correct answer. |
| This kit | $997, once | 300 scored leads, the session, the filled-in agreement, and six months of Growth. |
Every dollar spent here is a dollar not in the machine, and the machine is the thing that earns. If you do not yet have $3,000 to $5,000 set aside for equipment on top of this, do not buy it.
If you are unsure, buy the $47 Playbook, run it for a month, and decide then. That is the recommendation we would give a friend and it is the one we will give you.
This is a done-with-you engagement, not a file. The complete document library lands in your inbox instantly, but it is a bonus that fills the wait — do not buy this for the documents, because you can buy every one of them for $69 on the kits page. It is the most expensive thing we sell and it is wrong for most people who read this page. If you are not sure, buy the $47 Playbook, run it for a month, and decide then.
Email [email protected] inside 30 days and we refund the whole thing. We will not ask you why and we will not make you prove you tried. We would rather have your goodwill than your $997.
Cheapest first. Everything here is a one-time purchase — nothing on this page renews.
the VendBuddy app is the separate monthly thing that does the list-building continuously, if you ever want that part automated.
Payment, licensing and refunds for this product are handled by Gumroad; the checkout opens right here on this page. VendBuddy sells documents and software. We make no representation about the income, profit, or number of placements any operator will achieve — results depend on your market, your effort, and factors outside anyone’s control. Nothing here is legal advice; have a local attorney review any agreement before you rely on it.