Restocking vending machine with commentary from @emmeworks

The creator documents the process of restocking her smart vending machine at a climbing gym. She begins by sharing profit data from cheese stick sales, then explains how customer feedback prompted her to seek vegan protein options, asking viewers for suggestions. The creator demonstrates the technical process of adding a new, non-vegan protein bar to the machine's weight-based inventory system and concludes by restocking other popular candy and chip items.

Creator: @emmeworks on TikTok

Video format

Vlog

Video outline

  1. State impressive result
  2. Introduce new problem
  3. Show attempted solution
  4. Reveal insider process
  5. Ask audience for help

Narrative framework

The Process & Pivot Narrative

Narrative framework logic

To showcase a routine business task, introduce an unexpected customer-driven problem, and document the imperfect attempt to solve it, ultimately using the unresolved issue to farm community engagement.

Topics: Small Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship, Food

Concepts: Value Vlog, Behind The Scenes, Journey Documentation

Formats: Vlog

Elements: Voiceover, Text Overlay, First-Person POV, B-Roll Cutaway, Graphic Overlay, Title Text Hook

Account types: Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

This year so far, we've sold over 600 cheese sticks out of this one vending machine right here. We make a dollar 25 off of each cheese stick sale. So that's $750 a profit just from cheese sticks in this one vending machine. It can be really hard to know how to price everything to actually profit. Tier down our pricing strategy in my vending machine ebook. This location is at a climbing gym, so we have a lot of protein options in this vending machine. While I was restocking, someone came up to me and asked if we could carry some vegan protein because apparently there's nothing vegan in our vending machines. Then it got me thinking, I cannot think of anything for a vegan protein option. So if you guys have ideas, definitely let me know in the comments. Taking these out and adding these instead. I was kinda hopeful that these Best Puff bars were vegan, but turns out they have milk in them. Best that's not gonna work, but I still think these will be a big hit. When you're changing a product in this machine, you have to add it one by one. Machine calculates the weight. Once the machine knows the correct weight, it's a lot easier to restock next time. Then you can just throw, like, 20 in

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