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Improve Cash Flow

Barter Rewards Members finance purchases of goods and services out of additional sales of their own product, service, unwanted assets or excess capacity. Barter Rewards creates new revenue for its members without displacing their existing cash business base.

Generate New Sales

One way to view Barter Rewards is as an independent, commission-only, marketing resource, sales rep. Fielding thousands of calls per day, Barter Rewards brokers search out and fulfill member needs, purchase requests, generating incremental business revenues, over and above a company’s existing cash customer base.

Recapture Lost Assets; Find Hidden Profits

Every, business must invest in the required space, equipment, people, etc. to provide their chosen goods or services. Most cannot sell 100% of their capacity. Barter Rewards members can sell unsold capacity at full retail value. Other businesses have perishable products or slow- moving or unwanted inventory. Barter Rewards can also move these assets at full retail value.

Conserve Cash

Everyone spends cash everyday for something they could have purchased with barter trade dollars instead. Spending barter trade dollars instead of cash effectively preserves your budget by increasing your spending ability. Meanwhile, you conserve cash for savings, investments and for the few things you can’t buy through Barter Rewards.

Enjoy the Advantages of a Managed Business Relationship

Trading member-to-member through Barter Rewards eliminates many negatives that are often found buying and selling in the cash world. Brokers manage both sides of the trade, ensuring satisfaction. Each trade is approved in advance so there are no receivables or concerns about non-payment. Barter purchases are as easy to conduct as using a credit card. Each month, you receive a full statement of account activity as detailed as a typical credit card or bank statement.

Attract, Keep, Reward Employees

Use trade dollars as a bonus or to provide incentives, gifts, trips, health club membership, etc. Barter Rewards also offers a plan that allows you to provide medical benefits on trade. You can use barter dollars to pay for employee training, corporate parties, gatherings and much more.

Tap into Alternate Form of Financing

Barter Rewards may extend credit to members in good standing that offer goods and services in demand by other Barter Rewards Members. Barter loans can be used for any purpose. Another form of creative financing is using barter to pay debts or collect receivables.

Enhance Personal or Family Income & Activities

Who couldn’t use a little more money? Because barter is primarily generated by incremental business, many Barter Rewards members see it as a revenue stream over and above their existing baseline income. All businesses have variable and capital expenses like printing, office furniture, computer repair, auto repair, dental and opportunities are endless.

Find More Time to Enjoy Success

When, you need more business or have inventory to move, one call to your Barter Rewards broker can save you countless hours. You can apply the same logic to tracking down vendors, supplies, and goods and services that you need for yourself and your business.

Enjoy Some of Life’s Luxuries

Many business owners use their barter trade dollars as discretionary income. Their cash business covers the overhead. Barter trade dollars fund the vacation they could not afford or the fur coat they’ve always wanted. On trade, they send flowers on a whim, go out to eat more often, vacation or enjoy a show or concert.

Barter Provides a Competitive Edge

Barter Rewards participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your Barter Rewards affiliation is an incentive to do business with you. Barter attracts new customers to your business, without affecting the existing cash sales already being generated by your company. Barter Rewards create a loyalty between business owners that will create new business on a continuous basis.

Barter Means New Cash Sales

That's not a misprint - yes, we said cash sales. If you perform a good job for a Barter Rewards client, they'll refer their cash-paying friends, clients, family and associates to you. Growing your business will always be tied directly to referrals from your happy customers. Barter Rewards constantly strives to help improve your bottom line overall. If you become more successful, we become more successful.

Barter Makes Record-Keeping Easy

In a sense Barter Rewards works much like a bank, providing control, record keeping, and administration for your barter activities. Direct trading often becomes cumbersome at record-keeping time. With Barter Rewards convenient clearinghouse concept, there's no need to keep track of the dollars traded. Barter Rewards uses state-of-the-art technology to track all of your barter sales and purchases with an easy-to-read itemized monthly statement.

Barter Means No Bad Debts

Barter Rewards trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to a Barter Rewards client, you call in advance for authorization to verify that your client (the buyer) has the Trade Dollars to pay for their purchase from you. Then, upon order completion or delivery, a simple signed transaction slip submitted to Barter Rewards will confirm the transfer of funds. Or the new innovation of simply an I Phone Application, Android Application bar code swipe, entering the amount of the transaction and clicking on summit. It's that simple.

Barter Expands Distribution Channels

Barter Reward’s national affiliation with The Global Exchange Network, provides a convenient platform for local, national and international new customers to trade with thousands of other businesses nationwide, expanding the possibilities for all involved. It opens the door to a broader range of products and services, as well as a greater marketing platform for your company.

Barter Means Wholesale Buying Power

With barter, the real cost of the products you purchase on trade is actually the wholesale cost of your trade dollars earned. Making sales with built-in profits makes the cost of your purchases more economical on trade. When you join Barter Rewards, you open the door to a new customers, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses.

Barter Means Added Profits

With Barter Rewards, added profits are realized by participating businesses, because of the new customers barter provides. Sellers in a trade exchange network make incremental barter sales (over and above their cash business) and increased sales mean increased profits, increased cash flow and reducing variable expenses by a percentage.