SANTA BARBARA/VENTURA BARTERING

Cash is King, Barter is Better!

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Barter like a professional with a network.

Example:

Your a beautician, one of our members comes for a haircut and color.  You charge 100 barter dollars.  The member gives you a barter check(You authorize it through 800 number.)That $100 goes into your account.  You then can spend your dollars anywhere in the system.

 

We are the nations largest, most respected and oldest trade exchange.

 

We have over (27,000 members) across the nation and MANY in Southern California (2000 + members).  In nearly every major city!

 

PARTIAL LIST OF GOODS & SERVICES

(If you don't see what you need, please contact one of our knowledgeable Business Consultants)

Advertising
 

Internet
Billboards
Coupon Book
Direct Mail
Hotel Directories
Indoor
Radio
Television
Magazines
Newspapers
 

Accountant

 

·    Barter Provides a Competitive Edge
Business owners in a barter exchange will patronize your establishment over your competition, because your barter affiliation is an incentive to do business with you. Plus, barter attracts new customers to your business, without affecting the existing cash sales already being generated by your company. And, you'll be able to purchase goods and services without borrowing money like your competition.

 

·    Barter Increases Sales
Our barter exchange markets your company to hundreds of local businesses and tens of thousands globally — all potential customers, incremental business over and above your daily cash-paying customers. We act as an extended sales force to help you sell excess inventory, slow moving products/services, or excess business capacity. Businesses barter to purchase what they need or want, and pay for them with the additional sales of their products or services.

 

·    Barter Improves Cash Flow
There are two main ways of to increase cash flow – additional sales and reduced costs. Barter does both! Barter allows you as a business owner to pay for what you need with what you have – allowing you to preserve working capital for other needs. When you use barter instead of cash to purchase needed products and services, you reduce your cash costs by paying for them with revenue generated by incremental barter sales . . . sales that probably would not have happened without your barter exchange affiliation.

 

·    Barter Moves Excess Inventory & Fills Idle Production Time
Every business owner struggles with the dilemma of what to do with extra inventory or idle production time. When you join our barter exchange, barter provides a tool to put that excess to use in profitable ways. Our barter exchange accomplishes this objective by matching your product or service with businesses looking to purchase them on trade. It's a win-win situation.

 

·    Barter Means New Cash Sales
That's not a misprint - yes, cash sales. Every business owner knows the key to success is referrals. If you perform a good job for a client of you serviced though our barter exchange – they'll undoubtedly refer their cash-paying friends, clients, family and associates to you. Barter is a great way to get prospective customers to sample your products and/or services while generating referrals.

 

·    Barter Means Increased Cash Flow
With a barter exchange affiliation, added profits are realized by participating businesses. Sellers within in a barter network make incremental barter sales (over and above their cash business) and increased barter sales mean reduced cash outlay and increased cash flow.

 

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

 

·    Barter Eliminates Bad Debts
Barter takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to another client within our barter exchange, you obtain authorization in advance to verify that 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 our barter exchange confirms the transaction. It's that simple.

 

·    Barter Expands Distribution Channels
Our barter exchange’s global affiliation, provides a convenient medium for local clients to trade with over 50,000 businesses globally, expanding the possibilities for all involved. This opens the door to a broader range of products and services, as well as a greater marketing platform for your company.

 

Barter Creates 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. When you join our barter exchange, you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses

Acupuncture
Acting Studio
Alterations
Alternative Healing
Antiques
Apparel
Appraiser

Real-Estate
Property
 

Aromatherapy
Art Galleries
Artist
Attorney
 

Business
Criminal
Divorce
General Practice
Immigration
Real Estate
 

Auto Body Repair
Auto Detailing and Wash
Auto Maintenance
Banquet Rooms

Beauty Supplies
Billiard Tables
Bedding
Body Sculpting
Body Waxing
Book Store
Bookeeping Services
Bowling
Business Consultants
Carpet Cleaning
Caterers
Child Care
Chiropractor
Classes
Commercial Cleaning
Cleaning Supplies
Collection Agency
Computer Repair
Computer Sales
Computer Software
Computer Networking
Concert Tickets
Conference Centers

Construction
Copier Sales
Copier Repair
Cosmetic Enhancement
Cosmetics
Courier
Disc Jockey

Dance Studio
Day Spa
Dentists
 

Cosmetic
Implants
Maintenance
 


Doctors
Dry Cleaners
Electronics

Entertainment
Event Planning
Facials

Financial Planning
Fitness Center
Fitness Equipment
Fitness Trainer
Floral Design
Florists

Furniture
Gardener
Gift Items
Glass
Golf
Gyms
Hair Salons
Health Products
Home Remodeling and Repair
 

Alarm Systems
Carpet Sales and Installation
Concrete
Contractors
Counter Tops
Deck Sealing
Deck Construction
Duct Cleaning
Electrician
Excavation
Exterior Painting
Fencing
Flooring
Garage Doors
Gutter Cleaning/ Repair
Handyman Services
Hardwood Floors
Household Appliances
HVAC
Interior Painting
Interior Design
Landscaping
 

Design
Maintenance
Construction
Irrigation
Contractor
 

Lighting

Paving
Plumbers
Pool Maintenance and Construction
Pressure Washing
Rental Equipment
Retaining Walls
Roofing
Sheet Rock Repairs
Shutters and Blinds
Siding
Sprinkler Systems
Stamped Concrete
Tile Supplies and Installation
Tree Service
Vinyl Flooring
Wallpaper
Window Washing
 

Hot Tubs
Hotels
Hypnotherapy
Karate
Kickboxing
Vacuums
Laser Hair Removal

Laser Printers
Lasik Eye Surgery
Limousine Services
Locksmith
Lodging
Maid Service

Mailing Lists
Manicures and Pedicures
Marketing
Martial Arts
Massage
 

 

Miniature Golf
Microdermabrasion
Modeling Agency
Mortgage Brokers
Motivational Speaker
Mobile Billboards
Moving Company
Nail Tech
Nightclubs
Nutritionists
Optician
Optometrist
Orthodontist
Packaging Supplies

Pagers
Pawn Shops
Pedicures
Permanent Make-Up
Personal Chef
Personal Trainer
Pest Control
Pets
 

Grooming
Products
Boarding
Exams and Vaccination
 

Photo Processing
Photographer
 

Physical Therapy
Pianist/Organist
Pilates
Plastic Surgeons
 

Facial
Body
 

Promotional Items
Psychologist
Public Relations
Public Speaker
Publishers
Real Estate

 

Brokers
Appraisers
For Rent
For Sale
 

Reflexology and Reiki

Renovation
Restaurants
Re-Upholstery
Rugs
Sailing

Signs
Skin care
Spas
Spanish Lessons 

Tickets
Memorabilia
Marketing
Art
Equipment
Events

Tailoring
Tanning
Tax Services
Taxis
Telephone System Repair and Installation
Transmission Service

Travel Services
T-Shirts
Tuxedo Rentals
Upholstery

Upholstery Cleaning
Vacation rentals

Veterinarian
Videographer
Web design and maintenance

Wedding Services
Weight Control
Window Tinting
Yoga

And Much More!!!

 

 

Increase Sales    We can increase your bottom line, members will choose your business

over competitors because they can barter.

 

Improve Cash Flow   Your utilities, rent, employees are already paid. Barter is gravy.

 

Save Cash   By bartering for everyday needs instead of paying cash.

 

Expand Market Share   Intro into new marketplace, exposure, networking, referrals

 

Referrals From Members to Non-Members  If your business is appreciated by the member, cash customers(friends, relatives, referrals, business associates)

 

 

Conserve your cash, Barter for what you need!

 

Ideas:  Employee Incentives, Ad Campaigns, Niche Marketing, Finance Construction, Christmas and Birthday Gifts!

 

 

We need all types of businesses including restaurants, health field, construction, entertainment, vacation rentals, legal, hotels, coffee houses, cleaning services.

   

 

 Entrepreneur Magazine Article

 

June 28, 2008

 

 

They act as a kind of bank, issuing credits or scrip that can be traded among their members instead of cash. For example, a local store might reward its top salespeople with a day-long yacht charter. If they are members of the same barter group, the yacht captain can be paid in "trade credits," which are deposited into his account. When demand gets so strong he can't find the time to clean his house, he checks the membership directory to find a cleaning service that accepts credits, then the cleaning service spends its credits to print promotional fliers, and on and on it goes.

All those transactions can add up to a lot of real value, even if it's not real money. The International Reciprocal Trade Association estimates that half a million small businesses using commercial barter exchanges generate some $10 billion in "sales" each year.