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There are two specific benefits of incorporating Barter
as part of your market strategy
1. New sales to new customers.
2. Improving your cash flow.
The easiest way to understand how you benefit is through
an example:
Lets say you own a profitable company and you have
the capacity to handle additional sales without increasing
your fixed overhead costs.
The traditional way to increase sales is to spend money on
advertising and hope it works.
The alternative method is to enrol with a barter company
or trade exchange to allow you to offer your goods to other
members of the exchange. The odds are that none of the members
of the exchange are your current customers. That means all
sales to exchange members are new sales to new customers.
Every time you make a sale to another member, you receive
barter currency that you then use, in lieu of cash, to purchase
products and services you need and want for your business
from another member of the exchange. Each time you pay for
goods with barter currency instead of cash means the cash
your company would have spent stays in the bank, thus improving
your cash flow.
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