Barter marketing versus cash marketing…. The question as to why one should enter a barter network can be answered by doing a quick comparison between the cost of getting a new customer in the cash market versus the cost of getting a customer via a barter exchange / commerce network. When you enter a barter [...]
The Barter Exchange Trainers, a barter exchange consulting firm, is offering an online four week sales boot camp. Tyler Seamons, the head trainer reports, “Most new exchange owners feel a little lost when it comes to building the business, and our program is set up to give a new barter exchange owner all of the [...]
A new tool for barter exchanges has emerged: the Turbo Charge Your Members online training. According to Tyler Seamons of the Barter Exchange Trainers, the training is designed to give the new or experienced exchange owner all of the tools they need to automatically train their members how to use a barter exchange, how to [...]
One of the things that has always intrigued me about the barter industry is the creativity that comes out of people when they start thinking about their stuff and time as assets instead of liabilities. If you are sitting on your hands as a painter, put your hands to work and get creative about what [...]
Barter is in the news again… I pulled this part of the article to illustrate a good point about the barter industry that I think we take for granted: the security you have when dealing with a reputable trade exchange.
So, the economy sucks. It’s true, at least in my neck of the woods. I had more customers bail out on me in the last year without paying their bills than I have ever had in my entire career. Two of my biggest three customers in 2008 closed their doors and have pretty much disappeared. [...]
