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Benefits of Barter in Western Washington


Benefits of barter - Tacoma Barter, Seattle BarterBarter Provides a Competitive Edge 

Saturn Barter participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your  Saturn Barter 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 Means New Cash Sales 

That's not a misprint - yes, we said cash sales. If you perform a good job for a Saturn Barter 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. Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter 's convenient clearinghouse concept, there's no need to keep track of the dollars traded. Saturn Barter   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 

Saturn Barter trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to a Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter will confirm the transfer of funds. It's that simple. 

Barter Expands Distribution Channels 

Saturn Barter ’s national affiliation with The BANC (Barter Association National Currency), provides a convenient medium for local clients 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 Saturn Barter , you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses.  

Barter Means Added Profits 

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

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Why Barter Tacoma Puyallup Barter Sumner Barter Olympia Barter Federal Way


Businesses are constantly seeking new opportunities to attract additional customers to the product or service they sell. Barter addresses both of these objectives while reducing cash costs and increasing cash flow.

BARTER . . .
  • Means New Business From New Customers
  • Improves Cash Flow
  • Moves Excess Inventory
  • Fills Idle Production Time
  • Provides a Competitive Edge
  • Means New Cash Sales
  • Makes Record-Keeping Easy
  • Means No Bad Debts
  • Expands Distribution Channels
  • Means Wholesale Buying Power
  • Means Added Profits

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Who Barters Tacoma Puyallup Barter Sumner Barter Olympia Barter Federal Way


Barter Provides a Competitive Edge 

Saturn Barter participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your  Saturn Barter 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 Means New Cash Sales 

That's not a misprint - yes, we said cash sales. If you perform a good job for a Saturn Barter 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. Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter 's convenient clearinghouse concept, there's no need to keep track of the dollars traded. Saturn Barter   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 

Saturn Barter trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to a Saturn Barter 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 Saturn Barter will confirm the transfer of funds. It's that simple. 

Barter Expands Distribution Channels 

Saturn Barter ’s national affiliation with The BANC (Barter Association National Currency), provides a convenient medium for local clients 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 Saturn Barter , you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses.  

Barter Means Added Profits 

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

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Barter In The News 

The viability of the barter industry, as well as the features and benefits of membership in a trade exchange, has been profiled by such national media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, CBS News' The Early Show, Marketing Concepts, Kiplinger's, Costco, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, and Opportunity magazine.

Here are some excerpts from these, and other news articles:


Kiplingers"Barter gives clients a competitive edge. Barter network members tend to shop within the system first, and satisfied barter customers make referrals to cash customers." - Kiplinger's

Family Circle"More and more women are bartering for everything from pet-sitting services to airline tickets. To get the most out of barter, you must have a talent or product that other people want. Services can make even better swaps than products because they're a renewable source." - Family Circle magazine

Restaurant News"Barter exchanges help cash-strapped entrepreneurs stimulate sales, develop new clients, convert excess capacity or inventory into revenue, and acquire goods and services needed to conduct a business. The most important benefit of barter is cash conservation: keeping cash in the bank while using barter revenue to offset normal operating costs." - Nation's Restaurant News

Chicago Tribune"Evolving from one-to-one trades among businesses, bartering now mainly takes place through large exchanges in which businesses receive trade credits instead of cash that they can spend on a multitude of items from other firms. Even large corporations increasingly are using barter networks rather than handling excess products over to liquidators." - Chicago Tribune

Arkansas Democrat Gazette Barter"Arkansas companies are learning how to get what they need without spending cash. Businesses including restaurants and airlines trade services and products, in return earning a form of currency - trade dollars - that then can be used to buy goods and services." - Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Marketing Concepts"The most important part of barter is getting new business," says Tom McDowell, Retired Executive Director of the National Association of Trade Exchanges. "When someone joins an exchange they're exposed to hundreds of new potential customers locally and thousands around the country. With competition so stiff today, barter helps drive those customers past your competition and into your door." - Marketing Concepts, Restaurant issue

Entrepreneur.com Barter Article"Experts estimate that millions of companies, especially young ones, employ barter as a regular or occasional business tool. Barter provides one important benefit: helping companies dispose of excess inventory by trading it for valuable goods or services. That can be especially useful for startups whose markets aren't developed enough to consume all their capacity." - Entrepreneur.com

IJCCR"We're the only business not affected by the economy. When the economy gets bad, we see a surge of new members. But when the economy is in turnaround, we see growth in volume among existing members." - Tom McDowell, quoted in International Journal of Community Currency Research

GCSAA"North American companies barter for incremental business — over and above their day-to-day cash business — in excess of $2 billion annually" - GCSAA Leader Board

Business Week Online Barter"If you're low on cash and up for new business, bartering for goods and services can be a shrewd business move." -
BusinessWeek online

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