| Forget chickens for goats, and other archaic | | | | When a hotel room sits empty, it isn't making |
| methods of bartering. Barter is alive and strong, | | | | anyone money (and in some cases is actually |
| especially in today's economy, and will be here for | | | | losing the company money!) With barter and |
| many years to come. There are a great many | | | | trade, a company can fill the rooms with clients, |
| benefits to bartering as a whole, and numerous | | | | and create trade dollars that can be used to |
| reasons why you should be using it, whether you | | | | purchase more needed items, making it a double |
| own a business or not! | | | | win situation for the business. |
| Conserves cash. | | | | Creates more customers. |
| That's right. Everytime you complete a trade | | | | What someone may not be willing to pay cash |
| transaction, you did not have to pay cash out of | | | | for, they may be willing to trade for. Many |
| your pocket for that item. Cash is the life of a | | | | companies utilize leverage in creating trade dollars, |
| business, without a positive cashflow a business | | | | therefore the $1 they spent, did not cost them |
| cannot survive, so by bartering you can conserve | | | | $1 to create, so they are leveraging their time |
| cash for the items you cannot trade for. | | | | and resources into larger amounts, that benefit |
| Gets rid of surplus. | | | | them better in the long run. |
| Plenty of companies have surplus lying around | | | | Creates cash sales and transactions. |
| that they cannot liquidate. This is stale | | | | Like in the example of the hotel, though they |
| merchanidse, that is only COSTING the company | | | | may pay for the room with trade, the room |
| money. It is costing money in taking up space | | | | service, the valet and the numerous others |
| that could be used for sellable items. Things that | | | | amenities they use in the hotel they pay cash at. |
| won't move in the cash world have every chance | | | | Which is bringing more cash into the business than |
| of moving in the trade world. So now you can get | | | | would have originally been there than if the room |
| rid of the things you don't need, by trading them | | | | sat empty. These cash transactions of course |
| for the things you do need. | | | | help with the cash flow of the business and in |
| Lowers downtime and unused capacity. | | | | turn help the business survive. |