| Networking has many benefits. You can get a | | | | also things called barter dollars, or barter credit. |
| free stream of customer, receive great advice, | | | | Where you will do something for a person, but |
| and help many others in the process. However, | | | | you do not need their services in return, so they |
| one thing that really stands out is the process of | | | | will issue something like a paper IOU as a form of |
| bartering. Now you are able to get some really | | | | barter credit. Now you can turn around and trade |
| expensive products and services free. Read on to | | | | this barter credit for someone else's services that |
| find out how you can benefit from this. | | | | you need and that person will use your coupon to |
| With a standard, non-networked business, you are | | | | turn in for the original service. The person that |
| going to pay, pay, pay. Each time your business | | | | you helped originally will repay their debt, just to |
| needs a product or service, from legal to | | | | another person. |
| accounting, from office supplies to party planning, | | | | This is just one of the many ways that you can |
| you're going to have to write a check. Well, those | | | | use bartering. There are whole groups of |
| days are now over once you join a network. | | | | businesses around the country that create |
| With the bartering aspect of networking, you will | | | | networks just for the sole purpose of doing this. |
| trade your goods and services for the goods and | | | | Some people even pay cash for barter dollars for |
| services of others in direct proportion to the | | | | much less than face value and then turn them in |
| value of the work provided. If you are a web | | | | for a high profit with of services that you want |
| designer and you need some painting done, then | | | | to have in return. For example, let's say that you |
| you could create a website for the house painter | | | | bought $500 worth of credit from a lawyer for |
| in your network and perhaps he will paint a room | | | | $100. Now you can turn around and trade those |
| in your house. If you agree to become his | | | | barter dollars for something else, or you can cash |
| webmaster and constantly maintain his site, say | | | | in an get $400 worth of service for free in |
| for the next 5 years, perhaps he will paint your | | | | addition to the $100 that you paid for. This is |
| whole house. | | | | where the big guys keep winning and the little |
| There is another twist on this as well. There are | | | | guys keep paying. Join the winning side. |