WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF TRADING? 1. Barter Generates New Customers:
Allowing you to expand your market and maintain your cash paying customers. This is incremental business - customers who bypass competing businesses to do business with you.
2. Barter Conserves Cash and Increases Profits:
Allowing you to expand your market and maintain your cash paying customers. This is incremental business - customers who bypass competing businesses to do business with you.
3. Barter Moves Excess Inventory:
Retailers: Retailers must keep their inventory moving. Each season, customers shop for the most current merchandise. New England Trade will bring new customers to move that inventory as opposed to steep advertising costs and heavy discounting.
Manufacturers/Wholesalers: Our barter company can coordinate the selling of your excess, slow moving or closeout inventory, while helping you obtain the best possible prices for your products. We negotiate for you to receive the best possible price from our members. Then, you maintain your current pricing integrity as well as upgrading your return on investment.
4. Increase Productivity by Filling Downtime and Unutilized Capacity:
Service Business: Increase billable hours! If you are not at 100% capacity twelve months a year and can handle new customers - we can help you fill your idle time with new business opportunities. Now you will have trade dollars to purchase what you need.
Hotels: If you have 10 vacant rooms at $100 a night and you need a new brochure for $1000. Barter provides a way, in which you can buy your brochure, fill you rooms (at your cost on the rooms) and maintain your cash.
Manufacturers:If you are currently operating at 90% capacity, going to 93% changes very little in the cost of production. Wouldn't it make sense to take on a new barter customer to cover the cost of next year's product catalog?
5. Networking:
Expands Your Customer Base: Barter customers will bring you all of the cash referrals that your present clients bring. You will gain new cash paying customers too - as long as you give your barter customers the same great services and pricing as you offer everyone else.
