What are the benefits of trading?
- Increase Your Sales: ATE will market your company to hundreds of local member businesses and to potentially thousands of businesses affiliated with trade exchanges in our network. All of these potential customers represent incremental business over and above your daily cash-paying customers. Businesses barter to purchase what they need or want, and pay for it with the additional sales of their products or services.
- Gain New Cash Business: That's not a misprint - yes, cash sales. Word of mouth has always been the best and most cost effective way to advertise. When you do a good job for one of our members - they will undoubtedly refer their cash-paying friends, clients, family and associates to you.
- Gain a Competitive Edge: ATE members will frequent your establishment over your competition, because your affiliation with ATE gives them 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.
- Conserve Your Cash: Use your trade dollars to buy things that you would normally pay cash for (e.g., carpet cleaning, a hotel room, advertising, printing and much more). The cash that you would have spent on these services drops through to your bottom line.
- Increase Your Productivity: Unoccupied rooms, empty tables, unsold inventory and unfilled appointments don't make anyone money. When you join a trade exchange, barter provides a tool to put that excess inventory to use in profitable ways by matching your product or service with businesses looking to purchase them on trade. It's a win-win situation.
- Increase Your Buying Power: Usually, buying power is reserved for those with extra cash, but that is not the case with trade. You can buy merchandise on trade through ATE members and sell the merchandise for cash-increasing your buying power.
What are the benefits of a trade exchange?
- ATE helps market your products and services to its other members. Also, through our connections with other trade exchanges in the United States and Canada, we can promote your business' products and services throughout North America.
- As a member of ATE you are paid upon completion of a sale of your product or service. You don't have to wait for the other party in the transaction to provide you with a service in exchange. In addition, you have the added benefit of a third party opinion in the unlikely event of a dispute.
- You don't have to keep track of your trades. ATE maintains a record of every transaction and reports those details to you in a monthly statement.
