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Call Us Today! 850-434-5278 | admin@gulfcoasttrade.com Policies Apply for Membership Contact Toggle Navigation Home About Members FAQs Showroom Products & Services Live Better Without Spending MORE! you can trade for it! If you can imagine it, Bartering Booms In A Tough Economy! Home KRadmin 2022-08-24T18:37:12+00:00 USE BARTER FOR MANY OF YOUR NEEDS! Use Barter For All Of Your Business Needs. Bartering boosts the small business’ bottom line! If cash flow is tight, bartering allows you to pay for needed items with products or services. Gulf Coast Trade Exchange Helps Your Business Grow Contact Us benefits INCREASED CUSTOMER BASE Our office refers new clients to our GCTE members. INCREASED CASH FLOW Since our members can now use barter dollars” for their business and personal expenditures, they’re saving cash. INCREASED BUYING POWER With barter, one doesn’t buy at wholesale prices, but he does purchase at his own wholesale cost. INCREASED EXPOSURE GCTE clients will refer your company to their friends and associates, thus, creating additional cash business. Fran Crumpton President of Gulf Coast Trade Exchange RESTAURANTS / ENTERTAINMENT Business owners enjoy restaurants for personal use, as well as for entertainment. They will bypass a competitor to dine here. HEALTH SERVICES Scheduling a barter client in an open slot makes a difference in my bottom line. ADVERTISING Unsold media space results in time and money lost. By bartering this space, we can create profit rather than experience loss. In The News Bartering Booms During Economic Hard Times… Bartering boosts the small business’ bottom line! If cash flow is tight, bartering allows you to pay for needed items with products or services. New York TimesCash-Strapped Turn to BarterLos Angeles TimesBoom Times for BarterEntrepreneur MagazineBarter For A Better Bottom Line ” Features Gulf Coast Trade Exchange USA TodayBartering Booms ” includes Gulf Coast Trade Exchange specifically on front page. Testimonials Bartering turns empty rooms into valuable commodities. Trading room nights brings hotels new customers to feed other profit centers – such as food and beverage, telephone, laundry and parking — with opportunity to return as a cash customer and even refer a few friends. HOTEL & MOTEL MANAGEMENT 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. RESTAURANT NEWS Small business owners tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of barter because they can trade goods based on their own wholesale cost. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING As things become more and more competitive, and as more people start their own businesses, trading is likely to become more popular. It makes sense. Businesses will discover that barter can become an integral part of their business plans, enabling them to see higher profits, meet like-minded business owners and improve the quality of their business and personal lives. PRINT & GRAPHICS A barter exchange – for those who haven’t used one – combines the functions of classified advertising and a bank. Customers sign up to sell anything from drywall to dentistry, the exchange compiles the listings in a directory, and buyers contact sellers directly or through a broker employed by the exchange.” INC MAGAZINE Businesses are bartering for many reasons. Most important, perhaps, is that it gives them the ability to leverage their cash reserves into more purchasing power while increasing cash flow and lowering overhead expenses. OPPORTUNITY WORLD Bartering is an age-old practice that has always been particularly common among businesses in small communities. But it has exploded in recent years into a sophisticated undertaking backed by a huge network of third party players. Perhaps imbedded with the spirit of trade-savvy school kids, meanwhile, many business owners and executives have thrust bartering into a multi-billion dollar industry that spans the globe. To its champions, bartering has become a vitally important tool for maximizing a company’s return on its assets while building a network of potential cash customers as well as trading partners.””Companies are starting to understand how they can use their products and services as a form of capital to buy things they need.” The types of connections offered by bartering are virtually unlimited. To name just a sampling; Hotels unlock their rooms for advertising space in newspapers and magazines; printers roll their presses in exchange for legal services; manufacturers trade widgets for share of another company’s stock; accountants offer tax preparation services for seats on airplanes; and employees of various kinds barter to provide incentives for employees, such as vacations at exotic resorts. THE PRACTICAL ACCOUNTANT Businesses are discovering that barter not only has financial advantages but it has marketing benefits as well. Barter brings in new business that could never be acquired in any other way.” It’s best to work through a barter exchange network, which acts as a broker for its clients’ goods and services. Such networks have thousands of clients, making them a viable source for many business needs, such as office equipment and supplies, printing, advertising, cleaning and maintenance services, professional services and travel and entertainment. JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY Think of barter as a supplement to your regular cash business, not a replacement for it. For most businesses, producing a 6-8% of sales per year by barter is a reasonable ceiling.” ” The key to successful bartering is know how to use the system. Learn to be flexible in your buying habits. Give your trade broker time to find what you want, and be willing to help by giving referrals.” There’s no tax advantage or disadvantage to bartering. Cash sales and trade sales are treated identical under the tax law.” KIPLINGER PERSONAL FINANCIAL MAGAZINE Trusted Partners USE BARTER FOR MANY OF YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS! Sign Up for Additional Information Submit Thank you for your message. It has been sent. × There was an error trying to send your message. . × GCTE is a business-to-business barter network of over 500 merchants on the Gulf Coast. Established in 1977, GCTE has become one of the premier independent trade exchanges in the country. Get Social contact us today 2525 W. Fairfield Drive Pensacola FL 32505 850-434-5278 850-433-0832 info@gulfcoasttrade.com our location ©COPYRIGHT 2024 | Gulf Coast Trade Exchange | Designed By WebNet International, Inc | Privacy Policy Page load...