Barter Benefits
- Barter Increases Sales
TransMedia markets your company to hundreds of local businesses and thousands, nationally. These are potential customers, over and above your daily cash-paying customers. Your company will enjoy additional sales to highly motivated buyers looking for barter opportunities from within the trade network. Businesses pay for their purchases through the additional sales of their own product or service within the trade network.
- Barter Means Added Profits
Barter provides new customers, which mean more sales and increased profits. Sellers in a trade network make barter sales that are in addition to their cash business; and those increased sales mean added profits.
Barter provides new customers, which mean more sales and increased profits. Sellers in a trade network make barter sales that are in addition to their cash business; and those increased sales mean added profits.
- Barter Moves Excess Inventory
- Fills Production Downtime
- Uses Idle Overhead
Every business owner faces the challenges of excess inventory, production downtime, and idle overhead. As a member of TransMedia , turn these to a profitable advantage! We match your product or service with businesses looking to purchase them on trade. It’s a win-win situation!
- Barter Provides a Competitive Edge
TransMedia participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your TransMedia affiliation is 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.
- Barter Means New Cash Sales
That’s not a misprint – yes, we said cash sales! If you perform a good job for a TransMedia client, they’ll refer their cash-paying friends, clients, family and associates to you. Growing your business will always be tied directly to referrals from your happy customers. TransMedia constantly strives to help improve your bottom line overall. When you are more successful, we are more successful.
- Barter Makes Record-Keeping Easy
TransMedia uses state-of-the-art technology to track all of your barter sales and purchases with an easy-to-read, itemized monthly statement. Plus, the Member Website and 24/7 Auto Broker Line are available for transaction processing anytime that you want In a sense, TransMedia works much like a bank, providing control, record keeping, and administration for your barter activities. With TransMedia’s convenient clearinghouse concept, there’s no need to keep track of the dollars traded.
- Barter Means No Bad Debts
TransMedia trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to a TransMedia client, you call in advance for authorization to verify that your client (the buyer) has the Trade Dollars to pay for their purchase from you. Then, upon order completion or delivery, a simple signed transaction slip submitted to TransMedia will confirm the transfer of funds. It’s that simple.
- Barter Expands Distribution Channels
TransMedia ‘s national affiliation with The BANC (Barter Association National Currency) provides a convenient way for local clients to trade with thousands of other businesses nationwide, expanding the possibilities for all involved. It opens the door to a broader range of products and services, as well as a greater marketing platform for your company.
- Barter Provides Wholesale Buying Power
With barter, the real cost of the products you purchase on trade is actually the wholesale cost of your trade dollars earned. Making sales with built-in profits makes the cost of your purchases more economical on trade. When you join TransMedia , you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses!