We will announce this week the opening of 2 new Tradia ® operations in the USA based on the no upfront investment concept revealed on March 9, 2010.  This gives a qualified professional person the chance to develope a Tradia ® Franchise without an investment and buy it at a later date removing all risk to an entrepreneur.  The price is locked in for a 24 month period with the initial entity wanting to build and purchase later.  (Over time, depending on changing circumstances, the price for each Tradia ® franchise may vary.)  In the meantime, Tradia ® builds new offices increasing its membership of small business owners.  We encourage a home-based launch in most markets and especially in the smaller communities.

Tradia ® currently has 12 possible new office openings in progress due to this offering.  We are considering that all potential franchises in the future follow this format to increase training knowledge, customer service skills, profits and eliminate the risk to a potential franchise owner.  We get more time to grow together and guarantee the compatibility between us all.  In this difficult economic turn, we also see this as an appropriate offer considering so many talented people do not have the financial resources to purchase a franchise regardless of the opportunity at hand.   We believe this will be a record year for the growth of Tradia ®, our database and the Tradia ® Trade Exchange system.

With the current financial challenges we all face and the uncertainty of where we are going, the one thing we can control is our growth for the future.  Tradia ® has plans to add 20 new franchises in North America for 2010.  We already know of 5 confirmed franchise sales that will open in 2010 so really, we only need to reach for an additional 15 to meet our goals.  We're prepared to handle a few more new operations than we anticipate, however, we do want to control the quality of the training and the success of each new franchise.  Their success is more important than adding twice the number of new franchises for the coming year.  Happy and successful franchisee's bring more potential franchisee's to our banquet table.

If you need help franchising or believe you would like to franchise your idea, we would be happy to introduce you to our franchise advisor and friend, Doug Smith of Franchise Smith, LLC.  Sometimes you have to toss ideas around with others who've paid the price already and can save you thousands of hours and dollars on your ideas.  The things we've learned in our efforts to franchise can and will save you much of the frustration we experienced when we made the decision to franchise Tradia ®.  Our advice is free and our introductions are as well.  If we can help you, we will.  If you like the idea of trading in the future, we hope you will use Tradia ® as your chosen Trade Exchange.

Remember that good ideas are abundant and great ideas are the ones that work best.  We can also introduce you to some of our marketing consultants that can help you determine if your idea is worth taking to another level.  One of the unique parts we can offer is that most of our associates are willing to trade with you for the advice you need.  Tradia ® is in the business of brokering trades so you can keep your money in your pocket for other things.  If this could be helpful, let us know or visit our website at www.tradia.net.

Why Pay Cash When you Can Tradia ? ®

We found it necessary to assume the operations of 3 Tradia® Franchises across the USA.  By taking them over and reorganizing the staff and operations, we anticipate a smooth transition and steady growth of both membership and monthly trade volumes.  Sometimes, you have to step back before you leap forward.  As a franchise system, Tradia® can not allow inconsistency or the value of each Tradia® Franchise suffers.

Tradia® Corporate saw the need to step-in on these franchises in an effort to better serve the Tradia® members, build our brand and produce profits on a consistent basis.  In the past we merged existing barter groups into Tradia® and inherited all kinds of pre-existing personalities and attitudes.  Tradia® no longer seeks to merge other barter groups without a franchise fee to reduce the turnaround of staff members and franchisees.  With a monetary investment, the quality of franchise candidates improves.

We realize it takes all kinds of people to populate a world.  Tradia® is looking for a specific model from a time-tested system.  We want the Tradia® experience to be fantastic regardless of what city, state or country you visit.  With these franchise acquisitions, Tradia® has taken a giant step in the right direction.  We would rather have less offices and a great experience than be a large company with mediocre customer satisfaction.  We have a long way to go to meet our own expectations.  Our pace just got faster.

Tradia ® has updated our training system to accomodate every individual and franchise group not only for new operations but also for existing franchises.  We feel the necessity to add more training opportunities to insure that every Tradia ® representative can speak with authority and provide the highest level of customer service.

As a barter / trade exchange system with proprietary software, we have a customized system that all Tradia ® representatives must learn and know.  We are in the service industry and have to know our playbook in great detail in order to serve our growing membership.  The more we know the better prepared we are to assist our members with their needs and wants.

We now require all franchises to attend a training in Portland Oregon for the better part of 4 days.  The following 2 weeks after their trip to Portland we added a 2-week teleconference review with deeper training additions to further embed the Tradia ® System within the new Tradia ® Franchisee.

In addition for all franchisee's new and experienced, we now offer 3 different weekly teleconference trainings for the Tradia ® Website, Tradia ® New Member Sales and Trade Brokering Tips to build larger trade volume and increase revenues for each franchise.

And finally, we added a Tradia ® Franchise Support position so every franchisee has an immediate contact with the Tradia ® Corporate Offices and a go-to person to hold their hand and assist with all aspects of the Tradia ® Franchise Business.

We've had 3 meetings with investors and key marketing people in Florida over the past five months in an effort to dramatically increase the number of Tradia ® Franchise Operations in the USA and Canada.  We're almost complete in our negotiations and feel certain that Tradia ® will be the largest Barter Exchange Franchise in North America.  There's always room at the top and we expect to be there in 2 short years.

In mid-April of this year, we video taped a key portion of our Franchise / Trade Director training that will play a huge role in our Franchise & staff training efforts.  Franchisee's will use our training system to teach their growing staff members how to do the Tradia ® business.  You can be in all places at all times when you use the technology available to us today.  On-line training as well as weekly web-conference training will add to our vast training system and make it possible that every single Tradia ® representative will speak from the same platform based on a systematic and readily available training format.  If you buy a Tradia ® Franchise, you expect to get more results and our training does deliver that at every level.

We have the name, the marketing materials, the training system, a trained corporate staff, a targeted business plan with 6 levels of profitability and a dynamic business opportunity aimed at small business, all ready for this expansion.  We're ready for the wave of growth and we're excited.  Tradia ® is a cash-less alternative to banks, credit cards and debt.  People can literally trade what they have to get what they want using the Tradia ® Barter Exchange & Database.

 After a lot of preparation and testing, Tradia ® is ready to set the pace and take the lead in the Barter industry.