Before money was invented people traded or bartered for everything.  In a bad economy, you can still use the barter concept to your advantage to do more business and save money.  Many people offer their service to another party for a trade of goods or services in return.  This is the most common method people use and it's still a good idea today.  If you need something and can't afford it, offer to do a trade to get it.  The other party might say yes and if they do, you just got what you needed without spending any money AND you got a new client at the same time.  The old adage; "nothing ventured, nothing gained" is still true.  Ask people to do trades with you and see what happens.  Be careful not to trade too much because barter is reportable revenue in the eyes of the IRS and your cash flow is more important than the amount of trades you do each year so watch your total annual volume and only do 10% or less of your annual volume in barter or trade.

Many business and professional people look for a barter exchange group to trade with and there can be some advantages to this.  If you have a large amount of available inventory of products or time, consider meeting with and interviewing a barter exchange company to do trades with.  ASk them specific questions about how long they've been in business, how many participating members they have and whats available to your company if you open a barter account with them.  Make no assumptions and ask for references of happy members.  IF you do join a barter exchange system, they can bring you new clients, help you increase your advertising and branding without spending money, network you in the business community for more contacts and more cash clients and more.  Tradiin on your own can work as long as both parties agree.  with a barter exchange system, trade dollars are used to buy and sell with so every time you trade something, there's a dollar value placed on the trade and trade dollars go from the buyers account to the sellers account just like a checking account works at your bank but among the barter members only.

Barter can work for you in a bad economy to get more clients and save your cash every time you trade for something that you want or need.  If you are an individual and not a business owner, what do you have to trade?  A used car, truck, boat, motorcycle, mountain bikes, tools, collectibles, real estate, timeshares, furniture, antiques, excercize equipment and a host of skills / services that you have talent for can be offered as a trade for something you want.  Depending on what you have to trade will help determine if a barter exchange makes sence for you to join.  www.tradia.net ® is one choice for a barter exchange system to consider.

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 ? ®

Not often but occasionally I have a wishful thought; that every single business entrepreneur / small business could all get quiet for a moment to hear a message.  As a Tradia Member or a member of any barter exchange group that understands how to make charitable contributions using non-cash or barter/trade currency.  For 2009, you can join Tradia, trade some of your unsold inventory, bank the trade credits, pay them to a charity and take a charitable contribution dollar for dollar as if it was cash.

Additionally, why not open a trade account with a reputible barter exchange.  They send you new client immediately.  They start finding you the products and services you need so you can trade for them instead of using cash.  You can then trade for more advertising to drive more cash business in your doors.  Every time you use your barter exchange dollars to buy something, your money stays in your pocket.  These are some valid reasons that many people should have a Tradia or trade exchange account.

There are 5 reasons that a small business or entrepreneur would open a Tradia® account.

1) Immediate New Barter Customers.

2) New Cash Referrals from the New Barter Customers.

3) Additional Advertising Budget using New Barter Dollars.

4) New Cash Customers from New Advertising Budget & Campaign

5) Every Time You Use Tradia® Dollars to buy something, Your Money Stays in Your Pocket.

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.