How To Use Barter As Your Personal Ticket To Ride Out The Recession
Now is the perfect time to get into a barter exchange program because they offer so many powerful opportunities to stretch every dollar – especially if you own a small business. You can pay employees in part-cash and part-barter. You can put together employee benefit packages using barter, or just pay for your next vacation with your barter bucks. And in this interview, you’ll hear exactly how it works.
Donahue is a broker for the Itex barter network, so he knows everything there is about barter and how to take advantage of it. And according to him, Itex is ideal when the economy is poor because you can “buy” goods and services, promote your business, obtain new customers… all without using cash!
He says it’s a lot like eBay – only without the bidding. If something comes up that you want, buy it with your barter dollars. Worried you won’t have enough barter dollars to get something you need? Itex loans barter bucks at the unheard-of low rate of 1½ percent interest. And you’ll hear all about it in this 40-minute interview.
You’ll Also Hear…
√ Creative ways to use barter in your everyday life – at work and at home
√ All about some of the exciting products that come up on Itex
√ How to use barter to create incentives for your employees
√ How Donahue used the barter exchange program to land a huge $100,000-a-year contract for his business
√ How much barter programs cost – you might be surprised – it’s cheaper than you think
√ All about the advertising co-op Itex offers – Pay for your advertising with barter dollars, include the Itex logo in your ad, and Itex will reimburse you for half your costs!
√ How this is all perfectly legal
Recessions are hard on everyone. That’s why you can’t just sit around and wait for things to get better. This is the time to get creative and make connections, and this is the interview that will show you how to do it.
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How to Tell If You’re Ready For Wal-Mart
If you have an idea to pitch to Wal-Mart, you can be sure you’re only going to get one shot to present it to them. So you’d better make it count. You’ve got to think like a large retailer and talk to them in terms they will understand. You also have to do your homework to make sure you’re even a good fit for the mass-merchandising giants.
And in this audio you’ll hear how to conduct the kind of research you need to make sure you’re ready for the big retailers, and how to pitch yourself to them when you are.
You’ll Also Hear…
√ How to make sure the mass market carries what you want to sell
√ What to do if your product is considered “seasonal”
√ How to conduct research on Wal-Mart – even if you don’t have one nearby
√ How to make deals with everyone – including your competitors
√ What to do if you discover you’re not quite ready for Wal-Mart in order to get ready right away
√ How to prepare for the “big sales calls” to the big department stores
√ The criteria you’ll need to meet in order to sell to mass merchants
Remember, the shelves of Wal-Mart aren’t sitting empty waiting for your product to come along. If you’re going to replace an existing product, you’ve got to show buyers why they should make the switch.
But nothing is worse than going into Wal-Mart unprepared. And this quick audio will show you how to get ready.
Five Simple Ways to Get In Wal-Mart…Even If You Have No Money
With millions of products flying off the shelves of Wal-Marts every day, you could easily make a small fortune if just one of those products were yours. And in this audio, you’ll hear how to do that – even if you have no money and no experience.
Meet Joe. Joe started out as a product manager for Kimberly Clark, a large producer of health and hygiene products like Huggies and Scott tissues. So Joe knows the ins and outs of how large corporations get their products into big department stores. And now he’s modified those concepts to meet the needs of the average guy.
Although he had no money at the time, Joe still managed to get his products into Wal-Mart four times using his methods. And he has broken the process down to five different ways. So in this audio, you’ll hear all about those five ways along with the advantages and disadvantages of each.
You’ll Also Hear…
√ What risks you can expect and how to minimize them
√ How to use joint ventures to bring your margins up and make your products worth your while – and Wal-Mart’s!
√ Ways to outsource your manufacturing and keep your costs down
√ How to know who your competition is and ways to beat them. Believe it or not, you’ve got more competition than you think
√ What Wal-Mart cares about – you may be surprised to find out it’s not the invention, product, or idea
√ Why department stores don’t like to take on new vendors – and ways to get around that
√ Who the three levels of customers are for each product and how to make each one of them happy
√ How to easily calculate potential margins to see if a venture is worth the effort
Most people think it’s too much trouble and money to get a new product into a big department store like Wal-Mart. You may be picturing an overwhelming process of starting a company, buying equipment, marketing, inventorying and going around selling the product all yourself. And although that’s one way to do it, there are many others that are less costly and difficult.
And in this 25-minute audio, you’ll hear how to get started – even if all you have right now is an idea and an empty pocket.
