What is Barter?

Barter, at it’s most basic and enduring level, is the exchange of goods and services between parties without the use of cash. Barter has been around since long before cash. Modern barter is the way entrepreneurial businesspeople get what they need when they need it - even if they don’t have the cash - by trading their spare capacity or inventory (what they have) for what they want and need.
Understanding Summit Barter Group's clearinghouse concept

Using SBG's clearinghouse concept, you are able to sell your products or services to other members of the exchange. You then use the credit you have built up from your sales, to purchase the products or services you or your company need - all without the use of cash!

Imagine having an additional professional sales staff out there selling your products or services to companies that you aren't doing business with. Add that to a purchasing department that helps you get the things you need for yourself and your business, without using cash and you have SBG.

Perhaps you need printing, a copy machine or a new roof on your building. Your shelves are full, but your checkbook isn't. Wouldn't it be great if you could trade your products or services for the things you need? Thanks to today's technology and SBG The Barter Company's vast network of clients, you can do just that. Here's how it works.
No more one-on-one direct trades - where you must take back from the business that bought from you. That's the beauty of barter with SBG and why it's better. SBG has taken the standard type of direct trade transaction that businesses love and made it better.

SBG serves as a clearinghouse for its members' transactions as well as a marketing agent for their businesses, generating new business for its clients. Like a bank, SBG tracks all transactions and processes monthly statements for its members. Sales are deposited into your account and purchases are deducted from your account. It's just that simple.

"We have averaged $1500 per month in trade sales, performing work for many trade members multiple times, both at their residences and workplace. "
Glass Doctor, OH
"Due to our association, sales at B&B have increased by an average of $16,000 annually."
B & B Music & Video, OH
We trade for printing, signage, meeting facilities, office parties, screen printing, employee incentives... Barter really saves cash!
Pizza Hut, VA
Why Barter?
That's not a misprint - yes, we said cash sales. If you perform a good job for an SBG 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. SBG constantly strives to help improve your bottom line overall. If you become more successful, we become more successful.

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 SBG, you open the door to a new, cash-free way of handling every day business and personal expenses.

There are two main ways of to increase cash flow - more sales and reduced costs. Barter does both! Barter allows you to pay for what you need with what you have - allowing you to preserve working capital for other needs. When you use barter instead of cash to purchase needed products and services - you reduce your cash costs by paying for them with revenue generated by new barter sales. When you purchase something using SBG Trade Dollars, it will be paid for with new sales . . . sales that probably would not have happened without SBG.

With SBG, added profits are realized by participating businesses, because of the new customers barter provides. Sellers in a trade network make incremental barter sales (over and above their cash business) and increased sales mean increased profits.

SBG participants patronize your establishment over the competition, because your SBG 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.

In a sense SBG works much like a bank, providing control, record keeping, and administration for your barter activities. Direct trading often becomes cumbersome at record-keeping time. With SBG's convenient clearinghouse concept, there's no need to keep track of the dollars traded. SBG 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 is available for transaction processing anytime that you want.

SBG's national affiliation with The BANC (Barter Association National Currency), provides a convenient medium 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.

Every business owner struggles with the dilemma of what to do with extra inventory or idle production time. When you join SBG, barter provides a tool to put that excess to use in profitable ways. We accomplish this by matching your product or service with businesses looking to purchase them on trade. It's a win-win situation.

SBG trading takes the hassle out of collections. When you make a barter sale to an SBG 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 SBG will confirm the transfer of funds. It's that simple.
SBG markets your company to hundreds of local businesses and thousands nationally - potential customers, over and above your daily cash-paying customers. Your company will make incremental sales because of the demand of the buyers looking for barter opportunities from within the trade network. Businesses trade to purchase what they need or want, and pay for them with the additional sales of their own product or service.
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Did You Know: In the U.S. it is estimated that over 470,000 companies actively participate in trade for a total of over $12 billion in annual sales.
(According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA))
"These trade sales have added about $15-20K in sales each year, and I heave really been able to put the trade dollars to work to improve my business."
Hemlock Springs Golf Club, OH
Now is the perfect time to join!

We are currrently still taking charter members (first 100 members) who can join FREE of charge. Once we have our charter members, our membership fee to join will then be bumped up to a one time fee of $395.  Go to our contact page and fill it out, we will be in contact with you within 24 hours or you can call us at 260-927-7816.

If you are not using barter you are losing out on new business!
"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."
Nation's Restaurant News
"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
"Trade is a powerful business tool & today's new currency for every company in business! By joining our trade exchange and by starting to accept trade payment instead of cash, you can begin to maximize your profitability. By moving and selling previously unsold or surplus inventory and/or billable hours of services, you gain market share and aquire an asset that you may then make purchases from other SBG members using this earned trade credit - and keep your hard earned cash in your pocket!"
"One of the biggest benefits I’ve seen is referrals.  The businesses you barter with refer you to other customers who will do cash business."
Sign-A-Rama, IL