Robert Baker

Businesses, professionals and non-profits can all use barter to their advantage. There is little or no capital investment and the benefits are immediate.

The opportunity to benefit by bartering is available to all businesses and professional people. It is a rare exception if a profit is not made. The rules are simple and it is there for the taking by any business.

By using well-established principles almost any business can make a profit by using barter. The program is easy if the business person will follow the basic rules.

The Need for barter support for non-profits is greater today than ever. Today's economy provides an opportunity to move goods and services not selling for cash to non-profit organizations.

Businesses and professionals miss an opportunity for profit if they don't use barter. The Trade Dollar costs less and, in most cases, has the same buying power as the U.S. Dollar.

Barter today is in a great position to do more business, even in this economy. It is the shortage of US dollars that creates the problem and barter, for the most part, does not need dollars to be profitable.

These are the simple rules of barter that ensure success. Too often we try to reinvent the wheel when this proven system has worked for years and years.

Barter today is more than just trading for items through a trade exchange. A primary reason for barter is to acquire goods and services that you have been paying cash to get. With cash saved you can acquire anything that you can afford, including a vacation.

Barter has changed since your grandfather's day. The Trade Dollar was created to become the new measure of value and it is now recognized by the IRS as such. Over 16 billion dollars in goods and services is bartered annually.

The barter industry has created a new currency - the Trade Dollar. This is recognized by Internal Revenue Service as being equal to the U.S. Dollar. Both income and expenses are treated the same as the U.S. Dollar.