Tag: trade exchange
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Trade – a Great Way to Help Your Small Business Grow
As a business owner you’re always looking to find ways to cut costs without sacrificing quality. Being part of a trade organization allows you to build your profits and conserve your cash flow and help your overall bottom line. Participating in trade is another tool in a small business owners’ arsenal toward success. In addition to…
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How to Use Trade Dollars to Reward Employees
As an employer and a member of a trade association you may sometimes wonder what, if anything, you could offer to your employees either as a reward or as a way to help your bottom line. We have compiled five ways in which you can use your trade dollars to compensate or reward employees: 1. …
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Want to grow your business? Embrace social media
Many small business owners say they can’t see the benefit of jumping into social media. They aren’t certain how – or even if – it will generate any leads or new business for them, and many of them become disillusioned when they don’t see overnight results. It is true that social media may not benefit…
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Marketing tips to catapult your business forward
If you start your business with a large customer base, you’re ahead of the game, but for most entrepreneurs growing a business takes time and effort. Some people are able to jump in and make money in a short time, but even those entrepreneurs have likely been in some sort of business and have accumulated…
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Dental Practice Marketing: Trade as a Marketing Strategy in Today’s Economy, It Just Makes Sense
If you’re like most dentists, you’re no stranger to barter. Perhaps you’ve traded directly with patients many times for things like website design, computer repairs, and more. However, it’s likely that the value of the service that you provided was far greater than the service they provided to you, therefore leaving you feeling a little…
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Tradesource Member Profile: Cold Wave Heating & Cooling Service
One day, while Robert Scheffrin was working in his father’s refrigerated warehouse in Denver, when the freezer broke down. He was fascinated by what the repairman was doing and asked him how to get into the business. The next day, he enrolled in vocational school, and went on to start his own commercial refrigeration business. …
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Blog as a marketing tool
Everywhere you look every company has a blog – and it’s a good marketing strategy. Blogging gets the word out there about your business but offers visitors to your blog an insight into who you are and what your company has to offer. A blog should offer your readers valuable information, not be simply a…
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5 mistakes you don’t want to make when prospects call
You’ve spent considerable time, effort and yes, money, in an attempt to market your business. You’ve participated in networking groups, run ads in the local newspaper, gone on speaking engagements and you’ve made cold calls. Finally, though your efforts are paying off and the phones are ringing with prospects wanting to purchase your goods and…
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Want to be a chosen service provider? Eight great tips
When you’re looking to do business with owners of small, but growing enterprises, you know they are deeply invested in their company’s day-to-day operations. When it’s a small business, the owner is involved in virtually every aspect of the operation. Because the entrepreneur is so busy they simply don’t have time to listen to endless…
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Grow Your Business with Barter
In the 1800’s, barter was commonplace as people would pay the town grocer, the town doctor or the town barber with chickens or vegetables that they had grown on their farm. The problem was this system was inequitable. The doctor’s service was paid for with whatever the patient had on hand at the time, irrelevant…