Metro Trade Exchange

Buy Local, Trade Local

How Barter Works:

•Expanded Customer Base•Increased Profits•Decreased Overhead•Liquidation of excess/obsolete items•New Business•Increased Buying Power•An Enhanced Personal Lifestyle•Increased Cash Flow•Use of MTE Credits For Employee Bonuses and Incentives

As a continually improving, member-driven organization, Metro Trade Exchange offers:

Benefits of Bartering:

Metro Trade Exchange markets your company via our membership directory, regular emails, monthly mailers and through referrals. Your company will secure incremental sales because of the demand of the buyers looking for barter opportunities from within the trade network.Businesses trade so that they can purchase what they need or want, and pay for it with the additional sales of their own product or service.

Barter Increases Sales

The number one source of advertising for small businesses is "word of mouth." When you do a good job for a MTE 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.

Barter Means New Cash Sales

There are two main ways to increase cash flow:1)Increase Sales 2)Reduce CostsBarter does both!

Barter allows you to pay for what you need with what you have. When you re-roof your building, surface your parking lot, paint your offices or buy office furniture with Trade Dollars, you can use your cash to cover other important costs. When you purchase something using Trade Dollars, it will be paid for with new sales - sales that would likely not have happened without MTE.

Barter Improves Cash Flow

Barter Moves Excess Inventory & Idle Production TimeEvery business owner struggles with the dilemma of what to do with extra

inventory or idle production/appointment time. That unscheduled appointment today has no monetary value tomorrow. When you join, MTE provides you with extra business 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.

Metro Trade Exchange participants patronize your establishment over the competition because your barter 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.

Barter Provides A Competitive Edge

MTE Makes Record Keeping Easy

In a sense, Metro Trade Exchange works much like a bank, providing control, record keeping, and administration for your trade activities. Direct trading often becomes cumbersome at record-keeping time. With MTE’s convenient Electronic Banking System, there's no need to keep track of the dollars traded. MTE uses advanced software to track all of your barter sales and purchases and provides an easy-to-read itemized monthly statement. MTE will also send you a 1099 form in January for tax reporting.

You can provide a much appreciated benefit to employees without having to pay cash for it. Barter is a great way to offer contest prizes, bonuses, wellness programs and tickets - all accessible to you without using cash and all based on the incremental business MTE has brought you.

Barter To Offer Employee Incentives

Who Uses Barter?

Accepting barter can reduce unit costs and open new outlets for excess inventory or idle time. In fact, unless a business has more work than it can handle, barter is generally a viable revenue stream.

Thousands of small businesses take advantage of barter to gain a competitive edge.

The opportunities abound in areas that are vital to a small business such as advertising, facility maintenance, vehicle repair, printing, telephone systems, legal and accounting services, health care, travel and entertainment.

Join Now!The first 100 Local Business Owners to request a

membership will receive it for FREE! A $250 Value.

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