BARTER BUREAU
What is it ?
BARTER BUREAU is the sole trade exchange and barter business network that currently operates in Egypt; where as a third party record keeper, it aims to facilitate, process and record the trade exchange and barter transactions that occur between the registered members within its trade network.
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BARTER BUREAU is a business to business barter network that applies a modified and modern format of the well known ancient barter concept through an automated trade management system that was reformulated to best benefit all the business members registered within its network, and for the purpose of enhancing and generating trade opportunities among them.
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So, whether you are a business owner, an entrepreneur, a self-employed person, or even an active freelancer, therefore getting your BARTER BUREAU membership is what you need in order to grow up your business, increase your sales opportunities, reduce your overall cash expenses, granting an edge over your competitors and above all conserving your cash money which you can invest it back into your own business or use it anywhere else according to your own self preferences.
No Cash Needed To Conduct Your Business.
'Exchange Your Products Or Your Services for Another Without Using The Cash Money As A Monetary Medium'
Membership Advantages
What we offer ?
BARTER BUREAU is perceived as a third party record keeper for the trade exchange and barter transactions that occur between the registered members within its network. Your BARTER BUREAU membership grants you the following advantages: ..
Elaborated Membership Packages
BARTER BUREAU has got different Membership Packages that suit every type, size, and form of a business; you can choose among which what best matches your business model; the membership is annual renewable, yet still you can upgrade or downgrade your membership to any other package according to your own business preferences.
Lifetime Interest Free Credit Limit
Every new member joins BARTER BUREAU business network gets granted once for lifetime an Interest Free Credit Limit that is available to use from day one; this credit balance can be considered as a working capital for your own business before even you start selling your products or your services to the other members registered within the network.
Full Account Management
As a third party record keeper BARTER BUREAU will provide you with a full account management services through an assigned Trade Broker whose main task and responsibility is to manage your account, generates ongoing trade opportunities, and keeps your trade account's balance at its optimum rhythm as per projected.
Referrals & Leads Rewarding Program
We at BARTER BUREAU rely much on the word of mouth to marketing our business and to growing our network; Thus we designed a program to reward our members with valuable Trade Pounds when they refer other businesses whom they want to deal with, or those whom they know can benefit from joining the network.
BARTER BUREAU has created a flexible, secure and reliable trading system for its business members to trade their products or services with each other without the need to using cash money as a monetary medium, and thus helps those businesses to unleash many trading opportunities, maximize their ongoing productivity, and increase their own business potential growth.
Let Your Extra Sales Cover Your Extra Expenses.
'Use Your Extra Sales Revenue To Supply Your Business Demands And Cover Your Extra Expenses'
Added Value Benefits
What else you get ?
Once you become a member at BARTER BUREAU business network, you will have the opportunity to explore the various advantages of the barter trading concept, and you will get the privilege to integrate the following added value benefits into your own business: ..
Gain Extra Sales
Usually, if you want to increase your sales volume, then you would typically hire additional sales people, or pay for extra advertising, or simply reduce your prices; however and once you become a member at BARTER BUREAU business network, we will promote your business to the other members within the network whom will likely prefer to trade with you on barter rather than paying cash outside the network.
Save Your Cash Money
Use the available Trade Pounds that you will earn in your account by selling your products or services to the other members within the network, along with your Credit Limit that will be granted to you once you join BARTER BUREAU in order to cover some of your current cash expenses, and thus save and conserve your cash money which you can hopefully invest it back again into your business or spend it anywhere else up to your own convenience.
Generate More Revenue
If your business is selling products, then you can move the excess or old stock of goods on trade at its normal selling prices without the need to make any price discounts or promotions on cash, and thus maintain your normal profits and sales revenue. And if your business is providing services, then you can utilize your downtime or idle times to generate extra revenue through trading with the other members on BARTER BUREAU business network.
Win Cash Contracts
To accelerate your business flow, you may offer to your potential cash clients an option to pay you part of the contract amount with their products or services that they do provide; where further you can trade those products or services through the BARTER BUREAU business network and thus win and earn the full contract amount.
Trade To Cash Conversion
You may use your trade balance in your BARTER BUREAU trade account to buy or purchase something on trade and then resell it back outside the network on cash; you may use this option wisely as cash conversions are subject to our fair trading usage policies which we do strictly apply among all the registered members within our business network.
Pay Your Staff Incentives
Reward your staff by using gift certificates, prepaid vouchers or even open sub accounts from your main trade account at BARTER BUREAU, where then you can allocate specific amounts of Trade Pounds to your subordinates whom can in return spend them up to their own self preferences within the network.
Pay Off Your Creditors
You may use the available Trade Pounds in your BARTER BUREAU trade account to fulfill any due amounts to your creditors instead of paying them in cash; you can do that by offering to provide them with any wanted products or services that they might need in return of covering part of or all the debt amount that you owe to them; you may preferably get these products or services on trade rather than paying cash to your creditors.
Collect Your Bad Debts
If you are unable to collect your outstanding debts in cash money, you may offer to your debtors to pay their debts for you partially or fully in the form of products or services that they can provide, where further you can trade those products or services within the BARTER BUREAU business network and earn their amounts in Trade Pounds credited to your account, and later you can use them according to your own preferences.
Improve Your Lifestyle
You may use your Trade Pounds to spend over the entertainment purposes like: holidays, travelling, and accommodations, or dinning out in restaurants and cafes, or buying luxurious items and memberships for clubs or gyms, or organize a special event, or even renovate your home or your office for a change. There are many spending opportunities that are available on trade through the BARTER BUREAU business network.
Add A Competitive Advantage
As being a member of the BARTER BUREAU business network, you will have the privilege to accept any partial or full barter deals ongoing with ease from your potential cash clients, which shall be then perceived as a very valuable advantage over your other competitors in the market, and thus helps you to acquire more new clients and increases your business's market share.
Expand Your Products Range
You may use the Trade Pounds in your BARTER BUREAU account in order to buy other products on trade at their wholesale prices from their suppliers whom are likely to be members within the network; where in such way, you can complement and expand your existing products range or portfolio and thus maximizing your potential sales revenue on both the cash and the trade economy level.
Build Up Business Connections
BARTER BUREAU is perceived as a trade community for the like minded businesses and a unique market of buyers and sellers, where you will be able to build up mutual personal relationships and business connections across nearly every type of business or field, which may also leads to many referrals and recommendations given to your business either on the cash or the trade economy level.
Are you questioning how BARTER BUREAU can benefit your business? .. Give us a call now and we are so willing to assist you with discovering how it can adds a great value to your own business.
Adding Value To The Business Is What We Are Offering.
'We Act Constantly Like Both Your Sales Consultants And Your Purchase Advisors; Simultaneously'
FAQ
The Answers You Need
Are you curious to know more about barter in general? .. Here below you will find the most frequently asked questions along with their concise and simple fulfilling answers subject for your kind consideration: ..
What is barter ?
"Barter" by definition is the exchange of products or services for another products or services without the using of cash money as a monetary medium (i.e. 'No Cash' trade transactions).
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Modern barter has been used by the smart businesses from all over the world since long time ago; where despite it was commonly used at times of recession, inflations, crises, downtimes and low seasonality, it is currently being used more often nowadays as an effective business tool that holds a lot of benefits to the business during all the times.
How barter works ?
Once you become a member at BARTER BUREAU business network, we will open a credit/debit trade balance account for you on our secured trading system (i.e. similar to the bank's account); when selling the products or the services that you provide to the other members you will earn Trade Pounds (Credits), and when you pay for the products or the services that you will buy from the other members you will spend using those Trade Pounds (Debits); you can sell now and buy later, or buy now and sell later; and still you may use the Credit Limit in your trade account before even you start selling to anyone.
What is the trade pound ?
The "Trade Pound" is the unified currency that we use on our BARTER BUREAU trading system in order to record the values of the trade exchange and barter transactions that occur between the registered members within our business network.
At all times, the value of One Trade Pound is equivalent to the value of One Egyptian Pound (1 BTP = 1 EGP). The Trade Pounds can neither be withdrawn in nor exchanged with cash money; as since these values are earned on trade, then they will have to be spent on trade too; this is how the barter trade goes.
Why to barter ?
Smart businesses would likely prefer to barter in order to save their cash money and gain extra sales instead. There are chances that you might had conducted a one-to-one barter deal in the past, and the outcome was a win-win situation for both of you; However, while such direct barter deals can be effective, they lack Continuity and Validity which limits how often they may occur, as the biggest challenge for you is when you might want something that one business has, but this business might not want what you do have; thus here comes BARTER BUREAU as a third party record keeper to complement such a trading opportunity and make it happen Eventually and Constantly.
Who can join ?
Typically anyone who has got the capacity to conduct a business deal with other parties, either by selling products or providing services. So, whether you are a business owner, an entrepreneur, doctor, lawyer, accountant, architecture, crafter, hairdresser, manufacturer, supplier, trainer or instructor, a trader, a restaurant or café, a hotel or resort, a hospital or clinic center, a school or training center, advertising agency, or you are even a self employed person and freelancer .. In fact, BARTER BUREAU welcomes all sorts of businesses and professions to join its business network.
How to apply for membership ?
There are two ways to apply .. Either by Choice #1: Add your contact details in the "Get Started" section and we will call you back accordingly so as to guide you through and proceed on for your registration .. Or Choice #2: Download and print the necessary documents from the "Documents & Forms" section, then fill in the required information, scan the forms along with the copies of your supporting documents and send them all via email to: sales@barterbureau.net, we will call you back accordingly so as to guide you through and proceed on for your registration .. Both ways will work just fine at your own convenience.
In case you have got any other questions and/or inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us for further more information and clarification.
Documents & Forms
Available for Download
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You will find here below all the required documents and files needed so as to fulfill your BARTER BUREAU membership subscription and to complete both your business and credit assessments prior to the final approval to joining our business network.
[ PDF File Format - English & Arabic ]
* Please fill in this form with the required data and essential information needed along with your own contact details.
[ PDF File Format - English & Arabic ]
* Please provide us with more information and insights about both the current or projected business and personal expenses.
[ PDF File Format - English & Arabic ]
* For business referrals and/or sales leads, please fill in this form with the required data and information needed.
Once you have got the above documents ready and filled in with the essential data and information as per required, please submit all the documents via email to: sales@barterbureau.net along with the copies of your personal and/or business credentials (i.e. Company registration form, Tax ID, Personal/National ID, recent utility bill, and any other documents as per required), or simply contact us so as to guide you through and proceed on for your membership registration.
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