Premier Barter’s First Blog Entry
Well, I knew I had to get to this eventually. So here it is – my first blog for Premier Barter. Let me first say that I will try to make this informative and fun. Every now and then I may go off on a rant, but it’s my blog. I can do whatever I want!
There may be another person posting here also. You’ll be able to tell us apart by our different writing styles – she can actually write well. And that’s a pretty good lead-in to tell you who we are and what we are about.
My name is Barry Cohen. I own and operate Premier Barter. My business partner, Catherine, is also the love of my life and my wife. If any of you should speak to her, let her think she owns the company. It will make her happy. Oh, and Catherine will be the other person writing blogs here.
If you are not familiar with barter exchanges, I will go into more detail about that in a future blog. But for now I suggest you explore the Premier Barter website for more information. For those that are familiar with barter exchanges, you’re probably thinking that we are just another run-of-the-mill, fly-by-night organization. You couldn’t be more wrong.
Premier Barter has been around for six years. We started on September 15, 2003 with no members. Today we have in the neighborhood of 500 members. We are a member of the Barter21 network of independent barter exchanges, which gives us access to thousands of other businesses nationwide. We are also a member of the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA). In order to maintain membership in IRTA, a barter exchange must hold itself to the highest ethical standards.
Unlike many other barter exchanges out there, we do not allow our members to price gouge. Whatever their regular cash price is, that is what their barter price should be. We have been known to ask members to leave who do not abide by that policy. We also will allow a member to go on hold if they feel they have too many barter dollars in their account. That gives them a chance to spend a little before taking on more barter customers.
I don’t want to put everything into my very first blog posting, so I’ll end it here. Thanks for reading, and if there are any topics relating to barter that you want me to write about, leave it in a comment here.
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Congratulations on our first blog. Looks good.
Here are some topics I think people would like to see –
How can bartering improve my bottom line?
If I barter, aren’t I just working for free?
I need cash first..don’t I?
I have hard costs to what I sell. How can I barter?