"Bartering, i.e. trading what you have for what you want without using money, is the world’s oldest form of commerce and pre-dates all currency. Today Bartering has become the modern and innovative way to do business by using your surplus inventory, unsold goods or just simply your spare capacity to purchase essential goods and services that your company would have paid hard earned cash for! Approximately 90% of the World’s top 500 businesses are directly involved in bartering on a massive scale. Involvement with Bartercard gives smaller businesses access to the same benefits with no risk.

Imagine employing a team of marketing, sales and purchasing professionals and paying them for their efforts ONLY when they produce tangible and measurable results. That is precisely how our members think of us and exactly why they use us. A unique arrangement we’re sure you will agree.

Now in our 17th year of operations, Bartercard is an International company with 100+ offices in 13 countries, 16 of which are in the UK, our Dorset office in Bournemouth being based at St Peters Road.

Officially recognised as the WORLD’S LARGEST TRADE EXCHANGE, our member’s global Bartercard trade turnover exceeded Ł762 million in 2007 and the great majority of our 75,000+ business card holders are SME’s.

Bartercard benefits are many and include the following essential elements:

1. Conserving cash and improving cash flow.
2. Complete record keeping service via monthly paper statements, also viewable online.
3. Doing business in a market that virtually all of your competitors cannot reach.
4. Access to an extensive business based, membership network of local, national and international companies.
5. Using the power of Bartercard to win lucrative cash business.
6. No bad debts GUARANTEED, using our 24/7 transaction authorisation hotline or online instant EFTPOS authorisation.
7. Purchasing with an interest free line of trade pound credit, conserving your cash resources.
8. Purchasing with a discount equivalent to the gross margin of your goods or services.
9. Financing purchases out of additional new Bartercard sales.
10. Access to our 24 hour on-line member’s portal including e-market place, auction site, real estate, travel, and membership directory.
11. A risk free method of trading backed up by our unique 100% Satisfaction & Results GUARANTEE.
12. Bartercard staff acting as your purchasing agents, sourcing products on your behalf.
13. Free local, national and international advertising.
14. Involvement with the World’s Largest Trade Exchange and it’s Łmulti-million annual trade turnover.
15. Bartercard staff acting as your sales team promoting your company.
16. New cash customers from word of mouth Bartercard clients.
17. Motivate and reward key staff members with a Bartercard “staff card”, further protecting your hard earned cash resources.
18. Bartercard allows your business to operate more efficiently by bringing you sales that assist in filling downtime, spare capacity or moving surplus stock.
19. Receiving TŁ300 for every referral that results in a new member.
20. Bartercard trade pound transactions are treated and accounted for in exactly the same way as cash pounds negating the need for specialist accounting systems or training.

Bartercard is the ONLY strategic business tool that can create new business, increase sales, reduce cash expenses and use profit margins as a discount for purchases. It is a truly global business network packed with local, national and international trading and marketing opportunities for our members.

CALL OR E-MAIL US TODAY TO ARRANGE A FREE CONSULTATION AND TURBO CHARGE YOUR BUSINESS POTENTIAL. "

Chairman — AFC Bournemouth

"AFC Bournemouth has been a member of Bartercard, the world's largest trade exchange since early 2003. Bartercard Dorset are also one of the club's sponsors. We are finding the system to be extremely useful to us, and I thought you might find it of interest too.

Bartercard enables us to purchase a very wide range of products and services without having to pay cash, and at the same time provides our suppliers with a guarantee that they will be paid promptly. Where we are looking for new suppliers, we have now adopted Bartercard as our preferred method of purchase.

In a nutshell the way the sytem works is that we pay Bartercard suppliers in Trade Pounds whcih they can use in turn to buy goods and services from any other Bartercard member. The Bartercard team also provide a purchasing and marketing service for members.

The approach is particularly useful for a football club like ourselves as we frequently have cash flow problems, and we have spare capacity in the form of empty seats on match days and the stadium facility on non-match days.

For more information regarding Bartercard please contact Geoff Shilton on 0845 263 6789, to more fully understand the business benefits of being a member."
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Chris Sheppard - Managing Director — Multivolt Limited

"Joining Bartercard has been brilliant for our business for a lot of reasons:-
* A great way to manage cash flow.
* It runs a very efficient network base with consultants constantly keeping businesses up to date with new members and offers.
* Bartercard has introduced us to new customers in the Bournemouth and Poole area 30 miles away, which would have been almost impossible without a hefty advertising budget.
* Bartercard can be used as a positive marketing tool. Any new offers can be emailed through Bartercard to the entire member base in an instant.
* I would highly recommend any business to use Bartercard."
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Gavin Fisher - The Dorset Children's Hospice — Julias House

"My apologies, I have written to thank everyone else for donating their Trade Pounds, but not to Bartercard Dorset, so thank you so much, not just for your donation but for organising everyone else's too.

Thanks to the generosity of members of Bartercard Dorset we have raised enough trade pounds to purchase various items for our garden appeal as well as various items for fundraising events, such as prizes. As you know, we have recently opened our children's hospice at Corfe Mullen, which is the only one in Dorset and we are keen to complete the work on the back garden in time for the children to enjoy the lovely sumemr weather outside.

As well as the hospice, we have around 50 nurses and carers travelling the country, caring for life-limited and life-threatened children in their own homes. Clearly this work costs a great deal and without government funding we are wholly reliant on the local community. Consequently, the goods and services that we are able to buy through Bartercard make a big difference to our ability to care for these children, so thank you very much for your significant part in this.

With thanks again and best wishes"
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